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THE WAR.
"HE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25r. 1915.
BULGARIA MOBILISES WHOLE
STRENGTH.
SITUATION ·WRAPPED IN COMPLETE OBSCURITY.“
PROVISIONS OF WAR BUDGET.
LABOUR MEMBERS' APPROVALA
FRENCH ARTILLERY'S ASCENDANCY.
"HOW I RAIDED LONDON:" BY A ZEPPELIN COMMANDER.
AIRSHIP AQTIVITY"
(THROUGH CLUTER'S AGENCY.)
ZEPPELIN BAIDER'S STORY.
HOW LONDON WAS BOMBED.
LONDON, September 23rd.
Commander,Mathy, the pilot of one of
furnished the New York World with an
THE NEAR EAST:
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÓV.] SECOND EXPEDITION AGAINST EGYPT.
TURCO-GERMAN PREPARATIONS.
PARIS, September 23rd.
GENERAL
(THROUGH BUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE WAR BUDGET.
PATRIOTIC ATTITUDE OF LABOUR AL.PB.
(THROUGH REUTERʼB ADENOX.] BULGARIA MOBILISING, FITNESS OF BULGARIAN ARMY.
LONDON, September 24th-
A Bulgarian reserve officer in London, interviewed by a Router's representative before departing in response to the sum- mons, said that the general mobilisation applied to a quarter million of infantry. The army stores were amply replenished
[THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENDY.] DAMAGED OUTCH LINER
CAPSIZED.
LONDON, September 23rd.
PEKING NOTES.
PEEING, September 15th.
THE WORSHIP OF CONFUCIUS. The official" sacrifice to Confucius was conducted on Monday morning in scord.
The Dutch finer Koningin Emma,ance with the rites prescribed by the. (which was reparted yesterday as having struck a mine) capsized and sank near Shipwash Bands.
The Batavier 17. transferred the Konin- in Emma's rescued passengers to the
classics, the duty being undertaken by the Secretary of State lustrad" of the President, who for reasons not divulged decided not to perform the early morning exercise no he did last year. All the Ministers of State and other high officials
and the artillery had been increased by Krembanyan, which proceeded to Amster attended, and the ceremony was conduct
one-third. The spirit of the officers i splendid.
Am Athens telegram says a decree was promulgated at Sofia at midnight mobilis
intensified the emotion in Greces and developments are awaited.
LONDON, September 23rd. In the House of Commone Mr. Barnes, speaking for the Labour Members, in the Budget debate to-night struck a high note. He emphasised how little the people at home, felt the war, how unprecedentedly high were the wages of the workers- indeed, he would have felt inclined to applaud the Chancellor of the Exchequering twenty-eight classes. The news has if he had taken advantage of this prosperi ty and piled on taxes even more. Still, the present proposals must be accipted Es a War Budget, and the Labour Members would support the Government on this The enlling up of 28 classes of Bulgarians Budget or any proposals for the conduct is taken to mean that all qualifëd man of the war be, long as fresh proposals between the ages of 20 and 47 are to joia imposed no farther disparity of fortune the colours. This includes practically the between the classes, and so jong as no neel-whole strength of the nation. less inroads were made on the resources of the very pour, and so long as they did not sacrifice any vital. principle or interest of
the country.
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THE IMPORT DUTIES.
NATION'S WHOLE STRENGTH CALLED UP.
WRAPPED IN COMPLETE
OBSCURITY."
LONDON, September 23rd. The Bulgarian situation is wrapped, in complete obscurity.
RUSSIAN POLITICAL
SITUATION. PETROGRAD, September 23rd. An audience which M. Rodzianko wne to have had with the Tear, and an extra-
dam.
DYNAMITE FXPLOSION
NEW YORK STREET.
IN
NEW Yong, September 24th. Seven persons were killed and fifty injured in a dynamite explosion during exenvation work for a new underground tube tramer. engulfed.
Many pedestrings
were
ed in befitting solemnity and impressive- ness to the sound of drum and bell and Tho accompanied by sacred dancing. various sacrifices were offered, and Minis- ter Hat performed twenty-four kowtows as directed by the Master of Ceremonies.
THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY. The President's Birthday was to have been oelebrated to-morrow morning with a review of the troops as well as a general boliday, but the review has been post, The streets were crowded at the time, poned. This, together with the fact that and only the net that the sidewalks hell His Excellency, did not turn oud to tha
firm prevented a greater catastrophe. Fireworship of Confucins on Monday morn man with ropes rescued the injured..
THE ROLL OF HONOUR.
FAR EASTERN MEN. Sergant P W Barratt (of Messrs. W. F. Stevenson and Ce., Manila) is reported: to have died in a German hospital at He was severely Ghent on July 10th. wounded on April 22nd.
ing, ia significant. I need not state what it indicates, Enough to state that tho review has been postponed till October 10:h, the adversary of the outbreak of the Revolution, the Chinese National Heli- day.
