TELEGRAMS."
FUNDS FOR CHINA,
TEN MILLION BRITISH LOAN.
[Reuter's Service To" Tha Telegraph.")
London. Received Sept. 25.
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
KONIGSBERG'S PRIZE.
The Sinking of the City of
Winchester.
An authentic account of the capture and ainking of the Elor- man liner City of Winchester by the German cruiser Konigsberg,
EXTRA
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1914,
GAS EXPLOSION.
Alarming Affair in Bonham
Strand.
There was much excitement in the neighbourlint "of Bonham Strand East, yosterday afternoon,
THE YARN MARKET.
Proposal by Chinese Dealers
Falls to the Ground. Mosera. Polishwalla and Kot. wall, in their yarn report dated to-day, stato :--
Since the outbreak of war we
WHAT IS A BRITISH SHIP?
What is a' 'British Ship?" That is a question of great importance just now. The law 9 it stands to-day may be beat stated by a citation from the aferchant Shipping Act na con- solidated in 1804.
"Part 1. (1) a ship shall not
HAELEN BATTLE.
Field Covered with Dend.
for the evacuation by the Chermans of the positions occupied until recently by them around Liego. Either they havo withdrawa temporarily until reinforcements arrive, or the German Goporal Brassela, Aug. 13. Stall has decided to throw the Yesterday's fight will be known army against the French frontier. se the battle of Haelen. The at a point outside Belgium, leav- fighting lasted throughout the ing this country alone. day, and even at 7.30 in the A battle is reported to be in
The Times' Peking correspond-off the coast of Adon, has been about three o'elcok, and no little discontinued the issue of our be deemed to be a British ship evening shells were still falling | progress at Huy, midway betwson ent states that China has signed given to the Straits Times by on danger, when an explosion owing fortnightly yarn circular, as there unless owned wholly by persone on the road loading to Diest, Liege and Námur; where the
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agreement with Messrs. Samuel, of London, for a loan of ten million sterling.
MR. BELLOC'S FORECAST.
Astonishing Accuracy of a 1912
Prophecy,
Mr. Hilaire Belloc, more than two years ago, in the "Londoo Magazine published an article which, in the light of the events of to-day, must be regarded as en astonishingly accurate forecast of the early stages of the war.
The Nature of the Defences.
was an entire suspension of all of the following description (in The centre of the battle was at to a damaged gas main accurred. officer of the lost ship. He says
this Act referred to as persous Faelen, which lies to the north that the vessel left Caloutta for Sa violent was the explosion at business from first hands.
one spot (there was a socios) that During the past week, however, London on July 22 with two
shipa), namely:-
(a) Natural barn British sub Diest, Haelen and Zallick wa
evening all the ground between July 20 she arrived at Colombo, been blown some twelve er four-it is a business of such exceed- teen feet into the air. Happityingly small proportions that it
jects: and after discharging and loading the fire station is hard by, and the bardly deserves to be noticed.
olear of Germans, but was covered considerable general cargo the
with dead and wounded. voyage was resumed the following
mon were quickly at work to What really must be noticed are day. The German ship Zaiten suppress the flames and prevent was in port at the time and re-
any further leninge, than had been done. The Cusworks were moined there for another six
soon acquainted of what had of hours. In
happened and in a short time any further explosions were preventos by their prompt action.
paseengora and the crew. Ota manhole is reported to have some business has transpired, but qualified to be owners of Britisweat of Hasselt. At seven in the
the afterno n
August 4, the City of Winchester was under the island of Socotra and two days Inter enterad the Gulf of Aden. During the oven ing a wireless message gave thom news of the declaration, of war and two hours later the ship was captured by the Konigsberg which steamed up alongside with all lights out.
Mr. Belloc, predicted that the German forces would, with utmost rapidity, form a circuit round the great twenty-mile ring of forts which surround Liege and attempt... "After domanding our name to capture the fortress, and their and nationality," said our inform supreme effort would be to do this ant, Mr. 0.0. Brown, the second
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the prices, which have fallen from the quotations given in our issue of the 11th August, abant five to enven dollars, por hale Cousequently, we deem it right to rovise our list of prices and to issuo our circular for this week's
Some two or three weeks bick,
either-
Germans and Bolgians occupy opposite banks of the Henes.
