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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
TO-DAY
THE WAR.
The following Cables were received on Saturday evening and issued in our Early Morning Betra yesterday.
NAVAL AOTIVITIES.
TRROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMANY'S IDEA OF GREAT NAVAL VICTORY.
MINESWEEPER SUNK.
LONDON, February 11th. A German destroyer flotille attacked four British minesweepers off the Dogger- vank last night and sank one, the Arabie, and attempted to torpedo another. Three British officers and twenty-one men were rescued.
A Berlin communiqué attempts to make this out as a great victors by calling the mincawoepers cruisere. The British Ad- miralty announces that three mincawoopers returned safely.
(THROUGH, REUTER'S - AGENCY, I
GERMAN MUNITIONS DEPOTS
DESTROYED.
TRENCHES RECAPTURED BY THE FRENCH..
PARIS, February 12th. A Paris communiqué states:-Ia Boi- giam our flak guns seriously damaged at enemy fort and blew up munitions depots near the Passchendaele canal. In Artois there was an intermittent can nonade near the Lille road south of the Somme. On the 8th and 9th insts, we recaptured a large part of the trenches. South of Frise and repulsed violent counter-attack. North of the Aisne and in the heights of the Menso our artillery wrecked enemy works
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.
LONDON, February 11th. Bir Douglas Haig reports that we sprang three mines north of Carnop and another South of Fosse. The enemy sprang mine to the south-west of the Hohenzollern redoubt, We had no casual-
THE MIGHT OF THE BRITISH ties
NAVY.
JOURNALISTS. VISIT BATTLE CRUISER FLEET.
LONDON, February 11th. The editora of twenty French provincial papers and a number of distinguished sen- trel journalists visited the battle cruiser fleet. They were deeply impressed by the raight of the British navy, the world's greatest concentration of speed combined with gun power, and by the fresh, alert afficers and men who, despite long wait! Noon The Hongkong and Whampoa Docking, were in constant battle array. 10 Was considered a wonderful manifestation Co., Ltd., Extraordinary General Meeting.f sex power as this fleet is only one of chroe tremendous lines of offense and de Noon-Hongkong, Canton & Macro Steam boat Co, Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders,
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TO-MORROW
Friday, 18th Feb,
fence.
NATIONAL HONOUR,
Noon-Kowloon Load & Building Co., Ltd. CRITICISM OF THE "' LUSITANIA"
Meeting of Shareholders.
Saturday, 10th Feb,
Noon-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Meeting of Shareholders a the City Hall.
Monday, 21 Feb :----
Hongkong Race 1st Day
Tuesday, 22nd Feb.
Hongkong Race-2nd Day.
Wednesday, 23rd Feb.--
Hongkong Race-3rd Day.
3 p.m.-Canton Medion Missionary Society, Annual Meeting in the Canton Club Theatre, Stameen.
Friday, 20th Feb,
11:30a.m.-Chius Frovident L&Mortgago
Co. Ltd. Meeting of Shareholders. Saturday, 26th Feb.
Hongkong Race-Off Day.
HONGKONG
METEOROLOGICAL
KEGISTER.
Hengkong Oleserstory, February, 13th.
Previces On Datjon Dais
Day
|| at 9 pm, 6-
Barometer PRIZE Température Humidity
Wind Direction....... Vores Weather ** Bein
1941
30.18 30.27
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50
71
Ballo
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NNE
2.04.
30.03 £6. 41 North
2
· Highest spen air Temperatareon 12th..... 57
Lowest open sir Temperature on 18th ..
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,
From 14th to 20th February, 1916.
·HION-WATER
Days
EX'kong.
Желт
Time
14 m. 9.18
Mon.
Height
LOW-WATER.
H'kong.
Мед
Time
Helgkt,
I
3
1.6
Itin
39m 1 21 68a64m 10 48 15m 9 23 40m 1.56
6 848 6 7 0 10 3 8 16 m 93641 m 2 29
7:36 8 9
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13929
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0
3:0 28
01 19 10. 6 4 5 4.2
277 3 3 80 8 10.20 48m 431 10
Batur. 20
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SETTLEMENT.
NEW YORK, February 11th. The Government Press is silent, but the Republican Press denounces the Lusitania settlement, accusing President Wilson of endeavouring to commit the country to the principle that the national honour is unworthy of defending
TURKISH COAST BOMBARDED.
PETROGRAD, February 11th, The Russian orpado ho continue to bombard the Turkish coast,
AN IDLE THREAT.
