THE WAR.
H.M.S.
99 MAJESTIC SUNK.
NEARLY ALL CREW SAVED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 29m 1915.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S. AGENCY.]
"WADVANCING ITALIANS,
WELCOMED BY INHABITANTS OF
OCCUPIED TERRITORY,
ROME, May 28th.
A communiqué coys-
Along the Tyrol and Trentino frontier wo extended to the northward of the dis tricts around the lakes of Idro and Garda, and also in the rugged region
AUXILIARY CRUISER BLOWN UP. between the Jakes.
Prominent personages in the towns
BRITISH SUBMARINE'S BRILLIANT FEATS. welcomed the advancing Italiane and
VICTORIOUS ADVANCE OF ITALIANS.
HEAVY. PRUSSIAN LOSSES. AT LA BASSEE,
NEW BRITISH FIRST SEA LORD.
JAVAL ACTIVITIES.
{THROUGH_BEUTER'S son 101). H.M.S. 'MAJESTIC" 9UNK.
TORPEDOED BY A SUBMARIN..
LONDON, May zath."
{THROUGH ESOTER'S AGENTUR.) ENEMY EVERYWHERE REPULSED IN GALICIA.
PETROGRAD, May 27th.
It is officially announced that tho
expressed the devotion of the inhabitants,
Our Alpine troops continue to operate successfully along, the Carnia frontier, taking prisoners. We also occupied Grado, The townspeople were
most
enthusiastic.
A squadron of Italian airships up rooted part of the Trieste-Nabresina
ling.
_ITALIANS”, “” INDOMITABLE DASH."
ROXE, May 27th. The King, in a stirring address, says:— "You are fighting a seas, ned enemy, but
GENERAL.
[THEOUGH EBUTER'S ADENUT.)
LORD FISHER'S SUCCESSOR.
LONDON, May 27th. Admiral Sir Henry Jackson has been appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty in succession to Lord Fisher (raigned).
Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson remains
AIRSHIP ACTIVITY.
FINE FEAT BY FRENCH
AVTATORS.
One or two illustrations are given to show how a fixed dollar would prejudics the trade of the Colony, just as in Great Britain during the fiscal controversy illustrations were multiplied to show how Free Trade had spelt the ruin of varions businesses. Of course, no system that the wit of man could devise would be perfect; all that can be hoped for is one that will conduce to the greatest good of the A communiqué states:-The Belgians in greatest number, and that is not always
GERMANT'S PRINCIPAL
..EXPLOSIVE FACTORIES
DAMAGED.
PARIS, May 27th.
in an advisory capacity at the Board of the region of Dismude drove the Germans the same thing as the greatest good of Admiralty.
back by counter-attacks. A second attack the aristocracy of trade." But, apart was stopped by Belgian fire.
from this, why should a 28. 4d, dollar carried trenches, taking. prisoners. Our lustration?
Last night southwest of Soucher we be selected for the purpose of the
Suppose we had as dollar, would the same objections apply t artillery broke a German attack east, of
That, at all events, would not conier any Neuville
Eighteen French aeroplanes, carrying Japas in the matter of ship-repairing to advantage upou the Philippines” or
[Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson KO.B., K.C.V.0., was appointed Chief of the War Staff in 1912. Recently however, he is been engaged on special service. He entered the Navy in 1868. Amongst other appointments, is has served as Nuval Attaché, 1807-09; and as Comptroller of the Navy, 10058. He commanded the 6th Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean
1908-10, and was in command of the Royal heavy bombe, attacked Ludwigshafen; which Mr. Hewett refers, and, when the Naval War College, 1911-13 He has served where the most important explosive fac price of silver rose, it might place us in a The better position than Shanghai. After all. four hundred I suppose, we are obliged now, in large
-
on numerous teclinical committees in connec
tion with the equipment and design of war-tories in Germany" are situated. ships, and was the first in England to put to
flew seroplanes practical use Hertizian waves for wireless telegraphy, He has done much towards kilometres. The attack proved must introducing-perfooting, and organising it
over
especially in its early stages, in H.M. ships, effective. Fires broke out in many place.
