MONDAY-SEPTEMBER 7, 1914
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THE FICKTINO IN FRANCE.
Garmans Nagless Pusia.
Luxpos, Sept. 4, 4.20 p.m. Auris official communique stated that the movements of the opposing armies near Paris continued trelas without contact, The Ger man in the district of Verdun sustained some checks, and the French won fresh partial successes in Lorraine and the Vosges,
Lexpos, Supt. 5; 12,25 aan.
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or insa, where alt alike are subjects of the King Emperor, are joint, equal custodians of our common interest and fortunes, wo here bail with PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE. profound and heartfelt grabitude their association side by side, shoulder ta shoulder, with the Home and Dominion troops, under the dag which in a symbol to all of a unity that the world in arms cannot dissever or otre. (Land cheera.) India, too, with no loss alacrity bad claimed her share of the common task. Immediately after mobilisation Enil Kitchener had issued his call for 100,000 recruits. This had boon followed by a second call. The response up till to-day gave us between 250,000 and 300,000 men. (Cheers.)
The Official Press Dunau states that the situation in the French -thonte of war has undergone no substantial change. The position of the
Allies is well maintained. There are indications that a German move-me regiment or corpa and of the rising battalions by Coantics and Mani- ment is developing in an ustward and south-eastward direction.
11.20 &.
Arial French communique says Tho stouty on our left, apparinly negeting Paris and attempting to execute an out-flanking movement, rela?. Interse-sous-Joarm and has passed Rheims. Pro- cording along the west side of the Argans ridge. The maneuvre was
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No fewer than 42,000 Londoners had been accepted. We wanted more men; men of the best fighting quality and prompt provision would be made for their incorporation. All willing and able men in the fighting forces of the King wheresar pasible, men desiring to serve together would be allotted the cipalities would be everywhara encouraged. No less urgently, they wanted a larger supply of non-commissioned officers and men, who were asked to give up their regular employment and return to work which they alone were com- potent to do
The employers might surely assure such men of reinstatement at the end of the war (choers)..
forward and He appealed also to retired non-commissioned officers to come i take their places in training the new Army,
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He would only say regarding the actual progress of the war that in every
A Paris, communique says the deny is performing a wide convergirection there was abundant ground for pride and confidence. We ware ing' movement and contina4 to live that entrenched, camp of Paris on watching the Ductnation of the early stages of a protracted struggle. We must its right, Poarching soutliness."
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5.53 a.m.
-It is officially annoured in Paris that the Gernum bavetoping move- mment on the left appeurs to be definitely checked.
The fierce bombardment of Magberge, which is resisting, continues. The Germans have ineunted the Compeigne and Senlis districts
The following were printed in an Extra “yesterday:)
GREAT MEETING AT THE GUILDHALL.
Losos, Sept.. 4. A great patriotic demonstration was held tonight is the Guildhali, London. Asquith, the Prime Minister, received a magnificent ovation... The Lord Mayor presided The Premier was supported by Mr. Chaurebill, who was loudly chewred. "Other members of the Cabinet and Opposition were also present.
THE PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.
flearn to take long views, cultivate patience, enduranco and steadfastness. Lat En realise that we are fighting as a united Empire in a cause worthy of the [highest traditions of our race,
The Pupe has appointed Cardinal Ferrata to be his Secretary of State.
AMERICAN AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
Losvar, Sept. 6. Ouimet ha Woo the American Amateur Golf Championship.
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DUTIES, Infunina tha, Grup sa duty will re
Mr. Asquith concluded by saying-"Let us keep in mind one pacientuin on duty for one week. Group 3 and indomitable seamen, uerer relaxing for a moment their stern vigil on the will be relieved on Sunday meat, 13th lonely.son; let us keep in mind our gallast froops, who today, after a fost instant. Two Odiers only will be on night's contiàuous fighting under conditions which would try the tastal of the ty. They will be detail wookly with bes, army that ever took the field and who maintain not only an undefeated the incoming, group. An Orderly Officer but an unbroken front, (Inud Choers).
r the week will be appointed... His Finally let us recall the memories of grant men and great deeds of the duties will be the same as those of the past. Let us not forget the dring message of the younger Pitt in his last Only Oficer for the day with the public utterance at the Guildhall itself: England has ever becself by ber following exceptions exertions and will, as I rust, save. Enrope by her example" England, of these" days, ves noble answer to his appeal and did not sheath the sword until after nearly twenty yours of fighting when the freedom of Europe was scared-as Let us go and do likerise" (Loud and prolonged chegring).
