THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1914.
WAR ITEMS.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
Reservists' Places..
London, Aug. 7.
Up to four o'clock 1,621 com- mercial houses had sigued a notice to their employees offering them all possible facilities to sorvo, and 183 firms in the City alone have signed an undertaking to pay to the memebers of their staffs who have been called out for mobil- ietion and active service the" difference between the. Guvern- ment pay and their warehouse Balaries and to find places for them on the expiration of their service.
Sir Jesse Bont, the managing director of Boots, the chemists. bas arranged to pay half'salaries to the married men of his stal called for service, and both for married, and single alike their places will be kopt opon. From the Nottingham warehouses alone of Boole over 120 men have been called out.
The South Metropolitan Gas Co. will keep open the places of its 800 employees who are reser- vista, and will make provision for their wives and children. The Junior Army and Navy Storea will do likewise.
A special meeting of the Mary- lebone Council will be held this evening to consider the question of the continuance of the payment of aalarion and wages to · em- ployees of the Council called out for service."
Hall of Lead.
Brussels, Aug. 7. Graphic accounts contiune to ha received here of the fightiar near Liego.
Meanwhile Fort Chaudfontaine
GERMANS SPRING A SURPRISE.
British Steamers Sunk in Eastern Waters,
[Leator's Service To "The Telegraph."].
Sept, 20, 10.40 p.m.
The Press Bureau states that the Germna oruisor Emdon, from the China Station, suddenly appeared in the Bay of Bongal on September 10 and and captured, six British steamers, two of which were sunk. The sixth was sent to Caloutta with the crows.
"IELEGRAMS.
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my feet. Luckily we managed to get through the window of the train. Eventually, by dint of messages in various languages, EXPEDITION.we were assured that the four of us were sale, und my "wife mun- aged to make a bod of packages in the corridor for the babies.
LEAVES LONDON.
Then the cry went up, "Way leuter's Service To The Telegraph." for the military. Crushed as we
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At the Dutch frontier wo
London. Received Sept. 19. Sir Ernost Shackleton has left London for the South Pole, the Autora section going to Tasmania mercifully found a tank of water for the Hass Son; the other section, on the station. We were lined including Sir Ernest Shackle-up, and an official examined all ton, going to South America for passports. On asking if the boats the. Weddell Sea, is to join were running from Flushing. the Endurance at Buenos Aires. They received cordial farewells.
At half-past loven in the morning the Gorman forces attacked Fort Barchon, to the north-east of Liege, under the cover of their artillery. Tho invaders crept ap to the fort, but at a given signal the Belgians let loose à perfect hail of loud upon the Germans, among whom terrible havoc was wrought by the machine guns The ground around the fort is described as resembling a shuinbles. bombarded, tho nemy. Some of the Germans took refuge in of the high heavy hools being men and Americans were march. chateau, which the Belgian artil-
ed at through a curious but not unsuitable for quick marching. lory reduced in a short time, to a
Frereh doctors state that the hostile crowd by soldiers with mass of smoking, ruins.
French bullets are causing much fixed bayonots in order that their The enemy retired all along the line, and a Belgian ghellore serious wounds than those identities raight be established by the production of passports or of the Germans. which fell right in the middle of
Many stories are circulating of otherwise. At all the stations mil. one column caused heavy lowPS,
Gormant craolties to non-com.try guards with ball cartridge Ono newspaper says that the
batants, but apparently they have and fixed bayonete were placed, Germans, abandoned seventeen little basis in fact, though illegal and at every bridge and tunnel an machine guns. Que squadron of executions of French, subjects arred and uniformed guard was Belgian Lancers, it is reported, have taken place.
to be found. At more important was complotely wiped out, after.]
stratégic pointe, sach killing 150 Ublans in a desperate
Coblenz, men in civilian clothes, enocunter, the captain dying ut
with slung rifles, guarded the the head of his men."
lues at intervals of 100 yards or lees. The windowanf all carriages were kept closed, and soldiers with rilles stood along the corridor of each carriage.
No anti-English feeling at all
we were told it was doubtful. However, there,masa bost. There were so many people, mainly without money, that the usual! formality of class distinction, on Germany not Rendy,
London, Aug. 11.board was dispensed with."
Trains Searched for Spies. Evidence of the unpreparedness of the Gormun attack is ac-
At Frankfurt and at Uologue, cumulating German prisonerse another traveller, through
trains were searched several times in Belgium state that the now boots served out to the troops cut for spies, and several arrests were made. At Cologne several English- their feet to piecos, consequence
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A newspaper states that the Zeppelin airship, which was on its way to Liego, was struck by n abell fired from one of the förts near Battice, and crashed to the ground near the frontier.
French troops have taken seven of the most notable citizens of Montreux-vieux as hostages.
N Zealand Herald. Supposed Sples..
Berlin, Aug. 5. The newspapers publish numer- ous reports concerning arresis of supposed Russian spies.
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Two parties of German cavalry scouts which were on the road leading from Tsingtao to Laichou turned back to Kami on Thure day.
British Ships åt Bankok,
During the month of August, while the Gorman atsamera werd porforce, lying idio, six British stenmora now to the port came to Bangkok. These were the Pen-
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Garrison.
Choloo, Sept. 4. to the Straits Steamship. Co., the The flying force of the Kiao-Hopsang and the Cheng Shiong. chau Garrison resolved into three belonging to Jardins, Matheson detachments, the eastern column and Co., and the Hang Yang and being in the direction of Chin the Shansi, belonging to the chiakou, the northern colaman at China Navigation Co., Ltd. Kaomi, and the western columa There will probably be a large sumber arriving during Sep- on the Lungkou road.
tember, says the local Timca of Japanese Torpedo-Destoyer August 31. The Hung Yang,
Stranded.
