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THE WAR.
LORD
KITCHENER'S MISSION.
A FRENCH EXPLANATION.
NEW GREEK PREMIER AND
ENTENTE.
AMERICAN NOTE TO BRITAIN.
ACTIVITIES ON ALL FRONTS.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. [THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY.)
THE BALKANS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEM ER 9TH, 1815,
GENERAL.
(THEOUGH TEFTER'S AGENOY.]
BRITISH BLOCKADE AND AMERICAN COMMERCE,
ANOTHER NOTE FROM WASHINGTON.
LONDON, November 7th. The American Note to Great Britain further complains of the restrictions placed upon American commerce. It does not contest the British figures, showing an increase in American exports, but main tains that the United States has the legal
[THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN INCENDIARISM.
BOMBS PLACED IN HOLD: OF
· BRITISH SHIP.
LONDON, November 7th. The British steamer Rio Tages, bound, from New York with a cargo of sugar.
UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING
SOCIETY.
HORACE GOLDIN.
THE MYSTERY MAN. FIRST ANNUAL DINNER.
Anything or anyone mysterious cannot The Hongkong University Engineering fail to attract, even though the mysteries Society held its first annual dinner at the may be quite ancient; yet still mysteries. To Yuen Restaurant last evening, and Horace Goldin is a most weird specimen the function was undoubtedly very of humanity, if a highly accomplished The President of the Society trickster can ho so described. His ways successful. (Professor C. A. Middleton Smith)
and mannerisms are weird, his scenic
•
performance, are equally so, and his mystio art, though perhaps run on conventional
weird in that he makes pictures for his conjuring lines in many instances, is also
Tiger God. There are several wonderful
caught fire in the Atlantic on the 4th No ocupied the chair, and the principal effects which are a great feature of his ember, and was berthed at Halifax. The
guest was Mr. Arthur Preece, the chief | partner in the great firm of Consulting fire was extinguished, The officers are Engineers in Westminster, Preece, convinced that the Austrian and Gorman Cardow, Snell and Ryder, who is on stovedores who loaded the steamer placed visit to the Far East. Others present bombs in the hold of the vessel.
were Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G. (Vice The Rio Luges was commanded by Cop-Chancellor of the University), the Ho.. right to sell goods into the general stock tain Bell, formerly of the Thordis, which Mr. Claud Severn (Colonial Scoretary), was the first merchant ship to sink a fer-
Dr. Jordan, Captains W. Russell and W. of a neutral country. It contends, more-
L. Carler (H.KV.C.), Messrs. J. M. over, that even if the goods listed as condi- man subnjarino.
Dyer and W. D. Graham, tional contraband are destined for au enemy country through a neutral country, that fact in itself is insufficient to justify their seizure. Therefore the United States
contests the seizure of vessels upou con- jectural suspicion.
The Note also raises the question of the effectiveness of the blockade in the Baltic,
SERVICES IN TII E DARDANELLES.
HONOURS AND PROMOTIONS.
LONDON, November 7th. A number of honours and promotions for services in the Dardanelles are gazoited, including the following:-
K. C. M. G.-Major-General
FRENCH SEIZE GERMAN POST. FRENCH MOVING FORWARD. and declaros that there is no better or
PARIS, November 7th.
more settled principle of International | Douglas. - Law than that forbidding the blockadë -f neutral ports.
“A communiqué says that the French seized a German post between the Somme and the Oise and prevented German counter-attacks by gusts of artillery fire. ́A Gorman attack in Champagne, on the East Memil height, was easily repulsed, VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUELS
PARIS, November 8th.
The evening communiqué says that there has been active fighting with trench engines in Belgium, in the region of
Hotsas.
There were violent daylong artillery duels between the Somme and the Oise,
particularly at Bois Givenchy, and in the
environs of Tahure (Champagne).
One of our mines destroyed in Argonne an enomy sap full of men.
