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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21ST. 1918.

CHOOSE THE INSTRUMENT

THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS

HAVE CHOSEN.

Could you ask a safer guide? Certainly no one is better qualified to judge a musical instrument. They know music. Their life-work

by the instructor, who sits behind him.

LEARNING TO FLY.

There are at present generally in use two methods of teaching the art of flight. One is for the instructor to take the machine off the ground and to fly it in the air while the pupil grasps the "control stick" over the instructor's shoulders or round his waist and feels his actions, and watches their effect on the machine. After a low flights the pupil occupies the front seat and is corrected when necessary The ether method, which has more advantages, is that of dual control." In the training maching there are two

Caruso, Farrar, Galli-Curci, Gluck, rudder, and the necessary instrumente. The machine can be town from either Homer and a host of other world-position, and the movement of the con- famous artists have chosen the trols in one machine to automatically followed by those in the other, and at first Victrola to carry their superb art on it is rather strange to see them moving Victor records exclusively to all the touro, apparently of their own world.

SHELLS FROM 28 MILES.

A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Every few minutes since dawn a 15in. shell had thundered into or near a little town that lay twenty-eight miles behind the lines, far from the tumult of war.

Tawards ten o'clock one of the officers left the men and walked across a meadow to inspect some of the shell-holes Sud only he saw the earth a few hundred

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volition, as though the machine. were

range Free State Province. He strong- ly complained of the internment of South yarda in front of him rise up in a great

Africans without trials fan shaped spurt of black smoke and that I have met terior, quoled various authorities, includ

The British public, 80 & ing it. It was the explosion of another during my few days, nt homo, seen to being German Benevolent Society officials, shell, and it seemed an appreciable time badly and insufficiently informed about showing that the camps were managed in

the real state of affairs in Germany the most satifactory way.

I have just returned from Germany The Unionist member for Turffonteir, There had been no whine or sercam-no

people from all over the Empingainst the 2,000 persons interned only three were sonal observation and close contact with release of 641 suspects after internment. Germans for their recent treatment of form in South Africa, auberts T

General Bethe pointed out that out of N I have no particular grudge

me, and write without bitterness. It was were naturalised British subjects. The for my summer holiday in 1914. Like all the lot of the interned, persons as beruble bad luck that made me select Homburg Promier agreed to the necessity of making Homburg, a town whose prosperity is would he made about the matter after the the other English," I was badly treated at as possible, and promised that an inquiry

warning of any kind. The earth just rose up before his eyes. He ran over to the place where the smoke still hung and found an enormous hole, into which a motor-ompibus could have been put, full of crumpled tumps of yellow-stained

earth. Outside the crater lay the base

being flown through the air by some plug of the shell, a shining steel cylinder ney from Humburg to Giessen and from The debate, which was continued in the

ghostly agency.

Learning to fly is a little like learning how to ride a bicycle. It is learnt by practice

The pupil climbs into his seat, and the instructor takes the machine off the ground. When it has climbed a little the wheel in front of the pupil jerks overal

with an imperial crown and few numerals stamped on it,

It seemed amazing to think that two minutes

great piece of metal had ago that bean twenty-eight miles away. In bis imagination he saw the gunners, clad in

times. It is the prearranged signal that grey-green, preparing the gun and the ing to thaintain before the world as to Chamber upon walked out of thei

he ia to take control. He puts his foot on the rudder and grips the wheel nervously with his hands. Every nerve is strained with the excitement. Nothing happens, He has no feeling that the aeroplane is responding, like a bicycle or car, to his every movement. There is no feeling or resistance to the pressure of his hands and Iret-no pull.

A

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A

MOTO

next shell and making jokes about its destination-he saw the stout sergeant who had pulled the string or pressed the

lever which had caused that enormous upheaval of earth in that quiet meadow far from the clamour and destruction of war-in the little meadow shaded by drowsy farmhouses and peopled by par

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entire

due to the late King Edward. session, especially with regard to natural- sas badly breated on the railway jour ised South Africans Giessen to Rubleben underwent the evening, in spite of its amicable opening sufferings of the first-comers to produced heated scenes General Rulleben, but have no complaint since, tie

Hertzog having complained of the re and I have had some personal kindness cruiting methods, to which he ascribed from the Ruhleben authorities. Theso the writings are therefore inspired by no Hertzog for preaching sedition and rebel- disturbances that had taken place, Sir P. Fitzpatrick denounced General bitterness, but by the intperative neces as to the bluff sily of waking up foolish pessimists here lion in the country. The whole National

Germany is endeavour. ist Party her real condition of internal.

