THE WAR.
MOMENTOUS RUSSIAN VICTORY.
TURKISH RESISTANCE SHATTERED.
THE ADVANCE OF THE ALLIES.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IMPORTANT SUCCESS IN
CARPATHIANS.
INVASION OF TRANSYLVANIA IMMINENT 1
LONDON, January 17th.
9.65 p.m.
Petrograd communiqué announces that the Russians have seized the import ant Kirlibaba Pass, in the Carpathians, bordering on Transylvania.
RUSSIANS ADVANCING ON THORN.
LONDON, January 17th.
9.55 p.m.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRON
[THROUGH TEUYER'S AGENCY.)
PROGRESS IN FLANDER
AND AT PERTHES.
SNOWFALLS FROM ARGONNE TO THE VOSGES
LONDON, January 17th.
6.30. p.m.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1911 19”.
Today's Paris communiquć says:— We continued to progress in the regions of Nieuport and Lombaertzyde. Our artillery obliged the Germans to evacuate their trenches a distance of 200 metres
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE,]
DEATH OF GENERAL STOESSEL.
THE DEFENDER OF FORT ARTHUR
LONDON, January 18th.. The death is announced of General Stoessel, the defender of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War. He had long been paralysed.
EX-BAILWAY MANAGER'S
DEATH.
LONDON, January 18th. The death is recorded of Mr. J. F. B Gooday, who was at one time General Manager of the London, Brighton, and Bouth Coast Railway, and afterwards, until 1910, General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[DAILY PRES9 / EXCLUSIVE SERVICE
A BOATLOAD OF THIEVES.”
EXEMPLARY SENTENCES,
JEWESS ASSAULTED.
CHINESE SENT TO PRISON.
Before the Chief Justice, at the Criminal At the Criminal Sessions yesterday, Sessions yesterday, Lung On, ♬ Chinese before Mr. Justice Gompertz, five men and of no occupatio, was indicted for that woman were charged with feloniously he, on the 12th December, did assault one stealing five bales of cotton yarn, valued | Sybil Joseph, with intent to rob, Navigation Company, being on board the st $800, the property of the P. & 0. Steamn lighter Madge in the Harbour on the 9th December
The prisoners pleaded not guilty. The jury was composed of the following gentlemen :- Hesry, F. J. Gellion (fore many, A. Macdonald, E. G. Aquino, A. G da Rocha, J. M. da Silva, H. F. Bunje, and A. H. Abbass.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PATRIOTIC SERVICE OF THE CENSOR
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE" HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Hongkong, 17th January, 1915, BIR, Arising out of the article by
following jury was empanelled :-Messrs. Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the W, H. Prowse (foreman), G. Haigh, J. A.Irish" and the correspondence which has Hunter, J. Hunter, J. G. Cordeiro, D. followed, it would be interesting to know MeL, Neilson, and J. M. Ron Periera. how much has been, and is being, spent by the Government in connection with war matters.
hemp), prosecuting, said prisoner was The Attorney General (Hon. Mr. J. H.
charged or two counts--one with assault-
For instance: How much is being paid ing the complainant with intent to rab, in connection with telegraph censorship i and the other with simple assault. He Is it not a fact that a number of men are thought the jury would be satisfied that being paid at the rate of $150 a month for the prisoner intended to commit a robbery, period of four hours daily duty, and on that point, they could still convist the ministers of religion, missionaries, and but it they should not be satisfied that these include professional meny prisoner of simple assauit. The sighly paid clerks in commercial houses? plainant would tell the jury that on thin fact, men whonrione might reasonably 19th December she was lying down or assume are not in need of any remunera- sofa reading at the flat in which she tion for patriotid service of this extremely resided, No. 16, Queen's Road East, and light kind- amah, the only other person who lived that her breakfast was beside her. Her there with her, had gone out. The com- it does went is an Anti-Hambag Society.-
Hongkong may need consoription; what plainant suddenly saw a man approach Yours,
and thrust the cloth over her mouth, and folded cloth. The man came up to her,
WORKER.
she then felt somebody else catch hold of her feet, She would say that the man plainant struggled and called out, and. with the cloth was the prisoner.. eventually the men ran away. The amah. happened to be coming in at the time, and. she would say she saw either one or two
NEW GERMAN MINISTER TO when the prisoners were brought to booking from behind, holding in his hand a
PEKING.