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big general cargo and brought According to an official report 2412 deck pussongura. The Penang from Vice-Admiral Kato, in com-arrived yesterday with a large mand of the Second Squadron, transhipment cargo from Sing the torpedo-destroyer Shirotaye, pore, and the Shanai brought
A force of between twenty and Various attempted outrages are appeared to be shown, thoug while engaged in watching the kerosine oil yesterday for the
Ostend Boats Crowded.
rain on a dark night, struck a enemy ai the tooth of the heavy sunken rock.
Her consorte came to her assist- ance in her effort to dislodge herself, but to no avail
Her crew wore obliged to leave her temporarily.
'Mechanical Mines outside
Klaochou Bay, The number of the mechanical mines laid outside Kiaochou Bay is estimated at 1,000.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
1.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
alio chronicled, among them an Iluasiasa were roughly treated. twenty-five thousand Germзna passed through Manbay (Luxem-alleged attempt at the Palace of On the contrary, the railway
Standard Oil Company. the Crown Prince in Potsdam. It officials showed special courtesy burg) yesterday morning between seven and eight o'clock, march is possible to obtain confirm to some of the English refugees. ing in the direction of Aywailleation of these statement.
Among the poreone said to Exciting sconce wore witnessed -Reuter,
have been arrested on suspicion on Dover Pier when the special Admiral von Tirpitz's Son.
of es lounge are two Russians, Ostend boat, Rapide, arrived with London, Aug. 31st.
1,000 passengers, They state Mr. Churchill, Firat Lord of one of whom was attired in the the Admiralty, baa notified uniform of a nurse and the other there is great excitement in Belgium, and the windows of Admiral von Tirgitz, the German 8 an officer of the Gorman nay: German cafes have been broken Navy Minister, through the It would seem that several efforts at Brussels. American Ambassador in Berlin, have been made at important
A second Ostend boat, the that the son of the Admiral was points to damage the railway Marie Henriette, arrived off Dover picked up uuuurt by the British lines.
It is reported from Coblenz with about 1,000 passengers, but warships in the, Lattle off Heligo- lind on August 28th, and has that 18 Alsatians have been aro was signalled to procced to
Folkestone. since been a prisoner of warrested and taken as prisoners to
Chinese 'Spies for Germans. Nichi Nichi.
Tsinan, Sept. 5. Soveral. Chinese students in One of those who took part in the German College at Teinglau the rush from Berlin was Mr. have volunteered their services as Haigh Jackson, the well-known German military spies and are at Covent Garden teror, and an
work. exciting time he had getting out of the German capital with his wife and twin baby girls.
University Volunteers.
London, August 11,
Six hundred members of the Cambridge, University Officers' Corps, including 20"blues," have applied for commissions in the special reserve and the Territoriala.
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Eastern Provinces.
But not Gentlemen.
Straits Times.
The following appears in the
Sir,-As a comment on the treatment which the Germans out here bave received at the handa of the Government and the British residents, may I be allowed to bring to the notice of your readers the treatment the British pas- sengers on the N.D.L. Derfinger received at Port Said?
SATURDAY, the 26th September, 1914, commencing at fl a.m. at his Sales Rootas, Duddell Street, A Quantity of Superior Woollen Suit Lengths
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A Selection of Sundry Sports Goods.
On view from Friday the
25th September.
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Auctioneer.
I. E. E. Crastor, R.E. to sell by
THE Undersigned has received instructions from Major
MONDAY:
German Intrigue.
Mukdon, Sept. 1.
They arrived there on or about! Germans at Mukden have August and wore told they could He told a Daily News ropre disseminating false reports pre-shift for themselves and then started a vigorous campaign for be taken no further and must the boy scouts as a non-military sentative there were wild scenes judicial to the Japanese at popular after the bar-chits, etc., had been Public Auction on body for public service.
at the banke, and no Russian public houses in the city, through collected the crew refused to get A conference of London notes would be accepted under! business med decided to organise circumstances.
any
the medium of Chinese hirelings. their luggage up out of the hold the 28th September 1914 com- English a fifth line of defence, utilising notes were readily accepted. On
Neutrality Office for Three or baggage room; and no the mencing at 2.45 p.m. at his the apare time of Londonere to Sunday the railway stations were learn the rudiments of drill besieged, but Mr. Jackson was rality Office for the three Eastern no help they had to get it up for
(No. 59 The Peak). The headquarters of the Neut-Captain and officers would give residence, 5 Cameron Villag and the use of arms on the relieved to learn that trains would Provinces is to be located at sistance at all was given even to.
A Quantity of Valuable themselves. Absolutely no 08- principle of the Irish volunteers. run as usual that day to Flushing. Mukden and a branch office at ladies by these true sons of that Terms: as usual.
Household Furniture. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary Gatting on to the train, however, Yingkou.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue). of State for the Oolonies, has given was quite an adventuro.
on view from Saturday the Nunoham Park, Oxford, as a con- "My wife and I were separ-
26th September. valescent hospital and connecting atod," he said. "My twin girlies
GEO. P. LAMMERT base hospital for wounded
Auction vor. soldiers, New Zealand Herald.
Retreat of German Cavalry,
Teican, Sept. 4. Special Telegrams from the were with ber. I was carried of Manchuria Daily News.
Fatherland which has laid Louvain in aebos.-Youre, eto.,
Disgnated. Perak, F.M.S., Copt. 7, 1014.
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