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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1sr 1915.
RUSSIA'S GREAT RESISTANCE.
THE BRITISH FRONT.
A TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT.
ITALIAN
AUSTRIANS IN
RUSSIAN-FRONT-
SUCCESSES
FULL RETREAT AT TWO
POINTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FIERCE RUSSIAN ATTACK ON MACKENSEN'S ARMY.
AMSTERDAM, August 30th. Interest in the Eastern theatre of the
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
THE BRITISH FRONT.
REPORT FROM SIR JOHN
FRENCH.
LONDON, August 31st. A port from Field Marshal Sir John French states that since the 18th inst.
war to-nights centres hround Rign and there has bee only mining activity on the
Bee Russian attack on General van Mackens n's Army eastward of Brestli-
toisk.
A Berlin communiqud says that General you Bulow, belonging to General von.
Hindenburg's group, is still fighting for the bridgehead at Friedrichstadt, on the river Dwina, some thirty miles south- eastward of Riga.
This is evidence that the Russians are making a great resistance.
STUBBORN FIGHTING
CONTINUES.
PETROGRAD. August 30th.
Stubborn fight A communiqué says: -ing conlinnes west of Friedrichstadt,
The Germans delivered simultaneous attacks at Eekan, on the Neuhut railway, and on the village of Birthalen.
British front,
and
noar
Wa branght down enemy aeroplanes, our artillery fired a railway train Langemarck, our Flying Corps auccessfully co-operated in the French aerial attack on the Forest of Houthurst. TERRIFIC ARTILLERY WORK.
REACHES A CLIMAX.
PARIS, August 30th. The terrific artillery work, which has
been the recent feature on the western front, roached a climax yesterday in Argonne, where, it was accompanied by mine explosions and grenade fighting over a wide front. A communiqué say's that the enemy's trenches were seriously damaged.
The night was calme along the whole
front.
The Russians assumed the offensive at FRENCH ARTILLERY WORK. some points in the Dvinsk district.
Fighting continues before Vilna, the front being approximately unchanged.
The Russians continue to retreat on the Niemen Pripet front, ewered by rear- guards which repulsed a series of attacks at Lipsk, inflicting heavy losses,
The rear-guards likewise blocked a big offensive on the Prajany-Corodets frout.
The enemy has changed the dispositions of his troops in the Vlademir-Velynsk region, making a big offensive,
Fighting is occurring on both banks-of- the Stys.
RUSSIANS HOLDING ON.
PETROGRAD, August 30th, Latest advices show that Grodno is still in the hands of the Russians, The snemy's sudden movement at Vladimir Jolynski was popularly assumed to presage azi advancs on Kieff, but military experta are of the opinion that this movement, Soupled with the renewed activity, in Batern Galicia, resulting in the crossing of the Zlotalips, was only intended to cover the forces advancing from Brestli towk. RUSSIA'S VICTORY IN THE CAUCASUS.
VAST BOOTY.
PETROGRAD, August 31st. Russia's recent victory in the Caucasus was accompanied by rast booty. A com muniqué records the capture of 5,213 Turkish prisoners, while the pursuing Cossacks killed over 2,000 of the enemy, Also, twelve guns, sixteen machine-guns,
ammunition and quantities of captured.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT,
vero
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUY.] DEADLY BRITISH BOMBARD-
MENT.
AMSTERDAM, August 30th.
News from Belgium says that 600 were killed in the British bombardment of Zeebrugge, and that military buildings were seriously damaged,
PARIS, August 31st.
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(THROUGH BEDTER'S AGENCY.] AUSTRIANS RETREATING. BEFORE IMPETUOUS ITALIAN ATTACKS.
LONDON, August 31st, The operations in Poland have tom- porarily oclipsed events in the Italian theatre, which, nevertheless, are of great importance.
The Austrians, seemingly, are in full
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENDY-]
RIVER DISASTER AT
PURFLEET.
TRAINING-SHIP'S CUTTER SUNK.
LONDON, August 31st,
THE BASEL MISSION.
SWISS OR GERMAN?
