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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1928.

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DISCLOSURE BY GERMAN RAID DIRECTOR,

In the War

ARMY MESS JOKE."

COLONEL'S FATAL FALL DURING SOMERSAULT,

HONGKONG A.D.C.

OFFICERS ELECTED AT ANNUAL MEETING.

An Army mesa joke, which had At the annual meeting of the

THIRD ANNIVERSARY.

GOVERNMENT. CELEBRATION

IN CANTON.!

A ceremony was held in the

a fatal sequel, was described at Hongkong Dramatic Club the fol- Municipality offices, in celebration an inquest at Preston on Lieuton-lowing officers and Commitles were of the Third Anniversary of the ant-Colonel F. W. Baker Young, elected for the ensuing season: Murleipal Government, says Mon- 40, of Esplanade, Waterloo, Liver Mr. W. A. Hannibal, President; day's Canton Gazette The As- pool, a Territorial officer in the Lt. Col. J. S. Bostock, C.B.E., Bembly Hall, in which the ceremony. R.A.M.C., who died shortly after R.A.M.C., Capt. J. B. H. Doyle. In honour of the occasion.

was held, was tastefully decorated R.E., Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Mr. E, I,

midnight at an hotel.

The usual ceremonios, recital of

TWENTY ZEPPELINS.

Starting facts concerning the German air raids on Loudon dur. arė revealed

Prominent in the gathering were by Captain Ernst Lehmann, the It was stated that he was with Wynne-Jones, Mr. M. M. Maas, Mr. Admiral Chan Chak, Mr. Lam Wan- H. Davenport Browne, Hon. Sec-kol, Chairman of the Municipal director of these bombardments. four or five other officers who

It was planned that a fleet of were engaged on a schegie, and rotary and Treasurer,

Council, the Heads of the various twenty Zeppelins, each carrying just before retiring Lieutenant- The rules of the Society were Municipal Burhan the Municipal 300 incendiary. bombs, should Colonel Hugh Kennedy, of Ulver-amended so that the maximura Councillors, officials of the Muni- make a concerted attack on the ston, offered to give anybody a number of members is now 100 cipal offices, and representatives City, and drop their 6,000 death-flying somersault.

Instead of 40. No distinction in of public bodies. There were albe dealing misaflés simultaneously Colonel Baker Young bont down, future will be made between play-kelher over a hundred, peradas con- at night

placed his hands between his ing and 'non-playing members..

gregatede Why this scheme failed and the legs, and Colonel Kennedy, seizing! Kaiser's strong objection to raids his wrist, lifted him about four It is hoped to produce three the late Director's Will bowing be of any kind is contained in the feet in the air. He then lost his plays during the course of the sea-fore the National and Party Flags, book, "The Zeppelina,” just grip, and Colonel Baker Young son, but a definite programme has ele, were robe through, and Mr. Lan Wab-kb then dduroksed the published.

The idea was that the 20 Zoppe-fell, his head striking the floor. not yet been fixed.

esansently, Mr. Lat explained the Colonel Kennedy, in evidence, lins should strike London simul said that he thought Colonel Baker productions is urgently required pressed his caffet hope that s

New talent for the forthcoming object of the celebration, an ex taneously at night, dropping their Young's wrists were dam or he and names should be sent in to colleagues would put forth their 6,000 bombe at once. Assuming had his hands crossed, as he could the Hon. Secretary, that only a fifth of the bombs took effect or caused res, London would have had more than 1,000' Ares to combat at the same time..

"We agreed that no organisation on earth could successfully fiht such a conflagration," comments the narrator of the German plan. "We counted on having a third of the Zeppelins shot, down, also in flames; but not until after they had dropped their bombs in the City,"

Clamour for Destruction.

not hold him.

The Coronor, Lieutenant-Colonel The question of endeavouring H. Parker, said that he had seen to arrange for performances in some of those mese games, and Kowloon was left to the incoming knew the good spirit in which they Committee. were carried out. He was con vinced the affair accident,

A verdict to that returned.

was n pure

WAS

effect

best endeavond in discharding the responsibilities on their shoulders

a members of the Munitipu Government.

General Tang Shi-chang, was the next speaker. General Tang be- gan by modestly belittling bis per- Last Year's Report. Gohil abilitis ib the direction of The report for last year stated:pollte affairs and professed to having tobelved valuable assle- During the past season "Bulldog tance from his colleagues of the Drummond" was the only play pro- Council. He said that for the duced. The public reception was

belter maintenance of publie very favourable but owing to order, he had decided to reorganise heavy expenses the profit was the present number of police ticularly commercially; but, above small. Seven performances were comps to three companies, totalling

Tho, Club extenda ita Why was the plan abandoned, all, the book is a notable addition given,

over nine hundred men, and that particularly as at the time early to the really thrilling stories of thanks to Major Macready, the with the reform of the Special in 1916 the public clamour for Europe'a agony between 1914. and producer, and to all those who Battalion of the Garrison Head- the complete destruction of Lon-1918. There is the grimly vivid took part in making the play the quarters, there would be a power don and other English cition was adventure of Otto Mieth, one of becoming more insistent?

the few survivors of a successful Captain Ernst Lehmann, direc-noroplane attack on a Zeppelin. tor of the German alt raids dur-

. The English Cigarette. ing the war, gives fils reasons to the world to-day in the book. "The Zeppelins" (Putnam; 188 net), which he and Mr. Howard

success

it was.

ful force fully capable of pre- serving peace and order. Ho en- It was impossible to stage more tertained the hope that the than one play, partly owing to the public would readily assist the " fact that repairs to the City Hall government in the maintenance Mieth was bombing officer on were started in February, and part of order by reporting to headquar- the L48, shot down in flames nearly owing to illnces; had it noters whenever information of bad

swich after a raid on London, been for the latter cause "Hay characters was gained. Mingos have written. The plan, The Zeppelin was struggling home Fever" by Noel Coward would he declares, was entirely feasible. over Suffolk, when Mieth saw her have been presented.

