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THE WAR.
GREECE BOWS TO ALLIES' WILL.
DESPERATE FIGHTING AT VERDUN.
ARABIA REVOLTS AGAINST
TURKEY.
FIERCE GERMAN ATTACKS ON RUSSIANS.
THE BALKANS,
{THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOY.] THE GREEK CRIŠIS-
ALL ALLIES TERMS ACCEPTED.
ATHENS, June 22nd.
Gree has accepted all the Allies'
terms.
The Allies' Note demanded :-.. General demobilisation. fmediate dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies,
New elections.
Substitution of nominees approved by the Allies for police officials and others.
NEW CABINET.
The Cabinet has resigned, and M. Zaimis is the new Premier
ed.
The Zaimis Cabinet has been constitut-:
The Entente Ministers have, now
RUSSIAN FRONT
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24ra. 1916,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] TRYING TO STEM THE RUSSIAN TIDE. FURIOUS CERMAN ATTACKS.
PETROGRAD, June 22nd. A communiquè reports herce German attacks in several of the northern sectors. from Dvinsk to the Pripet which were everywhere repulsed.
South of Lake Vischrevskoie and near Krevo they gained ground, but again.
lost it.
A German offensive against the north- west quadrant in the Lutzk salient was also conducted with unabated intensity, but without success.
The Russians took 600 prisoners at Bokul, on the Styr, and 218 at Svidniki. on the Stokhod. The fewness of the pri souers at Svidniki is due to the fact that the troops, exasperated by the Germans'
commended the removal of the shipping employment of expanding bullets, showed
restrictions.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTRE'S 'AGENCY.] BATTLE OF VERDUN RESUMED.
FURTHER DESPERATE FIGHTING.
PARIS, June 22n3.
4.45 p.in. Today's communiqué says:-4 Ger -war attack at Mort Homme was com
pletely repulsed..
Desperate fighting continued in the region of Vaux Fort.
An attack on Fumin Wood and Chenots Word was repulsed with terrible losses, but the enemy gained a footing in our advanced positions between the woods
WON'T YOU LEND A HAND
15 BUILDING
THE HONGKONG HUT
FOR OUR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE?
FURIOUS ARTILLERY BATTLE SUCCESSFUL FRENCH COUNTER- ATTACK.
Paris, June 23rd.
3.5 8:01. The evening cummintäqué waya:--The Labardment with heavy shells on both banks of the Meuse continued all day with extreme violence. The enemy on the left of the Meuse attacked our trenches betizen Hill 304 and Bethincourt Brook at six o'clock in the evening, and was completely repulsed with grenades.
A French counter-attack, on the right
no quarter.
The pursuit of the enemy in the Bukhovina continues. A further 1,000 prisoners have been taken, and Radautz
has been occupied. THE NEAR EAST,
(THROUGH REUTER'S 'ADENCY.] ARABS PROCLAIM
INDEPENDENCE. OPERATIONS AGAINST TURKS SUCCESSFUL.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[TABOUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN SUBMARINE PUTS
INTO SPANISH PORT..
CARTAGENA, June 2nd."
A German submarine has been docked here for repairs, and left in the muz ing a Spanish cruiser and a torped boat accompanying her till she was out- side territorial waters...
The commander boasts that he has destroyed 50 ships, including the French
liner. Prorence,
RUSSIAN STEAMER MINED.
PETROGRAD, June 22nd.
A Russian passenger sicâmer was mined in the Black Sen. Most of the people on board were saved.
GENERAL.
HONGKONG MAN IN A RAID.
A GRAPHIC LETTER.
The following interesting letter from a well-known Hongkong "boy" Cyril Wilkie, of the 2nd Middlesex Regt has been received by one of his friends Hongkong:
St. Luke's War Hospital Halifax, Yorks, 26th May.
HONGKONG POST OFFICE IN 1915.
REPORT OF POSTMASTER- GENERAL
in 1914.
CANTON HOSPITAL. PLAN FOR REORGANISATION,
RATIFIED.-
to
REVENUE AND EXPENDITUNE. Revenue during the year anionated to $308,467.77, a decrease of $29.998.01 s compared with the year 1914 The de- HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA creas in the sale of Postage stamps was due to the war and in Buxholders' fees to the abolition of the private letter boxes carried by the Lanton Steamers neces sitated through the entry of China into
lin Universal Postal. Union.
The
CILINESE AND MONEY CEDERS.
to
During the year greater confidesice has been shown by the Chinese abrond in
DOCK.
TO SALVE THE S.S WISLEY.!'
