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GENERAL INFORMATION.
GERMAN SPIES IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, August 10th-
There are numerous accounts of the proceedings of German spies in England 'attempting to poison the water supply, etc. Several Germans aro in custody charged with attempting to blow up railway bridges.
LOYAL AUSTRALIA.
Lusins, August 10th.
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Ainessage from Melbourne say that Brigadier General Bridges will-command-the Commonwealth-Expeditiounty Foren
It has been decided to organisé a emall mixed naval and voilitary fores to serve within or without Australia. This will be distinct from the
: expeditionary force which will be sent to England.
Lieut-Colonel Miller, Secretary for Home Affairs and Adminis trator of the Federal Territory, states that the mobilisation and concentras“ tion of the citizen forces has been carried out satisfactorily.
Lady Munro Ferguson, wife of the Governor-General, has initiated
8 successful movement for the formation of an Australian branch of the Red
Cruss Society:
Sir J. Cook Prime Minister, has deprecated the connterranding of orders by importers, thus spreading distrust, and appeals to exporters and importers to do their business as usual, manifesting hereby their ecn-
Adence in timA VONTUÉTU
FRENCH ENTER NORTH TOGOLAND.
Loypos, August 9th.
3.05 p.m.
is officially announced that the French have entered North
Togoland, German West Africa. -
ANGIO-FRENCH CO-OPERATION IN SEIZING
GERMAN TOGOLAND.
LONDON, August 5th.
11.30 p.m.
It is announced in París that the French Garrison at Grand Pope,
in Dahomey acting in junction with a British cruiser, is taking
possession of German Topoland.
A SECOND ARMY TO BE RAISED IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Losos. August .
11.30
Karl Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, has circularised the Chairmen of the various County Territorial Associations asking thing to co-operate in ruising as we as possible, 140,000 men for the Regular Army, the nich i he accommodated in camps near the existing Regular depots. The circular concludes: This is of an ordinary appeal for recruits, but for the formation of a Second Army,***
PRANCE DESIRES TO KNOW, AUSTRIAS: ÍNTENTIONS.
Lesbos, August ÏT.
11.30 p.m. Believing that Tar of Austria's mobilisation is directed at the French frontier, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs has toki the Austrian Ambasador dat he wishes to be informat of the intentions of
Austria as sa as possitrie.
GERMAN MINISTER TO SERVIA RECEIVES PASSPORTS,
Lospos, August 9th.
6,0% pin.
Servia has handed the German Minister his passports,
BRITISH NAVAL MOBILIZATION.
MANNING OF THE SECOND FLEEW
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11mm, 1914
mobilízation to-nigrrow, hat the majority of them will be drawn from the Devon- port and Nore emniands: The full list is as follows- The Fullowing from a recent London
Partsuriath paper is not without interest at the pre-ers-Good Hope,
Lospus, 14th July.
sett ment
Battleship-Glory, Crais-
Drake.
Leviathan, Minerva, and Tedes
Devonport. Battleships - Prince As there are so many more ships than usnal which require to have their compleGeorge, Cesur, lasteings, Magnificent. ments, brought up to full strength, the Hunnitat: Jupiter, Mars, and Fictorians: Cruisers-f "halfenyőr, Chagytalis, Dinner, Ducis, Religne, Isis, and Pullent.
shilization of the Second Fler rssels
began yesterday. That of the ships in the Third Fleet is fixed for tomorrine, andi tie crews of the Patrol Flotillas wilf be completed on Friday. With few excep tions, the Second Fleet ships are now assembled at their ports, so that all that
The Nore Battleships-dllion, Cane- pus, Goliath, and Ocene. Cruises- Aboukir, Bogut, Euryalus, Cressy, Bari chante, Suite Meno, and Sapphire,
The four battleships at the Nore.. was necessary to be done was to march although Chatham is their manning port, the balance crews from the barracks andre stationed at Prubroke Dock, and it is As the schools uncertain whether their crews will be sent dejts on board them. were closed on Friday last, the men, after there or whether the vessels will be week-end leave, bad returned in readiness avigated to the Nore for mobilization,
The number of then required for the For the call to go allost. A musuler of men From the Immediate Reserve also joined balance complements of the Second Flect these ships. The total amber of vessels ships was Latween 5,000 and 6,000. The in the Second Fleet tor which additional ratings were required to complete to full 13 battleships, five complement were cruisers, and seven mine-layers, in addi- tion to which are the cruisers serving as training ships, 10 in number, which are
to assemble with the Second Fleet.
vessels of the latter are distributed as
follows:-
ber for the Third Fleet, however, is about three times as much, being in the neighbourhood of 15,000 or more.