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. Hodgson) Prosecuting, said he would offer no discharged. Mr. Hodgson said this was so evidence against No. 3,who was accordingly exceedingly serious case, and of much importance in this Colony, as it was a cade of theft from a lighter, and such, thefts might involve great trouble not only to the steamship companies but also to con signeos. This being a large shipping port, such thefts as these could not be tolerated, and should be dealt with very severely
The second, fourth and fifth prisoners were employed on the lodge. No. 1 was PEKING, January 18th. a P.&O. tallyman, and the woman lived Herr von Hinze, the new German on the lighter. They were employed in Minister, DESPERATE GERMAN ATTACKS. backward on the Grand Dune and des- travelled from Honolulu in a Norwegian went alongside the Kowloon wharf. The
arrived to-night,
unloading certain cargo from the Malta, having
which arrived on the 6th December, and troyed a redan northward of this spot. steamer to avoid capture by the Japanese lightermen started taking on certain cargo We also bombarded the enemy's works He was met at Tientsin by the President's from the ship, consisting of a large quan- southward of St. Georges.
Deputy. There was a large Guard of tity of cotton yarn. The second, fourth, There have been artillery actions at Honour to meet him at Peking railway and fifth were engaged in this work as Ypres, La Bassee, and Lens,
part of the crew of the lighter Madge. There was another man on board the SEVERE WEATHER IN lighter--the head lighterman-who, hiwas
PEKING.
sorry to say, had absconded The woman would be proved to have been on board PEKING, January 18th. Owing to the severe weather, Charity knowledge of what was going on. The the Hadge, and to have had considerable Our artillery continued to demolish Houses have been trenches at La Boiselle.
re-established.
in unloading started on the morning of the Peking.
7th December, and lasted for about 12 bours, the yarn being tallied by the No. 1. The lighter was then taken alongside the Godown Company's No. 1 wharf for the but of the lighter, and put into the night. Next morning the cargo was taken godown, during which operation it was of course tallied again. The tally taken by No. 1 prisoner for the P. & O. Company on the tally out of the Madge into the gedown and that taken by the godown
.A. Petrograd communiqué says:— We are still successfully progressing on the right bank of the lower Vistula towards Thorn.
The Germans made a series of violent attacks in the region of Jumine. The enemy's forces were at least six Regiments. As a result of seven successive attacks and desperate bayonet fighting the Germans only took one trench from an advanced Company.
There was a lively fight at Blangy. The Germans seized a foundry, but we instant ly re-took it, We maintained out positions.
The enemy between Vailly and Craonne made an unsuccessful attack, and we
We drove the enemy back on other parts repulsed another attack at Beaulne. of the front
› The Germans supported their attacks with exceptionally heavy artillery fire,
The Russians, in the region of Kono pitze, did exceptionally effective work with grenades, and compelled the enemy to evacuate communication trenches,
The Germans violently bombarded our positions southward of Pinczow, and on three occasions made abortive charges.
station
LAND MEASUREMEN 1.
PERING, January 18th. General Tsai has been appointed Sejour our advance continued, despite a Director General of the National Land violent storm.
In the regions of Perthes and Beau
A German attack was repulsed at Bois le-Pretre.
Measurement Administration.
[FBO2 THE "CHUNG NGOI BAN 10,
Com
SHANGHAI DIVORCE, CASE,
HUSBAND'S VAIN EFFORTS,
men run out of the house. At all events, presented by Mr. Norman Rutherford, a money-changer who had his shop on the now in Shanghai He charged his wife Cede cables figured in a diverco petition ground floor saw two men run out. He Margaret with misconduct with a mi chased them, and caught the prisoner named Middleton." prisoner was charged at the Police Station celebrated at Hongkong in 1910, and the other getting away. When the
The marriage was he made a statement very common in competitionor lived very happily with his nection with armed robbery: "I was wito at Shanghai, where he was engaged standing outside at the time, and did not the Attorney-General, that if they did not to England to escape the hot weather. go in. It seemed to be their idea, said in business. Last year the wife journeyed go inside, but watched ouside, they were They were on most affectionate terme. different defence. He then stated that he But in September, 1913, he noticed less guilty, but they were wroug Before She came to her mother-in-law in London, the Magistrate later he put up quite a corresponding with potitioner regularly. took some people to complainant's house change. Instead of letters he got post- for two nights, and asked for the money, cards from her.. but she refused. He went upstairs on wrote:
In one letter she to knock at the door when he heard a the morning in question and was about scuflo inside and the cry "Save life, If that was true, observed the Attorney- He ran down the stairs and wes caught. should not have cather curious thpt in General, it was rather
he Station.
