THE WAR.
GERMAN CRUISER TORPEDOED BY BRITISH SUBMARINE.
STIFF FIGHTING ON WESTERN
FRONT.
BRITISH AND FRENCH HEAVILY ENGAGED.
BRILLIANT WORK BY ITALIAN
ALPINIS
DEVELOPMENTS IN GREEK CRISIS.
RANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH RZUTERʼN ADENOY,
BRITISH MAKE FURTHER
PROGRESS,
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.
LONDON, October git
Sir Douglas Haig reports:-We made
We successfully raided enemy trenches south of Neuvo Chapelle.
DETERMINED ENEMY
THE BALKANS
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE GREEK CRISIS. MORE ENTENTE DEMANDS CONCEDED
ATHENS, October 21st. The Greek Government has agreed to
#tw
further progress last night in the neigh-hand over fifty waggons and two loco bourhood of Butte de Warden Court,
motives on the Piraeus-Larissa railways for the use of the Allies in Macedonia
Admiral Fournett has appointed a French Chief Inspector to control the Gendarmeric and Police, including King Constantine's personal police, which have latterly been sincreased from 80 to 4,000, and have been used to terrorise the people. The Inspector has discretionary power of disinissal.
ATTACKS.
SUCCESSFULLY REPULSED
EVERYWHERE:
LONDON, October 2nd. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a muniqué says:-In the early morning the enemy determinedly attacked the Schwa- ben Redoubt and was repulsed everywhere except at two-
points, where he entered our trenches, only to be immediately.
A NEUTRAL ZONE BEHIND THE ALLIES
SALONIKA, October 21st
A telegram from Athens states that the
388, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2500, 1918.
BRITISH FLEET TAKE PART
PARIS, October 21st.
A communiqué saya. British Fleet successfully bombarded Bulgarian organisations south of Lake Tahinos
[HROUGH KEPINK'I ACEROR]) A THE BOARD OF TRADE. REORGANISATION OF BRANCHES.
LONDON, October 21st,
The Exhibitions and Commercial Intelligence Branches of, the Board of
COMPANY MEETING. CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COM-
_______PANY, LIMITED
The Serbs have made fresh progress At Trade have been amalgamated. Hench-Co) on Saturday forenoon. Mr. R.
Cerna
MAYAL MOTIVITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
GERMAN CRUISER
TORPEDOED.
BY BRITISH SUBMARINE:
LONDON, October 21st, The Admiralty reports that a British submarine torpedoed a German cruiser of the Kolberg class on the 19th instant in the North Sea.
forth the Department of Commercial Intelligence will be under the Comp troller-Generalship of Bir William Clark (who was Member for Commerce and Industry of the Council of the Viceroy of India, 1910-15).
A BIG FRENCH CREDIT.
TO COVER PURCHASES IN
AMERICA NEW Yong, October 21st A credit of a hundred million dollars When lest seen the cruiser was making has been arranged in faqur of group homeward with difficulty.
of French industrial concerns to cover purchsiscs of goods in the United States. LIEUT. COL. ELKINGTON'S REINSTATEMENT.
NAVAL AIR SUCCESSES.
ON THE BELGIAN COAST.
LONDON, October 21st. The Admiralty announces that on the morning of the 20th instant a single- seater aeroplane brought down, o' kite balloon in flames near Ostend.
A large seaplane was fikewise shot down and fell into, the water two miles from Ostend, RENERAL.
(THROUGH REUTBR'S ADENCY.] ANGLO-FRENCH CONFERENCE
THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL SITUATION.:
LONDON, October 21st. An official communiqué states that a conference of representatives of the British and French Governments was held
ROYAL IMPRIMATUR.
LONDON, October 21st.
HM the King has received Lieut. Colonel Elkington, late of the, French Foreign Legion, at Buckingham Palace.
