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THE COLLAPSE OF GERMANY.: of America in her capacity both
INNER HISTORY OF LAST YEAR'S OFFENSIVE.
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to build ships and to raise an army.
We got false information from
our navy, which had been thor- oughly spoilt by the great fuss mada over it by everyone from the the Kaiser downwards. Injudiciously * March anniversary of the opening by distributed distinctions made the
the submarine commanders report the German armies
21 last Was
on
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SWAYNE BOTT, INC. NOTIC: TO\CONSIGNEES,
FRANCISCO,
·From: SAN
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1919
THE ADMIRAL LINK-
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
THE "Steamghip
“WINDBER,"
(having arrived from Seattle via Ports, on April 29, 19 9 consignees are hereby notified that their having arrived from the above cargo is being landed at their risk ports, Consigness of cargo by berinto the hazardons and/or extra are hereby informed that all goods hasardons Godowns of the Hong- are being landed at their risk into kong and Kowloon Wharf & the hazardous and/or extra Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon, and hazardous Godowns of the Horgstored at Consignees' risk. kong and Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Company. Limited, hence, and/or from the wharvas delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 8th May 1919 at 5 pm, will be subject) to rent.
-Consignees of cargo must pro- duce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of the Imports & Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be countersi, ned. All broken, chafed and dam- All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowas where it will bo Elsewhere the writer of the letter
aged packages are to be left in examined at 10 am on May 5 remarks that the troops from the
the Godowns where they will be 1919 by the Comma by Surrey”. Eastern front only went to theexamined on 8th May 1919 at urr, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas West against their will. The
All claims must be presented losses above referred to took the
within 30 days of the steamer's Germans by surprise, and by
arrival here, after which they April 19, when it had been hoped
cannot be recognized. to smash a passage to the coast via Amiens, the offensive, on the great scale, had already failed. Not enough troops were available, and the break through could not be made.
The aim mentioned in Ludend- orff's order at changing the trench war into a war of movement was
10 a m. Claims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be
No claims will be recornised effected by us in any case what-after the gods have left the
Godowns, and carzo undelivered {. on and after May 6. 119 will be subject to rent.
ever.
Bills of Lading will be count signed by
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO. LTD. → Agents..
not attained, and at this point Hongkong, 17th April, 1919. pesce terms ought to have been proposed. The following offensives at Soissons and Kemmel, and later
at Rheims. were only AMERICAN ASIATIC S.S. CO.
From the miserable attempts. time of the failure of the first offensive at Amiens, Ludendorfi seem to have lost his nerve.
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The collapse of the army not the work of the Revolution; and the Revolution was not the cause, but the result. of 'defeat. Discipline at the front underwent considerable deterioration last year, particularly among the roops from the East, but also in the drafts from home.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES-
FROM NEW YORK. THE Steamship
expense.
"CELTIC PRINCE" Having arrived from the above Port. Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into "In the Ersatz battalions old, the Godowns of the Hongkong incompetent.Colonels, and often and Kowloon Wharf and Godown very lazy and conceited dug-out Compary, Limited Kowloon, and officers, spent their time grum-stored at Consignees risk and bling, and nothing was done. When Ludendorff eventually took the matter into his own hands an entirely mistaken explana- tion of the matter was made to the troops at the front. The task of enlightening them was mostly left to retired officers, who used the opportunity to work upon the men for political purposes."
Ludendorff's äghting method is held by this authority to have been very excellent," but his plans, it appears, were received with little favour in the field, where senility, incompetence, and war-weariness militated against them.
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No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-signature immediately...
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.
Fotel
Mansions.
Hongkong, 29th April 1919.-
WATER RETURN:
Level and Storage of water in Reservoirs on April 1, 19.9.
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STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND
DECIMALS OF GALLONS.
Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports, and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading can be counter-igned. All broken, chafed, and damag- ed goods are to be left in the godowns, where they will be ex- amined on WEDNESDAY, 7th dia's inst. at 10 am..