Sir P. Fitzpatrick, continuing, declar exhaustion. I have been criticised for stating yesed the Nationalists were acting like paid terday that the present German offensive spies and hirelings of the enemy and dus to internal necessity by day for is primarily not a military offensive, but were deliberately provoking disturbances

and civil war. Watching Germany day the hysterical enthusiasm of the first few three years and eight months, watching months change into gloom and intense hatred of Great Britain, I have seen the companied by starvation. I use gradual approach of war weariness ac- sturvation intention the wor

ward

may try to convince you to the contrary

Travelling Dutchmen and other writers

Germany I choose the word starvation" but in aptaking of the great cities of deliberately

A SBRUNKEN "HACKENSCHMIDT.

·I

General Botha followed with an and also appealed to Britons not to es eloquent and earnest appeal for tolerance, pect from Afrikanders what was expected from Britons, und urged Britons not to use compulsion in recruiting. On the other hand, he urged the Nationalists to stop the repubion which

propaganda, and to on, because it was leading stop, the

was going

ed General Bothe

war. Stop, for God's feel that the

sake

tion extremely serious, and I appeal to all members to set an example to the

Let us

Let me select for exposition an indivi- country of moderato language, and to have been seen by some hundreds of thou- rather consult each other, because if we dual cue public charecter who must lead in the direction of pear. sands of readers of this newspaper don't I fear for the future. If members Hackenschmidt, wrestling lion. If Hackenschmidt to take other steps, and have legislation famous Hussian refuse to co-operate with me, I shall have

to-day he would not be recognised. were to appear on any public platform introduced to entore peace."

General Hertzog declared that he was mét him in Berlin and did not recognise anxious to preserve peace, but blamed the him, though I knew him personally in pposition and the Ministerial speeches England. This great giant has shrunk, from lack of food, as old men shrink with that the Nationalists had the fullest right for the present position, and contended age talk of food ratin

to ask for an amendment to the Constitu

Mr. Duncan emphasized the fact that here at home duriurationing 1 have heard blon, in order to obtain a Ropublic.

when the Nationalists referred to then

He is sure that the other man must be flying it, and he is merely * feeling. Ho controls, as it were, through the instructridges and hares. All around lay the tor's arins. He looks round in order to peaceful countryside, bathed in the sun, find out. The instructor is looking over the side and both his hands are visible, and here was the deep ragged crater in Irce from the wheel The pupil turns which lay picces of metal that were too back quickly and looks at the horizon and hot to touch. at the instruments; Hte anxiously now that he knows he is flying. the minching himself. How easy it is, he Even as he looked for souvenirs in the thinks there seems nothing to do.

bottom of the hole be heard the thud of He begins to realise, however, that the another shell on the ground, followed by

the of the machine is slowly, but very the roar of the explosion and the faintly surely turning to the right. Ho presses heard boom of the distant gun. the rudder gingerly to the left. The climbed up to the top of the crater and machine still continues to turn to the saw a column of smoke behind some trees right. He presses it hard to the left with nelight feeling of annoyano,

He talked across the meadow to look Round for some other holes, and climbed over a goes the machine to the left, and the little hedge into the next field, and was walk Bubble in the spirit level in the machine ang along listening to the warning siren rushes to the left aleo, showing that is slipping outwards, or turning without the town, when, to his surprise and bank or tilt." "Back goes the dismay, his saw it terrific black column of Fain to its normal position, and earth and -moke leap up scarcely twenty dom is laughable I do happen, to know selves as slaves, and to the men in France

slowly the little bubble cones back to the yards away. He was conscious for a mo

of the tube.

The noise of the ment of the air being full of flying frag stops

for a moment, and he can cally, he threw himself down on his face

ments, and then, instantly and automati hear the instructor shout,

Try to

to fly straight for a little you aren't a snake Lund covered the back of his head with his

engine goes on again, and he flies bands and waited. fairly straight for a while, until he feels, For a few endless moments of drend

The

ho

as he imagines, a jerk on the wheel. The instructor must want to take control, no he lets go his hold of the wheel and the rudder, and looks over the side at the country below. The machine begins to dive, more and more, with the engine still on, and then suddenly the nose comes up and up, till the machine almost tops It hangs for moment nearly motionless, and then dives What the

ructor doing?" he wonders.