THE MINISTER OF FINANCE. Last week 1 predicted that the premat Minister of Finance would not continge much longer in his present office, but I understand now that he may remain in ofice for a month or two yet to pave face, as he is very intimate with the President - and cantot very well retire from his high
News reached Shanghai last week of the death of Mr. G. K. Leach of the Chinese Mr. Leach, Maritime Customs Service. Bradfeld College and Magdalene. College, he had an audience with the President and returned to duty next day. How- fixed for to-day, have both been deferralCambridge, joined the Custons in 1901 an
way stationed at Changsha when war for a few days.
broke out. He proposed to volunteer at ever, several names are being mentioned once as a private, but was dissuaded and as successors. The most likely, I om told, was later recommended for a commission
SECRET MOSCOW
RESOLUTIONS.
In the course of the debate Bir Alire-l Mond asked the Chancellor of the Exche- quer to remove the new import duties,
The Chancellor replied that no principles The Journal des Hebate claims that it of any sort had been compromised by the the Zeppeling which raided London, learns from an absolutely reliable source Budget proposals, which had for their sole ordinary, meeting of the Cabinet Council who was born in 1883 and educated at office on two resignations. On Monday
that Turkey is preparing for a second object this obtaining of revenue and the account of the raid, which has been passed, expedition against Egynt. Two thou-checking of the import of luxurics. Par for publication in London, with the com-sand German officers are now training liament in the future would have the ment:"It contains numerous quite un-, a Turkish Army in Syria, where supplies
or discontinuing th option of renewing duties. true statements, and one that an anti-of guns and ammunition have been
THE TEA TAX. aircraft gun has been placed under cover steadily pouring in. The starting point
Mr. McKenna said there had best of St. Paul's Cathedral, can only be des will be the ancient town of Birsaba,
an important watering place on the edge objections to the tea tax and suggestions. cribed as a falsehood invented to excuse
of the desert. Water supply works are that spirits might pay but it was impos- being constructed, and eight hundred sible to tax the latter without taxing beer, says: The Camelry have been collected for scouting. which had not yet revered from the Connian der Mathy Thines is an indestructible guide-post The German engineer Meisaner Pasha heavy duties of last year. Mr. McKenna convey to the Tsar their resolutions, whic which it is impossible for the English to has brought a new railway to Birsaba.agreed that the tax was high; but-it | are at present kept secret.
It is true that coat is lacking, but the
money had to be raised on a wide basis no MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS remove.. From it we can pick up any
better article could be chosen. point in London. Though the City was Lebanon forests have been devastated to darkened, we could see the glow reficcted provide fuel.
what the Gerican aircraft are attempting
to do."
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in the sky 37 miles away. We headed | FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. straight for this, and soon the sile
city, was below us. There were dark spots standing out from the lighter portions. The residential sections were not much
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.] INCESSANT ARTILLERY
ACTIVITY.
A SOURCE OF CONGRATULATION. At the close of the debate Mr., Mc Kenna said it must be a source of con-
gratulation that the country had accepted the burdens with an almost unanimous will. ingness that was without precedent. The
TO BE CONVEYED TO THE TSAR.
Moscow, September 23rd. The Congresses of the Zemstvos and the Municipalities at Moscow have appointed delegations, hended by Prince Lvoff and M. Chelnikoff, the Mayor of Moscow, to
IN INDIA.
by. II. M. Minister, Sir John Jordan. He is Chan Ching Fang, manager of the left Shanghai in January. Mr Leach was Salt Bank, and formerly Tutuh of Hunan well known on the Yangtze, especially at while the White Wolf was doing things Waha and Hankow, in which ports in that neighbourhood. But even ho is spent some five years. His unselfish dis
in prognosticated that the clever Liang Shih all who position, says a zorthern contemporary, not expected to be a stayer, and it is endeared him. contact with him and his death robs the Yi will be soon im the role of Minister of Customs Service of one of the ablest ani Finance, e position for which his high most popular of its younger men.
to
Came
THE INDIAN GOLD RESERVE.
SIMIA, Angust 23rd.
1t
darkened. It was the dark spots that we MUCH DAMAGE DONE TO GERMAN nation came forward and literally asked the object of making India, by an addi- gold held in India at the disposal of the
were after.
"Suddenly the City seemed to come to life, its searchlights, like arms waving around the sky, sending out feelers for the threatening danger. believes that Londen is not a vast military centre he should have been beside me ant
If anyone
DEFENCES.
PARIS, September 23rd.