Artillery and rifle.fire has been proceeding for two dayr.
The people living on the side of the river occupied by the Germans are biding in cavou.
The authorities here are about to call clasa 1014 to the colours three months before the normal lime."
A part of the left wing having shown signs of wavering, re inforcements were naked for: At Diest the firemen requested to be Bent to the firing line, and three blew up two bridges, over the were wounded, Belgian sappets | havo arrived.-Central News.
Domer. A church, a restiarant, and some houses at Hselon were
burnt down. Over 200 Germad dead were chanted in a space of 50 yards. The enemy numbered
Six hundred German prisonbre
Barbarous Brutality.
Brussels, Aug. 12. Farther detaile which are noW
to hand of yesterday's engage ment at Tirlemont abow that the fighting Isated from 11 o'clock in the morning gatil Go'clock in the evening, and yet, despite the heavy fire of the contending forosa, it is believed that the losa ! of life has not been particularly
(b) Porsone naturalised by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament of United King dom or by or in pursuance of an Act or ordinance of the proper legislative authority in a British possession: (c) Parsons made denizens by lettera of denization; and, (d) Badies corporate estab'ish" ed under and subject to the the Chinese dealers not to enter
laws of some part of his into any freeh business, but to
Majesty's dominions and concentrate their efforts to clear-
having their principal place ing their existing contacts and
of business in those dominabont 5,000, while the Belgiane ions,
were composed of lancers, mount thus sustain prices. With that
Provided that any person who ed riflemen, carabineers, and
tillery object in view they approtebed
Au immensa quantity of honty (1) Being a natural born the foreign merchants and asked
at Diest. Many horses were direction, but unfortunately no of allegiance to a foreign state.
captured-Reuter Special... The market, if a market can be or has otherwise become a citizen agreement was reached.
(2) Has been naturalised or paid to exist, closes dull and object of a foreign state; or, gloomy.
Total sales. 1.500 bales. Un-made denizen as aforesaid; shall
or becoming a citizen or subject complete, and that the Germans, in a cluster a few miles east of h but un-delivered in the godown unless, after taking the said oath, and to arrivo, 35,000 bales.
of a foreign state, or on or after having sustained heavy, losses, Tirlemon! itself. Mad Arrivals, The mai! atra,
are in flight. The enemy has bolog naturalised or madedenizen Himalaya and Arcadia and extra and Malay Maru from Rombay, King and is, during the time he
of allegiance to his Majesty the great disorder.
treatment meted out to these the bayonet's point, and the The Gas Company inform us and atra. Apcar and Kuteng is owner of the ship, either
from Calents have brought
non combatants was in many formidable ring of defences in both ships wore out.
of gas
at Bonham Strand Eist, at
is officially stated that only a nions or partner in Europe or in the world. The tinued steaming throughout the
temporary madness. It is oven actually carrying on business single division of Balgian cavalry asserted that wounded Belgian ideal ring-fortress would be a night, and on the afternoon of the the janation with Jervois Street,,285 bales for Shanghai.
Ineal Mill. No sales.
in his Majesty's dominions." and one mixed brigade were soldiers were killed, and that on town capable of ample provision- day following we reached the caged by a brokon main, which
Shanghai. Nothing to report,
The ing and lying within an exact small port of Makalla, on the it is ginted was fractured by a
Japanese Yarn. A heavy do law the Companies Acta have and they are stated to have lost
By a carious anomaly of British ngage with the enemy. circle of heights at an average of | Arabian coast, about 200 miles storm roller. Tho escaping a line "in Japan caused a corres been so framed as to permit any in killed and wounded thred-
|ovary hand the Uhlans robbad German losses were very great, the dead. the pa soma 8,000 yarde distance, sach north-east of Aden.
passed through the sower and,"
with ponding fall in the local pricas foreigner or body of foreignera to height some 4,000 yards from the found the Zeiten and wore after- coming in
light at different points,of this yarn. Sales as follows: contained closed work, and each steamer Ostmark.
