THE
WAR.
BRITAIN'S
SACRIFICE.
FRENCH PROGRESS CONTINUES.
ITALIAN SUCCESSES.
AMERICA
AND THE · NOTE.
TREATMENT OF SUBMARINE PRISONERS.
GENERAL
(THEODON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
QUARTER OF A MILLION
CASUALTIES.
BRITAIN'S ENORMOUS
SACRIFICES
LONDON, June 9th.
In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith announced that the total British casual- ties in Flanders and the Dardanelles to the 31st May were as follows:--
KILLED
Officers Mon
WOUNDED.
Offers Men
MI88ISA.
Officers Men
3,327 47,015
0,408 147,482
1,130 62,017
258,000
THE BRYAN BOMBSHELL.
AMERICANS HAD NO RIGHT TO
TRAVEL IN WAR ZONE.
WASHINGTON, June 10th Mr. Lansing has been appointed interim Secretary of State.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ·AQEROY,)
TREATMENT OF SUBMARINE PRISONERS.
"NOW ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL WITH THAT OF OTHER PRISONERS**
LONDON, June vtli.
In the House of Commons Mr. Balfour said that the further capture of submarine officers and-men-had-again raised the question of the treatment of submarine prisoners. There had been for some works
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 11TH. 1915.
ITALLAR FRONT
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOX.]
STUBBORN FIGHTING ALONG
J
THE ISONZO.
ROME, June 10th..
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A communiqué snys :---- Along the Isonzo on the 7th and 8th inst. operations were continued with a view to dislodging the enemy from posi- tions on the right bank and establishing bridge-heads. The enemy resisted most
THE DARDANELLES.
ALLIES GOOD FOSITION.
Colonel F. N. Moude, C.B. in the Evening Standard writes:-
The brilliant success of the funding operations both of the French and British contingents means the beginning of the end of the Dardanelles, problem.
I have never doubted our succeeding, given adequate numbers and the support of naval artillery to cover our dis mbar- kation, but in all such work there is the clepient of uncertainty due to them hoforehand.
GERMANY UNNERVED,
DANISH ACTOR'S IMPRESSIONS ON JOURNEY ACROSS THE
FATHERLAND.
Writing to a friend in the Isle of Wight, Mr. G. P. Harvey, a sanitary engineer in Copenhagen, sends home a translation of an interesting letter in the leading Copenhagen daily paper, Politiken, from Johannes Poulsen, the famous Danish actor.
the
Mediterranen;~" How
NOTES FROM PEKING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
PERING, May 31st
BINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS.
Though......the treaty embodying the Japancao deinands has been signed and it' is understood that all the outstanding questions between the two countries have now been settled, it cannot be said that
the friendship between the two nations is excessively cordial. Up to the signing, the Japanese revealed the same perverse ideas on the subjret of friendship, and
stubbornly, favoured by the nature of the possibility of predicting local conditions travel in Germany under present-day con; attempted to have inserted in the treaty
ground. We strengthened our fortifica- tions whils floods have broken bridges and
roads..
The Italians, fighting in a most deshing style, won important positions and occupied the town of Monfalcone.
The Italians have also captured a strong Austrian position in Montenegro, Five hundred prisoners were captured along the Isonzo,
AIRSHIP ACTIVITY.
{THROUGH REÇTER'S AGENCY.)''
BRITISH SEAPLANES.
BOMB TURKISH BASE.
LONDON, June 10th, A fisherman, on arrival at Bukharest from Constantinople, stated that nine British seaplanes had bombed the Akbasch base (just beyond the Narrows of the Dardanelles) and also the harbour at Gallipoli, killing and wounding fifteen
uo substantial difference in the treatment soldiers and damaging stores, accorded submarine prisoners and other
NAVAL ACTIVITIES. prisoners, and the treatment now was
This did
not absolutely identical. indicate any change of opinion regarding the character of the acts of the submarines, which was in flagrant contradiction of the letter and the spirit of the laws of war. Their acts were mear, cowardly, and brutal; hút the submarine methods were not the only methods violating law and humanity adopted by the German Government. They opened the whole question of personal responsibility, which would be reserved until the end of the
[THROWOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN SUBMARINE
OFFICERS AND MEN CAPTURED,
war.