REIGN OF TERROR IN BELGIUM.
AMSTERDAM, November 8th.
Three more Belgians have been executed at Brussels on the charge of espionage.
DUNKIRK BOMBED BY GERMANS.
PARIS, November 7th A communique says that Germaa aeroplanes threw bombs on the Dunkirk district, but only injured a child,
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH. REUTEE'S AGENCY.].
RUSSIAN ATTACK BELOW
RIGA.
PernoGRAD, November 8th. The Russians to the south-west of Riga successfully attacked the Germans, The Russians carried the second line of
PARIS, November 7th. To-day's communiqué says that the French continue to progress in the Rabrovo region.
PARIS, November 8th. The evening communiqué says:-Our troopa aro consolidating the positions con- quered in the Balkans.
Violent Bulgarian attacks at Krivolak all day on the 5th were repulsed. FIGHTING ON MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER,
LONDON, November 8th.
A Montenegrin official announcement
reports desperate fighting on the 5th inst.
on the Herzegovina frontier. The enemy attacked repeatedly, but were repulsed with heavy losses, the Montenegrins cap-. turing four guns, a quantity of rifles and ammunition, and other valuable stores,
William
The toasts of "The King" and "Pre- sident Yuan Shih-kai having been honoured, Mr. WOON CHOW EooN pro posed The University." He spoke of the development of the University during its five years of existence, and affirmed that it was one of the greatest--if not actually, the greatest-educational insti-
tutions in the Far East.
tricks. His chief item last evening, which was the opening performance, was "The illusions, including the vanishing into space of a lady and a real Bengal tigress, but the audience must have been obiefly entertained by the gorgeous Eastern setting, and accomplished sitent acting which led up to and surrounded each dis- appearance. It was a beautiful moving picture-assisted by a cinematograph-- and the vanishing of beings in such a mystical atmosphere seemed to be quite a natural happening, though it was al very wonderful Goldin has a long The VICE-CHANCELLOR, replying on be repertoire of mystery which is so amazing half of the University, said he was very that the disappearance of a lady when glad to have the opportunity of address operating upon a grand piano is quite a Promoted to Brevet
rank Lieut, ing so many students of the University commonplace occurrence. A shest falls on Colonels the Hon. C. G. Bruce, GhThey were all very glad to have Mr.the lady and the instrument, the- riso_ ́ The Note also decires that the Prize Gurkhas, and P. C. Palin, 14th Sikhs; Preece with them (applause) and they together in the air, Goldin fires a revolver Courts had not afforded proper reparation Captain R. S. Engledue, 89th Punjabis. esteemed his presence a very great honour. at the suspended group, and down falls for injury. done to American Military Cross-Lieut. Poynder, eth Expressing thanks to the Hongkong the sheet-but the lady and the piano have truders.
Government for what it had done for the vanished. This is but one of many astound. Consequently the United Gurkhas.. Staler "must Britain will not adopt a policy of M.P.
DIS:0. Captain Josiah Wedgwood, University, Sir Charles Eliot said theying illusions with which Goldin entertains were apt to talk of the Universitas if in an off-hand manner which in itself in it were founded on private enterprise, and attractive. Conjurors, as a rule, are of a expediency, but will net according to the
undoubtedly they owed a great deal to monotonous samoness, but Goldin is quito private benefactors, but they also owed out of the ordinary rut when it comes to established rules of International Law, whose maintenance unimpaired is of the
much to the Government of this Colony, big things, and can be thoroughly atmost importance to neutrals of the
He thought the institution was doing well enjoyed. In addition to Goldin him-
has also future. The Note concludes that the
and hoped and believed that the patronage self, Mr. Bandmann United States unhesitatingly champions
several nocomplished variety
Whee Seong), proposing the of the Hongkong Government had not gaged been unworthily bestowed.
artistes, who would be entertaining The CHAIRMAN of the Society (Mr. Saw if only on account of the fact that they toast of recall the good old music hall days at "Our Guest," said the Engineering Home. There are the funny man, the step Society felt highly honoured at having dancer purveyor of burlesque, and the Mr. Procee with them as their guest that lady, dashingly arrayed as a principal evening. Two years ago Mr Preece boy, who sings of things sentimental, with
insint that Great
the integrity of neutral rights, exercising always strict impartiality,
BRITISH PRESS AND THE NOTE.