We went in
The Wing Cheong-sing silk-mail. piece goul shop caught fire, but no great dainage was done. Even proposal was mooted amongst this morning some joists were found to be burning, but the fire brigade kopt a strict watch, over the premises and the spreading of the fire was soon averia. Several Chinese were engaged repairing the pipes, but no one has been were told to stop. Then the that a traction engine has been cruiser sent a boat over with two working in the neighbourhood lieutenants and about 20. men for some time, and that owing to armed with rifles and bayonets, a sinking of the road and the The officers came up the gangway had been strained or dislocated. weight of the engine the main
tion of one of the great modern wireless installation Wos ring-fortresses as a matter of a destroyed and all practically up to Hollywood Road,
the
but fortunately no damage few hours, or even of a few days, ship's papers taken
away. He proceeded to indicate the They left an officer and four was done by them. At the moment nature of the defences,
men aboard, and we were told to the rond is up in several places
executing repairs.
long before any French or British officer of the ill-fated liner, "wal reporter as injured. It is maid for their co-operation in this British subject has taken the cathie heaped outside the Town Hall heavy on either side. The out-
troops could be got upon the scene. He examined the prospects of a siege of Liege, and pointed ont that since the lesson of Port Arthur it was unreasonable to
standing feature of the narratives of the day's events is the unen- Brassels, Thursday. Despatches from headquarters imity as to the alleged brutalities practised by the Uhlans when at vain state that the Belgian they sucked the villages of Access against the advancing Oramael, Cussenhoven, Dormael,
consider the capture and occups and Baw Capt. Buyck. Tho There were several explosions sold stocks, 00,000 balos. Sold not be owner of a British abip German troops yestaritay was and Hallebosyenhoven; which list:
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· Old men, women and children
The works round Liege consisteteam sccording to orders that and man are busily at workstra. Itangoon, Penang, Luzon, as aforesaid, he has taken the oath re-crossed the River Gette in were turned out of their homes at
of twelve isolated forts forming would be given us. The craiser
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Telay's official confirmation of the Balgian victory hau
the most perfect and the most kept close to us, but the lights of that yesterday there was a leakage in 9,572 bales for Ilongkong and resident in his Majesty's domi. aroused intense enthusiasm. It individual cases such as to capso
We con
Hero we
contact
a firm
Burgsmaster-Insulted
· Dormari appears to have been their troopa engaged. On the realment, Three brothers who
Bert, each crowned with a self-wards joined by the German exploded. There was not usering 2,000 balos Yellow Chose No. 20/rade the provisions and violate fifths of the total number of singled out for specially violent quch work within support of at and anchored, with the cruiser of explosions from different loikat $127 and 300 bales Set the principles of the Merchant other hand, the Belgian losses had fired upon the Germans were:
least two others. No suoli abso- lutely exact conditions exist, of course, in reality, but skill and the relief of the soil combined bave endowed Liege with a ring of forts very nearly combining these conditions. The circle, though not erant, in more nearly exact than in the case of any other ring fortress. Its largest diameter is not 20 per cent., in excess of its shortest. The greatest
· distance between any two works is bat 7,000 yards, the average less than 4,000. Esch work is easily supported by two others, and often by three, and in oas case by four.
Role for British Force.
After closely examining sil the conditions, Mr. Belloo went on to ay that the conclusion forced upon him was that Liege, with any adequate provision of gunners and supplies, would stand a siege
keoping a watch on us from the
ages; all was due to the one at $135. leakage.
CONSTABLE TO BLAME.
Charge of Assault Fails.
Raw Colton, Bengal and Chi- nose, no sales. Stock 2,000 bales Bengal and 1,000 Chinge (uotation: Bongal at $15 to 20 Chinese $20 to $42.