Sir Henry is 60 years of age.]
{Admiral Sir Arthur Koyret Wilson, GÖR GCVO, VC, DM,wak Fürst Sen Ford of the Admiralty 1909-12; and retired in 1912. Heroturned. in the Admiralty in an advisory capacity, we believe, on the outbreak of the war. He served in the Crimean War, 1854; Chinese War, 1885; Egyption Campaign, 1682; Soudan Campaign 1894 was A... to the Queen 1992.95;
Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and
Russians in successful fighting in your indomitable dash will certainly Comptroller of the Navy. 1897-1901 Com
It is officially announced that an enyhe region captured several hundred mubmarine torpedoed and sank the battio
prisoners and automobiles.“
ship Majestic whilst she was supporting the operations at Gallipoli,
Nearly all the ers and ran were
...saved.
(The Majestic was a battleship of 14,000 tons displacement, completed in 1805. Hor principal armament consisted of 4 12-in 10 7.6-in., 16′ 12pr. and 5 machine guns.
· Her full complement is 757 officers and men.]
AUXILIARY
BRITISH
SHIP
BLOWN UP.
TWO HUNDRED PERISH.
LONDON, May 27th. It is officially announced that the auxiliary ship Princess Feene has been, necidentally own up in Sheerness har 'bonr, and that there is probably only one i survivor of those on board.
LATER.
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defeat him."
The oney, by the use of gas, attacked | FRANCO-BELGIAN FROM 1, Jedwabno, b't were unsuccessful.,
tacked allang our whole The enemy, th front in Galicia between the Vistula and the San. They were everywhere repulsed with great loss.
A desperate battle continues between Przemysl and the Lubuszowka River and Przemysl and the Dniester Marabes, Nowhere bave they been successful but have lost enormously,
CAUCASIAN ARMY'S
SUCCESSES.
PETROGRAD, May 29th
A communiqué anys:-- The Army in the Caucasus defeated the It is feared that 200 perished on the Turks in the regions of Dilman and Van, Princess TreNE. Besides the crew, there and occupied Urumial. We also defeat wore 16 dockyard worknien on boarded the Kurds to the southward of refitting the vessel. She was formerly Meliadgherd.
a Chuadian Pacific liner.
The explosion occurred at eleven o'glock It shook Sheerness more in the morning. severely than did the explosion of the Bulwark some months ago. A columu of fames and smok shot up as the vessel disappeared. Pragments-injured-men-en- vessels in the vicinity. Pieces of the ship's' papers were picked up at-Maidstone. BRITISH SUBMAKINE ENTERS CONSTANTINOPLE,
LONDON, May 7th.
ITALIAN FRONT...
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) ITALY'S EARLY AIMS
ATTAINED.
SUCCESSFUL SEIZURE OF STRATEGICAL POINTS.
ROME, May 27th.
of war. An hour's fusillads. The greatest success
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] PROGRESS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
PARIS, May 27th.
:
THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON -SOUTHEND.
LONDON: May 8th.
The Press Bureau announces that two
women were killed at Southend and s child was seriously injured.
The material damage was very small. Aeroplanes and seaplanes chased the
manded the Channel Squadron, 1001-3; Con- mander-in-Chief of Home and Chamel Zeppelin, which, however, escaped east- Fleets, 1903 7; and became an Admiral of
the Fleet in 1907. Sir Arthur Vilson is ward. 73 years of age, just a year younger thon Ford Fisher:]
THE NEW BRITISH CABINET,
FAVOURABLE VIEW OF FRANCE.
PARIS, May 27th, tish Cabinet is viewed most
The now b.
The evening communiqué safa:--- intermittent artillery fighting.
