THE WAR IN EUROPE.
INTERNATIONAL SITUATION MORE ACUTE.
SERVIANS AND AUSTRIANS FIGHTING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
EXTREME TENSION EVERYWHERE
LONDON, July 30th. There is extrenie tension everywhere. Sir The British Cabinet is sitting. Edward Grey, the Foreign Minister, was F lato arrival owing to u prolonged conference with the German Ambassador: STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith seid that the situation was one of extreme gravity. He could only usefully say that the Government were not relaxing their efforts to do everything in their power to of a possible
eircumscribe the агед condict.
Although Sir Edward Grey was expected to make a statement he did not speak.
Ju the House of Lords, Viscount Morley said that the Powers were actively com municating with a view to averting war beyond the area primarily concerned.
The Cabinet sat for over two hours, after which Mr. Asquith, Mr. Churchill, Sir Edward Grey, and Lord Haldane
conferred.
SERVIAN MILITARY MOVEMENTS. According to news from Vienna, there are big conzentrations of Servian troops, and Servian acroplanes are scouting the frontier.
A Montenegrin Brigade, with artillery, near Prisog, is supporting Servian..
RUSSIA PARTIALLY MOBILISEIY
Router learns that Russia bas partially mobilised in the South and South-West of the country. This does not necessarily imply a rupture. It is hoped that some
under Power will yet bring about un atanding,
BOMBARDMENT OF BELGRADE. VIENNA, July 30th.
It is semi-officially feported that the Servians yesterday morning destroyed the bridge over the Danube connecting Semlin and Belgrade.
The Austrians bombarded the Servian positions, and compelled the Serviane to evacuate them.
Two Serrian steamers, laden with ammunition and mines, have been captured.
BELGRADE REPORTED TO BE IN FLAMES.
The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mo states that Belgrade was in flames after the bombardment, and that the Palace was damaged.
The Athens correspondent of the Daily Telegraph correspondent states that there. was an artillery due at Vichniza, which is five miles dow the river from Belgrade.
WAR-FEVER IN RUSSIA.........
ST. PETERSBURG, July 30th. The war-fever is growing, and thou sands of people demonstrated here and at Odessa during the day and in the evening, cheering England and France, OVATION FOR SERVIAN OFFICERS.
Twenty thousand people gave an ova- tion to the Servian officers who were departing for Belgrade.
"THE DIE HAS BEEN CAST."" The Russians consider that the die has been cast and that only a miracle will avert war.
In the event of war the Tsar will be Generalissimo.
There was a patriotic demonstration at Moscow upon the departure of Servian officers, who were shouldered to the rail- way carriage which was heaped with flowers.
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GERMAN TROOPS MOVING.
BERLIN, July 30th.
The Geraian troops are moving in response to a Russian advance towards Wirballen.
GERMAN MINISTERS IN
·CONFERENCE.
BERLIN, July 30th, There was a conference until midnight von Bethmann - Hollweg. between Dr.
and Prussian Imperial Chancellor Premier, Herr von Jagow, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Admiral von Tirpitz, Secretary to the Navy, and the high
Naval and Military officers.
THE BRITISH FLEET.
LONDON, July 30th..
I is officially announced that no British mobilisation has been ordered. Military and Naval measures have beeri taken meroly
precautionary and dofensive.
AY
The First Fleet has left Portland under sealed orders, bands playing Thearts of Oak and the crews cheering.
ACTIVITY AT MALTA,
MALTA, July 30th.
It is stated that a precautionary stage of mobilisation has been ordered. There has been much activity in the dockyard, where work has been proceeding all night.
All leave has been cancelled. :
FRENCH PRESIDENT WELCOMED
HOME.
ат
President Poincaré was given enthusiastic welcome in Paris on his from his visit to Russia and
return Scandinavia.
