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· MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1915.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE PROGRESS OF
THE WAR.
NOTABLE SUCCESSES BY
THE RUSSIANS.
IMMENSE CAPTURES OF OFFICERS, MEN AND
MUNITIONS.
THE DARDANELLES OPERATIONS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
RUSSIANS AGAIN REPEL AN AUSTRO- GERMAN ATTACK.
LONDON, June 13, 7.55 p.m.
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A Petrograd communique states: In Galicia, in the Valley of Skio, German motor battery advanced but was compelled to retreat immediately by Russian artillery, The Russians also captured at Jarayao many ammunition waggans and field kitchen. Au Austro- German counter-attack, which had roached the village of Granzow, was immediately, defeated, and we captured 33
officers and 490 man, '
HUGE CAPTURES AT JURAVNO.
LATER.
The Russian offensive is developing sucessfully at Shavli, a feature of the fighting being a brilliant charge by the Cossacks.
We captured, after a three days' battle at Juravno, 343.officers, 15,431 men, and 35 guns: also ammunition and transport. The cuemy is endeavour. „ing at other sectore to cross the Dniester,
MORE GERMAN PIRACY.
LONDON, June 31.
A British collier and a Norwegian sailing ship are reported to have limen tope-boel in St. George's Channel.
THE ITALIANS PROGRESSING.
Loxbox, Tue 18, 3.5 pan.
A. Home communique sports continued progress at all the theatres and that good work has been done by the airruột and the artillery. The Italions took some hundreds of prisoners.
"SOUCHEZ RAILWAY STATION CAPTURED.
LONDON, June 13, 5,55 p.m.
A Paris,communique states: After an incessant right attack wu cap- ured the railway station at Souchez, A desperte battle continues at the southern part of the Labrynth. We have mintained all our gains.
THE AEROPLANE ATTACK AT BRUSSELS.
Losos, June 13.
A special telegram from Paris states that Eyewitness at Evere reports that a tremendous cannonade brought out the townspeople who eagerly watched the contest with the British aeroplanes.
THE
BY TELEGRAPH.
Router's Service to the China Maik)
THE FRENCH SUGAR OROP.
LONDON, June 13. The area, sown with baes auger in France shows a decrease' of 31, 9 per cent, compared with 1914,
(This talegram is interesting in view of the industry cried on by the two last refination, and we have no doubt but that *Taikoo" and "China Sugar" will take fall advantage of the increased demand for jenne sugara which will presumably arise in couacquence of the shortage of sheet sugars in Europe.-Ed.)
"GREEK POLITICS.
naction with to-day's election are ex- pectod, if M. Venizelos is successful.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLE.
CHINA MAIL.
CORRESPONDÈNUE.
[We do nat necessarèy acquiesce in opiniona erpressed by correspondent—Bil]
A REPLY TO **ONLOOKER.”
(To the Editor of the "Chinu Mail,”}
Dear.
But how to indues Importar-To-day's Advertisements
daily contuct by..cable with avery Work centre of importanco-in nor- tiament, to yield na more power la mal times, I think I ant safe in says managing our own affairs-with. ing, its business men are as kyun, grater economy and tuore common as active, and is hard worked as sense than at present prevail.
PUBLIO ACOTION
Undersigned have received instru
their contemporaries in sny quartor Thera's the rutt in bag puzzled Tsions to sell by Pablo Austion.
FRIDAY
the 18th Juno, 1913, commanding ab 2.30 pm at their Salon Rooms, No S Dos Vœux Road. Corner of
len Haus Street,
A. QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TRAKWOOD AND
BLACKWOOD
SUNDRY
of the globe-to my certain know-wiser heads thun pouts ahl Crictio Hedge I work harder here und fonger and than nino-so will continue to
hours (as, do many others) in spite į puzzle for many a decade, of the heavy languor of the "eli- There is put one other point.. Sa insta" than I did in London.
far as I am awore slavery in pot re Rubbish this is no backwater of jeugnised in this little island of ours life"to those who have the energy-steamers leave this port for other and the ability to keep abreast, of pluus pretically tally--it Onlooker modern business requirements.
doesn't like us unit our ways. I don't As an old resident of Hongkong
Our eritie prates of "culture and suppose there would be a grout rush the article headed Impressions of progress which hava to be aban-to prorent him from availing himself Hongkong appearing in your issus doned in Hougheng, What does he of his obvious romely, of 12th June fairly pulverised me. ancin I hate these meaningless Well I have had my say-for}
On the first shock of this "Jack phrases that imply so much and Pity's sake let us plug on to the best Sofas and Chairs (New), Bedroom Behted, Johnson" of an article I suffered )
convey su litak.
of our ability in that state of life to Dining Room Furnitat, Ann-chair bud feriïïan alumst méonquemblo desire
Solas, Tolles Tables, Wardrobes, Win What do you want Mr. Critic? Es, which it hus plonised God to call us stands, de, Sideboards, Dinner Wagon to have my cook and his "makcaplain yourself! Culture and Progress-geol Britons all-ready to make Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, abdiq learn into the drawing room, offer I venture to say that these educated all sacrifice we can in these days of joto..
