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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1915.
BY TELEGRAPH.
RUSSIA COPING SUCCE88FULLY WITH THE
ENEMY.
Lospox, Sept...7.
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TELEGRAPH.
THE SINKING OF THE HESPERIAN
TWENTY-FITE PERSONS, MISSING,
LONDON, Nept
The Alad Line states that twelve passengers and thirteen of tha
A Petrograd communique indictes that the positions generally are unchanged. An attempt by the enemy to take the offensive, especially crew are missing? in the district of Volkovyak, was crushed, while Russian counter-attacks | at various points resulted in the capture of several hundreds of prisoners. Experts at Petrograd infer from the recent repeated proofs of the ability of the Russinus to counter-attack that the munitions crisis has been relieved, if not wholly overcome.
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The Gorman success at Friedrichstadt is not yet equivalent to a direct menace to Riga, as they must first force the Dwina bridging, which is most difficult owing to the swift currunt.
A recent orden of the Gorman Graoral Bulow to his troops suid You must make another effort to fows the Dwina and seizo Riga. There you will rest for the winter, propamtory to advancing on Petrograd in the Spring.'
THE BRITISH GRAND FLEET.
GLOWING ACCOUNTS" BY RECENT VISITORS.
Many German Submarinos Wiped Out...
LONDON, Sep. 7. A telegram from Paris states that Pierre Millé, who with other distinguish- ed Frenchmen has just concluded a visit to the British. Fleet, contributes an article to the Tempi in which he says.tunt the British naval strength is not merely formidable but invincible. Britain will remain the mistress of the sess.
The British, he says, bave sunk so many Gorman submarines that they seem to desire a continuance of submarine activity. Owing the terror which this Caas inspired among German seamon for subarine work the German Govern-
toont has adopted the subterfuge of asking for volunteers for Zeppelins.
Referring to the damage sustained by British nuits in action M. Mille ways that in the North Sea battle of January 24th two principal British ships received ope fifteen hanvy shells, the other eight. The latter bad a funpel holed and was also traversed by a shell near the engine room, while several were 'killed aboard the former vessel, but neither loss an inch of speed-nor a whit of
its attacking power,
The French visitors were authorised to reveal the gigantic effort of the British Admiralty to make arsonal forts which are the largest in the world. Hundreds of large battleshipa lie there while auxiliaries of every kind can be counted thousands.
AN AMERICAN AUTHOR'S VISIT TO THE FLEET.
LONDON, September 7. The famous Americuo author Frederick Palmer tells the American people of an interesting visit to the British Grand Fleet during the past week, saya n telegram from New York.
The sight, he says, was a tremendous revelation of efficiency. Enormous progress had been made since the outbreak of the war. He saw dry-ducks for the largest Dreadnoughts which had been built since the war began.
He was shown charts marking the graves of German submarines and where aubmarines had been attacked, and the results wer classified under hendings-- captured, mark, supposed maak. Fle asked the officers how they got them. The officers replied: Sometimes by ramming; sometimes by gunfire; sometimes by explosives; and also in many other ways which we do not tell.” All branches of the service envy the submarina-hunters' great sport
Mr. Palmer makes the illuminating announcement that Great Britain bas 2,300 trawlers. mine-sweepers and auxiliaries keeping the blockade from the English Channel to Iceland, meaned by Reservist crews who are extraordiaarily
zealous.
AMERICAN INVESTIGATION.
The Anterican Naval Aftache is proceeding to Queenstown to investi- gate the sinking of the "Hesperian. "
A BERLIN. ANNOUNCEMENT.
LONDON, Sept. 6..
A Berlin announcement, says an Amsterdam message, warns the people that details regarding the sinking of the "Hesperian" must be awaited. An to whether the liner was actually torpedoed.
HOW THE
HESPERIAN" SANK,
The Hesperian sank near where she was torpedoed. Two atonmers took the liner in tow but little progress was made, especially as the engines of the "Hesperian were disabled, and the pressure of the water eventually broke the bulkhead.
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The Captain and Officers and the remainder of the crow have arrived ut Queenstown.
INTENSE BOMBARDMENT ON
THE WESTERN FRONT.
LONDON, Sept. 6, 5.5 a.m.
A Paris telegramı states that an intense bombardment with guns of all calibres is still maintained, especially in the Arms and Chumpagne regions.
There has been Serce bonih ighting against the Crown Prince's any in Argonne.
A communique says that airemit kombed the German barracks -ut Dieuze Morhange.
Sept. 7, 1:43
A Paris communique states:— Artillery actions continus along the whole front. Our battaries north of Arma greulty damaged the German trenches.
The artillery duel was particularly keen in Champagne. There was fighting with beavy bombs in the Vasges.
As a reprisal for the German aeroplane bombardment of Luneville on September 1st, when the airmen made a special mark of the most populous quarters and market, forty French acroplanes to-day bombarded the station, factories and military establishments of Saarbruckon, doing great dumuge.
