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tonnage and they have tried with- out success to cancel all their fixtures, owing to the drop in Exchange which does not pay them to ship rice hero. The Bangkok millers are overburden- ed with the amount of tonnage chartered for loading after the Chinese Now Year, and they are oxperiencing great difficulty in securing cargoes for the many steamers which arrive io Bang- kok. Consequently several large boats are calling here from Bang. kok with part cargoes on board. News comes as well of several of the oldor N.Y.K. vessels being laid up, while half of the United States Shipping Board ships are now tied up.

A GERMAN ON TIE DEFENCE OF TSINGTAO.

How The Japanese and British Captured it.

The defence of T'singtuo in the autumn of 1914 is not a glorious] episode in the German aunale. Though a modern fortress core- fully elaborated in peace-time, with ferro-concrete shelters and magazines, which, as Admiral Vollerthun boasts in a narrative he has lately written, auccess- fully resisted the heaviest Jupanese artillery (1lin. howitzers and 12in, naval guns) and though! passessing an arutament at least equal in range and superior in number to that of the attackers, it capitulated after a shorter bombardment than that endured by Lioge, Maubeuge, or Antwerp, and of exactly the same length as that of the ancient fortress of Longway-seven days. Yet these French and Belgian fortresses had no cover to resist the Austro- Gorman artillery. not even one shell-proof casement for the general in command, and no guns: that could reach the besiegers' hatteries and knock them out, or

the bring down

observation balloons, as did the Tsingtao artillery.

The author of this history of the defence was present as a captain throughout the siege, acting AS Chief Intelligence Officer; and as his book has only just been published, though the proface is dated October 1, 1919, the must have heard of the bom

bardments in Europe; yet he holds up the garrison of Tsingtao as heroes for German admiration,! and on their behalf he incites his fellow-countrymen to demand this colony, the the return of pride and darling of the German people. And the many millions -they were 200--which were a detailed description of a very thrown into it and promised large shipbuilding plants erected ไป

bear rich fruit.' by him in various parts of the With the archives of the fortress world: The loading of ships hos

at his disposal, helped out by always been a laborious job, and

the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the mechanical loading of ships in which he gave

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half-battalion of the 36th Sikhs seki, owe to Germany nearly had first to land on Shantung everything they possoss in the Peninsula and disembark all way of progress in the European He says, with reference their material, from the heav-sense." jest

bag of rice, to the Japanese ultimatum to gun to a an improvizod piers. Their main Germany-which was couched in artillery, according to this Ger- exactly the same terms as the an account, consisted of six German one to Japan demanding one feels instinctively that it is his diaries and those of other in. and six 9.2 in. howitzers. the evacuation of Port Arthur 20 The forward movement against years before--" could the honour

This paper announced during the work that human beings should/officers, he has produced a very the outer defences were begun on of a nation be trodden under foot K more brutal manner? * week that the C.P.0.5. Mothyannot be called upon to undertake/complete account of investment,October 26: the bombardment in

800. other German and the first parallel was due that Fofficers whose books It is also of the defences, details of the

have has been constrained to be luid if it is at all possible to substituta / siege and surrender, with plans opened at day-break on the 31st: Like

meejanical means.

ineasures takon after declaration up. The s.8. Methven is steamer on the regular run to work which is paid for at the of war to impove them with the night. On the night of November lately been published, he accuses |

cheapest rate,

6/7 the Japanese Diade an assault, his successful adversaries of hav- but mechanical

assistance of the abundant Vancouver, There is no cargo offering and so much competition loading as applied to material

usual orders of battle, ligts of captured all the redoubts. At 6.20 who assaulted the redoubts and a.m. the Governor hoisted the the British who took overprisoners with the United States Shipping like coal, etc. has now been so far Chinese labour available, and the end between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. ing been drunk, both the Japanese

He Board vessels und other vessels. perfected that Chinese engineers batteries, casualties, etc..

But the strangest exhibition of have found it cheaper than even mentions a Japanese official ac- losses in kifled during the defence German mentality is contained in

white flag. The total German Even the U.S.S.B, vessela uro.

count in four volumes, some

199. with about

the following passugo which re-i sometimes going empty from here the cheapest coolie labour

China,

figures from which he quotes.

fers to the capture of a ship and many of them with only 400

THE DEFENCES.

WHY THE GARRISON which tried to run the blockade, to 500 tona cargo. It will interest

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employed;

The poor-creatures were ex- posed to a veritable norve- martyrdom. That the steamer was sighted at dusk by British torpido-destroyers and taken into Weihaiwei regardless of ite cargo and destination was not all; on the voyage nothing was omitted that would keep the poor things in alarm and terror. The destroyers, AC- cording to the statements of the passengers and crew, had evidently determined to prac. tice the attack on the defence- less steamer, and one of them took position to ram

it. Although nothing happened one may imagine the excite- ment among the highly-strung mass of humanity.

