The Hongkong Telegraph
September 18, 1914,
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LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS
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LATEST WAR TLEGRAMS,
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FINE.
GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN LATEST
FIGHTING.
STILL FORCED TO ASSUME THỂ defensive.
India to Bear Cost of Expeditionary Force.
Sept 16, 8.35 p.m.
A motion accepting the Government of India offer to bear the cost of the Indian Expeditionary Force has been adopted with the greatest enthusiasm in both Houses of Parliament.
Mr. Asquith expressed the Government's sincera and heartfelt acknowledgment of the spontaneous offer,
Mr. Boner Law concuired and eulogised the "generone aid given by the Dominions.
Terrible South African Tragedy: General Delarey Politics are a
Accidentally Shot.
JAPANESE SBIZE TSINGTAU RAILWAY STATION.
[Reator's Service To "The Telegraph."]
South African General Shot by Mistake.
Sept. 16, 1.5. p.m. General Delarey, who intended accompanying the South African Expeditionary Force, has been scoidentally shot dead near Jolian. nesburg.
"Our Country First."
Sept. 16, 9.30 p.m.
we are
Mr. F. E. Smith, K. C., M. P., ia an interview, emphasised that although the Unionists might justly resent putting Home Rule on the Statute Book, their firm and single determination was to sup- port the Government to defeat the common enemy. The Govern ment represented a united Empire. When the sword was sheathed waa time enough to resume Home affairs. Mr. Smith added:-Party
small very
consideration. Until domestic questions Bre to be laid aside. The Unionist Party will lead every assistance to the Government, which is determined to see the country through the present crisis and is "resolved to carry the great struggle to a successful and triumphant conclusion. The motto of Mr. Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson alike in "Our country first," and that has always been our motto,
victorious
Mr. Smith concluded by saying:-I am addressing a meeting with Mr. Churchill at Liverpool on Monday, and am prepared to stand eide by side, till the "war is over, with any Englishman, Scotchman, Irishman or Welshman who meane to see the war through. I know this is the view of the whole Unionist Party, he added.
The Suspensory Bill.
Sept. 16, 716 p.m. The House of Lorde has passed the Government Suspensory Bill through all its stages.
Treasury Bill Tenders: a Magnificent Response.
The Slaking of the tela.
Temperature 6 am. 79 pm. 86
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Sept. 16, 9.50 p.m. safely returned after sinking the German cruiser Hela, six miles The Official Press Butean announces that Babmarine E 9 has south of Heligoland.
FRENCH TELEGRAMS.
The following are French official telegrame received Peking
Poking, Sept. 16, 1.30 p.m.
via
The French offensive movement continues on the whole front, on the 13th. inst. the French cavalry occupied Monididier and Rouye. The German forces fell back on Peronno and St. Quentin. The French re-oorupied Rheims.
In the Argonne forest the Germans were compelled to give up their attack at Fort Troyon, on the Meuse, and fell back on the line from Triaucourt to Tasoncourt, German troops, who had retreated towards Chateau-Saline, Dieuze, On the 14th, st night, French Lorraine was entirely free of
and Surrebourg.
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La Galicia, the Russians have had great successes. Between the 8th and 10th they made 30,000 Austrians prisoners and cap tared 100 guns.
4.40 p.m.
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TELEGRAMS,
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
-The British fordo-line taken 200 more German prisoners.)
President Wilson has cordially received a Belgian Commission to Mr. Redmond has insued protest against German cutragen.
stirring manifesto calling for the formation of an Irish Brigade.
-The House of Lords has passed the Government Suspensory Bill through all its stages.
Tenders for $15,000,000 Trea sury Bills have been thrice over- an beoribed.
The Germans have assumed the defensive along the whole line.
captured
Japanese Scout Kiauchan railway station Sunday.
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Mr. F. E. Smith, in an inter
view, said "Our country feat was the motto of Mr. Binar Law and Sir Edward Carson like
The offer of the Indian Government to bear the cost of the Indian Expeditionary Foros bas been sccepted.
