1918-07-17 — Page 3

Page

WAR COMMUNIQUES.

[BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR F. MAURICE-]

In the fourth year of the, war we re main essentially an unmilitary nation.

LA the

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17m. 1918.

MORE EVIDENCE OF GERMAN CRUELTY.

CAPTAIN'S REVELATIONS.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S CAUGHT BY THEIR OWN GAS ADDRESS ON IN DEPENDENCE

DAY

THE PAST AND PRESENT ARE IN

DEADLY GRAPPLE". Speaking at Washington's Tomb Mount Vernon, on July 4th, President Wilson raid

at

GERMAN POISON HELPS THE ALLIES,

The intensive gas-shell bombardment with which the German precedes his atr tacks hits had somewhat unforeseen after effects on the Germans themselves.

For the purpose of the offensive they employ a shell containing a double-pur pose chemical, affecting first the eyes and then the skin. It is an improvement on and the shelly Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps the normal tear gas and Fellow Citizens:1 am happy to usual distinctive udour is very much re draw spart with you to this quiet place duced, so that the gas is not so easy to of old counsel in order to speak a little detect. Men sho suffer from its effects of the meaning of this day of our nation's are temporarily blinded, and close con- independence. This place seems very still taet with the fumes products an unples- For the average and remote. It is a serene and untouchant skin irritation.

is necessary, but the gas is neither fatal ed by the hurry of the world as it was Sie eight or ten days' hospital treatment in those days long ago when General nor does it inflict permanent injuries, for Washington was here and held leisurely our men are not exposed to it long. So conference with the men who were to be much for our side of the question. assecinted with him in the creation of a

From the German point of view the nation From these gentle slopes the wenpon has proved decidedly double looked out upon the world and saw it edged. This was especially the case on whole, saw it with the light of the future the Somme during the last offensive. The upon it saw it with modern eyes that chemical was so concentrated that it was gaf turned from the past, which men of libe markedly less volatile than the usual rated spirits could no longer endure. ehell content, and wherever a shell explod It is for this reason that we cannot eda considerable proportion of the feel oven here, in the immediate presence charge, impregnated the surrounding pf this sacred tomb, that this is a place of ground. The fumes suspended in the air death. It was the place of achievement. A dispersed fairly rapidly, but the actual kind was bere given plan and reality. The poisonous, In the usual way the spot associations by which we are here war where a gas shell has burst is dangerous

infinitely longer periods. rounded are the inspiriting associations for forty-eight hours or so, but this con- glorious consummation. From this green of that noble death which is only a centrated chemical remained active for hillside we also ought to be able to see The result was decidedly comic, for it with comprehending eyes that world that was evidently one of the many little lies about us and should conceive anew things that the Grosser General Stub

emitted in its calculations. The German with gas shell in the most Jaish-manier, artillery lathered the Allied positions Every redoubt, support line, ruined village, and road centre was plastered The great ass was with the stuff.

The Germans moved up and launched, and the Allied line Vielded Their bonbardment had ground, occupied it. been miles deep; their advance was in proportion.RODING VE

throughout the war been very puke trip he received no food except what the great promise that was meant for all man-site of the explosion remained virulently

THE BRITISH OFFICIALĂ

Now the one solid basis of our informa- That tion is the official communiqué, must be so, since the means of communica tion are in military hands for military purposes. This does not mean that undervalue the brilliant despatches of Mr. Philip Gibbs and of other correspondents the conditions under which our men are Eghting, what they are suffering, and what they are achieving. The one gives us the bare facts, the other the local colour,

ate the front who enable us to understand

FOR ALL MANKIND.

CORRODING VENOM.

A striking narrative of the experience The German people has been brought up of a British merchant captain whose ship on the principle that war is the continua tion of policy, and the national life of was torpedoed by a German submarine, Germany has for generations been re-and who was subsequently interned in a gulated by that principle. We regard, German prison camp, is to hand. His vessel war torpedoed, and after he had and always have regarded, war

been permitted to give the crew, who had disruption of policy and of national life. got away in lifeboats, directions for the This divergence of sentiment touches the nearest port, he was put in the forecastle of the subinarine, where he was question very roots of the causes for which we areed Refusing to answer, he was locked fighting. Yet war is an evil, which must up for twenty-four hours without food be faced as thoroughly and scientifically and water, and at the end of that time as poverty, pestilence, crime, or any other was given a small picce of bread and a socin, evil; and to face it successfully we tin of water. He was removed to another part of the ship, and on the following must understand it.