LONDON, November 8th.' The Press takes a strong line regarding The Montenegrin Army operating in the the long-expected American Note present- Sanjak of Novibazar likewise captureded to Great Britain in the week-end, guns and material..
LORD KITCHENER'S MISSION.
FURTHER LIGHT THROWN ON THE MATTER.
objecting to Britain's methods of dealing with neutral shipping, refusing to accept the blockade us ineflective and indefen- sible, and complaining of the obstacles to
the trade of neutrals,
The papers regard to the ineffectiveness
6 Bard the complaint in!
the
PARIS, November 8th. An important statement in the Petit Parisien throws more light on Lord Kit-blockade as unfounded, pain chener's mission. It emphasises that view of the submarinos' achievements n having arrived at a thorough under the Baltic Sea, and appositely point out standing with the French Government,
the methods adopted by Great Britain se merely an adaptation of the American
Lord Kitchener is proceeding to the Dar
danelles, Egypt, and Macedonia.
He
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
THE MONARCHICAL QUESTION.
PERING, November 8th. Eighteen Provinces have unanimously
votes in favour of a Monarchy
The Ministry of the Interior has issued. instructions to the Press not to criticiss
the Japanese advice. REDEMPTION OF SZECHUAN NOTES.
PERING, November 8th. The Salt Gabelle will
band over 5,000,000, $1,000,000 of which will be devoted to the redemption of Szechuan
notes.
PIRATES FLEET,
GERMANY'S EIGHT AVAILABLE- SEA-GOING SUBMARINES.
on-
accepted the position of honorary Con- & moving chorus. No theatre-goer should sulting Engineer in London to the miss witnessing the mysterious Goldin Hongkong University, and since then he and the other entertaining members of the had taken the deepest interest in the work Company sent out by Mr. Bandmann. and development of the institution. He had been responsible for the despatch of almost all of the apparatus from Eng- " land, and his firm tested and examined the most important apparatus before its despatch to Hongkong.
In their issue of June 3rd, the Motor Skip and Motor Boat pointed out that the number of German submarines lost was fourteen, and up to the present time this has been increased to about twenty,
THE AGED KAISER.
WORRIED BY THE WAR AND THE CROWN PRINCE.
M. Paul Louis Herver, writing in the Nouvelle Revue, gives the following ex tract from a letter from Berlin written in July last
I will thus review the various fronts where system, followed in the Civil War. Regret although it need siot be inferred that all if the students were not turned out quite last year.
&ghting is proceeding or may occur, and then will report to London and Paris, the result of his investigations, which, it
is universally expressed at interference with the trade of neutrals, but the pre- sent course, it is contended, will be best for all in the long run. Germany must
The future was
There are many people in Berlin who would probably not recognise the Kaiser if they saw him now in civilian clothes, for he has changed enormously within the "In eleven months he has aged twenty scars. He walks with bowed head, where- as before the way He was as erect as any member of his famous Guard. Both his hair and his moustache are almost white. "In addition to the worries of the war,
troubles. Although it is not stated n
Gorman trenches on the western shore of is hoped, will achieve complete co-ordina feel that we have her by the throat. We large, and there has obviously been a good entirely in the hands of the students them, he has suffered from many private
Lake Sventen, capturing three hundred tion of the efforts of the Allies and për.
meu.
The Bussians reputed a German attack
on the left bank of the Styr.
haps, lead to plane at prosent unforeseen.
LORD KITCHENER LEAVES
cannot be expected to commit suicide.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S
HARVEST.
