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ing Tacfarinas, whom, after so many battles, they know well, as there would be po rest from war dxcept by the destruction of the enemy's lender Not by threats against the enemy or by humiliation of ourselves, but only by capturing the commandoes, can this war be

ended.

BY RAIL FROM CHINA TO GERMANY.

German commercial circles regard the Siberina Railway as destined to play an im- portant part in Germany's expansion in the Far East. A Gentian Government architect, Herr Weiler, has just returned from Vladi- vostock to Moscow in 331 days, and he foresees the time when the journey by rail from Berlin to Tsingtau will be sende in 12 days. Herr Weiler's journey cost 148.50 roubles, including, supple- ment for luggage, about 10 per cent, The cost of a second-class railway ticket, inclusive of the supplement for express trains and sleeping. cars, comes out on the average at one-third of - a penny the kilomètre. For the sake of com. parison it may be stated that the cost of travell. ing in Germany is four pfennige, or nearly id, per kilomètre. On the railway cars and in the Siberian towns the cost of food, at a moderate rate of living, is about tos, a day, and the lowast charge for a room in an hotel is 6s, 6d. Between Vladivostock and Moscow Herr Weller spent 496 roubles, or rather more than £50; but he says that the outlay need not exceed £40.

From Irkutsk to Moscow, an express train journeys twice a week; it is made up of one first-class and two second-class cars, a restaur antar and a luggage waggon. The trip re- sembles very much those made by the German long-distance "I"trains, save that the Siberian distances are longer, and that the cars are rather more comfortable. Next to the dining- ear there is a smoking-room, and in these two compartments the passengers generally pass the daylight hours. The attendance is well danged, and the passengers' boots are duly cleaped. Every car contains two lavatories, and in the luggage-van there is a roomy bath. room. The joumey lasts seven and a-half days, but Herr Weiler thinks that it would be no hardship to pass two or three weeks under such conditions. He says that the journey between New York and San Francisco is not so agree

able.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1901.

FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

According to a supplementary Ministerial re- port on the condition of those provinces in which, this year's harvest was a partial or total failure, it appears that the sum necessary to provide succour for the eleven farine-stricken Governments is forty millions of roubles. The whole of this amount is to be provided by the Russian Imperial Exchequer, but it is to be turned, as far as possible, to practical account by the employment of the assisted

peasants in the construction of various public works, chief in road building. It seems almost incredible that whilst there are now some forty thousand versts of railway in European Rússia, they are only twelve thousand versts of pro- perly built highways. It is this grievous want of roads passable in all weathers which so severely handicaps the peasants in getting their grain produce to the railway depots.

SUBMARINE WARFARE.

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Mr. Tesla suggested recently that it would be possible to build an automatic torpedo, which should be entirely under the control of an electrician on shorn or in the conning-tower of a battleship. The Servian savant had been anticipated by Mr. Azel Orling, a young Swede, who at least five years ago was busy on the invention of such a torpedo. No more terrible or demoralising weapon of war than the torpedo exists, and if this swift, silent, dread engine can be guided by unseen electric radiations direct to its ojbect, it will revolutionise naval warfare. These qualities are claimed for the Orling-Armstrong Submarine'; and what was intended as a demonstration of them was given yesterday on Mr. Armstrong's grounds, "Desburga," Hughenden. A model torpedo was floated in a ditch, and from a distance, of some 500 yards her rudder was moved to port, amidships, and starboard. by the impulse of electric vibrations. Unlike Mr. Marconi's ethereal waves, these vibra- tions were passed not through the air, but the ground; and the inventors claim that they can transmit them for miles through earth or sea. No doubt need be felt on that sub- ject; but yesterday's exhibition was n“ stifficient test. The trial should not be on a hill top in Bucks, but on the coast, at Dover, or Southend or Spithead. The object aimed at should be in motion. nr the tropedo should he called upon 10 pursue a tortuous course, rounding a buoy, for

feet; and it should be demonstrated that it is actually possible from the shore or the conning. tower to direct its movements until it strikes the enemy's veasel. What may unhesitatingly be admitted as a practicability in theory must be proved in practice as a fact. Yesterday's display was a part only, though a highly im portant part, of the test that is needed.

