THE WAR.
RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN
CARPATHIANS.
SUBSTANTIAL SPOILS.
ITALO-AUSTRIAN NEGOTIATIONS
FAIL.
BRITISH SUCCESS NEAR YPRES.
GERMAN LINE PENETRATED.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REFTER'S AGENCY.]
RUSSIA'S GREAT VICTORY IN THE CARPATHIANS.
PETROGRAD, April 10th An official communiqué has been issued ̈stating :→
COSTLY GERMAN ATTACK.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, APRIL 201m, 1915
PARIS, April 18th To-day's communiqué states:— After a violent bombardment, a Ger man battalion attacked north-west of Orbey, in Alsace, but was repulsed. The my left many dead-in-front of our trenches, and wo made a number of prisoners.
After eighteen days' persistent attacks,
A Belgian aeroplano wrecked a Ger- we captured, by April 5th, the principal man aeroplane near Roulers. One of our chain of the Carpathians on the front Air Squadrons successfully bombarded Reghetral-Nolessats, a length of seven- an aerodrome in the same region. ty miles. Fighting since that date has been in the nature of isolated actions, with the object, of consolidating our gains,
FRENCH BAYONET CHARGE.
PARIS, April, 19th 2.30 a.m.
The evening communiqué states :..... The day has been comparatively-quict, |
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
GREEK STEAMER TORPEDOED WITHOUT NOTICE.
Loveon, April 18th.
A message from Flushing states that 22 of the crew of the Greek steamer Ellis Pontos declare that the vessel was twice torpedoed without warning, westward of Nordhinder last evening. The vessel was empty.
The crew rowed for two and a half hours before they reached Northinder. The captain was badly wounded and has been sent to hospital.
BRITISH TRAWLERS ATTACKED BY AEROPLANES.
LONDON, April 18th, German aeroplanes dropped bombs on
two British trawlers and afterwards fixed on them. Both attempts were without result,
AIRSHIP ACTIVITY,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH AERIAL WORK ON THE SUEZ,
LONDON, April 18th. The Press Bureau issues a message from Cairo which states that three aeroplanes from the Suez Canal reconnoitred on the 15th inst. to El Birr, 25 miles south- of El Arish, effectively dropping nine bombs. About 150 to 200-tents were seen No onemy's troops are on this side of El Sitr,
The distance flow was over 170-miles- GENERAL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,) AUSTRIANS ATTACK ITALIAN TROOPS.
PR April 18th. A telegram from Milan says Austrians
the operations consisting principally of on the Italian frontier attacked the 11th artillery duels and local infantry weBersaglieri, which repulsed the assailants and followed them two hundred yards into Austrian territory.
Lions,
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Wo captured, between March 19th and April 12th, 70,000 prisoners, including 900 officers, 30 guns and 200 machine-guns
Another official communiqué says At the beginning of March (Old Style) | Our artillery arrosted a German at- the only portion of the principal chain tack in St. Mard Wood, in the valley There were losses on both sides, which of the Carpathians in possession of the of the Aisne. We charged with the are said to include at least a hundred Russians was in the region of the Dukla bayonet, inflicting heavy losses on the killed, --: Pass. All the other Passes were in the enemy.
hands of the enemy. We decided, before Soveral weak German attacks in the the season of melting snows and bad forest of Parroy, in Lorraine, were roads arrived, to extend our positions easily repulsed.
Baminating the outlets into the un- The Germans in Alsace three times un- garion Plain. Great Austrian forces, successfully attacked pur trenches at which had concentrated for tão purpose Little Reichackerkopf.
of relieving Przysl, were then between the Lapkoff and the Uzsok Passes Our grand attack was planned for this sector. In order to facilitate a frontal attack over difficult, ground, it was decided to make an auxiliary attack in the direc tion of Bartfield to Lupkoff. This began
on March 19th and was completed on the
HAVAL ACTIVITIES.
|THROUGH REUTHER'S AGENOT.]
BRITISH SUBMARINE
ASHORE.
Losbos, April 18th.
