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NEW LIGHTS ON - JUTLAND BATTLE.

THE INCIDENT ON THE DOG FIEND.

By Rudyard Kipling.

[ARTICLE IV.] What mystery is there like the mystery of the other man's job or what world so cat off as that which he enters when he goes to it? The eminent surgeon is al together such a ons sa cursives, even till his hand falls on the knob of the theatre, door. After that, in the silence, among the ether fames, no man except his moolytes, and they won't tell, has ever seen his face. So with the dconsidered curate. Yet, before she war, he had more experience of the business and detail of death than any of the people who cot-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

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SIDELIGHTS FROM

GERMANY.

1916.

of explanation which not even the The Question of the Lives of ze to their patriotic sense not to

to

Millions.

agging. The following are ex- rapte from the article seriousness of the English policy "The hour is grave. The

"I shouldn't my so. He's an already lacked door. It was sons are put forward against his `m- un.ympathetic felon she. Han, of his businem to, dispute the sounding elsima; a Naval expert But he might cherish a dachshund | driva. If thats were any dis- or two in hoard talking “of"; or so. We zerm picked up say orepancies between estimants and the rest is milanos. Anso, the ships' pets off him, and. I'm sure results, one might be unto that the enemy, after a prodigiona amount we should if there had been.” enemy knew about them, which

That I believed as implicitly as was the chief thing that matters, neutrals seem to take any interest the tale of a destroyer attack some **It was, muid ha, Jon that the in, revises his òlaims, and, vory montbe ago, the object of_which|light was no bid at the hour of deomaly, anlargen his lomas, was 10 fush Zeppeline. It suc- the last round-up when our main Still no sign. After weeks there corded, for the Aotilla was strok-feet had come down from the apps a document giving our Munich Neueste Nothrichten will Readers of the semi-official ed by several. Right in the mid- north and shovelled the Han version of the affair, which is as derive scans comfort from dle of the furry, a destroyer asked | round on his tricks. Per contra, colourem, detached, and carapa- permission to stop and lower had it been any other kind of Icusly impartial as the findings of engthy article in which is mocke dinghy to pick up ship's dog, weather the odds were the Dana Priss Ocart. It opinee that the to keep up the spirit of the Ger- which had fallen overboard. Per would not have ventured so list of enemy losses which it anban nation, which, it is afraid, is mision was granted, and the dog far. At it was, the Han's feet mitsgive the minimam regard was daly rescued. "Lord know had come out and gone back to numbers, though it in possibly what the Ban made of it," said again done the latter for air and not entirely accurate in regard my informant. "He was rom-examire. We must be thankful the particular class of vomal, bling round dropping bombe; for what we had managed to pick especially those that were saak and the dinghy was digging out up. But talking of picking ar, daring the night stacks Bare for all she was worth, and the there was an instance of almost the wafter reste and remains Dog Fiend was swimming for anparalles Jou which had stack just like our blockade. There Darkirk. It must have looked in his memory. A soldiermen, an insolence about it all that rather mad from shore. But they related to one of the offers in mosken ons gasp. saved the D.g-Fiend, and then one of our ships that was put Yet that insolence springs.na- everybody swore he was a Ger- down, bad got five days' leave turally and unconsciously as an man spy in disguise.”

from the trenches which he spent oath out of the same spirit that with his relativeaboard, and thus caused the destroyer to pick up dropped in for the whole per the dog. The reports themselves, formance. He bad been employed and tenfold more the elories an in helping to spot and had lived in the reports, are charged with up a mast till the ship aank, when it, but no words by any outsider hs stepped off into the water and on reproduce just that profession- swam about till be was fished ont al tone and touch. A man writ. and put ashore. By that time, ing home after the fight points she tole goes, his angina com out that the great consolation for dried khaki had shrunk half-way not having cleaned up the enemy

"And-sboat this Jatland temned him. Bis face also, as he fight?" I binted, not for the first stande his bedside watches-that time."" ocentenaros with which he shall "Oh that was just fight. justify himself to his Maker-There was more of it than any nons have ever looked upon, other fight, I suppose, but I ex- Even the diteber is a priest of peol all modern naval actions mysteries at the bigh moment must be pretty much the same when he lays out in bie "But what does one do-how does one feel?" fineleted, though

knew it was hopeless.

mind his levele and the fall of the water that he alone can draw off clearly. But catch any of these men five minutes after they have left their altars, and you will fari the doors are shat.