TO JUSTIFY FURTHER OUTRAGES
LONDON, February 11th. The German threat to treat armed mer- chantment as belligerents is regarded as involving no practical chango, inasmuch as the Austrians and Germans already torpedo merchantmen without warning.
It is thought the object of the Note is to justify further outrages in the eyes of neutrals.
A REVERSAL OF POLICY.
Hostile artillery was active north of Albert and at Loos and Ypres, The enemy shelled Armentiere, and Elverdingho. THE NEAR EAST,
{THROUGH REDTER'S AGENOT.]
RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN PERSIA,
IMPORTANT ARRESTS.
PETROGRAD, February 11th. A talegram from Teheran reports that Cossack patrols arrested near Keradje four Europeans, two of whom have been identified one being the Turkish Ambas. sador in Persia, the other the Austrian Military Attaché.
THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. TWO VIOLENT BATTLES.
LONDON, February 11th..
(THEOUGH ARUTED'S AGENCY.}
FALL IN OIL FREIGHTS. EXPECTED REDUCTION IN PRICE
OF PETROL..
LONDON, February 11th. There has been a sharp fall in American oil freights, from £6 to 4 per ton, duo to the appearance of unexpected tonnage, which is expected to reduce the price of petrol.
TIME FOR CANADA TO
AWAKE.
· INVESTIGATION INTO THE FIKE AT OTTAWA,
OTTAWA, February 11th. The investigation into the fire at the Parliament buildings was opened before Commissioner Pringle, who referred to German incendiarism in the United States, and said it was time for Canada to awake, or there would be a greater disaster..
FURTHER OUTRAGES
THREATENED.
QUEREO, February 11th. The Government officials have received lotters threatening to blow up the Ross rifle factory and the Parliament buildings
MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY.
OTTAWA, February 11th. Sir Robart Borden, in the House of Commons, read messages of sympathy, in. cluding one from the Duke of Wellington,
MR. FORD'S PEACE CONFERENCE.
STOCKHOLM, February 11th. Mr. Ford's peace conference hag boen opened.
GERMAN CONSPIRACIES IN AMERICA.
SIXTY-ONE INDICTMENTS
SAN FRANCISCO, February 11th. The Federal Grand Jury have returned 01 indictments in connection with the alleged German conspiracies to violate American houtrality.
A Turkish communiqué reports two violent battles with Major-General Aylmer. on the right bank of the Tigris, but there is no change near Kut.
GENERAL
[TH2000H REUTER'S AGENCY.1 KING ON HIGH ROAD TO RECOVERY.
VISITING WOUNDED AGAIN.
LONDON, February 11th. The King is on the high road to re covery and has resumed bis visits to the wounded
WOUNDED INDIANS RECEIVED
BY THE KING,, THANKED FOR THEIR LOYALTY: AND DEVOTION.
LONDON, February 11th. Their Majesties the King and Queen, at Buckingham Palace, have received twenty-six wounded Indian officers, who presented a loyal address on behalf of the re-officers of the Indian forces. Mr. Austen
Chamberlain, Secretary India, was present.
The King cordially replied, and thanked the officers for their many proofs of loyalty and devotion.
WASHINGTON, February 11th. The Austro-German memorandum garding merchantmen is expected to lead to the Government warning Americans that they travel on armed merchantmen at their own risk, thus reversing the pre- vions policy that merchantmon should be allowed to carry guns in self-defence and that American, have the right to travel on the high seas unmolested,
THE BALKANE.
(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.j
NEUTRALITY AT ALL COSTS THE POLICY OF GREECE.
ATHENS, February 17th. The Premier, in the Chamber, reasserted tho determination of Greece to abide by
her neutrality at all costa
A Deputy pointed out that the Govern ment's policy was exciting the suspicions of the Entente Powers, but the Chamber, with six dissentients, passed a vote of confidence.
BULGARIA'S POLICY.
FIGHTING ONLY FOR HERSELF.
AMSTERDAM, February 11th, The Bulgarian Minister of War, in an interview, emphasised that Bulgaria is fighting only for herself, and that as soon as the Salonika campaign is finished, the war would be over for Bulgaria.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] TSAR AT THE FRONT.
PETROGRAD, February 11th The Tsar has left for the Front.
GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED.
HEAVY ARTILLERY DUEL.
PETEOGRAD, February 11th.
·A communiqué states that there is a heavy artillery duel on the Riga front German attacks have been repulsed else
where.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
[TERQUOR REUTER'S AGENCY.] NOTHING TO REPORT.”
