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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1816
THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mai)
WRECK OF THE ABETAUSA
STRIKES A MINE.
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Texnos, Pub. L The Admiralty announces that the "cruiser Arbinsa, commanded he „Car måden Tyrwhitt, struck a mine on the East Const, and it is foured thes she will becermerin total wiek. Bons ten men lost their lives,
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TheArethusa is one of a class of twenty light attentred cruisers which
ALL SINGLE MEN CALLED UP.
› Lásnés, Feb. 144. A Proclamation has been issued falling up all single men.
GERMAN COMPANY SURROUNDED AND DECIMATED.
REMNANT SUBDENDERS.
Fagis. Feb. 4.
THE
RUSSIAN CAPTURES
· AT ERZERUM.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 14.
A communique states: We captured the Erzerum fort, in which an explosion had already been reported, taking many prisoners, six guns and quantities of munitions.
RUSSIA'S NOTABLE CAPTURES IN PERSIA.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 14. "The Government has decided that the Turkish Ambassador, who, was captured near Keredje, shall be sent to Turkey and the Austrian Military Attaché will be sent to Russia as a prisoner of war.
THE LOST FRENCH AUXILIARY. CRUISER
REPOUT CONFIRMED.
PARIS, Feb. 14. The loss of the French auxiliary crainer Amiral Chart is confirmed
raft was picked up off the coast of “A communique -ammes that South-Syrix with 15 seamen on it, only one of wand of the Schme a French attack them alive. He said tha: the craise was mile at dusk on German works.
was torpedoed on February 8th and near Frise. They occupied sohe
nak in a fav minutes. The crew ware anable to launch the boats.
11. Churchill has described as "destroy-pettims of the German trenches. ets of destro." They displace 3
DA, are $10 feet long and have antiinca |
A counter-atturk was mown down
a 17,000 b... giving a good of aby the French fire. krows. The ass was rertipkodi is DR. The Armament consists of two Chin, six
2 German corn- We symounded 4iz, and tar ninchin uns with toany, decinating it. The captain torpedo Estlies. There is a bet of and seventy survivors. surrendered.. We also took offer prisoners and
armour amidships with pin. plating abaya this we be ifers are fired entirely by a full, which about, 750 tons are carried. "The copyplement armbers alvat 1270 oflaws and men.
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The Arthusa played the principal part in the first raval engagement of Heligoland on August 28th 1914. The operation was a sesspiaz movement by A strong fome of destroyers hended by tha" Arshipsy to sui, the Gorman fight craft from bone and cagage them a leianny in the open sea. The "Arethusa leading line of destrovira was ārst attackedly two German endisers and was sharply ngaged for misus as a range of about 1,000 garis with the real that she stained some damage
dad camnities, he drove off the two German cruise one of which she seri ously injured will be hiach znas later in the morning, she engaged at intervals twe other fieru vessels who were encountered in the confused hting which followed and fh company with the "Fearless and the light erniser squal dras contributed the sinking of the crir Mainz."
TheArethusa alus kok part in the fight in the North Sea in January Lash year when Admiral Patty's fleet sank Blucher" and crippled several other German ýmiserá,
the German erniser
INTERNED GERMAN LINERS...
TO DASH FOR LIBERTY,”
MORE AIR-RAIDS IN ITALY..
MILAN, Feb. 24.
CHINA MAIL.
PRESIDENT WILSON CONSENTS TO STAND AGAIN,
Wasgisaror, Feb. 14. President Wilton has formally consented to stand again for the Presidency,
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Beuter's Service in the 'China Mail,
ABORTIVE EFFORTS AGAINST RUSSIANS.
ENEMY USING ASPHYXIATING" HAND GRENADES...,
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FRINOGRAD, Feb-14. A communique says there has been force artillery fighting in the Riga region. The Germans attempted an attack near Jacob-stadt, but the Rus sians rushed out of their tranches and repaleed them.
The Germans ara vising saphyxisting hand grenades in the Dvinsk sector. The Russiaza captured and held against counter-attacks the village of Gar- bune ka, which is important for the protection of Dvinsk,
RUSSIAN PROGRESS AT ERZERUM.
IMACCESSIBLE PASSES FORCED..
PETROGRAD, Feb. 14.
