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MINING WARFARE. AMUSING EPISODES.

Much has been published of gallant. work done by different branches of the Army on the Western Front, but official decree, has hitherto prohibited any details appearing of the dangerous performances of the mining unit, in which men drawn from the colliery districts played so pro- The veil ninen; and: valuable a part.

giving its authority to the delivery of a the detailed lecture on the subject to

FUTURE WARS.

THE HUNGKONG DAILY - PEESS, JEDNESDAY, JUNE 11T, 1919.

SMALL IMPORTANCE OF HAN POWER.

GENERAL MONASH'S VIEW.

Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, the Commander of the Australian Im- perial Force, speaking at a luncheon given in his honour gave it na his opinion that scientific preparation and equipment

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power in future wars man power itself Circus, London, and appeared on was the last thing to be copsidered. | TWO occasions before THEIR GEORGE V. Other speakers, referred to the proposal MAJESTIES KING that there should be a great march QUEEN MARY and the ROYAL through London by Colonial troops before Family at Buckingham Palace. they left for their homes.

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy by Major H. Standish Ball R. late Assistant Inspector of Mines, General Headquarters, France. The meeting tuck place at Burlington House, on April 10th, and was presided over by Mr. Hugh

F. Marriott.

Major Standish Ball denit with all phases of the work of the miner. and lantern illustrated his discourse with

of

All warfare on the Western Fro

He said that owing to the state of, and the signs of the rad. hostile mining activity it was decided

at

The Chairman, in proposing the toast of the guest, said that he would like to take advantage of the presence at that gathering of representatives of all the Excminions of the Empire to express his

God-speed to wish

Grand Opening Night

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regret that some steps had not been taken Tuesday, June 17th, 1919.

Tuesday, June 17th, 1919. SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.

to

that underground warfare should in our history as this:

instituted Mining operations were cert menced in December, 1914, hut, owing to the inge programme of work ei the Royal Engineer companies already in hand. Enid that of Brat pritve successful,

to

years.

KOWLOON ground

next Post Office.

For the Arst time in Hongkong

+

oops on their departure from the Mo- Country. It was unfortunately true. our people that they lacked imagina

otherwise it would not have been that an occasion of such unique should without something med to pass being one in recognition of the nien from the distant parts of our Empire heard 200 Performing Animals 200

who ers fought

Bletter In rapleton form retary

State for the Colonies the nucleus if the 10th Field Company.gesting that come steps should be taken to enable London. to see the Dominion despatched i10 Royal Engineers.

troops befe returned home, Lord Febrang 1913, and by the end of June.

promised to take the 1916, there were actually twenty-five Im-

matter op

War Office. perial companies and seven Overseas com

Lord De

upporting the toast, actively engaged approximately panies ac

the itality of seeing that emphasised 13.000 men. Amusing

incidents marked the advent there was a march of the Dominion troops. of these specially-enlisted men from the

and i was decided that entisted miners from the colliery districts should be cu from ployer. The firs: beds of miners.

WM

Milder very

30 Star Artists 30 NOT ONE ACT

NOT ONE ANIMAL

NOT ONE ARTIST

pats. Some of the imagined that they through London before they left these Ever before seen in Hongkong. would be taken to and from their work shores. He thought it would be a gres Record success attained in Europe,

done.

Dub for

express their

the

of the Empire would

misfortune if thats were in motor cars, and this and similar myths would be a great were the cause of men arriving at the people of the capital from totally unfit for the hardship of to

Dominion troops; to do ottitude to the to publicly atrug etive service, no matter how gled to carry on their specialised store.

ulheyrs

in the companies were

were more cosmopolitan than in any other unit For tining operations n' complete know ledge as the geologien nature of the ground was erbal Records, showed that the Germans had made the most com te and accurate geological surves of the whole front.

CANARY'S FATE INNUMAN'S LAND ́`· in the early days all our operations were more or less of a defensive character, at it was a point of great importance

ke to let a great Imperial opportunity go by. He could not believe that the Secretary of State for War, who was cer tainly not u without imagination, would let this gerent opportunity go by.