A special mesting of the Canton Medical Missionary Society, called by the Managing Committee, was held on The annual report of the Post-Master-
the 21st instant, at the Club Theatre, General of Hongkong for 1015 states that during the year the number of mails, Shamcen, when the plan of reorganiza mail bags and packets despatched showed tion of the Canton Hospital, recommend. ed by the Managing Committee, was rati a decrease of 1,903 and the number re ceived a decrease of 6 237, compared with fed, and a Committes composed of Dr. the figures for 1914. The total number J. O. Thomson, Dr. John Kirk, Rev. J. The last time I wrote I was practising of mail bags and packets dealt with Speicher and Rev. W. D. Noyes was ap
amounted to 242,162 as compared with pointed, with the fullest powers for a little stunt against Fritz, way 250,304 in the preceding your. The num negotiate with all the Protestant Mis- ber of bags, and, packets sent in transitsionary organizations of the Province It is stated that a Botilla of torpel-back in the woods. Well, we made our boats were watching the mowments of show on the night of the tenth. We crent through the Post Office amounted to with a view to establishing the Canton
70,093, 14., 1,069 less than in 1914. The Union Hospital,
This plan provides that the hospital out through our barbed wire and lay parcel receptacles handled showed u de the submarine.
'down about 30 yards in front of it se aserease compared with the figures for 1911 plant shall be leased to an Associated Board of Directors compused of repre of. 949. THE SUBMARINE'S MISSION AND
to escape the German shells in answer to
Registered articles and parcels handledsentatives of any Protestant Mission, À BOAST.
LATER
our bombardinent. We had only just in Hongkong amounted to 184,590 as com other similar organization or individuals, It is got int when our gun, started. It was pared with 910,496 in 1914. The decrease providing by agreement all expenses of of 125,000 articles and parcels handled is a physiciun, business manager or nurse The submarine was the 35,
a bit nerve-shaking, lying there with the mainly due to the war. Registered arti- giving full time to the hospital work, or stated that the vessel carried an aute..
shells going whiz-whiz-whiz, etc. just cles despatched and received ria Siberia the equivalent yearly cash unit; two vo graph letter from the Kaiser to King
over you. The th and 18 poutiders put totalled 54,536 as compared with 58.995 presentatives of the Canton Medical Missionary Society and Chinese repres sentatives Alfonso, thanking the latter for the wel-300 shells in 5 minutes into the Germany eone given by Spain to the Germans from harbed wire, where we were to go through. the Cameroons, for whom the submarine I kept my face pressed into the ground as the bits were flying, and chewed the discharged hospital stores.
grass to steady myself; and what made it worse two or three of our own 4.5 shells fell short just behind us, causing on
The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock. Company has secured the contract to casualty to the ammonial tube party. The
expenditure amounted
salve, the es. Wisley, and the Company's tube is for placing on the wire and blow 8403,609.02, an increase of $31,502.96 over
The to-day to commonce operations. ing the wire up. After five minutes the that of the previous year when certain tug David Gillies will return to the wreck arrears of outstanding transit durs were artillery were to stop for 15 seconds and recovered. The balance of expenditure idley (late Wray Castle) took fire about the 26th of last month and was beached in Vangro Bay, near Cape Varella, about then start again on the flanks of wherever revenue amounted to $35,161.25. we were going to raid and the reserve
640 miles from Hongkong, when on a and communication trenches. It was
voyage from New York to Vladivostock. only a bombing raid, not an attack. Well availing themselves of the Post Office as It is anticipated that it will take at the medium for the transmission of feast a couple of months to salve the that 15 seconds stoppage was our signal money remittances to China, than in the vessel and cargo, and bring the ship to An increase of Hongkong for repairs. When the Darid firat year of the war. to go across. Mind, all this while there Inward Money Orders to the amount of Gillies first visited the wreck the isley were heavy bombardments going on right £4,413 has taken place, but the year's was submerged from the foremast, with and left of the line and in fact it was working shows a decrease of £9,431 in about 12 fret of water above deck at the
w.s the Outward remittances, principally for deepest part. taken up for miles, and "Fritz?
