THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 195
GERMAN AIRSHIP RAID ON
ENGLAND.
DAMAGE AT YARMOUTH AND KING'S LYNN.
SANDRINGHAM ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES.
GERMAN BOMBS DROPPED ON FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
NORFOLK - TOWNS,
DANAGE AT YARMOUTH AND
KING'S LYNN
KING AND QUEEN ABSENT FROM SANDRINGHAM
WHEN AIRCRAFT APPEARED.
LONDON, January 19th.. 11.55. p.m.
A German aircraft has passed over Yarmouth and dropped several bombs, doing a good deal of damago to property and inflicting soine loss of life.
LAYER. The aircraft appeared at 8.30 in the
· ewoning. It was impossible to see the machine, but the buzzing of the
of the motors was plainly audible it appeared to be Barrying a searchlight.
The period of the bomb-dropping lasted ten minutes. One man had his head blown
off.
···LATER.
It was too dark to identify the aircraft at Yarmouth, but from the noise of tho
engine it was believed to be an aeroplane. It remained ten minutes and dropped five bombs.
Three people were killed and several houses were shattered. Many windows wore broken.
The aircraft subsequently dropped two bombs at Sheringham, but they did no damage.
It is noteworthy that an Amsterdam 'telegram reports that three German air
(THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
ARTILLERY ACTIONS IN
SNOWSTORMS.
LONDON, January 19th.
5.30 p.m. Today's Paris communiqué says -- Snowstorms continue in Belgium," but there has been intermittent cannonading. Snow has tlso fallen in Arras, where our heavy artillery on several occasions silenced the enemy's batteries.
There has been a somewhat lively action at La Boiselle, but the enemy has not renewed his attacks.
The bombardiment of St. Peal and Soissons has not been followed by an infantry attack.
Artillery duels continue at Rheims,
Bois-le-Pretro where we now occupy 500 We captured another German work at
metres of German trenches.
A snowstorm prevails in the Vosges, and there is artillery activity especially at Bandesapt and Thann,
LONDON, January 20th.
3.05 am. The Paris evening communiqué contains no incident of importance.
THE
[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CABLE}
BRITISH OPERATIONS,
IN FRANCE.
LONDON, January 10th.
F WAR NEWS.
NEW SERVICE BATTALIONS.
COMMISSIONS FOR ENGLISHMEN
FROM MANTLAR:2
Temporary commissions in the new Service Battalions have been granted to the following:
է:
JM McCloud, to be Captain.
R. Griffith, to be Captain. H. 8. D, MRONeal, to be Lieutenant. A: 0. Baigree, to he 2nd Lieutenant.
T. Russell, to be 2nd-Lieutenant. S. E. Towill, to be 2nd Lieutenant. R. Warnock, to be 2nd-Lieutenant.
NOTES FROM PEKING. FROM OUR OWN:CORRESPONDENT]
PEKING, January 11th. BEGINNING THE YEAR WELL China may be anid to have begun 1915
wall:
Law No. 1 introduces a
77 SHIPPING NOTES.
T.K.K. CAPTAINS,
PRESS CENSOR'S DUTIES DEFINED.
DEBATE IN THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
CRITICISM OF THE GOVERNMENT
NOT TO BE SUPPRESSED.
A Manjia contemporary states that Captain A. G. Stevens, R.N.B, has resigned from the employ of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Captain Stevens, who was in command of the Nippon Afari, retired from the Japanese service after turning
During the discussion of the Defence of his vessel over to the Government for use the Realm Consolidation Bill, in the as a troopship. What Captain Stevens House of Commons on November 23rd, intentions are is not known. He is pow in Japan with his wife. The Nippon is 25th and 26th, the Leader of the Opposi- now in command of a Japanese skipper, tion, Mr. Bonar Las made a strong Captain Togo, who formerly had one of protest against the Solicitor-General's with the Japanese Government in connec the smaller ships. Under the agreement interpretation of the powers of the Pross tion with the subsidy the Toyo Kisen Bureau as including the stopping of can employ no other European captains criticism of the Government when it is outside of those who now possess Japanese of such a character that it might destroy,
* Another "mteresting piece of news ting brought by the Tenge was that Captain H. Stanley Smith retains command of the Shingo Maru. While Captain Smith was being questioned by a board of inquiry at Yokohama concerning & collision there the big turbiner was taken on to between the Shingo and the breakwater Manila and China by Captain W. C. to San Francisco as a passenger.