Along the Yser Canal there has been favourably in France, and confidence is expressed that Great Britain will now Several hot sctions north of Arras tunke war with great unity, method, resulted in fresh French sucesses, and in ) and vigour. the region of Angres two German counter- attacks were repulsed,
The French attacks captured trenches and then the cemetery and village of Albain and advanced beyond. captured 400 prisoners including several
officers.
FIRST MEETING,
LONDON, May 27th.
CORRESPONDENCE.
EXCHANGE AND CURRENCY QUESTION.
~ [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."]
Lungr
casure, to make many of our calcula tius in gold in order to buy supplios
and pay dividends. If the dollar drops is it not necessary to charge more dollars. to order to pay for labour, purchase materials from abroad and make the same profit?. Apparently not, if Mr. Hewett's argument holds good.⠀
The whole question was discussed by the Chamber of Commerce some ten years. ago, as Mr. Hewett says, and-by a con- siderable majority the members expressed themselves in favour of conducting an inquiry into the matter. In this they showed ordinary common sense, though the Governoy at that time, Sir Henry ∙Blake, say it, whef transmitting their vows to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to oppose to them the opinions which he had borrowed from the minority on the very Irish ples that the speeches delivered in favour of investigation had been carefully prepared! Apparently, in
Sin-I agree with your contributors, his eyes mature consideration was evid ร that before we get fixed exchango we have a long, long way to go,"
ence of natrustworthiness. Mr. Hewett that is no reason why we should for wing His Exediency and that he felt con-
but
now tells us that he took a hand in coach- long time be cursed with the tempt for the resolution because those, anomaly of pieces of paper being worth who voted for it "possessed no real com- [Colony," Yet I fed that at least five- other shipping companies' representa-
The Caßines met this afternoon. Mr. anything from 7 per cent. to 12 per centmercial interest or standing in the,
discussed
Asquith at this historic gathering heart-represent, or that we should for an more than the coins they purport to Theyly welcomed his colleagues and after that, indefinito "period suffer the humiliation
undhood, important business was of our subsidiary coinage being at a disYes, to say nothing of the Land Inst
count of from 8 to 14 per cent, I am not int Agency the Wharf and Godor but it seems to me both these evils could fact that a man is the focal head of a banker, or even a Napoleon of finance.
Co, the Gas Co. care under that category, I doubt, however, whether the be cured without waiting for fixed! exelionge
strong financial concern is, ia itself, conclusive evidence of his infällíbity on
HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.
LONDON, May 29th, The Eye-witness at the British Hed. quarters gays the German casualties we very heavy during the last week-end. Thirty-officers were killed and wounded by a howitzer shell which bit a bathing house at La Bass
A noteworthy featurs was the hearty welcome given to Mr. Henderson (Labour) the new Minister of Education, an arriving fa Downing Street.
LABOUR TROUBLES IN LANCASHIRE.
LONDON: May 28th.. A-lock-out-is-threatened in the anti- The 57th Prussian Infantry it Festushira cotton trade owing to the demand The Italians crossed the frontier at out of 3,000.
bert an the 16th and 17th fast, lost 2,400 of the cardroom, operatives for a was
bonus. The Operative Spinners Associa- Brazzano four hours after the declaration
Gassing has not been entirely one-sided. The Austrians Red after half A French shell smashed a cylinder and
The Press Bureau announces that Sub- attained on the fra day, was the capture British shell had a similar result.
It is believed a gassed the Germans. marine 11, commanded by Lieutenant of Monte Corada, 2,500 M. E. Noemith, sunk a vessel full of dominating the valleys of the Indrio and ammuition in the Sea of Marmor, the Isonzo. chased a heavily-laden supply-ship, and torpedoed her alongside the pictat Rodosto, and also chased a storeship. which ran ashore.
11 entered Constantinople and dis- charged a torpedo at a transport along. The torpedo was heard ide the arsenal. to explode
TURKISH
DESTROYER REPORTED SUNK.
ATHENS, May 27th.