PARIS, February 11tb.
of Stato for
BELGIUM'S REPLY TO PEACE PROPOSALS.
WILL FIGHT AS LONG AS BRITAIN,
LONDON, February 11th. Bouter's Agency is informed by a Bel- gian diplomatist that Germany has made more than one offer of peace to Belgium, directly and indirectly, and possibly more will be made. The answer will always be the same. Belgian is prepared to fight As long as Great Britain-fights. Anything else is unthinkalile,
GERMANY'S VANISHED
DREAM,
LONDON, February 11th.
A banquet has been given in honour of M. Renkin, the Belgian Colonial Minister. In a notab, speach M. Renkin said Belgium had sacrificed herself for her plighted word. The responsibility for hostilities in Central Africa rested entire. ly on Germany, who had dreamt of creat ing a vast Colonial Trans-African E- piro at the expense of Belgium. To-day that dream had vanished. Everywhere the forces of the Allies were sweeping over German territory.
CATTLE FOR GERMANY,
AMSTERDAM, February 11th. It is estimated that 10,000 cattle from the flooded districts have been sent to Germany.
TURKEY'S FINANCIAL
PLIGHT. A ADVANCES FROM GERMANY AND
AUSTRIA.
AMSTERDAM, February 11th. The report of the Turkish Minister of Finance shows a deficit in the coming year of £14,000,000 (Turkish).
Austria and Germany are advancing
millions,
RECRUITING IN IRELAND, MR. REDMOND'S APPEAL TO THE FARMERS.
LONDON, February 11th.
In a speech at a recruiting conference at Dublin, Mr. Redmond appealed to the farmers on the ground that if the war continued much longer there would be
many would confiscate their land crushing taxation, while a victorious Ger
Mr. Redmond suggested County Farmers' Battaliona.
Active support is promised for this sug gestion. GERMAN EDITOR SENTENCED. ONE WEEK'S IMPRISONMENT.
AMSTERDAM, February 11th. The Editor of the Forwarts has been contenced to imprisonment for a week (for "inoiting olas hatred "). The prosecu- toy demanded a sentence of 18 months,
CLOSER UNITY OF THE ALLIES. FRENCH PREMIER'S VISIT TO ITALY.
ROME, February 11th. The Giornale d'Italia says Ma, Briand's visit will tend to the closer unity of the Entente Powers. If the enemies of the Entente hope for disserisions they will be terribly deceived.
RACE MEETINGS CANCELLED,
JAPANESE PUBLICISTS
THE WAR.
GERMAN VICTORY INCON- CEIVABLE.
ON
The January number of Japan and the Japanese publishes the views of twenty eight Japanese publicists, naval and mili- tary officers and other prominent mea, un the war. The opinions of those contribu- tors were collected under two headings, If Germany wins," and "If Germany loses. The Japan Chronicle gives the following translation of General Kusu- nose's views, which are in refreshing con- trast to some that have appeared in Japanese journals.
STRATEGICAL DEFEAT OF GERMANY.
The premier place in the collection is given to an article by Lieut.-General Kusunose, formerly Minister of War. Is is true, he says, that hitherto Germany has been scoring successes on the battle- to be deceived as to the ultimate issue of field over her enemies, and people are apt the war by the brilliant achievements of her inilitariem bred and nourished during the last forty years. They, however, seem to lose sight of the fact that the series of remarkable successes accomplished by Germany will prove the very caus of her breakdown. It is a great mistake to suppose that Germany will be able to keep up her present ascendancy to the Last. The first strategio error committed, by Germany was the failure of her rusk towards Paris-the hacking her way through Belgium"-owing to the crushing blow sustained on the Marse. The second failure of Germany was her inability to deal & decisive blow to Bussin, despite
of the evacuation by the Russians posi. tion after position before the advance of the Germans, Of course the Allies are as prolific of strategic, blunders as the Germans, but the former can afford to wait, as they have a plentiful supply of men and materials, whereas a false step taken by Germany means an irretrievable loss and a diminution of her strength, The longer the war drags on, the greater will became the difference of strength be tween the combatants in favour of the Allies. Those whose vision is obscured by the ephemeral achievements of German militarism should take careful note of thesa circumstances before they jump to hasty conclusions.
GERMANY SHORT OF MEN AND MATERIALS.
