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THE HONGKONG

THE GERMAN WAR MACHINE.

ITS INSIDEWORKINGS REVEALED.

An Article Full of Interesting Points.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1914,

at Berlin, not even in the cabinets of Europe.

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| umong the twelve, that Germany officially admits are made of this mat rial. Its formala is a Gover ament serret and England

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Guarding the Dirigibles. :

Guns on the Zeppelins. | The operating sphere of the new balloons has ostended from

PRESIDENT WILSON.

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Will He Agaia Stand?

This would be inconsistent with his whole being and spirit and he shrinks from it as from something that would embarrassTM him rather than help him."

was formally coded to England At the extreme eastern corner in 1814; now it is a menses to [Secret Aorial Strength.

of the island of Heligoland one her. While Lord Salisbury was Germany without doubt has

seer, amid the sandy duner, thres Prime Minister of England, he the most up-to-date aerial, Heel ia

or France would give thousaade vast oblong iron-grey stractures, conceived what he believed to be the world. The budget of the of dollars to possess it.

At a distance they are not unlike a shrewd diplomátio move. He Reichstag of 1908-1909 allowed

The objection of inflammability overgrown gasometers. I say at offered Bismarck the island of and provided for the building of the lifting power bas also been a distance, for it is impossible for Heligolard in exchange for some and maintenance of twelve overcome. The power of the any visitor to get within East African concessions, and it dirigibles of the Zeppelin type. ordinary hydrogen gas in all its thousand yards of the station. became a German possession in Washington, Sept. 25.-At the So far as the knowledge of the various forms has been multiplied The solitary approach is guarded 1890. Heligoland is now the key direction of President Wilson, rest of the world is concerned this threefold by a new gas discovered by a triple post of the marine and guard of Germany's main Secretary Tumalty to day wrote a is all the sky navy that at the Spandan Government guard. If you walk toward the artery of commerce, being the letter to New Jersey Democrats, Germany posse8209. It is a fact, obemical laboratory. This gas station, before you come within a key to Hambarg. With the dealining to have them endorse though, that she has three times has also the enormous advantage hundred yarda of the guard, you dirigible station of Heligoland to the President for a second term. the number that she officially of being absolute y uninfiem- will find large signs setting forth in guard her, Hamburg is impreg ncknowledges.

mable. I bave seen experiments unmistakable and terse language cable, and on England's northern Mr. Tamulty's letter was to Mr. [Below we give the concluding ever undertaken by him led him

The dirigible-balloon centres made with it. It cannot be used that dire and swift penalties coast they have a way of looking Edward D. Grossoup, state trea instalment of an article con- 08 far as Heligoland. Subsequent in Germany are five and they are for illuminating purposes. Diri- follow any further exploration in out scross the North Sea with surer of New Jersey. It road; ributed to Collier's Magazine byly throngh careful inquiries and situated at vitally strategic points, gibles that are equipped with it that direction. Not only English troubled eyes! Dr. Argaard Karl Graves. The research-my work bringing me There are two on the French are not liable to the awful but German visitors to Heligoland Let us consider one of these "You are generous enough to first part appeared in our issue of into constant contact with the border, one on the Russian bor explosions that have characterized have found out that even the now wer monsters, the latest and consult me as to whether the Saturday last.

various divisions I found that der, one on the Atlastic Coat, fights under the ordinary system, slightest infringement of the rales most powerful, the X 15. The Demorate of New Jersey should Highly nutritione light in the whole of England, France, and a central station near Berlin. The new gas has also the enorm of these eigos is dangerous. I latest Zeppelins, oborged with at this time endorse the President weight, practically indea- and luseia was carefully cut into The exact places are Strasburg,ous alvantage of having a liquid atall, however, take you a little the newly discovered dioxygenous for a second term. I had a talk tructible, wholesome, this is sections, each of those sections

Frankfort-on-the-Main, Pusca, form. To produce the gaz it is closer.

gne, giving these sky battleships with the President about it. easily prepared into a palatable being in charge of two officers Wilhelmshafen, and Berlio. This only necessary to let the ordinery Walking on until you are with triple lifting capacity; the per- and he deeply appreciated the meal with the simple addition of and a secretary whose sole duty does not include the marvellous atmosphere come in contact with in filty yarde of the great balloon fecting of the Diesel motor, giv- suggestion, but New Jersey Of this preparation it was to acquaint and mak station at Heligoland in the North the liquid. Carried in ogliaders skede, you pause before a tall ing enormous horse-power per- is his home state, the men who hage quantities are always kept themselves perfectly familiar Sea, this being a strategic point two feet long and with a diameter fence of barbed wire, this can-cantage with light fast consu np. would act in this matter are his in stock for the army.

with everything in that particular in relation to Great Britain. of six inches it is obvious that nected with an elaborate alarm-tion (fity of these Diesel engines, own personal friends, and he feels Intelligence.

