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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 291#, 1914.
THE IMPENDING BATTLE.
SEVERE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN GERMAN AND BRITISH
TROOPS
HEAVY CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES.
Losnos, August 28th.
1,70 p.m.
In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith stated.It appears from the French official report that the fighting on Wednesday was in the neighbourhood of Cambrai to Lecaican. Our troops were exposed to the
a reserve
attack of five German Army Corps, two Cavalry Divisions and corps of Guard of Cavalry, Our second Army Corps in the fourth division bois the brunt of the cavalry attack, while our first Army Corps was attacked on the right and inflicted very heavy losses on the enemy. I regret to say that our casualties were heavy but the exact particulars are not yet known. The behaviour of our troops was in all respects admirable General Joifra conveys his congratulations and sincere thanks for the protection so effectively given by our army to the French Hank. (Loud cheers.)
...
BRITISH TROOPS ENGAGED WITH SUPERIOR FORCE.
FIELD-MARSHAL FRENCH SAYS PROSPECTS ARE
SATISFACTORY.
LONDON, August 27th.
4.33 p.m. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister
announced that Field-Marshal Sir John French reports that he was engaged yesterday against a superior force. The troops behaved. splendidly. The prospects in the impending battle were satisfactory.
Mr. Asquith added :—“Sir John French speaks in high terms of the quality and efficiency of the Frenchmen and their officers."'. (Lond
cheers.)
7.10 p.m.
It in officially announced at Paris that yesterday's events in the Northern area in nowise prejudiced the latest mensures taken with a view to the later development of the operations.
The announcement adds that the French forces between the Vosges and Nancy continue to advance.
LONDON. August 28th.
3.40 am.
The Official Press Bureau has issued the following:--- The French operations, extending-over,, 250-miles necessitated. elvinges in the position of our troops who are now occupying a strong 20 nicet German advances, and are supported by the French Army un both Banks The morale of both Armies appears to be excellent.
4.5 u.ni.
A French official communique says the British Army was attacked.
2 brilliant by greatly superior forces and was obliged, after resistance, to withdraw a short distance to the rear on the right. arinics maintained their position:
Our
BRITISH MARINES OCCUPY OSTEND WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
LONDON, August 27th.
4.40 p.m...
In the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill stated that a strong force of British Marinos had been landed at and had occupied Ostend and surrounding districts without opposition..
RUSSIANS OCCUPY TILSIT.
The Russians have occupied Tilsit.
Loxoos, August 28th.
1.40 am.
[Tilsi is an important asamafacturing and commercial centre -in East Prussia. I was at Tilsit that peace was declared between. Erance and Russia, and between France and Prussia, in 1807.]
AUSTRIAN EVACUATION OF NOVIBAZAR.
LONDON. August 27th.
2,40 p.m.
Austria has evacuated the Saujak of Noribazar. Bosnin.
GERMAN ATLANTIC LINER SUNK BY BRITISH
CRUISER.
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LONDON, August 27th. 4.25 p.m.
In the House of Commons the First Lord of the Adinitaly (Mr. Winston Churchill) announced that the light cruiser Highflyer sank the armed merchantman, the Kaiser Wühelm der Grosse. Mr. Churchill said that the Kaiser Wilhelm was armed with ten 4-inch guns. She had been interfering with triffic on the Cape route, and was one of the very few German auxiliarica which had suceeded in getting to sea. The survivors were landed before the merchantman sank. The Highflyer had one killed and five slightly wounded.
[The Highflyer is a light cruiser of 5,800 tons displacement, and was completed in 1899. Her speed is given as 18 knots. Her armament is 11 six-inch, nine 12-pounders, one three-pounder, and two torpedo tubes. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse belonged to the Norddeutscher Lloyd-and-was-ong of the Atlantic liners. Her gross tonenge was 14,349, and her speed 22 knots. She was built in 1897.3-
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JAPANESE PREPARATIONS.
PERING, August 28th.
10.20 p.m..
Admiral Kato has issued a proclamation", requiring foreigners to leave leased territory within twenty-four hours.
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GERMAN CRUISER WRECKED AND BLOWN UP.
LONDON, August 27th.
8.23 p.ni.
It is reported from Amsterdam that a German official announce. received there states that the cruiser fagdeburg went ashore on the Isle Odensok, in a fog. Her position was hopeless as Russist warships were in the neighbourhood. The German torpedo-boat V26, under heary
fire, rescued some of the 'crew, and the Captain of the Hugdeburg blew. up his ship. The casualties were 17 dead, 91 wounded and 85 miasing. including the captain.