Ma. Diyarbon found a stalment la which ler says that President Wilson and himself differed on two points. HG SUICIDEOF AN ARMY DOCTOR.
wished submarine (Mr. Bryan)
LONDON, June 9th. an investigated by attacks ta be
Captain A. T. Pridham, Indian Medical International Commission under the Arbitration Treaties negotiated by the Service, committed suicide in a Plymouth
United States with 30 other countries. although Germany was not a signatory to them.-Mr.Bryan also maintained that an American had no right to imperil his country by travelling in the war zone after the German warning.
SUPPORT FOR WILSON.
that It is understood
the whole Cabinet supports President Wilson in his view that arbitration is impossible unless Germany previously agrees to discontinue her indiscriminate destruction of mer-
chantmen.
The New York Avening Post says the astonishment felt in Washington when Mr. Bryan's resignation was announced was heightened when it became known that the-Note-to Germany was friendly in tone, It merely reaffirms the originst Note, in novise closing the way to a peaceful solution..
THE AMERICAN NOTE.
WASHINGTON, June 9th. After a conference with President Wilson, Mr. Laneing, the interim Secre tary of State, announced that the Note would be dispatched this afternoon and
train on the ith inst.
A Coroner's Jury-has-returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane."
which He suffered from-blood-poisoning w was incurable.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT (THROUGH. LETTER'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH PROGRESS
CONTINUES.
Pants, ans qui.
12.50 a.m.
The evening communiqué says:--- An artillery duel of a very violent character has continued in the sector.
north of Arras.
We captured the remaining houses at Neuville, the whole village being now in our possession.
We have progressou in the Labyrinth, and we have extended our gains at Hebuterne.
Wo repulsed a violent counter-attack north of the Aisne,
LONDON, June 9th,
A changs of wind, bringing with it haze or fog, or a have sea breaking on the selected landing places, may always inter- vers at the last hour to render the sup- port by gun-fire from the ships of the landing parties out of the question..
Again, if the air should be clear, the sca may still bo Coo rough for the boats, consequently temporary repulses might be expected, and the gain to the enemy's moral resulting therefrom will add immensely to the difficulties of the next attempt at a landing.
Describing his impression when travel- ling through Germany from Cairo, he writes from the Dutch liner Nederland, strange it is for me, a friend of Germany crossing and an admirer of German culture, to
dítious. I do not mind the potato oval bread; is not unpalatable, and reminds certain rights which they had not demand- one of our own Danish unrefined floured in the ultimatum. Needless to say, bread. But it pains me to see the Gor- nians are affected and changed by the
detanustrations of disinterested war. Their behaviour seems to lack man friendship are not likely to be forgotten. tines and presence of mind. Varest and | by the Chinese. excitability stamp them. They seem, as though an unseen hand plagues and threatens them a hand against which they cannot retaliate.
thess
CABINET CHANGES. Within the past two months there have been at least four changes in the Cabinet
*For instance, when sitting in a Ger-
restaurant. I noticed a foreigner--the last being the Minister of War, General believe a Dutchman who had paid his Tuan Chi-ju), whose resignation on the bill and was about to leave. He had to ground of sickness has not, however, beets pass 1 table where other gentlemen were sitting, and asked politeis, Darf ich accepteit, but it is believed that the re passieren." His accent berayed him, sigration is definite. His services are still resembling the French pronunciation. | in demand, and as the President, in addi- An officer started up, pretended insolent-
.
With troops in the required numbers oner on shore the wores of the difficulties is overcome, for then the conjunction of clear sky and smooth water is no longer a condition of success,
Fog or low clouds may still hamper: aerial reconnaissance for the moment,ly to mistake him for a waiter, and asked,tion to asking him to participate in Wie, wollen sie kassieren.' The Dutch important conferences, has rewarded him man remarked quietly to las companion, with four ounces of ginseng and five thou-
Are all German officers always su politet I was in Paris recently, but nothing of this kind happeard to me there. An old gentlemen sprang up with glaring eyes and purple in the face, and shouted, "If nothing of the kind happen- ed to you at Paris, go back to Paris, and be hauged to you, and stop there. The Dutchman did not want his head smashed with tankards and wine bottles, and very sensibly passed on without remark. Only
but at this season they never last for very long, and, given good conditions, for observation our naval guns can search out every hollow within their range-on our side the Gallipoli Peninsula is well within it and they can effectively co- operate with the infantry in the work yet to be donk,
OUR COLONIAL FORCES.
