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THE SERVICES AND THEIR

PAY

£30,000,000 A YEAR, INCREASE.

The War Cabinet has decided upon an increased scale of pay, aggregating £50,000,000 in the first year to men of the Navy and Apoy Briefly, they are

To soldiers Id,

for cach

year

TER HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2419.

WAR ON U-BOATS.

THE

MILITARY SITUATION GERMANY'S TAILURE IN ROUMANTA

[FROM * THE MORNING PUST B «"^MILITARY CORRESPONDENT]

01 Service Showhich would pro

* Proficiency pay at the rate

Gd. a day after six months, instead of

two

as et present. years.

Men with dependents will be relieved of the compulsory allotment of 104," a day. GODIN

Abalition of hospital stoppages To sailors 3d, a day extra after years service

sing allowance at 7d. and a free kit,

thres

6

find in the latter

but

-their success In

POPE'S PEACE NOTE. KUHLMANNS AMAZING

HYPOCRISY

Speaking o of the Pope Pre Notes in the Main Committee of the Reichstag, Baron von Kuhlmann Secretary for Foreign Affairs, aid

STRIKING INCIDENTS.

GALLANT MERCHANTMEN.

Some further incidents, taken from the records of the Admiralty, are available. in connection with the war against eneniy submarines These instances serve to

The German Emperor is extremely the diversity of the methods annoyed at the failure of the Roumanau to "deal with this scourge of the campaign We may suppose that it was Whatever may be the immediate result scourge of the expected to result in an caet, viotory of the Papal peace step, this one thing torpedo gumboat sighted the

the long series dragous initiative of the encourage may be said at once without hesitation of submarine.on starboard ment

The

against bow about 600 yards away. The captain of misfortunes on the Western front. He Pept, who, standing on a witch tower on of Bd. And swung the ship round until the object wis

the port travelling slowly in the When, in May, he Duit visible arter supported by the most actered tradition opposite direction; when about fifty yards Artois, he could find nothing on which of more than 1,000 years of priestly from the ship the periscope disappeared, to congratulate the troops of the Sixth office, felt himself especially called to the

Faction of intermediary, significa and the gunboat,

Army speed was then soventeen knots, altered course, so that pleto defeat, and no better consist of hasions which will appear as stage in the History of this frightful ouragement she passed directly over the submarine, The impact of a collision was felt for the boat lowing letter on the subject to the Seward, and when the captain judged that gun that time things have gone still treat act when the Pepe throw the word -boats and continue to hold the imperishable page of glory, in the ut while out they were finishing their works annals of Papal diplomacy It Whe retary of State for War and the First the hip explosive charge was dropped worse for the German arms, and he, with of peace, into be turmoil of conflict,

the after-part of Lord of this Admiralty the on

I am

writing to convey to you the The ship whe immediately turned and a the whole German Stall, boa reeqgnised, which threatens to convort Europe into decisions

which the War Cabinet, have second charge dropped when the first had since the Battle of

they the tormans pe mine. It was come to in regard to the raising of the pay

seaplane which was sent exploded. A

up

are involved in prdoisely the German people and the of the Army and Navy, which, as you know, circled round for an hour and reported and tactically the most unfortunate in conscioustics of their strength and is strategically the most vital, German Government for whom, in the beon under consideration for some large patches of oil on the surface. A past. In other wars it his been

group of mine-sweepers sweeping the bot-which the German andies have yet noen internal scenrity, it was always cany to made a matter of reproach to us that the tom later

he decided to turn his emphasise their readiness for an honour- been willing to avail

in this ougaged. And s

back on the unalluring prospect and able peace. We have every reason thank the

A torpedo-boat on

on patrol

journeyed Enst in search of consolation,lly to greet the initiative of the Curia in the all to serve their country, not only abmarine. She proceeded to her assist in u characteristic speech to the troops off has made it possible to expound

with Atlantic observed steniner torpedoed by and to air his rhetoric and vent his spleen out adequate

but with no proper pay, Provision for tutir dependents or for ance and shortly afterwards the steamer the Archduke Joseph's and Mackenson's cleatonal, German policy again in those who have been disabled. There is

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S LETTERS The Prime Minister addressed the fol-

itself

an

naevices of men who have risked, report Obstruction.