[We are unable to trace the island on any available map, but doubt less it is somewhere in the Baltic Sea. The Jugdeburg was a protected cruiser, laid down in 1910, She was a ship of 4,000 tons displacement, and had as her main armoniment 12 4-in, guns.]
WAR NEWS.
[FROM TELEGRAMS TO INDIA.] BRITISH AND THE SUEZ CANAL.
The British flag flies at both ends of the Suez Canal, instead of the Egyptian. LORD KITCHENER'S NEW ARMY.. Lord Kitchener's new army will consist of six divisions. The Scottish and Light Infantry Divisions will assemble at Aider shot, the Eastern Division at Shörncliffe, the Western at Salisbury plain and the Irish at the Curragh. The place of assembly for the Northern Division has
not been decided on.
The Press Bureau states that the name Light Division recalls Wellington's in the Peninsula. It is officially announced that mobilisation of the Territorials is being completed without a hitch. Every vait is believed to be up to establishment.
THE GERMAN AIM.
RECRUITING IN THE COLONIES
GERMAN PRISONERS AT SINGAPORE.
At present there are about 90 German reservists interned on St. John's Island, Rays the Straits Times of the 18th inst. On Sunday, the 17th, they received a viat from the Governor the Hon. R. J. Wilkinson, C.M.G., and Mrs. Wilkinson, who thoughtfully inquired after their welfare, asking whether they had any complaints to make regarding their treat ment and listening patiently to what the men had to any."
DR. VOREZSCH.
Dr. Vorezach, the German Consul- General for Hongkong, is still in Singa- pore (August 20th). He came down from Hongkong by the Japanese mail steamer. Hirano Maru, in possession, of course, of the usual passports. Here he left the steamer, and it was his intention to go to Bangkok. He boarded the Singu parean with that object in view on Tuesday, but just before the vessel sailed he was required by the authorities to leave her and come ashore.Singapore Frce. Preas.
A CAMPAIGN OF LIES.
THE SWATOW HOTEL BURNED DOWN.
A very serious outbreak of fire occurred in the Swatow Hotel at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 26th inst. The alarm was promptly raised and in a short time the Butterfield & Swire's steam fire engine and some other hand pumps were at work combatting the flames. The fire was extinguished at 3.30 am.
The Butterfield & Swire's steam fire engine rendered valuublé services on the occasion. Fortunately at that hour, there was a food tide, so that a copious supply of water was available for the Butterfield & Swire's fire-engine and the hand-pumps. The fire appears to have been caused by the fusing of an electric wire; it first started in the corridor, and a few minutes afterwards the whole building was it dames, The loss is covered by insurance in a Company represented locally by Messrs, Gebruder Roex. -
MILLION-POUND SHIPPING
COMBINE.
Furness-Houlder Argentine Lines, Ltd., has just been registered by Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co., solicitors, of 17, Throgmorton Avenue, E.C., with a nominal capital of £1,000,000 in £1 sbares. The objects are to enter into agreements with Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd., Sir Rayton Dixon & Co., Ltd., Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., Irvine'a Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Co., Ltd., Alex. Stephen & Sonɛ, Ltd., and Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Ltd.; to purchase, build, take in exchange, sharter, or otherwise acquire and hold ships and vessels; to acquire any interest in ship or vessels, or in their any shares, stocks, and securities of ship- insurance, freights, and engagementa, or ping companies; to carry on the business of ships insurance, passenger, and general brokers, managers of shipping property, ships, stere dealers, dock owners, ship repairers, freight contrac tora, merchants, carriers by land and ses, eto. The signatories to the memorandum of association (each subscribing för 250 shares) ure: Sir Stephen W. Furness, Bart., Furness House, Billitor-street E.C. Frank H. Houlder, 146, Leadenhall- street, E.C., shipowner; Frederick W Lewis, Furness House, Billiter-atreet. E.C., shipowner; Robert E. Burnett, Furness House, Billiter-street, E.C., ahipowner Maurice C. Houlder, 140, Leadenhall - street, E.C shipowner: Mr. Eckford, H.P.M.'s Vice-Congn at Walter C. Warwick, 140, Leadenhall- Tsingtau, says in his Report for 1915: street, E.C., shipowner; John Esplen, 31. The The total shipping entering this port in Janies-street, Liverpool, engineer. 1913 amounted to 839 steamers with a first directors are Bir Stephen W. tonnage of 1,323,247 tons, as against 779 Furness, Frank H. Houlder Frederick stentners and 1,201,388 tone in the previW. Lewis, Robert E. Burnett, Maurice ous year. The German flag heads the list. C. Houlder, Walter. C. Warwick, and with the Japanese and British taking John Esplen second and third place is regards tonnage the last-named is good second. There are small boats trading in the bas..