Lieut-Colonel Elkington of the Boyal Warwickshire Regiment was cashiered by sentence of general court-martial early in the War. He then joined the French Foreign Legion, in which he won distine tion before he was invalided home. His services being brought to the notice of the reinstated in the Army, and has now been British Military authorities, he has been
honoured by being received by HM the King-
The fifteenth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the above Com pany was held in the offices of the Gene ral Managers (Messrs. Shewan, Tomes
Shewan, general manager, occupied the chair, and those present included Messrs. G. W. Barton, H R. B. Hancock, Tong Ini Chuen, J. A. Young, H. I. Cam hell, and Y. Leeman (secretary),
ANNUAL REPORT,
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR. Messra, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., have received a telegram, says the N-C Daily News, which adds three more names to the firm's Far Eastern casualty list,
W Galloway, formerly, J. M. & Co.'s as follows:
agent at Shimonski, left for home June- Scottish Borderers, Wounded by bomb ary, 1915, Lieutenant 9th King's Own in Egypt, progressing well
O. H. L. Bymons, J. M. & Co., Ltd., Shanghai, left for home in February, 1010. 2nd-Lieut. 5th Royal Fusiliers, Slight dislocation left elbow, result of shell explosion; now in hospital at Lo Touquets
L. G. M. Kidd, J. M. & Co., Ltd., left for home October, 1014, 2nd-Licut 9th East Kent Regiment. Shot in right thigh and wrist; now in hospital at Rouen.
:
The annual report for the year ending July 31st stated that the net profit for the year, including the sum of $240.59 brought forward, is $28,338.88, of which #20,000 has been written off the value of Machinery, and 80.000 of the value of Second Lieut. W. W. Melville, RH.A., Linen, leaving a balance of $35.88 to be Shanghai, who has been on ervice ainer late of the Municipal Health Office, Consulting Committee--Mr. H. P. White at present. Had a bit of shell shock and carried forward to next year's account. October, 1914, writes: I'am back home resigned on leaving the Colony and Mr. speech for a few day's, but going on G. W. Barton was invited to take his
place on the Consulting Committee. In accordance with the Articles of Associa tion Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., and Mr. G. W. Barton retire, and are eligible for re-election Auditors. The accounts have been audited by Messrs. F. Maitland and A. R. Lowe, who offer themselves for re-election."
Al now.
News hus been received that Lieut. E on the Somme, but his friends in Shang S. Elliston was wounded in the big push hai will be glad to learn that he is quite well again.
Mons: A. P. A Bouinais, of the Chinese Maritimes Customs service, after having been twice wounded, has been invalided from active service and allowed to retura to China. He is now en route to Paking The Chairman, in moving the adoption When he was last wounded he was buried of the report, said The Statement of underground through the explosion of Accounts for the year ending 31st July mentioned in despatches and has been an aerial, torpedo. He has been twice have been in your hands for some time awarded the Croix de Guerre. past, and I trust you will have found the result of the past year's working satis
power supplied shows a substantial in factory. Our revenus from light and
bat against that there is a debit of $14,377 for interest on the cost of the new turbine plant, which only com menced work last March. The net result is a balang at predit of profit and loss account of $26,388,885, which it is pro The Telegraaf strongly appeals to of machinery and lines as set forth in BERLIN-BAGHDAD KAILWAY, posed to write off against depreciation
HOLLAND AND SUBMARINING. APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR NEUTRAL ACTION.
AMSTERDAM, October 21st,
crease,
ejected, leaving 5. officers and 19 men ngyal Government has decided to reduce at Boulogne on the 20th instant for an America to initiate common action among the accounts before you. We have not,
passoners and many dead.
We successfully attacked on a front of 3,000 yards between Schwaben arid Lesers and advanced between 300 and 500. yards. We captured Stuff and Regina trenches and also an advanced post north and north-east of Schwaben, and cap (tured some hundreds of prisoners.
Our aircraft bombed the enemy com munications, altered
attacked In important junction and ammunition depot, and derailed four coaches.
Three enemy aeroplanes were destroyed and many driven down, Two of our machines are missing.
FRENCH FRONT.
AERIAL COMBATS.