There were busy scenes at Portsmouth yesterday, due to the arrival of the Immediate Reservists and the dispatch The of contingents of men to ships. The officers and men had hean standing by ready for a call to mobilize. It came during yesterday morning. All the men knew their stations and at once, went to them. They were drafted off in con- tingents, small or large, according to requirements. Several train-loads of men were sent to other purts during the day. From the Royal Marine Barracks also large detachments of men were sent to the
Portsmouth.-Battleships - Prince of Wales, Frresistible, Bulwark: Venerable, Queen, and Albemarle Cruisers Liver 200 and Topaze Mine-layers-Naiad, Taluña, and Thetis Training ships Cresreat, Edgur, and (érufton.
Devonport Battleships - London and Emuth. Cruiser-Carnarvon Train ing ships-Cumberland, Cornwall, High-ships.
Mach activity also prevailed at Devon- Huer, Endymion, Gibraltar, and Theseus.
The Nore.-Battleships - Lord Nelrum, port yesterday morning in embarking Formidable, Implacabile, Rusell, and regular service ratings of the Navy and Vengeance Cruisers Falmouth and Marines in ships of the Second Fleet. Diamond. Mine-layers Andromache, Vice Admiral the Hon. Sir A. E. Bethell Apallo, Intrepid, and Iphigenia, Train and Reur-Admiral (. E. Thurshy hoisted their flags in the Prince George and ing ship-Royal Arthur.
Hannibal respectively for the Seventh Battle Squadron.
About the same number af vessels from the Third Fleet will be affected by the
NO ANGLO-RUSSIAN NAVAL
AGREEMENT.
In the House of Commons last month Mr. King (L., North Somerset) asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether "asneval agreement had been recently entered into between Russia and Great Britain; and whether any negotiations with
view to a naval agreement had recently taken place, or are now pending. between Rogin and Great Britain.
Sir E. Grey-The hon. member for North-Somerset-asked a similar question last year with regard to military forces as he has again done to-day. The Prime Minister then replied that, if war arose between European Powers, there were no unpublished agreements which would re- strict or hamper the freedom of the Government
or Parliament to decide whether or not Great Britain should participate in a war. That answer covers Goth the questions on the paper; it re- mains as true to day as it was a year ago; no negotiations have since been concluded. with any Power that would make the
statement less true; no such negotiations are in progress and won are likely to be entered upon so far as I can judge; but if any agrement were to be concluded that made it necessary to withdraw or modify the Prime Minister's statement of last year, which I have quoted, it ought in my opinion to be, and I suppose that it would be, laid before Parliament.
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"TAIAN MARU" TOTAL LOSS.
CHEW SAVED.
Tungsha Middle Bank, but seeing it would be impossible to make it, he beached his ship on the North Bank about seven miles from the Light. Meanwhile the bulkheads We reported on Saturday that the burst one after the other and between Japanese steamer Taian Muru, 1,320 tons, 9 and 10 o'clock that night the engine was flooded out and the fire Captain Takashima, under charter to the room
was extinguished. An anxious time was spent Kailan Mining Administration, ashore about seven miles from the Tungsha, until daylight appeared and it was seet The news of the disaster was that the vessel was rapidly settling. A Light. brought here on Friday afternoon by one junk was passing early in the morning of the crew in a native junk, and the tug.and this was hired, and one of the crew. Samson with lighters, pumps, and salvage sent in her to Shanghai for assistance, and.. gear was at once despatched to the scene, as already stated, the Suisun only just and arrived just in time to save the crew arrived in time to save the crew from their who were found crouched on top of the precarious position. While waiting for bridge, the deck houses and the rest of the help the crew tried to do a little salvage vessel being completely submerged, the work, but beyond the ship's papers, and ship having filled with water and settled the most valuable of the navigating instru in the scft mad where she had been ents, nothing else was saved and the beached. The Captain and crew were vessel will prove a total loss. At high tide inniediately taken on board the Sasu, only her masts and the upper part of her and it was learned that about 4.30 p.m. funnel can be sean and a hopes of raising on Thursday while the vessel was steaming the ship are very slight as the first gal towards Shanghai from Chingwantao that springs up will batter the wreck to with a cargo of 3,500 tons of coal, cement, pieces. After getting all hands on board etc., she struck a sunken obstruction close the tug and seeing that nothing could be to the Ariadne Rocks between Gutzlaff and done towards saving the vessel, the Shaoweishan, which proved to be a sunken Samson, along with the lighters, etc., was wreck. As the vessel was seen to be filling headed back to Shanghai arriving here late rapidly the Captain headed for the on Saturday night.-Shanghai Mercury,
Stripped of his incülentai Trappings the contest this lies between Mr. Wilson and i Mr. Roosevelt." The Democrats nav holdi the House by a majority of 145. Should that majority be wiped out or even nearly wiped out. Mr. Wilson's defeat in 1916 would he foreshadowed, and of all poten- tial Presidential candidates Mr. Roosevelt is initely the host formidable. After nanny rears of semi-plutocratic rule by the old Conservative Republican Party, the If the people are in a mood for reform. Deniocrats fail, what could be Balira! Thu thar they sinsiztekopettajat Mr. Roosevelt, who as President did nore than anybody else to start the reform movement and who, for all his enemies may say, remains undubitably the most robust and compelling figure in American politics!