Charce sent me almost imme- distely after the Jutland fight a lieutenant of one of the destroyers engaged. Among other matters, I asked him if there was soy par

ticalar noine.

"Well, I haven't been in the trenches, of course," he replied, “but I don't think there could have been much more noise than

there was."

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"It ween's exsotly noiss," be reflected “Noise is what you take in from outside. This was inside you. It seemed to lift you right out of everything."

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"One does one's job. Things are happening all the time. A mao may be right under your nose one minate serving a gun or something and the next minute he isn't there,"

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He tells them that the Potatc and it in the English racial traita Burcan have a most serious situs- which are perhapa the stronger in tion to face, that they are strug us. gling with potato shortage in ill directions. Finally he appeal

allow matters to come to such a pras that panalities must be in Licted for the non-performance of

simple and patriotic daly and the way in patriotism, and Brandenburg,” he says, should what the farmers of Brandenburg] do to-day the farmers of other provinces will do to morrow.

Compulsory Labour on Læed.

Soms excitement has been the Dortmunder Zeitung that at osused by an sanonnorment of of starving Germany has never a recent meeting of the Torn made itself so completely felt a Council of Hagen, alargemanuface now. On all sides the ring of our turing centre, the mayor stated is enemies is bec ming stronger and that Germany will not be able to stronger, and it za no use losing aroid further interference with the our eyes to this fact. They have personal freedom of the people, made enormous exertions.

and that the first step which hundred wounds, will not give tion of compulsory labour on the "France, though bleeding from seems necessary is the introdas. ay one inch. Bassis, which land. This, said the mayor, is has been declared exhausted so absolutely beessary in the best ofter, is silently stamping ever interests of the entire nation.

A wi lespread impression pre- new million armies out of the fold dominion of the way more tarists helding back their steaks, ground. England, which wields Tails that not only are agricul powerfelly than ever, has takes of potatoes and cereals, but that up the fght on land against as they are letting large tests of with incredible energy and self- and go out of cultivation. There sacrifice against as stand not in labour enough at their disposal, only colossal materis!, but im but hitherto inadequate use bas mense intellectual and moral been made of it. " Vorwaerts" forces.

and other Socialist journals want to know why farmers' wives and "We are of opinion that it be daughters do not work in the hores us to face the fact that we fields. They have plenty to eat. are in danger of sinking into the They are not racking their brains

up his legs and arms, in which altogether was that anyhow costume he reported himself to the those East Cosą devils”—s War Offics and pleaded for one fellow squadron, if you please, little day's extension of leave to which up till Jutland had had make himself decent. Not most of the fighting" were not bit of it," said the War Office. there. They misced that show

Friendly to England. "It in some of these same Eng lish qualities in us which here increased the difficulties between the three countries. Sweden ban always had the friendliest feelings towards Britain, and thoss feel- of that fact, if England, dering inga will continue. Andin view this war; had decided to oblige Sweden, to study her interests, to trust more fully to her generosity and sense of justion, the course of events would have been made much amrother."

"Another line of action was-

taken. I hope, however, that we have now arrived at a point when many of the difficuties of the situation will be cleared sway. It must be remembered that Swedes cannot be forced, cannot be dominated by premure. rection with a nation like the That is not to be expected in con Swedes. Remember, apart from other consideration". WE are country with a population of six million people.

"Let me gire an illustration of car friendly feeling towards Eng- laud, and of how we look forward to permanent continuation of it.

The Swedish Parliament bas vos-

ed without discussion a sum of money for the establishment of the Committee to consider the project of daily steamship com- munications between Sweden and England after the war. The steamers, it is proposed, shall run from Gothenburg. State sesiat- auce is anticipated in Sweden,

"And one notices that at the | playing with wiformen and get-/ who had been to s dance that her in the background in our «fforts | like their sisterɛ in the town take part in the scheme. My "If you chose to spend your leave We were sa cock-s-hoop as a girl | background—that we are already about milk and butter and egg", and we hope that England will

time?"

ting wet all over, that's your by to-night's best." (This may concern. You will return, so daty

be a libel on the W.O., but is sounds very like them.) "And he hed· 10,” mid-

the boy, but I expect he spent the ari week at. headquarterm telling generals all about the fight,"

