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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1915
THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
'făcuter's Service to the China Maii.)
THE YASAKA-MARU. AMAZING AIR EXPLOIT,
PERFECT DISCIPLINE."
Loxpoy. Dr. Sh The XXR finer Yourka Maru went down in 13' minates,
They was perfect discipling on the ressol sho"wasin -Vosset of 101,902
tons and was bound from Emo Japan. She was maly buil: last year,
She beta-long passenger ist a valiable cargo. The loss tuy amount to a million pounds sterling Zalling on the insurance parket. according to the papers.
TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING.
The Nippon Yusra Kisha in ward us copies of the folowing telegra -one ranives and the Hand Cilice the Company Tokyo, and be other, fh the Lensión Clive of the Can pay
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Port Sud telegraphs on the 22nd Stet...! "Yasha May 2 porpoked Nakhous warning of Tsday afternoon. Ship sank in tomy-nine minutes. All passend gers and end savel and piszárd og bý ) a French gate at midnigh latest,at! Pors Nail Today! Acommodation S videti "fog passeigers and crew, Have telegempold Loudon Office for jastrues timis. Passengers-express. gra; midhira tion of the skill of the Capeal and Ost zer- and the discipline of the grew. The most pealent nigder was maintained during the dis-emiarkation, which was carried Put with the greatest prsarpditude, a
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GAINS THE VICTORIA CROSS.
LONDON, Dec. 23." An amizing air exploit hai gained the Victoria Cross for Second Lieut. G. 8. Insall. While patrolling in Flanders in
Vickers fighting machine, with mechanic T. B. Donald as gunner, he attacked a German seroplane which led him over a rocket battery. He dived, howover, and fusiladed the tiers
machine. The latter dived through A cloud but the British machine fol- lowed and downed the Garatan ia a ploughed field.
Listt. Inaall, despits heavy German fire, dived again and destroyed the
bomb and returned low, fast ring into German ranchine with an inecadiary
the German trenches, finally gaining the British finos.
The Germeas fired 150 sheils the machine while it was on the ground, but it home safely.
got
BRITAIN'S FINANCIAL RESOURCES;
MÜNIZESTO BY FINANCIM. LEADERS
bospos, Dec. 23. A panileste to the nation, simed e sigiteen of the leading banker and hiers, declares that the mobilisation of the whole of the nation's financial resources must now be undertaken with edge ad, vigne. With everyone anxious to his hit in financing they "War it Losbos, Des, 23, ein ant will be recomplished, and Yesala Marull passengers, frew, ultimate victors will be assotel" saved," Handed Tart Said. Arrangements The manifesto Rays the Allied for forwarding destinations having enery
flects, by the stoppage of the attention.
enemy's foreign commerce, has seriously diminished his financial strength. Simultaneously the Mili- targ simngth of the, Allies ashore has steadily, increased.........
ITO.
CASUALTIES AT THE
DARDANELLES.
LONDON, Dec. 25.
There is only one thing needed to secure victory, amely to provide
THE BALKANS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
IMPENDING GERMAN OFFENSIVE.
GRECO-BULGARIAN INCIDENT.
THRAE HOURS' ENGAGEMENT.
PEACE TALK IN THE SWISS PARLIAMENT.
BENNE, Dec. 23,
BALSAMIC
COUGH LINCTUS
The mild and soothing infusues which this proparation has, classes it arooms
ATHENS, Dec. 22 Replying to a Socialist Interpellation: ATHENS, Dec. 1.
Codicial details at the Korite suggesting that the Federal Council The Central Powers are concen incident state that a Bulgarian detach-bould offer their good officer for the testing their forces at Gergheli and mens suddenly attacked, on the pretextension of an armistice, or for pay the most valuable of its kind, in eases of Cough, Asthan. Bronchitis, Mortue of are expected to pake the offensive Gesek guards defended, and after a Hoffman, baad of the Political Depart-phe'gm, froen ita Tonia and Astringent virtaas it prevents its formation, and allays of pursuing a small Serbian force. The a way to peace negotiations, Breathing or Didianity of Expectoration; and while it removes the sedumulation of " three hours' engagement the Bulgars out, on behalf of the Council, while irritation of the in beans of the throat ward chat, cun laring, these delicate parts retreated with serious fores, The pathizing with the suggestion, said susceptibls of fature imitation and disease, Government made representations to
that it was foredoomed to tailure, and Germany and Bulgaria, and have besides favoured pass outside inter- it might be misunderstood. Until both assured that the Bulgarian officer responsible will be punished.
ference wodld be prejudicial.
this week.