It is reported that a French submarine near Constantinople. sank Turkish destroyer.
RUSSIAN FRONT
Pà
[TRBOCGH REUTER'S AGENOX.]
SMASHED.
UNPARALLELED TORRENT OF
FIRE.
feet high,
The Italians here expected serious resistance, but the bombardment] and enthusiasm of the troops rendered the enemy's position untenabks in a few hours.
The Italian advance in Friuli is tactically important, marking the first
V. C. HERO KILLED,
LONDON, May 28th. A letter from the front reports that the Victoria Cross hero Michael O'Leary was killed in the recent fighting. THE NEAR EAST
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LA
If the subsidiary coins were of the same. intringie value pro rate as the British question of this description, even and/or Mexican dollar, and if the Govern-assuring his disinterestedness. In some ment undertook to exchange notes for cases, not least among the qualifications dollars er eniall coins or vice versa, dis-of the gentlemen, who hold such positions counton coinage-would cease, Two-is-the-ability to cut peas with a fork, or
value. Yours truly,
NEW DERBY STAKES AND NEW OAKS,
LONDON, May 9th.
H."
and
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PONSKONG
DAILY PRESS.
S-I frankly confess that am Thres days' racing has been arranged child in these matters" and the inter-to ignore it, at Newmarket commencing on June 15th, viwe which you have published with the including a raca confined to horses business men of the Colony have not entered in the Derby for 1913, The raen contributed much to my enlightenment. will be called the New Derby Stakes
The only clear impression left upon my sweepstakes of 8100 each, and with mind after this expenditure of energy is £1,000 given by Lord Derby added. There
that the fluctuation of the dollar
14
step in the effective, occupation of the DARDANELLES OPERATIONS, will also be a New Oaks Stakes for fillisa Eenerally admitted to be an unqualified territory.
The advance in the Trentino is strate- gically valuable. The frontier liere forms
a triangle, with its base on the Alps and
eril, but that it cannot be remedied with- out the co-operation of China
things are essential to this end :---
something equally foreign to high Anance. (1)-Issue of Government notes.
Buela a question in England would, "et (2) Withdrawal of existing subsidi-course. by settled by the votes of the vul- ary coins and substitution of new ones gar electors, who would require, like a tion has joined the dispute, applying for the refur of a slightly better intrinsic jury, to have the pros and cons clearly a similar concession,
het before them by the protagonists, on rach side. In Hongkong, apparently, the method, to judge by the procedure in 1902, is first to attrupt to avoid discus- ein and, when that is found impossible, I should like to know in specific terms. uot generalisations. what the insuperable Jobstacles are to the intro- duction of a fixed deler in Hongkong. We may be quite sure that the reform was not affected in Singapore without position, though none of the gentlemen interviewed by your representative ques› ticus the wisdom of the movement now. We know full well that the proposal in exclud Chinese subsidiary coin from Hongkong created a sharp diversity of opinion and that many business men adopted the role of Jeremiah, yet the Ordinance that was earried has not it not possible, therefore, that the pro- brought about commercial paralysis. Is caves 'arf a brick."!
phets of evil may be equaly wrong in Although some four columns have been
this case? If we can manage to eʻrry on business now betwren gold standard coun-. ccupied with expressicus of opinion on
tries and a copper-currency country by of this space has been taken up with have such terrors for ust.
For somo reasons for the faith which is, apparent Hongkong note, which is our standard months past the disparity between the ly, so firmly held. We are told that our at the moment, and the Cantonese cur conditions are entirely different fromcy has reached nearly 20 per cent, with- those of all our neighbours who hay, adopted a fixed currency, but we are not tld in what respect they are different, except as regards grographient proximity to Canton. That to the. uninitiated, however, is not conclusive. breuse England and France art even closer together, and yet have different
The atrocities committed by the Ger media of exchange, though heth, of special supplement of the Fdd unch mans in Belgium form the subject of u Nerekproper-
entered for the Oak. The distance and the weights in both rages will be the
Now when I hear that everybody shares same as those which have been rau at the opinion that a thing is impossible 1 Epsom.
