THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1916,
GERMANS ADVANCING ON
BUKHAREST.
MORE AIR RAID DETAILS.
SHELLING ON BRITISH FRONT.
MUCH BALKAN
ACTIVITY.
WAR OFFICE ROUMOURS: A DENIAL.
The Balkans.
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GERMAN CLAIMS.
LONDON, November 8th.
A German communiqué says:—-We have captured Cureadearges, tho ancient capital of Wallachin, and Glurgevo, forty miles south of Bucharest,
HOSTILE
ARTILLERY FIRE.
LONDON, November 28th.
A Roumanian communiqué mercly men- tions that there is hostile artillery fre, especially in the Prahova Valley.
FRONTS.
November 8th.
LONDON, November 29th The fact that, no battle has yet been fought between the Roumanians and the invaders is, regarded as showing that the former are methodically retiring to positions nearer Bukharest, there to give | TRANSYLVANIA AND DANUBE battle. Bukharost has a first class fortress sixty miles in circumference, with a belt of thirty forts at an average distance of five miles from the city, along with many mobile batteries. The whole circle of fortifications is connected. by milways. Since the successful defence of Verdun, greater confidence is felt in the possibility of Bukharest resisting rioderu siege-guns, especially as there are indications that the Russians will supply a large part of the defence.
Though the Garmans have acquired s large wheat bearing area, they have nowhere, yet approached the oil-fields which are north of Bukharest,
A telegram from Petrograd says that the Germans are steadily advancing on. the capital from the north, west, north
west and south-west.
GREECE APPEALS TO NEUTRALS.
ATHENS, November 29th. Greece has appealed to neutrals regard- Ag Admiral Fournet's demands.
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THE DOBRUDJA FRONT.
RENEWED FIGHTING.
LONDON, November 28th.
A Bulgarian communiqué indicates hi there is renewed fighting on the whole Dobrudja front, and also that the Bulgarians have made further crossings over the Dahabe
ROUMANIAN CONFIDENCE
UNABATED.
RUSSIAN CO-OPERATION,
LONDON, November 28th. Reuter's learns that the Roumanians kavo unabated confidence, despite the German advance.
They are convinced that the effects of Russian co-operation, which have been already shown in the Dobrudja, will manifest themselves north of the Danube,
while the Roumanian munition supply is daily improving owing to the unstint- ing efforts of the Allies,
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THE AIR RAID.
TWO AIRSHIPS BROUGHT DOWN:
LONDON, November 25th, An official announcement concerning last night's raid says: Bombs were dropped in Yorkshire and Durham,
An airship was brought down in flames off the Durham coast,
SUBMARINE PIRACY.
MORE VESSELS SUNK
LONDON,
November 28th. The latest sinkings reported are the tarmers City of Birmingham (British) and Nistory (Norwegian). All on board the City of Birmingham were saved except Dr. Barman and two. Lascars:
The British steamer Fraaston, which
INDIAN SOLDIERS.
VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, November 28th. A number of Indian officers and non commissioned officers were present at the sitting of the House of Commons, accom panied by Mr. Austen Chamberlain,
The men were subsequently drawn up
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STOP PRESS.
COMPULSION AND CROWN
COLONIES.. STATEMENT BY MR. BONAR LAW,
LONDON, November 29th, In the House of Commons, Colonel Wedgwood suggested the compulsion of
Another airship dropped bombs in the was erroneously reported sunk, has been in the Lobby and inspected by Mr. British whites in India, Egypt, Ceylon north-midland counties, and was towed into Gravesend,
repeatedly attacked by aeroplanes and guns. She appeared damaged but ap- parently succeeded in effecting repairs near the Norfolk coast, after which sho proceeded east at a high speed, but "was
attacked nine miles out at sea, ata height of 8,000 feet, by four naval néro- planes and An armed trawler, and was brought down in flames at 6.45 in the morning.
The casualties and damage are 36 Keved to be slight
The first aeroplane was brought down at 11.45 p.m., and the second did not
LATER.
Thero have also been sunk the steamors Cheming (American), Bellile (Norwe gian), and two French sailing vessels. General:
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LONDON, November 29th.
In the House of Lords, in the course of a reply to Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby made a statement regarding the reach the coast before daybreak. She appointment of a civilian, Sir Eric was going at a slow speed, which in-Guides, as head of the railway, dorks creases after passing the gun fire of the fand defences, which claim to have made a hit.
WOMAN DIES OF SHOCK.
LONDON, November 28th.
and canals transport in France. He said that Mr. Lloyd Georgo and Sir Douglas Haig mutually concluded that the up- pointment was desirable. The Army Council had complete confidence in Sir Another official message says:--In last Douglas Haig, and the Haig-Robertson night's air-raid the damage and casual-combination was not to be equalled. He ties were very slight, although over om strongly contemned the circulators of hundred bombs were dropped.
false reumours to the offcct that thers was friction between the War Office and General Sir Douglas Haig.