We won some ground, in the Vosges westward of Orbey. Snow foll heavily | MACÃO BOUNDARY QUESTION. tallyman were exactly the same hour and during this time she was much all day.
LONDON, January 18th.
110 am. T
The Paris evening communiqué says:- There is nothing to report, except
We silenced a battery of Austrian heavy guns which had been bombarding Tarnewsnowfalls from Argonne to the Vosges.
BATTLE OF KARAURGAN. ENDS IN COMPLETE RUSSIAN
VICTORY.
LONDON, January 18th..
1.70 a.m. An official announcement in Petrograd Bays:-
The battle of Kareurgan, which was contested for three days amid a conseless snowstorm, has ended in a complete Russian victory.
Thanks to the efforts of the valiant Caucasian and Turkestan Regiments and the Siberian Cossacks, the resistance of
GENERAL
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]
JAPAN'S MARITIME INSURANCE SCHEME.
LONDON, January 19th, The Nippon Yusen Kaisha 20-
Insurance Scheme, for cargoes going to nounces that a Japanese Government
Japan and intermediste, ports, has been fixed at the following rates:Middles
borough to Colombo or beyond 10/- per cent., London to Colombo or beyond, 7/- per cent., Marseilles to Colombo or Turks has been shattered. His beyond 3/- per cont rearguard has been annihilated, and the remnants of the Turkish Army, harassed
the
GALE IN ENGLAND."
at their flanks and in front, are fleeing COAST STREWN WITH WRECKAGE.
towards Erzerum. Our pursuing troops. found in ravines, buried in snow, parts of Turkish guns, which the enemy had thrown from the hoights. The pursuit continues.
TURKISH ARMY CORPS ANNIHILATED.
LONDON, January 18th,
5.35 a.m.
A gale that prevailed over the week-end: strowed the British coasts with wrecks.
An Admiralty patrol tug was sunk in the Downs, and her crew of twelve were
drowned.
ALL ITS ARTILLERY CAPTURED, GERMAN TREASURY MINISTER
LONDON, January 18th.
5.35 am,
A Petrograd official announcement Bays:
Our Army in the Caucasus annihilated the 11th Turkish Army Corps. Only insignificant portions escaped, and these are fleeing in disorder, All the Corps' artillery was captured NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[IHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN
RESIGNS. SUCCEEDED BY MANAGER OF DEUTSCHE BANK.
In the witness box the Complainant said the amah had only been gone a few seconds were in the room about a quarter" of an when the robbers entered. The robbers
bruised, and cut on the chest, lips and arms by her struggles in which the break- fast things were upset. Sho bled a good deal and suffered some pain.
Complainant's amah was asked in the course of her evidence to whom a pair of shoes found in the house belonged?
Witness To the geol-bird,
packages. On the 8th alt. the police PERING, January 18th.
boarded the Madge as the result of information received, and searched her. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has Under the boarding of the middle hold delegated Sze Chiu-shong to investigate they found a quantity of cotton waste, the Macao boundary question.
together with sucking and iron bands, which would be identified as belonging to the consignment on the P. & O, ship. It NEW CHINESE MINISTER TO was found stuffed under the boards right
in the bilges of the lighter. The prisonersThe could not have carried out this theft unless they had the No. 1 prisoner in their con
Prisoner said he went to complainant's fidence. Here we have a boat-load of of some money due him. He stood at the house at her request to receive payment thieves," said the Crown Solicitor; "and.
SIAM.
PEKING, January 18th. Lia-wing-yin will be appointed Minister
to Siam.
STEAM LAUNCH SUNK,
A HUNDRED PASSENGERS
DROWNED.