important reform by the establishment of standard for weights and measures China As is generally known, the system of weights and measures in Chica is theoretically a uni
a uniform one, that is to say, the forms employed throughout the country are the same, but the standards are most variable, being found dissimilar in places Bity s apart. The inconvenience thus created has long been recognised, and the Weights and Measures Law promulgated by the President on the 8th inst., and based on the recommendation of the papers, International Weights and Measures Conference, is designed to mest the need which exjata for uniformity. The most satisfactory feature of the new legislation on leave. On the way over from Manila he decided to apply for a commission in the but it has been so adapted as to cause is that the metric system has been adopted, new British Service Battalion, and his comparatively little change from the application being successful ho resigned existing system or systems. Moreover, his appointment in Manila and has pro the old and the new systems are to ba ceeded to England with his friends fron
allowed to be in operation side by side the Philippines.
with the idea of making the transition as Mr. B. A. Stokes and Mr. W. G. Dove easy as possible, but at the same time a are Hongkong men."
W. G. Dove, to be 2nd-Lieutenant. R. A. Stokes, to be 2nd-Lieutenant. The first seven have been residing in the Philippines. Mr. McCloud has for twelve years been a captain in the Philip pino Constabulary, and was going Home
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL" CORPS
limit is to be set to the period in which the old system will be recognised.
OPIUM STILL GROWN...
Filmer, reserve skipper, who has returned
THE
ZAMBIA'S" CARGO.
AN ACTION AT MANILA,
Compagnie de Commerce et de Naviga tion D'Extrême Orient, plaintiff, t. The Hamburg-Amerika Packetfahcht Action I have had an interesting conversation Gesellshaft, defendant, is the title of a Shanghai has caused to be published the from a long trip in Shansi and Kansu, of P240,900 in the matter of the adjust
His Majesty's Consul General at with a gentleman who has just returned care filed in the Court of First Instance
Manila, and which involves the sum following information for the guidance have applied or who may apply much in evidence in these two provinces. steamer Zambia. of British medical men in Chine, who and he tells me that opium is veryment of the cargo discharged from the for temporary Commissions in the In fact, the poppy is still openly
RAM.C
The plaintiff is a corporation with its principal office in Paris, with a branch
public confidence in the Government charged with the conduct of the war. In the light of the Solicitor-General's speech, ho affirmed that it was the right of every member of Parliament, of every nows-
platform, if he honestly believed that a paper, and of every speaker on a public member of the Goverment was insom-
petent. to try to get rid of him. If the Government were not to be criticised their power grew and they became more and more dictatorial. Indeed, he was not sure if they had not, in consequenos of this power, exercised a pressure upon the 'ress which in the long run might ba found to be detrimental to, the real interests of the country and the successful
contention was endorsed in all quartans conduct of the win
The Times says that Mr. Bonar Law's of the House, and Mr. McKenna, the Home Secretary, silently accepted the major part of his argument
Subsequently, Lord Robert Cocil, K.,
A cultivated, and as long as fines are office in Saigon, and is represented for moved a series of amendments to the sub-
His Majesty's Consul General is now such Commissions. The applications must well. Opium which costs 811 an ounce in empowered to receive applications for paid to the Suppression Bureau all goes be made in writing and should state Peking, and very poor opium at that, can previous service with His Majesty's Army, if any Candidates must be registered bo had in Shinst for one dollar, a figura practitioners and should be under 35 years which indicates that the supply is by no of age, although in special cases, no is
engagement for a period of twelve authorized to recommend gentlemen, up to 40. The conditions of service tra
months or until their services are 12 longer required, with daily pay of s shillings and a gratuity at termination of service of £60
Candidates will be interviewed person ally by His Majesty's Consul-General, and, if unknown to him, should produce a letter of recommendation from some responsible person. Candidates accepted will be granted letters of recommendation for a Commission in the RAMC for presentation at the War Office.
GENERAL JOFFRE AND THE GERMANS:
means restricted.
BASTWAR NOTES.
It is stated on fairly good authority here that three Austrian officers, who wore prisoners of war in Siberia, managed to escape and succeeded in making their way to Peking, where they have received the assistance of their Legation.
In this connection I may mention that I was credibly informed in Russian circles that the Russian authorities have not been able to make use of the Austrian prisonera in Siberia owing to the fact that the latter cannot stand the severe winter.