MR. HONAR LAW'S ROUSING SPIECH:
The will turn out the guard by night times during the weak, to, will tu present at Guard mounting. H wil onder daily report as at present asd will enter the dates and times of | visiting gaard, in his report each Sunday morning. Ha wêl burmpersible for the -disciplīne, etc., of the Section which has
Officer perment.
DRILLS.
With reference to Order No. 2 of 3.9.14 to following is substitated for tha
paragraph -
Each member of the Corps will be required.ro attend four drills a week. Thew driks will be on Mondays, Tues days, Thursdays and Friday. Sections
Mr. Bonar Law, who was loudly cheered, said this war was one of the grautest erimos ia history. The head of the German Government bad only He but to whisper the word "Peace" and there would have been no war, did not speak that word; he had drown the sword, and may the accursed system for which he stands perish by the sword! (Loud cheers.) de Crom- well said to his Ironsides, we know what we are fighting for, and we love what we know. The German nation had allowed itself to be organised an a Mr. Asquith said that three and a half years ago is addressed Military machine which recognised no law except the law of force. It was in the Guildball a gathering of citizens to celebrate and approve of against that we were fighting today. Mr. Bonar Law denounced Germany a joint reclamation of the great English speaking states that in the for breaking treatise and committing atrocities. The destruction of Louvain, faham any difficulties between them should he settled, of not by agree-proclaimed in trumpet tones what German methods were. The British people on day at Headquarters will drill at 6 any rate after judicial enquiry and arbitration, but never only required to realise the issue to make them fight in the spirit of their in those days, while those of dusy by war. They were not sanguine enough then to think or hope that fathers. The Germans bad called us a decadent nation, but did they say that will are at 6p. Company or Sec the ors of war had been altogether brought to a close. Still less were today? Loud cries of "No." The long battle beginning at Mons gave the tion Commanders may carry out Volan- they prepared to anticipate the terrible spectacle that new confront axwer, (Loud cheers.) He appealed to the patriotism of those able to tary drills on the remaining days.
3 contest which is the number and importance of the fight and to those compelled to remain behind. Let us as a nation realise
our obligations. Power engaged, the scale of the ahmanents, the amies, the width of the threatre of conflict, the outpouring of 'blood, the loss of life, are incalculable toll of sufferinglevied upon the non-combatants, the whaterial and moral losses accumulating day by day-but, in the ghest interests of civilisation, a contest which im everyone of these aspects was without precedent in theannais of the work
ment.
We were very confident three years ago in the righteousness of our position. "We are equally confident in it to-day. when reluctantly and against our will but with clear judgment and clean conscience we And ourselves involved with our whole strength and power in a bloody arbitramigat hetween-might and right. (Loud cheers) What would be our position to-day as a nation if we had been base enough, through timidity through a perverted sense of honour and duty, to be false to our word and faithless to our friends? The British people would have been standing by with folded arms and with such countenance as we could command, while a small and unprotected State in defence of ber vital liberties made a mio stand against an over-Weening and overwhelming fores. We should have been admiring sa detached spectators the Siege of Liege and the stendy, manly resistance of the small Belgian Army. We should have seen. the occupation of their capital and the gradual forcing back of the patristic defenders to the ramparts of Antwerp and the counties outrages and have suffered the baccaneering levies poucted' from an unoffending civil population. And, Snails, we should har • say tha greatest crime committed against civilisation and epitare since the Thirry Teart Warthn mck of Louvain, a shameless holocaust of irrepamanla treasure lit up by blind harbarinu vengeance (Load cheers). What account would a Government and people have been able to render to the tribunal of zational copacience and sepan of honour if in defiance of our plighted and solenin obligations we bad endured, if we had not done our best ra pe vent -nya and to avanza these intolerable wronga.