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION:
In the House of Coraimons, - the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George) announced that he had consulted with the Bank of England, and was advised that it was neither necessary nor advisable ́at present to call a meeting of the Bankers to deal with the financial situation.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 31ST, 1914.
[DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD":
SERT IOB)
MANIFESTO BY THE AUSTRIAN
EMPEROR.
[“DER OSTASIATISORER LLOYD
SERVION.)
THE BRITISH ATTITUDE.
LONDON, July 29th. The German note of reply to the pro- The Emperor Franz Josof, has issued posal for an Ambassadors Conference manifesto to his peoples, deeply regret-intimates non-acceptance in friendly ting, that he, at his great age, is forced terms and has not raised any ill-humour to take up the sword against an enemy in England. Even the Times and the filled with hatred, and who must be Daily Mail acknowledge the friendly bidden to stop his nefarions actions spirit of the reply and say that Germany's and attempts at murder. Tho provoca-
reasons for refusing were good tions by Servin must ceass. A last
Popular opinion in England is attempt in this direction had failed and
preponderalingly quiet over the deciara- it had now become necessary to obtain tion of war against Servia, and nowhere
arme., His guarantees by force of Majesty expresses a calm confidence in the Stock Exchange.
is the wish for war noticeable, except at
the just cause of Austria and the strength" and devotion of her peoples, who, he says,
are always ready to make heavy sacrifices for the sake of the Vaterland. RUSSIAN MOBILISATION ON THE
·SOUTHERN FRONTIER."
BERLIN, July 29th. The Russian Government, has
now
officially informed the German Govern, ment of the Russian mobilisation along
tho Southern frontier.
Germany has only provided for guards on the railway lines on the eastern sind western frontier.
MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN RUSSIA AND FRANCE.
CHARLOTTENBORG, July 20th, In spite of Russian dementis, greater military preparations are taking place from the interior of Russia westward. The railways and steamers on the Volga are engaged in transport work. The Finnish Skerries have been closed to private traffic.
The Helsingfors lights are extinguished. In the Baltic provinces also military preparations are taking place. The
mouth of the Duna River has been closed with mines The railways no longer accept private freight.
The French also are making prepara
The tions on the Eastern Frontier. soldiers are being held in quarters. War material is being transported towards the German frontier.
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The opinion of Germany is, therefore, that the situation is growing more acute. Holland and Belgium have begun to take measures to protect their neutrality,
KAISER AND TSAR EXCHANGE- TELEGRAMS.
CHARLOTTENBURG, July 25th. T.M. the Kaiser and tho Tsar have Consols closed yesterday at 71.
exchanged telegrams on the subject of he The money exchanges are absolutely
present situation. These telegrams disorganised. Cheques in Paris have crossed and their contents are unknown. slumped, the quotation ranging from 24.50 to 24.90 francs. Discounts are
nominal. The discount on three months'. bills- varies from 4-toa per cent. An advance of 1 per cent: in the Bank rate is expected to-day”
The St. Petersburg and Amsterdam Bourses have closed.
LATER.
The Bank of England discount rate now stands at 4 per cent.
BRITISH BUSINESS FAILURES.
Up to the present there have been seven- failures in London, and two in Glasgow, of which were of moderate some importance.
Three of the failures announced prove to be fairly big.
[Received at Mulnight.]
MOBILISATION PROCEEDING IN RUSSIA.
ones..
The Conservative newspapers, declare that England could not remain neutral if France should became entangled,
The British fleet has been kept together precautionary measure and an independently ordered concentration at Portsmouth took place, the men receiving no leave.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST
PIRACY:
LOCAL LAW TO BE AMENDED. At the next meeting of the Legislative Council Bill will be introduced in con- nection with piracy precautions. The Bill is entitled, An Ordinance to amend the laws relating to the observance. of precautions againat piracy."