Then, the more uuniergus the defenders within the peninsule the better; their bloges will be all the more easily
a small episode, but significant.
ALWAYS "GOD PUNISH EKOLAND,**
sand dollars for mediche, it is apparent that the old warrior is not in disgrace.
BASEBALL IN PERING.
The past week has been given up largely to interest in the exhibitions of baseball provided by the Chinese players from
oululs and the Filipino players. Large crowds of Chinese and Americans have
VOLUNTEERS.
located, and since we completely com-
turned out to witness the various games, mand the Isthmus of Bulair, they cannot draw food or water from the mainland, "My traveling companion in Berlia and on Sunday when the visiting, teams or even etade destruction by retreat. was a Swede, and when we entered a were being shown round the President's The successful steps in the reduction of restaurant together the officers and public palace they were honoured by being in- Constantinople are as certain as the pro-glared at us with threatening looks, gress of a siege, and the political effect simply because the Sweds was clean-vited-to-enter and to listen to an address on-those-natives who are still hypnotised shaven and of English appearance from Yuan, his reimarks being interpreted SUNK by the false information circulated by the Travelling eth through Germany, at
into English for the beusfit of the Chinesa German Wireless will be great indeed.
one of the stations a pertly 'Hamburg visitors as well as the Filipinos. The fact which will probably exercise merchan on leaving my compartment most influcnod on the German General said seriously. God punish England. Staff will be the exceedingly brilliaut and another German rose immediately The inspection of the Peking British conduct of the Australian and New and as solemnly uttered, as a farewell they had chosen to form of the fighting the parting greeting among the Germans Licht, Colonel Wright, the Officer Com- Zealand-troops, for the general estimate greeting, God punish England. Such Telunters na Saturday morning by value of our Colonial Contingent has ta-tay. Even the lady district visitors manding the British Forces in North going on the work of charity receive been very low.
Everything about our Overseas man was emblems from the Goverment bearing China, was an interesting event, as upon
the General's impression and report so entirely unlike the Prussian ideal that the inscription. God-phuish England.' they could never be induced to consider Alas how changed all is in Germany.depends the status of this new unit. then seriously; but now that the Iere on board the Nederland. the war is Canadians have given such gplendid and the sole topic of conversation. My cabin
There was a good muster of infantry. conclusive proof of their merit companion, an influentin Dutch mer moanted Safantry. and machine-gun Flanders, and the Australians and Now chant from Jaya, said to me. We had section with signallers, and after these
the Zealanders have shown within the same really not much sympathy for
had gone through various movements the weak the equally he work of which they Belgians, who were always against us, ark capable, the result on German opinion and at the cutbreak of the war our whole joined with the Indian troops in will be cumulative in its action, and at sympathies were, if anything, with Germaming the defeness of the Legation, Az last they will form a serious conception many. But our feelings towards th of what is meant by the British Empire Germans have been completly altered the elese the General expressed his since their fearful invasion of Belgium, appreciation of the scheme of defence and
The Cemans have with all its horrors.
the enthusiasm of the Volunteeru. An an unfortunate faculty for offending even
In the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that a German submarine has been sunk Six officers and 2 of the crew were captured.
RUSSIAN NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
PETROGRAD, June 10th.
A Russian submaring attacked ten German battleships between Wandan and the island of Gotland, fired several torpedoes and then dived, hearing loud explosions.
The Germans, owing to the activity of submarines and their losses in the mine
fields have left in
"direction
in arms.
their friends." "
German newspaper editors may still derive too much comfort and material. from the pessimistic, utterances of our own Pressmen and speakers to refrain from eneauraging their readers hy picture a south-westerlying England ne wearying of war; but the German Steff that really controls oporn- tions are of a different order of mentality: Comparing our rapid accretion of fores with their own tables of wastage, they will fad it increasingly difficult to main tain that spirit of confidence which alone comunands success.