The instructor, who is not touching the

a

is

the instructor

anticipation nothing secreed to happen, and then the lumps of earth began to thunder all over his body and to beat his arms and legs and head. He felt as if he were at school again being mercilessly flogged. The lumps of earth, which were heavy and were falling from a height of several hundred feet, were really painful, and all the time he had the horrible knowledge that some large fragment of metal might be descending with thon, and that it any moment he might be

few days of free about food conditions in Germnay, be- food for between three and four thousand cause it was my duty, to superintend the

plenty of roney in Berlin, but, as of the interned at Rubleben. There is charming American lady said to me, can't cal money and neither, her money with enough food for health.

her thany admirers could provide her

nor

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parcels, were really well off. We were We at Buhleben, by reason of our and are regarded with envy by all Borlin. The Prussian authorities have more than once had fears that the mob would attack Rubleben in order to get at our parcels.

It is not merely the masses in Germany who are suffering unspeakable depriva just as badly hit, and just as weary of tions; the middle class in the cities is the whole war as the strikers, who, pass

come out and join them. I have been

to

ion as the scum of the earth, there was who were fighting the battles of civilisa-

thing which conld-save the bound to bo trouble, He declared the Premier's policy of conciliation the only tion of South Africave the white popula

The Nationalist member for Harri smith, Mr. De Beer, moved & reduction also the deletion of the grant of £1,000,000 of defence salaries by half a million, and for Imperial war purposes.

mechanical. The troops were gay at ons time and used to shout chaffing remarks par they have begged for food. to us Englanders."); For a long tim

ben, nothing abnormal about the state of the trains To-day the laborious putling 01 the locomotives is the result, an Eng

There way, when I was first at Ruhlen-

controls and imagines the pupil is ing knocked senseless or killed. The thunder. by our camp at Ruhleben, invited Ushish engineer in the Ruhlenben Camp told the machine, is wondering the same thin and the cruel flogging of his back seemed of freed occupying my first few days me, of the worn-out pistons,

ONE MAN CAPTURES GERMAN SUBMARINE.

ing of the falling earth all around him other and so the wings which will soon be proudly worn are to inst for hours. At last it stopped, haunts the Savoy, Trocadero, Criterion; telegraphs, whether it be electric power

in London by visiting ald

it he railways, whether it he slowly sprouted.-K.L.

and he clambered to his feet, dazed and Cavour, and the Ritz. Bore. He did not know at first where to High priceat In Berlin I paid £9 tortions of metals from households were, no Food shortage Germany is worn out. The early collec turn, but when he saw the great yawning a bad lanch

anch for with the first instinct of humanity after be the better for knowing what real de honest, English brass bed I almost rub- and we went away doubt, but a precautionary medsure. You people in Londen would When I arrived here and saw a good, hole a few yards away he ran over to it, hungry. that of safety the instinct of curiosity, privation inenns, such as is being experi- bed any eyes Germany's metal supp and to get souvenirg-G.N/

enced by all but the wealthy Junkers with worn out

cal supply is AN AMAZING TALE OF THE SEA.

their own farme in that this kind of German is not suffering. later. What I do want our dear, good

I believe Germany

I will go into these things in detail There are two mystery VCR to whom

It was mentioned in yesterday's Daily British public to realise is the fact that this prodigious feat of valour the cap Colt's automatic pistol from its ease and full that I was allowed two days leave they are being badly bluffed. They ture of a German submarine single-hand-pointed it at the door. (The modern can assure you that those with whom should not take any stock of the travel e-might be credited, says the Sunday navel pistols are waterproof)

came in contact during those two days, lers tales of those who have been into Chronicle.

Scarcely were the waves pouring off the knowing that I had come from Ruhleben Germany for a few days from Holland They are Commander W. E. Sanders, glistening steel of the deck that was now and brought my own two days' supply or Switzerland. I had about thirtee of the Royal Naval Reserve, whose award above the surface than the door swung with me, consisting of English bason, hundred days in which to find out my

• Sazetted in June, 1917, and who was open and the face of a German officeramah white bread, English butter; nights in which to think it over Ger killed in action two months later, and appeared. The automatic pistol barked sugar, condensed milk, tea and coffee, and

Germany and about thirteen hundred Commander Gordon Campbell of the once and the German lurched forward. Osp, treated me with a deference usually many entered the war believing that it Royal Navy, awarded the V.C in April Springing upon him like a cat, the young accorded to one of exalted position, and of last year.

Briton seized the body of the enemy, that that, remember, was eighteen months ago. done wonderfully in the way of national was going to be another 1670. She has Behind the silence of the official record it might not be drawn down the ladder Germany is a master of camouflage, discipline and the eking out of any sort. lie deeds of heroism, and in one case the and so make it possible to close the door The German newspapers, which are aimed of supply. But a nat gallant act was so remarkable that it and submerge again. He had aimed to quite as much at the Allies and the neu hope, and the average Germian, patriotic

nation cannot exist. loses little by the uncertainty as to which kill, and had made a bull's-eye,

tral countries as they are at the Germans, though he may be, and very often is, docs of the men was the hero of it

print advertisemente of stores, such as not conceal his feelings, specially to a Wertheim's, giving long lists of food well-fed Englishman ironi Ruhleben, who which is

allowed out alkarst weekly. had the almost unique experience of being

Was

of a wave..

