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THE WAR.
BRITISH GENERAL STAFF
CRITICISED.
EXPECTATIONS AT LOOS NOT REALISED.
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBEK 18ra, 1916.
BRILLIANT FRENCH SUCCESS IN SERBIA.
BLOODLESS TRIUMPH IN PERSIA.
SIR E. CARSON'S SUGGESTED NEW ROLE.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]] OPERATIONS ON BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, November 17th. Field-Marshal Sir John French, in a despatch, says that since the 10th inst, there has been an active and reciprocal cannonade, especially to the south of the La Bassee Canal and cast of Ypres. There has been no infantry action, but consi dorable mining activity has been shown, LULL ON WESTERN FRONT. PARIS, November 18th.. To-day's con-muniqué says there is nothing to report.
PARIS, November 17th.
GENERAL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-}
OUR GENERAL STAFF.
LORD HALBANE'S REPLY TO
CRITICS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT:] THE PERSIAN SITUATION, GREAT BRITAIN'S ENDEAVOURS.
LONDON, November 18th. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil announced that Russian troops were
advancing on Teheran in order to give protection to the Allied Legations. Cor- tian proposals had been received from the Persian Government, and were engaging
the attention of the British and Russian
[FROM OUR OWN DORALSPONDENT,]
MARQUISATE FOR ADMIRAL TSENG'S SON.
PRING, November 18th.
Mr. Newman said that having regard to the short time they had had it was in- possible to get all the witnesses, but their evidence merely corroborated that already given. In view of the evidence and ke tact that the prisoners had pleaded guilty, be submitted that the enarge had been proved.
FIGHTING IN THE EAST.
The son of Admiral Tseng inherits the Government, asked that the prisoners be of Novo Georgievsk and Ossowiccs. The
title of Marquis. It is understood that hereditary titles will be promulgated on the restoration of the Monarchy. These will be permanent, instead of being in a desconding degres, as was previously con-
sidered.
Governments. Our one desire was to main-PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS tain the most friendly relations with Persia, provided the latter made a real attempt to prevent attacks on Allied officals. It must be remembered that the whole trouble proceeded from the presenco
were not
Mr. Musso, on behalf of the Chinese handed over. He said they bond fide residents of the Settlement, and they had come here to commit the murder, They could not enjoy any protection or
any freedom in the Seitienient at ali,
Air, Newman endorsed what his friend every reason why the had said, and remarked that there was
handed over.
men should be
DEFENCE OF TWO GREAT RUSSIAN FORTRESSES. DESCRIBED BY RED CROSS NURSES, The Russian newspapers have published reports of the defence of the fortresses Red Cross nurses, who were engaged with the forces to the last moment of the life of the fortress, give some details of the defence. The defence of Nove Georgievsk was entrusted to General Robir, who warned all the troops that there was no rear and if any soldiers or officers were unable to stand the defence to the last, hope of coming out alive from the fort- they could go away. The fortress was provided with provisions for eight months. 1 was armed with 8 to 12-in.
The accused then made statements, being questioned by the Magistrate. The first accused said they were very disap- IN CHINA.
pointed when they heard that Yuan Shin-guns and was plentifully provided with ammunition. The Germans brought to kai was going to be Emperor, and they the fortress their 133.in. guns and the
The resolved to kill Admiral Tseng. PEKING, November 16th.
came to Shanghai four days ago and famous black Bertha 16-in gue Orders have been issued to the provin- they always stayed together. On Wed. The German began to bombard the fort- The Russians and night for many days. cial authorities to maintain peace andnesday morning they went to the Garden ress and continued without stopping day Bridge, arriving there about 11 o'clock.
answered this terrific artillery fire with There were only the two of them con-
the gung in the fortress firing over 1,500 cerned. They had been waiting about an
shells, when the guns became red hot and RESIGNA-bour, when the Admirai's car came along. burst. The Germans simply covered all The Magistrate-How did you know the trenches and bastions of the fortress that the Admiral was there -Becane with their shells dropping in Fort No knew it was the coronation of the Japan 10 only 400 shells of 16-in. calibre, each ese Emperor, and that he must be there shell weighing a ton. When such a shelt How did you identify the Admiral1passed over the houses in the fortress, By his medals.
of German and Austrian officers and protect foreigners, agents in Persia.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN BLOODLESS. VICTORY IN PERSIA.
SHAH'S FRANK DECLARATION OF
FRIENDSHIP.