The Russians in the Caucasus, ad- vancing in deep snow, with the tomper- ature 30 below Zero, forced inaccessible Enemy aeroplanes appeared in the passes near Erzerum, and captured 800 forenoon. They were fasiladed by anti-Prisoners, even guns, and much bouty The bombardment of Erzerum con- aircraft guns and were counter-attacked tinues fectively. We caused a great a number of machine guns..
The enemy's dead was "consiler-by Italian airmen. The enemy retired explosion in a fort.
after dropping some bombs, The able.
material damage was alight.. Six civiliáni kere killed and some injured. Į
LATEX. Eight parrons were killed and sixty injured.
STUBBORN FIGHTING,
PARIS, Feb. 14 In Champagne in the course of a German attack eastward from Tahure to the Sommepy Road we exploded,, three mines under the enemy. In our advanced elements his attempts to advance on our support trenches com. pletely failed; notwithstanding serioud German lossed by mines and artillery, the Germans remained in the advances
elementa..
In a furious artillery battle-in Alsace the German infantry took 200 yards of trench, but an immediate counter- attack regained most of the ground.
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS AT SALONIKA.
ATHENS, Feb. 14. Further British reinforcements live arrived at Salonika.
The French are proceeding further norchwürd along the railway.
RUMANIAN MOBILISATION.
Lognox, Feb. 14.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. A French wireless says the his reported that 31 Gemar Rumanian mobilisation is complete, liners in neutral harbours have with calling up one-rew clase. The received the cue to dask, för liberty staff has completed both the Car
pathian and Danube defecess. whenever opportunity offers.
TURKISH REINFORCEMENTS FOR MESOPOTAMIA
A ZEPPELIN IN DISTRESS.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 14.
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Arnes, Feb. 14, Zeppelin 1.20 was observed on the
Formidable Turkisin forces 11th inst. over the island at Mande proceeding towards Mesopotamia fying very low, and slowly, te fem the Durkmeiles. engines silently belig damaged. The airship was steering squibward, bus 2 strong custerly breeze drovę her westward.
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ALLEGED FAILURE OF BLOCKADE.
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Losnos, Feb. 14...
TURKEY AND GERMANY.
DISAGREEMENT IN TURKISH WAR COUNCIL.
PARIS, Feb. 14.
AUSTRIAN SACRILEGE.
THE POPE'S GRIEF,
SHIPPING NOTES”.
AMERICAN STRAMBI SOLD. A Japanese merchant of Kabo has
purchased the American steamer Colun, 1,380 tons gross, owned by the Mexico American SS Co., at the price of Y310,00 Sho is at anchor at Kobe, awaiting delivery to the now owner. She was built in 1899 in Rotterdam.
A. TOTAL LOSS.
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Sexibla memago received hors says that the sis. Kenton Mari No. 3, 3, 178tors, owned by the Inui Gomel Kaisha, which stranded of Seattle recently, soon after her departure for Vladivostok, with rolling stock for the Russian Railway, haa baan abandoned as a total lösa.
NEW SHIPPING SERVICE.
A New York telogram states that the Pacific Mail loor, Pennsylvania, will enter tho service between Hongkong and Kobe
this mouth.
The Penandunia has been in service between San Francisco and Balbos. She is of 2.587 tans net and was recently pur chased by W. R. Grace sad Company for Far Eastern service.
AMISAIÑO STEAMER.
At the roqueap of Mezara, Tatanma and Co., Dairan, owners of the missing steam or Senju. Maru, the Tokyo Goverment, which interrogated the German Government through the U.9. authorities concerned, as to the fate of the steamer, has received the following aDawor The German Govarn ment can furnish no information re the sinking of any Japanese stomer saswering the descriptions of the Senju ar by Garama súborsrine in the Mediterranean." It is now suggested that the stoamer either struck uncharted rooks or ook in the gale of the northern coast of Africa.
OLITION OF . . . ZOPEAN CARGO
SERVICE. The.Daska Shown Kaisha which tents- tively opened last year a European cargo
vico, with the s.s. Malms Maru, 4,401 bone, and Indo Maru, 5,311 tona, has decided to discontinue the service for the time being, a Japanese paper says. It adds that this discontinuation was originally suzented to the Company by the collision of the former vessel with the Faxats Mar last May in tha Mediterranean and also by the mishap in which the latter sustained in the Atlantic, coupled with the increase of war risks on the European route, via Scez.