PEKING, January 18th launch at Taku (near Tientsin) a hundred By the sinking of a Government steam
passengers were drowned,
LATE TELEGRAMS.
[FROM YOUTHERN PAPERS.] H.M.S. "THUNDERER." REPORT THAT SHE STRUCK A MINE DENIED.
LONDON, January 8th." The Press Bureau has authorised denial H.M.B. Thunderer struck a mine in the of a story in the American papers that North Sea on November 17th:
'A GREAT ARMY " STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH FORCE AT THE FRONT.
His Lordship Who is the gaol-bird 1
thief. Witness (nedding towards the prisoner)
You have no doubt known for some time, past that my love for you has consed. I dearly love another wan. For this reason I have come to the conclusion it is better for us both to part. You can apply for a divorce. If you inquira at- Ilote! you will find I stayed there from September 10th till the 12th, and Septom- ber 18th to 20th with a man.. That is quito sufficient cause for you to divorce me. It is no tie for you to, come hers no intention of giving it. and try to got the man's name, as 1 havə
Se
A VAIN APPEAL.
her to return, saying he was even then Then petitioner cabled in code asking read prepared to forgive her. 'His cable Please return. ∙Will
Love Norman.
not be mentioned. Four days later, she replied in code :-
I will not return. Please commENÇA proceedings.A Petitioner wrote and, again cabled on November 27th, 1913
The wife's reply ran :—
Darling, please wire reply to my letter. Will you come? No one knows.
It is quite impossible for me to return to you. This is fival. Please prove your past affection for me by giving me a divores as quickly and as quietly: us. possible.
I am not going to chuck in the tallyman door and called out I want my money." because he was there and ask you to con and complainant replied that if he did vict him. I am going to produce evidence not go away she would blow a police that he must have known of this theft, and whistle. He then heard crockery being indeed been part of the mechanism in broken inside, and complainant ran out this machinery for stealing this cotton." and called out. Every bundle must have been tallied by whistle was blown and he ran away. He his wife, who cabled in answer
Save life." A police the No. 1 prisoner, who was there for that was well-known about the place and it purpose. The ship's tally showed the con was not likely that he would commit an signment to be 567 bales, and his tally was armed robbery in broad daylight at 10.
delock in the morning. He did not go into) the room.”....
evidence that the fifth defendant offered
Evidence was then called,
him a bribe to keep silence on the matter, while a Chinese sergeant also alleged that. the female prisoner offered him $200 to say! nothing. A
A Chinese police constable alleged in
common assault only, and he was The jury found prisoner guilty of sentenced to eight months' hard labour.
BEAUTIFUL, BAND MUSIC. His lordship, in addressing the jury, said that in regard to the woman there last evening, the remarkable Philippins On the Hongkong Cricket Club Ground eatly on board the lighter, but one would Constabulary Band entertained not expect an old womun like her to take audience of close upon 500 with a pro any hand in the cargo. The mere fast
was no direct evidence. She was appar
an
Petitioner made a final attempt to save
It cannot be. You must commence pro- ceedings immediately. Decision is final. THE WIFE'S LETTER,
not think you realise that I really mean a letter from his wife saying “1 đứ Last Christmas Tray petitioner received
what I say when I tell you I can never return. My love for this man is scie- thing more than the passing fancy you seem to think. I hope by now you have, started divorce proceedings and in three with him, and unless you divorce me it or four months I am going out to live
would do as you desired." will be very awkward for him and myself. If the case were reversed I Finding his
Middleton had lived together for a while after ascertaining that she and Mr. at Ebury-street, Pimlico,
Mr. Justice Deane granted a divorce deerte.
THE COLD WEATHER.
the ear to catch those many sweet little Hongkong seems to have been broken. The severe spell of cold experienced in touches which drift away into the air.