'And, of course, the Admiral ty give you all lots of leave?”

keep on noticing it, You've got "Yes, But there's no time to

to carry on somehow or other, or your show stops, I tell you what ons don notice though, If one goes below for anything, or has to pass through a fat This beare out a report of somewhere, and one uses the old destroyer who could not be certain wardroom clock ticking, or a whether an enemy battleship had photograph pinned up, or any blown up or not, saying that in thing of that work, one notices Us? Yes, horpe. We had that particular oorner it would that. Oh yes, and there nothing to do troept clean down have been impossible to identify other thing the way a ship wem and oil up and be ready to go to anything less than the explosioned to blow up if you were far off (ses again in a few hours.” of a whole magazine.

her. You'd see a glare; then a That little fact was brought blase, and then the smoke miles out at the end of almost every high, lifting quite slowly. Then destroyer's zipart. Having you'd get the row and the jar of returned to biɛs at each and just like bumping over rab-enab a time, I took in oil, marines. Theo, a long while do, and reported ready for sea "And how did the light affcot after, praps you ran through toolcok," When you think of ons?" I asked, trying to work rain of bits of barat paper coming the amount of work a ship needs out a theory that noise and light down on the desk-like showers even siter peace manoeuvres, you produced beyond known ender- of volosaic ash, you know." The can realise what bid to be done ~~~ anostorm an unknown anaesthetic door of the operating room seem- on the heels of in action. And, and stimulant, omparable to but ed just about to open, but it shut a there is nothing like house infaitely more potent thao, the again.

work for the troubled soal of a moothing effect of the smoke pall; "And the Eco's gnonery 7" Woms, so a general clean-up is cf ancient battles.

"That was various. Sometimes good for sailors. I bed this from "The lights were rather cari-they began quite well, and went pettyfficer who had passed one," was the answer. "I don't to pieces after they'd been strafed through the deep waters. "If know that one noticed search little; but sometimes they look-you're seen your best friend go lights particularly, unless they ed up again. There was one from alongside you, and your own meant business; but when a lot Hun-bost that gol no end of a cfficer, and your own boat's crow. of big guns loosed off together, hammering, and it seemed to do the whole sea was lit up, and you could see our destroyera rancing about like cookroaches on a tin equp plate."

her gunnery good. She improved tremendously till we sank Ser. I expect we'd knocked out some scientike Han in the controle, and be'd been succeeded by a man who knew How."

with him, and things of that kind, a man's best comfort in small variegated jobs which he is damned for continnoce."

sister had miɛned.” that dance

This was one of the figures in

“A little British destroyer, her midships rent by a great shell meant for a battle-cruisse; azad- ing steam from every pare; able to go ahead, but not to sleer; unable to get out of anybody's way; likely to be rammed by any one of a dozen ships; her syren whimpering: Let me through Make way!; her crew fallen in aft dressed in lifeballa ready for her final plunge, and cheering wildly as it might have been su enthusiastic, crowd when the King passen."

Let us close on that note. W. have been compassed about to long sad so blindingly by won dera and miracles; so overwhel med by revelations of the spirit of men in the basest and most high, that we have neither time to keep tally of thess furions days, nor mind to discern upon which hour of them the world's fate torned :-

Not in the thick of the fight,

Not in the press of the odds, De the beroes come to their height, Or we know the demi-gods, That stands over till peace.

We can only perceive Men returned from the seau, Very grateful for leave.

They grant as endden days,

Saatobed from their busines

of war, We are too close to appraise

What manner of men they are.

And whether their names 80

down With age-kapt victories,

whether they battle and drown Unreckoned is hid from our

ayol.

Or

to win the war, not only materi They do not need to wait wolfy sily but, shove all, spiritually hours outside potato shape. Let and in the way of energy. We them get out on the land. The must make it clear to ourselves

Hagen mayor, in his announce- that we have the whole world in arme against us. We have dosement, meant to say that if its

· rural population fail in their daly wonders for two long years, but to the paticn campuleion must be we have not yet done enough. exercised. We are not yet at the height of our sacrifices in blood or treasure.! We must realise still better that our very existence is at stake, We must sacrifice all and every thing we have in order to save our existence."

All Must be Sacrificed.

point in mentioning this is that it indicates the national state of mind towards England, not only at the present time, Lus also in

the future.

