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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH. 1915.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY GOVERNMENT AND ABSENCE OF TONNAGE, DECISION TO REQUISITION SHIPS WHEN NECESSARY.
LONDON, November 2nd.
The Press Burean, nunounces that the Government has decided to take power to deal, by requisitioning a sufficient number of ships, with cases where an emergency of national importance exists in any particular market owing to the absence of tonunge, and, further, to regulate by means of licences the employ ment of British shipping in the carriage of cargo between foreign ports.
·AND
TORPEDO-BOAT
AUXILIARY COLLIDE.
LONDON, November 2nd. The Admirsky eunuces that torpedo boat 96 was sunk in the Straits of Gibral- tar as the result of a collision with a mer- cantile fleet auxiliary.
Two officers and nine men ore missing. and it is feared that they are drowned. TWO STEAMERS SEIZED BY BRITISHI,
SEQUEL TO NEW_ORDER-IN- COUNCIL
LONDON, November 2nd;" The Order in-Council restoring owner. ship instead of flag as the deterining factor In the liability of vessels to seizure hua. already been applied to the American steamer Hocking and the Dutch steamer Hamborn, which have been taken to
they are partly German owned.
(THROUGH RPUTER'S 'AGENCY.}.
THE KING'S' MISHAP.
HIS MAJESTY PINNED DOWN BY HIS HORSE.
THE ALLIES' ADVANCE.
BRITISH ROLE IN. THE FIGHTING.
HOOGE AND LOOS,
THE GREAT MOVE IN CHAMPAGNE,
THE FIGHTING IN ARTOIS,
PRITISH **PUSH AND FRENCH VALOUR,
September 27th.
ARBIVAL OF PRISONERS.
this war. From the Yeor Canal down to the end of the French line the Allies' guns took up the note, and soon the whole of the Allied line was thundering and re- echoing with the infernal racket.
The German lines became smothered in A synoptic view of the great battle is possible only for the High Command dust and smoke, their parapeta melted wire disappeared. No viewpoint will show more than a little way, their barbed. segment of the front, and the movements Those sleeping 30 or 40 miles away wore are so many and the theatres widely awakened in the night by the dull The whole atmosphere was separated that even here one cannot rumbling realise the situation of the day-only of filled with the noise, and so it continued yesterday or the day before yesterday. throughout the day with but few intervals
To-day from a hillock well to the rear of the line I watched the gun-flashes from
The largo runbers of prisoners taken La Bassée to sonth Sanchez. Sharp hail would point to heavy losses in killed and
mist cloaked the horizon. Saturday saw of then were taken at Loos. The town counter-offensive, which was repelled. To. a British attack; Sunday say the way surrounded on three sides, and the day both French and British were closely termans, caught in a trap, had perforce engaged, the former against the high to urrender, having. 4o the men said, ground east of Givenchy which is called fired their last cartridges,
GERMAN OFFICERS' STORIES, the Heights of Viny-the old objective of a front
The prisoners-both those I saw hero the May baities; the latter on
elsewhere--were quite willing to from wist of Haisnes to Hill 70, cast of and
tell. Two officers who had been captured ing
As I write there is as yet ng news of in the attack at Hooge admitted that, the result. But one deduction may be though the big attack had tong been drawn from the last two days which expected, it was a surprise when it did of good omen for the future. We have come, The elder of them, a Landsturm often been told that the German lines captain, said that half his company had in the West were wearing thin. We know been blown up by a within arrow limits their numbers, and wrecked his treaches, and that he himself
But these numbers are less than ours. Germany believed that by the help of had been taken by the rush of British her great machine she could bold her troops that had poured into the breach front and even take the offensive with y, the explosion.
The Ho expressed his deen admiration f fower troops than her opponents. calentation for a long time seaned to be the British infantry, and particularly justified, but it looks as if that day marked upon their steadiness under fire. Either the Allies have He had, he said, only returned from leave might be past.
a week before. but agreed that it would got a wually, strong machine or they have found a way of giving their wan be ore comfortable to spend the winter.
We are attacking all in England Chan- in the trenches, power its chance. along the front to prevent a thin part of the German front being strengthened from elsewhere, and the plan so far looks like succeeding.
LONDON, November 2nd. In order to dispel untruthful rumours. the
following statement has been authorised.
[BY JOHN BUCHAN.) The King was riding a strango horse, but it was an excellent one.
