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GENERAL NEWS.
Espionage Scare In Yokohama.
A 18 urt is Ourical that 8.S. Manchuria which" arrived at Yokohama the other day, had on board seven Germans suspected of espionage. The
Water-Police kob.ma
Station despached men in boat
to watch proceedings prior to the
louding of the passengers.
专题
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,
NOTICE
NEW SHIPMENT
VICTOR
detective, named Kubo, proceed- RECEIVED BY THE
ed on board the steamor with an
interpreter and, examined two or"
three foreigners, but to no par
pose. The suspected foreigners are being watched by policemen in plain of thos.
Military Secret Case,
A magazine entor, Mr. Field, an aviator named Fowler, and two other persons were arrested ar San Francisco and charged under the National Defence Act, with having dinolosed military secrets, Fowler How in an aeroplane over he Puma Capul forts. He saheequently wrote no article pointing out the inadequacy of the defences against att ok frem the air, and Field publisher the aricle in bin magazine. Thr Department of War ordered the arraste to be made. This is the firet prosecution of the kind over heard. The prints awaiting
whether decision are
peranna flying over a reservation can be held to have entered it; also whether the order of Colog-l Goetbal, Director of the Caunl Ze, prohibiting the photograph- ing of the forts, i- legal,
Bandits in Shantung.
The ales in Shantung are trying to take advantage of the oatbreak of hostilities in Tsingtau to start a rebellion. The Ministry
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Pekin, Aug. 20..
BRITISH NAVAL STRATEGY.
Opinion of à Naval Expert,
London, Aug. 29. Commenting on the naval}
Heligoland, a British naval expert remarks as follows.
The first line of Japanes0 pickets has reached the valleygagement twelves miles from Tsingtau. All bridges and buildinge in the v cinity have been destruped.
The first line of defence is at a
"The phrase 'a German cruiser has disappeared in the fog' occurring in the report isanéd by place eight miles from Tsingtau, the British Admiralty, explains
but it is not very strong.
The
of Communications has received a telegram from the Shaho Tele- graph Station to the effect that ibe bandits in that locality, are main line of defence is at a spot which British naval manwuvres the supposed circumstances in very rampant and have raided
three miles from Tsingtau, but in many commercial establishments
-xtende only a quarter of a mile, are carried out in ordinary times. The Government has ordered by This place is dominated hy the There can be little doubt that the telegraph the military force
guns of the Moltke, Bismarck and Commander-in-Chief of the British stationed near at hand to sup-lfie forta, Several big guns have Squadron, in order to elude the pr as the brigands at once.
been placed on the hills. The vigilance of the Ga man forts and A mishap of an extraordinary approach is defended with harbed the guard-ships, took advantage nature occurred on July 9 on the wire entanglements, which can be of the thick fog occurring at Trans-Alpine railway. through charged with electricity, and is dawn for the movement of his the overflow of a subterrageón
The locality between Weicheng lake, blocking the Simplon tunnel. Trains were derailed by and Tsingtau ie fall of Germans the ruab of water, and a hundred in uniform and it looks as if the under German yards of permanent way was place
Several exprema occupation.-Japan Chronicle, awept away.
Stranie Railway Mishap.
trains were held up, and the wealthier travellere abandoned them, and crossed the pass in
-motor care,
fally mined.
were
Effects of Heavy Rains,
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"Germany has spent millions of pounds on Heligoland to make sion to her by Britain in 1890 it a strong defence since its cea- The Kaiser proudly said that Heligoland would made a grea! and strong bulwark against suy enemy that attempts an attack or Meihsien, Sept. 7.
the German Navy, naval bases Germans report that a Japanese and shore defences. It is com advance guard, numbering three
puted that Germany has expended Promissory Note Dispute
thousand, advanced from Lung £10,000,000 on the forts and bar- at Kobe. On the 24th sustant the Kobe kow, but only succeeded in bour works of Heligoland. The Branch of the Yokohama Specie covering ten miles in two days, Bank instituted an action in the owing to the appalling condition guns on the forts are known to be Kobe Chibo Saibanebo against of the roads. They then reached of a superior quality, command Mr. W. J. Sobroth, of Kabe, a swollen river which their inga Jurge section of the waters claiming Yeo 16,000, with inter artillery could not crose. and they by which the German North Sea
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"In the face of this strong est thereon at 6 per cent. from are returning for the present to June 20th, 1911, until the ex- Lungkow. contion of judgment, costs to be "As a result of the heavy rains, defence, and risking the danger of floating mines, Admiral Beatty borne by defendant and provi- some of the Teingian forts and engaged the onomy with costly sional execution of judgment many bomb-proof shelters are vessels like the Queen Mary, allowed on deposit of security.inded, causing
Lion, Princess Royal, and New Zoland, The plaintiffs state in their inconvenience to the garrison.