PETROGRAD, November 10th. A telegram from Teheran says that after a discussion with the Cabinet the British and Russian Ministers ware received by the Shah, who said he had abandoned the idea of leaving Teheran. He declared openly that he was a friend of Britain and Russia, and did not conceal the fact that
:
LI
YUAN-DUNG'S
TION.
PERING, November 18th. The resignation of Li Yuan-hung, the Vice President, it is believed, has now been accepted.
PEKING APPOINTMEN E..
PERING, November 10th.
Yin Chang has been appointed Chief of the General Staff and Wang Tah-sich and Yang Tu Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the State Council,
The accused further stated that at first the very movement of it in the air shook. it was his intention to put the bomb the walls, the trees being broken like under the car, but he did not do this matches. Under this heavy artillery fire the Germans delivered attack in close because he afterwards thought that some formation. It is not true, as the Kaiser good people would be killed. He there
1t was attacked by fore fired into the car with his revolver. declared, that the fortress was taken by
the reserve troops. He held on to the car with his right the three best corps of the German army hand, and fired at the Admiral with his left. He fired two shots, and then the from Posen, Grodenz and Thorn. There bodyguard fired at him, and he got off troops were sent to Novo Georgievsk without being told of their destination.. the car. He then fired three more shots, Evidently the Clerman commander did His revolver could hold ten cartridges, not trust the nerves of the German but he only put eight in. His intention was to kill the Admiral himself,
The second accused said the revolver and ammunition were given to him by when he was on the car.
troops
BATTLE OF LOOS UNDER DISCUSSION, in the course of the year the Germans had THE MURDER OF ADMIRAT. the first accused. He fired seven shots raining shells on the fortress.
LONDON, November 17.
In the House of Lords, replying to criti- isns of the General Staff by Lord St Davids, Lord Haldane detailed Sir John French's working day from six o'clock in the morning til dinner. Regarding the various Staffs, he said we were nt a dis- advantage compared with Germany, who had been doing for a century what we had tried to do in a decade. Any omissions. were in no way due to lack of zeal. Deal-
done their utmost to drive Persia into wi with Russia,
loft
TSENG.
PRISONERS PLEAD GUILTY,
The Assessor said the facts were per feetly clear, and the case was about as absolute a certainty as they had ever Prior to the audience the Gorman, Aus
known. The accused would by handed over at once, to be dealt with according and Turkish Ministers
Further details of the assassination of Admiral Teens Ju-cheng and his aide-de-to the Chinese law. trian Teheran, confident that the Shah was also camp were giren in Mixed Court, Shanghai, when the two men who were leaving.
arrested on the spot were brought before Mr. F. Perkins, American Assessor, and Magistrate Kuan
Princes Ey-Noud Daoule and Firman Firma, who are Bussophils, are entering the Cabinet,
MANTLE OF ELIJAH.
The evening communiqué says that ing with the Battle of Loos, his lordship MR. CHURCHILL ON SIR EDWARD November 10th, on the Whangpao Road, adopt most drastic measures.-
thors have been only artillery actions.
THE BALKANS,
[TABOUA KUTEN'S AGENCY.] BULGARIAN FLANKING
MOVEMENT.
URGENT COUNTER-MEASURES REQUIRED IN MACEDONIA.
SALONIKA, November 16th. The latest news concerning the Serbian Army shows that the Bulgarians, con- siderably reinforced, are attempting a fsuking movement Babuna Pass from the Tetovo region, threatening Prilip and thus. eventually
Monastir.
westward of the
It is reported that the Freach have been compelled to retire at, two points at Gradsko.
It is evident that the situation. In Macedonia is developing rapidly, and requires urgent counter-measures.
Foreign diplomatists in Serbia are now proceeding to Scutari instead of to Monastir.
DESPERATE EFFORT TO PIERCE FRENCH CENTRE. REPULSED WITH HEAVIEST LOSSES.
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SALONIKA, November 16th. The battle the River Cornaya, between the French and the Bulgarians," lasted for 36 hours, and was exceedingly hat. Some three Bulgarian Divisions were repulsed with the heaviest losses, after fruitless and desperats efforts to pierce the French Centre. This was an undoubted French sucee95.
VIOLENT BULGARIAN ATTACKS REPULSED.
PARIS, November 17th..
