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THE DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE
1915.
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDU- CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS BETTLE- MENTS, MALLY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP. PINES, BORNEO, ETC.
FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL 188UE
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THE WAR.
The following Oables toere received on Saturday evening and issued in our Early Morning Betra yesterday.
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VIOLENT ATTACK NEAR METZERAL,
GERMANS BEPULSED.
PARIS, July 23rd.
5.15 p.m. Yesterday's activities consisted mostly of canonades varied by some grenade fighting. The official communiqué, how over, records a violent bombardment
THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN followed by an attack on the positions:
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that we won eastward of Metzeral. The Germanas even succeeded in penetrating part of the French lines, but were instant ly driven out.
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HAND TO HAND FIGHTING.
TEN ITALIAN REGIMENTS SUCCES- SIVELY ATTACK TRENCHES.
LONDON, July 23rd
The Beregness. of the fighting on the Isonzo is illustrated in an Austrian com- munique montioning that ten Italien regiments have successively attacked the trenches at Podora and at other points composing the bridgehead at Gorizia, There has been constant hand-to-hand fighting.
The communiqué admits that the trenches were pierced.
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THE
BENALLA."
THE DANGER OF THE FIRE OVER.
LONDON, July 3rd.
3.25 p.m.
wireless message from the.. Benalla has been received to the effect the + the vessel will reach Durban to-morrow and that the danger of the fire is over. Tho s.s. Otaki has resumed her voyage.
TAX ON LOWER GRADE- INCOMES. DEPUTATION TO MR. ASQUITH. LONDON, July 23rd. In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith recaived an important deputation advo eating greater national economy. doputations also urged the taration of DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN'S. imported goods and the imposition of a tax on lower-grade incomes.
The
DEATH.
LONDON, July 23rd. The death is announced of Sir Sandford Fleming.
[The deceased had lived in Canada sincs
Mr. Asquith replied that he had long been of the opinion that the latter should MARKED SUCCESS
be proposed. He thought an inquiry FTALIANS.
should be instituted into the subject of taxation on imports, which needed serious BOMB, July 24th.
consideration during the present creep-1645. He was Chancellor of Queen's A communiqué says:-The battle cou
tional circumstances The Government University, Canada, and enjoyed an and Mr. McKenna would give the matter extensive practice as Chief Engineer of Railway and other public works. He was their early attention.
President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1888-9, and for many years book s special interest-in-the moverment for establishing the Pacifio cable-and-a-Pas- Britannic telegraph service. At the time of his death he was 89 years of aga)
tinues along the whole Isonzo front. success of the Italians is becoming more and more marked. More entrenchments have been captured near Gorizia. Hepeat- od Austrian counter-attacks on the Carso Plateau on Wednesday night and Thare day morning were repelled with the heaviest losses to the enemy. The Italians. took 1,600 prismers.
AIR SQUADRON BOMBS A STATION. THE WEAR EAST,
PARIS, July 24th.
An official communiqué says the day generally has boon quiet A French attack in the Pretre wood on Thursday night recovered a line of trenches. Two Ger man counter-attacks were repulsed.
An air squadron bombed the station at aviatiks to return to earth.
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THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN.
ARMOURED CARS TEAR DOWN--
WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS.
MITYLENE, July 23rd.
2.20 p.m.
“NATIONAL REGISTER BILL, FRANCE AND THE MANUFACTURE
OF MUNITIONS.-
PARIS, July 23rd. 2.20 p.m. A National Register Bill has been introduced into the Chamber with a view to the better utilisation of the workshops for munitione.
FEELING THE PINCH IN AUSTRIA.
(COPPER FROM CHURCH ROOFS, AMSTERDAM, July 23rd.
5.40 a.m.
A despatch from Mitylene says that the An Austrian Cardinal has issued an British armoured motor cars have been order for a return to be prepared show most successful against the enemy in Caling the amount of copper available from lipoli, and that the capture of trenches the roofs of churches for munitions pur recently is due to their help. They poses.