FURNITURE, Să, ita,
As Tullowa
TEAKWOOD. — Aulies, Cha
ota., etc.
Alsa
Brass and Beam-mounted Beda;osdn.“ Dinner and Dessert Services,- Cutlery, Cooking Stove, Carpets and Rugs Kitchen Uransila, Glass And E.-P. W Flectric Reading Lamps, etc., and Twe
Cataloguer will be issued. Tarms:-Carly.
Pinos,
my spare bedroom to the Fawong Europeans who live in Hongkong are stress for the tag that protects us- BLACKWOOD, Cabinets, Chak LONDON, June 13,
and the house coolie, and to ransack just as keen to hear good music, to nudy to niske life as happy as may Flower Stauds, Bracket, Marble A telegram from Athens states that the advertisements of vehicle, ninnuse beautiful pictures, to read well be to our neighbours and as bearable Tables, Card Tables, Stools, Photo Frames Provenixalist demonstrations in confueturers in the hope of finding written books as are their country us possible to ourselves.
**curringe "suitable to all the exigenmen and countrywomen in any other
Bê to her virtues very kind. clus of this mountainous island.
quarter of the globe and are just
Beto her faults a little blind After the preliminary concussions anxious to the progress.
I am a busy man, a wet Sunday ind worn off a little I recovered auf- ficiently to read the article again.
"As to politics' I am certain that is my only excuse for this outburst. Familiarity breeds contempt
ro enumunity of equal size (remem-1 shall not trouble you again which Foreigners Leaving Mexico City and I finally decided that the vitriolis tiny place) is more widely interesteduce to your contributors anonymity her Hongkong as to Encopeans is a trust will cheer you up! In defer- attack on Hongkong was inconsist
Ayel and more intelligently intefer tollow suit but I enclose my earl LONDON, June 12
ent, unfair, and miwarranted. Reuter's correspondent at Vera Craz
ed in the happenings of the great which can see the light of day it your A little later mpl my buffered mind says that five hundred foreigners from decided that some reply might be wide world than is this little colony less contributor cures to step Mexico City have arrived by apecinta (have allowed myself to
The support of four daily News. into the open. train. An American transport will
•papers--the never ending clamour which will no doubt convey them to Galveston,
fill your contributor with malicious for cables and there rubles (as Reu-
Įter's agent can testify) ore witness i AMERICA'S NEW SEAMAN LAW. glee as an authorised representar-
five of those whose lot is cast in this of the truth of my statement.
My eye notes the word "un stall outpost of Empire. Su.if you
clarity in the indictment before will bar with me here goes.
und as applied to Hongkong,
Exact on Pacife Mall Co.
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My out emves for half an har's
Losnos, June 12
This is the limit! the top notch A message from Washington says of the pen of a Kipling or of unfair and unsupported attack! that the United States Government have Blatchfoul to do justice to the effort. Why man! east your mind buck aut instructed their diplomats abroad to ask
In the first place if the writer oftes it recall for one moment the host for the annulment of say paragraphs in the article referred to is a transient of voluntary subscriptions raised and Commercial Tresties that are in conflict en of ur ecranunity he cannot pail cheerfully in this small place
know ough of the life of the place over a series 'pears. with the Near Seaman Law.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. will to justify the sweeping attack made Faine Funds. Flood Finuts, War probably have to abandon their transif a resident I congratulate him en Funds. Tobacco Funds, retal Pacific service as nader this Act, a ship the attitude saken up toward the Funds, Benevolent Soviety Funebre cannot sail from any American port home of his adoption-so well call rise in a mass of hostile witness unless seventy-five per vont of her crewcalated to enable him to enjoy lis speak the language of the country whose lite here in hill and to diffuse around
against you? fag she carries. The Act thus present that atsphere of kindly toler the employment of Oriental labour to eotapete with vessels Bving the Japanese ance and good enranuleship that goes fing, and will probably drive all so far in od lifes journey in small American ships out of the Oriental trade. points of exile such as Hongkong,
THE KING OF GREECE WORSE.