The German steamer Hindenburg was sunk by a mine, and a craiser badly dam nged was towed to a German pork
A
GERMAN SUBMARINE
AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
LONDON, June 10th.
WAR BY POISONED GASES.
The German submarine 23, which sank A NORMAL, GERMAN WEAPON." the Triumph and the Majestie, has prrived at Constantinople.
EDUCATIONAL AWARDS.
LONDON, June 10th.
A SCOUTING EXPEDITION.
amusing incident occurred during the proceedings when a rigsha coolle in tho service of one of the Volunteers on parade obj: cted to being ejreted when the "gates-were-closed--Gltimately he found-
himself in the guard-room,
GERMAN MOVEMENTS,
WITH SOMALIS.:
Isolated bits of the British Imperial Army are costantly at dangerous work in out-of-the-way corners of the world. though the jelis dune never get santioned
Som Gifty men from the German in despatches. Here is a story by a Heutenant in the Somali Scouts of how Legation Guard, supposed to be Red Cross he speat Christmas Day. On the pre toon from Tsingtau, have left for Shang- vious evening he and "another follow haj to embark for Aurerica, when they went out in a drizzling rain to patroliope to reach Germany. There is good They parted next morning, as their duties
reason for believing that these men aro lay in opposite directions The fetter Pantiquesuranten veran
not what they seemi
LORD ROSEBERY
GERMAN
AIMS.
ON
SARDONIC PHYLACTERY OF
CULTURE."
I went with my troop of Somalie, who The following is a copy of a Report were mounted on muke, and I on a pony, dated May 3rd by Field-Marshal Sir John towards the western slopes of Kiliman- French on the employment by the Ger-jaro, which mountain is in German terri squad of eight men. mens of poisonons gases as weapons of tory, and, taking
leaving the rest on a secure hill to await warfare :~~~
my retura, I scouted forward on foot The Triennial Gold Medal of the Royale pipes laid into the trenches, and of banana fields and other native cultiva The gases employed have been ejected towards a point where I could go acres Asiatic Society has been awarded to Mrs. Lalso prodnezd by the explosion of shells tion. Before reaching this we passed
Lord Hisobery, in a letter to the Pre- undulating countrysident of the Glasgow. Battalion of the Smith Lewis and her sister, Mrs. Dunlop The German troops who attacked under dotted with trees, and in an opening cams Boys Brigade, which he reviewed last.
especialy manfactured for the purpose, through grassy, Gibson, for their contributions to Sinaitic cure of these gases were provided with across a thora enclosure, round the inside month, writer and Simitic studies,
specialy designed respirators, which were of which were the long mud houses, Wo are seeking in this war, not morely to issued in sealed pattern covers, This all roofed with grass.
In the centre was a defend and liabilities, but to supersede by Bir Hugli Barnes yesterday presented points to long and methodical prepara trec on which a little grass hut bad be a moral force a conspiracy impioral, and, the public schools medal for the best prization en a large scale.
A week before the Germans first used built, libas a dovecote, as a lock-out place, indeed, infanious, in ni and methed, against We carefully stalked up through the the freedom and welfare of all countries. on "Delhi: Pass and Present" to this method they announced in their long grass to within two hundred yards. That compiracy, long devised, scoks under
official communique that we were making
the sardonic phylactery of culture to relegato The deliberate murder of the the world by barbarous metiuds back t barbarians. wounded and innocoat and wanton destruc
Orsay
FRENCH SUCCESSES.
PARTE, June 10th.
pore.
A communiqué states that the Fruch
scheme.
be published in the morning papers on carried two, and in some places three, THE FINANCING OF FRANCE. and shows that they recognized its illega- some foot marks I reckoned that thres tornational law, and of all the decent
Friday, without awaiting notification of lines of German tronches on the outskirta
its receipt.
DUTCH MARINERS AND GERMAN BARBARITY.
of Bois-le-Pretre and made a number of prisoners..
RUSSIAN FRONT
LONDON, June 10th.
[THROUGH REUTER'S ADEKOY.]
BUYING BY DELEGATE.
tion of shrines, the cruel oppression of non- combatants, the odious outrages against soners, the disdain of treaties-and-of-in- restraints which are common to civilize:I countries-all these and other crimes aro proved to the hilt against our enemies.