locality. Through the far-roach Nothing is known about this enough of this liquid can be car bell system that sounds in the their workings secret to the Ger- that it might seem as if he were Without doubt the most im- ing system of espionage, the Heligoland station. None but ried aboard the big war dirigible two guardhouses. For instance, man Government, are stored taking advantage of the ex- portant division of the General latest and most up-to-date those on official business are to permit their refilling in mid- if an enterprising secret agent of under guard at the big Davy traordinary situation now existing Staff and upon whose informaation information is always forthoom-permitted within a thousand yarda air. S1, you see, all the ob- France were to try and stal up yards at Wilhelmshafen and Kiel, to gain some personal advantage and efforts the whole machine ing, and time and again I myself, of it. I shall tell things concernjections to the commonly known on the station, if he came by ready to be installed at the break through such an expression of biogen is the Intelligence Depart- often relarning from a missioning it.

ayatera of operation have been night and out through the barb- of war in submarines. and confidence by them, ment, really covering many like one of those to the naval Besides there purely military overcome by the War Office. ed wire, a series of balls would dirigibles), have given the Ger- different fields-for instance, base in Scotland, have sat by the poata there are a number of com

immediately sound the general man type of aircraft an import- general science, especially hour verbally amplifying my mercial stations necessary Ba

The last dirigible tried by the alarm. Having passed through ance aadress of and un- strategy, topography, ballistics, previous reports.

depots of the regular transport-War Office in 1912, the myster the aix etrands of barbed wire a suspected by the rest of the but mainly the procuring of A part of the intelligence ation aerial lines that operate for ious Zeppelin I made a con- tallostagonal tower mests the eye. world. information, data, plans, maps, system is the personality squad, the convenience of the public. tinuous trip from Stettin over the In this lower are instilled two etc., kept more or less secret by whose duty it is to acquaiat Like Germany's commercial Baltic to Upeala in Sweden, powerful searchlights as well a other powers. In this division themselves with the personality steamers, however, they are con. thence across the Baltic again to complete wireless outfit. All

President Wilson's attitude was the brightest young officers and of every army and navy officer of trolled and subsidized by the Riga in the Gulf of Finland, the Zplias carry wireless. By 100 to 1,400 kilometros. Secret not taken by friends here to mean general officials are found. The the leading powers. I have seen Government. At a few hours where it duabled and sailed back means of elaborate reflectars, it is trial trips of a fully equipped that he has decided not to a scept training and knowledge required reports as to the environments, notice they can be converted and to Statio. Taia was a journey possible with the search-lights to Zeppelin like X 15, carrying a re-nomination if it is offerail to of the men in this service are habits, hobbies, and general pro made use of for Government of 976 miler. The airship had a food the whole place with day-crew of twenty-four mea, six him. Democrata in other alates exacting to a degree. It requires clivities of men such as Admiral purposes. Taking these transport complement of twenty-five men light in the middle of night. qnick-firing gaas, seven tone of have recently endorsed him for a in most cases the undivided Fisher, commanding the Channel ation lines into consideration, it and twelve tous of deal weight. Thus, ascensions can be made explosives, have extended from second term, and no objection attention-often a life study to Squadron of the British Navy, is safe to state that by now Gar- it travelled under severe weather safely at any hour of the twenty-Stettin, over the Baltic, over the was made at the White House. a single subject.

down to Colonel Ribault, in many could send. fifly huge air conditions, the month being four. The three ob'ong sheds Swedish east, recrossing the It has been the unswerving charge of a battery in Toulouse, ships to war.

March, and snowstorms, hail, stand in a row, the middle being Baltic and landing at Swinemun policy of the Prussian military To military or naval officers and

Revolutionizing Discoveries..