The participation of The Governor is now granting Admiral Moore in the engage A party of patriotic Sydney
this class of Goods. Our Fruit & petition that they have in their drawn by defendant on Juna forta one day free in town in ment proves the fact that some ladies, presided over by Miss us all begin at once. Already Gingers are all fresh and of the first pick possession 8 promissory note every man after two days in the
the Mediterranoan Strickland, has begun to organise a considerable sum has been our Syrup is prepared from the beat order to preserve the health of ships of
8qg dron, or at least the lavin- for the purpose of raising money raised--(Signed) Joyce Allen quality of Sugar. We give our special cible, was among the British in the form of small donations, "Mericola," Eigesliff-road, Wool-attention to our business and sanitary ahips that took part in the on-the sum total of which will be lahra; Veronica M. Mort, 4 no
gement. If the whole of the added to the Lord Mayor's fund. Albert-street, Woollahra; Mollie Most of the reservists and Second Squadron of battle-cruisers The appeal, which in this instance Owen, "Dilbhar." Wellington-
participated in the Heligoland is made to the girls of New South street, Woollahra. are living Tien Tang and Unu Chen, two private residences. Shops and battle that explains the circam- Wales, reads as follows:-"To notorious anarchists,
have restaurants have reopened, while stances that made possible the the Girls of New South Wales.
recent escape of the German ship At this time everybody
desire
help, published a weekly magazine a music and cinematograph per Goeben. In that case the Brit- the Tokyo in the Chinese language formances are given nightly. ish force at Malta was not strong the question is: How can girls enough either to destroy or help? We can't fight, only a few the government. The go- The Germans have given strict capture the Goeben. In the of us may be needed to nurse, and vernment, fearing that
orders to Uhinese peasants not to, absence of battle-cinisers among those few must be qualified; but well-to-do people might be led
cross the fields along the front, the British Mediterranean Squad one thing we can ali do, and that bassyrdered
21st, 1910, in their favour for Yen 15,000, which was dis honoured on June 20 h, 1911. The first hearing of the case is sei down for October 2nd.")
Chinese Anti-Government Magazine.
full of violent criticism
оп
the
has ordered the total prohibition
of its Fale in Chino-Kuo Min Hsin Pao.
Libel Action Against Col. Roosevelt.
William Barnes has instructed
his attorneys to institute sait for
consi-ferable
the troops
The spirits of the people in
Tsingtau are reviving, as
occurred
bombardment
landsturm
bas
Mined Fields.
connaissance by Seaplane.
in
Tokyo, Sept. 8. The Japanese made a eaccess-
I.
the
Raising Money by Self-denial.
to
thoro is no time to be lost; so let
feels and
Rescue of Japanese by the
Inverclyde.
The British steamer Inverclyde
libel against Col. Theodore Roose reconnaissance over Tinglan cruisers, which recently sank a tralians are not going to be ba. Japanese motor fishing-boat in
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work of their men who have gone Inverclyde, encountering the fall "The squadron of light to the front, and surely we Aus- force of the typhoon, sighted s German aubmarine, also disbindhand. There will be urgent dietress. The boat was water- Detention of Prince Kung, inguished itself in the Heligo-Deed for money all over the lagged. Only three youths re- Prince Kang of China, who has land engagement as is shown by Empire, not only now for our mained aboard, the remainder of been taking refuge at Tsingtau, the destruction of the German soldiers, but later on to relieve a crew of forty having been since the outbreak of hostilities cruiser Mainz. The Laertes, the terrible destitution which drowned. The sans were running between Japan and Germany which doffered damage in this must inevitably follow a war. so high that it was impossible to wanted to gol to Dairon. The battle, is the destroyer that re- Will every girl, therefore, try and lower a boat, but Captain In his address in which he German authorities, however, not cently attacked and destroyed the give something, no matter how Mansfield decided to run his vessel called upen Bull, Monsors. tr join with the "regulars" in the fight wishing that the Prince should German mino-Inger Koenigia omall, if possible every week as close alongside the derelict as against Barnes, Murphy and Tam- come in contact with the Japanese, Luise,
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to have been made by Col. Roose with a seaplane on Sunday:
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while the war laste, and send the possible, and by the use of lines Po sme to the secretarios, whose managed to get the three youths many Roosevelt is accused of.
The Prince, then expressed his
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