Louis Décroiset. Defendant is a corpora Martials to prevent the spreading of the liquidation of the subject matter by section of the Bill authorising Court- tion, duly organized under the laws of reports likely to cause disaffection or Germany, having its principal office in alarm. The amendment substituted for Behn; Meyer & Co. Ltd.; and by Ernst the spread of false reports or reporte Hamburg, being represented in Manila by these words the following:-"To prevent Vietmeyer master of the steamer Zambia,likely to ce use disaffection to His Majestyr On June 17th, 1814, it is alleged in the or to interfere with the success of Ris petition, defendant chartered and hired Majesty's forces by land or sex, or to to the plaintiff the steamer Zambia for the prejudice His Majesty's relations with purpose of carrying & full cargo of rice, foreign Powers." His lordship said he hran, and cargo meal from the port of was sure that those responsible for the Saigon to the ports of Dunkirk and Ham Censorship would be the first to agree burg. On July 28th plaintiff loaded and that nothing would be more disastrous shipped on the Zambia at Saigon the above than that an impression should get abroad cargo, the total weight of which amounts that the powers of the Censor were being to 6,194,829 kilograms, pages used for political purposes or for the
The Zambia sailed from Saigon, but purpose of undue concealment of mis deviated from the stipulated course, arriv fortunes or anything else of the kind ing at Manila on August 8th, where she has merely because they were likely to prove since remained, but failed to tranship or embarrassing or disagreeables or hartful forward this cargo to its destination. On to the reputation of any particular Beptember 10th, acting on authority of the saw their way to accept the modification Minister He was glad the Government Court, this cargo was sold for P135,766, ambicet to determination Safety
The true value of this cargo, alleges plaintiff, is not less than 1266,930, and it is requested that the deposit of P135,786 be delivered to plaintiff, and that judg ence between this amount and the value of the payment,
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA'S NEW LINERS.
It was thought that these men would have which amount has been deposited in Court of the clause, because, it showed that they
been set to railway work, but now they have to be kept practically in idleness.
hear, too, that medical comforts for
The following is an extract from a letter written under date November 28th by the brother of a well-known resident
battery at the front of Kuala Lumpur, who is in command of the prisoners in Siberia have been
of $140,000,
recognized the desirability of carrying out the duties of the censorship with strict gard to the underlying principles upon which must repose popular Government in any form or shape on the equntry.
The Solicitor-General, who is in charge office should have no concern with politics. If in the emergency of a great national crisis the Government had called into
ships were sighted at the island of dispatch on the operations on the British I met a light infantry regiment the Purchased in North China to the value ment be given for P266,230 less the differof the Press Buretu, agreed that that
Ameland carly in the afternoon, flying westward,
LONDON, January 20th.
2.05 Bim. An aircraft, believed to be a Zeppelin, at 10.45 last evening dropped four bombs King's Lynn. Bombs were also dropped near Sandringham.
Laren
Two houses were demolished at King's Lynn. A boy was killed and three persons were injured.
"The damage sustained at Sandringham is not known.
The Eye-witness at Headquarters in a
whereas front in France stutes that the report of a considerable British success at Labassco is untrue, but our artillery completely ruined a bridge of great importance at Frelinghien, below Armentieres.
The floods have now slightly subsided. The physical well-being of the German troops is inferior to that of the British They are not so warmly clad and their medical attendance is undoubtedly inferior
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
The special constables in London have FRENCH SUBMARINE SUNK been called out in view of an airship raid.
·LATER
An Amsterdam telegram states that at
tivo o'clock in the morning threo German airships passed Hellum, Vlieland and Terschelling, returning from the west.
Their Majesties the King and Queen left Sandringham yesterday and arrived in London several hours before the appearance of the hostile aircraft.
A Zeppelin passed Dersingham, half a mile from Sandringham House, but the nearest place to the Palace that a bomb was thrown was Heacham, near Hunstan
ton.
In the street at King's Lynn where the houses were demolished all the front doors
LONDON, January 19th. An official announcement at Paris states
that the submarine Saphir, which was ou patrol duty near the Dardanelles on the 15th inst, has not rejoined the squadron. has been sunk. Turkish vessels rescue
According to foreign Press accounts the
part of the crew,
DUTCH NAVAL LAUNCH BLOWN UP
LONDON, January 20th,
A telegram from Amsterdam says that a Dutch Naval launch has been blown up by a mine in the Scheldt, and that five men were drowned.
were burst in and the furniture in the GENERAL: houses scattered by the explosion.
