TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1914.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE WAR.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM
FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
SERBIANS RE-ENTER
BELGRADE.
SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT BY
A BRITISH SUBMARINE.
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A TURKISH BATTLESHIP SUNK
THE SERBIANS RE-ENTER BELGRADE.
Loxtos, Dec. 14, 2.20 a.m.
A legnum fram Nish states that the Serbians have re-entered Belgrade after a fierce hartle. .
Loxos, Dee. 14, 12.35 a.m.
The Paris evening official statement says:-In Belgium there we some French attacks, which resulted in an advance along the Ypres Canal and to the west of Hollebeke. Violent Gerican counter-attacks were repulsed... The enemy hombarded the station at Commerey on the 13th inst at long mange, but the damage was insignificant.
The enemy zesumed the offensive in Alsace and to the north-west of Cernay. Titty were repulsed. There was nothing noteworthy elsewhere,
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ALLIES MOVE LINE OF TRENCHES 500 METRES.
Loxnox, Dec. 11, 5.5 p.m.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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TELEGRAPH.
MOSLEMS AND THE WAR.
A telegram Bom British East Africa reports an interview with Sheik Ali who stated that the making of war against Great Britain was quite without effect on the Moslem population in East Africa who recognise tivi Turkey is the tool of Germang. The Mosienis recognise. the boneita er fritish rule which assures religious freedoin,
Tha Sulten et Zanzibar lus issued a loyal address to the Moslerns of the cost rezign
GERMANY'S INSIDIOUS CAMPAIGN WITH THE TURKS.
|Further evidence of the estmordinary preparution made by Germany for the participation of Turkey in the war is furnished by a dispatch from the late British Ambassador to Constantinople. The Syrian towns were filled with German officers, the Bedouins on the Egyptian frontier were | bribed, and orders had been given for the manufacture of Indian military uniorms in Aleppo to simulate the appearance of the British Indian troops.
Although the majority of the Turkish Government was against war. with the Allies they made no effort to escape the influence of this insidious- impaign. The Press, which is entirely in German hands, made scurrilous [attacks against Great Britain, and the hands of the Peaco Furty were forced by the War Party under Enver Pasha. The final cause of the rupture was the invasion of Egyptian territory by Turkish Bedouins and | the unprovoked attack of the Turkish Feet on the Russian Black Set
ports, at the instigation of Germany.
WAR NEWS
ANTI-GERMAN FEELING IN CHILE.
London, Dec. 3.
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• Lieutenant Walter T, Bronics and Liqul. casat Ú. V. de G. Edye. Cornwall Light| There has been an anti-fièran out- Infantry, who wore supernumerarios, have break ab Valparaiso Crowds stormed the been restored to the establishment of the German buildings, the bank, Consulate regiment.
and tramcars. Troips have suppressed
A well-known Ipoh man, now at home, writes to the Times of Malaya :
"The general impression as to the duration of the war amongst thosa usually well informed in that we are proparing for spring campaign in April and that we ought by July to September of next year,
the riut.
D.S.O. AWARDS.
London, Dez. 4,
A special beno of the London
to enter Berlin and dictate terms of peace."zero" announce the bestowal of
| further 50 Distinguished Service Orders.
LYDDITE EXPLOSION.
A despatch to the Star from Petrograd trophies arriving at Smolensk is the entire says that among the remarkable war stock of the German Emperor's famous pedigree cattle and stud horse-captured t by the Russians from the Emperor's states st Rominten in East Fruzsin.
The Gloucestora and the Cornwall Light¦ Infantry have been again in action with cociderable loss to the commissio ed officers and the ranks. Both regiments have been in the thick of the fighting since. the war started, and have done their duty nubly and well.
London, Dec. 0.
There has been a bydditte explosion in a factory at Bradford. Six persons were killed and many injured, and the factory was destroyed.
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LOSSES IN FLANDERS.
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London. Dec. 3. "The Times" military expert Futes the total losses in the Battle of After a few days at home the lat Bat-Flanders 14 100,000, of whom the Ger- talion King's Own Light Infantry, lately raas hure 200,000, and the Alles will leave England for the Continent. at Singapors, and previously in Hongkong, 100,000, including 50,000 British,
whom 5,500 are Indians.
