THE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2014.
WAR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.J
THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE
AND BELGIUM.
BELGIUM
LONDON, November 10th. 5.50 p.m.
A Paris communiqué states that the troops have consolidated their
results of the last few days on the greater part of the front of La Basse to the Woeuvre. It is noteworthy moreover that we have progressed in the region of the Loivro between Rheims and Berry Aubac.
There is no change in Lorraine.
The enemy's attacks on the heights southward of Col de Sainte Marie and south east of Thann have all been repulsed,
THE
EMDEN
FORCED TO
FIGHT.
DRIVEN ASHORE AND BURNED.
LONDON, November 10th..
It is officially announced that the German cruiser Emden was driven ashore and burned after a sharp action at Koeling-Cocos Island
yesterday.
The Emden had landed an armed force on Reeling Coors Island for the purpose of cutting the cable, but the cruiser Sydney (of the Australian Squadron) arrived and forced the Emden to fight.
The Emden's loss is considerable.
Our losses are thres killed and fifteen wounded.
MR. CHURCHILL'S CONGRATULATIONS.
Mr. Churchill has telegraphed to the Sydney and the Commonwealth
Navy Board his warmest congratulations upon the brilliant entry of the Australian Navy into the war and the signal service it has rendered to the Allied cause.
GERMAN CRUISER
BOTTLED
"KOENIGSBERG
UP.
LONDON November 10th.
It is cfficially announced that the Gorman cruisor Koenigsberg is imprisoned in Rufigi River, German East Africa, by the sinking of colliers at the mouth of the river.
H.M.S. Chatham, which bottled up the Koenigsberg, bombarded her and a portion of the crew who had entrenched themselves on the river bank, but owing to the dense palm-groves it was impossible to estimate the damage done,
With the exception of the German cruisers participating in the recent engagement off the coast of Chile, the Indian and Pacifs Oceans are now free of German cruisers.
THE NAVAL FIGHT OFF CHILE.
THE GERMAN REPORTS.
The telegrams in the Manila papers, from German and American souross, which appear indeed to be identical, do not clear up the mystery of the Naval action. The action took place of Coronel on November 3rd,
n. The action tet
and on the following day the Scharnhorst, Nurnberg and Geelscnau are reported to have entered Valparaiso undamaged. Another telegram says the Monmouth was sank, the Glasgow and Otranto escaped, while the Good Hope and also the German cruisers Leipzig and Dresden have not been reported. A telegram from Valparaiso, dated November 4th, says the German Admiral reports that his ships the Leiprig and the Bremen, not The Dresden, as reported in earlier dispatches, were slightly damaged in fle engagement with the British flect.
In the fight, which took place off Santa Maria Island, the Germans opened at 0,000
Metres and closed at 8,000.
WAR NEWS.
8,170 CASUALTIES IN ONE LIST..
GROWING GERMAN DEATH ROLL.
The thirty-fifthi German official casualty fist published towards the end of Septem- ber is as follows
7:
Killed Wounded. Missing Officers: .............. 60190 Men991
5,440 Total casualties:-8,178, del The sixth naval casualty list contains the names of 3 man killed and 31 officers and 435 men missing. GERMAN PRISONERS IN ENGLAND.
£1,750,000 TRICK
HOW GERMANS PAY THEIR DEBTS,
THE TRADE WAR
An official announcement circulated
IN WAR LOAN PAPER,
through the British Consulates states that Canadian manufacturers have applied for German firmis on ing money to Bradford names of British manufacturers of goods export merchants have intimated (says a hitherto ordered from Gerniany and now London contemporary) they are investing trade is springing up which will continue the amounts due in the German war loan, after the war and permanently exclude and will send the scrip to Bradford as much German trade from Canada. 1,486 payment for trade debts. The export British prohibition against import of merchants in Bradford and district sugar has struck n heavy blow at the require £1,700,000 from Germany and German and Austrian trade. Exchanges it is urged that the Government should are already rising rapidly against them take action.
Owing to their large purchases abroad, Recently a clearing house was suggested and sugar being the chief export of great to deal with liabilities and assets as value which they can send out in exahango between Germany and Great Britain, for goods received from abroad. The This action by German traders, it is United Kingdom is the only ultimate big against anch a plan. German traders which will permit retail sale without los contended, should set aside any scruples market for sugar but has ample supplies owing to foresight of Sugar Commission have also intimated that they will not respect any contracts made before the war.
at a rate below that now current. The Up to the prezent Bradford, merchants tarn stock into money and nullifies recent present measure defeats encray's effort to bave believed that debts would be paid and action in allowing export of sugar. contracts respected...
PERINO, November 4th. the Foreign Office has been handed to The following official telegram from Reuter's agent in Peking
LONDON, November 3rd.