DEATH OF GENERAL ENMICH,
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23. General Emunich, the victor of Liege, has died at Hanover,
RUSSIAN NAYAL ACTIVITY AT YARNA.
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on the
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FETROGRAD, Dec. 28. authoritatively stated that st inst. two Bussian tor
ENEMY QUIET ON GREEK FRONT:
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SALONIKA, Dec. 23.
The situation at the front is station- aty. The enamy has not you abdwr signs of invading Greek ter tory.
ADVANCES TO BRITISH FIRMS,
LONDON, Dec. 23.
probots chased, a Bulgarian tor Kenna announced that the Treasury,
In the House of Commons, Mr. M&" Pulo-bout into the bay of Varie the early days of the war-advanced where the coast batteries fired in £200,000,000 in the United Kingdom to enable firma to meet their obligations. thutively on the pursuers.
During the raid
Eighty-two per cent of this had been two Turkish repaid. petrol ships were sunk and the crews captured.
THE FORD PEACE EXPEDITION,
DEATH OF ONE OF THE COMPANY,
CHRISTENSIA, Dec. 23. Mr. Lloyd Kinghau, Manager of the New York Theats, a member of Mr. Fort's Peace Expédition, las died of pneumonia.
FURTHER ADVANCE AT HARTMANN HEILER.
PARIS, Dec. 23.
A comannique says there has been artillery grenade activity except a Hartmoonsweiler where the French right advanced the day long. The position on the left wing is unchanged.
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AMERICA, AND AUSTRIA.
FLAS AMERICA SENT" AN ULTIMATUM:
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. The newspapers unanimously declare
that the United States has sont un
ultimathm to Austria.
ANOTHER SPY ARRESTED.
obtain information regarding Canadian military activities.
In the House of Commons Mr. money to support the vast new Tegumat announced-that the casitalarinies and pay for the vast quan arrested on a charge of attempting to bies of the 11th December, including ties of munitions which are being "Naval chaualties was 112,921, of whom 1.000 oficers and 23.670 inön wer filled or had died.
anfactured everywhere.
It will be a world tusk finding the i moriense sums needed by the Allies,
The sick received into the band it devolves specially on the pitals between April 25th and British people, whose manufacturing "Dember 12th numbered 96,683,
The wounded numberel 2,000 om- cers and 72,222 men.
power is unimpaired by invasion, whose cities are not destroyed, whose income is undiminished and whose
The pissing numbered 1937 officers; exports are still greater than they rad 12,114 mets.
There was every hope of sickness decreasing.
V.C. GAINED IN EAST AFRICA.
Losnes, Dec, 29.
Tin Victoria Cross has beef con- "ferred on Lieut. Wilbur Dartnell of
the Frontismen.
.
were ten years ago
I will be a stupendous taxit mis- ing sixteen hundred millions in the current fiscal year and eighteen hun. tired millions in the next fiscal year; it will try the nettle of the nation to the utmont, and demand the strensous co-operation of every in
ividual, and the concentration of their energies solely on the produe tion of essentials. All classes dust liusband their insouse most carefully.
Ad
THE CHANGE IN THE COMMANDS.
Turing a mounted infantry engage- ment at Maktan, Eat Africa, the) enemy got within a few yards; hence it was impossible to rescue the tore severely wounded. Lent. Dutrell was being carried away" gomided. Seeing the situation, and knowing
LONDON, Dec. 23. that the enemy's black troops killed Mr. Tennant, replying in the the wounded, he insisted on being House of Commons to a question, left behind in the hope of saving said it was not thought desirable to others. Thus he gave his own life.publish the names of "officers who,
THE MUENSTER EXPLOSION.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23.
; The Telegraaf states that 100 per soas, mostly wives and children of soldiers at the front, were killed in the Muenster explosion.