ABORTIVE ENEMY ATTACKS IN damage to her hull of the Azores Islanda
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The Malay Maru, which is to leave Fort Said shortly, where she has been lying a anchor for the past eight months, will take 'in 20,000 bales of Bombay raw catton for Japan at the request of the Cotton Imper. ters' Union of Japan.
JAPANISE STEAMER CHARTERED.
ARTOIS. -
FIGHTING IN OTHER SECTORS. PARIS, Feb. 14. Last night communique states:-Tha Germans made a series of attacks in Artul The first, which took place in the morning west of Hill 140, was with Japanese tramp steamert chartered by out result. In the afternoon the Get-foreigners through the medium of Messrs Bona, Feb. 14.
mana, after a violent bombardment, Sw, Adams and Co., London, shipping The Austrian airmen who bambed attacked at four different paints. Three brokers which were the first to act as a go- between between Japaness shipowers and Savenna damaged the priceless, VIth were stopped dead by artillery and ride European charterers, amoant to 174.100 fire. The fourth gained a fucting in at and those chartered through other Century Byzantine Church of Apol-first line trench west of Hill 140, bat brokers 160,950 tone: A Japanese liparo
the Germans were immediately ejected sortemporary calculates the financial result by counter-attack, which inflicted in these terms, Granting that s oharterago of 10 shillings is obtained per deadweight. beavy loss.
to, though the rates have passed through series of ups and down during 1015-for iatanes, it quoting 8- from. February to August, then rising to 40- and to 5 the above tonsaga will fetch a nice lamp sum of 71,600,000 per month.
The Pope is most grieved and again appeals to the Emperor Francis Joseph to epare the Churches
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.
FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.
LONDON, Feb. 14. William Gardiner Rigden, William Forony Rigden, and Stanley Rigden, partners in the well-known firm of gluvo maiters, Forones, have been sentenced at the Old Bailey to fine of £500, twelve months and idur months in the second division respec- tively, for trading with the enemy.
THE FORTIFICATION OF THE
PANAMA CANAL.
A German aeroplane was shelled and fell in flames in our lines east of Givenchy.
A German grenade attack south of Frice failed.
Wo bombarded enemy works east of the Uise,
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German artillery was rery active
between Soiseana and Rheims where To-day's Advertisements our artillery rendered abortive infantry attacks which were being prepared.
We took prisoners in a fight in Champagne:
The enemy gained a footing in our advanced trenches east of Tahure,
An enemy attack in Upper Alsace was crushed by our artillery..
GERMAN GUNBOAT SUNK.
HAVRE, Feb. 14,
A Belgian official announcement saya that the German gunboat Hedwig Wiss mann was sunk in a fight in Lake Tanganyika. Two Germans were killed and 21 captored. The Anglo-Belgian The acquisition of more territoryfotillas suffered no losses. at both termini of the Punamia Cuna!!
WASHINGTON, Feb. M.
is recommanded to the War Depart-BRITISH NAVAL MEN IN RUSSIA.
munt by Brigadier General Edwards
to increase the range defences cer responding with the increased rango of modera gang
TION IN CHINA.
WasHsores. Feb. 14. A report of the Department of Commerce says Japanese manufac-
FORCE RECRUITED" FROM ALL PARTS OF EMPIRE.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. –
THE DIVIDEND of 81.00 por Share, "duolar.d at the Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders, held this day, will be PATABLE at the Hongkong, and Shanghai. Banking Corporation, on and after TUES. DAY, the 15th FEBRUARY, 1918,
Shareholders are requested to apply to the Office of the Company for Warrants. By Order of the Board of Directors, W. E. CLARKE,
Secretary Hongkong, Fab. 15, 1916.
THE SANITARY BOARD ELECTION.
TO THE ELECTORS.
ENTLEMEN,
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I bave been requested by a large number
of my friends to offer myself as a candidate at the forthcoming Banitary Board Election
It is stated that after the Turkish defeat in the Caucasus a lively dis A Daily Maile commissioner incussion occurred in the War Council "Holland asserts that British efforts at Constantinople between Enver turers have captured the American farewell from His Majesty the King, prevent commodities entering Pasha and the German General sotton-goods trade in Chine owing to in the reply by the leader of the con- Germany have failed. He cites the
Enver Pasha insisted on the neces-the, better selling and distributing tingent, with a commentary, which meations that the force has been vase of butter of which Great Britain xity of transferring to the Caucasus methods of the Japanese end the recruited from all parts of the Empire, obtained 2,156 tons in 1915 com ho Turkish troops in Thuace and lower prices of Japanese cottons including South Africa.
