The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
FINE.
Barometer 30.05
Temperature 6 s.m. 75,
2 p.m. 84.
Septembar 25, 1914, Humidity
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LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
NEW ZEALAND TO KEEP HER FORCE AT FULL STRENGTH.
RUSSIANS NOW CLOSE TO HUNGARIAN FRONTIER.
Fine Work by British Naval Aeroplanes,
THE BIG BATTLE BEING STUBBORNLY FOUGHT,
(Reuter's Service To "The Telegraph."]
New Zealand's Resolution.
Sept. 24, 12.10 p.m. The Government of New Zealand has decided to keep the expeditionary force continuously at fall strength by sending monthly drafts of reserves after the main force has sailed;
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
The Cruiser Disaster.
Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m.
The official atatement concerning the loss of the cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogas in eagerly awaited, especially as the narratives of the survivors are most conflicting. Some say that only minutes elapsed and others hours between the sinking of the different vessels. The number of submarines in variously estimated at from three to twenty.
About 1,000 Saved.
It appears, however, that about a thousand of the oreme have been saved, but sailing vessels which are becalmed have some others.
Officers Saved and Lost.
Sopt. 24, 11.45 8.m.
The official list of saved includes:"
Captain John E. Drummond
Commander William F. Sella..
Commander Bertram W. L. Nicholson
Aboukir Aboukir ....... Cressy Hogue .....Hogue
Captain Wilmot S. Nicholson...
Commander Reginald A. Norton
The Admiralty list of officers shows that the Cressy had eigh-
1914.
September 25, 1913
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Temperature 6 s... 78 p. m. 82.
Humidity
86
79.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
THE WAR AND AFTER.
The Emden Opens Fire on Madras.
Sept. 24, 11.5 a.m.
A telegram from Madras etates that the German cruiser Emden at ten o'clock last evening fired nine shote into the city and hit the Telegraph Office, the Seamen's Clubhouse and some tracks, while in the harbour two oil tanka were set ablaze.
Enemy Disappears.
On our guns replying the Emden disappeared with lights out, Two Indian boys were killed. The public were perfectly calm. Their attitude was admirable.
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Moratorium About to End.
Sept. 24, 0.55 p.m.
The Government, after consultation with the various intereste, has decided that the time has arrived for ending the moratorium as soon as possible. There will therefore be 'no further extensions of moratorium to bills of exchange, retail debts or rant.
As regards other debts there will be an extension of one month.
Belgians Rout 2,500 Germans.
Sopt, 24, 4.30 a.m. A small force of Belgians, who were sided by an armoured train, routed a force of 2,500 Germona with heavy loss.
Allles' Left Continues to Advance.
Sept. 23, 6.5 p.m.
A Paris communique issued in the afternoon says: Our left wing has advanced in the Lassigay region, where severe fighting occurred. There is no important change in the centre between heime and the Meuse. The enemy attacked violently in the Woevre district, north-east of Verdun and in the direction of Mouilly and Dompierre, but the attacks were repulsed.
The Enemy & Line...
'What we are Fighting for.
H W. Massingham, writing in the Daily News of August 10, contributes the following:
I think those of us to whom the idea of a European war, and of our country taking part in it, has brought a measure of per-
sonal distress which exceeds even
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TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
The Russiana are making an extremely rapid advance in Ga licia.
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The special correspondent of British aeroplanes have made our private griefe, must eay with the Daily News (Me. Hugh successful raide into German frankness what is in their minds, Martin), writing from Rotterdam territory, dropping bombs. I confess that Sir Edward Grey's on Sunday, August 9, says :- speech left me unconvinced and Holland has become the asylum of hostile on the subject of our in-Europe. Expelled nationals are dividual intervention, and that pouring in by every route. They my ultimate reserves as to policy are cared for here by the keep its Expeditionary Force remain. But I must say, too, and Salvation Army, and other continuously at full strength," publicly, that the reading of the institutiona White Paper produced a tremend
This country is making an
Now Zealand has decided to
one revulsion. Things being anexampled Red Cross effort to
The Russians have captured an what they were, engagements cope with the war that is armoured train with quickfirers standing as they stood, the sweeping along her southern south of Frzemysl. character of the ruling power in frontier. Hospitale, with on Germany being revealed for what aggregate of 1,000 bade, have it was, nations being subject to been established at Maastricht their engagements and lines of and Eysden, in the province of situation along the Aisne was At 11 p.m. on the 23rd. the action which do actually influence Limburg, and great feet of and control them, I could not store, lent by citizens, are ready reported to have been unchanged. resist the evidence that we were day and night to proceed to any being forced into war. What point. The Datch Boy Scouts could we say or do? Germany's are doing magnificent organised final motives are not discoverable work. in this hour of haste and ob
The battle of the Aisne is officially reported to be largely The roof of Liege Cathedral in the nature of fortress war- has been utterly destroyed by fare. German shells.