LONDON, June 11.
that back Sir-take that back!
Uncharitable indeed!! Tuks
As to the coalitions of native tabour which causes our squeamish friend to writhe--and the poor people who carry brieks to the Peak.
Ahus Utopi is not yer and" mau |·
st work and wornau must weep
•
The author 1 maintain is incon sistentin one line he recommends is to forget our old standrils of contfort and then he complains for any cons of time yet unhom The King of Greece is still in danger, that the majority of the Europe fiefore the daily struggle for exist the condition of his kidneys being worse.inhabitants are a great deal better!
off than they were in England"ence is disinted;
OBITUARY,
Former Chief Justice of Ceylon Dead.
LONDON, June 11. Sir Charles Lavard, Chief Justice of Ceylon from 1902 to 1000 is dead.
-LANGKAT OUTPUT.
June 1.
313 tona
at
Don't take away their daily toil
brick layers or chair coolies. They
have more servants, etc., he girds from the intive carriers-be they
dinner tables Inden with strer and flowers and rails at gayram more and sweat less in Hong- fiveries, liners, Tuncheons, bridge and bathing parties."
kong than in their native land Fo appears to be well acquaint They get fair play and fair pay-- squeeze" and without with the habits of very sunil without suburban and rather early Victorian ledpotion thanks to the law that Country towns (which he brackets us in all Britain great and small..
Nol you need expend no grant pity fus being sheilar in characteristics. I
should have imagined they were on the native toiler in Hongkong- totally different but no doubt he his lot in this unperfect world is at Messrs Benjamin and Potts, share and knows best!) and then proceeds to any rate botter than that of his bre- general brakera, report:-
say Hongkong is identical-butthren in their Homeland. From 1st June to 12 Juna;~
wherein this sunilarity is most and you have home with me over Mr. Editor, your space is valuable parent he does not dugu to tell us.
Personally from what I have read kng-1 ist end. I should have said Hongkong was anything but early Victorian (if it was I can see no harm in that)-as to the very small suburban towns at Home (whatever they are) never lived in one and our friend' has the ulvantage of rne there...
As to climate his plaint reminds me of the cid stery of the Jaw ven- dor of all clothes ho, on having articles returned to him as being people,by undesirable tenants, pro- testel volubly.
Jai
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320
319
203
299
337
2236
12.
FAL
Total Dutpat, 618 tons. Daily Average, 3091, 50 tons.
CHINESE JOURNALIST
ASSAULTED,
Chief Petty Officer Isaacon, of the
The people shouted with joy when the German shells missed. The Ger- mas attempted to remove a "airship, which was a Zeppelin and not a Parseval, when suddenly the arroplanes dived and threw three bombs which and the Zeppelin blew up: The Bruxellois were filled with indicseribable joy, exploded with the greatest violence. Then there was an explosion and a dare. S. E. Waington, did not appear this-but tropical weather? Is is cor and sang the "Marseillaise" and the "Brabanconne.""
morning to answer & charge of assaulting
The Germans lost their heads and sent cavalry to charge the crowd. Fire two Chinese, ous of them being Mr. Y: C. Taubes were also burned in a hangar and 19 German soldiers killed.
ITALIANS AT GRADISCA.
Loxios, June 13.
The Italians are firmly established at Gradisea, which, it is now announced, was captured some days ago.
BRESLAU" SEVERELY DAMAGED.
LONDON, June 13.
It is officially announced in Petrograd that the ex-German light cruiser Breslau was engaged by two Russian destroyers, which severely damaged her
MR LLOYD GEORGE'S APPEAL TO TRADE UNIONISTS.
Loxnos, June 13.
Tang, member of thestal of the Tsan Wan Yat Po."
Bail in the suca of 83 was cetreated
UNDELIVERED LETTERS AT THE FRONT.
** 'Vat did you expect! "Ummin birds 7:
What did he expect in the tropies
reflection on the Govern mens and people of Hongkong that ur crisp beautiful winter weather (unbeatable 'the world over) should
tuinly
In our Ameks erille's Hongkong Creed. I think I enn detect the colise of the sting the source of his auony- mcus attack on this little con 1munity,
"I believe anyone who does not like it has been unfortunate enough 10 get into the wrong set.".