The Press Bureau states that British
The Colonel of the regiment has been ordered to Rome to report the incident. ITALY AND AUSTRIA. EFFORTS TO REACH AN AGREEMENT FAIL
Ross, April, 19th.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PATRIOTIC IRISH. RECRUITING PROCEEDING
LIKE
To be neutral to-day, he said, was to be either hostile or a coward.
Recruiting is now proceeding in Ire- land like. & house on fire......
WHAT GERMANY WANTS. HERR DERNBURG ON THE PRICE
an
LUKONG COMMENDED. Charged with participating in. armed robbery at Shanghai Street,, Yau- mati, on December 3, and threatening with a loaded revolver a laktong who.ar rested him on March 16 this year, a man named Chan Shing appear at the Criminal Sessions yesterday.
was
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ON DOING NOTHING. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHINESE.
The Timer says:-
A leading article in a recent issue of
A HOUSE AFIRE.".
Our Military Correspondent, writing LONDON, April 18th. Mr. John Dillon, the Nationalist mem
upon the need for continuous effort i bor for East Mayo, apeaking at (Hasgow,
war, speaks of the docision to do nothing that decision which is casiest of all. I The Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Hodg- is easiest, not only in war, but in all congratulated Irishmen upon their patson), prosecuting, informed the jury that things, People do nothing because they riotism.
the question for them to decide would They try to avoid a decision and yet they cannot make up their minds what to do. be mainly a matter of identification. The must decide to do nothing before they do robbery was committed at 5, Shanghai it. In fact, doing nothing is doing tome Street, occupied by a shop, manager, an
thing, and, for those who do nothing be cause they do not know what to do, it is accountant and others, on December 6, usually the wrong thing. They are and among the articles stolen
afraid of anking a mistake, and revolver, stamped with a licence number, a negative mistake, which is as bad as that very foar leads them to make one- Prisoner was not arrested till three or a positive, or worss. If you do nothing four months later, and ho threatened the too long you aro at least forced to do tukong who apprehended him with the something short of you
aller very revolver that was stolen, and but for lost the initiative, which is as valuable in because it is forced upon you. You have the officer's quickness would undoubtedly ordinary life as in war; and circum-
ed out from a row of ten men at the their lives to this offensive; they are have shot him, as the weapon was loaded stances themseves take the offensive in all five chambers. Prisoner was pick- There are some people who submit all
against you and compel you to obey them
police station by both the shop manager Though their one desire is to do nothing, and the accountant as being one of the they never can rest from trying to repair always improvising a husty defensive.
robbers, and it was principally upon this the mischief of their own inaction; gad evidence that, the charge of robbery rest in the end they labour more than those ed.
who are beforehand with circumstances more than the army that presses uponi. as an army in incessant retreat is tried It has often been noticed that the people who never get anything done are alway letters or keep appointments. The mere the basicst. They have no time to abswer thought of their arrears paralyses them
OF PEACE.
PORTLAND, MAINE, April 18th. writing to a meeting which he was unable Herr Dernburg, the Garman agent,
to attend owing to illness, said that peace could be assured by the free use of the seas and an outlet for German trade through Belgium.
He added in a telegram that the only alternative to this was to build a Chinese wall round cach nation. The Kaiser was not seeking the acquisition of territory, but German industries must have wider scope,
Belgium had been taken at the sacrifice of much blood and could not be given up while England dominated its policies
BRITISH DECORATION FOR FRENCH GENERAL.
PARIS, April, 19th- H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, on behalf of the King, has presented General Maangúry, who was recently wounded, with the Grand Cross of Bt. Michael and St. George
THE CASUALTÝ LIST.
LONDON, April 18th 7.10 p.m.
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The jury found the prisoner guilty of both charges and he was sentenced to seventeen years' imprisonment-ifteen years' and twelve strokes with the cat on the first charge, and two years on the
second.
His Lordship commended the lukong who arrested the prisoner to the notice of the policy authorities for his bravery in tackling the man when threatened with a revolver.