A report that a Zeppelin was brought down at Hunstanton is unconfirmed.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RUSSIAN PURSUIT OF THE TURKS.
LONDON, January 19th
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
CARDINAL MERCIER AND THE GERMANS.
A LETTER OF PROTEST.
PERSONALIA
other day with only three officers and 20 men lefty, and come regiments are fewer Au entertainment in the interests of still. Of course, the majority are slight the Belgian Relief Fund is being given in wounds, 28 really the proportion of killed the Poking Pavilion on Saturday, and is is very small. I heard from a French Joffre says that when he chooses to drive members of the allied nations in the staff officer a few days ago that General certain to attract
patronage from the Germans back over the Rhine (for which the time is not yet ripe) he can do
capital. it with a total loss from all causes of 200,000 men, which is only ten per cont Now medical men calculate that in any one action 25 per cent, is the usual loza, offre will only lose 400 actually killed, and on the same calculation General which is very light when one thinks of the enormous frontago General. Joffre also says that he loses one man for grey four Germans at present, so it pays to Bit tight and wear them down on this side while the Russians press or in the
Eust.
REAL CAUSE OF THE WAR.
GERMAN SOCIALIST'S PLAIN SPEAKING. At least there is one man in Germany,
of the London Daily Chronicle, who has telegraphs the Amsterdam correspondent no illusions as to the reasons actuating the German military waste in making war without provocation.
the Reichstag recently, had the courage This is Herr Karl Liebknecht, who, in to vote against the new German wars loan. In the Socialist journal Het Folk, he was not wished for by any of the nations explains his attitude. The war, ho sage,
Lady Jordan has returned to Peking after a six months' holiday.
Colonel Keo, commandant of the British Legation Guard, and Mrs. Kes, leave for Home to-day,
portant additions will be made to the The Japan Advertiser reports:---Im
Osaka Shosen Kaisha trans-Pacife flest next August, when two new passenger and freight steamships of 10,000 tons register will be placed in the E
Fervice between
existence, u body whose function it was to
for a very base end. He also agreed that colour things in their favour, they would have abused the confidence of the nation and used the great national emergency the idea of keeping back, news from the public because it was disagreeable to disclose it was a policy that should never
Hongkong, and Victoris mit Yokohaina be pursed. It was, and always had been, the vessels in question, are now rapidly taken as far as possible into the confidence The Manila Maru and the Hawaii Mari, his opinion that the country should bo
of the Government and of every Depart completing in Japanese shipbuilding Commercial Bureau of the Japanese is stated that the O.S.K. Company concealed until they were forgotten, or Mr. Sakata, the Director of the yards, and will be launched during the ment of the Government. He had no syn- early months of this year nopathy with the view that difficulties might. plans to put the Manila Maru in com that disasters should be concealed in th mission in August, when she will be dishone that something might happen in the patched from Yokohama to Victoria and interval which would divert public atten- followed in September by the sister ship occurred. He was very glad that the other North Pacific ports. She will be tion from the fact that the disaster, lind Hawaii Maru. The former is now near his desire that as lar as possible the antendment had been introduced. It was ing a state of completion at the Mitsu Bishi yards at Nagasaki, while the latter is functions and duties of his office should
be made plain also well advanced at the Kawasaki yards at Kobe
Foreign Office, arrived here to-day on his first visit to China, and other distin guished Japanese visitors are due in the persons of Major-General Oshima, Vice Minister for War, and Major-General Fukuma
Mr. J. H. Arnold, the new Commercial arrived here from Hankow Attaché to the American Legation, has
MORE DECORATIONS.
Instead of conferring upon foreign
similar to Chinese high officials, the advisers the title of Ching and Tafil,
Government propose to award them Chin the President has ordered a list of all ho decorations, and it is announced that
These vessels aro each of 10,000 tons register; and will have a speed of seven teen knots an hour. They are being fitted
The amundiment was then agreed to. Replying next day to a question by Mr. Long as to the functions of the Press Bureau,
The Solicitor General said -It has boats of the fleet. The two ships have been thing that can be made public without is to be found on the present trans-acid been, and will continue to be the pelos is on the present trans-Pace of permitting the publication of every- specially designed for the trans-Pacific danger to the Stato. Shosen Kaisha will at ones become strong that the position of the Press Censorship trade, and, by reason of their huge freight caparity, combined with speed, the Osaka
Apropert er welfare of the German or any other foreign officers employed in the various competitors of the other lines for a large in England and in the Colonies is not
departments of the to share of the prepared to that decorations may be awarded them in recognition of their
involved, nor was it started for the benefit
nation.