India and the United Kingdom due to giving almost as much as be got.
the continued reduction of the British There was a tremendous roar going on
A KERO'S WIDÓW. sence of His Majesty's Fleet resulting in and what with the "Vorry lights ging garrisons in the East and the entire ab- up and the flashes of the bursting shells
a net decrease of £5 017.18.5 on the Money
The British Embassy to France has it was almost as light as day. When we had gut halfway across the ammonal tube Order transactions for the year. It is givo $200 to Madame Jacquet, the however, a distinct improvement when widow of a citizen of Lille who was shot broke, but the officers said "Carry on and use the small auxiliary tube" (we compared with the large decrease of by the Germans for having sheltered Bri- carried one), (To digress a bit, I think £17,104 which took place in 1914. Thetish and French soldiers. The story of by what followed, the Germans must have same remarks apply to British Postal Jacquet is one of the most striking of the
As there was such a heavy Orders, where a slight increase in pay-war. Despite the imminent danger of... "stood to
a decrease of the death penalty when the German bombardment all along the line). Wenents is recorded but got across to their wire and fixed the tul£6,870 in the salus. The increased de policy of savagery towards the unhappy and set it off which cleared the wire and for Local Postal Orders in 1814 dit people of Belgium was at its highest, onough for us to get through. Even Le-not continue in 1815, which year shows a Jacquet- fed and hid dozens of British and French soldiers who were left behind fore that, we had seen that the German deoreuse of 84,000.
in the retreat of the allied armies, till trenches were packed with troops and
opportunities offered to smuggle them in now they were shouting. Of couran we, rushed through the breach in the wr
twos and threes to the British lines. It is not sufficient to express the country's but found to our cost that they had barb
is felt that the gift of the Government ed wire along the top of their parapet.
Wo inmediately started to bomb them
gratitude. and they us, and shells and bullets and trench-nortars were flying about also. none would have got out of their trenes that the bulk of the registered corres
pondence comes from Canada and the has been reduced and the postal revenue Taited States of America and that shihas been increased.
Considering the dangers to which ship again, I'm positive). While we wpi there trying to cut through the wire I suddenly felt a sting in my right foot antping facilities in the Pacific have been
very ponr ever since the outbreak of war.ping in Home waters and in the Mediter a bomb burst beside me at the same time, then my foot went munib, but I was able 12,470 registered articles came from the reeun has been exposed as a result of to stand. I thought to myself-an doaited States of America and Canada the German submarine policy the Colony nd 77,850 from China and other coun was singularly fortunate in the mater af munits. All mails despatched from use if we do get in so I will get back."
vira 1.221 insured letters were als Hongkong to the United Kingdom and But they retired almost directly I turned alt with.
rice verad arrived unfely with the exerp- round. It is wonderful what one can d although wounded. I ran (with a limp) back to our trenches and started off (stilletters, 4 350 other articles and 4,013 rotion of those on board the P. and O. at the double) down the communienti..nistered articles were desnatched tri Can-erria and the Fille de la Crotat, both ton from the Sheung Wan branch Post which ships were torpedoed in the
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ANTI-GERMÁN DUTCH. STRONG FEELING IN EAST INDIES.
AMSTERDAM, June 22nd.
The Hamburger Nachrichten publishes a letter from a prominent. German mer- chant at Sourabaya bitterly complaining of the strong anti-German feeling in the Dutch East Indies. He says that many Germans will certainly leave Java after the war. German successes have not
altered the sentiment of the Dutch-as
"the news service of our enemies serves its function too well."
LORD KITCHENER. HIS INSISTENCE ON PHYSICAL
"EFFICIENCY:
LONDON, June 22nd Dean Welldon, in a letter to The Times;
Cairo, June 22nd. The Grand Shereef of Mecca, sup ported by the tribes of Western and Central Arabia, has proclaimed Arab ascribes the great full, during Lord independence of Turkey. Operations Kitchenor's headship of the Army in began on the 9th inst., and have been India, of admissions to hospital of signally successful. Mecca, Jeddah, and British soldiers suffering from social
disease as largely due to Lord Kit Taif have been captured, and the Tur chener's insistence upon, physical effici kish garrisons hate surrendered, except
eney,
at two small forts at Taif, which are BRITISH BUDGET CHANGES, still resisting. At Jeddah the Arabs captured 1,450 troops and six guns; the umbers captured at Mecca and Taif are nyat unknoWT),
Medina is closely besieged, and all communications to Hedjaz ar in the hands of the Shereef...
The fact that Jeddah is securely in his hands makes it possible to re-open tom- munications by sent, and trade with the Hedjaz ports can be resumed.
It is confidently expected that the obstacles to the annual pilgrimage will now be removed.
THE NEW REVOLT OF
ISLAM."
of the Meuse, in the afternoon, recap-ARABS PERCEIVE THE DOWNFAIL
tare most of the trenches between Fumin
and Chenois Woods.
The bombardment was unprecedented-
OF TURKS.