A Paris communique states that nothing important occurred from the ses to the Oise. The enemy violently bombarded our trenches in the region of the Aisne to-the north-west of Soupir. We replied by throwing their trenches into disorder. There has been co infantry, attack on either side. Our artillery des troyed important works on the outskirts of the enemy. We made slight progress in Argonne and in the Bois de Lagrurie by means of mines. There have been so attacks by the enemy on the heights of the Meuse. The violent cannonade by the enemy's batteries seems to have moved farther north. Our troops OR the Woerre, after carrying the line of trenches over the front 500 metres at [ United Kingdom-under some other name, Mont Marie-Wood, repulsed two-counter attacks...
HAVAS Telegram, Dec. 13, 0.25 a.m.
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Yesterday was particularly calm with intermittent cannonading on Bifferent points of the front. The enemy attempted to deliver three violent attacks south-cast of Ypres, but were repulsed. We progressed materially in the Bois le Pretre. Seremi attacks north-west of Senones were repulsed.
Petrograd. The Goeben bombarded Batour with only slight dam- age. The forts refiled and the Goeben disappeared.
Nish.The Servians, pursuing the Austrians, forced them to re-crosA the Drina.
REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF BRITISH SUBMARINE.
A Turkish Battleship Torpedoed.
LONDON, Dec. 14, 12.50 p.m.
conscription will bo pat in forse in the It is thought that mms mild form of
ENTERIC AMONG BELOIANS.
London. Dec. 3.
of course the limit of the voluntary out- put of recruits having been reached in the opinion of the experts who study such
A joint committee of the British Bed matters. A curious thing is that when all Cross and the Order of St. John make is going well at the frou: recruiting drops an immediate advance of ten thousand off, and when reverse happens the repounds to be expended at Calais to com fruits at once flook to the colours-Land bat an outbreak of enteric in the Bel 0. Expres
THE TURKISH FLEET.
gian army.
H.M.S. GLASGOW.
One of the difficulties the Turkish Fleet
According to a message to the Now may have to contend with in the pear Eature concerns the supply of cost. If the York Herald" it is probable that H.M.S. Constantinople correspondent of the Near Glasgow took part in the engagement in Hast" is to be believed the position from which the German Pacific Squadron was the point of view of active operations in Janolished. The message runs as fol- the Black Sea extremely serioas for lows
Turkey
"The available coal supply is estimated
Santiago de Chili, Nov. 10.
at most at 15,000 tons of steam coal and The British cruiser Glasgow, which The Press Bureau announces that Submarine B1 (Lieut.Commander the 150 tons per diem of Eregli coal, which was engaged with the Gorman Squadron Holbrook) entered the Dardazelica, and, despite the difficult currents, dived is being mined under difficulties, the in the battle of the Chiliad const on
majority of the labourers umployed thero
BY TELEGRAPH VICTORIA THEATRE
(Wah Ta Yat Fo's Service.)
"OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.
SuasGBAI, Dec. 14.
Chow Taza Chi will be appointed General of Chilli and Chor to Khi, Minister of Finance. Lino Fung Shi has been apponited Consul-General at. Cuba.
RETURNED "STUDENTS.
PERING, Dec. 14, Two etheials bave been appointed to examine the students who recontly re- hurned from Japon.
CHINA'S BUDGET.
An interpellation has been made by the advisory Committee to the Financial Department in regard to the Budget. An early reply has been promised,
DAMAGES SUFFERED EY
CHINESE AT TSINGTAU. -
Li Sing Tung has been instructed
to proceed to Tsingtau to inquire into the damages suffered by the Chinese.
THE BRITISH MINISTER.
Sir John Jordan, the British Minister, and suite left Shanghai for Peking on the 14th inst.
QUARDING AGAINST REBELS.
TRAVELLING SOUTH.
Jung Chi Kwong, the Genel at Canton, has wird to the Vice- Admiral at Shanghai stretly to examine all ships leaving for Canton, so us to prevent rebels from travelling to the South,
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SUC GESTED FOR OFFICIALS,
One of the Censors has strongly impeached several officials on the ground that they have disregarded the Opium Suppression laws. The Censor suggests that the officials receive severe corporal punishment |
son example to others."
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER · CORPS.
Corps Orders by Lieut. Col. A. Chapman, Y.D.
MUSKETRY (STANDARD TEST)."" Muskatry (Trained men only) will be carried out as follows-Saturday 19th, Right Section M. G Co.. nt 2.30 p.m. Sunday 20th Centre Section B. G. Co, st 9.30 ..
All members of the Artillery Battery who failed to attend last week end must attend on one of the above dates to com- plete their course. Members must attend paoctually at the times stated above; any mas attending late will not be allowed to fire.