Ghastly stories reach me from
Tae Pope is stated to have
scurity. Apparently, judging from Sir Edward Goschen's im pression, her governing men had completely lost their heads. They the Dutch Belgian frontier. The A German airship appeared at were ruled by a mixture of fear country from Vise to Liege is a the outer forts at Antwerp on and pride such as exhibits the wilderness. The villages of Tuesday night, but was detected human mind in a state of complete Berneaux and Mouland have been by searchlights and retired. disablement from ressonable ac wiped out by fames and shell tion. But for us at least they fire. offered nothing. They called on A correspondent who motored us knowing well our moral re-over the battlefield saw seven lationship to France, to abandon bodies of civilians floating in one telegraphed to the Kaiser protest her to dismemberment outside diteb, including a grey-haired ing strongly against the damage
to Rheims Cathedral. Europe. They summoned us aleoman and a lad of seventeen. An to witness and consent to the poas-old man with an umbrella was ible dismemberment of Holland lying dead. Many waggons had and Belgium. Could we sign passed over his body. The Government has decided such a compact? I cannot answer The disembowelled bodies of that the time has arrived for German soldiers lay by the ending the Moratorium as soon The die has been cast. Who fleeing countryfolk. A priest lay as possible. cast it? Apparently one of the dead. with a rifle in his hand. least intelligent and moral groups The Mayor of one village was The battle of the Aisne is largely in the nature of fortress warfare To give over Europe to the tem to barg the dead and place the A Paris communique issued at eleven o'clock last evening says: in the world. With what result? piteously appealing for permission and similar to the operations in Manchuria intensified by the exporary control of such influences, red cross on his house. necessarily be slow, sometimes only half to one kilainetre dails:
South of Woovre the enemy holds the line from Richecourt to Lironville but has made no progress. The Garmons in the Lorraine and Vosges region have evacuated Nomeny and Arrscourt
"Fortress Warfare."
The situation is unchanged.
Sept. 24, 4.50 a.m.
The German oruiser Emden has appeared off Madras and
NEWS.
Farther notes on the crisis
ceptional power of the artillary employed. Hence progress must A grievous, a terrible, conclusion. German papers brought to-day fired shots into the city, making
Religion, science, art, literature, over she frontier make the highly off in the dork. all voiceless and powerless. Ruth significant announcement that the les, senseless force tearing up Landetarm has been called up at treaties, dieregarding neighbour Cologne. .. The Kolnische linens, and every decency and Zeitting says a Zeppelin return- every nobility of life in sopreme ed to Cologne on Thursday after appear on page 4. control. What did the Kaiser, a noon from Lige, where, from a "Our Contemporaries" appears man not insensible to such in height of 1,000 feet, she dropped on page 2, and Log Book on page flaences, mean by abandoning twelve bombs, which set fire to them? All that one can say is many buildings. The paper General news and an article on that his cult of physical power slso says the Hussians have been Earl Kitchener's plans regarding bas led him that path, and repulsed with heavy loss near the Territorials appear on page that to his Inga of equilibrium Suldau.
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Pope and Kaiser-an Unconfirmed Report.
Sept. 24, 4.30 a..
Rome newspapers report that His Holiness the Pope has se graphed to the Kaiser deploring the damage done by the German troops to the Cathedral of Rheims and saying: When you destroy the temples of God, you provoke Divine ire before which even the most potent of armies lose all power.
The Vatican refuses to confirm or deny the above..
Zeppelin Detected over Antwerp.
Sopt. 24, 4.30 a.m.