A correspondent over the nom de plume of "Beottish Woman" writing to a Bom bay paper says:--
In The Times of India, Thursday, July 22nd, 1915, page 7, there appeared unde: the heading "Basel Mission Industrials" A river disaster is reported from Puran alleged explanation that the Mission floet. A cutter from the trainingship Cornwall was cut in half by a tug and
sank immediately, une officer and sixteen Only four were
boys being drowned. saved.
ACCIDENT TO MRS. MACLEAN
GIBSON,
Mrs. Gibson, wife of Dr. Maclean Gib son, Medical Superintendent of the Alida Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals, med with a somewhat scrious abcicient ơn Monday while coming down Garden
Swiss Since wheu The writer woul charge of two coolics. It seems that by the above name was not Germon bat ondor ricksha, which was in fain have us believe that because "an the coolies lost control of the ricshay authenticated certificate of register of the owing to the slippery nature of the road, Company legalised by the British Consul in Switzerland has been filed with other and realising that an accident was papers at the office of the Registrar inovitable, bravely endeavoured to turn Joint Stock Companies. At Madras, in the vehicle.. In doing so, however's accordance with requirements of
retreat at two points. One in Valsugana, where they are blowing up bridges and viaducts and destroying roads as they retire to safety within the circle of the RUSSIAN CONVICTS MUTINY. Indian Companies Act 7 of 1913; Co
nearest defences of Trent, The other point is in the region of the Upper Isonzo, where the Alpini wrested an in- portant mountain summit from their
grip. The Italiaus did not occupy Plezzo, which was emirely at their meroy, bur pushed reapidly eastwards in order To seize further heights.
A SANGUINARY STRUGGLE.
LONDON, August 30th. A mutiny among the convicts at Kiria (Manchuria) resulted in a fierce struggle in which 70 Russian guards and 100 con victs were killed, and 100 guards and 120 convicts wounded.
[RAVAS SERVICE]
A correspondent upines that the entire- fine of defences in northern Isonzo are A FRENCH AVIATOR'S ESCAPE seriously-menaced, and the Anstrinns are
FROM INTERNMENT- in a precarious position from here to Tol- mito, Gorizia and Sugaua. In addition, there has been the loss of a series of stout defenses iúk Sugana.
GENERAL.
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PARIS, August 20th. In order to avoid misunderstandings with Switzerland the French Govern- ment has authorised the French aviator Gilbert, who is alleged to have broken hiss parole, rotarn to Switzerland.
DEATH OF A FRENCH SENATOR.
PARIS, August 20th. The death is announced u Senator
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CRISIS. BULGARIAN
SOFIA, August 30th. The Premi received a deputation of the Agratian Party, who are demanding a convocation of Parliament and counselling Rene Berenger.
The Premier, in replying, prudence. intimated that the negotiations with Turkey were on the eve of conclusion. The concessions received from Bulgaria in no- wise implied a polítical engagement. Tho result of the negotiations with the Entente depended on the replies from Nish and
Athens.
THE DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT.
WAR BREVITIES.
According to the Frankfurter Zeilung there are in Germany 2,000,000 tons of copper in the shape of kitchen utensils, parts of machinery roufs, etc., all of which can be substituted by other materials.
The Times' correspondent at Bukharest says that the diplomatic conflict has reach- ed its height. The Central Powers are employ ng every means to increase the pre-ment vaining discord and, if possible, cause i war between Bulgarian and her neighbours,
while the Entente Powers are endeavour- ing to promote an understanding on the
Last night's communiqué reports artil-basis of Serbo-Grecian concessions to ‚lery actions at Artois and Juonnevieres, Bulgaria,
where the fire wrecked German trenches
and searched the German cantonments.
The French hatteries in Argonae reportedly stifled the enemy's attempts to open a bombardment.
Lire cannonading is proceeding in Lorraine and the Vosges.
AN ALLIED AIR RAID.
"AMSTERDAM, August sist. The Telegraaf's correspondent at Ghent, in a graphic version of the air raid by Allied aeroplanes, states that they ap- peared on Thursday night above the
aerodome at St. Denis. Outside the city here was a terrific din caused by wild gunfire. The explosions of bombs were
audible to the citizens, and these were
followed by a lurid giare in the sky frum the burring sheds. AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT.
[THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ITALIANS GAIN IMPORTANT MOUNTAIN POSITION, AEROPLANES BOMBING RAILWAY STATIONS NEAR TRIESTE.
ROME, August 30th. A communiqué states that 'Italian patrols pushed towards the summit of Moute Cisa, 7,000 ft. high, dominating the Italian positions at Monte Salubio.
They found the summit crowned with an infantry detachment with machine-guns.
The Italiane captured the position des pite desperate resistance.
محمد
The enemy, after a long period of inactivity, made a fierce onslaught on the Italians at Carniz but were repulsed.
The Italians pushed beyond the import- and village of Plezzo barring access through the Predil Pass.
In Upper Isoze the. Italians further. advanced in the Talmein section and cleverly outmaneuvred the Austrians on the Carse plateau, capturing trenches which were full of dend and equipment,
Italian aeroplanes continue to be husy near Trieste, qmbing railway stations.
The Deutsche Tageszeitwig, of. Berlin, prints the following-domestic-announce
"Lieutenant
and wife astounge the birth of a girl child, who has been named Bring Friede,” Vate McKB5 Bring Peace."
A
The
th
this
it The shafts appeara quently our weaving establishment is pure to have shipped; the shafts snapped, ly a Swiss concern" it is Swiss and t Mrs. ;:11 WELS thrown: - violentlyį
Gering ti
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the ground, and the coolie im. The work of the Society began in India
the shafts sustained je 1834 and for any long years a
severe injuries.c special feature of the Basel Mission is Mrs. Gibson, we learn, sustained the industrial establishments connecte:1 with it. Query Why was not tanjuries to the forehend, and was also registered long before 1912 badly bruised about the shoulders. She Company
was unconscious for about half an hour, the Registration Act of inasmuch as Joint Stick Companies has been in furges
and was conveyed to the Goverament Civil in Indin since 19807
Hospital by some persons unknown whom Dr. Gibsoir wishes to thank for their kind
I cannot help being forced to the von clusion that the German mbajogaries
R
India were for years as familiar with th preparations of war in the Fatherland as -were-the-Pression adiers and doubiles were instructed to be ready for any emergency.
Let me gire further data for the founda- tion of my conclusions.
and ready assistance. Mrs. Gibson way also badly shaken, but is progressing favourably.
The rickshai coolie vras also taken tot the Government Civil Hospital suffering from a broken leg and severe injuriey Bo His headle
In 1911, the Bagel Mis-ion was called the Basel Grman Evangelical Mission " (se Protestant Missionary Directory 1910-1911. page G7, published by the Sexi tish Mission Industries. Ajmer). In 1972- 1013 issue of the same Directory, we find PASSENGERS ON BICYCLES.
Mission," "' Basel Bams. simply
the
BE NO OFFENCE,
Evidently that was the year the Cam- DANGEROUS PRACTICE HELD TO pany was careful to be registered as A Swiss Concern." In the 1915 Direc tory, the name is, also Basel Mission,"
At the Magistracy yesterday, before but with this interesting legend (page 59) Mr. Wood; B. 8. Benjamin, 1, Barrow
Terrace, Kowloon, was charged with riding a biaycle to the common danger in Nathan Road on August 30th..
Mr. R. C. Faithfull defended, and said his client pleaded not guilty.
The Missionary Society of Basel was founded by Christians of Gerinary and Switzerland in 1815. Work is carried on in Africa (Gold Coast and the Cameroons) China and India. Work in India was begun in 1834, when Hebich and his two Fin companions landed at Mangalore. Kanara the work spread to Southern Mahratta in 1837, and to Malabar in 183 some stations in Coorg and on the Nilgiris followed; the Bible has been translated sage time carrying a passenger into three languages: Kanarese (Mogling ferous-bar, a heg; of about six or seven and Weigle) Tulu (Amau) and Malays
P.C. Delalaunty spoke to seeing defen- dant cycling along Nathan Road, at the
carrying a regulations, is there? danger?