It will be understood that the electric energy is directive only. The torpedo would be charged, propelled, and exploded as at present. The motive force of this invisible radiation must be of the 'smallest, but silken thread may be strong enough to start an engine of a thou- sand horse-power. These marvellous waves, which the brilliant "genius of Clerk-Maxwell divined, and Hertz realised experimentally, are divery day doing tech wonders that it ally be

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The Siberian Railway cannot attain its fullest importance for Germany until Peking has example, and, in any case, it should be im. Are now showing a large and varied assortment of materials suitable for "ERNEST SIMONS," Captain Vaquier, with Through Bills of Lading, issued for BATAria, been connected by rail with Irkutsk. Pro-mersed to the normal proposed depth of ten press is being made with the construction of a railway from Tsingtauto Tsinan- fu, and from Tsinan-ft to Tientsin. German enterprise has already completed the necessary preliminary work for building a line of railway. A glance ut the map shows that a terminal point at Tsingtau would by no means increase the length of the Siberian Railway; in fact, as compared with Port Arthur, it would form a considerably shorter route to the open sea. Thus the possibility of travelling in twelve days from Berlin to Tsingtau proves the importance of bringing about communication by rail be. tween Irkutsk and Peking, and then between Tientsin and Tsinan-fu. The Far Eastern ... terminus of the Siberian Railway has had so far no abiding place; true to what Russians are pleased to call their "historical tasks" it has forced its way gradually towards the south and the open sea. That Russia will reach Peking by rail in the fulness of time is almost beyond doubt. Then, if Russian aggression prolongs its railway system across the German Hinterland of Kizochow a severe and lasting blow cannot fail to be struck at German enter prise in the Chinese Empire. At any rate, Herr Wailer's suggestion is a clear case of playing into Russia's hands-Globe.

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admitted in the highest degree probable, as Mr." Laird Clowes bas said, that the "Actinaut," as he calls it, occupies ground over which progress must be made.

Several striking merits are claimed for the new "Armor!" javentions. They are probably the most compact and the simplest ever used to produce electrical effects. The whole direc- tive apparatus for a torpedo appears to be rather less capacious than a man's hat, and for telephonic purposes the battery complete could be carried in the pocket. This simplicity leads to corresponding cheapness. The French have "ear-marked" over a million sterling to provide thirty-eight submarine boats; for the same money 1.550 "Actinauts," Vaterland (Catholic Organ, Austria).

or electrically guided torpedoes could be built- The Commander-in-Chief of the British troops in South Africa, in despair at not being is claimed also that in virtue of this simplicity "our coastguardsmen could manipulate them, able to conquer the Boers by honest war, has long had recourse to excessive brutality. Until after very little experience. Finally the 5,000 recently a remsant of shame on the part of the Whitehead or other torpedoes which the British English Government restrained the blood-Government possess could be easily fitted with thirstiness of Lord Kitchener, but since the beginning of this month he appears to have been allowed a free hand for every kind of inhumanity A portion of the English Press feels the ineffaceable blemish, which the infamies per petrated by Lord Kitchener inflict on the name of England. It protests vigorously, but to no purpose. Other English.orgens, openly sp plaud the executieni, Ilfelong imprisonments, banishments, and floggings, of which every day brings fresh tidings from South Africa With that hypocrisy and mendacity which

only to be found in England, it is affirmed that such cyclty is necessary in order to save British lives, to put an end to the misery of thousands of families; and to convince the Boers, who regarded the gen erosity hitherto displayed by the English as mere weakness, that the British are masters in South Africa, Alf people who read the terrible

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the requisite "receptors" and "detector" of the new system corresponding to the coherers of wireless telegraphy. In brief, the following is the way in which, according to the sanguine inventors, their plan would work :

"An enemy's ship is seen advancing, say -from the French coast; and as soon as the trained operator thinks fit, a button is touched, and this releases an 'Actinaut and starts her

machinery. The operator guides her by invisi- ble radiation until she strikes the vessel, An other operator can at the same time be working another Actinaut, having the same object in. view, without in any way interfering with each ether while a third can be directing another to a second vessel if one be seen approaching." Just so; and a practical demonstration of these possibilities in the open sea would be won drously convincing.

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understood that the promptu nature of the installation. Voices Inhuman conduct of Lord Kitchener did could be heard, but not plainly distinguished. Ry competent European experts at not inspire the Boers with fear, but with profound exasperation, that the British whose Indoors, an example was given of a loud-speak- lives were to have been protected will now, being telephone, which it is said can be fixed exposed to annihilation, that English families for a few pounds on any ship, and com- who had hitherto at the outside to fear death munication by voice established with another in the field for their relatives must now be ship or the shore. In this way collisions at

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