SITUATION BECOMING SERIOUS AT TRIESTE.
WAR ITEMS.
The total amount subscribed in Shang- hai for the Prince of Wales' Fund up to October 31st was:£450.00, Tla 31,119.30, $18,589.18.
Seven members of the Krupp firm, now, in the war zone, have been decorated with the medal of the Iron Cross for the work done by the Krupp howitzers.
The Dutch aro taking drastic steps to prevent the smuggling of German con- traband. The Customs at Maastricht has seized large quantities of foodstuffs con- signed to Liége.
At a meeting of the Philippine Board of National Red Cross it was decided to
Christmas cheer to the families of the raise at least P10,000 as soon as possible with the object of sending some sort of men who have fallen in the war in Europe.
According to the Russkoye Slavo, a meeting of Moslems has been held in the principal mosque of Petrograd, attended by over 10,000 people, at which a resolution was passed protesting against the unfriendly attitude of the Turkish Government towards Russia.
The Dresdener Anzeiger reports statement by the German Foreign Seere tary that the American Ambassador in London was requested to make a personal inquiry into the treatment of German prisoners in England, and, if the com- plaints were substantiated, to urge immediate redress. The representative of the American Embassy in London specially charged with German' interests visited several of the camps where German district want alicut £6,000.000 from the tion at Trieste. It says that the Governor/Vees says & report has reached there that
prisoners are interned and made a report pronouncing the conditions to be satisfactory.-Reuter.
KAISER'S PRIZE.
FÖR BOME ATTACH ON ENGLISH TOWNS,
Information reached Amsterdam, from Berlin last month, that the Kaiser, has promised to confer a special decoration of the second class of the Order of the Red Eagle on the first German aviator who succeeds in dropping explosives on London
Other lesser, but still unusual, honours are promised to German aviators who succeed in dropping explosives either on a British warship or on some other town in England,
CARNAGE ON A RIVER.
20,000 GERMAN CORPSES CARRIED DOWN THE
NIEMEN
Details of the repeated attempts made by the Germans to cross the Niemen River to the northwards of Grodno (East Prussia) have come to hand. These show that on September 23rd the Bussian rear. guard was transferred in the right banke of the river. The Germana, enbeequently not noticing any signs of opposition, con- structed pontoon bridges over the river. Their troops theu poured across, but cleverly-screened Russian guns opened a concentrated fire that swept them in hun- dreds into the river. A prolonged artil lors dual ensued, and the Germans again attempted to throw troops across the stream, but none reached the opposite bank.
A hundred hurdled corpses floated down the stream The Germans vigorously maintained their bombardment and made a Inst desperate effort in the evening Their columns in close formation proceed- ed to the crossing, and again every man WES mown down by machine guns. Finally the German batteries silenced one after another by the Russians steady fire, and the enemy-retreated eight miles. The Cossacks then crossed on the German pontoons and pursued and harassed the fugitives. One account states tliat 20,000 German corpass were carried down the Niemen.
were
HELD THEIR GROUND.
FRENCH POST 62 HOVES UNDER, FIRE.
A French officer who is in hospital in Paris, having been wounded in the head by a shell, has given the fatin a graphic account of the fight in which he fell
At nine o'clock in the evening,” kat aays, " I received the order to advanco, to entrench myself as well as I could, and resist to the end. My company took up its position in a pouring rain, and about half-past two in the morning three shots fired by our sentries warned us of the approach of the enemy,"
The Germans, who had been taking cover in a wood, crept to within 200 yards, of us, when they formed up and charged. I commenced volley firing and whole ranks of the Germans fell, but they continued to advance. Our well-directed fire arrested their advance when they were thirty yards from our trenches.
"During the night a bugle Rounded Cense fire!' but it was a German bugle. I was not deceived, and I shouted with all my power so as to be heard by the Germans fled. independently
enerny,
Fire
SMARTHE WHITE FLAG.
The
A few minutes later a German offcor
appeared carrying a white flag. I advanced from the trench, accompanied by four men, We are sixty," said the envoy, and we wish to surrender. I replied, Advance in order.'
Four men wounded in the legs staggered forward, and my men, believing. the fight finished, showed themselves above the trenches A Maxim hidden in the wood immediately opened fire on us with commenced. We are attack wat a hail of bullets, while a fresh attack was
recuminence;
I gave the order to volleying, and for the time the Prussians decanted. They left many dead and wounded, and the following day we found that six men, armed with rifles, who had fallen in the front ranks of the enemy, wore the Red Cross on their arms.
62. "UNDER FIRE
At u privats meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce, it was recom mended that if the Government is willing to make advances against approved foreign trade debts, such advance should be up to 75 per cent, of the total. Returns showed that traders in Bradford and Continent of Europe, the United States,
and some States in South America.