The Objects and Reasons are — The Launch and River Trade Steamer (Protection against Piracy) Ordlannce, 1900 as amended by the Steum Launch and River Ordinance, 1913, provides for the giving of Trade Steamer (Protection against Piracy) security by the owners, agents, charterers or licencees of launches and river trade stenmors for the observance of reasonabic precautions against the commissions of pirney or robbery on or in respect of such launches or river trade steamers, their curgs or their passengers, and it gives power to a Magistrate in certain cases to order the security given to he estreated. It has, however, been found to be defective in several respects.
ships which are exposed to piratical attacks. In the first place it does not apply to all but only to launches and river trade stormers as therein defined.
In the second place the power of the Magistrate to order the security to bot estreated can be exercised only when a piracy or robbery has notually been com mitted, though it is obviously desirable that it should not be necessary to wait for the getual commission of a pirney or robbery before taking proceedings against a person who has failed to observe the precautions against pirney which he undertook by his bond to carry out. ARA
In the third place it fails to provide for the giving of any notice to the owners, or licencees of any agents, charterers proceeding with a view to the estreating of the security given, or for the furnishing to such owners, agents, charterers or licencees of any opportunity of showing cause against such order.
The present Bill accordingly provides that a bond shall be required in the case of any launch or ship as therein defined bich is about to proceed on a voyage to Amy Macao, Kwong Chau Wan, Hoihow or Hai. phong or to any place in the two Kwongs; that the power of a Magistrate to order the forfeiture of the sum spented by the boud shall not be liarited to cases where a piracy has actually occurred but shall be exerciseable whenever a breach has occurred Russia has mobilised the Army Corps at the condition of hand; sud that the persons by whom the hond shall have been Odessa and Moscow...
entered into shall have an opportunity of showing cause before any ardor of forfeiture
RUSSIA MOBILISING,
THE KAISER IN CONFERÈNCE.
BERLIN, July 30th.
is made.
MILITARY COMMANDS IN INDIA.
LIBUT. -GENERAL ANDERSON MENTIONED, AS CHIEF OF STAFT.
INTIMATIONS
OUR TEETH.
Has no one been struck by the fact that, îu.
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the back tooth, frequently become decayed and hollow? Is not that a convincing proof that tooth powders and tooth-pastes entirely inadequate for the purpose? Oar teeth are not so obliging as to decay only in places where we can conveniently reach them with powders or pastes,
SIMLA, July 14th. The London Times is premature in appointing Six Porey Lako to succeed spite of the regular daily cleansing with tooth- Anderson to succeed Sir Percy, though Sir James Willcocks and Lieut-General | powders and pastes, the teeth and particularly
neither selection is in any way impossible, As a matter of fact, however, nothing is yet definitely settled and as. Sir James the Northern Army until next October Willcorks does not vacate command of
there is some time before the announce- mont need he made. As regards the inherent probabilities in connection with the filling of these coveted appointments. however, one) noticed. In the first place although Sir or two points may be
Percy Lake is standing next on the Indian gradation list to the two army On the contrary, it is just. in those localities commantlers and is a most likely selection which are difficult of access, snok as the backs for one or other of these posts, it must be of the molars, the interstices between the teeth, remembered that his appointment to the in the hollows and trucks where decay and Northern command would break the con- destruction of the teath appear most frequently, tiquity of the very fair arrangement and are most likely to occur. In consequence, whereby this appointment ordinarily if anyone wishes to preserve his teath intact- alternates between the British and Indian cocks belong to the former. services. Both he and Sir Jumes Will- On the other hand it would not be possible to appoint any Indian army officer (not already an army commander) to the Northern command without for two years interfering with the also Very fair understanding that as a general rule the two commands are not to go to the sume. service, General Nixon, who belongs to the Indian army, not vacating until October, 1916 This objection, of course, world for apply to the transfer of
that is to say, to keep them healthy--- this can be effected in one way only: by daily cleansing and rinsing the mouth and teeth with the Hiquid antiseptic dentifrice Odol. During the process of rinsing this pre- paration
penetrates overywhere, reaching alike the tollows in the teeth, the interstices between them, and the backs of the molars, Odol orrests all bacterial and fermentation processes which destroy the teeth. It follows that everyone “who dres
General Nixon to the Northern command Odol regularly morning and night protects and there is a precedent for this easy his trath from decay and preserves them until solution of the difficulty in the transfer-late in life.