Sines the outbreak of hostilities Ger- many has sent 5,000,000 mon into the field, and of these at Icast 3,000,000 must have been lost in killed, wounded, sickness, and prisoners. To make good these lasses, Ger- many has been calling up men as young as 17 and as old as 53 years. In such circum- stances, a gradual decline in the quality of the German troops is inevitable, and even the supply of this inferior fighting material appears to be approaching ex- haustion. How Germany is doing to make good the losses in men, totalling 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 annually is apparently a problem which in vexing the German Government,
Turning to the Allies, it will be seen that they have a plentiful supply of nien and materials. Apart from France, which bas extended her conscription system to an extent similar to that of Germany, Great Britain has raised 3,000,000 men, but she has still 4,000,000 men of military age apart from the large number of re cruits that she can raise in her Colonies and Dominions, Russia can raise 7,000,000 more men easily, while Italy also has a plentiful supply of men. It will not re- quire much wisdom to see that Germany is on the verge of breakdown, and it will not be very long before she will be com- pelled to sue for pence,
BAGHDAD RAILWAY.
MOST WONDERFUL TUNNELS IN THE WORLD.
Undoubtedly the most important event in railway construction in Turkey to date (says the United States Consul-General at Constantinople in a report to Washing ton) is the recent completion of the large tunnel (16,628 feet long) on the Baghdad railroad piercing the Amanus Mountains on the border between Asia Minor and Syria. With the completion of this tun ne-the-most serious difficulties connected. with the construction of the Baghdad rail. road have been overcome, and the work of connecting up many of the isolated stretches of track may be expected to be completed with reasonable rapidity. In spite of delays occasioned by the war, this most important undertaking in railroad construction in Turkey has passed the become an accomplished fast in the near problematical stage and is now certain to
future.
Leaving Mamoure, the list station on the Baghdad railway, in the Cilisian plain, Mountains, to ascend, at a very steep the line begins, at the foot of the Amanus grade, the slopes of these mountains, which are intercepted by ravines, crossed by means of eight steel bridges and seven of 6355 feet. Thus it arrives at length
LONDON, February 11th, "All race meetings have been cancelled, Mr. Bonar Law, who presided, paid a with the exception of the Newmarket fx-amall tunnels, the latter having a total tures, three extra meetings at Newmarket Baghtche station, situated at sa hitude tribute to the heroio Belgians and em phasised that the end of the war would (two in June and ons in September) of 1,754 fect, nour the entrance of the great also those at Gatwick, Lingfield, New- not come till Belgium's wrongs were
bury and Windsor, each with three 6x avenged.
BELGIAN TROOPS INVADĖ EAST AFRICA. GERMANS REPULSED,
LONDON, February 11th Belgian troops are admirably operat ing with the other forces in German East Africa, which they have invaded from the west. Fighting is progressing and they have already repulsed the Germans in numerous actions, often in co-option with the Rhodesian forces."
THE CAMEROONS. OVER 4,000 GERMANS TO BE INTERNED,
MADRID, February 11th The German soldiers for internment 1 Spain from the Cameroons, now number A communiged states that there is no-2,000, and with their families they total thing to report.
over 4,000
tures
OBITUARY.
BRIG-GENERAL WESTMORELAND;
LONDON, February 11th, The death is announced of Brigadier- General Charles Westmoreland, C.B.
Decessed served in China in 1000, winning the medal and being raentioned in dispatches. He had previously served in the Afghan war and Burma]
tunnel, Before reaching the mouth of the tunnek the line runs through two smaller tunnels and over a small bridge. For. about 8,000 feet it ascends to 240 feet above the level of the entrance, and then begins to descend, and emerges at the other end 187 feet above the level of the entranos Between this point and Islshie station, which is still building, there are four more tunnels, having a combined length of 3,500 feet. The total length of the tunnels it has been necessary to construct in crossing this chain of mountains in, therefore, ma little more than 28,250 feet
The great tunnel, with its length of more than three miles, is by far the longest in Turkey. It is only exceeded in length by the great tunnels in the Alps and else where. Still, the technical difficulties a Vladivostok message, According to
piercing news has been received from Mr. Kataoka which had to be overcome in Yoshijiro, one of the Japanese volunteers through have been just as great as those from Vladivostok, to the effect that he encountered in the Alps. In fact, for is now fighting at the Caucasus front. It several hundred yards the engineers en- 5s further stated that besides the Vla countered rock of practically pure divostok men there were seven other quarta, which was so hand that it was!
have recourse to boring these two have been killed,
machines of special construction, Japanese on the Caucasus line, and of necessary
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