of

no doubt that during the present war conditions in regard to pensions, separa tion

allowances, and so forth, have been emonsly improved. But little been

to increase the pay has yet tary and

and naval forces while on active The War Cabinet have long felt, how

<service.

here,

PACT the

Bank Having picked up the survivors, armies,

for.

which

'OR':

the torpedo-boat circled round searching. It may be surmised that this excursion

the submarch

and shortly after had been projected some time ago, and wards white

in the water

had been intended to synchronise sighted light ahead. The torpedo boat conclusion" el campaign with the

sprot

Was expected to be victoribus. The defent of grazing over the submarine

the Russians in Galicia and the Bukovin

ས

and

mutionala pol intentionally biguous manner German Government both its

hope and believe that the repl origin and contents aid of any political document

embodies the will of majority of the

sive charge was dropped had

laid open the right flank of the Allied only from the

all

BINA

instability of the Russian troops had left the Roumaniang

campaign the Roumaniar arma arrates themselves had been alracst wiped

A foreign polo

in its broad risential

ran sesuscitation of the Roumanian Army. ranks, with that of the Serbian Army among the miracles of the war, and must Four annali of the British in picking an hour later succeeded have been an unpleasant surprise for the repre

Germans Reorganised.

dre equipped, and pinned under two commanders-Generals

Countries,

say

because

the

rds its

ation

basis of pay is a peace basis, giving explosion, the concussion of a violent experience and proved their merit in the executive to develop untrammelled ber of different proposals The present a minute Vards, and after a pause of Araresco and Christesco who had g

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of doubt sive victory, which would carry the Ger- -No possibility or shadow wish that anything which could be the fate of a German submariner man engles to Jassy, and complete the last this coll

It is to show to the men at the front their ap-cently torpedoed by one of

of out sub conquest of Honmania and its resuly

Just collabo preciation of their

which in the courag

states sacrifice should be heroism and marines is fortunately possibló. A ceraBut things wont badly from the first

Their prowess, tain British submarine on patrol sighted

man who ha

heart their patience, their superb and untiling an enemy submaarine Both honts were valour have not only renewed the glory on the surface and a heavy sea was ru

the assent of our race and hame throughout the ning at the time The British boat dived

of the people, said by the assent of chosen world, hare

"surpassed" any achieve. and

a quarter of

entatives of the people, which is not up the enemy

up orted in Parliament by active inter Army record periscopes the fred at an estimated

vention of the suitable moment and The Cabinet have considered a num range of

gained

StatesraanlikS and wise permission to the She rose to the surface, and held it was in all respects rendier for activity cannot hold out in the severo higher rates in arms which are less sighted a patch of oil, with survivors was than it had been at the outset of last struggle against a foreign enemy attractive, of which require higher technisher mated that the torpedo had struck omerged from a series of disasters which about that in Germany there is a policy

swimming in it, who were

taken prisoner year's unfortunate campaign. It had Abroad the legend is frequently put Attainment I discomforts which are common to all arma marine rolled over and sank, the sured, and, instead of waiting to be attacked, legend, and nothing can destroy this

ignores the risks and

the just before the conning tower. The might well have broken the heart of any of the Government and a policy of the in war. The question of

of a dat rate for

with its military spirit undiminish people. This is to day a very definike rejected as involving too vast

enemy from the strong positions which also unitedly To

when you they policy

Tald The Apirit in, which the officers and mea western highlands of Moldavia are fochab notions to the effect that in employed on minesweeping ferform their The Germans, seriously alarmed, hur the bosom of the Government itself there anending and obscure task is admirably demonstrated by a repost from western ried reinforcements to the scene of action are widely divergent opinions or that waters of the English Channel, employ the first days of September made frantie

rom, and throughout the month of August and there

is friction

among the leading per sonages themselves, or 4. Bouma of minesweepers was empl

between the ng between two given points, attempt to round up the Roumanian Imperial Government had the brilliant ed in sweeps exploded in the sweep and converging attacks, when two mines

by a succession of pul-fanking leaders to

we owe, next 10 towed by the second pair of minesweep

help, that

Germany stands as she rumours should be rawlers in the At The wire 50e skul and carried out buyithato-day Army Medical Corps and those on and one of the two rawlers pro-ument urgely composed of German vice Corjia, because many

with the derision they deserve gaged 10 these services, are habitually keeping contrivance, employed to

to heave in the

troy the feneciones

troops who were able afteities Pollaborate daily and but half an say aga poleto

in under shell-fire as the casualty lists dis the sweep at the required depth. When these efforts unavailing, and, in the end, sensus of opinion is teking is unthink 1 Trial Bottle of Harions, the wander.