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A German aeroplane was obliged to lugd nt Calais. The aviators Wero captured.
THE TEUTONIC MACHINATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Americans Indignant.
LONDON, Sept.' I.
A New York tologmm states that the admission of the Austrian Ambassador, Dumbo, that be wrote the letter mentioned to-day has provoked the strongest foeling in Amerien. The papers bitterly denounen
Dumbo.
Then the battleships and cruisers were seen at gun' practice. An officer The New York World urges that he be given his passports, unt explained: We keep at it all the time.".
accuses him of incising civil war and abusing American hospitality by betrayal, which was as basa as anything in the annals of diplomacy.
The Grand Fleet was afterwards seen in perfect formation-an immense Beld of grey shapes, liae after line of Dreadnoughts painted a colour melting Tate the sen. Even the Queen Elizabeth, back from the Dardanelles, looked amali until compared with the Inflexible, the flagship of the Falkland Islanda victory, or the light cruisers just returned from sweeping the North Ses
Overhead hovered neroplanes whore home was a celebrated Atlantic liner. Mr. Palmer was especially impressed by the youth of the commanding officers, with Admiral Sir John Jellicce, at 57, sa the senior of them all,
Admiral Jellicoe learne by wireless immediately a submarine is sighted in
any British waters.
The health of the bluejackets is excellest. There is no staleress, and there is an absence of everything that does not serve the purpose of war.
Officers and if the German Fleet had ang chanco it was at the beginning of the war. The British Fleet is geuing stronger every month. Methods for countering submarine attacks and destroying them were developed immediately. The Fleet is now ready to give battle the moment the patrol boats report eigns of the enemy.
GERMANS CREATING TROUBLE ÎN PERBIA.
British Consul Wounded.
LONDON, Sept. 7. A telegram from Teberan reports that the British Consul-General at. Ispahaa was attacked and slightly wounded while returning from his morning ride. Az Indian sowar escort was killed..
German agents have been lavishing money and arms in the diesfected regions of western Persis, and the German Legation in Teheran and the German Consulate at Ispahan are literally armed camps.
THE NATIONAL REGISTER.
LosDos, Sept. 7..
The Government has appointed a committee of twenty members, Lord Laulowna as Chairman, to deal with questions arising out of the National Register, including the determination of what trades shall be excluded from *recruiting.
FURTHER. ITALIAN SUCCESSES.
The New York Times says, that four days after Mr. Lansing had refused to grant Austria's request for un embargo on munitions Dumbu was deliberately planning, by secret misus, to secure Austrar's ends by bribing the workmen to strike.
The New York Herald declares that Captain Flonpapen,' the German
Military. Attache, is equally in the mire, and suggests that he should accompany Dumba homewards.
working in the steel works whose duties constitute a crime against their Dumba protests that there are thousands of Austrians and Gernians
countries.
GERMANS ALMOST AT
A STANDSTILL.
LONDON, Sep. &.
A Berlin communique, to sight, says in Amsterdam telegram, shows that the Germans are almost at a stand-still in Russia. General von Hindenburg's armies are held up, Prince Leopold is still fighting in the swamps, and General von Muckensen is fiercely engaged in battle. Nothing is happening in Galicia.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Fursotnen, Augst 4. MUNITIONS ACT, FLOUTED,
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(Reuter's Barušce to the Chína Maik)
IN ANTICIPATION OF THE BUDGET.
LONDON, Sept. 7, 13.45 pait Holders of dutinkle goace în bond, principally tolmoso and son, have begun to efect large olarateof in anticipation | of higher duties in the Budget.
PRINCE ** RANJI " MAKING GOOD PROGRESS.
Lornox, September 7.
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PROPOSED CHANGE OF THE QOVERNMENT : SYSTEM.
PERING Sept, 6.-
At a meeting of the Advisory Council the following bigh officials refused to endorse the proposed change_in_the system of Government-Suen Bo Kee, Chus Nam Fun, Cheong Jun Cheong and Tong Fu Loon.
THE PRESIDENT'S OPINION.
PERINO, Sept: 7.