ÚT the
Witness-There would have been if he
had turned a corner and got gunung traffic; his control would not have been perfecb with a child on the machine,
Bakers who sell short-weight bread in tam (Gundert). There are now 26 chief ears of age. Witness told him this was war-time are dealt with drastically in stations with 18,000 Christians and 22,000 not allowed. Defendant was going at a A special normal pace, be was riding quite well, New Zealand. Two have just been fined pupils in different schools. LONDON, August 30th. £20 cash and ordered to advertise their feature of the Basel Mission is the indus and had his machine under control.
trial establishments connected with it."- conviction,, at their own cost, in four
Altogether there are under appointment When witness stopped him defendant newspapers.
124 missionaries in connection with the became very excited" and asked him Basel Mission in India. Of that number to show the authority which gave him on 18 are unmarried women, whereas t naditi n to the 124 there are 77 wives of power to stop him. Defendant also wond to the police station and reported witness missionaries making a total staff of 201.
When The World Atlas of Christian for stopping him, Missions" was being prepared in 1911" Mr. Wood-There is nothing abont (following the World Missionary Confer
child on
a bicycle in the The prohibition of the export of berence in Edinburgh 1010) we rend under from Germany has given the Swiss brow-
There was 00. ing industry a great filip. At Munich the section Germany" that the "Basel a local order prohibits the sale of heer Evangelical Missionary Society is to be looked for anter Switzerland (page 4). before a p.m., by which time long
Turning to the page indicated, p. 56, we queue is waiting outside the cafés.
Fend The Basel Society cannot be regard. The Grand Duke of Baden has confered as wholly German or wholly Swiss, red on Baron von Bissing, the Sultan although its office is in Switzerland, aur of Brussels, the collar and swords of its accounts are rendered in franes.
Mr. Faithfull remarked that there was the Order of Berthold L, and on General supported by the united efforts of de You Strachwitz, military governor of that Lutheran and Reformed Churches in nothing in the regulations with gard city, the cross of Commander of the Order Southern Germany and Switzerland."
te carrying children on cycles. of the Zähringen Lion,
The conscientious compilers of the Atlas
Witness added that a few days ago, the were not mombers of the Kaiser's Intel- ligenee Department," and could not under defendant was carrying two children on stand why they were asked to put the his eycle; one in front and another "Basel Mission" unter "Switzerland," when they know it was contrary to fact, behind. hence the compilers' explanatory note to Mr. Wood- do not think he was clear themselves. One more fac. from the riding in the danger of the public. at all. Atlas (page 78) under the heading
Replying to the Magistrate defendant Summary of Societies and Lueomes “ wher Germany's missionary income, is said he had been a cyclist for five years.
Mr. Wood--1 would not take too many gorded there is a fontacte which reads... The transfer by special request of dr
the Swiss seetirat Passengers on your cycle if I were you. Basel Society into accounts for the diminution in the income 11 de mol think there is ang ease against reported from Germany." The compilers | you; but if you had lost control of the were again at a loss to know why they were machine under these circumstances you asked to do what on the face did not
GERMAN INVASION OF SERBIA?
200,000 TROOPS ARRIVE AT BRASSO,
LONDON, August 30th. 200,000 German troops have arrived at Brasso, and it is believed that a German invasion of the north-eastern corner f
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Serbia will begin in ten days, the enemy then entering Bulgaria westward, widen as they are advancing on Nish from the Bulgarian side. CHRISTMAS
GOODS FROM
AUSTRIA AND GERMANY,
BRITISH CONCESSION TO
AMERICA. WASHINGTON, August 30th. The British Ambassador has informed the State Department that Great Britain is prepared to allow the passage through
the blockade of certain goods purchased
in
Austria and Germany, destinal America for the Christmas trade.
MAKING MUNITIONS IN AUSTRALIA.
to
SYDNEY, August. 30th. Splendid work is being done in the pro- duction of munitions in Australia. The Commonweath Small Arms Factory is working double shifts and increasing the
already large output
Miss Philippa Fawcett, daughter of the famous blind Postmaster General, has undertaken to perform the duties of rural postman in Suffolk in order to release a man for war work. Miss Fawcett is one of the chief education offers of the London County Council.
Dutch peasants who went to Winterswyk to sell regetables to Germans were offered German notes in payment, but refused to accept then even at a discount of 50 per cent. off their fece value. As the Ger mans had nothing but paper money, the peasants took their vegetables bous
again.