THE MINNESOTA'S " PASSENGERS:
The latest list of casualties contains the ss Tamba Marg. following names:
Killed.-A. Callis Browne, E. J. F. Johnston, Second-Lieut. C. Vincent (Rifle Brigade), Lient, W. While (Worcesters), and T. H. H. Wood
Wounded.-G. W. Fraser, H. E. Hake, 6. E. Leigh, Brigadier F. S. Maude, W. H. Rogers Station, D B. Stewart (Artillo,7).
HEAD OF REUTER'S COMMITS SUICIDE
LONDON, April 19th. Reuters Agency deeply regrets. to an- nounce that Baron Herbert de Reuter, Managing Director of Reûter's Agency,
ROBBERS' DEVICE. Four Chinese were charged before Justics Hazeland at the Criminal Ses sions yesterday with assaulting a woman with intent to rob.
so that they do not know which neglected task to do first; whereas men who do so minch that it is a wonder, how they find time to do it all always seem to have leisure. They can put their work always from them at any time since they are always beforehand with it; and often 15ey seem to themselves idlers because they can afford to do nothing whenever they choose.
Ita
The Chinese have a whole philosophy of duing nothing, according to which to do nothing is the way to do everything. It is a kind of ju-jitsu of life by which you The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, as agents make circumstances fall out as you wish in Hongkong of the Great Northern this ju-jitsu, like the other, needs great by offering no resistance to them.. But Steamship Co. inform us in reference to skill It is a masterly inactivity that the recent accident to the Minnesota "must not be confused with the inaction- that cable advice has reached them that caused by not knowing what to do.
is the inactivity of the advocate who about half the number of the Minnesota's knows when the other side is winning his abin passenger were transferred to the case for him. The Chines quietest s.s. Manchuria, the balance to the Tenyo action. because his settled aine in life never allows himself to be forced into Marn, and the steerage passingers to the is to lis in such way that a minimum of action will be required from him. He does nothing on principle, not because he is afraid of doing something not because he is lazy, but because he prefers the inner life of the mind to He has no need of an offensive and the outer life of satisfying bodily wants. no fear of being forced into a defensive, because he is not at war with circum- stances, but at peace. He looks at tho incessant activities of men; and sees that they are caused by their incessant wants. His principle is to want nothing, not from asceticism or from a belief that God prefers man to be miserable, but because there is no end to wants it you try to satisfy them; and, according to his view their wants but in having none of life, men are happy not in satisfying We sometimes hear this view of life preached, rather platitudinously, in Europe, perhaps in the first bitterness of somo but we none of us tako it seriously except
values all our ways of thinking, ar
Our whole scale of
based upon the belief that men must re
war with circumstances
until they submit to the peace of old age, We do not respect a man, or should not if ever we met him, whose aim, in the circumstances so that he may be at pease
if poor, or a dilettante if well-to-do. with them. In China such a man is holy, or at least highly respected for his sense. In England he would be called a tramp
Tho jury were as follow:-Messrs. Phi lip Plage (foreman), C. E. dos Remedios, J. Gardner, A. Curveç, A. A. Gutierrez, R..8, Judah, and J. Turner
The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. J. H. It is authoritatively announced that,
Hemp) told the jury that on the evening notwithstanding the efforts of the Ger-
of the 28th March a knock came at the mans to secure agreement between Italy
door of the complainant's flat, in Wei- and Austria, on the lines of territorial
and the first prisoner came in. He was disappointment lington Street
The door was opened concessions, the negotiations have failed.
followed by a second man, while there [A message from Rome on March 18th was yesterday found lying dead at his were others ontzide. The first man saið. stated that it was reported that Von Bulow has given Italy assurances that Germany residence near Reigate. A revolver he had brought a letter. He did not, how is able to overcome the resistance of Aus- which had been discharged was found ever, produce a letter, and upon the tria and to induce her to cedo territory,
at
23rd. The main attack began on March submarino E 15, while making a difficult and give Italy a free hand in Southern there and there appears little or RG woman asking him what he was doing vigour of life, is to demand nothing of
29th in the direction of Baligrod by en- voloping the enemy positions on the west, at Lukpoc and to the East at the source of the San. The enemy offered the most desperate resistance, bringing up every available man, including German troops and numerous dismounted cavalry, his effectives on the Barifield-Uzzok front exceeding 300 battalions.
