ZALE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17TH, 1915.
THE FIGHT FOR THE CANAL, Ismailia landing-stage, where a number
ROUT OF THE TURKISH INVADERS.
CAIRO, February 7th.
of inhabitants of the town were watching the ongagement, to cause a sudden and lightly comic stampede. Later in the day a French Bilenced it warship, it is claimed.
BRITISH ARTILLERY IN ACTION. Meanwhile the British and Egyptian artillery had come into action at various pointe along our front. All did well. The Turkish column, which renewed the moved against Serapeum, overed by attack near Toussoum and another whics heavy artillery fire, were checked and finally driven castward by our advance from Serapeum and elsewhore Many were killed and wounded, and a number who had entrenched themselves botwear Tousseum and Serapeum word ntinckej and overpowered, and surrendered before our troop closed in
It is now possible to form an idea of the enemy's movements and plans before the recent engagements on the Suez beld, Djemal Pasha committed to the Canal Contrary to the view usually majority of hip advanced guard the more difficult line of advance from Halir el Anja za Wadi-el-Arish and Djebel Libni to Ismailia and Toussoum. A compara tively small force marched from El Arish towards El Kantara vid Katich, whilu bodies of partisans who followed the Akaba-Nakhi road made animportant demonstrations in the Suez region and TE
TURES IN FULL RETREAT, near Tor. He doubtless expected those Meanwhile the attack, or feint, as demonstrations to draw off our troops Ismailia had no better success, and by from more important points, and perhaps in the afternoon the Turks were in full to cause some ferment in Egypt, but his retreat. expectations were disappointed.
They failed, however, to draw off all their surviving, men, for the next Whatever may be said of the enemy's day our troops, moving out eastward tactics, the arrangements for traversing captured some 200 prisoners, three the decorb wore good. The me had Maxims, and a camel convey almost with enough to eat and drink and appear to out resistance have marched well, covering the whole distance from Beersheba to the Canal in 10 marching days and arriving, in gan- eral, in good condition, Everything was done to encourage their belief that the crossing of the Canal could be effected without difficulty
VICTORY OR PARADISE.
The regimental chaplains were instructed to warn the soldiery that, while victory or Paradise awaited them in Egypt, death or Hell would claim those who retreated.
SHIPPING NOTES.
THE SALVAGE OF THE "ASAMA
A Tokyo news agency reports that, though no official statement has yet been made, it has been decided to appropriate Ten 1,500,000 for the salving of the Asama, stranded on the coast of Lower California, this being the sum which it is of the Japanese cruiser will cost. estimated that the refloating and repair
FIRE ON THE GLENLOCHY.”
TWO JAPANESE LABOURENS SUFFOCATED.
SIAM STEAM NAVIGATION CO,
The half-yearly balance shoot of the Biam Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., shows a nett profit of Ticals 187,193.35, including the balance of Ticals 21,438.60 from the preceding half-year, whereof it a pro- posed to utilise Ticals 55,007.71, being per cent per annum on the cost value of the stemmers and 10 per cent, per annum on the cost value of the launches. lighters
INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.
Cargo carried on through Bills of Leding from HONGKONG to BEIBA. DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH ACU CAPE TOWN with tsamhipment at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE,
PROPOSED SAILINGS: Connecting with #SURAT"
I DAGADKOFI MDEJ
FROM COLOMBO I
18th April. EXOFILIBET ACCOMMODATION. FOR 1ST AND 2ND CLASS PAUSENGEER,
20th March
etc. as depreciation, leaving Ticals ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.
138,424,64, to be distributed as follows: & per cent, dividend to the shareholders Tes, 100,000) Remuneration to the Direc fors TCs. 1,093.00 Carried to Reserve account, Tos. 10,000; To be carried for ward to next half-year Tes. 21,326.04.
STRANDING OF A RUSSIAN STEAMER:
Mr. Fedoroff, Agent at Tsuruga of the Russian Volunteer Ficot, has been advised that the Sishen stranded off Matsumave, Yehime prefecture (Shikoku), at five o'clock on Sunday morning, and he frame. diately proceded to the scene of the wreck do ke
A serious fatality occurred at Nagasaki on Wednesday night, the 3rd inst., on arrived the previous Monday with a fire board the British str. Glenlochy, which in one of her holds. Up to Wednesday the fire was still smouldering, says the Nagasaki Press, and it was impossible to extinguish it or to remove the cargo from the hold. Several Japanese remained on board the vessel on Wednesday might, and early next morning three of them were We found on the bridge deck in an unconscious between Ismailia and Berapaum anoogage During the action of February
condition. They had evidently laid down ment took place at El Kantara.
there to sleep, contrary to instructions, Here, too, the first attack was made before dawn, and been overcome by the fumes from the Owing to our inundations the enemy was burning cargo. Two were past help when forced to advance on a narrow front over discovered, but the other revived, ⠀ very soft ground, where some, decording to witnesses of the fight, stuck up to before dawn came. At daybreak another their wrists in mud. The attack failed attack was pushed from the south-east.