and rain occurred throughout the the largest, having spaces for two de, with enough gas, fuel, sad authorities to know as much of men of affairs the reason and It may be a puzzle to Americans voyage. The significance of this complete dirigiblos, while the provisions left to keep aloft on- the rest of the European countries benefit of such a system are why, in the face of disasters and fight can be easily understood if other shede house bat one each other thirty-six hours. The dis as they know of their own. la obvious. The general reader, accidents to these Zeppelins, Jon consider that the distance. They are about 800 font long, tange all toli sovered on one of new Zeppelins have gone thou the war of 1870-71, German however, may not quite see the Germany is spending about from Strassborg or Dusseldorf to 200 feet broad and 120 fest high. these tripa was 1,180 kilometres, sands of feet higher. An aviator at commanders down to the lieuten point. The position of a com- $4,000,000 on her serial. feet. Paris or other strategical points The whole structure itself can be This fact speaks for itself. The 6,000 feet is so cold that he is ant leading a small detachment mander in the field is analogous Now we come to a very significant in France is approximately 480 shifted to about an angle of forty retara distance from Heligoland to practically useless for anything had accurate information, charts to the executive head of a big point. I know, and cartain kilometres. A ship like the Zep- and data of every province in selling concern.. A semi-per- members of the German General pelia X could fail over the French degrees, this being worked on a London, or any midlani towas in but guiding his machine. How France, giving them more ao-aonal knowledge of the foibles Staff know, as well as trusted anu border, dynamite the fortifications plan similar to the railroad, en England, corresponds to the in the world is he or his seat ourate knowledge of a foreign and characteristics of his ousto- in the serial corps, that there are around Paris and return, the is that with the veering of the In the event of hostilities between craft the size of the Zeppelin that gine turntable. The reason for it mileage covered on recent tripa. mate going to do harm to a big country than that country had of mers without doubt gives him an two conditions under which air-journey being roughly about 1,000 wind the sheds are turned so that itself. It is a notorious fact that, advantage over a rival concern, ships are operated in Germany, kilometres (r some hundrade of the doors will be placed advac-statement neede no explination. who has ever gone up, asy England and Germany, this is for above him? Any aviator after the defeat of the French neglecting the personal equation One is the ordinary more or less kilometres less than the actual tageously for the removal of the That is why I mentioned that the 8,000 feet, will tell you when he armies at Weissenburg and Worth being really more important than well-known system which char trip made by the Zeppelin X.

airship.

latter-day Zeppelins were a comes down what a harrowing and later at Motz, the French is generally understood. This acterizes the operation of all the Moreover the German military commanders and officers lost has long been recognized and passenger lines now in service in trials have shown the possibility Dirigible's Replace Forts.

powerful factor in bringing about experience he bas had. What valuable time and strategical fully taken advantage of by the the Empire. It is the system of an serial flet leaving its bone The whole layout and the vast an" amiable understanding by good can an individual be, ex- positions through sheer ignorance German Army authorities.

those two powerful posed to the temperature and the ander which all the disasters ports and craising to foreign area of space show that it is the teen of their own country. This is

Aerial Weapons,

that appear in the newspaper lands and returning without the Government's intention still fur countries. For neither the his elements at such an altitude, în impossible under the Prussian Within the last few years an occur. Airships that are used necessity of landing to raplenish therto increase the plant. In toric wooden walls of Nelson's doing harm to the calm, com- system. To-day there is not a entirely new, and, according to in the general a.my flights and its gas tanka or fuel.

faut, on my last visit to Heligo-day nor the steel plates of her fortable gentlemen in the heated country in Europe of which there German ideas, most important manoeuvres are also run under

land-and it was nearly three modern navy could help England compartments of the Zeppelin? are not the most elaborate charts factor has satered and seriously the same system as the passenger

Let me show you how tho Ger years ago I saw the evidence of or any other nation against the Quatsch! which is a German and maps, topographically exact disturbed the relative military dirigibles-for a reason.

man aerial corps is made up. It another shed about to be built, iuroide of the monsters of the army term for pile! to the minutest detail, dookoted power of European nations. This

is called the Luftohiffer Abteilung | At the station is the most efficient sit The other system is sa abenlate in the archives of the General is the aerial weapon.

Tae os pacity of soven tons of At 8,000 feet the small target a orret of the German General and is composed of ton battalions, meteorological department of all Staff. This applies as a rule to Since the days of Otto Lilion- Staff. It is not used in the ash oonsisting of 850 meo. They the stations. The most sensitive explosives does not exhaust the Zeppelin affords would move at a. the General Staff of most nations, thil and his glider, it has been the general manoeuvrar, only in branch of the service. Only nected with this science are there have it on good authority that to sixty miles an hour. The ure all absolutely trained for this and up-to-date instruments con resources of this type of weapon.rste of speed of from thirty-five but not to sach painstaking policy of Germany to keep track specific cases, and these alaays the smartest mechanics and ori in duplicate and the highest the new Zeppelins can carry possible chances of being hit by of all inventions likely to be em-secretly. It has been proved to fears are selected. In the higher exports such as only Germany doable that quantity of explosives terrestrial gunfire are infinites Exhaustive Knowledge of bodied and made use of in the be effective in eliminating 75 per

Enemies.