keep handled

complete harmony A

A decision their commandere, made all on really vital questions on which a con close. Nor is it possible to draw a line have short up to the rollers With Germans were forced to abandon the between those who are serving at home covered that a mine was foul of the wire,

I do not hesitate to say that from ful hair toole Umulant and grasang that and abroad, because there is a continual and had been hauled up against the ship's fruitless contest, leaving matters

collaboration such as took Ince the circular outline of a second mine foept that the enemy was weakened by of the daily movements to keep could be defected, entangled in the win | losses Red discouraged by failures tant and swirling round in the current beneath amount to defeat while the Roamanians men in all the theatres of was the trawlors counter In the circum. were correspondingly exhilarated by

cal

eon.

all arms was therefore-examined, but was vivers being blown up through thest took the offensive and procceded to oust legend more than wh tion in the midst of war Theol. ning tower MAKANANhe had held since December last in the down in our toply to hig Holiness. The

Cabinet

would also have liked to have made some differentiation between the pay of men at home and abroad, and between men in the fring

lins and men at the base, after giving the matter their most

they

but

that it was do this... It is not line of division betw possible to

"cond

to

and other services, such as the Royal combatant forces

Ser

of

HEROIC MINESWEEPERS,

of

or depth

the

by

planned with

strous

courage of the

novinent from one part to another, and ade. Furthermore, just beneath the fur-uch as they had been at the carious parliament and the propla

the distinction could only be made by track at a vast clerical staff

lions

and

the

of

at their pay Apon Lances, when any roll of the ship might success.

general lines,

to strike one of the harns of

beginning, rege

between

We

gained hopeful impressions for the futare in regard to the Pajal Note I have review of the conâdential nature of the Committee of Reven's proceedings which decided upon for weighty reasons. I it nevertheless worth pointing out (ther cannot enter into details, but I consider

papers) that the basis of the German was pointed out a few days ago in the reply in the form in which they were submitted by the Government appears to be acceptable to the

repobolieve

ich the Cabinet have decided to pro mine and detone

Roumanan, front, the outlook was 09 is no indiscretion in this. because

To therto

follow

decisions

of the

the division of minesweepers thereupon Interval seems almost rom the far I can.

відео

being

of all

wedge

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STOCARE SE SACK of Pocele 4 were meedy rolanterre, and only one want encouragement, but it needs B

And so, when the Emperor arrived on ceed have been to increase the pay of all charge, the officer in

men in proportion to the length of chose the best course open to him in his months ago, and to and anything pleasant gloomy as it had been in Artola five their service, and to reliste men with de responsibility for the lives of these under and cheering to talk shout he had to put of the assignments which have his command, and ordered the trawie calendar back to a period which, in charged against them to be abandoned. The senior officer of view of all that has happened in the besn Thus, in the case of the Army pay at the rate of 3d or Gd. a day will called for volunteer, and accompanied speech which war to have been be payable after six months, instead of by the engine man; bearded the abandonat Jossy in celebration of a fra victory after two years service as at presented minesweeping trawler, and with heroic had to do service (with the necessary An increase will be made in the soldier's disregard of the imminent probability of modifications) at Brasso in commemora pay of Id. per day for each full year of an explosion, caused by the contact of the tion of the feeds of Falkenhayn's Army with dependents will be relieved of and wine, maisies for dear prajee on the troops who once again

the outbreak of war. Men ship and the mine, coolly cut the sweep nearly a year ago. He lavished belated present compulsory allotment of Gd. & without detonating, and, by means of a needful chronological adjuntarain (the day for privates and corporala, and 10d rope, passed to another trawler, they were made) have proved the eternal mirade for sergeants and higher expired men will have the option to the moral of all this if a lith

Time towed gingerly cle of the

of German strength and relieved drawing

a little own Pension in addition to their obst here was no one

own Il humeur by copious aliose of the pay,

effect war. We retrospective during the

It is fast from the consciousness of the bad ship abandoned. mania the King Ferdinand of Rot- will also be Tho ship was but a trawler, whose face heedless of the

mania the perfidious Hohenzollern who complete unity between the German pen abolished stoppages.

value, was

f his namesake ple and the German Parliament that Hardly oqual to the cost of stand kinsman of Bulgaria, Had espoused German policy derives ita strength also b generally those

as regards the Navy Army as to assistance by the State in the higher authority, because, humerly speak curing the complete domination of the the

was not required of them by any the success of the German scheme for of aim the paths which are payment of allotments to dependents, the ing, it meant almost certain death. They Balkans Clearly the Germans badly

of Ger unfanuliar with the deathless traditions finding.

to going info much pensions to meno of the plus service might

ole. It stands as 4 structure, in which stone is ng the war, and the abolition of hos wonder why.