On a renewal of lease the City Cor and with Huitschow, which necessarily brings up the number of German shipporation is increasing from £45 to £300 entering this port very considerably, the rent of a property in lanenshire- The increase of the American. Chinese court, New Bend-street. and Russian Angs is due to the regular trade between here and Madivostock. The total ocean shipping from here amounted to about 60,000 tons of cargo 25,000 measurement and 35,000 tons weight; in this British shipping partic' pated to the extent of 12,650 measurement and 18,000 to 20,000 weight; in othe words, about 50 per cent.
THE SHIPPING OF TSINGTAU,
BIG BLAZE AT SHANGHAI
GODOWN AND CARGO DESTROYED:
One of Messrs. Mackenzie & Co.'s
godowns at Shanghai, the "E" godown, was destroyed by fire on the night of the Plat. The godown" is situated on the Pootung sjade of the river. The alarm was raised about 7.30 p.m.. and though the brigades got away The military expert of the Times writ-
with all speed, all that could be done ing on the 12th inst pointed out that
upon arrival at the jetty was to prevent the Germaus had almost entirely abandoned concentration in the reiche Feochow, we notice, is being supplied the flames spreading to the adjoining
"by the courtesy of The Chanu Press, large godowns. The inside of the "E land of Alsace-Lorraine in favour of advance through the Ardennes, into which Shanghai," with reports of happenings godown was burning fiercely, and it was in Hongkong which have taken place only almost impossible for the firemen to get they had flung the mass of their army
the reporter's imagination. One into close touch with it. From the very clitely concentrated, thus enabling them in to act together in any direction with the telegram dated the 10th inst, begins: beginning it was seen that it was utterly large
There warships, flag impossible to save the building. object of dealing their opponents a knock-Official- two
were eight or nine godowns in the imme- down blow and following this op my unstated, arrived at Hongkong badly relentless pursirit, thereby shattering the duraged, mumerous wounded: partiendiate vicinity, and all contained valuabl fars fight ungiven. What is the cargo of various kinds. Owing to the French morale.
official source of these inventions? intense heat and the showers of sparks. esidents in the outports would be well which continually shot into the air, one advised to disbelieve the statements made or two of the nearest godowna ware get on this authority until they are confirmed on fira, but the flames were subdued The new from a trustworthy source.
before any damage was done. "B" goduwa was for a long time in considerable danger. Separated from the E godown by only a narrow alleyway the sparks were blown in that direction, and with the collapse of the gable wall. which fell on the corrugated iron roof godown, a large hole was of the E made, through which sparks and pieces of burning material were continually being blown. It was only by most careful watching that the hundreds of bags of sugar stored there were saved. The firm gradually burnt itself out, thus removing to a considerable extent the danger to the By nine o'clock surrounding premises. the fire had been got under, but the effort: of the brigades were by lessened; in fact, they were not relaxed until well into the night.
more
A telegram dated London, August 12th, said: Recruiting in Canada has been discontinued as
men have been secured than are required. Moreover, several regiments have volunteered as whole regiments, thereby preserving their identity. Volunteering in Australia is equally enthusiastic, Queensland is deal ing with legislation to supply Great Britain with meat.
MASTERY OF THE SEA. Proof of British mastery of the sea afforded, says a message of the 12th inst., by the announcements that steamship services between Harwich and Esbjerg and Newcastlo and Norway have been resumed. The service between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was never suspended. Danish food ships have already arrived.
BRITISH MANSIONS AS HOSPITALS.'
GERMAN PRIZES IN COLOMBO.
in
German shipping. the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal has been receiving considerable attention at the bands of the East Indies Squadron and quite a number of nrizes are safely moored in Colonibo harbour.