LONDON, June 22nd Discussing "The new revolt of Islam," ly violent after six o'clock in the ever-The Times remarks that the Arab national movement, which has now come to a head, jog WELSH FUSILIERS TO THE is largely the outcome of wisgovernment
FORE.
EJECT. GERMANS FROM TRENCHES.
LONDON, June 23rd. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a bem- muniqué, saya-After exploding an ex- ceptionally large mine the enemy, under cover of a bombardment, entered our trenches in the morning in the neigh bourhood of Givenchy. The Welsh Fasiliers immediately counter-attacked and completely ejected the enemy, who Tost heavily.
We exploded a mine in the night, in the neighbourhood of the Hohenzollern Bedoubt, and occupied the lip of the
crater."
To-day there was quiet everywhere.
and oppression. It has been entirely. spontaneous, and the present moment was probably chosen in consequence of the Russian successes in Armenia.
The Arab leaders are exceedingly shrewd, and perceive that Tarkoy is doomed.
TALIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGHFGT;] AUSTRIANS' STUBBORN
RESISTANCE.
ROME, June 2200.
Tha
A communiqué says:-An enemy at- tack at Mount Sperone and the Ledro Valley was completely repulsed. enemy are strongly resisting our advance from Asiago,
FRANCE.
MPLBOURNE, June 22nd. the sale to France of 200,000 tons of Aus
The Hon. Mr. Pearce has announced The sale was arranged tralian wheat.
in London through the Hon. Mr. Hughes FRENCH CHAMBER'S SECRET
SESSION.
CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT.
PARIS, June 23rd.
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CHINESE DELIVERY BECTION.
During the year, this section handled 1.529,413 ordinary letters 31,544 postearis. samples and 4,149 postal bong packets 97,254 newspapers and book-packets, 3,581 The registered articles delivered amount- ed to 210,123 as compared with 210.132 n 1914 a decrease of 6,009 articles onl*.
1
We couldn't get through (even if we had. This is a very small decrease consideringult that the smuggling of corresponden a
During the
yeur 978,894 ordinary
trench to battalion headquarters aui th Offie as compared with 1000.657 ordin Mediterranian towards the close of the
The total revenue collected amounted to $99,210.60, of which $59,2:18.60 were derived from the sale of postage stamps and $39,999.00 from the sale of revenue (recript, rtc.) stamps. The latter sum is credited direct to the Treasury.
"RADIO"""TELEGRAPHT,
A telephone connects the
LONDON, June 22nd. Budget changes were announced by Mr. McKenna in the Committee stage of the doctor. There were a lot of very long
and timeary letters: 10 530 other articles and 4,127 year, and two bags of mail on the Finance Bill. They include the abandon hays and I would wait ment of the increased duty on motor
"Fritz's" shelling and then dash for the registered articles in 1914 1.092,973 Hesperian, which was torpedoed in the cars, the imposition of an additional tax
next traverse between shells. When I got ordinary letters, 5,850 other articles and Atlantic in September. These mails con 4,499 registered articles were received sisted chiefly of second-class mail matter of 6d. on a gallon of petrol, and various about half-way the shelling was fiercer slight readjustowots of the income tasso crouched down behind a traverse at from Canton as compared with 97,578 wspapers, book packets, etc.. bat Soldiers and sailors will be charged re
stopped there for a little while as the layetters, 5,891 other neticles and 4,399 re.} did not include parcels."
gistered articles in the previous year.
The most important event was the open- duced rates on their pay.
was an extra long one.
The shells appeared to be dropping The native postal business between the AUSTRALIAN WHEAT FOR
nearer and nearer and 1 was beginning Colony and Canton may therefore be con- ing of the new Government Radio Tele- consequent establishment of a Radio Tele to think I would have to shift and chance sidered to have been quite normal graph Station at Cape D'Aguilar and the my luck, when two more fellows arrived. throughout the year
grapli Office at the General Post Offer.
between ('ommunication
the Radio They said there was a dug-out in the next bay, so when there was a slight full, we made a dash for it and got
Station and the General Post Office is maintained by means of a telegraph and inside. We lay there for a long time and we could hear the shells bursting,
telephone line from the station to the General Post Office. To facilitate the and one sent a few pieces of shrapnel
At the Kowloon office the total re-despatch and receipt of messages the in but didn't catch any of us. Then the
venue collected amounted to $11.813.8, General Post Office Radio Telegraph shelling gradually died down.