CARSON'S "WAR STATION,"
said the reserves were ready and it was not the Staff's fault that they could not
LONDON, November 17th. get forward. The work of the men leading the Army in France was in no way a
Mr. Winston Churchill, in the course of failure; it was a great feat to reduce Gera recent speech, suid:-' I earnestly hope inany's tremendong military machine to that Sir E. Carson will be constantly in temporary-and perhaps, permanent attendance at the Commons. It is in the impotence:
Lord Bydenham gnid that in the failure to realise our expectations at Loos we saw
repetition of Nouye Chapelle. Lord Crewe declined to discuss the Batile o Loos as it was still the subject
high public interest to have someone with complete secret information, sincerely-do- voted to the public cause and independent of the Government The Opposition Bench is Sir E. Carson's war station.
The Daily Chronicle calls attention to
of close military enquiry by the highest this "remarkable bestowal of the mantle Authorities. No great victory was to be of Elijah." expected nowadays by breaking the line The Morning Post says; The time has
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DISCOVERIES. Reuter stated recently that the Board agreed to assist vt Agriculture d experiments on a large scale with a view
possibilities ascertaining the humogen, otherwise bacterised peat, as a fertiliser, discovered by Professor Bot Lomley, of King's College. Some author tics believe tant humogen could double the food supply.
to
Professor . B. Bottomley has given The the first of his three lectures on Wonder Workers of the Sol" at the Botanic Society's Gardens,
On
The Germans attacked the forts, having The behind then this screen of artillery attacking columns, therefore, had no way to retreat and so was forced to go to the Russian fortress and capture it
& Military At this August with there was Council in the Russian fortress. time most of the forts have been destroyed by the German shells. On the next day by the order of the commander all horses were killed and the stores and food sup plies were burnt and the fortress looked like a great fireplace. When the Germans penetrated to the centre of the fortress and captured the chief fortress, the other forts refused to surrender and fought to the last shell.
on
In
2 2nd-
This
the commander of the fort stating the progress of the deadly fire from the quick-firing guns. After the meeting of the Military Council seven acroplanes
during day owing to the German shells. They took with them the report of the commander of the fortress and other To pre- important documents, besides the pre- cious standard of the fortress. vent the capture of these aeroplanes each of them carried a mine so that in case an aeroplane had to descend the mine would explode and destroy the aeroplane. The Sisters of Mercy say the behaviour of the soldiers and officers was heroie, The wounded refused to go to hospital saying it was better to die fighting than to be murdered by Germana in hospital. German shells, but most of the wounds The men suffered severely from the were from du-dum bullets.
A SUCCESSOR APPOINTED. General Yang Shan-teh, military com- missioner of Sungkiangfu, has been ap- The prisoners, Waung Siau-foong, pointed to act concurrently as military
RUSHIAN HEROES. inurried, a student living in Avenue Joffre Commissioner for Shanghai. The ur
one fort was left and a native of Kirin, and Waung Mingder of Admiral Tseng, is not regarded by satt, single, shopkeeper, of Avenite Joffre the Government authoritics as indicating
to the
guns. quick firing and a native of Bhantung, were, charged serious trouble, but the Chiangchuns of lieutenant with a few soldiers attached the Yangtze provinces are ordered to
lieutenant refused to surrender up for that they together at 11.15 a., on
moment And kept let the to
cssages did feloniously, wilfully and of malice:
sending telephone aforethought, kill and murder Admiral Tong Ju-cheng aged 50 years, by
They were DOUBLING THE FOOD shooting him with a pistol. further charged with killing and
PRODUCTION. murdering one Su Ching- seu by shooting him with a pistol, and further with PROFESSOR BOTTOMLEY'S GREAT kit at night being unable to feloniously, unlawfully and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm to one A. Hösoynun, aged 27, by exploding a bomb. Inspector Johnson, of the Yangtszupoo Police Station, stated that at about 11.15 on Wednesday morning, in company with Sub-Inspector MacGregor, he was on the Whangpoo Road, opposite the Astor House, near the corner of the Garden Bridge. They were in the middle of the Whangpoo Road when they heard a re- port from behind end on turning round he saw a lot of smoke. The smoke had arisen from the other side of a motor- car about the wheels. He then noticed two men rush between the witness and the car in the direction of the car. One Sir Malcolm Morris, treasurer of the
About the heroic defence of Ossowices of the men jumped on the step and society in introducing Dr. Bottomley is published a report of the commander, to the Russian started firing. The man on the step of said that the lecturer's work was sotme
It says that the fortress was the car was Waung Sisu-foong and be thing more than a revolution, as he had General Erjosovsky,
made things grow where it seemed im- Emperor. was holding on to the side of the car and shooting at very close range. The possible that they could grow before, blows up at 10 at night on August 22nd other man was running alongside the car, and had by scientific means brought by the order of the chief coromander. very close to it and shooting into it about an enormous increase in the pro- From the early part of the year this The shall fire of the Inspector MacGregor and himself rushed ductivity of fruit and flowers. It would fortress was attacked by one-and-half to the car, Inspector MacGregor going create a great stir in the country when aray porps and heavy guns between 8
the man Foong and witness going it was known. It was scientific work of and 16-in. calibre. for the other. As soon as the men had practical value, and it would have a vast enemy has destroyed for many miles the food-supply of England, around the fortress all the houses, tres ete. The German fiercely attacked the finished firing at the ear, they turned effect on round and faced Inspector MacGregor Indeed, he believed it would double it. and himself, and one of the men had a Professor Bottomley then pointed out fortress till April 1st when they stopped In the House of Lords, Lord Fisher
revolver in his hand. Witness dropped that he could not explain all the effects their attack, and began & regular siege. down under it and hit the man with a of his new discoveries in less than three Thig siege continued till early in August made a brief and striking answer to Mr.