A message from Antwerp states that a Zeppelia airship appear teen dead including Captain Johnson and thirteen saved, the fed over the outer forts on Tuesday night but was detected by the Aboukir seventeea deal and fifteen aavad, the Hogae eight dead searchlights and retired. and twenty-three saved.
we must attribute, in the first and the second place, the ostami ties of the hour. We reed not]
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY. Bijou Theatre 9 p.m Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW."
take men or spiteful viewe.cally cemented Empires (and. Germany was frightened, and though Germany at heart is more fear in a bad and a mid guide than that) may well go down She had on her the always incal- before it. This is Russia's warn culable fear that the unknowning, as well as Germany's. If she and hardly mesenrable power of does not heed it, and if we fail of Russia impossa on every nation prudence in the settlement of in turn. But she was clearly in the European question, this in Bijon Theatre 9 p.m
Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. the beads of men of a low intel valuable moral lesson may be lost. leafast and moral type, to whom, Beuven grant that it may not be Douglas Steamship Co-Ordin- in the circumstances of the sol
Bry general meeting-noon.ge hour, had been given complete One other point. Sept. 24, 4.30 a,m,
Our own Band Night, Peak Club-9.15 The German Consul at Amsterdam says that the submarine A massage from Antwerp states that fee British aeroplanes power of disposing of the nation's country is doing well, and show-p.. U has returned safely to a Garmin port. A later message from raided the Zepplin shed at Cologne and three bombs from a sight Here is, I think, the crucial capacity for endurance, and self Salea Rooms 230 pm.
Sale of Curios-G. P. Lammert's ing a far greater seri usness, deeling Amsterdam says that the U 9 alone sank the cruisers. It is not of 1,500 ft. When they perceived that the shed was aflame they fact of the hour. Let me turn actifice than many of us expected. Monday, September 28, known whether she is safe. The names of the crew of twenty will returned to their starting point. One of the seroplines descended to one or two so hopeful in early times yet, and trials Sale of Crown Land, P.WD--- be published.
in Belgium and an armed motor car went to the rescue. An
mo. But the stiff of the 18 p.m. ER DER Amsterdam telegram reports that on aeroplans dropped bomba on the Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf. The Duel lorfe Zeitung will be beaten. For that issue win probably without great 50, The Peak G. P. Linment----- It is all but clear that Garmanya811on seeme excellent. We shall Sale of tiousehold furniture, No. gaya that a few windows in the shed were broken.
The U'g.
Russians Capture Train,
Sept. 24, 4.30 .. Prior to the storming of Jaroslav the Russiane captured an armoured train with quickürere south of Przemysl. They also osrried a strongly fortified line equipped with heavy artillery and searchlights on the San.
Russians Rapidly Advancing
British Aeroplanes Raid Zeppelin Shed.
Sapt. 23, 1.55 p.m.
Llout. Collets Exploit.
Sept. 23, 6.55 p.m.
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we mast, I think, say Dro Cratias losses. German success cannot 2.45 p.m. Best of all is the circumstance come, for all the circumelanoce Wednesday, September 28, that the real defeat of Goliath and side to success are wanting. HK St. Andrew's Society, will come from the hands of the Then indeed we must not with Annual General Meeting-5.30 David of whose prosess no one the almost pladence and firmness, p.m.
but a few admireraci the genius If we do well, a new Europe Thursday, October 1. The Prens Baroon states that the Admiralty announces that of General Drialment (ameng pcasibly even a disarmed or a Opening of Ilongkong Turkish British; neval aeroplanya, have attacked the Zappelin bed at bem Sir Charles. Dilke) took very lightly arzand Europe may accrue Bath and Toilet Jompany'a Dusseldorf
gent account, Thus the weak from a compact among those Turkish batherman The conditions were difficult owing to mist bnt Flag-Licateuant things of the world have been Powers whose capacity for civil- Saturday, October 3 Sept. 24, 8.45 pm.
Collet dropped three bombs on the shed from a distance of four huu chesin to confound the great. A ration is sufficiently developed. Hongkong: Hotel Co. Ltd., ex- The rapidity of the Russian advance into Galicia is thawn by dred feet. The Admiralty adds that the extent of the damage is small nationality has arisen to
For that
t end lot as cfl work,|traordinary: General - Meetin the official announcement that the Russian troops have reached unknown Lieut. Collet's neroplane was struck by a projectile prove to the world as a moment while we girive to pure, the moon. Wielok, close to the Hungarian frontier. The operations at Przemysl but all returned safely. are successfully developing. The Russiana are in touch with the
when material loulutions pear success of our arma and speedy The incident shows that if further bomba ars dropped upon to rule it, that spiritual force and not exasperating and to the German front bat there is no fighting.
Antwerp or elsewhere reprisa'd can be adopted to almost any extent, counts, and that great,
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