war day was searched. As he still refused to In this respect we entered the sations which came into the struggle at bo shot on reaching port, or before if he terribly hand; capped. Of the great answer any questions he was sentenced to the beginning, we alone had not been should cause any annoyance in a forced to look on war as a national rather called a liar and an English swing by thren a military business. The others had one of the principal officers. Some days lived for generations in the presence of Inter the submarine put-into Heligoland, and under the menace of, armed force and the captain was taken ashore and Almost every family had contributed at place in an underground cell, where he teast one soldier to the State. Thus the remained for three days, and was sise- atmosphere of Paris, for instance, hasquently transferred to the coast. During

different

the two days which were occupied on that from that of London. The knows instinctively how much it can sale- ly be told and what conclusions to draw guard could spare him from his own very Our short rations. On arrival at the coastal from the information it receives, public feels instinctively that it does not town he was again put in a call, and the know enough, and thinks, particularly shortage and bad character of the food A certain when things are going wrong, that it caused him to become ill. should be told more.

sum cach day was taken from some money he had on him to pay for his keep in prison. A few days afterwards he was marched, willi a number of other British purposes that must set men free anilors and firemen, to a camp, and while

It is signifienus significant of their his clothes were being searched was kept naked in intense cold for three hours. German nicers stood about laughing at own character and purpose and of the tliem. Eventually his clothes were re-influences they were setting afoot-that turned to his wet, and he was placed in Washington and his associates, like the barons at Runnymede, spoke and acted n barracks his only covering being some blankets, which abounded with vermin. not for a class but for a people. It has On the following day he was put in een left for us to sea to it that it shall be understood that they spoke and acted not for a single people only but for Thousands of German troops poured up but in another compound, where the con ditions were better, but the food was

themselves and of the material interests cover in virulently poisoned shell holes, Now there is a ilunl of human nature in uneatable, and there was very little of all mankind. They were thinking not of into the gas-infected area, sat down for

it. The captain goes on to say a communiqués a statement which maj

The treatment of prisoners here was which centred in the little groups of land billeted themselves in abandoned hut astonish a public accustomed to the cold

with whom they were accustomed to not only began to notice the effect about six soldierly reticence of Sir Douglas Haig's brutal and their condition pitirble owners, merchants and men of affairs.ments sprayed with their own gus-and reports

These reports tell us what is Skeletons in rage if on being put to

work they fell down from weakness they in Virginia and the colonies to the north hours later! During the notion our men "happening. the actual front.

normal times, when all our ielewers kicked and clubbed-beaten with the and south thereof, but of a people which had been exposed to the fumes for a short

selves in it phones and telegraphs are in working flat of swords, and kept standing at at wished to be done with classes and special period, but the Germans came and, in under,

it takes fan four to five hours for tention in freezing weather as long as interests and the authority of men whom their ignorance, literally streped them- on dew-wet ground where the stuff hnd news ran the front line to pass through they could stand-many had unhealed they had not themselves chosen to rule Exhausted men lay down in the dusk the various headquarter and arrive at wounds. We all had to fight like wild over thent.

They entertained no private purpose burst, they woke later to find the venom General Headquarters. It requires, per- beasts for food that a dog would refuse. haps, another two hours to draft from hoaght a small piece of soap from a deired no peculiar privilege. They were actually corroding their bodies through consciously planning that men of every their clothes Forward machinegun units the Press immuniqué and to Frenchman for 4s, and once or twice a

Bet it Lotiden. Therefore, the news which comes

nes few biscuits and once a tin of sardines, class should he free and Amerien a place dug emplacements in innocent looking in at night gives us the situation up tons of us dined off this tim of sardines to which man out of every nation resort shell holes Two hours later the men the alternoon of that day, This is the Tin report,

and we sex it usually frat Germans provided me with a pair of who wished to share with them the rights were wandering about blind, and scream A day or two of wet weather seemed to clear the infected areas; new troops in the orping papers. That which we wooden clogs, and a Welsh Fusilier gave and privileges of free men and we take ing in their pain and terror, reesive in the cOBTS of the morning and me all overcoat. Funerals were a daily our cue from them, do we not? We

pre marched up, the remnants of the old of divisions withdrawn and the terror Supplementary, and gives an account of starvation) The English prisoners who A RETELEMENT ONCE FOR ALJ. DE CIA appents first in the evening papers is scearrence (deaths usually caused by intend what they intended.