TARRED AND FEATHERED,
A MELBOURNE INCIDENT.
22 MELBOURNE, Dec. 28.
mep invaded the offices
A party of
of the Clerks' Union and tarred and
feathered the mover of a resolution
had been relieved of cornmand at the front. None had been cashiered.
THE POSITION AT ADEN.
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LONDON, Dec 28. Mr. Chamberlain, replying in the House of Commons to a 'question,
wounded.
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PENSIONED BUBADAR MAJORS HONOURED.
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LONDON, Dec. 28. The following pensioned Subadar Majors, formerly belonging to the regi ments indicated, bave been Gazetted Honerary Captains in recognition of valuable services rendered during the war-Giz Dhari, formerly 4ud. Regt, Sur Ja, 48th. Regt, and Kudhan Al Khan, 109th. Regt.
AN INVESTITURE.
LONDON, Dec. 23. His Majesty the King, at Fucking- ham Palaor, invested Lieut-Gen. Sir Arthur A. Barrett a Knigh; Com- mander of the Star of India..
(lavas Service.)
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The President of the French Republic yesterday signed a Decree authorizing the natives of the French Colonies and Dominions to contract an engagement for 13 years in a Corps of the Army determined by the Secretary of War and outside their Colony. This Decree is to be put into force in Indo-China, Mada- gascar, Cantral Afrien, Somaliland Coast, New Caledonia and Oceania.
WAR AND NEUROTIC WOMEN.
HEALTH IMPROVED BY HARD WORK.
Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser lectured in The following have bean Gazetted London ou "Woman's Health and Fitness" Honorary tenants: Shahw at the Institute of Hygiene. Ahan, 108th. Regt. Sitarame Sogloverage can considered entirely suitable She said that the one occupation the 117th. Regt, and Rira Singh, 14ch Regt.
FOMENTING STRIKES IN
AMERICA.
LABOUR LEADER'S TESTIMONY
NEW YORK, Dec.,,. Mr. Gompers, President of the National Labour Union. testified before the Federal Grand Jury that what he had seen in the way of the fomenting of strikes was not only morally wrong but exceedingly likely to lead America into war.
FURTHER INCREASE OF FREIGHTS PROBABLE,
for women was that of charring. It was a Temarkable fact that the collective health of the women of the country under the hard work and strain of the present time improving. They had, therefore, one more toavanti gaiding, their neither delicate nor fragile. sex in the melting plot. Woman was She was tough and resistent Where were all the neurotic women, to-day 1 Most of them more cured and cheerily doing their is in hospitals, depots, canteena, and munition because the neurotic woman had works, generally considerable energy past had no part of atlet Indeed the which in the leisured, protected or economically useless woman never had a chance before to show what she could do. Sinety per cont of the nurses of the country would play a 500 4 part as Nurse Cavell if the opportunity served.
The first duty of many woman was to stay in their own houses sad look after the
GOVERNMENTS HEAVY DEMANDS. chidian, because there never was a time
LONDON, Dec. 23.
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when child-life was as valuable sa Bow." She once heard is said that a baby was worth £5 torte State. They might. now The Times thinks that freights may put it at £100 at least, and with every still rule higher if the Government's the child its was noto and more valuable NEW YORK, Dec. 23.
⚫present heavy demands on the met- so that the woman who was rearing lour An Irishman named Justice, an contile marine recur. The regular lines or are children in the home and doing it employee of a steamabip "company Times Cation of the theright that she must koop herself up to a fair lovel well was working for the nation, a do which is a subsidiary company of the The Times "estimates that the total of hanith and Russ Hamburg-Amerika Linie, has been Government service is equal to the biological, and a social value. The economic
amount of British shipping now in Every wonnu had an economic. whole of the tierman shipping before value depended on her efficiency as a the war. The profits of British owners worker. Trained women, other things are enormous, though they are leas being equal, were the more valuable than what neutrals are making. How was concerned with her health, her ability national asse. A woman's biological value ever, the withdrawal from Gallipoli to bear and rear children of a ting type. should relieve the situation, which is Women must therefore realize their duty go acute that the Government, cannot of keeping at their highest pitch of health, ignore it.
and they must better safeguard the expectant mother, married or unmarried. The woman's social value lay in bar power of sympathy and service. Much had been asked of women, and more would be asked in the months to come, any occupations, in the past followed by men, could be undertaken by women. Women "could take the place of curates, releasing them for such work as dritingambaliness er helping in hospitals.