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attached to the ears by short chains, and GEZERAL ROTHA STICKS TO then went rear-wards, at full speed, tear- ing down the entanglements for a length of a hundred and fifty yards. infantry quickly filled the gap.
The
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A message from Amsterdam states that the Russians are putting up a magnificat fight. They have Warsaw, and the great fortress line along the Narew stands SIR IAN HAMILTON'S REPORT. intact, and by means of night attacks they have given more than they have received.
A Berlin communique only claims that the Austro-German forces have stormeð a village and another point before Roshan with the bayonet, espturing 200 prisoners. It is most significant that the communique makes no mention of the operations in the vicinity of Warsaw self or Ivangorod. While further south, a battle rages in wooded country to the westward of the Vistula, it claims that between the Vistula and the Bug the Austro-Germans have succeeded in break ing down an obstinate resistance at several points.
PETROGRAD, July 24th.
6,30a.m.
À communiqué says that the enemy on the left bank of the Vistols on the 22nd, Inst assaulted the advanced works of the fortress of Ivangorod and pierced the wird defences in one sector, but a counter attack drove them back with heavy loss.
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German divisions forming the centre the enemy. Armies operating to the souta of Lublin suffered heavy losses in attacks on Wednesday..
Great German forces on the left bank Thursday morning of the Vieprzon captared some trenches and began to advance northward, but after a desperate battle in a wood during the night they were everywhere thrown back with the heaviest losses, the Russians capturing 100 prisoners and six gune.
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UDINE, July 23rd. 1.45 p.
STEADY PROGRESS IN THE BRITISH SECTION DAILY.
HIS PRINCIPLES. HARDSHIPS OF THE RECENT. CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, July 23rd.
3.20 p.m.
The splendid reception accorded General Boths at Capetown is the forerunner of Bories of similar welcomes from the towns and even villages of South Africa, General Botha's speech has made & great impression. He ascribed the success to his officers and mer, and emphasised the value of the campaign as leading to a better understanding between the two. white races.
He was resolved to follow the principles for which he had stood hitherto,
LONDON, July 22nd. Sir Ian Hamilton reports that in the Northern section of operations a raiding party rushed a trench in front of our Speaking of the hardships and sacri lite during the might of July 18th. All fices endured by the troops, he said that the enemy fed except one, who was killed often after a burning march they had to On the 19th an anti-aircraft gun was scrape dry the river-bed for water for located. It was hit with the second round their horses, whose tongues were to dry of one of ons guns, and blown inso the that they were unable to drink and the air with the fifth round. ctg water had to be forced down.
In the Southern aroa the Turks, on the 18th, made an attack on some newly, captured trenches in the French section, but were csaily repulsed. There is steady progress in the British section daily, con solidating and in some cases extending trenches won ou the 12th and 13th, Yesterday, the 21st, a small redoubt was captured, with insignificant loss, and a successful attack was made on part of a communication trench held by the enemy A Turkish machine gun opposite our left was knocked out by French artillery.
In both sections the enemy artillery has
boen (active.
FRENCH OFFICIAL REVIEW
OF OPERATIONS.
TURKS DISPLAY NEW RESOURCES.
PARIE, July 23rd.
SOUTH AFRICAN REBEL SENTENCED.
SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE OF £1,000.
PRETORIA, July 23rd.
9.50 p.m. The rebel General Komp has been sen- tenced to undergo seven years' imprison- ment and to pay a fine of one thousand pounds.
COLONIAL GENEROSITY. 100,000 TONS OF COAL FROM THE TRANSVAAL.
PESTORIA, July 23rd.
0.30 p.m.
BUSY
An official review of the operations at the Dardanelles, from June 25th to July The Transvaal Coal Owners' Associa
th, in describing the British attack of tion have offered the Imperial Govera- June 28th, says there was no stopping the ment a gift of one hundred thousand tons infantry once they had started. Two days of coal. prior to a Turkish general attack on the 6th inst. observers reported the arrival of ' 10,000 Turkish reinforcementa, The PRESIDENT WILSON attack was characterised by a display of
WITH HIS PEN. resources which up till then had not been manifested by the Turks 4 battleship, COMPOSING NOTES TO BRITAIN anchored in the Narrows, participated in
AND GERMANY, the artillery preparation; and aeroplanes bombed the Allied lines; but the enemy.