some years ago of General Barrow front the Northern to the Southern command. It is therefore a contingency which is There at least possible in this case, would be a vacancy in the Southern com- mand for which Sir Percy Lako would
be entirely eligible. As regards the CHS. J. GAUPP
Elling of the chief of the staff, this appointment, being now held by an officer of the British service, would go in the ordinary course to the Indian army if it Commander-in-Chief belongs to tho were not for the fact that the preact Under the circumstances the British army have a prior claim and General Anderson's recent promotion to ligutenant genorul makes him. highly eligible.
latter.
INVESTMENT AND IMPERIAL DEVELOPMENT.
The following is taken from United Journal Empire, the Royal Colonial Institute
& CO.,
WATCHMAKERS
AND
JEWELLERS.
SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL
INSTRUMENTS.
SUN GLASSES.
This year's Empire number of the Financier contains an important addition to other admirable features in the form of an article on Imperial Investment" which treats of the mutual benefits arising from the export of capital from the home- ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS, land to the Dominions and Dependencies. The iter, who accepts Sir George Paish's recent calenlation of the magni- tude of British investments abroad, of which there is documentary evidence, en- phasises the obvious advantages to our own people at home accruing from the export of capital, which takes place | SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE. almost entirely in the form bf products of our manufacturing and commercial enterprises, and the correlative stimulus: such support gives to the primary indus tries of the Dominions who repay interest on loans advanced by the mother country in the shape of goods and the richest produce of every latitude ever poured
Representatives
LTD..
LONDON.
J
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
CHAICA ROAD,
into our ports, furnishing food for our MAPPIN & WEBB. people and raw materials for our indus tries." The investor gains in security by a wider geopraphical distribution of his capital, and the Dominion and Depen- dencies reap the benefit of loans at a comparatively lower rate, which does much to promote the prosperity of onr kinsmen overseas. "There is no Colonial State but recognises that cheap borrowing facilities constitute one of the most valuable assets of the Imperial connec tion." The extent to which the overseas Empire is indebted to the investment of It also provides that if any inch or ship the mother country's savings is shown by in respect of which no bond has been given the estimate that of the grand total of proceeds on any voyage which can lawfully £3,700,000,000 of British capital invested be made only if a boud has been entered into abroad no less than £1,779,995,000 is the master and owners shall be deemed to employed within the confines of the be guilty of a misdemeanour, and it gives Empire for purposes of government, rail- the Harbour Master power to refuse a way constraction, industrial develop- clearance to any lunch or ship which he ments, municipal loans, and for the has reasonable grounds to anticipato in about financing of those enterprises which are to proceed on any such vayage without a
opening up the Empire's resources of mine, forest, and field. The trend of The regulations to be made under the investment, it is pointed out, is also in Ordinance will, like those now in force, the right direction: more and more require guards to be carried, but these The German Press comments on 30 guards will in future be engaged and trained capital is seeking employment within the
A conferoner lasting far into the night took place between H.M. the Kaiser, the Imperial Chancellor, the Foreign Secre tary and the Heads of the Military De- partments.
AGGRESSIVE CHARACTER OF THE bond,
RUSSIAN MEASURES.
address of the Czar to the young naval officers to the effect that great happenings are expected, and that they should act for the glory of Russia. This shows the gravity of the situation, which is con- The tinually growing more critical. Press is emphatic in declaring that the Russian measures are of an aggressive. character and it declares that the thought that Germany desires to attack Russia is -against- reason,
and pail by the Police Department, and will be appointed to the various Inunches and ships as required. This Bill accordingly provides that the owners of the Isunchos and ships required to carry guards shall be table to pay to the Goverment in respect of each guard carried such sam per month ay may I fixed by the regulations.