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All claims must be presented f within FIFTEEN DAYS of the steamer's arrival: here, a ter Consempékos of water in the Chy and Bill Distri a which date they cannot be recogid duciraals of gailees during the wom
of art. nized.
'No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the. Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after the 8th ins." will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
In an analytical review of the revolutionary, movement the writer traces the collapse of confidence in General Head quarters, which preceded and payed the way for it to the American leaflets and the Tanks. Government irresigned by solution and the disordered state of the finances of the Empire are held by him to have been largely responsible for the crash that
came when the war was lost. The Revolution, however. had
Western Front of their last-and-much larger number of ships sunk been under organisation for about greatest offensive. On March 21 than was really the case; a year, "at first without the help of last year some, 40 divisions the great Army General Start of Russian Bolshevik capital, büt
a оп
worked on a false basis.
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OLD METHODS AND BACKWARD MEN.
50-mile front massed between the Scarpe and the Oise, delivered the smashing blow against the British Third and
Great mistakes were made in the Fourth Armies which they hoped hoped would open up to them the German shipbuilding programe, road to final victory; and for four and the navy failed in any way months, until Foch's counter-to disturb the tranport of American stroke on July 18, Europe, in troops, with the result that in the American almöst agonised suspense, waited January. 1918, on the outcome of what was Army in the field was much
latter with it"
Bills of Lading will be counter
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Agents. Hongkong. 1st May, 1919.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF KERENSKY NOTES.
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174 Boo Convection per
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KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL.
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The propaganda at the front ¥85 carried out under a systematic and well-thought- out plan. When the mutiny st According to a telegram from Kiel broke out a large portion Omsk dated April 8 the Depart- of the troops at the front and
ment of Finance of the Omsk at home were already infected. Government resolved upon the The latter concludes by em- | discontinuation of the circulation phasising the peril of Bolshevism. of the Kerensky notes of 20 and 40
So long as Spartacism remains rouble demominations at a coñ-|-
tablishing order is destroyed."
£15,000,000 DAMAGE, BY, RATS,
At a county conference recently
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193.150,
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Public Works Decrement,
manifestly a culminating effort, larger than the General Staff was as it is now, all possibility of esference attended by the reprent-into bonds redeemable within
aware of.
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of desperation.
When 'more details were as- How desperate the effort really. was, how and why it was hurried certained it was then necessary forward with inadequately trained to take the offensive with all troops, and something of its cost speed, earlier than had been to the enethy, are revealed in a planned and before the army had in Newcastle on the subject of letter written by a German officer been sufficiently trained for it. I destruction by rats, the yearly in Germany to a brother officer watched three divisions at, drill damage was put at more than prisoner of war in England, a They attacked almost in the £15,000,000, and suggestions for translation of which has been same way as in August, 1914, in dealing with the pest were re- The troops ferred to the County Council supplied to the Daily News. massed formation.
The veterinary inspector for The first great mistake of the from the East especially were Newcastle declared that a lining War, says the writer, was "the extremely backward, officers as complete under-rating of the well as men. As a result we had made of rat skins was superior to the enormous losses of the first the lining in many 50-guinea fur Englishman as a land fighter the second was the under-rating offensive (180,000 mes).
TO-NIGHT!
"THE
coats.
atives of the banks, business men, twenty years. The redemption Co-operative Councils, Chambers will be started from July 1st. The of Commerce, etc, and referred |'Omsk Government, it is surmised, the resolution to the Cabinet has been advised to take the
are that on and after May 1st, being flooded, with the said notes council, The contents of the bill above, step to keep Siberia from the above-mentioned notes shall which have been recklessly issued be circulated at the option of the by the Bolsheviks and sent to the people, and the Government shall Siberian markets. In view of the continue accepting such notes till wide circulation of the Kerensky June 1st. The notes thus notes on the Far Eastern markets accepted shall be redeemed to and the serious effects on the the extent of one-half of their markets, consequent upon the face values in the course of the stoppage of circulation, it is the following six months and considered that the bill will not the other half shall be converted be hurriedly passed.
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