I dare not speak to any it, sunan or child without an introduc- - tinn.**
Oh! is it possible. Can it be pos sible that this Jove of High Olym pus-this Superman who world fain put us all to right-this expen ent of Culture and Progress *— this rugellator of poor Suburbia and all its ways-is it possible he has got into the Wrong Sot"
The latent shobbery of it all! The fact is inest sapient On-
Bot after fifty years of occupation | looker," that Hongkong is just like been made to extend the your round. any other British or cosmopolitan Chinese servants come under bis community of equal size--nö better seuthing lash. Well my friend you to worse. can't make silk purse-you know There are those of gentle birth and the rest and the leopard will not those of humbler örigin some of ohang his spots-but I do most them charming folk, soms of the Scores of Letters Jnaddressed. stoutly maintain thas taken by and horrid, some of them neither just as large the Chinese servant in well. Critie says, a Miniature King- The Head Recruiting Othices at Sestland runs Hongkong house is a good fellow dorite says,
Yard are receiving letters from abroad for-infinitely improved in matters of All are free to make their own Britishers who had come home fight but had not given the slightest indication of cleanliness and intelligence by his friends and I suppose they make use
letter and the authorities are getting usually far far better in every way. There will over be the successful, how they have enlisted or where they are juxtaposition to Europeans of of that freedom as seems good ta to be found. There are scaron of such cent habit of life. His quarters are them. desperate. A lat has been, published so thun angthing he would live in if left the unsuccessful, the ambitious and them at tho adizers may know that the to his own devices of in his native content, the social climbers (on all latters have not been deliraged and wh
d why town or villagerungs of the ladder), the worker and Servants quarters prevail in the shirker here i Hongkong and C. Mas Hongkong" (writes your contribuelsewhere.
that those of their friends who wrote to
Letters
Barris-Pla
kenzla, Harold Poole
Берду,
Ceylon Contingent: -Edward Alfroy, of torp that would not be tolerated in In most civilised communities: the
any other part of the world.
habit introduction has so Cranfield Mongagalia, Namaenkula
own that it has become a custom.
E.
Mr. Lord George, pontinuing his campaign of furthering the out- Suria Kande. Miakol ya. Ceylon, put of munitions, was given an ovation by crowds at Bristol. He suid
Now this kose general statement that all were already working with such devotion that there would soon. and G. K. Conflam, H.-G. Fouter, unfair and untrue to my certain Why not?
Hongkong-Herbert Staton Borm. W be no shirkers in Great Britain, Victory was impossible without engi.A. K. Hyndman, . Mullin, Kowloon knowledge. Doors to fill.reserves of abells incessantly to haminer the Germans. He
Customs, Hongkong, Frank Bonus said that Lord Kitchener had recalled skilled men froia the Colours to cipal Folles Force.
Shaughai Hunt, Shanghai Munt the workshops, and he appealed to Trade Unionists to relax their regula tions and thus erible girls and unskilled labour to be employett.
Singapore and Malaya Graham
ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS NORTH OF ARRAS.
LONDON, June 18
A Paris commusique states: -In the whole sector porth of ad the crony sought by Violent bomburluent to lamper our orga tion of conquered positions. Our artillery replied effectively.
A German counter-attaci south-east of Hebulemne was ropulser.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE, 3.)
Is it possible, out critic is judging others by his own? Surely but timt could not bel
Bome rouclier as to the identity of the speaker seams very reasonabie desire on the part of the speakeo¦
Free intercourse like Free Love"
Denney, W. S Fraser, Hanley. Viskers, Our friend character ses Hongkong might be alright but I can see don R. Groliet, K. E. M. Garliner, 31. Lewis, self contained miniature Kipp gespus possibilities in both and so DS. Richards. A. L. Suth, H. Smart,dom siteated in a backwater of life. E., E. Stofs..
Brilliant sneer! but it is unsup-minute
can your contributor if he reffects a portes, by fnet
There is one interesting point on which I havo omitted to comment
Hongkong is one of the very lar
gestif not the largest shipping SOMETHING DEPENDABLE TARRHOEA always more or less ports in the world it is the muri
and that in our local representation
provalent during this wowther, Batimo Cinphain Junction of countless our, government... prepared for It. Chamberlain's Colic, Chotravellers of any nations it is the I am at one there with sour cor fare and Dinerhora Temedy in prompt nad gateway to one of Great Britain's respondent heartily at one with him effectual. It can alwys be depended most important markets it will preto my mind it is the cae bright upon. For sale by all bemiata and Scrently be the terminal point of the spot in his otherwise dreary Com keepere.
vaskest of railway systems-it is in nination service,
SOME REPLY.
Hongkong, June 13, 1915.
HUGHES & HOUGH, ductioneers.
Hengken, Juno 14, 1995,
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