NO CHANCE OF SUCCESS.
The officers, some of From all accounts the enemy never had
a chance of eucocoding. whom appear to have been highly co- troops came bravely on, but our fire was The Syrian fident of success, added their injunctions too much for them. A shell from one of to the exhortations of the Imams, while our warships wiped out a party of lying articles in the Tanin accusing officers A low ridge where the enemy British troops of massacres of our Arab was attempting to entrench was swept by brethren"
were distributed among them, our artillery, according to the time-honoured policy of the Committee of Union and Progress
The advance of the Indian troops com The centre column of the Turkish ploted the work of the guns. By 3 all was over, and on the 4th our troops advanced guard was composed of troops pushing out from the Canal, found that belonging to the Eighth Army Corps, the hostile column had retreated, and had under the command of Djemal Pasha, & mamesake of the Ottoman Commander-in-east, which had been strongly entrenched even abandoned a position several miles Chief of the Syrian Army; and to these as a point d'appui Bome Turkish troops of the Fourth Army Corps were attached. Of the Beduin suxiliaries of whom so much has been heard since the outbreak of the war in Turkey little indeed has been seen in rent encounters, and it would appear that the huge levies of irregulars, of whom rumour told many tales of late, have either never existed or have mysteriously Ovaporated before the hostile advanced
guard drew near the Canal.
THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT,
Since then prisoners, rifles, and other trophies have been streaming is The captured expected to be delivered to torment, were delighted to find them- selves well treated and fed. The only complaint that any of them made was that the Indian troops upbraided them severely with the disgraceful conduct of the Turkish Government, whereupon the Syrian prisoners, in many cases, were equally ready to heap curses on the Government.-Times,
prisoners, Bome of whom when first
SUEZ CANAL FIGHTING. TWO FRENCH WARSHIPS TAKE PART.
Additional particulars
about the
N.F.K.EUROPEAN". SERVICE,
FALMOUTH TO BE MADE THE TERMINUS FOR THE PRESENT.
Owing to the danger of attack by German submarines, the N.Y.K. European liners will land their passengers at Falmouth, in Cornwall, instead of Lon- don, for the time being. Already the NY.K. hner Kitano Mary has gone direct to Falmouth, instead of London, to land passengers. Apart from the fact that the Straits of Dover are dangerous, the load- ing and unloading of general cargo at the London dorks is very difficult on account of the number of transports, as present cargo may be still taken to many as forty entering daily. For the London instead of Falmouth, but in case the danger in the Channel is enhanced the N.K. boats will unload at Falmouth, and the cargo will be sent by rail to Lon-
don. →Kobe Herold.
FREIGHTS TO NEW YORK.
Onco a
the steamship operators have put the remarks a Manila paper, screws on the exporters, for cablegrams were received last week by exporting houses announcing that the New York Conferences which regulates the rates for nearly all the big freight lines running into New York, had advanced the freight on hemp from Manila to New York from 99/- to 132/-, an advance of 33/- per ton. The advance comes as no surprise to the local exporters, who have been ex pecting a rise for a number of days, Since the rise of the London and Liver
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The Nagasam Press says the Kura Naval station was informed by the cruisers Soya and so that a foreign steamer had been sighted ashore off Lyo, where the cruisers were engaged in operations on Sunday Attempts had boon made to give assistance, but in vain, as the water is shallow in the neighbourhood and the sea was rough. On Monday morning the Sishan's bow was high in the air, bat the wreck could not be approached owing to high seas. The R.V. steamer was in MARSEILLES & LONDON ..." CITY OF CORINTH”... On 9th March, charge of a foreign pilot from Kobe.
OUR HEALTHY ARMY:
WONDERFUL FREEDOM FROM
SERIOUS ILLNESS.
Sir Wilmot Herringham, who, with Sir stations (formerly called clearing hos Anthony Bowlby, is visiting the clearing pitals) and a stationary hospital, writes:
about the campaign is the slight amount of serious illness. We have had a month or more of unceasing rain on a flat country through which no water will drain. The ditches are brimful, the furrows are full, the meadows are
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AND ELECTRIC SYSTEMS.