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General Monnah, in responding, said that the A tralian community of only five million tuple had enlisted a voluntary men and Army of no fewer than 418,000 men women The Australian Forces had dis tinguished themselves on land, on sea, and in the air. It had put into the field fe besides a complete divisions of troops,

Dominion was the and the Fastuipped and maintained its own complete Hying force. The Austra from Arst to last, a pure- lian army was

the ly voluntary force, and was, in fact.

He did hatants in this war.

not wish to to be taking sides on the of issne in 10. Gitret

behind the minings or

2ia. baving sometimes carried an extraordinary distance, in ene ense pile drivdig in a shaft of blue clay being heart in a second shaft 1.100tt away. win the naked ear. Owing to the large number of casualties, each company was Provided

several mine- scue stations

After the explosion of a mine it was ine des of these men ta den their apparatus. and test for the presence of gas by mean el canaries or white mice. An amusing

As many as hity galleries were

to

ecg" up to the switcuboard of o be suppiption, or to appear CIRCLE"

cert istening chamber, situated

pusition behind

Sounds

with:

but pathetic tale was told of the face of a mining canary. This bird escaped from its cage in an officers dug-out and into the middle of No Man's Land,

wecka. Werk

be

would we fasstely ordered to

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WHAT MAKES A GREAT ARMY the presence of mining operations, and

One of the outstanding lessons of our the undoing of the work of in the trenches

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not without its moments of excitement, and many underground encounters with the enemy took place. Early one or ing a small hole was discovered

in

power

al that was required to constitute an army. We had proved in this war that mere man-power by itself was

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the

It was would like to have every ounce of effort

of a

decided to put in a charge, and so concentrated upon the

macation onte the eping that the officer could high standard of tic

arrange

over,

the

of

might get a man ready for service in three or four to finish the months

the hole, and investi- the staff and gallery. Whilst was being done the enemy flashed this of adequate equipment. We

detonating of the charges in

arranging the leads,

in three or four months.

through, causing the officer. the dark.onths, but we could not get a gun ready In the Army the period he was lying on the Corps which be commanded there were no

fight was fewer than 1.200 guns, and which fashed full upon a part of the roof falled no

ed no leas

than twenty train loads

inta out taking:

day' Bring,

ing in owing to the enemy being on the manition for consideration the

top. In spite of this, the officer was able

to finish the work, and the mine was fired ties of calibre and the multiplicity of successfully.

and

"

A MYSTIC MESSAGE.

not con

bodies

large

Forms of equipment of should

of attack and defence. He did not say that we On another occasion a party of mending the system of training were entombed in a gallery during a of men for war, but what he wanted to heavy bombardment. when part of the emphasise was that we must spend the gallery became completely filled with greater part of our energy and effort and water,

dived through this money in adequate equipment and in the Volunteers water for distance of to get to the maintenance of a highly qualified body

o cour the gallery of staff officers, pump.

were able to of water and restore the ventilation, 80 enabling a rescue to be effected after an entombment of eighteen hours.

But even in the most exciting momente camouflets were blown at the appointed of hour, but nothing was heard for some the miner was not without & sence humour, During the tour of an officers hours as to the fate of those in No Man's

Land. Finally a code patrol in No Man's Land one night, through, ending with the words Johans sounds of moaning were heard at s Walker." The first part of the message shallow depth at a portion of the line! where wo no immediate underground gave the welcome news that the enterprise defences As We

essential that the had been successful, and that several

bundred feet of the enerp's:

my's trenches had enemy should be stopped, it was decided

a volunteer party should dig down passed into our handa. But no meaning could be to the words Johnny Walker antik-it-was-discovered tha they referred to a well-known whisky

(Laughter.)

from

the surface into the man's supposed

A while camouflets were blown in

underground system at a position

to be

source of the gallery was spent diment

The following night the party proced ed to the shell hole where the sounds had been heard and proceeded to dig. The (Continued of foos of art column.)

till going By means of lantern slides of aeroplane photographs the lecturer indicated the many trape laid by the enemy in order to divert troops and tanks to places where mines were laid.

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