It is announced from Paris that the big battle continuse and that at 6 p.m. on the 16th, the French had not given way at any point
President Wilson has promised On the 14th, on the French Left Wing, the Germans were consideration to the Kaiser's and resisting on a line passing through Craonne. In the Centre, their President Poincare's protest re- line of resistance passed north of Rheims and the camp at Chalons, garding the use of dam-dam as far as Vienne-la-Ville: West of Argonne their retreat was more
bullete the Meuse. They were still holding the frons from Varennes to marked. They were moving between the Argonne forest and
Consenvoye
Before our Right Wing, the Germans are retreating towards Etain and Metz.
Havas telegrams received last night reproduce the above telegrams with the following addition :--
The result of the call for tenders for £15,000,000 of Tressary Billa at the average rate per annum of 2 5/16 per cent, for six months and 3 7/10 per cent, for twelve months, is that the amounting has been three times over-subscribed.
Germany Made Peace Impossible.
Sept. 16, 8.30 p.
General Delarey, accompanied by General Bayers, was motoring last evening to the former's farm. The polios were watching for u gang of desperadoes in a similar car. They challenged General
A. White Paper has been issued containing the despatches of Delarey's car, but it disregarded the challenge. The police there-H. E. The itt. Hon. Sir M. W. E. de Bunsen, His Majesty's Am- upon fired after the car, and a bullet entered General Delarey's heart.bassador at Vienna, in reference to the rupture of diplomatio An enormous sensation has been created. Only last week, in relations. These show that eren up to August let the conversations the South African Senate, General Dalsrey, in a gallant, patriotio between St. Petersburg and Vienna were proceeding in the friend- speech, said his services were over at the disposal of the Government eat manner. Austria had even assented to mediation on points in her for the defence of the country. If his land were attacked, he would ultimatam incompatible with Servia's independence. It was at this defend it with all his might.
[General the Hon. Jacobus Hendrik Delarey, M.L.A., was born point that Germany intervened with her aliimatams to St. Peters burg and Paris, cutting abort the prospects of peace. A few days' in 1818. He was a member of the first Volksraad of the Transvaal, delay would probably have saved Europe from the greatest calamity and commanded the Lichtenburg burghers during the Boer War in history.. He went to England with Generale de Wet and Botha on the termination of the War. The deceased General was first President of the Western Transvaal Farmers' Association.
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Brigadier General the Hon. C. F. Bayere is Commandant of the Citizen Forcea, Union of South Afrios, and Speaker of the Legisla live Assembly, Transvaal. He served as a private in the Boer War) and rots to be Assistant Commandant General, North District, Transvaal, General Beyers captured the British camp, Nooitgedacht
Klaucliau Railway Station Captured.
Sept. 16, 2.20 p.ti.
It is officially, announced at Tokyo that the Scouts oaptured Kiaachad railway station on Sunday.
An Irish Brigade.
Sept. 17, 115 p.m.
Mr. John Redmond, leader of the Irish party in the House of Commons, has issued a Manifesto to the Irish People in which he calls for the formation of an Irish Brigade to worthily represent Ireland in the historic struggle, like other parts of the Empire.
President Wilson and German Outrages,
Sept. 17, 3.20 a.m.
On the Vosges and in Alsace there is no change.. The Belgian Army continues to move around Antwerp, inflict serious, losses on the enemy.
On the 14th the French and British troops succeeded, after a day's strenuous fighting, in crossing the River Aisne. We made many prisoners. The Crown Prince's Army was repulsed and was obliged to transfer. its headquarters from Saint Menehould to: Mont Fancon..
THE NON-COMBATANT.
What he can do.
power by keeping as many of his men employed as possible, if only on short time. Any loss thus iscarred by him will be a direct contribution to the most vital of all war fande.
5. If he is a workman he can do his best to help any employer who thus helps him and us all.
6. He can help by keeping, in
ference to the Anglo-Austrian
A White Paper deaned in re, rupture shows that Germany intervened, cutting short the pros- pects of peace.
General Delarey, who was to accompany the "Bouth African through a mistake, thot dead by Expeditionary Force, was,
the police near Johannesburg.
NEWS.
Further notes on the crisis appear on page.4.
General news sad some partion- lars of captures of prizes of war, appear on pagė 3.
There was only one case at the Criminal Sessions, which opened to-day.
"Our Contemporaries" appeara on page 2, Log Book on page 6, and Commercial News on page 9.
The sixth of a series of articles inmming up the war situation after a month's fighting appears fou page 4.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15.
p.m.