KOT.
under fire rows of mines and torpedoed the Turkish battleship Lesouliyeh; } having been conscripted. Whether it will Sunday, November 1, and the Dritish 18th, duty in the Betta Saturday
which was guarding the minefield. 11, although pursued by gunfire and be possible to keep up even this supply as transport Otranto have passed Delgada torpedo-honts, returned safely. She was submerged on one occasion for zine long as gold is tight and labour scarce is Point Light, in the Straits of Magellan, hours. When last seen, the Mesoudiyeh was sinking by the stern.
doubted in some qarbe: 8.
bound for the Falkland Islands, a Exitish [The Mozadiyeh is an old battleship. She was built in 1874 on the man Fleet, should it undertake any, ara southern point of South America...
In any case, the operations of the Utte-porscasion to the cast of the extreme Thames but was re-constructed at Genon between 1600 and 1002. As re-con-likely to be seriously hampered for want of xtracted she had twin screws, ono military mast and top, two "funnels and
This information is contained in ad- enal. The Goeben, German officers and coded borbette at each end. Her length over all was 315ft., her displacement Erogli ecal, and the Breslau's speed will from the naval authorities in the Straits al, einnot do more than 15 kuota on rices received here by the Admiralty 10,000 tons and her speed 17.5 knots. She had a complete beld of arnwour of be reduced by 30 per cent if she is cem of Magellan, who said they had seen the from seven to 12 inches in thickness and curried-tw. 0,2-in.;-twelve-6-in.-9-q-fpelled to fall back on this soarce of supply; Glasgow and the Otranto passing through fourteen long 12-pr. and other smaller guas,, while her erew numbered £00. while Germany and Austria cannot send
The British submarines of the class were built in 1905. They displace say large quantities of steam coal hero by the Straits toward the Atlantic. 81 tous, hare a surface speed of 13 knots, a submerged speed of 9 knots and
rail" have two torpedo tubes.
Laut.Com. Leonard S. Holbrook, M.V.O.. the hero of this daring exploit. jined the Navy in 1901. Sorond son of Colonel A. I. Holbrook, he was born in 1882. Tie served with the Naval Guard of Honour at Queen Victoria's dunerul.}
SERBIANS DRIVING THE AUSTRIANS ACROSS THE DRINA.
LONDON, Dec. 13, 4.55 pm.
A Paris communiqué says:--
The Serbians, on the extreme left, forced the energy across the Drina.
SPIES AS REFUGEES,
A FIGHT IN THE AIR.
A private Isiter published
by
Osly members who have fred Fart I can fire the Standard Tost
Olticar on
A. E. Wright, 20th, Lieut. C. Smith.
ficer on daty in the Butts Sunday OCs. Send take clucze of the firing Sections will see that one of their
point and that suficient N. C. O's, attend to assist the instructor.
BEECIAL NOTE."/
mast fra the Musketry Coarse. They must Every member of the Corps, including
stood on the days Allotted to their those exempted from attending parados,
respective units. Every member failing
to are the Course will be counted non efficient.
GUN DAILLS
In fatura Gua Dotschments will be fal- len iu and all finn Stores checked before the Bection is dismissed.
Owing to the fear that German spies" Liberte gives on icemus of the may make their way into the country din-destruction of a German aeroplane by gaised as Belgian refugees, Home Office the well-known airman M. Vedrines, A instructions were received at Hall recently Tabu acroplane appeared above the dril that no Belgian rofugees are to be admit-French lines. Vedrines pursued it in a ted at east coast puris.
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PARADES.
Parades for Wednesday 16th instant. 6.15 a.m. No. 1 Section Artillery 10 pdr.
Remainder of Group on duty Maskatiy
DEWAZI..
The Serbians also continue to drive the Austrians back in a northerly and e3 from the that forty German spies the Taube carne under the fire of the Section AI, G. Co. and Civil Service Co.
north-easterly direction..
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ADYANGING ON BELGRADE.
LONDON, Dec. 14, 5.30 .m.
An official statement, issued from Nish, says that the Serbians, continued eir pursuit of the Austrians on the 11th inst, defeating all attempts by the enemy to arrest their retreat. The Serbina are now advancing on Belgrade and Mladenovate. Tho Serbiana captured on the 11th inst. 2,220 Austrians twenty guna, and much material.
THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
LONDON, Dec. 18, 4.55 p.m. To-day's Faris communique says:— Yesterday was particularly quiet, the enemy's activity being mainly shawn in intermittent cannonades. The enemy, however, made three violent infantry attacks south-east of Ypres, which were repulsed, the
We made substantial progress at Bois-la-Pretro.
