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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH – SATERDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1917.

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Correspondent Headquarters, F..nch Army, Oct. 26.-The log of the ill-fated. Zeppelin Armada, which sailed so tiamphantly from Oldenburg for England and rame to grief ra sigually in France, is gradually being alled in by the admissions of prisonera and material evidence held by the French in the shape of the "prfectly intact 149 which, sa already reported, surrendered to an elderly munition worker armed with a shot gun at Bourbon-lea Bains.

Two facta emerge clearly from the mase of detail collected by the French balloon ex- perte, firstly, that the „die- sater was primarily das 10 the breakdown of the system of etrering by wireless signals on which the Zeppeline depend; and, secondly, the sudden treach ery of the westbar. -

For the purposes of land wir. fare the Zeppelin is a weapon that can only be employed by nigh', and on dark night at that. Consequently the navigating off- cer of a Zeppelin cannot steer by optical observation as he cannot see what is below him. This is cepecially true of flights over an enemy country, in which an air- ship is forced to keep at the enormous beight of over 18 000ft. He cannot depend on bis com- pass, so be has no means of correcting the drift caveed by wind. Consequently he is forced' the depend on wireless signals to direct his course,

Every Z ppélin carries a wire Jees installation, both for sending and receiving, and keeps in constant tonch with several of the radio genemetrio statione which the Germans: Share- established for this purpose in their ferritory: "Firm them be

receives an unbroken stream of indcatape, which enable him 19 steer a correct course. Without them he is lost.

It is worthy of note that the Zeppelins bave been forced by fear of on aeroplane to navigate No. st such stupendous heights. By keeping 15,000ft. above the earth they hope to be able to elade the relatively slowly mounting aeroplane, which, al-

müch though

quicker horizontal flight than the Zappel- ir, takes considerable time to reach such an altitude,

Needless to say, this mesne the abandonment of all prstence that the Zeppelin attacks are directed only against military establish mente. A bombing officer, hover- ing on a dark night three miles! over an unknown country, can Do more distinguish what buildinge are below than if be were three hundred miles away."

On the night of the raid the Zeppeline, ateering at a height of, 15,000ft, and afraid to descend to a lower altitude, found themselves eaught in a violent and bitterly cold sortberly gale. The wireless directive went betray, or arrived in acdecipherable shape, and the airships, soon after reaching the English cout, last their bearings, It a probable from prisonera* etatements that most of them dropped their bomba as soon as they conveniently could, without mach regard to objictive, and bolred for safety....

The first wireless message they „received as they were crossing the Channel, although not encourag- ing for the Z-ppelin crew, will be interesting to British readers. It was as follows:-

"Zeppelin trainingsbip broken loose with nobody aboard, and being carried away by wind."

No farther news bas bean received of this airship in France. -Reater.

The Ban on "The Nation,"

The editor of the Nation hṣa | bren informed ther the probitá- tion of ita f'rniga oirealstion has been removed.:

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Saturday the 8th Decemter, belas a General Holiday, the Post Office will be open from 8 to 9 am, 1bers will be sie delivery of ordinary correspondenc smot oss collection of latters from the

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*The Honiy Order Office will be entirely, closed

The Farcal Post Services to British East "Africa and Egypt (axomit for members of the Expeditionary Force), and to Abysinia, Bagdad, Erichrea, Freach S mali Casst, Illan 8 maliland, Porta gurne East Africa, Zanitar and Nussis have been suspended.

On and after the 1st October, 1917. tha "rato of postage on letters from Hongkong to Fatahan, Chan Chuez, and Whampoa will be 4 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof.

Correspondence addromed to wariy azbjects in China, Sism. Siberia and Portuguese East Africa, Patxis and Mar- benɔ cannot be transmited.

The Services to Gorcoazy, Austria, Bul garia and the Ottoman Empire are J'aspended.

United Uaiceared parcels "for the Kingdom will in future be forwarded from Hongkong in bags and the Publi> are therefore advised to pack such parcels very carefully.

Latter franked at the cente rats addressed to unanfu and Kengtee and other places in the Province of Yunnan. should be superscribed with the words "For delivery by the Chinese Post Office."

WEATHER REPORT.

The Weather Report and Forecast,}

for to-morrow will be found

on an Extra, Z December 7d 195, 10m.-No returns from Japan or Indo-China. Pressu has decreased cozidarably over N. China, moderately over the lower Yars;

Vailey and S.E. Manchuria, and slightly over the Philippines. 11 kas increased slightly in the neighbourhood of Hongkong. The anticyclone is central. to the south of the Yangtze, and a do- pemion lieg over Marchuria.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 to-day, 0.00 Inch Total since January lei 80.34 inchse sgainst an average of 31.20 inch.

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silver watched and silver watch cases: Jewel lery of any description.

Letters and Parcels containing such articles cannot therefore be accepted for transmission by the Post Office.

The Parcel Foat service to Aden (ex- psat in respect of parcela for military and naval addresses) has been suspended.

FRENCH PARCEL REGULATIONS.

The Public are informed that the new regulations adopted by the French Customs insist that sendors of parcels addressed to France, Comics and Algeria mest fill in the columns of the regular Customs Declaration particularly and exactly, omitting nose of the headings comprised therein.

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A RAIN OF SHELLS.

kept their glasses fixed on the German lines and reported the effect of our beavies,

The German ganners are viry.