A communiqué says:-There is nothing of importance to report on the French front.
Doring the night numerous serial com- bats took place, in which seven German machines were brought down.
Stations at Noyon and Chauny, together with communications
bivonacs, were heavily bombed..
SAILLIS-SELLISEL.
VAIN GERMAN EFFORTS TO RECAPTURE,
and
LONDON, October 22nd, French communiqués state-Three violent German efforts to retake Sails Sellisel have failed with sanguinary losses,
and
There has been bitter fighting south of the Somme between Bisches Lamaisonette, particularly in the region of Blaise Wood. The Germans were everywhere repulsed except at North- wood, where they gained a foothold in our advanced trench. Simultaneously wo achieved a brilliant success in the Chaulnes region, capturing the woods on the north thereof and taking 260 + PTISONATS.
ITALIAN FRONT.
(THROPHE BRUTTUʼN AGHIOR.]
ITALIAN SUCCESS. STRONG ENEMY POSITION CAPTURED.
London, October 21st. An Italian comonique states that the Alpinis, on the eastern slopes of Monte Laguroui, aurrounded and carried at the point of the bayonet a strong enemy position.
The garrison was almost annihilated,
and war
the strength of us army to the smallest peace effective, and also proposes to move the entire fores eoncentrated in Thessaly, to other provinces, making Thessaly and Stor a neutral zone behind the Allies.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
SWORN IN.
B
SALONIKA, October 21st. The Heads of the Provisional Govern ment have been sworn in before Triumvirate. It is significant that the Departments of War and Foreign Affairs are described as Ministries, Bud the remainder
48 Adviserships, thereby emphasising the character and action of the Government.
A
GRECIAN “NATIONAL SQUADRON
Aruns, October 21st.
A national squadron has been formed. at Salonika consisting of the cruiser Hydra and three destroyers.
RUMANIA'S INCREASING
CONFIDENCE.
SUCCESSFUL OFFENSIVE
ASSUMED,
LONDON, October 21st. The enemy's main efforts in Eastern Transylvania centre around the Gyimes and Oituz Passes. The enemy is now attacking Goio Aaa, twelve miles below the Gyimes Pass on the Roumanian side, but quite near the frontier,
The Roumanians have assumed Buccessful offensive at Oituz
The feeling generally is one of increas ing confidence.
DESPERATE FIGHTING IN THE KENALI SECTOR.
interchange of views regarding military and political situation.
the
the neutral seafaring Powers to make Germany understand that the submarin The Conference consisted of M.Ming of neutral merchantmen must cease. Briand, Ribot, Bourgeois, Roques, Lacao, and, Thomas, and General Joffre Me NEW GERMAN WAR CREDIT Asquith, Viscount Grey Mr. Balfour,
TWELVE THOUSAND M ELION · Mr. Lloyd George, and Generals Robert- son and Haig, with diplomatic, naval and military advisera.
COUNT STURBOKH SHOT.
AMSTERDAM, October 21st.
A Berlin relegram states that Count Stucrgkh bus been shot at meal-time by a Vienna publisher. He has since died.
PROMINENT INDIAN OFFICIAL
RECEIVED BY THE KING The King has received Bir Krishna Gupta.
(Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta, K.C.S. has been a member of the Council of the Becretary of State for Indis since 1908. He has filled a number of important Indian appointments.)
DISTINGUISHED INDIAN OFFICER
HAB AN AUDIENCE WITH THE
KING
LONDON, October 22nd.
Fr.
General Sir Beauchamp Duff, G.C.R., Secretary of the Military Department of
MARKS.