A new packing and grouping Briotly, the defonces consisted system has been inaugurated by of two advanced lines across the carrier two large London firms. These peninsula, from the sex to the At firms receive and pack goods ner harbour, twelve and six the British Navy. least there is a strong rumor from various supplying houses miles from the town respectively speaking of the fortifications, that

The Hongkong and then group and ship them

Originally rapidly dug fire they were designed only as a to this effect.

trenches, they had been developed defence, against European Pow. and Whampoa Dock Company is to their various now going into the question of goods for each destination being into strong field defences with ers and Chinese trouble," and costs of converting her. If it goes included on one bill of lading, wire ontanglements, minefields, that the redoubts were of a weak through it will mean a big profit the net effect of which is to reduce dummy positions and batteries." type, for they lacked good deep for the Dock Company. The long freight charges to overseas These, it may at once he stated, ditches with concrete scarps." inaterially. It has the Germans abandoned almost In this most soldiers will agrev Wan I and the Hong Mob owners porters are in the merket to time-charter already been found that large without firing a shot, and with a with him. Then he claims that economies can be effected under loss of under a hundred men, ammunition was sculty but che

whom

taken figures that he himself gives dis- prisoner. Behind the outer de prove this; and that the garrison I understand that the Hai- From the first of this month fences was a line of permanent-3,700 officers and men-was ching is withdrawing from bet the China Navigation, the Indo-infantry redoubts (of the type insufficient, although it possUUS- regular coastal run and going China Steam Naviation Company eecommended by Lord Sydehamed plenty of machine guns; he

trip tó Singapore to and other largo Shipping co-in his "Fortification,") with shell- does not count the

i-panies operating on the China Proof casements. They were low civilian reserve, nor the thou- the place of the fated Hong Mob. The Innimincka, Coast have discontinued the ten of profile, well assimilated to the sands of Chinese

the ground; each had its own wire' cent, reduction

complains, however, that which came in yesterday from

acted Saigon with a large cargo of rice, ordinary passenger fares hitherto untanglement below surface level, these latter auxiliaries

connected to a continuous belts guides to the enemy and even This plaint comes from a mom. is being diverted as well, by allowed to missionaries,

right across the peninsula, here marked the situation of the land ber of a navy whose U-boats sank arrangement with the Saigon

not quite 34 miles wide. Defend- mines by white stones. The real passenger steamer and hospital charterers, to Amoy and, Singa-

Contrary to expectations the ing the intervals, and forming a reason for the rapid surrender ships without warning! pore, for one trip, instead of goin

up on second line behind the redoubts, direct to Saigon, because there is rice market has gone

Governor feared the general wip- BRIGHT EYES AND A a strong demand from Amoy for account of the strong demand were rows of concrete "pill-boxes," appears to have been that the to from Canton, Swatow and Amoy, strong points, machine-gun neatsing out of the greater part of

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defence batteries. the Germans who understood the add to every woman's charm. Singapore. The Hong Wan I and During the last three or four days and close

hills behind, again, China Trade; for they were col Pinkettes clear the skin of pim- the Hong Moh used to take 1,500 the market price has risen 30 On the to 1,500 passengers per trip from cents por picul. About three to were scattered 1 batteries, in- lected in Tsingtao, and such a ples and blotches, cure con-

These four thousand tons of rice have cluding two only available, intolerable loss to Kultur was to Singapore;

stipation, sick-headache, ill-smoll- were mostly Chinese labourers. been sold to South Africa and seawards, mounting in all-ex-not to be thought of. Doubtless Apparently the favourable Ex- about 2,000 ton 2,500 ions to the cluding the lighter natures-94s nerves were affected by the ing breath, ensure regalarity, and

but change is serving as an induce Persian Gulf. The market is guns and howitzers from 11in. sight of the three enormous pits give the bright velvety eye of thorough. The freight market is downwards. They bad shell-made ready for their bodies by Pinkettes act 88 gently as ment for these Chinese from Amoy steady. to go to Singapore to work on the easy, the Saigon Hongkong rate proof magazines and most of his energetic Adjutantur, along- nature. rubber estate although trade is still remaining at 23 cents. There them shell-proof cover for the side his and the author's favour-

60 cts. the vial, of chemists is not much demand. The Saigon gun crows. The Japanese and able promenade. propla lave already takou the small British contingent- Admiral Vollerthun was bitter- everywhere, or post free on Mr. H. J. Smith read an insufficient boats for their require-consisting of the 2nd Battalion oflv disappointed in the Japanese Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96..

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