Mr. ARTHUR FREECE, responding, said that when he was at King's College thirty years ago they had not one tithe of the apparatus that the University had. The University possessed some of the best apparatus that could be obtained in England, and he did not think it would be the fault of the apparatus or of the Professors, or of the University generally these have been sunk, destroyed, or cap first-class engineers... They had every tured by the British feat.
Of these, seven have been notifier thing in their favour, and there was no doubt whatever that they were applying officially, the U13, U18, US, U12 U29, their minds in a most admirable way to U 27, and one unknown. It will thus be seen that the number of losses of which justify what others had done to make the details have not been published is not institution & success. deal of exaggeration. Incidentally, it solves, may be known that six British submarines The COLONIAL SECRETARY proposed The public, it is whispered everywhere that have been officially reported as lost, these University Engineering Society." He the Crown Prince has been a cruel dis being the AE 1, E3, E15, AE 2, and E 13. referred to the predatory instincts Ippointment to his father, who considers At the beginning of August, 1914, Ger the gentleman who was occupying the absuutely incapable of talking his submarines and sixteen of the smaller any case in which the predatory instincts Crown Prince is, and the general opinion many possessed eleven large sea-going chair," and said they could not imagine place on the throne.
No one knows exactly where the type, hardly suitable for voyages beyond had been turned to more useful account is that a Royal divorce is inevitable. I the North Sea Up to the beginning of than in the case of the Taikoo Professor June this year we have reason to believe of Engineering. The result was that the Newspaper estimates put the gross yield that ten new boats had been added to the University possessed one of the best Turkish ferring with General Joffre, M. Briand, of the wheat harvest at 28,000,000 bushels, number, and at the time of writing, the equipped, hails of engineering that any
total number added has probably been such institution possessed to-day, attempt to cross the river Artchave in and General Gallieri.
leaving a surplus available for export of about eighteen. This gives a total of wag & very great tribute to the genius of twenty-nine large sea-going vessels and the Caucasus,
sixteen of the small type, omitting all the Chairman. (Applause.) The students must also be very grateful to the heads of Of the twenty losses mentioned alsove, the various industries in the Colony for the facilities afforded them of studying it may be assumed that three-quarters, or, say fifteen, have been of the large class work at first hand, and seeing the princi- of boat, leaving available fourteen sea-ples taught in the University at work com- going submarines at the present moment, mercially. It was a very great boon to Two of these are known to be in the them and would enable them, when they Mediteranean,"so that only twelve are came out of the University after taking available in home waters. Taking the their degree, to apply the principles usual ratio of two-thirds being available taught and to make their way in the at the present time and the rest being laid world. After making some humorous up for repairs, we see that Germany now suggestions in regard to lectures, the Hon. possesses eight large sea-going submarine Mr. Severn hoped the Society would pros that could be relied upon for any work.
per in the future. beyond the North Sea.
ACTIVITY IN THE CAUCASUS,
PETROGRAD, November 8th.
The Russians smashed a
NAVAL ACTIVITIES
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] GERMAN SUBMARINES OFF ALGERIA.
PARIS, November 7th... ▲ communiqué says that German sub marines from the Atlantic passed the Straits of Gibraltar, probably on the night of the 2nd inst. and sank on the 4th two French and one Italian steamers Algeria The crew of eno of the French steamers is musing.
STRANDED GERMAN
SUBMARINE. CREW TO BE INTERNED.
THE HAGUE, November 7th
off
It is announced that the crew of the stranded German submarine has been in- terned, because the damage is insufficient to compol her to enter Dutch waters, while
the condition of the sea cannot be pleaded
as en excuse,
PARIS.
LONDON, November 7th. Lord Kitchener left Paris after con
NEW GREEK CABINET.
ADELAIDE, November 7th. M. Scalandis bag formed a new Cabinet: It is believed that the Chamber will short- ly be prorogued, thereby avoiding a Dis solution and elections.