their own gas huched up and forgotten. events between the despatch of the main were in receipt of food parcels did what

they could for me. Was vaccinated and Where in America, believe our perei. Then came in blazing sun drying up the ilaybreak,

inoculated five times, and lost from 16lb cipation in this present war to be only clay and foam, hrating the earth surface to 18ll in weight. Remained here six case theirs this. On inches der The Ikiezt poison, awoke for no apparent reason shel- Now the German system is somewhat teen days, entrained at noon for Branden case differs from theirs only in this: that agai different The enemy sends out in the burg (four slices of bread issized for it is our inestimable privilege to concert ters and dugouts that had been safe and The unsuspecting Doops were morning his main report of his doings up journey). Travelled in two elese packed with rien out of every antion what shall habitable for days became deadly as puff to nightfall of the previous day, and this trucks--forty-three hours on train no make not only the liberties of America adders. We git in Londen during the afternoon, heat-three miles to march to camp secure but the liberties of every other overwhelmed. Some hours niter Sir Douglas Haig's bitter wind and snow: Detrained once people as well. We are happy is the The Germans are sorry they ever startel morning reports which takes the story up 10-coffee, bread, and loz. sausage, thought that we are permitted to do what gus, till sorrier that they improved it; to daybreak, that is, some twelve. hours Brandenburg. French prisoners gave us they would have done had they been in but one can feel no pity for them.. later than the German report. The Ger mall issues a second and usually very brief a good meal, had not had a proper meal or Fla. There must now be settled effect on their morale is bad, for no man report in the evening, dealing with the sincs night of leaving ship. Slept on one for all what was settled for America can now tell what terror of their pen in the great ags upon whose inspiration Sowing lurks in the ground that they Thus, in

floor of officers barrack-refused to go rents up to that morning.

we draw to-day. This is surely a fitting up at the rest of thousands of lives. normal times our information is well in amongst the men to bunk allotted to

place from which calmly to look upon our ahead of the German, but in abnorm Another Imrrack allotted to officers task that we may fortify our spirits for which may desire a different settinent tintes. and particularly if things are going wrong, we may, sad often to, fail only next day. German issue consisted its accomplishment, and this is an ap for the sake of its own exterior influence behind Take, for example, what hap of bank of unplaned board, outside of propriate place from which to avow, pener at the end of March The enemy trees half round, bark on, wood full of alike to the friend, who look on and thirdly, the consent of all nations drove in car front and pressed through sap and frost tack of shavings, two red the friends with whom we have the happi-be governed in their conduct towards a considerable depth. Telephone and tele-cotton blankets, 18m. square towel, iron ness to be associated in our action, the each other by the sure principles of

Rations faith and purpose with which we not.

honour and respeel for the common laws graph lines had to be abandoned, and basin for fond, iron sporu.

This then is our conception of the great of civilized society that govern the in- headquarters, which, are the collecting Breakfast, acorn coffee dinner, soun

forced to stations for information, were abandon their exchanges and to fall back served in filthy wood tubs, often part fish struggle in which we are engaged. The dividual citizens of all modern States in! Fresh means of transmitting information oflat) supper, ditto, and two slices of plot is written plain upon every secne their relations with one another to the had to be improvised, and were required, bread per day. Bunks in barrack and every act of the supreme tragedy. "as a matter of prime urgency for the touching forty-eight in my barrack. We control of the battle. This is what is to slept, ate, smoked, washed clothes, and expected when an enemy is successful later caused in this one edin, alive with

LADENTORE COMMUNIQUES.

to

or mastery.

The

THE

SALINE GRATAIL

PERPETUAL SPRINGTIME

Sal Hepatica

Effervescent Saline Combination

A SafeHepatic Stimulant and TrueLaxative

TS daily us removes that lazy, sluggish feeling

I safely and effectively.

To, sensibly aid digestion➡to harmlessly overcome constipation, make the use of this mild effervescing saline. laxative a daily habit.

It is Pleasant to Take-it is Effective,

HORLICK'S

MALTED

MILK

WHEAT,

(MALTED | BARLEY, AND PURE FULL-CREAM MILK).

The Food Drink with all the Virtues.

4. Gecerates force and sustains it.

2. Cless strengɩb and malṇtains 11.

1. Easily digested and completely absorbed

Bellalous and retreating,

Beady in a moment:

Butts all ages and conditions.

T. Keeps in all cimates.

Supplied by a Chemists and Stores.

Also available in Tablet form to be dissolved in the mouth,

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK CO., SLOUGH, BUCKS., ENG.