TO-MORROW.
The Manchester Guardian gives the following account of what the non-combatant can do :-
1. He can help to prevent every sense, as calm as possible, financial panic by drawing from by refraining from hysterical and bis bark only as much as he frothy demonstrations, by being absolutely needs for immediate neither too much east down at expenses. Let him draw out less small reverses--which must come than usual, not more. Any run nor wildly exultant at amali on a bank would be a serious successes. blow atruok at England.
7. He can help our soldiers to 2. He can help to keep food make the war an honourable and cheap and all bis countrymen chivalrous combat by declining, properly fed by buying no more na they do, to believe lightly in food at a time than his household imputations of inhumanity and A message from Washington states that President Wilson needs for the next few days dishonqar against our enemies in Gordially received the Belgian Commission to protest against Anyone who laye in exceptionally the field. In every war such
Bijou Thestre 0.15 p.m. German outrages, and expressed on behalf of the American people large stores of food is helping to imputations are current on both
Victoria Theatre 0.1bmo. their friendship and admiration of the Belgians, and respect for raise the price of food, and to sides. Nine-tenths of them are
Sale of Cloths and Sporting their King. President Wilson promised to give the documents make millions of English men, untrue. Their circulation may, Goods-G. P. Lammo:t's Bales thoughtful consideration. He said that he prayed. God that the women, and children go hungry terribly intensify the distress of Booms-11 a‚m. Sept. 16, 5.40 p.m.
war would be over very soon. Then the day of accounting would He is thus helping the German our soldiers' families at home. H.K. and Shanghai Bank, The Official Press Bureau makes the following announce come, when the Nations of Europe would assemble to determine a fleet to do exactly what i wante 8. He can keep himself sober Extraordinary general meeting ment: The general position slong the aisne continues favourable, settlement; where wrongs had been committed their consequences to do what it would do to us if and in good health, remembering of shareholders-City___Hall- The enemy has delivered several counter-attaoks, especially against and relative responsibility would be assessed. What such a it could destroy our nuvy and get that until the war is actually over nonn. the First Corpe. These have been repulsed. The Germana have tribunal could not compase, the opinion of mankind, the final the command of the seas, we cannot know how many who Royal Aorated Watera Maka- given way alightly before our troops and the French armies on our arbiter in each matters, would supply. Meanwhile, it would be 2. He can live more simply and are non combatants now may be, factory Co. Ltd., General Meet- right and left. The enemy's loss has been very heavy. We have taken inconsistent for a neutral nation to express a final judgment. inexpensively than deal. fle come combatante, and would be ing-ngon, 200 prisoners.
President Wilson has replied to the Kaiser's protest regarding will thus be husbanding the more useful to their country if Monday, September 21. the use of dum-dum bullets, promising consideration. He will nation's wealth. Wars have to fit and wall.
Sale of farniture-Badree Villa, reply to President Poincare on the same lines.
to be fought by means of both 9 He can help by remembering Shaukiwan Road G. P. Lam. men and money,- Any waste of that we are all comrades in a mert-3pm 25 money on luxuries or unnecessary tight place, and that it is neither Sale of Est toxing and making comforta" now is like a useless manly nor safe to try to secure machines P. Limmert=11 throwing away of soldiere lives, one's self or one'e property by
The Big Battle In Progress.
Sept. 18, 6.10 p.m.
A communique issued at Paris this afternoon says. The German rearguard was attacked by the Allien and compell-
ed to make a stand. They were reinforced on Monday and Tuesday
by the German main army, and the enemy assumed the defensive along the whole line.
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The German Movements.
Sept. 17, 415 a.m. The Daily News correspondent at Amiens reposition An official statement issued at Paris last night says: The German right was overlapped by the army advancing from Bowen battle continues. We had not given way at any point at six o'clock through Amiens,~~ This naused. General Klook to wheel eastward this evening.
from Compiegne and evacua..Amiens,
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It means so many casualties the means that will make the way
Saturday, September 28.
mors in one of the two forged out harder for other people. If Douglas Steamship Co-Ordin who are fighting for use all act like good comradea weary general meeting noon.
4. If he is an employer he can all shall bo sale and we shall increase the country's resisting have earned our safety:
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