What we
H. A. Metham at the Merchant Taylors use of asphyxiating gasa. At the time of this, and, looking through my glasses, School. The winner, was born at Canthers apeared to be no reason for this I could see that it was empty. Dividing to come round the Astounding falsehood, but now, of course, my party s0 it is obvious that it was part of the closure from two sides. I adr need to It is a further proof of the the opening forming the gate and rushed deliberate nature of the introduction byn, rille ready, followed by my men. the Germans of a new and illegal weapon,There was nobody inside, but judging by lity and were anxious to forestall neutral, natives had left it about two hours before our arrival, and that they were evidently and possibly domestic, criticism.
Since the enemy first made use of this an armed outpost who patr 1 d "s far as
Conceive a Prussian victory! Conceive method of covering his advance with this place, but did not sleep there. The such methods and principles, if the word can In the Chamber of Deputies, at Paris cloud of poisoned air he has repeated it huts were examined, but we oly found to used, stamped by forco ou Europe as its on the 6th ult. M. Ribot, Minister of both in offence and defence whenever the bunches of bandmas in various stages of permanent let or lawlessness: Finance, stated that France's expenses for wind has been favourable.
call the Dark Ages would be as light com ripeness, some of which we sto. the war in April were between £68.000.000 The effect of this poi en is not merely
As it was growing dusk, I dcided to pared with those. Still, that is the issue nnd £60,000,000. France was giving Bri disabling, or even painlessly fatal, as sug A resolution passed by an association THE COURAGEOUS KUSSIANS. tain 500,000,000 frags (£20 000,000) ingested in the German Press, Thuse of its forward to near where the banans between us, and it is the moral force which
gold, is return for which England was
were any white men to be seu. The for the salvation of the world. If that fail, opening for France a credit of three times victims who do not succumb on the held, Bantations were, and eer whether there your Brigado representa which must prevail dition of North America bofore its discovery, as much for goeds, bought in the Empire and who can, be brought into hospital,
dominated by savages, whatever the name by The Belgian General de Witte has: just In order to prevent an outrageous rise is suffer acutely, and in a large proportion on was just rising as we rot to an open Europe will be hurled back into the full pris for war goods, a single, delegats of cases die a painful and lingering death. patch of grass, across which we had seen Those who survive are in little betic case, natives moving backwards to the water. returned from Russia and is full of enthuwould all the buying in foreign cues the injury to their lungs appears to b3 Here I spotted a big ber near their which they may call themselves.
tries on behalf of the British, Russian, d siasm for the Russian army, which, ho
of a permanent character and reduces path, and on the other ide I could just French War Offices. Ileanly asked them to a condition which points to their raake out a small lean-to thatch of dry says, is the most courageous in existenco.
These effects banana leaves, underneath which were
The Bucharest correspondent of the a robe of credit for three months, being invalids for life though he asked for a months last time must be known to the German scientists two forms sitting, raped in dirty Daily Mail says: Germany is prepar "Have no fear of their falling back. He was able to siate that certain things was devied this new weapon and to the white cloths. One of them rond round, ing for another winter campaign. Ad- We fell back on Moscow in 1812' the were in preparation which would have a Russian Chief of Staff said, and when we the way. But whazer its duration," its use.
msiderable bearing, on the duration of | military authorities who have sanctioned but before he was able to ronnyse from bismiral von Tirpitz hopes that the constant suraries I had shoved my rifle in his face, British patrol of the North Sea will so and threatened to blow his hord #fif he affect the speed of the British expital fall back it is in order that we may declared M. Kihot, "ws are worn to bring
made a row, as we were within ane yards ships that the resting German vessels will it to its logical end, and with the help of
of a large enclosure full of natives and be enabled to make a grand sortie as a adrance better. Have no fear,"
our Allies we will go the whole way.”
armed men.
final trump card,
of Dutch sea captains and officers pro
tests against the barbarous German sub- marine warfare on defenceless merchant-]
mon.
THE MUNITIONS BILL.
LONDON, June St.
His Majesty the King has assented to the Bill creating a Ministry of Muni
Lion.
Pans, June 10th.
$
"I am of opinion that the enemy has d finitely decided to use these gases as a normal procedure, and that protests will
be useless,