that she was there and knew about it made gramme of tastefully selected music, wife obdurate petitioner filed his peliti in no difference. She was rather pleased to superbly rendered. Perhaps the mcs: sco other people making a good thing out touching rendering was Liszt's impressive In regard to the alleged offer of a bribe, author instilled into this composition arc of it-that did not make any difference. Rhapsody No. 2. The emotions which the of the No. 1 lighterman, who had many and peculiar and it is suficient the woman was alleged to be the mother Theronded, and it was not impossible that tion of the picce must have delighted the praise to say that the Band's interpreta- she would be willing to do what she could most delicate musical ear. The deeply to get her son off. That did not neces passionate passages were given with just sarily make any difference. The jury sufficient strength, and one had to strain must be satisfied that she had some part in the sobbery, LONDON, January 8th,
The first prisoner was found guilty and A descriptive piece Bucalossi's The coldest day was Saturday. At the Eye-witness" writes that the New Year econd, fourth and fifth were also found given, the atmosphere created being most According
sentenced to three years' hard labour, the Hunting Scene," was also extremely well Peak the mercury dropped to 35 degrees. opened with a more favourable situation guilty and sentenced to two years hard realistic, even in a land where a field for the Allies than at any time since the labour, and the sixth was found not guilty in full cry would seem quite out of place the thermometer went down to 42 degrees. to the Observatory report The German Imperial Secretary to the the British are concerned, the original
commencement of the campaign. As far as and discharged. Treasury, Herr Kuehn, is resigning his small expeditionary force of four divi- position ostensibly on account of ill-which is steadily increasing in numbers sions has now swelled to a great army health He will be succeeded by Professor and has become inured to war and can look back on a record of hard fighting such Hefferich, the manager of the Deutsche as British troops have seldom sustained. Bank.
in the past on
LONDON, January 18th.
5.35 a.m.
A FATAL QUARREL. MAN'S HEAD "KNOCKED TO A
PULP"
There were several other entertaining On the following day (Sunday) the items. all being excellently played,
and Capt. Loving displayed an opicurean minimum temperature registered at the taste when he included in a pot Observatory was 45. and the maximum 57. yourrt, played as an extra, the now famous
In Shanghai Con Wednesday last the Its a long way to Tipper ary. The audience, which included minimum registration of the thermometer At the Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese applause which was always well-deserve. On the same day last year the minimum H.E. the Governor, were not sparing in was 10.3 and the maximum 27.2 Fahr. Eye-witness' points out that even when was charged with the murder of a man CARGO STEAMERS PURSUIT OF THE "DRESDEN."active operations are not in progress there named Chong Eu. It is alleged that non.. Hail to the Spirit of Liberty"
The programme was as follows:- SUNK IN BALTIC.
is continual effort to gain a mastery by defendant and the deceased had a quarrel OVERTURE.....
was 40,2 and the maximum 71:4 sniping and bombardment, by trench
(Sousa). mortars and hand grenades, demanding over money matters at Kowloon City, and SUITE ESPAGNOL “La Feria, (a)-Los To
Cleopatra Mancinela). qualities of enterprise, coolness and that the defendant struck the other man, endurance equal to any other form of who was 68 years of age, about the head prison (Icon)
HEALTH OF HONGKONG, ros, (b)-La Reja, (e)--La Zarznela " warfare
with an iron bar.
RHAPSODY The German companies now consist of rendered unconscious, and died at the DIE FOR CLABISĖTO
Cheng Fu was
.....(Liszt).
During the week ending January 16th, and Landsturm, Ersatz reservists, and regaining cousciousness.r a mixture of active soldiers, Landwehr Government Civil Hospital without GRAND SELECTION. "La Traviata" (Verdi) reported, two proving fatal. There were volunteers. It appears that there is a
· (Waldieufel).
three Chinese cases of diphtheriaTM were good deal of sickness in the enemy's ranks deceased's head was knocked to a pulp.
Inspector Bim told the Magistrate that DESCRIPTION "A Hunting Scene also three cases of enteric fever (Chinese and some units have been temporarily The case was formally remanded for a withdrawn owing to typhoid.
LONDON, January 18th
6.35 a..
It is stated in Stockholm that during the past fortnight five large German cargo steamers have disappeared in the Baltic Sca with their crews, through striking
mines.
REPORTED ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NEWCASTLE."
Japanese paper on 25th December says A despatch from New York to a that according to a wireless message dispatched by a Chilian torpedo-boat, an engagement has taken place off Valparaiso between the German cruiser Dresden and the British cruiser Newcastle and another warship.
Nanine
At the conclusion the Band played and Japanese), one of which terminated the Star-Spangled Banner and the fatally. An imported British case of British National Anthem.
small-pox was also notified.