The Bill also legalises the searches neces say for carrying out the contemplated precautions. against pirney..
tion.
CALDBECK
more wider MACGREGOR&C
378,776,000
Empire. Indeed, last year, for the first time in our financial history, the total amount furnished to aid the development of our oversea possessions exceeded that supplied to all foreign countries, the figures being nearly £90,000,000 29 against £98,000,000. The geographical distribu- tion of the home country's capital invested within the bounds of the empire is given in a short table which is worth reproduc It also makes it a misdemeanour to give Canada and Newfoundland... £814,807,000 any order, or make any threat, or hold out India and Ceylon any inducement, or exert any pressure or South Africa
Australia offer any advice, which might have the effect of infuencing any person to fail to observe New Zealand any of the provisions of the Ordinance or West Africa of any regulations made thereunder.
-Straits Settleinents. The Bill does not apply to any vessel not
British North Borneo exceeding 60 tons which is being used for
Hongkong Sig. Laccatti, formerly an opponent of pleasure purposes only, and the Governor-
in-Council is given poter to exempt any Other Colonies the Triple Alliance, says in the Corriere vessel or class of vessel from its provisions. The Emperor Francis Joseph and the della Sera: “Austria's demands on Ser
The bond is ons to be eatened into hy the Archduke Charles Louis, the Heir Previn are just, and Russia's intervention in conditioned for the observance of all abroad of
owners, agents, charterers, or licencees, and Out of a total investment regulations for the time being in force under sumptive, are returning to Vienna.
the Ordinance. The form of bond is given in a Schedule to the Bill.
LONDON, July 30th.
Mobilisation is proceeding in fifty
two of the Governments of Russia.
There are 78 Governments in Russia, and
21 Provinces. Of the 79 Governments, 49 are
The Black Sea lights have been in European Emsin proper, 10 in Poland, extinguished
KAISER AND TSAR EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS:
The Kaiser and the Tsar have exchanged telegrams on the situation.
AN ITALIAN OPINION.
therefore unjust
HOHEMIA AND HER TREATY OBLIGATIONS.
proposal by Professor Bohemian National
Acting on a Pantaleoni, the
eight in Finland, seven in Caucasus, and four in Siberia. Some of the Governments or Provinces are united into General Govern ments. At the head real, there Federation passed a resolution pledging Government is a Governor-General, presentative of the Emperor, who, as such, its faithfulness to treaty obligations, as has the supreme control and direction of all affairs, whether civil or military:]
being a matter of honour.
370,012,000
332,112,000
84,334,000
37,305,000
27,203,000
5,820,000
-3,104,000 26,189,000
1,770,995,000
3,700,000,000
(ESTABLISHED 1864).
THE NEW SUMMER DRINK
-OLD ENOUGH IN EUROPE,
BUT ALMOST UNKNOWN IN
HONGKONG!
MARTINI VERMOUTH
AND
ICED WATER.
The properties of a good Yarmouth reader
The Manila Railway Company (1906) A "skip" is any vessel over 60 tons in (Limited) announces an issue of £400,000 the propulsion of which any use is made of five per cent, debenture stock (the balance any mechanical means other than cars and anissued of an authorized amount of sails, and launch" is any such vessel £1,000,000) at 90. The stock is repayable it highly beneficial as a Tonio and appetiser; not exceeding 60. tous.
at par on June 1st, 1939. The Company The Bill contains a clause suspending the has the power to redeem at par the stock by taking it with Ised Water a refreshing opnication of His Majesty's pleasure there drawings) and also to purchase any of the drink just "long" enough is obtained, operation of the Ordinance until the
or any part thereof (to be determined by upon, and providing that if approved it stock at any time in the open market at a shall not come into operation until a date price not exceeding par. to be fixed by proclamation by the Governor.