It is a militaries war," declares Her
Liebknecht, a war for the domination. of the markets of the world, for political demination, for capitalistic and indus servicos. trial domination, for the possession of new sphere: for commercial exploitation,
The war has been precipitated by the German and Austrian war parties acting in mutual agreement in the darkness and secrecy of diplomacy to be ready before their adversaries,
ARCTIC WEATHER AT SHANGHAI
Veus, should make "the weather" a keen
"A LANTERN PROCESSION,
of Commerce in
Peking was unusually gay on Sunday night when a lantern procession, organised by the Chamber celebration of the promulgation of the Presidential Election Law, took place It was certainly picturesque and added
much to the life of the streets. Its chief interest lies in the fact that it was an expression of interest in public affairs by members of the community, and as such is
GOOD PROSPECTS. a pleasing sign of progress,
of the above, we understand
Paffic trade moving across the garded as analogous The view of
JAPANESE SHIPPING
When the Manila Maru and the Hawa the Defence of the Realm Act is Mars are put in commission, it is said the Press in the Crown Colon in force, that two, or possibly three, of the Com-trolled by virtue of para III: of the pany's steamers now operating to this Order-in-Council of 18th October, 1896, Coast will be withdrawn and placed on published by HE, the Governor in his another route. As the tw ew liners will Proclamation, No. 8 in the Hongkong be operated on a fast schedule, thres of the Government Gazette Extraordinary of with, present fleet could easily be dispensed August 5th, which provides that:
So long as this Order shall be in operation in any Colony the following provisions have offect
sholl 1-Every person who shall for the time being be within the limits of the Colony shall be subject to Military Law for the purposes of the Army Act and the said. Act shall
he deemed to apply to such person in the same man- ner as if such person had been a person accompanying HM.'s troops or some portion thereof, when employed in active service beyond the ceas, and such person shall, for the purposes of the said Act, be deemed to be under the command of the Officer Commanding His Majesty's troops.
SUBSIDIES,
CONTRACTS FOR 1918 SIGNED.
Although by the dissolution of the Dict the Shipping Subsidy Bill failed to be come law, contracts have been signed with the steamer companies on the basis pro- posed in the Bill, says the Japan Chronicle. The term of the contracts is
European and Australian lines, with the one year and they have been concluded with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for the
A continuance of the severe cold and LONDON, January 10th." frost which has been experienced during An Amsterdam telegram states that the past few days, remarks the V-C Daily The Chinese attach mach importance to Cardinal Mercier has sent a letter to the rival of the war as a topic of geneed the fact that there has been a greater fall priests of his diccess in which he protests ciate the fine, invigorating atmosphere of understood to forecast a particularly conversation. Most people will appre- of snow than usual this year. This is against the Germans forcing entrance into these dry sunny days, except perhaps good harvest, and consequently there Toyo Kisen Kaisha for the San Francisco We are, however, of opinion that this clauso
those who have anxiously telephoned to A Petrograd communiqué states that the vicarages, seizing his pastoral letter, the office of the Shanghai Water Works a feeling of hopefulness, which is shared and South American lines and jointly is too vague in its terms to justify any Russinus are successfully pursuing the threatening to panish priests if they read Company to inquire when the man is even by the President His Excellency Osaka Bhosen Kaisha for the Puget The question is how far military law with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the definite conclusions on the point raised. retreating Turks, clearing the enemy out it, violating a Cardinal's dignity by coming to repair sie pipes which have has revived another practice of the Ching Sound, including Seattle and Tacoma, for the purposes of the Army Act, ean ho
burst Calls for assistance are being con- detaining him, and violating the rights of stantly received, the frozen pipe dynasty by giving instructions for the lines. The most important redistribuemploved to restrict the Liberty of the the priests and himself. He congratulates casualties so far numbering about 20, provincial authorities to forward weather tion is in respect of the American lines Press in regard to the discussion of mat- very much in excess of the number usually reports, a practice which has lapsed since No announcement has been made conzern-ters of public policy as distinct from the the priests on doing their duty.
reported about this period of the year, the revolution,
ing the Osaka company's application for publication of information likedy to drove a share in the European subsidy,
dangerous to the State
of the Transchorok country, capturing his
positions on the Sultan Selim mountain,
and inflicting heavy losses,
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