NEW GREEK PREMIER AND THE ENTENTE.
A VERY BENEVOLENT
ATTITUDE."
LONDON, November 8th. The Times correspondent at Athens says that the new Greek Premier, M.
Seoulendis, interviewed, said he proposed to observe a very benevolent attitude towards the Entente."
AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT
(THROUGH BLUTEE'S AGENCE.]
ITALIAN SUCCESSES,
HOME, November 8th. Artillery and infantry actions continuė in our favour. The enemy was heavily repulsed, leaving a number of prisoners,
ADELAIDE, November 7th,
22,500,000 bushels.
THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER.
PETROGRAD, November 7th, It appears that the reports of the resignation of M. Sazonoff are unfounded.
THE DISTURBANCES IN PERSIA,
TEHERAN, November 8th.. With a view to releasing funds for efficient internal administration and
observance of neutral obligations Persia has arranged with Great Britain and Russia for a moratorium in respect of the interest and amortization on their loans, but the service of the British public loan of 1911 is not affected.
WELL-KNOWN FINANCIER
DEAD.
PHILADELPHIA, November 7th The death has ocurred of the woll-known financier, Mr. Widener.
RUSSIA'S MUNITIONS.
This
is said that the Kaiserin takes the part thing possible to persuade her to overlook of her daughter-in-law, but is doing every-
the causes of the estrangement with her husband and remain loyal to him for tho sake of the Empire."
WAR BREVITIES. King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, when re- contly conversing with a diplomatist, thus described his position; I am like a blind man running with a lighted torch among hay-stacks. Whichever side I turn I must set fire to something." In diplo matic circles it is pointed out that Rus- man's torch has got his own hay stack on sia's ultimatum proves that the bünd fre.
The CHAIRMAN said it had been rather
Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for suggested by the Hon. Colonial Secretary
the Colonies) announces that as a result that he had been wandering about in the
of the promise of the Governments of the guiso of the gentleman with the dark lan Dominions to co-operate in setting return. tern and the peak-cap, but he had done ed soldiers on the land, the British Gov- ernment has appointed Sir H. Rider A special correspondent on the Eastern nothing except to point out to people in front states the Russiaus have now more Britain how extremely progressive were Baggard Chairman of a small Commis- munitions that the Germans, and the the Chinese people, and what a great sion which will visit the various success of the former's offensive is due to opportunity there was for helning in the Dommions with the object of drawing up intee artillery fire that surprised the development of Hongkong. This Society & scheme,
Germans,
IMPORTANCE OF DVINSK.
was now in the third year of its existence,
and it was perhaps the largest Engineer- Reuter's correspondent with the British ing Soc ety in this part of the world, forces in France says the flat Flanders having at the present time a membership countryside, especially the black country, Among recent orders issued to German of over 100 He hoped they would be able is depressing to the last degree. Every. troops operating in the Dvinsk district to develop these rules so as to more closely thing is covered with mud. One sees pictures of long files of marching men the following, which has come into Russian associate with the Society some of the hands, may be quoted:-
distinguished engineers present at that with water-proof sheets right over their "Tens of thousands of your comrades function. He especially thanked Mr. heads, plodding steadily through the who with unbounded valour forced the Dyer for the help he had given them in shish, chanting a chorus to keep up their Russian Front at Eventziany, are connection with Kowloon Deck, China, spiria; endless columns of huge-motor danger so long as Dvinsk remains in ho id, was the Mecca of engineering rub on the roadside to pass other vehicles lorries and staff cars, dashing through, Russian hands It is necessary to capture In China engineering was commenced and motor despatch rider machines and it in order to avert the danger (h-extra and he had no doubt that the time would men alike a mass of mud. The only sub- ing your comrades. This is your duty to
cope when China would lead in engineer-ject of discussion among the mon la how these berees"
ing work. (Applause.)
the advance is going