It

A Difficult Position.

Sweden is in a very difficult position, becsuto che bay Gar- Gifts of Leather.

many on the one side and Eng- The Prussian Ministry of War land on the ether. It is impos- has sold 6,2001b. of sole Issiker sible for Sweden to break off with to the Manicipality of Kiel for Germany. That is impossible. £700. The Ministry states that We have to get several things care is to be taken that the lest- from Germany which England her is distributed among the cannot deliver to as, for instance, poorest sections of the population. | certain kinds of medicines and The manicipality has decided also a supply of coal. We only The leading Bavarian jurnal that only those families will get from England one-fifth of the then asks,

What 18 our receive sole leather whose re- coal we had before the war, end. strength?" The answer is that istiver are serving in the army. Germany makes up the balance, the German strength consiste in It is not definitely stated, but the rapid and ficient organisation, presumption is that the leather in the capacity of making all their is to be used for repairing boots rescu cea available for one end. and aboes.--L'aily Chronicle. *This is the spirit of Praesisz- is, the militarism of which our enemies are so much afraid. O this strength we shall rely. There are in Germany still many re- sonross în men, and resources that lie waete. They must be brought out. For a century we have eco pted the principle that every cilisen has to giro his life to the service of the State when it is called for,

SWEDEN'S POSITION

OUTLINED.

Interesting Statement by Foreign Nisister.

Presently, my friend of the de- Then is black the best colour

stroyer went back to his stark, for car destroyers? Some com-

desolate life, where feelings do manders seem to think we ought|

It used to be "Fritz" last year not count, and the fact of his be to use gray."

when they spoke of the enemy. ing cold, wet, seasick, sleepless. "Blessed if I knów," asid Now it in " Hun," or, as I have or dog-tired had no bearing what young Dante. "Everything shows board," Yahun," being a super-ever co bis baslases, which was black in that light. Then it all lative of Yaboo." In the Na- to turn out at say boar in say goes out again with a bang, Try-poleonic Wars we called the weather and do or endore, de ing for the eyes if you are spot- Frenchmen too many names for cently, socording to ritual, what sing."

say one of them to endure; but that bour and that weather de- And how did the dogs take this is the age of standardisation.manded. It is hard to reach the it?" I pareaed. There are

"And what about our Lower kernel of Navy minde. The un- mavara! demtroyers more or less Deck?" I continued.

bribable seas and mechanisms Bowned by pet dogs, who start life "They? Ob, they carried on as they work on and throngb, hare the chanoe found property of anual It takes a lot to impress given them the simplicity of oker, and end in supreme com- the lower deck when they're elemente and mechiner. The and of the bridge.

basy." And he mentioned several habit of dealing with swift sé- "Most of 'em didn't like it a little things that confirmed this aident; life of closet and hit. They went below ous time, They had a great deal to do, and strictess Boolation with their and wanted to be loved. They they did it serenely because they own cute, be well as contact with ar children shall measure their Province of Brandenburg ad-pointed by the King) has hitherto knew it wasn't ordinary praction." had been trained to carry on an all kind of men all the earth over, What did Arabella do?" I der all conditions without panick-here added an inmanas cunning

land

They are too near to be great,

But our children shall When and how car fate

Was changed, and by whose

hand,

WRL"

"It is believed by some people. in England that Sweden is export- ing great supplies in Germany. That is a mistake. What is being exported to Germany is a more trifle in comparison with Ger- many's war consumption. It is negligible. The wLole, of the material exported by Sweden to Germany wou'd not enable Ger- many to keep the war going for a single day longer.

A Rise in Prices.

"As to the economic poɛ ́tion of Sweden us the result of the war some money: haa bera made by individual inda tries, by our "Why, then, should we hesi Sweden's Minister for Foreign shipping, for example, but a tate to exact from everyone, with Affaire has made an interesting great many have suffered also. out xoeption, that work which statement to the Daily Chronide Through the lessening of our he is capable of doing? No ore special correspondeot, who visit-importa by e varione restric has the right to refuse it. No ed the Scandinavian countries to Į tione come of our industrim have on his right to do business for ascertain how the war has sälected indien off, and the output bas bimself or to follow bis own in their trade, and the feelings of been greatly diminished. There" clinatione. No industry has it, the people towards the belliger- is an instance in sur margarine nor any individual. It is the † ente :-- millions, together with all our eign Minister, has given me for copra) for making the mar