About this time most of the party came of which 88 327.84 were derived from the Office is connected by telephone with the along and my foot wun paining nadly; sale of postage stamps and $3,485 95 from Government and Public telephone systems one of them came in and took my boots the sale of revenue stamps on behalf of both of which have an Exchange in the and socks off and bandaged up my wound. the Treasury, as against 817 056.83 com Radio Telegraph Office. The telegraphs There was a small round hole on the left posed of $14,718.03 derived from the sale to the Gap Rock and Waglan lighthouses side of my right foot just behind the
of postage stamps and $2,338.00 from the and to the Observatory are also now in- The Chamber of Deputies has concluded ankle and a big hole on the right side, sale of revenue stamps in 1914. The d-stalled in the Radio Telegraph: Office
also behind the ankle. He said it was a its secret sittings relative to the Verdun bullet wound and I said it was a bomb. crease is due to the war and the with having been removed there from the Ear- operations, and adopted by a majority of As it turned out later we were both right. drawal of troups from Kowloon. The bour Office. 144 to 89 a resolution declaring that it Well, 1 was carried down to the doctor opening of the new branch office at public Radio Telegraph counter with the Yaumati which is a long way off cannot Radio Telegraph Office. This arrange is resolved to continue to co-operate with and there had my wound fixed up. From ho considered to have contributed in any ment in addition to facilitating the d the Government, giving a constantly there I was carried down to the am more vigorous impulse to national de
bulance and taken to the field ambulance way to the decrease in revenue at this spatch and receipt of Radio Telegraph fence, expressing confidence that the Gov
hospital. It was then about 7 am and branch. A sub-office of the General Post mossages has also the advantage of com- Office Money Order Office, established bining all the Government Telegraphs in ernment would act most vigorously in
1 must have got wounded about 2 a.10. strengthening the direction of the war,
It was a rather late affair owing to the mainly to meet the demands of the Indian one centre, thus saving the duplication troops stationed in Kowloon, is located of services and staffe. The traffic for the noting with satisfaction the results
period 15th July to 31st December. 1915, achieved by France and the Allies, and proclaiming increased faith in victory.the mill what with the probing and
At the field ambulance I went "through at this Branch Post Office
was as follows:-- WAL AND POSTAL SERVICE.
No. of Messages No. of Words The continuance of the European war
6.178 sticking a inch syringe in the wound MEXICO ASKS FOR
and squirting through it to clean it. throughout the your affected postal busi Forwarded
3,500 I arrived here on Tuesday evening ness adversely and, in consequence, also Received
A statement of the Revenue and Ex, EXPLANATIONS.
There were two killed and unfortunately the portal revenue. Local postal business WASHINGTON, June 23rd. they had to leave them on the enemy continued much as before the war. and penditure of the Telegraph Branch of wire and lots wounded. It is a marvel the opening of the two new branches of the General Post Office for the year exe The Mexican Ambassador called on My.
to me bow any of us got back and if they the General Post Office helped to some clusive of the working cost of D'Aguilar Lansing and asked for an explanati had had a machine gun anywhere near extent to reduce the general loss of postal Station shows that Revenus amounted t of the action of American troops in a where we tried to get in they must have revenue. The abolition of the private $2,623.30, of which 82,184.30 was in respect proaching the town of Carrizal. He com- wiped us all out. When I had been here latter boxes in which the correspondence of radio telegrams. The expenditure plained of the occupation of two other a day or two they x-ray photographed between firms established in Hongkong amounted to 24,113.07. The number of towns as acts of hostility.25
my foot and found that I had three with branches in Canton was formerly messages sent and received has fallen far- Mr. Lansing informed diplomatists of pieces of shrapnel in it. I long to be despatched at a fixed sum of $60 per box short of what the public appears to have Bonth and Central America that if hosti
out as we are having lovely weather just annum also materially assisted in anticipated (in view of the continued lities develop with Mexico the United now, I have been to three concerts at
improving the postal revenue derived appeals made to the Colonial Government States will defend itself against further the YMCA here and am expecting to
from postal basiness between these two during the past three or four years to incursions, but would not intervene in go to-night again. Of course I go in a
wheel stretcher, Mother came un here ports. Direct postal services were also establish this station); but it must t last Monday and comes in every day for established with various West River and horne in mind that there were lower ships Mexican affairs pe
a few hours, which is very nice. This neighbouring perts whose correspondence available and that the sending of radio is a fine hospital and I am in one of the had formerly to pass through Canton telegraph messages from ships stations during the period of the war has been the best wards and the nurses and sisters entailing considerable delay with the re
(Continued on next Cclumn)
very greatly restricted. are very nice tou:
EN EL PAS. June 22nd. The Americans are said to have lost 40 killed and 17 taken prisoner in the recent brush with the Mexicans, whose Tosses are believed to be le
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