Sooner than he the silent witness of this tragic. triumph offres, over. Inw, of brutality over frondom, I would see this country of our bloited out. of the page of history (Loud cheers). The violation of Belgium beutrality was the first step in a deliberate policy of which the ultimate was pint far
DLESEX Attention is called the order thus ali! Mr. Balfour then rose in response to prolonged crise. He said that the Volunteers must wear sanilərm at all Prime Minister and Mr. Bonar Law bad symbolised the unity of the Empiro: times Any Breach of this rule will in I}, future by soverely dealt with The prác That usitz most produce irresistible pressure on the course of the was: which is unthinkable, we shrink from the final issue before gaining our ends of appearing in public places in shirt then dowle but with absolute certainty we shall have fallen from our high slevys with no jacket (except on drill is forbidden, Volunteers state and thes be little more than subservient vassale to a State, which known parsden) how to create power bat is utterly ignorent of how to use it (Loud cheers),
** Walking out of attending public The gathering demanded a few words from Mr. Churchill whose rising was entertainments, te, must wear Khak greeted with great enthcarasm. to mid the country could rely upon the jacket, trauser for shorts and putties) strength and officiency of the Navy which enabled us to draw the mente life and belt and sideatras.
¿ DISCIPLINE and power from the uttermost ands of the earth and would give us time to create powerful Military forces. You have only to go right on and as the end of Volunteces are reminded that each man the road, be it short or long, victory and honour will be found. (Laud cheers) is pesonally responsible for the upholding A resolution supporting Mr. Asquith's appeal was carried amid enthusiastic of the rood uins of the Corps. The cheering, the vast audience ainging the National Anthem and giving rousing cheers for the King, and the Army and Navy.. The cheering never cered till the gathering dispersed.
All the papers welcome Mr. Asquith's trumpet call to arms as again de. monstrating, the perfect anity of the British race in face of compled danger
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE HELIGOLAND ENGAGEMENT.
Seven German Destroyers and Tarpeds Boats Damaged, -1
Lawnon, Septi 4.
The Press Daren announces timt nxording to information from a trust, worthy source seven German destroyers and torpedo bouts have arrived at Kiol in a damaged condition.
It is understoodth at others have sunk in the vicinity of the canal.:
OPPOSING ARMIES KEAR PARIS.
distant. The aim was to crush the independence and autonomy of the farrales peur Paris continued to day without contact The Germans in the A Paris official communique states that the movements of the opposing states of Europa-Arat. Belgium, then Holland and Switzerland-enoptries like our own, imbued and sustained by the spirit of liberty-on frer an-district of Verdun sustained some checks, and the French woo fresh purtisi other wäre to be bent to the yoke. And these ambitions were fed and accesses in Lorraine and the Yonges. fostered by a new philosophy by professers and learned men and the faller self development which to these small a'ates and ourselves, to our Flominions, to nur kinsmen scross the Atlantic was the well spring and the fe breath of National existence, was the osa capital offence in the code of those who made force there supreme divinity and upon those altars they wers prepared to anorifice both the gathered fruita and the potential germs of the unfettered Luzon spirit.
ALLIES POSITION WELL MAINTAINED.
LONDON, Sept. 6, 12.25 sim.
The Official Presa Bareia tates that the situation in the French theatre of This was not merely a material but it was also a spiritual (cheer) clict war has undergone no substantial change. The position of the Allies is well Upom its issue everything that contained the promise of hope, that led to maintained. There are indications that a ferman zoovement is developing in emancipation and a fuller liberty for the millions who made up the mass of an eastward and sonili-eastward direction." mankind ld be found sooner or later to depend."
The Prime Minister then ealogised the exertions of Sir Edward Gres
fu the case of peace, and said that had bis proposal for a mediating conference between Germany, France, Italy and ourselves been accepte-l the actual controversy would have been settled with bonour us everybody and the whole of this terrible welter would have been avoided.
GERMAN BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
LONDON, Sept. 6, 3.40 am.
THE IMMORALITY OF PRUSSIAN MILITARISM.