War Machine. It is a far ory cont. of the accidents which have positions the most intelligent and can produce are in charge of the if necessary. As the size of these imally small. This does not tako While undergoing instruction from Lilienthal's glider to the chara:terized all of Germany's

bravest officers hold command, department.

vessels increases, eo does the into account the vast opportur in the Admiral Stab in the last word in aerial construction adventures ia dirigibles and Comparing the usual pay in con- When I was at Helico and I ratio of their carrying capacity. ties that a dirigible bas for E Koniggratzer Strasse 70 previous such as the mysterious Zeppelin-heavier-than-air mushinee. These tinental armies, the wages of the nticed a vast differ.nes in the

Picture the havoo a dozen such attacks or the possibility of hid- to my being sent on an English Pareeval aky monster that, carry statistics are known only among men in the German aerial carpe srength of the fortifications com altures could create attacking a ing among the clouds. The X. 15, mission, & controversy arose ing a complement of twenty-five the German General Staff officers are exceptionally high. In fact pared to what they had been. city like London or Paris. Fra sailing over London, could drop between my instructor and myself men and twelve tons of explosives,

they are the highest paid in the They used to be tremendous, but sent day defence against these explosives down and create tor- es to the distance between two eoiled across the North Sea, cir. Let us go into this further, Germen army. They are not since the addition of the naval elips is totally inadequate. In rible havor. They don't have towns on the Lincolnshire coast. oled over London, and returned Critice of the Germon dirigible rdinary enlisted men, meaning base they have become secondary attacking large places, the Zep- to aim. They simply dump over He pushed a button and request to Germany. Lilienthal'e glider who foolishly rats the French that they serve only their two Half the soldiers on duty there pelins would rise to a height of board some of the new explosive ed the answering orderly to bring kept aloft four minutes, bat this aeroplane superior point out that years time. Most of them have have been transferred elsewhere; from 6,000 to 8,000 feet, at which of the German Government, this map 64 and the officer in charge. new dreadnought of Germany's the Zeppelins have abreo serious agreed to serve a lengthy term, so with the big guns. There is distance those huge cigar-shaped new chemical having the pro- With the usual promptness both flying navy was aloft ninety-aiz defects-balk and heaviness of Married men are not encouraged no longer any need of them. As engines of death, 200 feet long, perty of setting on fire anything map and officer, appeared. The hours, maintaining a speed of etractura, inflammability of the to enroll in this branch of the ser- I stated, I saw a fourth big bal would appear the size of a foot that it bite, and they sail on. officers, who could not have been thirty-eight miles an hour, this lifting power-the gas that Roat vice. It is obvious from the loon shed in the course of con- ball, and no bigger. I know that And remember that wherever the more than twenty five years of even in the face of a storm them and insufficiency of fuel a'ure of the work that the struction. I have not been on Zeppelina have successfully soil congran explosive strikes age, discussed with. me in fluent pressure of almost eight metres. carriage. In other words, they hazards are often great. The the island for nearly three years, ed aloft at an altitude of 10,000 conflagration begins, colloquial English the whole of Sach feats us this are significant, cannot ship enough gas to stay in wonderial system of the German Nobody has been near the feet, Picture them at that this section of Lincolnshire. Not They are at the same time the the air a desirable length of time War Machine has been installed extreme eastern end except these elevation, everybody aboard in

Aeroplanes, biplanes, mono- ahummock, road, road house, outcome and the cause of the without coming down. The with rare detail in the aerial closely identified with the service. warm, comfortable quarters ready planes, and the other innumerable even to farmer's residences and development of this part of the secret devices of the German war corps. The equipment of the dif- Considering that Germany as to drop explosives to the ground. host of small craft so often quoted blacksmith's shop, of which he War Machico,

office have eliminated all these fereztetations is really marvellous, not built more than one extra The half informed maa-and 88 a possible counter-defence did not have exact knowledge: It is my purpose here to tell objectionable features They for everything human ingenuity shod, that means five dirigiblos, there appear to be many such in against the Zeppelin, are over- I expressed astonishment at this you how far Germany has ad- have overcome the condition of has been able to devise concern and there is nothing on earth European cabinets, which recalls rated, and are in any case theor most unusual acquaintance with vanced and progressed in this bulk and heaviness of structuring the dirigible you will find that could stand up against them, the proverb about a little know etical. The German authorities the locality, and suggested that straggle for mastery of the sky by their Government chemist in application, Esch station is Heligoland does not need forts any lodge being a dangerous thing have made gast and exhaustive be must have spent considerable I shall disclose facts about her devising the firmu a of a rasterial fally equipped and is an absolute mare: The new forts float in the likes to say that a Book of trials in these mater time in residence there. Conceive system that have appeared in that is lighter then aluminium, yet the base at Leligoland. I Heligoland has long been a out of busines. Consider now the Empire to incre

ly independent centra in itself. sky and can rain death. ** poroplanes can put a dirigible strenuous efforts on the part of may astonishment when he inform print that have nover · been which possesses all of that metal's

o increase its ed me that he had never bren out heard in conversation. They are density and which bas also the is the newest and the one that is sore spot of British diplomacy: an seroplane at an elevation" of dirigible fleet are to my way of of Germany and the only voyage known only to the General Staff flexibility of steel, Airships not always olcaked with seorcoy. Seized from Denmark in 1807, it16,000 feet and remember that the thinking answer enough,

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The Aerial Corps,

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The