WOULD THEY RUSH HIM?

nut in the stores.

The observations and deductions I shall The Daily Mail are by no means based set forth during the next few days in en Berlin only. In a way Ruhleben is microcosm of all Germany There is

THE NEED FOR A QUICK DECISIÓN:

wreckage big enough to support him. with cold and wet to shoot straight? He occasional suggestion that there is Hall A number of people in Rubleben.

in Germany. RALL WAYS.

He waited for the second head to A trawler, patrol was blown up by a emerge. There were five shots, still left torpedo, and the young lieutenant in in the magazine of his pistol, and he command of her found himself swimming planned that five more Germans should It is not true that better diftribution in the sel.

Slipping out of the hampering folds of The deerway was so narrow that there tribution is as perfect as German organ die. They must come up in single file bas improved the food situation. Dis- his greatcoat, he swam. He saw some of was not room for more than one at a time. Germany, even if they had food, are

isation

con make it; but here, again, the his men seize bita of wreckage and drift away. He saw the mangled bodies of Minutes passed. Still the second head handicapped by the immense deterior others bob up for an instant in the trough did not appear. Would they rush him tios of the railways, of which I have There seemed no piece of Would they wait until he was too stiff beard nothing in England except an

a popular delasion here in England that every Ruhlebenite is a roast beef Jolun But he was a strong swimmer, and he thought of what the Germans below must shortage of axle-grease in kept affont. He did not know in "what be discussing. There were enough ef

are half and half-people with English direction he was swimming, he just swam, then to overpower him if they get came back along the well-known Ber- nases who have heen horn in Gremany,

Suddenly his fort struck something at him. They could not know how many in-lushing line from Charlottenburg to solid.

some of them not speaking English, who pushed back on it, gave cartridges he had in reserve. They the war himself forward

are legally British subjects. At Buble- he know that the first five at least who came prond not only of their permanent-way ben we called them paper Englishmen." extended his feet backward again, they up would be killed. Were there. five of but also of their ralling-stock. Well, the These Here hting valuable touched that solid submerged something them brave enough to commit suicide erman railways are now no place for from all over Germany a second time. Ho rested his feet against For coming up the ladder would be sure Although I was on the way to freedom German towns. For a long time a show nable information. those who liko smooth travelling It anything, Berlin is better than many t, and it seemed like a great, smooth rock, death an interminable wait be became But it was moving! It was coming

After an interminable wait be became and in the height of good spirits, the was kept up at the hotels tone dor him marine that sank all rais birou suck over the doorway for an

aware of sacke over the waves. Turning state of the railway wheels, but more trais, especially before the

particularly the state of the track, ren-camo su thought Hashed into the swimmer's mind, instaat he saw a British destroyer dari dered conversation and sleep impossible.

that the I

under

but

20

up

I

WORN OUT

were

am no military critic, though I have

He ceased swimming instantly, and ing swiatly through the water and coming One wag of the party suggest done some fighting in my time in Bouti

braced his feet upon the slippery solid, in his direction. He stood up and waved wheels were square. which he knew now was the deck of the his hand. A toot from the whistle in-

as well as aching for peace Weet is that Germany must get a quick crew to the bottom. As it came up be In a few minutes the destroyer was

who remember the situation of decision. German stomachs cannot face came up he wo

alongside. The lieutenant, amid the tubeben know that it lies on the great another Verdut unless the food supplies JAMMED THE TRAPDOOR.

cheers of the destroyer's crew, turned Hast-West-line through Germany. The eyes of the lieutenant was fired upon over to its commander the prize he had have lain awake at night and have listen in the English newspapers than I heard un I from the bratae, of which I hear moje a little narrow trapdoor, expecting every captured singlehanded, intact, with all ed to thousands of trains to and from Germany, arrive in time to feed the instant to see it open and the head of a her crew eave the one dead officer as the Russian theatro of war. I have people and grouse them from the Slough German commander emerge. He drew his prisoners. The Victoria Cross was his noticed all sorts of changes, personal and of Despond in which they are at this time

(Continued at foot of next Column) reward.

(Continued at foot of next Column) of victoryDetly Mail,

U-boat that had just sent his vessel and formed him that he had been seen ferman traveller is aching phy- Africa, but the present situation in the