LETTERS OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
A LITTLE PLOT IN THE ROST.
curious document is being posted anonymously to business houses in the City of London. It arrives in a plain- envelope, marked Private, and consists of a single typewritten sheet, What is Tommy Atkins fighting in Francs and has his bones broken for 1" it asks.
"It seems to be time for Tommy to come back and to stop the war, as evidently if our country wanted similar assistance from France in time of need we should probably not get it."
The rest of the letter is in the same vein and in the saine peculiar English. It is. stopped for the sake of their frade. an appeal to business ten to get the war
Inquiries at the General Post Office yesterday revealed the fact that City firms have complained of the receipt of this queer letter, but as it is sent in a plain penny stamp the envelope with a authorities cannot interfere. However, the attention of the police has been drawn to the document.
that this
It is at least certain that this latest German scheme ornnot have the least effect on any of those who receive the letzer.
GREAT BRITAIN'S GREATEST
NAVAL CAPTAIN.
Mr. Harold Begbie points out the significance of Sir John Jellicoe's appoint- ment to the supreme command of the British Navy. Sir John Jellicoe," he says, the greatest of our captains, is in. supreme command to flis considerable astonishment of the Germans, and all the drawing-rooms of London and all the powerful cabals of society have not been able to place either a gilded blunderer or second-best at the head of the British forces. To give Great Britain her greatest captain, Mr. Churchill not only had to ignore the social world. but had actually to vain a number of very able and brilliant seamen-Sir John's seniors. It was an act of high courage, and an act that could only be justified by the iramense issues that hung upon it. And by that Act of courage Mr. Churchill gave inspira tion to the British Navy, for Sir John Jellicoe is the Navy's choice,"
HAVOC BY FRENCH GUNS.
GERMANS MOWN DOWN.
A Times correspondent in North Eastern Franoc, describing the fighting in which the German attempt to encircle Lille was defeated, and the Germans were driven off, says that the havoc wrought by the French gans was terrific. He quotes an eye-witness as saying" I was near Our men all day, and never heard a German gun. Our guns simply mowed them down."
BREAKDOWN OF GERMAN TRANSPORT.
Ros. October 12th.
The Messaggero reports h serious situa
A Bordeaux despatch to the Central
has ordered the Police to make a list of the German Commander at Muelhauser, 1,000 prominent Italian citizens who are in Alsace, has committed suicide in destined to imprisonment in Austrian despair at the fact that he was unable to fortresses in the event of Italy declaring pass the Vosges, He had previously war, and that the Austrian Government, telegraphed the German General Staff to in a Manifesto, announce that the least come and see the difficulties for itself. manifestation in favour of Italy will be punished by shooting without trial, also accompanied by the hanging of Trieste Deputies and seven prominent persons.
MAMMOTH WAR LOAN
LONDON, November 3rd.. The Daily Telegraph states that the Government are shortly issuing a war loan of two hundred millions sterling, redeem able in ten years, at four per cent.-- Reuter
A DIFFERENT TUNE.
WHEN FRENCH NATIVE TROOPS FALL UPON
PRUSSIAN GIARDS, BAND,
During the battle of the Aisne a French General commanded the African troops and two regiments of Zouaves to assault a strong position held by the Prussian Guards. The Zouaves trenched well, and then advanced with the intention of rup ning only a few hundred yards, but as soon as they heard the band of the Prussian Guards playing they fell upon) the bandsmen, and the latter tried to ward off the bayonets with their musical instruments. One Zouave sent hir bayonet through the big drum and spitted a stout German drummer behind it.
GERMAN AND TURKISH MILITARY ·
AUTHORITIES:
The Constantinople correspondent of the Retch states (October 2nd) :
Angry quarrels have occurred between the German and Turkish authorities. Tho former complained of the idleness, indis ipline, and disorganisation of the Tur- kish var services, whereupon many of the the commissariat and road maintenance, Turkish chiefs of department, including refused to co-operate further with the Germans."
BRITISH PRISONERS PLAYING“
FOOTBALL.
The Gormans bave established a camp. in which are detained 18,000 prisoners of war, at Wezel, near the Tutch Frontier It is surrounded by high fences of barbed wire. The French soldiers are compelled to dig ditches under the orders of arrred Germans but the British Tommies are playing football.
SUCCESS OF ENGLISH AVIATORS.
The Morning Post's correspondent at Compiegne, describing the success of the English aviators in the aerial: ducl adds: During the recent movements of: the troops, our aeroplanes have been The correspondent adds: This lack specially busy keeping off serial scouts. of German Artillery bears out the The Gerinan aeroplanes are very busy and repeated rumours that their transport has very useful. The French are very plucky, broken down seriously all along their but a trife slow. The British machines northern and Belgian lines of
are the fastest of all,
munication."