Yet I have seen few cases of pneumonia flooded mangon_a
and practically no rheumatie fever or true dysentery, and I believe that the total number of enterie cases for the whole campaign is still under 400,
WEATHER REPORT,
dropping bombs, to the distancing Turkish repulse on the Suez Canal last pool rate to 150/a fow days ago, it was 1ns weskened and moved seastwaring it is
our
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GRAVING DOCK-787 by 85' by 84′ 6′′
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The first fight with the advanced parties of Djemal's northern column took place on 27th January. It was an unim portant affair, in which the losses on our side were small, but it showed conclu sively that the unemy meant to make for a point towards Katieh. In the Best few days the advanced parties were rein- forced, while our airmen succeeded in of the Beduina,
op hostile bodies westwarde One of aeroplanes had month shew that the defent was complete rata would be advanced in proportion. As a foregone conclusion that the New York narrow escape of descend in
obliged to in every respect. The fact that French the rates are governed primarily by the the of the enemy, darting away again when plmost Warships took part in the engagement 15 availablo tonnage, the recent increases in rhe monsoon is interrupted to the worth CHREE PATENT SLIPWAYS taking romela up to 3,000 tons displacement, providing
disclosed in the following announcement dicate that the starcity of ships is getting made by the Minister of Maring in to be more serious as the war progresses, Parising the attack by the Turkish of 23 promings in the New York rate will
is probable the tremendous ariny on the Suez Canal on February 3rd force down the price of hempain the local two French warships, the Requin and market. the D'Entrecasteaus, successfully assist ed in the defence of the Canal guardship Requin reduced the Turks heavy guns to silence, while the cruiser D'Entrecasteau dispersed large forces of the enemy, The two vessels suffered ne damage.
in their clutches amid a heavy fire.
In this connection it may be noted that the death of two airmen killed by
accident by our outposts when coming in after an accident to their machine was in no wise due to error on the part of our troops. The airmen, neither of whom was a trained soldier, blew whistles when near our advanced posts, which just sighted them through the night. Our men, naturally taking this as a signal to charge, opened fire with fatal results.
BATTLE IN A BANDSTORM
The
According to prisoners, the advance guard, which was in action, came from Sola, in Palestine, and had taken twenty- five days to march to the scene of action.
Commander-in-Chief Djemal Pasha was declared to be with the main army at Beersheba.
NEW SHIRE LINER"
On the 16th at 11520 .m.-ho anti-cyclone
Pres ure has consequently increased over Jayan antra, over the Yellow Bes this morning. and decreased moderately to slightly elsewhere, Frocho Lat moderate easterly winds will all over the north part of the Chios Bes.
to am, to-ding, 0.06 Inches,
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 ure ending at
The forest for the 24 hours anding at noo to-day in za Lollows
DISTRICT.
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
Formosa Channel
FORECAST
N.E. winds. fresh, moderat South coast of China between The fame 13
ing
_____ Hongkong end Lamooks. 1 No. 1. South coast of China between The rama na
Hongkong and flainan.. 1 No, L.
with urialing sain, probably improving later.
Easterly winde, moderate to light; cloudy
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
The new Shire Lino steamer Carmar- thenshire, built nt Belfast for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, London, left Belfast Harbour on 6th ult, and proceed On 2nd February the enemy's advanced
ed to Carrick Roads, where machinery guard came to within striking distance
tests and speed trials were carried out. of our centre. During the day part of
The results were entirely successful. The them came into action near Ismailia in
new vessel is 483 ft. in length, with a sandstorm which blew clouds of dust and
gross tonnage of about 8,000 tons, and sand over the bare desert, baulking the
complies with the British Board of Trade gunners, who expended quantities of
requirements for a passenger steamer. ammunition and caused only six casual- There is considerable surprise, says the Accommodation for first-class passengers ties among our troops. The shooting of Morning Post correspondent, that 12,000 is provided in comfortable state-rooms in the enemy's infantry was bad. They were of the enemy should have reached the the midship dockhouse, and the poop and heavily shelled by land and naval gure, Canal lacking commissariat and trans bridge spaces are arranged to accommo but the dust clouds prevented our men port, and it is conjectured that the main date about 500 steerage passengers. The from ascertaining what losses they army may probably succeed in advancing vessel is built on the girder system of con- inflicted.
this to the Canal, especially since the Germans struction, and the cargo spaces are thus Meanwhile
column, composed apparently of a pontoon company of are making tremendous effects in building free of obstruction and capable of receiv Turks, the 76th Regiment, belonging to a railway to the frontiering the largest type of shipments. Several the 25th Division, with the 4th Regiment brings about the collapse of the German insulated and prepared for carrying Unless a revolution in Constantinople of the cargo compartments have been of the same division and two Anatolian Battalions in support, prepared an attack
general refrigerated cargo, for which on our position near Tonesoum, near the
plant has been installed for the preserva- point where the Canal emerges from the
tion of this class of cargo and the ship's Timsah Lake The advanced parties had
perishable stores. An installation of Barometer weached the little oasis of Bir Muria near
wireless telegraphy has been fitted. The Temperature the Canal. Only here was there any
propelling machinery is of the quadruple Humidity cover worth mentioning. Southward along our front towards Serapeum
expansion type, with the necessary Wind Direction suxiliary appliances and cylindrical Force stretches an open gravel plain, bare and mlmost without even a camel scrub, The
multitubular boilers working under forced Weather decision to make the first rash at night
draught, imposed upon the Ottoman
commander.