There is a continuance of the fierce artil- lery work. The French have the upper hand. They have destroyed trenches and The fight blows up smmunition stores.
seen the red, angry flashes from scores of ing le particularly fierce on the heights of cannon, belching shrapnel. Our altitude the Meuse, the guns being assisted by made range-finding for the anti-aircraft bombe and aerial torpedoes. guts impossible.
We were militarily justified in bomb-
ing a buttery screened near St. Paul's Cathedral, but abstained from fear of damaging the Cathedral.
"We dropped several bombs on Hol horn Vinduct, end in the vicinity of the station. Then from the Bank of England to the Tower we tried to hit the Bridge, but the result was uncertain. The guns on the Tower maintained a lively fire. Arriving over Liverpool Street Station I shouted 'Rapid fire.” and bombs were rained down. A succession of detona tions and bursts of fire showed that I had done grat damage. We were not hit
"Our main attack lasted ten minutes. Tactics demand that our attacks should We were never be short and quick. bothered by neroplanes on any fight." GERMAN AVIATORS VIOLATE
SWISS TERRITORY.
A PROTEST TO BERLIN.
BERNE, September 23rd. Two German aviators few over Swiss territory in the Porrentruy district and were fasilladed by Swiss guards. One the airmen dropped & bomb near a farm, but nobody was hurt.
The Swiss Government has protested in Berlin against the violation of the frontier
and has demanded the punishment of the
Much
LONDON, September 24th. Last night's communiqué says: The Artillery, duel has been most active alag the whole front, mingled with mine exploding and bomb fighting. damage was done to the German defences.
A French airship and effectively bombarded a number of stations and camps.
aeroplanes
The Germans threw incendiary shells into Arras and its environs, causing several fires, which were quickly extin guished.
THE
SERBIAN FRONT. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BOMBARDMENTS ON THE
DANUBE.
to be taxed. There was no better omen of
success.
PUBLIC DISCUSSION.. The Times says that City circles ure of the opinion that, at least at first, the whole of the increased toa tax will be passed
on to the consumer either by an increase in the price,
or a reduction in quality.
talents eminently at him.
A NEWSPAPER-PROBLEM. Foreigners are very much interested this week in the Tientsin. Sunday Journal, a publication owned and edited by an
As was explained in an announcement Italian with a pro-German bias. Osteri... made on the 5th August, 1914, the Goversibly it has been transferred to an Ameri- LONDON, September 23rd. ment of India have been conserving their
is published in the French Concession The Minister of Munitions (Mr. D. gold resources in this country throughout can subject named Dr. Rochelle, and it
the present crisis with a view to support Secretary of State's requirements, when E. Lee & Co. in the British Concession. Lloyd George), in reply to Captaining exchange and contributing to the although printed by the German firm of Bathurst, stated in the House of Commons ever this might be found desirable.
to prohibit the publication within the that intention to place £2 million of the that steps were being taken in India wit has now been decided in pursuance of The French Consul took steps on Monday The expense and French Concession in Tientsin, and it is Secretary of State. inconvenience of the actual shipment will, tional internal output, self-contained us regards explosives as well as other muni-however, be avoided by ear-marking that felt that it is the duty of the British sum as held in India on account of the and Italian Consuls to take further steps.
in the matter. Bank of England, the latter making an equivalent payment to the Secretory of The transaction will State in London. effect the releasing of £2 millions of guid hitherto held in the paper currency reserve, and cancelling its 3 crores of notes held in the treasury balances. The the Minister of War has decided to offer result will be to diminish both the trea- sacrifices at the shrine of Kwanti, the god appropriate about this ceremony inking sury balances and the nominal note cirof war, on Thursday. There is something culation to that extent.
plice at the present time,
tions.
In
COMPOSITION OF THE
CABINET.
LONDON, Septemberr 2örd. the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith, replying to a suggestion that is also suggested that one result will be to the Cabinet should be reduced by two compel consumers to check their present thirds, said he did not propose to make wasteful methods of using ten; The con-any change in the composition of the sumption may decline, but in view of the Cabinet, large craps being harvested it is unlikely
that the market will remain on the easy
COTTON AS CONTRABAND. GOVERNMENT'S UNDERTAKING.
LONDON, September 23rd. side, and this should tend to counteract the higher tax. The producing com
Sir. A. Markham asked Mr. Asquith panies have been doing exceedingly well and can afford to regard the future within the House of Commons whether the Foreign Office Memorandum, published equanimity,
on the 31st August last, stating that the Government contemplated taking mea sures to relieve the abnormal depression in the cotton market, was an audertaking to make up partly or wholly any fall in cotton due to the war or to Council and Proclamations.
LATER.
Mr. McKenna's statement was a purely business declaration. noticeably free of rhetorical declamation.
SHANGHAI TRADE,
THE GOD OF WAR.