factories, which cannst now question of the lives of seventy Mr. Wallenberg, Sweden's For-oblain from overseas the material fatare. There is no interest great publication a statement on the urine. enough to interfere with that in relations between Britain and toret. What we need in the Sweden and the general effect of "I hope that the contisation strong will to make every saori the war on the latter country, of this stats of flair will not Ece. Then we shall see once Mr. Wallenberg is regarded in revolt in the farther lessening of more hours of saccean we quarters sa the most powerful our industries and the shutting under-saw them at the beginning of the member of the Swedish Cabinet, p of some ci car works. It bas and is freely mentioned as the already produced a rise in prices, coming Prime Minister. He has and if mors work is stopped it fall appreciation of the point of may lead to difficulties with werk.

among them the textile oscaps view of England and France,

men and further" complications, The Swedish Government (sy-

Various industries have soffered, dresses a serious warning to refused to enter into a general tions, as spinning. It is true that the wood industry is active, but calar seat to his district magie-gard to importa and exporte. Mr.] {irates (Landrate). Although the Wallenberg, who is regarded as much risk,

potato crop in this province in a

"moderating Infiseuce against

As to the farming industry. Trop at the head of the bank, The lower deck nowadays is

fair average much dilatorinaer pro-German pentiment in Govern the agribaltarišta barato pay o know. She found out pretty fall of strange fick with unlocked

has been practised by farmers in ment circles, plainly hints at com high prices for imparted seeds soon the bridge was no pisos for for accomplishments, as in the lady, so she hopped downstairs recorded case of two simple se

A Preface by Colonel Elkington, having divided the province into his statement:-

harvesting it. The authorities ing abanges in polity. Here is and fertilisers, and, on the other and got in. You know how she men of a destroyer who, when

Messrs. Hodder and Broughton a number of “* potato areas," and

hand, they can only get a limited makes three little jumps to it need was vorest, came to the frant forth and achieves, at the low, ment that Colonel Elkington, potatoes which each area is to do and the people--determined to Here is a Service, which prowls make the interesting announce having fixed the smonnt of Sweden-ike King, Parliament

“From the time the war started amount for their producte breanne have enforced, maximam Trut on to the chair; then on these trained exporta in first mið, something of a victory. How far home service in the Foreign liver to the Potato Bureau; are remain sentral Sweden herething or aging from the

prices. Lap-table and then up on the

“And now-what, abɔns the

"On the whole, ie Sweden illow. Whan the show was over, ¦ Fotusi Han losses at Jatinud p“ / ranching a one only the war's-sad · Legion emently had no2clansancio | surprised tomon that farmica Taïl} never for the momenË DON

will reveal. It turne in gloomy 'a sequel, has written a preface to ¦ în deliyny, The Oberpaident "P I ventured.

hoot of the komunisten kasting, afar Bergen Elward Merion. It is ovident silanes, broken by the boasonal & Boldier of the Legion," by (sternly You?"

isaning & balletin which, though] said that so far the war has pro- prions, that it may enlighten the professional deoed no more striking document esse, and ha mind, does not exhilarate the than this graphic and realistis delive layman, Meanims, the enemy Ariumphs, wirely far and

worth

We as content to be blind,

Threatening Potato Famine.

The Obsarpresident of the

had heard a good deal of Arabella.ing. What they did in the way to thoes qualitis; and that they for ne kaow that we walk on a #griculturists by means of a cir- | agreement with Britain, with 1 fraights are high and there is

Ob, Arabella's quite different. of running repairs was even more are from early youth out out of all Har job basalways been to look, wonderful, if that be possible, feelings that may come between after ber master's pyjamas-fold- then their routine

Blanco nhu mema, ne necal.”

Na Wana shot glad to see bar. amater?"

Ha-alder, Arabella-was the

gay Indy-dog then.” Now bela in between vine and e-and-a-half inéhes long. Dces the Has ran to pelu at

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them and their ends, makes them | more incomprehensible Jesuits, even to their own people. What then must they be to the enemy?

new born earth

With the saviours of mankind. —Journal of ComIRATES.

description of that wonderful B force where many

A perfectly plain asbestos fre- wide. A few ligid and per found a new home and a movi with ourtain descended in front of the functory seeming contradictions, chamos in life

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