"None of us desired to be aburst into flames throughout her party le it. At least a million length of 600ft.,

に

In view of the state of the Club's finances the Committee]" women and children would be in-

For several seconds the L48 took steps to obtain non-playing volved.

"London,with her noble build-maintained an even keel-a great members, and it will be a matter ball of flame riding slowly to-for discussion at the next general' ings and treasures of art, was

this should be wards the rising sun 12,000 feet meeting whether valuable to us as a precious pos- session of civilised humankind which we would not destroy with out necessity.

above the quiet English village. continued. It is also proposed to Then the Zeppelin snapped to discuss the possibility, of playing pieces. Her skeleton broke and one or two nights in Kowloon. The plan could be authorised collapsed. the wreckage falling

Following the ordinary generaij only by the highest command, atera first toward the surface. which meant J the Kaiser him- In the control car, which was meeting, a special general meeting self. And he had never been now grinding against the frame-will be held for the purpose of officially consulted on it. From work, the occupants had been amending Rule 16 to read: "A the first days of the war he had tossed into a tumbled heap. Mieth, general meeting of the Club shall Been strongly opposed to raids of retaining a sense of his surround-be held annually not inter than any sort against England; and ings until the crash, said that the the 31st July" etc. According to when, in the face of constant pres-blazing mass hit the earth with a the present constitution the annual meeting has to be held in July and sure from his admirals and gen- tremendous crash.

ed.

els, he finally approved and au He awoke in an English hos- cannot take place earlier. It is thorised the first sporadie raids, pital-one of three survivors, A considered desirable that the an- it was with the understanding friendly voice was inquiring: "Do Bual meeting should be held an soon as possible after the accounts that only objectives of real mill-you want a cigarette?"

aré completed in order to give tary importance should be bomb-

There are, too, grim and gay the incoming Committee plenty of stories of the North Sen patrol time to formulate their plans for "He stipulated that such places kept up by Zeppelins. One day the forthcoming season. as Buckingham Palace, Westming-in April 1917 the L23 sighted the ter Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, [Norwegian barque Royal, Bollev- After the final performance of and the residential sections houlding that the vessel carried con-Į“Bulldog Drummondd an apperi not be bombed, even by accident. traband, the Zeppelin commander was made to those willing to take commanded the army Zeppelin dropped a bomb in front of the part in the Club's performances to which first flew over England, and vesick The Norwegian knew his communicate with the Secretary.

knew what the orders were and meaning, and soon all hands had This was repeated in the press butt what they would have meant to me cleared the ship and were standing the response was very disappoint- had I disobeyed them.”

by in small boats.

Such a plan for razing London was worked out in unofficial quar-

au-

ing. It is hoped that members hearing of new talent will put it in touch with the Secretary.

The thanks of the Club are due to Mr. R. Young, C.A., for kindly auditing the accounts."

The L23 sbwly descended unt ters, yet without any official ahe rested on the water, close to tain Lehmann, in all raids on skipper of the Royal for his thority for it. According to Cap the boats. Her captain asked the London there were precise orders papers. She was loaded with fo avoid hitting Buckingham prescribed cargo, lumber designed

The statement of accounts showS Palace, Westminster

and St. for use in English coal mines.

There upon the mate and a few a balance in hand of $429.60, of Paul's.

men from the Zeppelin went which $194.90 was the balance aboard the Royal and sailed her from the into Cuxhaven asize of war.

Forbidden Attack.

of

He cites "another instance the Kaiser's interest in protect- ing Royalty among his enemies." A Zeppelin was ready lo set out to raid St Omer. Suddenly the at- tack was forbidden and a raid on Poperinghe substituted.

"Headquarters had received word that the Allied leaders were to hold a secret meeting at St. Omer, and the Kings of both Bel- gium and England were to be pre- sent. It was generally under- stood throughout the German Air Force that wherever King George or King Albert happened to be. that place was to be avoided by our bombers."

Caplain Lehmann says that the Bank of England was one of the principal targets in all the raids on London. If it could be des. troyed England'e entire monetary system might be thrown into con- fusion, and that would be one way of paralysing the auxiliary IndusTM tries in a war of this magnitude.

And of course, one of the ob jects of air raiding was to weaken our moral. "If anything," writer Captain Lehmann, "the British- in fact, Allied-moral was con- siderably strengthened by the Zeppelin raids."

Iis book is the complete story of the airship from its conception by Count Zeppelin, who, it is. stated, first got his idea of a rigid airship while acting as an obser- ver in a captive balloon with the Union Army during the American, Civil War.

Captain Lehmann has faith in the future of the Zeppelin,

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