Although the review in honour of the President's Birthday has been postponeri
GOVERNMENT'S WINDFALL. The sum of £750,000, part of the amount Messrs, Ilbort & Co,'s latest Picco Goods set aside for carrying out certain reform
in the Salt Administration, not being Market Report says:--
The sparsity of orders from the interiorequired for this purpose, has at length which first made itself evident two or three been released, but only after considerable weeks ago, has become more marked during delay owing to the action of the Minis ter of Finance, who seemed opposed to the the period under review, and the market has not been moving off with any freedom
the the necessary for all goods is nominally easier. Cargo reforms contemplated by Sir Richard
guarantees, and except in the case of yarn, which is still Dane. However, Sir Richard has toured has been liberated by the ern and Steckuen markets, where the anti-money apparently urgently needed in the north- pathy to Japanese yarns continues, though Quintuple Barks, less £200,000 which the in a modified degree,
PHILHARMONIQUE UNION.
The present dullness is attributable Government had promised to pay by the directly to the cautious policy of the end of August on. certain obligations. native bankers, who are still somewhat perturbed by the possibility of serious
Peking has during the past few months. Orders-in-developments in the domestic political
situation, though, as far as surface indica learned to appreciate the very good music tions go, the prospects at present are that provided by the Philharmonique Unica, the recent agitation is likely to die down formerly Sir Robert Bredon's Band, to an academic discussion of the govern
The whole interest of the country 5 centred in the taxation proposals, and there is general satisfaction at having escaped Mr. Asquith said the undertaking was so far without more crushing burdens. limited to the relief of any abnormal NISH, September 24th. The spreading of the income-tax net wider depression resulting from the declaration
so as to include a considerable body of the of cotton to be contraband. A communiqué mentions that the enemy,
GERMAN SUBMARINE PIRACY. for four hours on Sunday, from eight working class meets with approval. The different painte, heavily bombarded proposal to abolish the useful half-penay
LONDON, September 23rd. positious
on the Danube with heavy howit-post-card is criticised, but the abolition
During the week ending September zers and field guns.
of half-penny postage less so, it being remarked that this will dispose of the 220d 1,323 steamers entered and left nuisance of advertising circulars. The British ports. Only two were sunk. heavy increase in the charge for PressÄUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT telegrams to 2/6 per hundred words is likely to be strongly opposed. The postal changes will probably not come into force until November 1st.
THE SPIRIT OF SERBIA.
LONDON, September 24th.. The spirit of Serbia in face of the threatened new German danger is evi- denced by a semi-official statement issue!! at Nish denying the report that Germany had motified Serbia of an impending attack and advising her not oppose it. The state. ment concludes: "Nobody has informed
Serbia of such en attack, nor would Serbia bomb-dropper.
take notice of such intimations, being The German Minister at Berne has ready to valiantly meet any attack from
ény quarter." already expressed his regrets,
The prices of tobacco and other com
modities affected by the Budget have a- ready been raised, but the retailers of toa have agreed to clear their stocks at the of figures
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] MINOR OPERATIONS.
ment of the country. The stringeneys of especially since it came under the baton. money in the Hankow market is so intense of Prof. Heymans, who has produced that the rate of interest for short native from the collection of Chinese instru- loans is about 22 per cent. per annum, n doubt because that market, after its past mentalists a very creditable band. Un- experiences, is more sonsitive to changes fortunately, however, the band is not on in
financial basis, and some scheme will the political outlook than other. There is however, an abundance of
auv
WHITE FEATHERS.
native money, awaiting investment both have to be evolved to provide for ex- is restored, and crops are reported to be will be lost to the capital. here and in the interior when confidence penses, otherwise the luxury of a band very healthy in most parts, except in cer tain localities where the cotton fields were
Some misguided enthusiast in Tient directly in the line of the typhoon of last month. The rice crop in particular is sin has been sending white feathers to reported as exceptionally good, and the price has fallen 80 cents per picul during certain young men who he or she thinks ought to be somewhere in France" the past week.
Business in Szechuen, which has other Needless to say, this silly practice cauzes ROME, September 23rd.
wise been prosperous, has received a set- back through the redemption of some of mensary pain not only to the re A communiqué reports only miner opers-its former note issue which has brought cipients but to their friends, for it is about half the number of notes presented. British nationality in North China who were taken in the region of On the other hand, the Government there are in a position to go who have not tions. Some trenches and iwire entangle to light extensive forgeries amounting to obvious that there are few young ton of were has assisted mattons by fixing the value already done so, and those who are left Austrians ments
of a dollár note, which stood recently at are doing their bit in the strict mean-
ing of the phrase. Guidicaria and the repulsed at Falanrego in Tolmino,
30 cents, at 60 cents.