AMSTERDAM, October 21st:
however, had the full benefit of a year's work from the turbines, which we are glad to say have fulfilled all our expec tations, and given us complete satisfac tion. Moreover, our working expenses bave been rather higher than we original ly calculated, owing to the abnormally high price of coal, which could not be
A Bill is being presented to the Reich-foreseen before the War. But even in this new War Credit of respect there is a slight improvement, stag asking for twelve thousand million marks.
as coal freights from Japan are now lower than they were. Our contract with HINDENBURG AND
the Dock Company is satisfactory and SUBMARINING.
we have no reason to regret having made it, while for small shops and factories LONDON, October 20th.
the demand for power seems to be steadily in
the German
on the increase. Financially our pesi-
Various indications
papers show that Field Marshal von Hindenburg has been consulted with re gard to the policy of ruthless submarin ing, and has pronounced against it, thaus silencing the constant agitation in its
favour
TRAFALGAR DAY, LONDON DELEBRATIONĖ.
Ves, that news has been received that M
We regret to learn, anys the N.-G. Daily,
year. M. Delastre was formerly a mem Rene Delastre was killed in action on the Western Front, on August. 16th of this ber of the Chinese Maritimes Customs Staff in Hankow, and soon after the out- Colours. After having, passed through a break of the War voluntarily joined the
special military school, he received the appointment of Sub-Lieutenant in the 14th Batallin, Chausseurs Alpines,
IDEA OF WORLD DOMINATION.
At the invitation of Mr. I. W Raymond Contingents, 200 wounded soldiers from and the Overseas Dominion War Service every colony of the Empirs were enter 17th. General Sir Sam Hughes presided. tained at Caxton Hall, London, on Sept. Colonel Sir Mark Byken, M.1. spoko He said that while not knowing the day on The Past, the War, and the Future."?"
or the hour, it was impossible for one who had gravitated for ten years be tween Berlin Vienna, Constantinople, and Baghdad, as he had done, not to have felt that the war was coming sooner or later. He was not in the least criticis ing the people who thought it was not coming, but he thought the more people were that the war was coming. knew the ground the more certain they
The three great things between 1815 and 1015 were cosmopolitan finance, iu- Kultur" took all the bad of pass ternational socialism, and "kultur."
civilisation, and none of the good. It
Bir Mark Sykes referred to the Berlin- Baghdad Railway as playing the big part. said no heights of heroism and no depths in the idea of world-domination, and of villainy were too high or too deep for the discipline of " kultur" to rise to or them, but we refused to see the world sink to. They had no moral at the back of enslaved. The kennel might be comfort-
none of it.
a the India Office, has had an audience with lives off Jutland and in other sea battleshall be pleased to answer zuy question against it must be long and bitter, be
ATHENS, October 21st. Desperate fighting is in progress in the Kenali sector, twelve miles east of Brod. The Serbians are attacking the entire line, supported by the French
the King.
of the present war.
tion is quite sound, as we have now paid for all the new plant and can easily to smaller nations.
had no law, no chivalry, no concessions It had taken the pay the interest on debentures out of Napoleonic military system, and its rath income; but at the present rate we shall leas order, discipline, and mercilessness were taken from the feudal caste and the soon have one turbine fully loaded, and War Lord. Its purpose to develop upon when that happens we shall have to pro-all these lines was nothing more or less
than absolute world control. vide for a still further extension of plant. The accounts are very clear and simple, andat can see nothing in them to explain or comment upon. Our re LONDON, October 1st.
cord for the year is one of steady pro- Trafalgar Day celebrations were more gress, which still continues, and if we than usually interesting. Nelson's Monu go on as we are doing I do not think mcat was lavishly bedecked with wreaths it will he long before we shall be able able and the chain of gold but we walked from all parts of the Empire, also to the to pay a modest dividend.. I now beg
MUST BREAK THE SPELL, memory of the French and Spanish move the adoption of the report and of it, and meant nothing but that. It "Kultur" had enslavement at the back sailors who fell at Trafalgar and the accounts as now presented to the meet was belly-worship soulless cruel, un- British officers and men who lost their, and when that has been seconded I righteous, and enslaved. The struggle cause so long as that Berlin-Baghdad combine held together there could be no world, Germany could pay a big price, guarantee for the future peace of the She could give Poland, Belgiumi, Alsace- Lorraine, Mesopotamia, etc., and yet her ides would not be broken. The Berlin- Baghdad railway would be untouched, and she would have a land communica tion to Africa and Asia. whilst we were left with the sea, menaced by submarines, We had got to break that spell and that would become civilised when he knew that belief in world-domination, The German
world-domination was false and
could The auditors, Messrs. F. Maitland and lusion, he (Bir Mark Bykes believed. not be gained. He would never lose his A. B. Lowe, were re-elected on the motion until the ideas of that line which he had of Mr. Young, seconded by Mr. Tons taken from him. The intrigues of
been thirty years intriguing for was. Lối Chiến.