A large number of Helgian resugers who powerful Bleriot machine, carrying a Exercises under Company Officers. are already comfortably housed in the mitesilleuse, Tho chase lasted eight Hall district mest, it is or 'ered, he reinoy-minute of a height of 8000t. Then On daly, No. 1 Soc. Artillery, Right
The report is disguised na refuzeos. hara been found at mitraillener and fell, riddled with French Officers on duty, Capt. Churchill, Livet. Daver. An order parallel with the Home bullets. This is the third German aeroficer, Licut Kennett.
Konpett and Lieut.. Smith." Orderly Offer order has been isssed by Brigadier-plung, that Fodrines has brought down. Gener Nagunt, commanding the Humber
defences.
RAMMING OF A SUBMARINE.
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A Graphic Story; :
MORE. BERLIN FICTION.
A gentleman in Berlin, writing to his daughter at Terquay, expressed fear for her safety, as the Berlin papers state
A graphic account of the ramming of the that London and Flymouth have been German submarine ly his Majesty's ship Badger was given by Petty Uficer Morgse practically destroyed by free caused by Thomas of the Eager, to the Centraleppelin bombs. He add that in the Nowe Newport (Mon) correspondent. Said German capital many dogs are being destroyed in order that they shall not We were loading in a line of destroyers when, just before seven fut the tokeout crouch on the food supplies of the noticed a wake just ahead. He telegraph. ed to the bridge, andalmost simultaneously tha submarine was seen barly 100 yards Abend. Her coaning towar was open, and
The enemy in the Vosges mule several attacks on Mother Henrian offices could be seen. Owing to the Bencon, north-west of Senonnes, and were repulsed.
(British Foreign Office Telegrains.)
MORE INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE IN GERMANY.
It is reported that all mines in the industrial regions of Germany are closing down and that the mers are being sent direct to the Western kond without any prohiminary training. The shortage of coil is alrealy being fel, even in Berlin where part of the gas lighting is not working
A report that the sale of motor tyres in private persons is for bidden, except with the special permission of the Government, shows the growing sharingo rubber in Germany
darkness it was impossible in know whether
psple
A. BRAVE PRINCE.
it was friend or foo, and the commander Corporal J, Jelley, of the King's Royal
To furuleb Goard to night No. I Section,
Artillery Battery, to morrow Right Section,
G. Co.
M.
Orderly Bergh, to-night Sergt. Crawford to-morrow Bergt. Echnepel. N
HEADQUARTERS CAMP.
...
After this date the Camp at. Volunteer
to-morrow morning, Headquarters will be discontinued and the Group at present où duty will go of daty
GUARD.
guard of one N. 0.0), and six men will be mounted at 6 pm and dismind at 6 a daily. Guards for the remainder of this month will be as follows
Dec. 15, No. 1.Section Artillery 16, Right Bastion M. G. Co. 17, Se ut Company; 13, Scouts Company; 19, Heouts Company; 20, No. 2 Section Artillery; -1, Left Section MG. Co. 2, Centre Section M. G. C.; 23. Civil Service Co.: 24. No. 1 Section Artillery 20, Right Section MG. Co.; 24, Scouts Company; 27, Scouts Compsby 28, Scouts Company; 29, No. 2 Section Artillery 130, Left Section 11. Q. Co.; 31, Centre Bestion M. G. Co
OFFICER.
of the Bidger shouted to the officer of the Rifles, now at Newport (Mon.), relates stranger,
thas in an action at Chalonsur-Marne The reply was unintelligible. bus Princo Mouries of Battenberg was with quickly the identity of the submarine the regiment when the order was give hocaine, known to us by its design. We were almost on top of her, and aur bow that a bridge must be taken. The car merging. She was, indood, so close that I found that the bridgn had three block-time during his work on doty ranimed her, oblignely as the ms auh porn that the bride the best 6 pm; find visit them at least throu The Order y Oficer will mount the guard
could have shaker hands with the Germany, consisting of carts, furniture, Jans, in the annning tower. Ous of our kenner and wire. Prince Mayes of Ilettenberg Headquarterede be
He will not be required to sleep at four pounder at a range of only a yard or as first man over, warching the house as wo cinged with the submaring, discharged twp, and we aw the shell take effect. Our beyond all by himin. This was a brave
palat no time exceeded twelve kole un int for an officer alone."! hour
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