80 firmly clamped to tone that any pitat stoppages. Details of the

attempt to break out single one-or, in bath for the Army hereto dful escapes by merchaut vessels fron

other words to m found in the

The ship resumed her voyage and reach would o

mints holated comment. weaken its effect. I will, how Cases are multiplying daily of successed port without further incident, The Cabinexureg

wish that more

ever briefly attempt to explain from what been done but it has been impos enemy submarines which show that

Cases of this nature, in which ships of spirit Note proceeded, and what are sible to ignore the innuense additions to training of mercantile marine offers the British moreantile murine have die the conditions on which it could achippe the burdens of taxation which increases gunnery and the taches which experience guished themselves in encounters with

resulta

n the fourth year of the mighly Navy are the best to be memy submarines, are investigated by a war bis Holiness, the Pope, with

Board of Trade and the

than before unc the vessel on Admiralty

launched among the by gunfire from tereste

nere represented,

the word officer, and the meri- three to four manship of a flag Hubmarine at a ra

range

to-day like a tale im miles. The ship way zigzagging at the torious conduct of officers, and men conta us long

times and all shots went wide. She inecerned is brought to the

and yet it is no ice of his service men and those who have others mediately replied to the fire with her de

Majesty the

ard of hoa

also more tian

the result The determination of these officers Navy eventh rounds smoke and flames burst the

developed dur $225,000,000 a from

the

The amal which

abandoned Budget Another ship sighted the periscope of

the the first year

submarine on the garbeard. is large sum, but a distance of twenty

fying for additional pay, payment of

have

in

proposals

the Navy will be

will bot

volunteered.

MERCHANT VESSELS QUAS.

the

Pay01 our huge fores necessarily has taught the bening to bean food fried committed the Admiralty, on which greater carnestness and greater emp

entail The improvements which have

now been authorised not increase the

pay of the

thehet de

merchant

to

the extent charter wag attacked by

which the

BONG

they will

substantially

esit, especially in the case

prove

dependent upon thein T of pay ffensive. Erament, and at the sixth and oursong for the

and allowances to the Army at present amounts to over

additions now

The

cast

and

nvolve an addition to borked will

more than $50,000,000 213-

mm

*

the chair

part of the submarine men of the mercantile marine ADELA

the burden will be put hard-a-part, and while the cheerfully shouldered by tion in a grateful na swinging round the

Just asters,

question of

pay and

to the Junior ranks of commwances

huse

at

by the following instance armed merchantman was Liverpool with

was longing to the

The port how

master * prom ageous, decision thereby, saved

inute

the

quarter

cers requires attention. Their leading from the torpedo and example throughout the war, and the immense proportion of loss that has fallen upon them,

give them an inestimable claim upon the regard of their country for and the confidence and admiration of area. thoir men. The measures of the Govern winch ment to deal adequately with the special difficulties of their position will be a

Vones sincerely,

brty

D. LOOTD GEORGEA

water

the ship

der ordere

himself

The unarmed.

the master of

submarine, forcing bor the submarine the pursuit The submarine

the

und the surf covered with

disappeared" became yellow

Continued at fost af

torpedoed the crippled ship after which she took her gall and two gunners prisoners undoubtedly saved the

reached port safely

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Vese

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When Germany, as a young Great derives strength to make Power fifty years ago, joined the groupiminense nacrifices which

was not greeted quired from it The Pope'

placed the nations of

decisive

With overm

But, these

bich

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Germany

to the l

eta midst, was

ut there are to-day still

The

history can that a fatally mu

vaguely eral

const Erdly

those

drea

de her memory of ancient Europe is clear in

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deatru

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Earope chall

the midst of his common interest of all the

itter collapse would leave to whichever group

¿poorer in prospec

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the course of the discussion followin

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