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THORNYCROFT

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MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR" BOATS,

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THORNYCROFT WATER-TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.

Our Mutue Enginter and our Yaral Architect, both Thornycroft-- experts, now resident in Shanghaj will give attention to all inquires.

Early deliveries can be maile of 18-b.b.p... 30bhp., 43-b.h.p. and 70bhp. Kerosene Marine Enginea."

الله

'R. R. KOXBURGH,

Manager for China.

THE" "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20гa. 1919.

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THE PASSING OF AN EMPIRE

A NIGHT ON THE PLAIN OF SHARON

September 19th, is a date which some

of us will never pass without a thrif of recollection, writes Times corres- pondans. Just for a moment, may be. we shall be back again on the Plain of Sharon, between Mount Ephraim, dhe the sea, an hour before dawn. Fay tw weary days we had lain hidden in the orang orchards of Malebbis or the live' graves of Ludki. By day the dusty f

Aracks which threaded the Pinin were almost deserted, and it was only at night that lang cuhimins of marching troops, guns, lorries, limbers, and lines of slow, silent curael's gave evidence of, the great army which General Allenby was secretly hurrying from east to west.,

There is a faint, tingling chill in the air, and the low hills are white with moonlight. All the night we have fain. and watched the moon travel through the sky. And now it is poised, clear-cut and shining, on the edge of the sandhills which tie between us and the sea; plready darkness is creeping swiftly up the shal low Dwadia then the moon slips swiftly behind the hills, and the silver landscape is suddenly blucted out.

We get up and pass silently through the gaps in our wire to our alltid

places on the tape which the sappers lairí in No Man's End the night before. In front the curtain of darkness is pension- Fally parted by the swift upward lighti of Verey light. All through that king night a single Turkish gun had been firing at régular intervals; every 20 minutes a single shell had screamed its way over our heads. It sounded like the minute gun of a ship in distress and contrasted with the deep silence around. there hart seemed something impressive. and sinister in the sound

A. THRILLING MOMENT.

So we lie in No Man's Land, watching! the Vérey lights and the luminous dial; of nus watches, listening to the rustling! of the dry Era Ba the breaze wherbe enines from the sea just before the dawn. "und waiting That is. perhaps, the moment which in after years (we shall most vividly recull the silence jof the night, the gathering lines of med, east and west, on, a 90-mile front, and 500 yards away the Turks, happily un- conscious of what the dawn would bring. At 23 minutes past a the long lines sud- denly rose and went forward, groping their way through the darkness acrosA the little valley between the two front lines. We were close to the Turkish tren- ches when the barrage began There were four shots from a machine-gun, as distinc as "the blows of a hammer, beat ing mercilessly on the silence. A fraction of a second later every gun from the| Mediterranean to Mount Ephraim, broke, into a mighty, chorus,

When we reached the Turkish trenches n few daze and demoralized men r forward to surrender in the tumult of sound their voices came to us ftfully and like the wailing of children. We swept. on over the front line and the support trenches. Eastward on Mount Ephraim n faint amber light told of the coming of day. Already we could see the great clouds of neke and dust which swirled round, and in front of us. In the fulls when our guns were lifting from trench to trench we could hear the roar of dis tant barrages. and knew that the whole length of that long line others were doing what we were doing.

FORWARD OVER THE PLAIN.

For some time after the coming of day we could see nuthing of the country round. We walked on the edge of a greap bank of dust eburned up by our shells which moved slowly northward. Thes the guns behind us stopped, and we kn that we were beyond the range at whist they could protect us. The clouds began to thin and part, and at last we could see in front of us the new country, which we had set out win. There was a long, Folling plain, dotted here and there with white and brown villages, shining in the morning sun; there were little bills and cactus gardens and clumps of trees where Jewish farm stood; there was the yellow ribbor of road which marked the right of the broad gap through which the cavalry were to pass; and, fne to the north, wo could just see the faint purple outline of. the great buttress of Carinel, stretching. from the sen to the hills of Central Pales tine. In the distance there were a few scattered parties of Turks, carts, limbers, stray horses, fering to the north.

We had another three miles to go be fore we should reach the village which was our final objective and make good the right gute of the gap. So we went on and the tapping of machine-guns and the swish of Wallets overhead showed us that the Turks were beginning to recover from. their first surprise. In such a ling a ours gaps were bound to open, and in these gaps little detachments of Turks and Germans hung on to do what damage they could while they could. Once too, squadron of Turkish cavalry, rode up on our left flank, but withdrew when we turned our Lewis gund on- to them"

By 11 o'clock we had reached and taken our village. The forwards bad done their work; it was for the three-quarters now to dash through and score the wint ning try. Before midday their bush had begun. Armoured cara streamed up the road, cavalry trotted briskly across the country, and ceroplanes circled over head watching the tide as it swept, norel wards.

"

There was an extraordinary finality about it all. It was not only that foreig it was the end of our war. As the battle passed to the north a great pence fell upon the land, and, in the afternoon, the ....... people of the village came down to the well to draw their water. An empite had passed away, a chapter in history had been closed, and the old routine was beginning again. With our eyes we had seca the coming of the Peace,

THE

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LAST NIGHT TO-NIGHT November 20th. STUPENDOUS ATTRACTION

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TO-DAY (Thursday), November 20th.

Dance Tickets 50 cents each,

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From 4.30 to 7 p.m.

TO-MORROW (Friday), 21st,

Monday, 24th, Thursday, 27th.

Admission to Dance Boom Each Day $2. per head, including

Tea.

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