ATHENS, November 10th.
stick. The man was trying to reload the lectures, but he would like to say at and on the 7th of the month the Germans once that they had to do with what were issued poisonous gag from 600 balloons Churchill. He spoke for one minute, and Lord Kitchener has arrived at Mudros. revolver. He had two clips in his hand
the footpath known as accessory food bodies. Only a and the whole garrison was poisoned. near the emphasised the fact that he had been sixty-Sir Francis Eliot, the British Minister at and was running towards to the night few years ago, it had been found out with Under the cloud of this gas the Germans The gas not only destroyed one years in the service of his country. He Athens, has gone to meet him.
arm and the man dropped the revolver. regard to animal life that the three or penetrated to the trenches With the assistance of sum Sikhs and four types of food known as carbohyd fortazas. added: "I leave my records in the hands
Up to the present there is no confirm some Chinese the two men were arrested rates, fats, and proteids with salts, the life of many soldiers and others but When the garrison re- and taken to the station.
which had been considered the ingredients to a radius of ten miles everything of my countrymen. I am content to wait. tion of this message..
The accused, upon being asked, admit of a perfect food, were astonishingi became black. It is not fitting to make personal explana
Italian despatches state that Lord ted the crimes with which they were imperfect. They could keep an animal covered from the poisonous effect of the even a man-alive, but they could not gas the officers and men with great enthu- charged.
It needed the most sias rushed and recaptured the tronches tions affecting national interests when the Kitchener is at Mudros with the High
Mr. Newman, for the prosecution said make him grow. country is in the midst of a great war."
Commissioner for Egypt.
that when the prisoners were searched at minute quantity of another substance which had been lost. On August 18th the the longkow Police Station one of the a vitamine often quite an unknown evacuation began and was finished on the This fortress defended itself Lord Fisher then walked out of the
accused was found to be wearing a cloth substance, but even one part of it in ten 22nd. Everything was blown up in the NOTED RUSSIAN POLITICIAN sed ut his waist. Ten clips, full of thousand parts of food made, all the fortress House.
KILLED,
cartridges, were contained in this, and difference.
on a front of six or seven miles; for that resalt an enormously long front must be
broken.
LORD FISHER AND MR. CHURCHILL.
A BRIEF AND STRIKING ANSWER.
LONDON, November 18th. ́
MORE
BRITISH OPERATIONS.
LONDON, November 15th.
PUBLICITY FOR
Sir John Simon (Home Secretary and Head of the Press Bureau) is going to Franco to confer with the military Censors A communiqué says that the Bulgarians concerning the possibility of affording greater publicity of the British operations. HOLLAND AND PEACE.
on the 14th rendered violent attacks on the loft bank of the Cernaya, which were everywhere ropulsed with heavy losies..
Calm prevails on the left bank of the Vardar
The landing of British and French troops at Salonike continues without incident.
ANGLO-FRENCH FORCE - IN
BALKANS,
LONDON, Novembar 16th. Austrian reports from Salonikosay that up to the 12th inst. 120,000 French and British soldiers had landed there, of which 80,000 had gone to Serbia,
THE HAGUE, November 16th- Replying to a report of the Committes of the Chamber, the Government states that, while it is ready to co-operate in any serious attempt to end the war, its desire for peace is insufficient reason to attempt incdiation. Premature steps would only prejudico Holland's position and pacific aims, ENEMY SUBMARINE BASES.