It says tho only hope of renewed pared with 7,940′ in 1913, anil Ger- Bulgaria, many 36,510 tons in 1915 compared
The Germans, however, declared business lies in improving the quality with 19,023 in 1913. »»
it to be essential that the Turkish of American goods sent to the troops should be kept in Thrace, as Chinese market.
LONDON, Feb, lá. The first namber of the Archangel JAPANESE COMMERCIAL COMPETI-Heralil, the official organ of the R.NA.S. Russian Expedition," received
I was born and edumted in Hongkong, in England shows that several hundred am Bachelor in Burgory and. Bachelor of British Naval men, composing automo Medicine of the University of Hongkong bile squadrons, commanded by Captain and have practiced modico in this Colony Locker Lampson, M.P. arrived in since 1912. During that time my work has taken moe mainly among the middle and Rusia before Christmas,
The Herb contains a message of poorer clames, and I have thus had pacaliar opportunities of realising "the bygienic needs of those who live on the lower lorals and in Kowloon, and of seeing wherein lies the need for Sanitary reform in the Colony as a whole.
I have ends and am making-4 close azdy of Eggiene, and not. mere's from a theoretical point of view: and I venture to
GERMAN PLOTS IN CANADÂ ̈ ́
EVERY PRECAUTION BEING TAKEN.
OTTAWA, Feb. 14.
f:
In the House of Commons, reply:
ing to a demand for precautions co the frontier in view of the revelations
the Salonika front was most import
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FRESH GERMAN TROOPS FOR TURKEY.
Lospos, Feb. 14.-
The Times correspondent at Buk
in San Francisco of Germnuu dyna harest says that 35,000 German inite pots, the Minister of Marine troops have arrived at Bustchuk and aid that every precaution was have proceeded to Shumla, probably being taken. The Government had en route for Turkey.
received an assurance that the Washington Government would not perit the United States to be adde
the base of attacks on Canada.
MR. GRAHAM WHITE.
LONDON, Feb. 14
It is stated that the report
Grabain White has been seriously injured is unfounded.
FIRE AT AN AMERICAN MUNITIONS PLANT.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.
The great munitions "plant of the General Electric Company at Schenec-
CHINESE AFFAIRS.
Wah Taz Yat Po's Service.)
RUSSIAN MINISTER.
TRANSFERRED.
PEKING TO TOKYO,
PEEING, Feb. 14. The Bussian Minister at Peking is being transferred to Tokyo.
REPUBLIC OR MONARCHY?
A BECONSIDERATION.
PRICING, Feb. 14. It is reported that the Government
A recent casualty liat testifies that they have already been in action,
AMERICA AND SUBMARINE WARFARE.
INEXTRICABLE CONTROVERSY."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 147.
The State Department has received the text of Germany's Memorandum regard ing submarine warfare.
"
New Yom, Feb. 14, The papere express the opinion that President Wilson is involved in an in- extricable controversy as the result of the Memorandam following Mr.Lansing's. suggested disarmament of merchantmen. Officals of the State Departinent are quoted as expressing surprise at the aesumption of the Press that the United States has accepted the propcaala” of Germany.
DON'T RISK PNEUMONIA.
ideas and methods, on all claim that
my sanitation questions are practical and up to date. My work as Medical Officer to many age charitable institutions amcogat which are the Blind Home at Kowloon and the 8. Lewis Industrial School (West Point) provides me with an ever increasing stock of valuable experience-
Should you see fit to elect me to the. vacancy rented by. the departure of Dr. Fitzwilliams, I readily pledge myself, to follow the excellent lines laid down by that gentleman-especially in regard to the water-carriage system and other important
an advocate for efficiency combined with strict economy and, if elected, I under take to keep always in mind the general all round welfare of the ratopagers and other inhabitants of Hongkong,
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient sarvant,'
F. M. GRAUA OZORIO,
M.B., B.S.
119 Hongkong, Feb. 16, 1915.
(Continued on page 8.).
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