It is
I is announced from New York that appear sound, so throw the responsibility would be liable for the accident, soldiers who lose their eyesight in the of the act on those who were asking the case is dismissed.. European war are to be helped by a
to do it by inserting the words "hy specist newly formed organisation, called the request, While the Industrials Committee for Men Blinded in Battleferred to are usually spoken of as belong. headed by Mr. Joseph H. Cheats, former
ing to the Basel Mis-ion" no one ever United States. Ambassador to Great
hears the missionaries themselves desigo- ated in any way other than "The German Missionaries." The most of the 124 nam in the Directory are German.
Britain.
The Victorian Minister of Defence announces that plans have been received from the Imperial Government for the manufacture of eighteen-pound shells. A census of available machinery is being taken and the engineers are preparing to begin manufacture immediately on au
immense scale.
A soldier on leave, sage the Pall Mali Gazette, tells how birds warn the Allies of a gas attack. Long before the smell of the fumes can be detected in the trenches there is a great clamouring of birds awakened from their night perches. The birds fly away beyond reach of the fumes, The New South but in the meantime the British soldier is.
prepared. Wales Government workshops are practi
REGULAR COMMISSIONS.
NO
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.
In the light of all that has been disclosed during the past year of German intrigue I feel that the change of name from 44 German Evangelical Mission " to simply Basel Mission is on a par with other acts. I am thankful that they bad the grace to drop, the word Evangelical, as well as German."
THE BANK OF CHINA. CAPITAL INCREASED BY $20,000,000,
-
CHINESE
The
EMBEZZLEMENT
CASE.
A BOGUS CASE FOUNDED ON
PERJURY."
The bearing of the case in which Leang Tik Kwong, alig Leung Te Ching, charged with the embezzlement of $1,500, was resumed yestarday before Mr. R. E Lindsell.
The prosecution having concluded their case, Mr. Patter, for the defence, sub mitted there was no ease to answer. There TAG: A partnership issus before tha
Supreme Court and three years after the The Bank of China started business alleged embezilenipat, a man who claimed with a capital of $10,000, CCO, As che
volume of business is expanding rapidly to be a partner brought this charge -The General Federation of Teachers in the authorities of the Bank-recomended against the defendant, but had not gon The recom into the witness-box to substantiate his cally converted into arcual, manufactur-France is arranging that the scholars of the increase of the capital. ing machine-guns which are believed to be Rheims shall spend their holidays shelter-mendation was discussed and approved st
ed from all bombardment as a just reward a conference held in the Administrative case. There was absolutely un evi lence tag
It was decided to in show that the defendant had ever rrceived the equal of any in the world,
for their prolonged stay in the cellars of Headquarters. their transformed schools. The first crease the capital by $20.000.000. Of the money he was alleged to havs group of eighty children, ranging from this amount. $10,000,000 will be appro- eight to cleven years of age, already priated by the Government, and the embezzled. This was a common kind of
15 issued arrived in Paris a month ago...
cther $10.000,000 will be
cas, a partnership dispute and black- shares to the public. The Ministry of
police-court proseedings "h9. It is interesting to acts that the troops Finance reports to the President that the mail fighting in the Persian Gulf are provided Government appropriation of $10,000,000 thought he could call them that The casin with goggles and epius prcscctors to should be made out of the receipts from
was a bogus one, founded, he alleged, on shield them from the sun, not from the the vale of public properties, which up. bullets of the enemy. A private in the to the present has come to the figure of perjury which he hoped would be punish Dorset Territorials, in a letter to his $20.000.000. The proposal has been anced elsewhers,
are called the tioned by the President: The regulations parents, says: We goggleeyed army, owing to our wearing warding the issue of shares to the goggles to protect our eyes from the ferrublie have also been submitted to the rays of the sun! We also wear spine President and will soon be promulgated. protectors for the same reason."
-Peking Daily News.
LONDON, August 30th.
An Army Order suspends, during the war, competitive examirations for cum missions in the regular forces, and announces monthly nominations for regu- ler commissions for service in the field.
His Worship agreed that there was no. case to answer and · dizcharged the
def ndant