0000000000000

PENINSULAR AND

ORIENTAL

STEAM

NAVIGATION CO.

BIRAN FOR STRAITS, CEELON, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITEA-

BANEAN PORTS, LED

LONDON,

THROUUM, BILLS Or Lapike lesUID 100 BATAVIA, ANDRECAN, CONTINENTAL

AND BOUTH AFRICAN PORJE.

Majesty's

[1924

[1739

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEEF.

8.8. "VENEZUELA,"

FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU. JAPAN FORTS, SHANGHAI AND MANILA.

THE above-mentioned vezzel having arrived from the above-mentioned; poris, Com- cigaces of Cargo are hereby informed that their Cargo will be landed at their risk into the Hazardous and Fertin Hazardons Godowan of the Hongg and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, and stored at. Cen-

does risk. Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that they must predved an Import Permit nigred by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before countersigned

can be

HE Homeward Mail Steamer, carrying

́All broken, chafed and damaged goods are ta Samined

on WEDNESDAY, 17th July, 2 r., from this portal, will be despelbed

secured before departure from Hongkong. and Cargo for the above Poris. Passengers be left in the Godowns, whars they will he

Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France ́ ́All Claims must be presented within a monk and London (under arrangement) will be of the Steamer's arrival bere, after which they conveyed by this Steamer proceeding to cannot be recognised,

to the No Chums will be admitted after the Gooda oncarrying Steamer for

delayed just at a time when the public at Older prisoners helped all they could many races and in every part of the established upon the handsome founda- accommodation in the connecting ved THURSDAY, 18th July, 10 AZN

information.

On the one hand the people of the ad that all promises and covenants may world--not only the peoples actually be sacredly observed, no private plots or engaged but many others also who suffer conspiracies hatched, no selfish injuries in attack, and it means that news is vermin. 1 lived here for 5 months under mastery but cannot net, peoples of rablish va impunits, and meal trust Fourth, the establishment of an or home is most anxious and most eager for with fund, but I was generally very world-the people of stricken Russia aretion of tautual respect for right.

ganisation of peace which shall make it hungry, and by the time my own parcela still among the rest, though they are for

certain that the combined power of the Besides all this there is the human four arrived had lost 28lb in weight. the moment unorganized and helpless.. factor to which 1 have referred. The attacking enemy, who has gained ground The barracks was built right on the Opposed to them, masters of many from the private in front to general tarred felt; 20deg, of frost have been group of governments who speak no right and serve to make peace and justice in rear, maken the most of the gen ja registered inside of barracks in the moun common purposes but only selfish umbi- the more secure by affording a definite Parcels will be received at the Office until ings. We formed parties to scrape refuse tions of their own by means of which none tribunal of opinion to which all must the day before calling. The contexto

For further particulare, sailing dater, alc | feader, fighting stubbornly, und deter

to hold his ground to the last beaps for anything that would barn, but can profit bul themselves and whose subunit and by whi- every international and value of all packages are required.

PL KNIGHT, possible moment, will not adnit people a fuel in their hands, govern readjusturat that cannot be nuicably

Acting Baperintendent. has lost the position he is defending till bound to give it up and freeze. In ments which fear their people and yet agreed upon by the peoples directly con-pply tol

are for the time their sovereign lords, cerned shall be sanctioned. last man has been driven from it, and summer the heat was intolerable; Gies and his means of recapturing it are exhausted. mosquitoes very trying. The whole camp making every choice for them and dis The Germans enter a town, and after was indescribably filthy, sanitation posing of their lives and fortunes as they herce fighting reach the market place, almost oil. Eight bundred and. Efty will as well as the lives and fortunes of their General knoirs that he has freshmans died at this camp earlier in the every people who fall under their power reign of law based upon the consent of up to support him, and he war. Several were also burnt to death I governments clothed with the strange the governed and sustained by the or

is flushed with success, and every than ground of unplaned boards, covered with armies, stands isolated and friendless, areo.nations will check every invasion of Bombay, and theres and have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining

His

eay's

soon.

off-report that he has captured,

Вараите. Sometimes he speaks too here shortly before. I arrived."

sometimes he makes good his word.

Our man, perhaps at the same time, tells

his

superior that he is holding on to the killed, or had fallen alive into the enemy's town and can retake it if reinforcements hands.