DECORATION FOR AN INDIAN HAVILDAR.
» London, Dec. 23. The Indian Order of Merit of the second class has been confarred on. Havildar Abakhan, of the 40th Pathana fer gallantry and distinguised service in France.
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CONSTANTINOPLE DYNAMITE DEPOT EXPLODED.
AMSTERDAM, Dec, 23,
mite depot, whereby 15 persons were
killed and a number wounded."
CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES,
.PROMISES TO BE MUST ÖHEERFUL.
LONDON, Dec. 23. Beuter's correspondent at Head- quarters in France atates that though
the weather is depressing, Christmas in To-day's Advertisements |
NOTICE.
the British trenches promises to be most cheerful. The trenches are quite com- fortable when compared with what they. were in 1914, and the troops are addi- An official telegram from Constanti tionally conscious of their superiorityR C. J. HAMMES, Export and nople reperta an explosion at a dyna-over the enemy. The authorities have ears. ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., of Import Merchant, representing arranged for fue distribution of Christ Shanghai, Copenhagen and New York, mas puddings to the entire army,
There will be certainly no amenities, and nothing in the nature of a truce. All the British ranks are bidden to remember that war is war, and that the Germans invariably have a sinister motive in all they do, especially under the guise of friendly, sentiment. The admonition is unanimously and cordially approved in the trenches."
EARLIER TELEGRAMS. (Reuter'e Service to the China Mail.
MILLION MORE MEN.
NECESSITY FOR ADEQUATE RESERVES.
LONDON, Dec. 23. The House of Commons has agreed to vote an additional million men,
Mr. Tennant, in the course of the dis- cussion, said he hoped that the number of young, unmarried men who had not yet come forward would be negligible, He believed that the great majority of the country; and a large proportion of the Members of Parliament
ware
said the position at Aden had not prepared to support the Government changed for half a year. On the if it was found necessary to resort to 20th inst there was a skirmish in compulsion. Referring to the necessity which the enemy lost ning killed and for adequate reserves, Mr. Tennant ono prisoner, and we had one mentioned that the wastage at the
front was fifteen per cent. monthly,
THE LATE SIR THOMAS JACKSON.
LONDON, Dec. 23.
·Sir Thomas Jackson died suddenly Hongkong and Shangai Bank, while transacting business at
· ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.
LONDON, Dec. 20.
which was passed at a meeting in The Press Bureau states that the Town Hall on the 17th inst. Headquarters reports artillery acti requesting Trade Unioniste to divity, at many points in the hat regard the recruiting circulais.
twenty-four hours, especially about
HEAVY TURKISH LOBBES.
PETROGRAD, Deo. 23.
the
THE INDIAN ARMY.
PAY OF OFFICER, PRISONERS.
bogs to anpoance that he has established himself with Offices at OLO POFT OFFICE Bumps, Fodder Street, Hoogkong.
Eongkong, Dec. 24, 1915.
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FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.
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By Order,
A. R. LOWE,
Becretary. Songtong, Dec. 24, 1915,
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LONDON, Dec. 23. Io the House of Commons, Mr Cham- officers who are prisoners of war receive, berlain said that the Indian Army
after sixty-one daye on fall Indian pay, British pay and allowances, or Indian MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Army leave pay, whichever was the greater. It was not considered that any alteration would be required.
DUTCH EDITOR RELEASED.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 22. Dr. Schroeder, Editor-in-Chief of the Telegraaf, has been released,
GERMANS DEPRESSED BY REICHSTAG DEBATES.
OF HONGKONG.
XMAS HOLIDAYS:
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By Order,
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It has been wind successfully in many Muz sings inflicted very heavy losses on the trom their party, and formed an in other injurious substances it is perfectly Twenty one Socialiste have receded | epídaníice and sa it contrium nó surcotio or Turke near Olty.
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