British Headquarters, Sept. 20. It became frightened at the cheering, reared, slipped on the greasy road, and It is possible to-dag-to walk in a fell upon the King, pinning His Majesty down, and causing severe injury and shock,trench from the North Sea to the Alps.storns drifted across the sky, and a wet wounded among the enemy. Nearly all but without breaking any bones. The If some misguided pilgrim, with the trouble was accentuated by the King hav ing to be conveyed in a mutor a consider-proper passes, had attempted it, he would have discovered last Friday, wherever he able distance in the pouring rain.
happened to find himself, a certain air of expectancy and preparation. And on Saturday the odds were that he would have been entangled in an attack. For
who, though lying helpless, Was doler- on that morning began what may well, where the fighting is still proced-talk, and some had interesting stories to
10
A STIRRING, INCIDENT. There was a stirring incident on the hospital train conveying His Majesty,
personally
invest Lance- mined Sergeant Brookes, of the Coldstream prove to be the battle of the longest con Gaards, with the Victoria Cross won ontinuous ling in the world's history. the 8th. The soldier knelt on the floor and bent over his prostrate Monarch, but even the King had so over-rated his strength that he could not ferce this pin through the thick khaki, so he had to be aided
His Majesty had a rough crossing in the hospital ship, but was less fatigued than was expected..
LONDON, November 2nd.
The Press Bureau announces that His Majesty spent a better night. There is no fever, and the effects of the accident are slowly passing off. Nevertheless, the King will be for some time longer con- fined to his bed,
A SPANISH DENIAL.
MADRID, November 3rd. The Premier denies that the Spanish Cabinet is undertaking peace negotiations on behalf of Germany.
PRESIDENT WILSON TO MARRY AGAIN.
NEW YORK, November 2nd. It is announced that the wedding of President Wilson to Mrs. Galt will be
residenco of the bride. The ceremony
A CHANGS OF WIND.
The weather in the beginning of last week was of the perfect auton kind, east with the clear cool days that an wind brings In the evening the stucke from the little fires field refuse cleaked But on Friday the land like a sea fug. the wind moved to the west, and a Scots mist settled on the countryside.
All long the front the roads were fall of returning gun teams and long files of ammunition wagons. The general bom bardment, which had now continued for some weeks, was still in progress, and There was the Germans were replying
violent cannonade in Artois, and the dust-heap that once was Ypres was shelled most of the day and the adjacent, roads sprayed with shrapnel. Everywhere one found an atmosphere of tension and ex- pectancy The just before midnight the great geus began.
HOLDING GERMAN RESERVES.
On
nine, which bad
Another prisoner, a man of the Regiment, declared that practically the whole of his regiment had been taken, because the regiment on their left had been almost completely destroyed.
ENEMY RIDING IN CELLARS.
Take what happened in Artois, Saturday, the day of a British “' push,'
September 27th. From 30 miles off it sounded like the the French had on our right disperate After three days of hard fighting, the roll of giant drums. There was no fighting. They took the last trouch of British troops remain firmly established essation, but sometimes a crescendo, when the Labyrinth. (It should be noted that in the positions they have won from the it had the volusie of thunder near at the Labyrinth has extended since Maynomy, despite heavy counter-attacks by hand. It seemed to last all night, and The old Labyrinth was long ago in the latter at various points. Movements about 1 in the morning it died, and for French hands. They took the cemetery of considerable importante were carried two hours there was a lull. A start of Souchez, which they had heid before out to-day and further captures of raum at dawn did not enable one to get mar and lost, but they could make no impres and guns have been made at Loos, where the front, for every road was crowded sion on Soucher village. On Sunday
humber of the enemy wero discovered Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the ground that celebrated at the end of December at the with troops and transport. A viewpoint the German reserves were engaged in hiding in the cellars of the village, while
This counter-attack on the British position. such as a hilltop showed little
a large additional number of guns--report- will be a quiet me, and the guests will be mist hung low, and in the dim light one The result was that the French tooked to be 23-was collected at various point. saw, no more than the flashes of bursting Souches village with little loss, they shells. Battles in this war are not pic-advanced through the wood to a pointin and around Loos.