Losnos, Sept. 6.
range has protested to the Powers against Germany's conduct of "With whom does the responsibility rest for refusal, for all the illimitable the war, war, France says, constitutes the negation of all international fering now confeating the work? With ore Power and one Power only law. and that power in Germany floud hisses). That is the fountain and the origia of this world wide catastrophe (Cheers) In the hope of peace we had persevered. to the end, straining almost to breaking point our mat cherished friendship and obligations, but at last we reached the dividing line which myle or marred anation worthy of the mums. Than and only then bad wedclared for wer Did any in the whole Empire blame or repent our decisi in 2 Ened cries of No" Than a must weil ourselves to the task, and in the Roitit which animstad our forefathers in the straggle against Nanniano must, we shall pervers to the an1 (Land chours). While it would be a crimind mistake to under-estimate the magnitude and the fighting quality or the staying power of the enemy, i would be equally foolish and indefensible to belittle car own force. There was happily little more to be done. As regards the Navy, he did not Lather it why he and that their superiority was equally mirked in other ahsetments and ip évary,nchers of its activity. We ralin) on it with the most Abbate con5 Lenge Thad bunted the German mersanule mirina from the high ame and when the few German cruisers still infecting the distant organ had hen disikael of, as they would very sood, the Navy all have achieved
Sir Edward Grey, writing to a meeting at Berwick, mid the progress of the war had revealed the terrible immorality of Prussian militariam. That overcome, a brighter day would dawn for the Empire, compensating for the awful sacrifices of the war.
PROMSTING FOREIGN TRADE.
Loxoon, Sept. 5, 5.15 am.
PUBLIC HOUSE CLOSING TIME IN LONDON,
LONDON, Sept. 5, 5.15 am.
Mr. Lloyd George announces that aftor consultation with leading for Bátish mal qutral commerce a security as completa as we enjoyed in traders and bankers, arrangements have been made to promote foreiga thedarc of unbroken pawn,
Now as raquel the Army there was a call for new and continous and sende by assisting acceptors of approved bills to meet their abilities. united effort. We had not merely to replace wasinge caused by emaslties, wo had to enlarge the ao da of the army and increase the numbers and multiply. many times it off-sotivanens sa a fghting Inetrant. With a spontaneous -mom, an nuanimite uggaralleled in history, the self-governing Diminions bad "effioned their brotherhow, with us and wade our sue their own. Canada, Augfralia New Zealand, South Africand Newfoundland had nearted thetr right to intribute money adsfocial and the lives of the Host bagni Every clan and cried, British and native, and peop din docs and Mahommedans, virth one another in noble on rivalry (Cheer) Two divisions of their magnificent Aring are already vad, the my (Cheem.) We welcome with appreciation sad afection
their proffered aid and in an Empire which knows no distinction
The public, houses in London are closing at 11 pan. during the war.
THE CONQUERED AUSTRIAN TERRITORIES.
The Austrian territories
protines.
LONDON Reps 5.15 am.
Russia are being lammed ina
pay or unseemly behaviour in public places of men in uniform not only dam ages the Corpe, but also refrets great discredit on the individuals themselves. N.C.0.'s uró especially warned to prevent cause for any complaints either; with reference to themselves or the mén of, the Corp.
PARATES.
Palyden fur to-day, Monday, Soptein- Sur 7th --
643 p.m.-No. 2 Section Artillery Bat tery. for 15 pår. drill 01 Victoria Gap.
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Recruits under Sergeant Major.
No. 1 Section Artillery Battery, Ezgi- Deer Co., Right Section. M.G. Co. and Left Section 9LG, Cò. us onu Company ander D.C.L.I. Instructor. Civil Service Co. Maebino tiun. Drill on Murray Parade
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Parades for Tuesday, September 8- 6, a.m.Scouts Co. under D.C.LI. Instructor as que Company. Centre Sexy sion M.G. Co. under D.C.L.I. Instrud joc.
5.4 pan-Croups and Bout March Dress drill order shirt sleeven.
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Officers on duty for week ending Sun- lay, 13th instant, Capt. Wood and Lieut. Weal
Orderly Officer, Licut. Weall.
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Hongkong Yolunteer Reserrés, “.
The following are appointed Lanos. Corporals (unpaid) from to-day's dato
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