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It is upon that that Mr. Roosevelt is CHS. J. GAUPP
clearly counting. There is no reason to believe that he has abounding faith in the future of his Progressive. Party as such, or in the recuperative power of the Republican Party as such. He evidently hopos that, if Mr. Wilson is sufficiently
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discredited two years hence to bring his WATCHMAKERS defeat within the realm of practical politics, the two wings of the Opposition will close round him. Hence his keenness to get into the campaign. Should he succed an important page in American history will have been turned. While it is ridiculous for suppose that Mr. Roose- velt's return to the White House would mean the beginning of a dictatorship, it would certainly bias the development
American institutions in the direction of SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL
stronger centralized Government at nome and ut à forward policy abroad, tending. perhaps, towards a healthy Imperialism.
INSTRUMENTS.
that the ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS.
14 must be said al unce Derals have test ground in recent months. 1. Witem's grippha weakened- His victory nter the Panama Tispend Bill has been a very different kind of victory from these gained when the Tariff and Currency Reforui Bills were passed. It would not have been gained at all had it
SUNGLASSES.
not be for the Opposition-les-end SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE. has left many party politicians sorely
'disgruntled. His Mexican policy has dove the same.. Privately and even publicly Democrat after Democrat has registered his dislike of a policy which he holds to sick of practical prejudier rather than of fret and feasible purpose. Among the voters, too, a spirit of dis content is discernible. In the East the Mexican policy bas few friends and there is a general feeling that unser the mani- pulation of Mr. Bryan the "ennduct of foreign affairs, leaves a great deal to be desired. The business world is distrust- ful. To the Democratic programine of joint-stock company legislation, to this hints of general hostility to railway and
other standard corporate ventures, and to the favouritism which Congress is inclined to show to labour, is attributed From much of the present depression.
the West, too, come echoes of discontent. The farmers dislike the free food features of the new tariff and the competition it entails from Canada; Radicals in general would have preferred to see the Hay- Pauncelote Treaty sacrificed upon the altar of their dislike of the transcontin a Congressman ental railways. Many who voted for the Underwood tariff law
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and for the Repeat Bill fears for his MACGREGOR&C•
seat next autumn.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE GOVERNMENT
In these days of Radical empiricism an American party has an extraordinarily difficult course to steer. It has to keep the support of the Radicals, who, as the last election showed, are in a decided majority, and at the site time it has to guard the
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business world from the onslaught of those B L WHISKIES.
Radicals.
In the difficulty of keeping that middle course and in the Mexican problem seems to lie the President's real danger. An aggravation of business depression would probably ruin him, in spite of the fervour and strength of Western Radicalism; war with Mexico or a collapse of his Mexican policy might be expected to do the same. But there is still time for business to pick up. The harvest--an immensely in GOLD : portant factor in American prosperity- promises well; the railways are likely to get a rise in freight rates, and the Trust Bills are as yet inchoate. As for Mexico, there is a good sporting chance that com prehensive intervention may be stayed off for a time.
Aninosity as well as devotion has coloured our popular hymns, as, for instance, in the faraons "Greenland's Icy Mountains." The hasty generalise tion that in Ceylon only man is vile" is said to have found its way into th hyn because Bishop Heber discovered that a Cingalese tradesman had cleverly theated him!-London Daily Chronicle.
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