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Corps Orders issued yesterday by Lient. Col. A. Chapman, V.D, Duties: In future the weekly
The case in which two Chingue | sinte:-.
employed at the Naval Yard were
sea side. Later on a boat came serosa from the Konigsberg and the charts and general implements for the navigation of, the ship were removed, after which a prize crew of two liontenants and 38 men was put aboard. They were all heavily armed. The same night the City of Winchouter left for an unknown deacination, being ordered to follow the Zsiton which steamed abead, We pro- charged before Mr. J. I. Wood duty of Groups will commence ceeded to sea with all lights out at the Police Court, reste, day, and the next day were going in a with assaulting an Indian cousta. north-easterly direction. On the afternoon of August 9 we made ble, was completed this morning, when the defendants were the Khoorya Moorya ielanda,about
discharged. half way between Aden, and Karachi.. We dropped anchor in a email bay, and the next day the Zeiten came up alongside and removed some of our coal and all the stores.
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Shipping Act. Although a foreigner cannot register as the were comparatively small, a few shot dead and their home barse 1 individual owner of a Britiah deaths being reported in the down, and, according to Le
cavalry division.
Patriote, the Bargomaster wAS vosel, he can acquire all the shares of a joint-stock company ment of the German troops German officers and pray for This morning a forward move compelled to kneel before the registered as the owner of such a beaten yesterday was reported, pardon, because the town had vessel and domiciled as to ita
Cermans, feet.
place of business in Great Bri- bus this advance would only sought to defend itself against the ain. It is surely a fantastic appear talave for its object the marauders. Another bivilian, abuse of legislation that one stat collecting of the wounded and under pain of death, was foreød nie should furnish the means of the recovering of material which in grovel in the dust at the ovading the provisions of another was left behind...
The Belgians have nothing to
As they left the packad villages, fear in the way of a surprise, the Uhlans riding through the and it is confidently anticipated treats sang a parody of the that any new movement which Balgian patriotic song, whose the Germans may initiate will
words, “Our Flag Flies High," bo victoriously repulsed, they converted into "Belgians Central News,
Etitute,
Delo,
M. VIVIANI.
A Dramatic Interview.
Convocation:
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Fighting in the Trenches.
Later,
than any of the other great ring. | engineer, Mr. Thompson, and theon with their work, and the morrow, Friday 25th instant.This attitude on the part of was received by a hot fire087alry brigade with field guns
fortresses of Europe; and cal carpenter, were ordered aboard constable otarted to assault then culations based on rushing" of the Zeiten, which was carrying with his rifle. ils defences would spell defest,
each Monday night in toad of Sunday night. The Group at present on duty will he relieved on Monday, 28th instant.
It is understood that · M.
will live under the German flag." Leave-O, On, of Sections or Viviani, the Premier, in the
The Ublane, who to-day raided behalf of the defendants said that leave of absence from parades, with Baron von Schoon, the Fresh details received here Banka private institutionat
A Chinese fireman called on Companies may in fature grant second interview which he had
the post-office and the National they were at work repairing an for sufficient reasons, for perinde German Ambassador, said to the concerning the battle of Haelen Husselt, enjoyed a short-lived electric light when the Tadian not exceeding 2 days. Such latter at the beginning of their tell a moving Blory. constable came up to them and leave will not cover night aty
A patrol of Carabineers first 408 of the pcst-affice money and
triumph. They took with them 1. commenced to intor foro with their at Eloadquarters nor absence from "You are mobilising. We know signalled the approach of the 8,000 of the bank's money: All the crew, with the tools. The first defondant told | the Colony, a
it." are thorough and prolonged exception of myself, the third him to go away sad let then got Parades: Paradon
enemy. The Belgian troops at Almost immediately, however, Baron von Schoen did not once manned the tranches, and they were attacked by a Belgian for to-
reply, and M. Viviani added: when the enemy came in sight he 5.30 pm. Recruits Scouts Co-
and cannon, and were attsily Musketry on Short Range, Kon your Government has diotated Cermans swept the trenches with routed, leaving many dead and pody Road; Parade at Volunteer onra. We are compelled to take gun fire, and the Belgians were copias leaving ma Headquarters under Sergeant similar precautions to yours. Our obliged to fall back to Haglen Plans Remodelled. Major. 540 p.m. No. 1 Section peaceful intentions remain na- Reinforcemente soon arrived, and The German plan to deliver an changed. We wish peace, and the fighting continued throughout attack through Belgium having Acullery Battery Gun Drill at Victoria Gap, 5.45 p.m. No. 2 best proof we can give you of nor the day.