"At yesterday's meeting of the Ad- visory Council the President's repes- sentative announced that it was not advisable to change the form of Government. "
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Afrin, higypt, East Africa, and China, completing our knowledge of the life history of the "guines" worm and of the parsite which cases** Gelabar swelling. It was in China that he obtained the key to the
zstan bilharz's problem from study of an allled parasite occurring in Bost other than mad Colonel Leiper has row discovered that a mollusc with a shell resembing that of a mail, inhabiting pools and small cana's in Egypt in the cause of infection. The age of the wurm pass from the human host inte water, they then ter the mollase sud undergo process of evolution, and aix weeks later the molluse has become a disseminating centre of dises's,—the Bow, forms produced in the molluse being able sea. No man dare tell me
La enter the bodies of humans through the sacrificing their lives hy romaining skia in bathing or washing. Theza in every cut. I am standing aus for the Trade reason to expect that Colonel Laiper's work Union cause. a perfectly legitimate pill explain the sporadio netrance of ceeding." This man claims to be a patriot bilharsia in Syria, Mesopotamia, East and by osare he has seven relatives doing the South Africa, and Australia, cabling duty by the country just as the shirker of effective tacasure to be taken against the
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Once mo o the people of Scotland har i tairty in "Panch "felt justified in staying spread of the disease, been stirred to the heart's cure by the ad- nephews in the Army. He is antinded at home becuase he had given two patriotis conduct of a section of the workers with the kind of patriotian which puts en the Clyde. And the pity of it is, Trade Union above Country, the shame of it is that at prevent there blatantly of what no man dare tell To-day's Advertisements
And he talks ecome so way of bringing such men to him. There were passages nlay, in the proper reckoning. Thirty-toppersmiths were the culprits; they were concorn-aridence of ir. Turuball, the Union. ed in what a Labour momber Cescribed Secretary which would have been ridiculous ass disgraceful episode their conduct that human nature could stand that was Lambeat even in time of peace. To say. was spoken of by Mr Lloyd George more than they could believethus AS terrible; their punishnisat in Si ir Tarabell moved with indignation so Frederick Hanbury's view, should at least his soul by the idea that men should be be two year hard labour. These modern introduced who were inefficient az copper
Alexander." these descendants of the Famith work. We what was war to a CLUB Orpicas on FRIDAY, the 20th tried before Munitions Tribunal, and, template i roquest that 80 coppersmiths
who did coppersmith me much evil," wars, Trade Union oficial who is naked to con-instant, at 5.15 r.x.h after hearing in which their guilt was abould be faanil fne Government work? completely proved, they were hard in the To ask that," Mr Turnball told paltry eum of Half-a-crown, which, of anuras, was at once paid by their Trades the sky mataplios which may be Court, Liko asking for chease up in Urion The effect of the proceeding understood to convey the deepest of seor especially when we lako isto consideration. What is to follow upon such conduct 1 the simant truculently self-rightonus and LONDON, Sept. 7.1 juulily disrespectful attitude of the meat in a gestion that we are asking cor MJ, A. baddon, in the course of his Presidential address at a Trades and their leiders caninly be desribed alres. If it should be noceavary to treat
en the strikes as the crimes which u Union congress at Bristol, dwelt on war conditions Sympathing with the bringing the Munitions act into open Belgian Labourites be said that their British comrades were determined that contempt
dobbelly they are, then these holly proceedings at the Munitions Belgizm should be restored to them before peace was declared, The contest and sily understood, The engineering and, if these stakar, or their The circumstance of the case are simple reibunal must bear part of the respon death grapple for freedom. Prussian militarism, with its proved rapine,manager in a shipbuilding yard had not like, porsi & a little longer in this disgrace cruelty and murders must be destroyed. He deprecated any aggressive milit enough coppersmiths to enable curtain ful conduct, they will do more than any Soldiers and Suildin”, în uniform" "Half arism in Great Britain, and pointed out that colossal numbers of workmen very important Admiralty erk to be other agency to bring about compulsory Price were with the colours. The workmen were not prepared to be bled by financial overtaken. With the consent of the
Lospor, Sept. 7. A Rome communique states that the Italians in the Pizzo basin attacked and routed the enemy who were ambushed on the slopes, capturing a quantity of booty. The Italians likewise ejected the Austrians from a wood in the upper Izvozo, from which they had been barrassing the Italicus.
TRADE UNIONISM AND THE WAR.
That al
the
E. P. WHITE,
Acting Clerk of the Course, Hongkong, Sept. 8, 1915. HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.
THE FOURTJ GYMKHANA MEET LING of the SEASON Wới be held at Happy Valley SATURDAY. Cite 11th September 11ü,commencing at 3.30 pʊm, for others than Members of the Hoxcrone The Chargs of Admission will be $1,00 Jocs Olbs or GYXKKANA CLUB,
The Committee icvite the Tadion of
altares and the result bad been strikes and the demands for incisused pay: Almaments Commitles be engaged plura.) all through the ansat Hongkong to be premation O These were justified by the unwillingness of employers to disclose their profiteetse do coppereroith's work, whereupon Col Leiper, the specialist po
thirty coppersmithm thinking, like the
SOYTAMAN 'N IMPORTANT DISCOVERY,
Hongkong, Sept. 8, 1915, 176
BANKRUPTCY NOLAZ OF THIS
He asserted that food prices and war profits were the chief cause of the Ephesian Trates Unions that their tropical diseases, who has just returned Jabour unrest, and it was the Government's duty to equalise the burdens of all occupation was gone, left-thei" place and from Hgypt, with an important dissovary of classes. Mr. Seddon sino pointed out proadly how the labourites were in- did not return. They were prosecuted the worm which cases: biljarzineis, the
a violation of the clase in the Munitions, diseny, which has bṣen one of the repurges | 12" THE DAI WO & COMPANY, IKEA, creanog the output of munitions.
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