MIDNIGHT ATTACK.
After midnight the Turks moved down
one prisoner.
We
Turkish alliance operations on a much larger scale are expected. Our position, however, is immensely strong, and the poor condition of the Turkish troops warrants the most complete confidence.
VESSELS EXPECTED.
BANK AMERIKI VAN MAYE.
Yokohama on the 12th March for Hoag The P.M. str. China sailed from
kong via Manila. The mails have been transferred to the M.M. str. Atlantique, scheduled to arrive at Hongkong on the
20th March, AUSTRALIAN MAIL
THE
CALCULATION OF FREIGHT CHARGES.
to attack The pontoon section" and its
A QUESTION OF SEIFFING PRACTICE. immediate supports were at first The E. & A. str. Empire left Bydney unmolested, We heard on free for this port (via Queensland Ports and important exporting firm in a letter bear An interesting point is raised by an your side," Know your trenches were somewhere near Manila) on the 8th March, and may being on the customs of shipowners in charg but no sound came to us. We only heardspected to arrive hane on or about 28th ing freight per tot according to weight or measurement, whichever basis yields the three dogs barking a long way off. We March. reached the water and began to dig and
higher freight. In the present case freight build a pontoon bridge. We thought wo
was engaged for about 30 tons of steel must have found a gap in your line
troughs, which nested one into the other. Then a Maxim opened on us.
These troughs, it is stated, could not have been stowed in such a way as to occupy as much as 40 cubis ft. per ton weight, which is the recognized measurement equiva
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With the steep canal bank behind them the luckless Turks who had reached the water were swept away by our fire Many were killed and droyned. detachment of two companies of the 75th Regiment, which supported them, suffered heavy losses Attempts to cover the advance farther south with Maxim fire failed. The 4th Regiment supporting the 75th got boat on the Canal, which was sunk as it reached the western bank and a plucky officer and one soldier who Burvived were taken prisoners. Indian troops shot straight, and fought coolly and well."
Our
MABUHANT BERABERS.
The T.K.K. str. Ohiyo Maru will arrive at this port from San Francisco, Japan ports and Manils on the afternoon of 19th March
REGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, March 16th,
Previous On Listejon Date
Day
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hroughout the Shops ranging to 100 Tons, "
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 17th to 23rd March, 1915.
HIGH WATER
Month
Height
Low Wazun.
B'kong
H'kong
Mean
Mesa
Time
Time
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18
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4.0
The P. & O. Br. Nore left Bingapore for this port on the 14th March, am, and is due here on the 19th March, p.m. lent. The exporters expected, therefore, The str. Arabien is due here from to pay freight on the actual weight of the Sahang on the 20th March.
total consignment, but the shipowners Wel 17m 10 4 The str. Umaria left Calcatts on the 8th messured the dimensions of each trough March and may be expected here on or separately and charged accordingly, which about the 25th March,
exporters say that this procedure could made the bill considerably heavier. The
ot
have been adopted if the Star 20m 10:55 60 11 53m 4.47 troughs had been tied together
2 91 m 0 29147m
11-19 6 0.
37m 11 51- 60 No infor. big
The str. Sanpola left Caloutts on the 3rd March, and may be expected here on or about the 25th March
The Barber Line str. St. Egbert left New York for Hongkong vid Suez Canal
in bundles with wire, though they would then have been more difficult much too heavy for convenient handling. They think that the facts should be Tues. brought to the notice of Chambers of Com merec and associations of merchants in order that a precadent may be established,
The attack failed, hat the aution was on the 2nd January and is now due to stow, and the packages would have been Man. not over. At dawn the enemy's artillery The Barber Line str. Bolton Castle for attacked the warships on Lake Timsal Hongkong vid Panama Canal left New Shots from a sin, gun hit H.M.S. York on the 29th January and is therefore Hardinge twice, and it appears that one due to arrive here shout the beginning of abell was sent sufficiently near the April.
22 m 1:3)
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56 29 5,35 20
56 242 2 5:14:32 7 24 24 5.12. 35 8 52 ml 26 for low- water.
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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
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