been checked, the Germans are Section Artillery Battery under wish is that at the present me. In spite of the Germans numer- now apparently fortifying their Section Officers. Centre Section ment the French Parliament has icalsuperiority they were repulsed position along the Maastricht M. G. Co. under Section Officers, not been convoked. Under the with heavy losses, while the Liège lice, employing peasants in Vetnil. On daty Group 2 Constitution we should be com- Belgian logos were unimportant, this work, by which it in planned
Norrington & Li, Lindsell, tions were not peaceful. Officers on duty Capt. Aitastrong pelled to convoke it if our inten- The town of Haelen anffered keep open the roads to the extensive damage. No incident south of the Liege province and Orderly Officer Lieut. Lindell. Bat," replied the Ambassa occurred daring the night. Train Laremburg, where they know that To furnish Guard to morice, dor, incidents on the frontier communication has been restored the French are arriving, in fores. Sergeant to-morrow Sergt. Cooper. How can you suppose such a Centre Section M. G. Co, Orderly are unfortunately to be feared,lienter,
----Coutral News, no To this M. Viviani replied:
Fighting at Huy.
The news from Berlin 1 Brussels, August 12. French regiment had been thing since our troops are five
The firing of guns can still be captured in quite insecurate. Sa
the French troops are con believed that the bombardment of the Liege forts has been pr rented
Assuming, therefore, that the in progress would be necessary, tegular siege which we now see Mr. Bellco considered what influ- ence the advance of French or British troops in aid of the Liege or Namur defences would have in defeating the German plan.
260 English. passengers. In the narly morning of August 11, the His Worship raid that the constable was to blame for what off and disappeared into the the defendants, Zeiten let go her ropes and hauled had happened, and discharged darkness, with no lights showing and our comrades aboard: W6 were left alone with the German prize crew who warned us to do
nothing that could be considered continued, with scrcoped lights, It is impossible for an army to Sight upon two fronte, at any rate, should have to take the conse on the morning of August 12 the as an act of war, otherwise wo throughout the night, and early zot for long; hence, before any quences. They treated us most crew and ourselves crhased over siege can be undertaken, kindly and wo had nothing about into the crairo. She moved the-besleging army must have which to
ourity from attack from outside their attitude towards us. During fire on the City of Winchiestor. o complain regarding some 300 yards away and opened purpose the the ensuing day they opened the Three abells were put into her circle. For thin Besiegers must have a covering hatches and took out what food and 22 hours later the new ship, amy commensurate with the stuff they could find, and in the which was homeward bound on London Aug, 21 Five miles from the frontier ? We are heard at Roermonds, and it is Colieving forces which it would afternoon the cruiser again her maidon voyage, went to the Lave to face. It was precisely appeared. She made fast along bottom. Shortly afterwards we are that the advantage of acids and took off the remainder were transferred to the Goldenfels linh contingent was evident to of the coal and whatever they and eventually reached Sing the Franch.
wanted of the cargo. This work lap
A Windfall for Britala.
steamers ladon will wheat origin in fact, exposed to a violation of ally consigned to Hamburg have our frontier, and I do not think put into the ancorage of Barry, there is another Power in the on the Welsh court Their care world which would have consent goss total 30,000 tons,ed to do such a thing.
Two probable reasonsore advanced in military cirolea here
the situation near Mal
"from Pariss this 74 antinfactory,"