News comes back very slowly are sent up. There may be no reinforce from the German prisoners of war camps. ments 10-fend, and be may have to fall and there are many families to-day in back. In that case the German report of England who do not yet know whether the capture gets a long start of our report their husbands and sous, reported, mis -of the loss.

Identical conditions apply when we are at the end of March, are prisoners attacking and the Germans defending, as anyone may verify who cares to turn up the reports or the battles of 1917. It is not malica or perversity which makes the news of victory swift and of disaster slow It is of the nature of war, as it is waged to-day

CAPTURE OF PRISONERS,

or not.

the

trappings and primitive authority af an

THE REIGN OF LAW.. These great objects can be put into

a single sentence: What we seek is the

age that is altogether alien and hostile to Banised opinion of mankind. our own

The mat and present are in deadly grapple, and the peoples of the world are being done to death between them There can be no compromise; no half-way decision would be tolerable, no half-way decision is conceivable.

WHAT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ANE

FIGHTING)

The great ends cannot be achieved by debating and seeking to reconcile and accommodate what statespien may wish with their projects for balances of power and of national opportunity. They can be realised only by the determination of what the thinking peoples of the world desire with their longing and hope for justice and for social freedom and

opportunity freedom and Neither we nor

conceal our Germana

These are the ends for which the cau fancy that the air of this place losses in prisoners; there would be no military object in doing so. The plain Associated Peoples of the World aro carries the accent of such principles with foros which the great nation against fact is that neither of us knows at the fighting and which must be conceded to feel kindness mere were started which they were primarily directed at time of the loss The Germans are her them before there can be peace,

Firstly, the destruction of every first regarded as a revolt against its right. fectly aware of all this, and trade on their

arbitrary power, anywhere, that can spa. Knowledge very cleverly

At times when there is nothing to herately, secretly and of its singly choice ful authority, but which it has long since gained by exaggeration, they are meti- disturb the peace of the world or, if it seen to have been a step in the liberation

Then as regards the capture of prisonously accurate. At others, when they cannot be presently destroyed, at least of its own people as well as the people

re, which is often a sore point at home. Tho assailant who makes captures has

want an immediate effect, they exaggerate iis reduction to virtual impotence.

knowing that they cannot at once

of the United States, and I stand bern

prepared beforehand his arrangements for grossly, icted authoritatively: Second, the settlement of every ques now to speak-speak proudly and with

at

De

their custody and for eounting his gains,

We may,

as I have said, before long tion, whether of territory of sovereignty, confident hope of the spread of this re- The numbers are known to him almost once. The defender who is usually in again be fighting a great, defensive battle of economic arrangement, or political volt, this liberation, to the great stage we may lose ground and prisoners too. relationship upon the basis of the free of the world itself. The blinded Talers

difficulties when he loses men has no time If, as is possible, the German - COMMUNI—acceptenco of that settlement by the of Prussia have aroused forces they knew -to cail his roll, and if he had, could not que again get ahead of ours, let it not people immediately concerned and not little of forces which once roused can -tell how many of his missing were tembe ascribed to wilful .concealment of the upon the basis of the material interest or never be crushed to earth again, for they

Borarily cut and

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

kind of fighting in which we are engaged

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

purpose which are deathless and of the very stuff of triumph-Reuter.

APIOLINE

(CHAPOTEAUT)

LADIES

For-functional trockies, delay, pain and thom frregularities peculiar to

the tex

Prescribed by the highest Frazah 34′ dioni authorities and goperiti vs Daier, steel Draya and Pozity TUYEZ. CELPOTEART, U men fleksić, Iveda

subject to rest fond Mseparat

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected, Consignees are requested to cand in their Bill of Lading forbonatertigantare fimmediately.

PACIFIC MAIL 58 00, J. ORAM SHEPPARD,

Aoting Agent Bengkong, 11th July, 1918,

delivered after the 18th July, 1816, wil be

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND

SINGAPORE.

MHE. Steamship

THE

KWAISANG, having arrived From the above porta Consignees of Cargo by her are hereber informed that nũ Goods are being landed st their risk into the Eszendoni audfor extra “bazarčone *: Godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Lità, and/or from the Wharvos delivery may

be

eltained.

ey Hooda not cleared by

1 by the 22nd Jaly, at $

rx will be subject to rent b

All broken, chatel and damaged piekares are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined. Claims against the Steamer must us, presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be

recognized, Ne Fiss InsurARON

slooted

by tu in key me whasever, the

Pails of Lading will be countersigned by JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.LTD.,

General Managers. :

Hongkong, 15th July, 1918.