WASHINGTON, July 24th. infantry assaults were lifesco and opas President Wilson has conferred with modic; there was no sign of previous Mr. Lansing on the subject of the new ardour; and they were wiped out by rifo Note to Great Britain regarding the com- and maxim fro. After the failure of the mercial rights of neutral rations under attack 17 allied aeroplanes bombed the embargo that has been placed upon
Chanak.
The Italians on the Isonry are storm ing the cemented, armour-plated entrench ments communicating with the subter- rancan passages excavated from the rock. The advance is necessarily slow, and even NAVAL ACTIVTIES. when Gorizia has fallen the conquest of the Carso Plateau will be the most diff cult and costly.
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RUSSIANS MASTERS OF THE BLACK SEA.
NAVIGATION OF ENEMY SHIPS PRACTICALLY STOPPED.
Arums, July 23rd,
6.40 8.
A some of touching heroism took place- at the storming of the last entrenchments at Podgora Fifty volunteers, mostly from Trieste and Gorizia, and studenta from Bologna with their professors (including Signor Lavezzari, a veteran Garabaldian aged 78) had asked and obtained permission to join the regiment assigned to the attack. During the night the volunteers out the entanglements, and
Russian submarines have practically at sunrise led the regiment to the assault, When the entrenchments were stormed, stopped the navigation of enemy ships in Lavezzari, standing on the parapet, flung the Black Sea. Consequently the Zungul off his soldier's tunic and displayed a dak collieries are cut off. red Garsbaldian shirt. He was shot through the heart, and the body wis escorted back by 200 Austrian prisonere.
The summit of Podgora, which is one
of the chief defences of Gorizia, is crown- ed with five forts equipped with long- range guns. The whole slope is out into
In hot weather knock off alcohel, drink trenches with sliding armoured shatters,
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A BLANK WEEK, GERMAN SUBMARINES FAIL TO GET ONE OUT OF 1,325.
LONDON, July 22nd..
be the cheapest work of the kind anywhere plenty of "MONTSERRAT Line Jaice, Italians capture a section of a trench the The Admiralty announce that, during pablished, and although very much enlarged
and improved in avery way, the price in its you fit
alfver is now below the equivalent of £1 55%,
mi which it was originally published.
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behind which are vast, grožioca where the enerny's deserves are kept. Wherever the Austrians retire, having blocked the re, the week ended July 21st, 1,328 vessels mainder of the trench with a wall of arrived at and sailed from British ports; quickly daying cement.
mone was sunk by submarines.
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Germany. This Note has been delayed owing to the President's desire firstly to finish the third Note to Germany. It's expected that the Note will be ready for transmission to London within a week.
WASHINGTON, July 4th. The American Note to Germany argas that Germany's reaint submarine opera- tions show that it is entirely possible to conduch auch warfare in accordance with the principles of International Law, and urges Germany to repudiate the illegal and inhuman act of the commander of the aubmarine responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania, and to make such reatitu tion as is possible. The Note declares that a repetition by German Navel Coma- manders of acts contravening the rights of neutrals will be regarded when they affect American citizens as deliberately unfriendly.
THE STANDARD OIL. STRIKE. TWO STRIKERS KILLED AND
EIGHT WOUNDED.
New YORK, July 23rd.
2.20 p.m. Two strikera were killed and elgh wounded at Rayonne in attacks upon the guards at the Standard Oil works." One of the wounded is an ex-Austria soldier.
SHIPPING IN PORT.
FILMARS.
RYNEHO MARU, Japanese str., 1,762, E. Kanada, 17th July-Newchwang 10th July, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kalaha DAIGI MARU Japanese str., 809, Y.
Konishi 23rd July Haiphong 1st. July, General-Osaka Bhosen Kai- zha.