Further inds will also indoubtedly be POTENTIALITIES OF A NEW tures for the eye. They are assaults on close to Giveneay-en-Gohelle, and their
the ear, and that never-ending growl of right wing won position north of made later when the hamlet is thoroughly searched, for the struggling nature of the artillery conveyed a grimmer impression Thelus. to the brain than any spectacle.
Sir John French in his dispatch has township must have provided the enemy Presently news began to
drawn the deduction, we have in this with inny good points for the posting of Every section of the British line was fighting (that is, on Sunday] drawn in guns and the preparation of fortified posi engaged, but the two chief advances were the enemy's reserves, thug enabling the tions. Strangely enough sure civilians at Hooge and beyond Vernelles. Hooge the action of August 6th had given French on our right to make further pro-were found to be still living in. Lous, gress. The enemy would appear to have despite the force fighting that has raged two adjoining sections at the same time. if the conclusion is correct, it encourages
suficient, reserves to meet attacks on around the place
is to hope for the best.
THE BALKANS,
[IAROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SERBIANS GALLANT STAND.
BULGARIANS' GREAT LOSSES,
ATHENS, November 2nd. Trustworthy advices from Salonika, say that though the situation of the Serbimas in serious they cunthine to make a gallant staud against the Austro-Germans, while the Bulgarians are in a long live which is threatened from both sides, The Bulgarians have called up ten new classes owing to their great losves,
ANOTHER GERMAN (ANARD.
REPORT THAT SERBIA HAD SUED FOR PEACE.
PARIS, Novaber 2nd. The Serbian Legation emphatically denies the rumour spread là neutral
countries that Serbia had proposed peace to Austria-Hungary on the eve of the resumption of the last offensive, and says that the Allies are too well-informed of the spirit of the Serbian Government and people to pay attention to this monocnyre. ALLIED TROOPS OFF KAVALLA.
AMSTERDAM, November 2nd. The Berliner Togebicit says that British and French transports with troops have appeared off Kavalla.
FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.Į
A QUIET DAY.
limited to relatives.
FEKTILISER.
MIGHT DOUBLE BRITAIN'S FOOD
SUPPLY.
LONDON, November 2nd:" The Board of Agriculture has agreed to assist experiments on a large scale with a view to ascertaining the possibilities of Husogen, otherwise bacterised peat, és á fertiliser. It was discovered by Professor Bott:mley, of King's College..
GERMAN PROPAGANDIST
DEAD.
LONDON, November 2nd, The death has occurred of Herr Ridder, Editor of the Stoots Zeitung, New York, and leader of the German propaganda in the United States.
THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
LONDON, November 2nd.
An article on the Civil Service Bill in the Educational Supplement of The Times sates that the proportion of one fourth if will not recruitment by examination necessarily be applied to each year, as the Bill permits period to be regarded as the whole. Thus it is only necessary that the proportion should be zaintained on a balance over the whole period. It appears also that the Public Schools as well as the Universities will share in the task of seler Core will be taken to net fairly by all educational interests affected, and there is every reason to suppose that the natural desire of the Universities to share
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us the crater north of the Menin road, lake and the château, and south of the but the Germans held the Bellewaarde
The great movement in Champagne hus corner of Sanctuary Wood, which in road they had an awkward forin at a August had enfiladed our right At inmens strategic significane, which 'clock our bombardment began, and at will be obvious to anyone who looks care
we fired a mine south of the road. We fully at a map of the Western front. carried the front trenches and took the Sanctuary Wood fortress, but were unable to hold the Bellewaarde lake beyond the afternoon.
TIME REQUIRED.
.
WAR BREVITIES.
A fen shilling tax on cats has been imposed in Berlin
CHEERING NEWS. The cheering news from the French front has caused the greatest satisfaction in our lines. The news that our gallant. Ally has secured some 20.000 prisoners and has made such splendid progress through the enemy's positions has enormously. heartened the troops engaged in the A word of caution may be spoken to British offensive. The men feel that the those who look for too speedy results. Allies are co-operating with each other In THE CAPTURE OF LOOS.
A great strategic plan takes time for its spirit of perfect confidence and trust in It was three months from each other's power and courage, and this But the big struggle was just north of working out.
the feeling must undoubtedly spur them on Lens The country, as seen from one of von Mackensen's first assault or the numerous slag-ncaps to the west, is Dunajec till Warsaw fell; and these to still greater efforts.