Up to noon of the 11th inst., three prites bad beon brought into the port all within five hours. The first two were cap istered, says the Times of Grudon, by one of the units of the East Indies Souadron, and brought into harbour early that morning. The other was captured later by another unit of the East Indies Squadron and was brought off the port about noon Hundreds of people who had gatherer 'along Galle Brick to witness. the fring of the big guns, were interested spectators of the arrival of the third vessel as she approached the harbour, followed by her captors. With the three vessels. brought in that day the number of German vessel detained in harbour now totals seven
On August 13th, two hundred and filte mansions had been offered to Government as hospitals, including Balmoral Castle. PRINCE OF WALES FUND. Among the subscriptions to the Prince of Wales fund are the following:His Majesty the King, £5,000; Her Majesty the Queen, £1,050; Prince of Wales, £300; Queen Alexandra, £500'; Grenadier Guards, £18.000; Mr. George Coats £50.000; Lord Ashton, £25.000; the Duke of Westminster, £15,000: Messrs. Roths child. £10,000; Mr. William Morrisoy, £10,000; Lord Salisbury, Lord Ivearh, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Ernest Cassel, Sir Arthur Lever and Sir William Lever, each £5,000.
INDIAN LOYALTY.
Prominent Indians at present in London, including Bir
Mancherjee Bhownagree, Sir Krishna Gupta, Mr. Ratan Tata, Mr. Justice Abdur Rahimi, and. Lala Lajpat Rai have asked Lord Crewe to convey to the King Emperor an expression of their loyalty, emphasis ing that whatever he the differences regarding the administration of India in time of peace all Indians are united to l
A deputation Britain in time of war, from the National Congress now in Encland have sent letters to the papers containing similar sentiments.
LANCASHIRE MILLS CLOSING. North-east Lancashire Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Association and the Northern Counties Textile Trades Federa- tion gave notice on the 11th inst. that owing to the war they are unable to keep
the mill open..
AND
FOREIGN VESSELS
AMERICAN REGISTRY.
flag:-
10 moans
The raze
The cause of the outbreak is unknown, and the extent of the damage done has not yet been ascertained. godown was one of the oldest of the firm's property at Pootung, and its carg. consisted of refuse cotton, hides anc rape seeds. The whole of the cargo atores did not exceed 15,000 bales, bat
were cargoes of sugar addition, there and other commodities.
were
The following cablegram was received last week in Manila by Governor-General THE ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.
the authorities kt Harrison from Washington in regard to the registration
At an examination for inspectors of of foreign ships under the American
nuisances, held at Hongkong, on June The President authorizes the Collector 18th, 18th, and 22nd, 1914, fuur candi ef Customs at the port of Manilo to per dates presented themselves. form consular functions required by
The following three candidates Article 20 Consular Regulations 1896, in certified, 13 regards their Sanitary the matter of American or foreign-built knowledge, competent to discharge the shins transferred abroad to citizens of the tuties of Inspector of Nuisances under United States. Proof is required by the the Public Health Act, 1875- foreign Consul whose flag the shin bare that he has been advised by the owners of the sale of the ship to Americans. Cable Promptly for the information of the Department of Commerce the name of each ship transferred in this manner, giv ing the names of former and new owners. For the violation of law involved in such vessels importing cargoes into the United States prior to obtaining full American registry in an American port, owners must seek immunity from the Treasury Department.".
EMIGRATION FROM AMOY.
Mr. Conaul Little in his Report on the trade of Amoy in 1913 saya:-
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Leslie Brewer, Hongkong J. H. Cyril Lowe, Perak. Alexander Keith Taylor, Hongkong,
RAUB RETURNS.
The Raub Australian Gold Mining Company's return of crushing operations for the four weeks ended August 15th is
follows:-Bakit
store Koman: crushed 4,818 tons, gold obtained 621 oza,:
ton
Bukit 2.876 dwts. wverage, per Malacca Stone crushed 3,017 tone, goll. obtained 355 ozs., average per ton 2.345 dwts.
The auroher of emigrants from the port during the year, was 66,777 as against 76,649 in 1912. A large proportion of
One of the proudest claims of Shrews these now return from time to time to
In his ow visit their homes, so that the above figures bury School is to have been the afme. do not show the real extent of emigration, mater of Charles Darwin. which must be considerably less than the day, however, he was thought little of of the masteja. The at Shrewsbury, one statistics lead ong
a dull and country around Amoy is now largely indeed, describing him us,
The only studies be depopulated, and the emigrants come apathetic boy.'
sired for we Horace and Euclid. mostly from inland districts.
to
suppose.
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