Notwithstanding this, as well as-groot natural difficulties, wo completed the task by April 5th
reconnaissance in the Kephez mine-field, in the Dardanetles, yesterday, ashore.
ran
An official Constantinople communique says the officers and men were rescued and made prisoners.
STORY AS TOLD TO THE TURKS.
AMSTERDAM, April 15th.
Albania, and to further her ambitions in doubt that the Baron fell by his own there, he immediately seized and struck the Eastern Mediterranean. supremacy there of Great Britain and by the sudden death of his wife, to whom
Von Bulow points out that the marine hand. He had been greatly overwrought her, forced her into a cubicle, pressed France will squeeze Italy out. -Italian-supporters of the Triple En he was warmly attached, and whose bod tente state that the defeat of the Austro- German armies is inevitable, whether still lies in the house awaiting inter- Italy participates or not. Ab the con-ment. clusion of peace the separation of Austria from Hungary is expected, leading to the absorption of the Austrian provinces by Germany and the extension of the Ger THE man dominion to Trieste, which will then forced to abandon Valona in Albania and. be for ever lost to Italy, who will b
the Acgean Islands.,
[FROM MANILA PAPERS.} LOSS OF AN AMERICAN
SUBMARINE.
A Constantinople communiqué says the 15 has been sunk in the Dardanelles,
THE KAISER'S SORROW. and that three officers and 21 men of the cles that Italy desires territory in the It is understood in well-informed cir-
WASHINGTON, April 14th crew of 31 were rescued and captured, north-east, and to extend her boundaries the German Embassy, to-day transmitted Captain Boyced, the Naval Attache at Subsequently the fighting in the Car- including the former British Vice-Consalas Fiume, including Pola and the pro-Secretary Dunfels of the Navy over the at the north end of the Adriatic ne Ear the condolences of Kaiser Wilhelm to pathians concentrated in the direction of at Dardanelles.
visces of Trent and Trieste to the Julian loss of the submarine - in Honolulu Rostok, where the enemy, notwithstanding
Alps, including the province of Goritz, harbour. Istria and the Dalmatian Islands,
enormous losses, delivered on the 18th THE ATTACK ON A BRITISH
inst, with great forets, sixteen barrën attacks on the heights we occupied east. of Telepatche
FRANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TRANSPORT.
HOW THE LOSS OF LIFE OCCURRED.
LONDON, April 19th. The Admiralty announces that 24 per- sons were drowned and 27 are missing GERMANS ADMIT REVERSES. from the transport Manitom. The loss of
IN BELGIUM AND ALSACE.
AMSTERDAM, April 18th.
A Berlin communiqué admite a British success feet, night south-east of Ypres. It says:-"After mine explosions the British penetrated our positions on the north of the Canal. The battle continues to be waged around three craters."
The communiqué adds that south-west of Motzeral, in Alsace, the Germans with drew before superior forces.
life was apparently due to the capsizing of two-boats-
The Vanitou itself i undamaged,
BOMBARDMENT OF DAR- DANELLES RESUMED."
ATHENS, April, 19th. The bombardment of the Dardanelles was resumed on Saturday.
A Turkish aeroplane dropped bombs
but missed the warships at Tenedos. The aeroplane was pursued by Allied sea planes, but escaped.
Austria is willing to grant territory including that portion of Lake Garda which lies in Austria, the towns in the river valleys from Chies, eastward of the River Prane, to the Adige Rivers, excluding the Trent.
Austria asks a large sum as compensa- tion for the renunciation of territory in- habited by Italians. and Austria's offer is so great that an The difference between Italy's demands
adjustment is not likely.]
RUMOURS DENIED BY MR.
CHURCHILL
LONDON, April 19th. The First Lord of the Admiralty baa isped a statement to the Press deaying rumours recently current. Mr. Churchill says: "There has been no Naval action of any kind in the North Sea for the last month, nor any action at the Dardanelles except local bombardment and reconnais- sances by single ships. Since March 18th
The alarm was raised, and the robbers her down, and gagged her with a towel,
became frightened and ran away. The first prisoner was caught running down the stairs, and the other prisoners wece arrested the same evening at a house in
arrived they attempted to escape. The Hing Wan Street, When the polis
fourth prisoner jumped down over a par- tition, and reached the kitchen, but he was there captured.