The map of our Army in the field can and studded with the headgear of such as those on the Dniester, the Wieprz, never have been better than it is to-day-
dead flat plain, seamed with roads, three months included temporary reverses collieries and clusters of mean little red and at Lublin. A great movement has Officer and man alike are bound to rach. houses. In the chalky soil the roads and begun, but at the best it must have its other by the splendid spirit of comrade the trench networks show up with extra-slow hours, and it is very accessary to ship that runs through every rank, and Again, every man is determined to do his utmost. we have not only to win victories, but to The sight of Sir John French, standing ordinary sharpness. The British lines view it in a sane perspective. covered Vermelles and Grepay, and a
this afternoon in the garden of the Head- hundred yards beyond lay the Germans follow them up, and this will need a
the La Bassée position south to tremendous and sustained effort; large quarters of a certain anit not far removed.
Their lines numbers of men will be required to supply from the front, engaged in earnest con- their stronghold at Souchéz.
wastage, and a steady stream of muni were the defence of Lens, which in turn
tions. The whole nation is the shaft of ersation with one of his commandere was was the defence of Lille.
The tactical details of this battle and which the Army is the spearhead, and somehow strangely encouraging to those the achievements of the battalions are unless the shaft is stout the tempered that saw it. Reuter. still to come. The main facts are that on steel of the point will fail of effect.
One of the most significant features the Saturday morning we assaulted the front Halluch-Loos, while the troops about the Allied effort is the complete north of the Canal also attacked to divert co-ordination of the different services. German reinforcements. Early in the The great artillery bombardment was a the appointments of candidates in sp-morning we took Loos and pressed cast performanes which zu man here will ever The Germans boast of their proximate ratio of their respective sucward towards the Cité Bt, Auguste, which forget.
motor transport, but ours is better, and
The lord provosts of the chief cities of cesses under normal conditions will be is the northern suburb of Lens.
Between St. Auguste and Loos is a the whole business of moving in Scotland have received a special invita ricceptable as a working husis for selection. hillock, marked 70 metres in the map, a and supplies and bringing back the tion to visit the French front, and alo riding rise, but a position of vital im-wounded was admirably managed. There to be received by President Poincaré on
moment of congestion, though their arrival in Paris. portance in that flat country. By the was never evening we held Hill 70, and were in the it is by far the biggest movement we have
A circular sent out recently by the western suburbs of Hulluch. It was the ever undertaken.
As usual, the work of our airmen was Liverpool Recruiting Committer most considerable British advance since the war of entrenchments began, for we brilliant in its courage and efficiency,cited the fact that 2,000 young
It was their shuty to keep enemy aircraft eligible for the Army are serving silka had progressed two and a half miles on a
inside their own line, so as to prevent and laces in drapers' shops in that city. front of five.
South of us the French were busy in them detecting our operations.
Their week there were 27 fights in the air; at "If my son were of military age,' their old cockpit of Artois. artillery preparation" was brilliant.least one German aeroplane was coin said Countess Fitzwilliam a few days inthe line from Souchez to the Laby- pletely wrecked, and only one British ago," and he went to the war, 2 days rinth is desperately strong, as the Army machine suffered any damage. Our air-nearly break my heart; but if he d of Artois learned in May and June, and men, too, did wonderful reconnoitring nut go, it would quite break my heart." no such advance was possible as that work, remaining in some cases for over
Conncils-Generals hag of the British at Loos. They won the two hours at an altitude of 7,000 feet
It was their decided to address to the Commanders- front trenches and held them, but by aboye the German lines, Saturday evening they had still heavy business, too, to hamper the enemy's comin-Chief, the officers and soldiers of the munications, to prevent him getting French and allied armies, an expression defences to overcome.
reserves; and in this sphere they per-of their admiration and their confidence formed the work of long-range artillery. in victory. Every day lately they have destroyed
"Much as I hate war," said Mr. F. parts of the enemy's vital railways. They
Maddison, secretary
of the
peace It came, and it was good. Champagne burnt part of Valenciennes Station, they is in a special sense the Holy Land of derailed trains, and in some cases blew organisation known as the International One instanes may be Arbitration League, at a meeting in Old. Mother Fashion-says an American French arnis. There Theodoric broke the up parts of them. newspaper-is not to be denied. War hosts of Attila. From the fringes of the quoted of their businesslike auchieity. Mansfield, I agree that this is a war ceed Sir Edward Carson as Attorney may stifle the ingenuity and enterprises land Joan of Arc came to the rescue of An aeroplane attacked a troop train and against an evil thing, and that there can of the Paris modistes, but she will still her country. There Valmy, the crucial destroyed one of the coaches. The train be no peace until the power of the find a way to surprise and thrill the battle of the Revolution, was won. There halted and its occupants emerged to look Gertna military party is broken."