LONDON, November 16th.
Two bases for enemy submarines have been discoverest.on. the Cretan coast.
come to form a new Opposition upon national lines by a True-Blue British Party" with no reservations in favour of the enemy, either on the continent or in the United Kingdom. It suggests Sir
Edward Carson as leader.
LORD
KITCHENER MUDROS.
AT
PETROGRAD, November 17th. M. Zvegintzeff, a well-known mcinber
of the Duma, has been killed at the Front. He was one of the initiators of
GERMANY'S LOSSES.
for
A pigeon or a chicken fed for 6 months. The Germans used against in the man's pocket five more clips, also on the most liberal scale, with the this fortress alone 400,000 shells, full of cartridges, were found, making vitamine taken out of its food, never 135 eartridges altogether. The other man grew my bigger. had seven clips containing 63 cartridges.
This led him to investigate the intimate FRENCH AIRMEN'S DARING FEAT. The Admiral was taken to St. Luke's constituents of plant food, and he believed ATTACK ON ENEMY TROOP TRAIN IN BADEN. Hospital, but on arrival it was found that he had found out where the vitamines that he was dead. An examination by of plants (auximones he called them)
Telegrams from Switzerland describe
the scheme of an overland railway to the doctor revealed no fewer than six-were to be traced. They had been dis- the caring raid made by two French avia teen wounds on the Admiral's body. covered is peat. Not in the pure prat tors on the railway going from Donanes- India through Persin
The motor car bore strong evidence itself, but in the product of the fermen-chingen to Villingen, in the Grand Duchy of the bullets. The wind-screen was tation of peat that goes on naturally in of Baden..
Eye-witnesses relate that the airmen smashed, and the place for the chauffeur the soil, and infinitely more quickly when
the pant is treated by proper means. To sighted a troop train while they were was riddled with bullets.
Sub-Inspector MacGregor. in charge of give his audience an idea of the true manoeuvring at a very low altitude, and the Harbin Road Station said he under-world of the soil, which is almost swooped down to within, twelve to fifteen The "Matin" says that if on August had a stick in his hand, with which he as much alive as the plants that grow feet of the ground. One flew on the right 1st, 1014, we take Germany's military hit the man over the head who was ran out of it, he asked them to think of a of the line and the other on the left along- ning alongside the car. He released his loam as made up of minute particles of side the train, and opened fire with ma- ho'd of the car and when he got down, sand, each particle surrounded by a chine-guns through the windows of the witness wretched a revolver from him, calloid film of clay teeming with bacteria
value to represent
the Allies strength might be put at:-
France Great Britain (on land) Russia
Total
25
5
25
100
carriages upen the Germans, who were powerless to defend themselves, In the tussle, be caught his foot in the life.
Some of the bacteria were bad, some The German authorities evidently cou- man's garment, and they both fell to the
They good, but, on the whole, they were work sidered that there was no risk of a raid ground, with being on top. struggled for a few minutes, and witness Ing towards the provision of nutriment a point so far from the frontier, for noticed that the revolver was only about for plants. To give an idea of how great there was not a single cartridge among
the troops.
Again and again the aviators flew up To-day Germany must have dropped six inches away from the man's hand, the numbers of these bacteria were he from 100 to 5 France, has risen from He managed to take hold of his middle anid that if they put down a foot on one 25 to 70; Great Britain has passed from finger and prevented him from getting of the, lawns outside the lecture hall they and down the train, killing the stoker and many soldiers. Others jumped from 5 to 50; while Russia may be "quoted " the weapon. He then called to some would be treading on bacteria zome at 35. This increase will readily be foreigners to take the revolver way. twenty times greater in number than the the train while in motion and fled for
Witness world's human population, which is shelter.
The attack ended at Marbach June. conceded to her since now, like her but no assistance was given. great sisters Great Britain and France, eventually overpowered the man and rot another way of saying that there are she has learned German methods of war-him on his feet, and he and Inspector sixty millions of them in 15 grains of tion, where the raiders fired into the fare, of which we were all ignorant a Johnson took the two aroused to the sta-fertile soil iddern science had separated ranke of the German soldiers drawn up
the good from the bad.
on the platform, causing heavy loss.
year ago
tion.