BELGIAN
A Russian communiqué ways:--There is no change in Transylvania.
A woman died of shock, and five men, There is nothing important on the seven women and four children were Danube front.
injured.
Fifteen houses in one town were Franco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT SHELLED. PROMPT AND EFFECTIVE RETALIATION.
LONDON, November 9th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: There has been considerable artillery- work on our front on both sides of the
Ancre
Elsewhere the damage is insignificant and net of military importance.
LONDON BOMBED AT MID-DAY.
LONDON. November 99th.
POETS TERRIBLE DEATH.
PARIS, November 29th. The Belgian pool, Emilo Verhaeren, was killed while boarding a train when in motion at Rouen. Ho slipped and
Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George. INDIAN MILITARY HOSPITALS PROTEST AGAINST GROUNDLESS ALLEGATIONS:
LONDON, November 27th. In the House of Commons, in reply to
Mr. Hunt, Mr. Chamberlian stated that sa anonymous report on the military hospitals in India had been received from an officer, who refused to allow his name to be given. Ho (Mr. Cham- berlain) had asked the Raj to investigate the matter, as he was informed that the officer was thoroughly reliable. Commander-in-Chief and Lord Willing don had investigated, and had reported that the management was altogether satisfactory. Clearly the allegations were groundless and unjust to a body of officers and men who were doing their best to make the sick a comfortable as possible.
The
In making their report, the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief earnestly protested against the dissemination of such charges by an anonymous authority (Cheora), Mr. Chamberlain said he considered that he was entitled to ask, before he was required to investigate
further charges, that evidence of good faith should be given by the supply of full details and by the person himself coming forward to substantiate the charges (Cheers).
and the Crown Colonies,
Er. Bonar Law replied that he was advised that there was no reason to think that the adoption of the suggestion-would- add an appreciable number to the army, Therefore, he was not prepared to recom mend the necessary legislation.
THE
ALLEGED TRIAD
SOCIETY.
At the Hongkong Magistracy yester day, Mr. F. A. Harland delivered his decision in the Triad Society case in which fourteen Chinese were concerned.
His Worship said he had decided that this was a Triad Society because of the
insignia and flags found on the premises, besides the documents which had been produced as coming from the premises, some of which had names inscribed there- on corresponding to, the name of the defendents, to which, he might add, be attached no weight. Hie Worship ro viewed the demeanour of the witnesses in the box, and said that the first defenil- ant was the manager of the Society and the second defendant a member,
The demeanour of the rest was very excellent, and he was satisfied that they were not members. He did not regard the case sa very serious. Although the house was connected with the Society, it was more used as a lodging house. The frat de fendant would be sent to prison for two months and the second would be fined. 25, whilst the remander would be dis- charged.
HONGKONG CUEIST AT
SHANGHAI,
Sergt. Pitt, of the Hongkong Polico Force, and the local billiard champion, has been doing good things with the cue during a stay at Shanghai. On the 23rd
fell between the wheels, being shockingly REFUSED TO CARRY CARGO. inst, he met Capt. E. 1. M. Barrett, a
RUSSIAN MINISTERIAL
An official announcement Bays:-A | injured, hostile aeroplane, at a great height above tho hase, dropped six bombs on London ut noon.
Four people were injured, one woman seriously. The damage was slight.
LONDON November 29th.. Our retaliation was prompt and effecbombs state that nine people were u
Later official reports of the aeroplane
jured.
Naval Activities.
tivo.
The enemy's trench-mortars were active southward of Armentiores.
Our aircraft attacked several places of military importance, causing large ex. plosions.
ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
PARIS, November 29th. An official communiqué states that there has been moderate artillery activity on
the Somme at Dausumont.
BRITISH
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FRONT.
CONTINUOUS ENEMY SHELMING.-
LONDON, November 28th.
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SINKINGS.
AMERICAN SHIP INCIDENT.
LONDON, November 29th. The following sinkings are reported iherd and Christoforos (Greek), Rhone, Ramsgarth, Alison and Alert (British), along with three Welsh trawlers.
CHANGES.
PETROGRAD, November 29th. Count Bobrinski has been relieved of his functions as Minister of Agriculture, and has been appointed Grand Master of the Court. Privy Councillor, Ritich has been appointed Minister of the Interior and Minister of Agriculture,
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
MESSRS, JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., AND ALLEGED ENEMY FREIGHT,
At Bhanghai-on November 23rd, Leonard Everett sued Swayne and Hoyt Inc, claiming $4,500, damages alleged to have been caused by the defendant's refusal to carry freight for the plaintiff.