DESPATCHES.
Swift as a bullet out of a gua
com-
Ho passed me by with an inch to spare, Raising a dust cloud thick and dur
While the stench of lubricant filled the air, I must admit that I did not like
The undergrad on his motorbike.
I have seen him, too, at the wayside inn,
A atrapping lad scarce out of his teens, Grimy, but wearing a cheerful grin;
A young enthusiast, full of beans. While his conversation was little better Than pure magneto and carburetter.
Now he, he has got the chance of his life, The chance of earning glorious scars, And I picture him securing a land of strife,
Crouching over his handle bars,
His open exhaust, with its roar and stench;
Thore' seem to have been some
British soldiers under twenty years of nute
HOLLS This slamiah, which Liko Mexim gun in a British trench inglericus Poes and Stevensons among the age are not sent on service. They are, was important as warning the troope British troops who have found expression therefore, excluded from the Expedi- behind us, we received the following Lad, when we met in that country lane in this war. A driver in the Royal Field honary Army. The average age of the reward, of which we are all proud: Neither foresaw the days to come, Artillery describes the retreat from Mons rank and file of the Foot Guards and thus It was like being seized by infantry of the line serving in England
The commander of the regiment mon madman after you had come out of a (exclusive of those under twenty years of
tions in the Order of the Day X and Y But I know that if ever we meet again
My heart will throb to your engine's hum, serious illness, and forced towards the age) is approximately 24 years. The
Companies, who remained sixty-tro hours under the fire of the enemy's infantry And to-day, as I read, I catch my breath edge of a precipice."
verage of a French and German infantry
At the thought of your ride through the hail and in the open field and in the rain
of death fan School publishers, especially of geo-soldier in peace is approximately twenty- without fresh supplies of food, and who repulsed two night attacks, losing a fifth graphy manuals, will have their activities two. In war, that of the French active
of their effective, without one man considerably curtailed by the war Army, with its reserves, is from 27 to 28,
thinking of leaving his post, well-known firm, for example, has had and of the German first line troops and to suspend the issue of a new school atlas reserves from 28 to 28. The total weight which was on the point of publication carried by a British infantry soldier in because the maps of Europe and its war is 50lb. 11oz against 59lb 1002 countries will possibly require drastic carried by a German and 68lb, by & French Alteration when the war is over.
soldier.
Bus to you it is just a glorious lark; Scorn of danger is still your creed.
The order mentions one Detoy Aa you open her out and advance your spark wounderi in the thigh at midday on And humour the throttle to get more speed, September 18th, who continued to fire Life has only one end for you, mil half-past nine in the evening, and To carry your priceless message through! only quitted his post when the company -was-roliered.'
-Daily Mail,
TOUCHSTONE.
STUDENTS WAR SPIRIT.
According to a correspondent of the NG. Daily News the following is a summary of the feelings of students who possess the war spirit :—
"The Great Powers of Europe are now engaged in the greatest war of history. Each of the countries engaged has fallen into the boiling whirl, and is eager only to destroy the very life of the others. Their wealth being recklessly wasted, and this will
Countles continue till it has all gone.
tells the story of a German, captured by M. Pierre Mille, in a letter to the Temps,
s Belgian patrol under a well-known Socialist. Recognizing his captor, the German threw down his arms, saying "Know you? You were treasurer of my syndicate when I was working in Brussels, Well, it is nice to see one another again."
INTIMATIONS
FACE A MASS OF
ITCHING PIMPLES
Spread All Over Body. Caused Dis- figurement. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Healed Complaint.
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Samples Free by Post
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CALDBECK,
MACGREGOR&C.
numbers of the people will bo dlung into the B
jawe of death, and will be ruthlessly devoured. The great and wide influence of those countries which they have exercised in the past will be altogether destroyed, and will come to nought. They will have no ther time nor leisure to think about the Chines here in the East. · Our country stilis potentially great. We have wide areas, and great reserves. It will not be hard, indeed, it will now be easy for us to rise and make ́ourselves o very strong country, and thera
will be no one to hinder vs.
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SOLE AGENTS FOR
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GOLD LABEL
WHITE LABEL.
Prepared by the Oldest Firm of
The wool brokers in England have Distillers in the World. formed a league to prevent the purchase of wools suitable for army requiremente by neutrals on behalf of Germany. Ther have been heavy purchases of Yorkst ires on behalf of firms in neutral territory who
were known to have business relations
suspicion, and brokers now have organized
Matured to perfect condition
with Germany. This has arowed before being placed on the to ascertain the ultimate destination of Market. the wool before any unusual order even is considered."