While they were thus jaded pining for "something now." Langle de Cary fought one of the deter- at the damage.
So here we have from China, a novelty mixing actions of the Battle of the engaged the aeroplane returned and drop to delight the heart of feminine fashion Marne, when he checked the assault of the ped bombs in their midst. extremists. A Mandarin morning suit, Wurtembergers on the French right if you please, in which milady may be centre. There, too, in March, General entirely comfortable as she lounges about von Einem first felt the terrors of a in the early hours of the day. These suits French bombardment, and lost the bulk
of the first line of the Guard. are for those with a well-filled purse, for thero is scarcely a limit to the extent of elaborateness and richness of design in downs around, the Camp of Attila as a Every Frenchmen looked on the chalky which the woman of fashion may indulge place of destiny of his country, for there Brocaded satin, worked with it had long been prophesied that the
PARIS, November 2nd. To-day's communiqué says there is nothing of importance to report.
THE NEAR EAST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SICK FROM GALLIPOLI, ·
SUEZ CANAL RESTRICTIONS, A proclamation by General, Sir J. G. Maxwell announces that no passengers, unless disembarking or transhipping, will be permitted to land in the Suez Canal zone except these with regular passports and allied subjects. Crews of ships will In the House of Commons the Under-be permitted to land if provided with a Secretary for War (Mr. H. J. Tennant) Pass signed by their respective captains and counter-signed by the police of the
LONDON, November 2nd.
announced that the sick removed from Gallipoli from the 25th April to the 20th of October numbered 3,200 officers and 75,000 men.
GENERAL
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NEW CABINET MINISTER,
In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith announced that Sir F. E. Smith will suc
General,
ECONOMIC CRISIS IN
GERMANY.
BITTER COMPLAINTS OF HIGH PRICES.
Suez Canal zone which extends from Port Said to Port Tevfik-Reuter.
FREAKS OF FASHION.
MANDARIN SUITS WORN BY AMERICAN LADIES.
herself.
On Saturday every one in the pauses of his own business was asking French officers of his acquaintance for news from Champagne,
ANOTHER REPORT,
GERMANS CAUGHT IN A TEAP.
Last
The
French
has
men
At the annual meeting at Melbourne of the Associated Chambers of Manufac- turers of Australia a resolution in favour of conscription was adopted unanimously. No fewer than 165 Iron Crosses havo been conferred within three weeks in one single German regiment, that of the 9th Kolberger Grenadiers.
Mr
AMSTERDAM, November 2nd. The Forwaerts says that the Committee of the Socialist Party has requested the Imperial Chancellor promptly to convene a meeting of the Reichstag, as the question of supplies and the state of siege require golden dragons, or silver flowers, forms great battle of the future would be Great concentrations of guns had been has the distinction of supplying nine sona, speedy discussion.
the basis for the outside material, with fought. It was as if a British Fleet linings of gorgeous coloured silks
were fighting again in the waters off Cape That it will be accorded a rich welcome Trafalgar. is the prediction of the London fashion
we learned that on a wide experts, who declare that the new garment front in Champagne much ground had
On Saturday has also "caught en immensely in the been won, and that subsidiary operations British capital.
had done well,
This announcement follows bitter com plaints in the German Press of the high prices. The German newspapers openly speak of grave discontent among the work ing class and anger owing to the shortage of necessaries,
British Headquarters, Sept. 20.
Lynch, a widow, residing in The artillery preparation which pre-
the attack in the West was terrific. Arvagh, a remote village in Co. Cavan, to the Army. Eight of these joined some made at various points, while enormous time ago, and the ninth has now enlisted. the latest available According to quantities of shells had been collected in readiness for the attack, Shortly after figures, $2.658 railwaymen have enlisted, midnight and in the early hours of a percentage of 14.90, out of a total of Saturday morning the German positions 621,588 employed. The number of Ger- were subjected to a bombardment, the like ran railwaymen with the colours in of which has never been approached in stated to be roughly 60,000.