The case for the plaintiff, as set out in the petition, was that in May of this Fear the plaintiff had on hand for ship. ment to Pacific ports 400 tons of cargo and that he applied to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., agents for the defen dants, for space in their steamer, the Yucatan, for 200 or 300 tons of cargo.. At the time this, offer was made the de fendants' agents were accepting offers for and allotting space to the public LONDON, November 25th.
generally and had, at the time the The Lords Commissioners of the Teca- plaintiff made his offer, sufficient space available in the shin to meet his require sary have appointed a committee con-ments. The plaintiff claimed that in sisting of Mr. Stanley Leathes (Chair-high man), Sir Altred Ewing, Sir Henry Miers, Professor Adams (Oxford), and Mr. H. A. Fisher, to devise a new scheme of examination for class one of the Home Civil Service, which shall, in their
The Chemung, taentioned in an earlier message, was sunk with the Aurican fig flying at the masthead, the Captain opinion, be best adapted for the selection of the type of officer required, and at the fusing to haul it down;
WASHINGTON,November 29th. same time be most advantageous for the The State Department has been inform- higher education of Britain. Also in
Consul at Valencia. It is opined that the case is similar to that of the Il¿lliam P. Frye, and that the clamages will prob ably be adjustable diplomatically.
Shanghai champion, at the Country Club, in a game of 600 up. The Hongkong player ran to his points when Capt. Barrett's score stood -ab-429. On the following evening Sergeant Pitt met and lost to Mr. A, F. Stokes. Shortly after the 200 mark had been passed, in a game of 600 when slightly.
up behind, Pitt had the misfortune to lose the tip of his eve, anil though there were found nothing really to his liking and several endeavours made to suit him be from that time on could not settle down, a modicum of hard luck assisting his general downfall. It was decidedly his off day and no criterion of the game he enn play when on the top of his form. Mr. Stokes, who won 800-417, on the other hand played an excellent game.
The principal breaks; were-
28,
21, and 20 Mr. Stokes-47, 36, 37, 36, 33, 22, 30,
Sergt. Pitt-36, 38, 32, 26, and 33, Other games are being arranged.NO.
Daily News
DEATH OF MR, A, DAVENPORT,
·FORMER BRITISH CONSUL AT TIENTSIN AND PEKING.
General Sir Douglas Haig reports:ed of the loss of the Chemung by the framing scheme to take into account, as Freight should be passed by the British assistant at Newchwang in May, 1950.
There has been continuous heavy enemy. shelling to the north of Ypres, but our casualties have been small.
We exploded a mine to the south-east of Soucher, and, consolidated tho crater, where we repulsed three bomb attacks,
FRENCH FRONT.
ENEMY NIGHT ATTACK BE- PULSED.
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far as possible, the various other pur poses which the present scheine bas up to the present served, and to consult the India Office, the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office regarding their require. nents as far as they differ from those of the Hoine Civil Service.
OBITUARY.
and advertising for applica the stewner on the berth in
tions for space for a voyage of the vessel same from the public generally they were to San Francisco and in accepting the acting as common carriers and were bound to accept the plaintiff's offer. The defendants through their agents, on May One of the oldest surviving members of 3rd and on May 5th, refused the plain the British Consular Service in China tiff's application upon the ground that has passed away in the person of Mr... Arthur Davenport says the L. and L. they had not the space available on the had called the attention of the agents to Devon, on October 20th, at the ripe ago ship, but on May stb, after the plaintiff Express. Ile died at Teignmouth, the fact that space had been allotted on of 50 years. Mr. Davenport was ap Applications made subsequent to his, the punted Student Interpreter at Hong agent of the defendants offered the plain-kong
June, 1857, went on to She gai tiff space on the vessel provided, such in April, 1868, and became end Consul at Shanghai and provided that He accompanied the expedition to North the plaintiff did not offer more freight China in 1680, where he was first at than the space at the disposal of the tached to the Reserve Force at Taku- agents. The plaintiff declined to agres shan, and afterwards acted as interpreter to a conditional acceptance of his offer to Admiral Sir James Hope, the Naval by the defendants agents as far as it Commander-in-Chief. For these services related to the submission of the cargo to he received the China Medal. In the the approval of the British Consul, and winter of 1800-61 he acted as interpreter demanded that the agents should accept to Lord John Hay, Senior Naval Officer the freight without that condition. The of the Northern Squadron, and was defendants through their agents refused afterwards sent by Admiral Hope to to comply with this demand.