were no less creditable than those of warra The railway was to have been built by 1917, and he believed that was the real war date. The Allies were fighting for all that "Kultur was fighting against, an sunouncement, signed Festungskom- The Wilhelmshavener Zeitany publishes
and the great thing for us was the solidity in the future of the Alliance be mandant, ordering more stringent prewitticians in the Angust issue of the. The labour powers of the Entente must The following is a sample of trench tween England, France, and Russia. cautions agains, air attmis.
Susichboard, deleribed as the leading
We came out of the trenches one bit magazine of the .E.F. terly cold tight, and were billeted in a farm, where we were packed like mardines were soon asleep. I was wakened in the in a tin. Though numbed with cold, we night by one of our chaps trying to put hits boots on. After his and been trying for magte or two Fheard the fello.
sayWhat the ------ are 300%
from shareholders.
Mr. Barton seconded the notion," and A conspicuous tribute was the wreaths the report and accounts were unanimous. from officers and men of Admiral ly adopted.
THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIPZA
DISPOSAL OF GERMAN SCHOLAR-Jellicoe's flag-ship.
SHIPS.
The Overseas Leaguo presented a LONDON, October 20th Trafalgar Day gift of £10,000 to the
Bill in the House of Commons, Mr.
At last night's discussion on the Rhodes Admiralty, with which to buy seaplanes
Mackinder said the trustees proposed to Telegrams received on Saturday and m on Sunday morning and publwbed in an make the scheme apply to portions of the“ Extra" on Sunday, will be found on British Empire which were omitted from ane 7.3 Mr. Rhodes' original pla
AIR HAIDS.
SERBIANS ADVANCE. THREE AND A HALF MILES.
There was nothing in the Bill to pre GERMAN PRECAUTIONS AGAINST LONDON, October 1st.
vent the trustees from giving a scholar A Serbian official message says:-The ship to Indis or establishing scholarships Berbians advanced three and a half miles for foreigners, including our Allies north-east of Brod, capturing ve guns, eventually. seven machine guns and & quantity of material. They also made prisoner 114 amendment proposed by Lord Hugh Cecil buildings.
After the Bill had been seconded astrecto, yards, gardens, private or public No more lights are to be shown in Bulgarians and 24 Germans.
Curtains and blinds, which was adopted, empowering the Committee tory precaution, are now regarded as in have hitherto been considered a satisfac
if they thought Af to make the scholar
suficient Illuminated sign are prohi bated and all special light permits are ehips substituted for the Germis co Withdrawn.
dows are to show ships available for statents withi
jent light to enable without the British
luksne goods.
Trustees may determine
DOBRUDJA OPERATIONS. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.
LONDON, October 21st. Ruslan official message, says that enemy attacks in Dobrudja and Dorna vatra Rasve been repulsed.
no more than ustomers: 100
The Hon. Bir Paul Chater, C.M.G., and Mr. GM; Barton, the retiring members of the Consulting Committee, were unanimously re-elected on the mo- tion of Mr. Hancock, seconded by Mr. Campbell.
This was all the business.
HUMOUR AT THE FRONT
you fool
have an agreement.
Bir Mark said that England was mentally Speaking of his dread before the war, unprepared, and he wondered how the gay crowds on the football fields and how they had risen to the occasion racecourses would take it. We knew now Our politics here," said Sir Mark, may strike you as extraordinarily silly. If they do, I can tell you from within the Kro quite silly as they look,
Seselection o