Our Soldier Ants Round Yyres.

War correspon lente' head-active against our battery posit quarters, Oct. 3-The artillery ions. They sweep certain trects bittle goes on sorona the country of ground with barragen of most round Ypres. It is fierce and venomous intent, but not for an farflang on both sides, and the boar do they cheek the work of enemy is trying to make thinga the army of soldier ante carrying, as bad as possible in our back digging, marobing, moving with areass technical term for vil. the same carions look of aimless lages behind our lines broken to nees which one sees in an up- bita these three years or more, turned ant's-heap, but all working and for campa sud ammunition to a common end, which is the dumpe and duck-board tracks killing of the enemy. Now and and light railways and cross-roade then the stretcher-bearers--coms and familiar corners marked by down the winding tracks with a poles. a serap of rain, where an es- bardan between their r taminet once stood, or a barn or Somebody has stopped a bit of 8 Flemish chateau.

shell, poor beggar. Bai có màu fares his head to look, and every wan gets on with bis own job and chats with his neighbour,

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Tosse high velocities which coms whanging into places 12 miles or more back from the line and these scattered shells which

One hears quesr stray wentenow bowl and whine over the tangled from these men sy one passes by, wire, the gutted sandbags, and generally they have nothing to the dog-osis of former No Man's do with war, but refer to the Lande, mike any walk to the charms of a girl in an estaminet battlefields a pleasant and peril-near Pop, or to the last show at the Wannywans sway bɛak there, Apprehension, which is the or the fleas in a Flemish billet. 2 beginning of fear, begins to Bat the scene sround produces creep beneath one's skin, if comments of a casual kind.

"You could put a cart and one happens to be born with n-IYER, anywhere од the borse in that shell hole, and then other side of the Ypree-Canal, forget all about it. I don't liks on the tracks past Wieltje or to see them bolas so fresh." Potifz, and disgust mikea one's "No, nor me neither. I prefer gorge rise when one has to step to see a bit of weed in 'em.”

"Our guns are giving Frits

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C. W. JEFFRIES-Chief Assistant.”

Hong Long Observatory, Dec. 7.-1917,round paddles of blood where

1 Barometes, reduced to 3z degrees dead horses lie with twisted legs, hell all right to-day. Whoop! Fahrenheit on the level of the sex in in- at the side of paths up which the Look at that burst. That's a big

ches, tenthe and hundradtha,

2 Temperature, in the shade, in degrees Fahrenheit.

3 Humidity, in percentage of saturation the Hameauty of air saturated with mone-

ture being 10,

<Direction of, Wind, to twu potple.

Scale

5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufort State of Weather, b blue sky, e de- show in the aforesaid declaration (1) The Sached aloud, dansiting rain, fos, full name and add use of the addremse gloomy, a nail, lightning, ore, (1) A statement as to whether the contents passing showers, a squally, Frain, are intended for State supplies or not. 3 thundar, ▼ visibulty, w. dew yet.

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Bhataurok, Shatin and Sheangshui-Temperature Week days, 4 pita....

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traffic of war goes surging. one on Zonneke.”

Bat one sees, and it is always A certain brigadier was în his རྒྱན་ཐོ Bstounding to see, how little dagant, and close to him difference this hostila shelling men who was working an engine. makes to the way in which, Outside shells were falling, and

men carry on

war, there were dead men pear by, This morning, for instance, it and the atmosphere down belo was pretty hot in the way of was poisonous and damp sad shell-fire, and the enemy was foul smelling. The brigadier scattering his beastliness about beard the engine stop, and s the folds, bat it made no differ deep sigh, which was half a enos at all to the general de grosu, and then the engineman meanour of our swarming soldier spoke aloud to himself,

The end of a perfect day," ants, though all the difference in life to the individual whose lock he asid;"My Gord, I don't happened to be out."

think." Nine times out of ten the shells There is nothing, but beast- did no harm to human life, and lines on the battlefield. Though only made other deep holes the comments of the British among those which are dug every-soldist may be bitter, he gets on where for millea around, or smash with his job, whatever it may be, ed up a railway track which has and on the whole keeps s phaer been a wreck for three moutha fal spirit and a queer, unquench- past, or filong.ap old brick hespe, abis sense of humour. So I saw which are none the wores for an him to-day in the mass and as sp siring.

individoni. A human fellow in the Our men went on with their desolation of the Ypres battlefields jobe as they always go on with| was soxious to know my opinion. shem, unless they are stopped for about Kerensky and Korniles, a few moments by a nasty mess and if the weather is likely to in their way which has to be swing back in favour of the good cleared before they can pass. old German God.

They kept a weather eye on the Over our hasda went flights of abelling, and said, "Bather near sheile from our own guns, and that one," or "Fritz seems in 8 there was one gun" which I hated temper this morning." or "All passionately at the time, because it bada bisst which raised the Wright, you dirty hlighters."

From 3rd Doc, to 9th Dec,"

High Wate Hongkong Mean Time,

Low

Bat in single files thay trudged hair on one's head and threatened along the duckboards, carrying to break one's ear drums, de their packs, or in small ganga "Fritz is having a rolten time, filled up shell holes in the roads said one of the boys.

or guided long teams of pack I wish he could have wors males over this crater land, or santhar.-Philip Gibbs- în the aquatted in forward shelters and Daily Ohronisle,

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