Nawchwang to open that port, prior to the arrival of Consul Meadows Ho then became first assistant at Newchwang in April, 1861, second interpreter s Shanghai January, 1865, and interpreter and Acting Consul at Chinking Feb- ruary 1865. He received the thanks of: the President of the United States for that the defendants agents, assistance rendered to his representative Mesara, Jardine, Matheson and Co., are at Newchwang, whither he bad returned. British subjects and, as such, are pro during the disturbances at the port in hibited and prevented by British Orders 1866. During his leave home he was in-Council, rules, regulations and decrees admitted a Merober of Gray's on in of the British Government from dealing November, 1880, and was called co the in any way, directly or indirectly with Bar in 1868. He was appointed inter- German subjects, their agents, or German preter at Hankow in July, 1808, and enemy goods; that the plaintiff at the Acting Vice-Consul at Shanghai, July, times mentioned in the petition was 1870, being Acting Consul from October, and that the cargo offered for shipment was Acting Chinese Secretary at the acting as an agent for German subjects 1871, to February, 1872, after which he was owned by German enemy subjects of British Legation in Peking from May, Great Britain; that the defendants 1572 to April, 1873. The same year he agents were prohibited sad prevented by was appointed Vice Consol at Canton, the authorities of the British Government but did not proceed, taking up instead from accepting and shipping the cargo the Vice-Consulship at Shanghai in Bep offered by the plaintiff and the defendanta tember. He was Assessor from January denied that either they or their agents to October, 1875, when he proceeded with had committed any tort or breach of legal the mission sent to Yunnan to inquire duty or obligation to the plaintift into the death of Mr. Augustus Raymond Theme facts were admitted on both sides,, Margary. He was promoted. Consul at French authorities that they brought
and in the course of evidence the plaintiff Cheloo in November, 1877, but instead admitted that he was on the black list filled the post of Acting Consul ab LONDON, November 28th.
down an aeroplane at 2.15 pm. on the
because he had accepted cargo from all Shanghai from Jamury, 1877, to March, nazionalities at 1850 He was then appointed Coneal at Berbian official report states:Weath. Two, naval lieutenants, who were The British Admiralty announces that
The case was adjourned for legal Tientsia and Peking, which, bost he held kave advanced hundreds of metres in in possession of a large scale map of the armed trawler Farval is missing. bon paid. There is a good demand and argument as to whether under the till his retirement on a pension in Octo- restrictions, the agents were relieved of bor. 1885. Since then he mainly lived This is presumably the vessel mentioned. I the market is firm.
fiability in writing.
in England.
·BRITISH RAID ENEMY TRENCHES.
MORE PRISONERS.
LONDON, November 28th. A British message from Salonika states:-We bombarded successfully and raided enemy trenches north-east of Macakovo. Many of the enemy were killed and & number taken prisoner,
WIDESPREAD ACTIONS.
LONDON, November 8th.
A París communiqué states:-A night,| attack on a small post to the east of Maison de Champagne was easily re- pulsed. There was a calm elsewhere. Aerial Activities. «
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LONDON,
MINED OR TORPEDOED?
“BRITANNIC" AND "BRAEMAR. CABILE."
LONDON, November 25th Admiralty reporte so far received do not prove whether the Britannic and, the Braemar Castle were mined or torpedoed. The Vice Admiral of the Eastern Mediterranean reports that the be- haviour of the Britannia'a erew exemplary. Captain Burlett was the last to leave the ship, and was ninety minutes in the water before being picked
up.
GERMAN NAVAL CLAIM,
-Loxnos, November 28th.
LONDON, November 20th. The death is announced of Colonel Ernest Feten,
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WARMATERIAL CONVEYANCE
RESTRICTED PASSENGER ·
TRAFFIC POSSIBLE.
LONDON, November 28th.. The Board of Trade emphasises that the heavy and urgent demands for the conveyance of vast quantities of war material on the railways renders delay The
in other traffic inevitable It urges that FIND ON ENEMY AEROPLANET Press Bureau issues a Berlin official message claiming that German
nono should travel unless really neces LONDON, November 19th, naval forces carried out a raid in:pròx- The Admiralty announces that the Comimity to the British coast, sankasry, and hints that, otherwise, the SERBIANS ADVANCE HUNDREDS odore at Dunkirk is informed by the British watching vessel near Lowestoft Goverment may be compelled to restrict
railway travel. ceptured the crew, searched neutrál
THE RUBBER MARKET. steamers, and returned without coming into contact with the enemy,
LONDON, November 28th. In the Rubber Market ash to 35) have
OF METRES."
the course of widespread actions:
London, were aboard.
In their answer the defendants admitted that they were acting as common carriers but denied that they were bound to accept the plaintiff's offer for reasons which were as followAt the times mentioned in the petition a state of war existed between Great Britain and Ger- many,