July,
Cotton and Generul-Java- China-Japan Jijn.
FOORGANG, British str., 1,987, T. Grant, 23rd July-Moji 17th July, General.
Chinese
FUKUI MARU, Japanese str., 3,050 1
Chesaki, 12th July-Moji 6th July, Coal-Mitsui Buss Kaisha.
HALVARD, Norwegian str., 466, C. Beck, 16th July Sumarang 6th July, Sugar.-Thoresen & Co.
HANAMETAL American str., 1,714, Lennox, 19th July Wakamatau 17th July, Coal-Order.
HOKUTO MARU, Japanese str., 2,428, N. Buzuki, 22nd July-Batik 19th July, General.-Dodwell & Co. HONGMOR, British str., 2,556, Kinghorn,
14th July-Amoy 13th July, Rice Chinese.
HUB, French str., 739, A. Cornelineen, 23rd July-Haiphong 22nd July, General.-4. R. Marty,
JINGEN MART, Japanese str., 2,682, 1. Ohta, 20th, July- Japan 15th July, General Nippon Yusen Kaisha, KWANGTAH, Chinese str., 1,292. Stewart,
19th July-Shanghai 14th July, Gen oral.--Chinese,
stry LABETES, British
A. Jenkin, 1,350, 22nd July-Saigon 18th July, Rice and General, Chinese.
LOKSANG, British str., 997, G. W. Ritchie, 22nd July-Hoihow Blut July, Rios and Sugar-Jardine, Matheson & Co. MANDASAN MARU, Japanese str., 2,680, 8. Suzuki, 19th July-Miike 7th July, Coal. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. PHUYEN, French str., 1,240, Ribault, 22nd July-Saigon 18th July, Rice.--- Order.
PHKUMPENH, British str., 1,005, E. O Bird, 2nd July-Saigon 17th July, Rice and General-Chinese. BADO MADU, Japanese str., 3,880, K. Asai- kewa, 18th July-Shenghai 15th July, General Nippon Yusen Kaisht, SHINYO MARU, Japanese str., 7,928, W. C. T. B. Filmer 19th July Ban Francisco 10th June, General,--Toyo Kisen Kaisha.
SIEDMAN, British str., 794, R. W. de La Bale, 18th July-Manila 14th July, -Thoresen & Co. TAISHUN, Chinese str., 1,200, Westerlund, 12th July-Shanghai 7th July, Gen- eral. Chincoe.
TEAN, British str., 1,561, Trowbridge, 20th
July-Manila 18th July, Sugar.- Butterfield & Swire.
TSINOTAU MARU, Japanese str., 1,529, Yamada, 92nd July-Chingweatso 14th July, Coal-Dodwell & Co.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
TO-NIGHT
8 p.m.-Grand Entertainment in St. John's.
Hall, Flood Relief Fund
TO-MORROW.
6.30 p.m.-Kowloon Cricket Club Extra-
ordinary General Meeting.
8 p.m.-Grand Entertainment in St. John's.
Hall, Flood Relief Fund.
Wednesday, 29th July:-
9.16 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co. at the Theatre Royal-The Barrier.” Thursday, 29th July
4 pm The Association of Exporters and Dealers of Hongkong. Annual General Mesting in the Chamber of Commerce New Government Building. 4.30 p.m--The Association of Exporters and
Dealers of Genomal
in the Chamber of Meetingkong Commerce Room, New Govt. Building.
Extraordinary
5.30 p.m. Royal Hongkong Golf Club- . Extraordinary General Meeting at the
Club House, flappy Valley.
0.15 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.. at the Theatre Royal-Why Smith Luft Home.' Friday, 30th July
9.10 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.
at the Theatre Royal." Don. Saturday, 31st July:-
9.15 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.
at the Thertre Royal-"Milestones, Monday, 2nd Aug.:-
9.15 p.m. Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.. at the Theatre Royal "A Message from Mars
Saturday, 7th Aug. —
12.45 p.m.-Hongkong Jockey Club Extra-
ordinary General Meeting..