The jury unanimously found the first, by a majority of six to one they also found third, and fourth prisoners guilty; and the second prisoner guilty.
His Lordship remarked that it was
And yet the Chinese are not less indus- trious than we are only they recogniza the art of doing nothing, and among them a man may practise it and he respected. But the farther West you
go, the
how to get it, not because he is practising more it is assumed that if a man has nothing it is because ho does not know
the art of doing nothing. And in the West that assumption is usually true; no man would be poor if he could help it, and poverty therefore is despised anong us as a sign of incompetence. we call it, self-denial, as if it were the Whenever we choues to go without things
very bad case
wants. But to a Chinese quietist it is not essential part of a man that had all these
The Attorney-General agreed. and said would deny himself, if he set himself self-denial at all, but self-liberation. He NOTABLE VISITORS TO THE first defendant, who was directly rapon him we, with our Western activity, seeme the case was especially bad against the tasks to satisfy his bodily wants; and to PHILIPPINES.
sible for the assault,
Hia Lordship sentenced prisoners to to live in a vicious circle, like the swal- Representative Fred A. Britten of strokes of the
HONOLULU, April-14th- -seven years hard labour, with twelve laws which fly about all day because they
cat".
have always an appetite for fies, and Illinois and Representative George W. The first prisoner, on hearing the which bave always an appetite because Edmonds of Pennsylvania were among sentence, exclaimed "I would rather your they fly about all day. The philosophic the passengers who left here to-day or Lordship sentenced me to bo hanged. I Chinaman sees that there is no way out the transport Sherman for Manila Re want to die."
of this vicious circle except to learn the presentative William A. Jones, Chairman
art of doing nothing; but he is as unlike- ly to teach it to us as to the surtiss
of the Committee on Insular Affairs, was unable to make the trip.
Both Representativės Brition and Edinonds are Republicans.
[The Sherman is duo-ja Manila-os-May 4th. Two members of the Committee Jasalar Affairs, Representatives Towner and Garrett, are also coming to the Philippines. and it is believed that they will arrive at some later date.]
CQUEEN OF SPAIN IN
ALGECIRAS.
On 4th ult. the lamel took place at South Shields of a passenger and cargo steamer built to the order of the P. and 0.8. N. Company for their loes require ments at Singapore. The vessel is 220ft. in length by 36 ft. beam by 22 ft. deep to the shade deck, and has been specially built and fitted for service in tropical waters. Accommodation for a limited number of passengers, together with a handsome saloon and bathrooms, are pro vided on the shade deck amidships. The crew are berthed forward and the natives in the shado deck aft. The machinery, which is of the vertical triple surface condensing type, will be being 172, 29, and 47 in, by 30 in. stroke The President of the Council of Minis supplied from Shields, the cylinders corner-steng of the charitable institution by Mr. E. W. Glover, of London, the attend the ceremony of laying the The launching ceremony was performed known as La Salud, destined for the use vessel being named the Mata Hari (Eye of working people,
of the Day).
BARCELONA, April 10th.. The Queen of Spain has left on a trip to Algeciras on a visit to her brother the Prince of Battenberg.
there have been only two or three men hitters, Er. Dato, has arrived in Barcelona in the Dardanelles. There has been no loss or injury to French or British ships
During a debate on the Indemnity Bill in the South Africa Parliament, Sir Thomas Smart pointed out that a Ger- man educational campaign had been going on for some time in the Cope Province, and read a letter from the Germán Consul in Cape Town to a teacher enclosing 210 for the teacher's efforts to foster Germanism.
The following gifts have been grateful. From the Rao of Cutch Ra. 55,000 per ly accepted by the Viceroy of India:- month for one year, for the maintenance front; from Maihar Durbar Re.7,500 in of ore Indian Infantry regiment at the
Indian soldiers; from the senior Rani of connection with the sick and wounded Narsingarm Rs 5,000 towards the expen-
es of the w