TURKS TERKORISED BY THE WARSHIP ATTACKS.
ATHENS, May 27th. The Garrison át Adrianople is being its apex on Garin, everywhere descending towards Italy. It is closely commanded constantly reduced, the troops "quing to by the enemy's positions. The Italians the Dardanelles, and there are now mushya therefore, aimed not at an extensive untrained men left:
LONDON, May 27th. The Press Burran annowers: General reports that during the
A CONTINGENT FROM JAMAICA.
placing no limit on the nuraber,
-PORTUGAL'S PRESIDENT
RESIGNS,
LISBON. May 27th, President Arriaga has resigned 21 Senor Abelphiao, President of the High Court of Justice, provisionally succeed
begin to see gleams of hope, because the Land-jmssumus attitude is the normal attitude of the average Eaglishman, who views all innovations in the same light as the North-countryman views the stranger and
noting any popular outery that it is raising the Colony's trade with China. How then, in fans of these facts, can it be said that in the matter of curr ney You must follow China's lead?"-Yours faith- Fully,
LONDON. May 28th." advance, but at the seizing of all the The Allies are continually receiving A Kingston cabl states that the RUSSIAN CENTRE IN GALICIA dominating points, whence the Austrians reinforcements. The Turks are becoming Imperial Government has accepted a
might, descend into the Italian valleys, terrorised by the incessant attacks of war Jamaica contingent for activg service currency question surprisingly little means of silver why should a fixed ddlar In this object the Italians were complete ships and their veritable rain of fire. ly enccessful.
GREAT SLAUGHTER OF ROME. May 28th. RUSSIANS MASTERLY RETREAT.
TURKS. A communiqué states: On the frontier of Tyrol and Trentino we cecupied on th LONDON, May 27thı,
25th inst. Altiraime, which is the The correspondent of The Times, in a message from Ivangorod on the Ward, says northern group of the Baldo range. The Birdwood the German attack on the Russian Centre enemy wars forced to retire, abandoning armistice when the Turks were burying is unparalleled in the history of war.
Our artillery on the Tanezza plateau 3,000 came to light.
their dead a much larger number tha: Batteries massed in tiers belched forth a torrent of fire, which destroyed the Rusere bombarding eremy works. siam Centre, through which the Germans Our success in the Grgano Valley an overed with Turkish dead. Four hun poured, expecting leisurely to destroy the on the frontier of Carinthia is confirmed: dred corpses were counted on wings. But the Russian retreat was most Wo cccupied Prevale saddle, the bead of of 50 yerde by 100 yards. masterly, and was equal to that of the the Raccolane Valley and the approaches and rifles were picked up on our side British Army from Mons. The German to Droga Valley. Our losses were four of the dividing line. chick on the San was due to the failure killed and a few wounded. ufanununitions, and was consequent on [The consolidation of the occupied posi- the rapidity of the Russian retirement tions cantine's, and the general situation lengthening the German communications is strong.
material.
Two areas were
a sprc Twelve thou1-
We rushed and occupied a teach on the 25th inst is front of General Cox's Brigada
.him.
THE KING OF GREECE.
ATHENS, May 27thy.. The King has rallied somewhat.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, May 28th, The death is announced of the Counter of Cardigan.
cur
INQUIRER.
Hongkong, 28th May, 1915,
cherie, employ a gold standard. In | Gauntry Gentleman's China itself, too, there are all sorts of different media. Evidently, therefore, there must be some factor other than mere eatiguity to be taken into con sideration.
which the atrocities are related in oficial Besides many pages of letterpress in reports by specially appointed Commis
us, and in letters from Germant soldiers, the Supplement contains about twenty pages of illustrations which give us a panoramic view, as it were, of the devastation of the Belgian cities.