The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright," 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR.
Barometer 29.90
· October 29, 1914, Humidity
Temperature 6 a.m. 76,
. 2 p.m. 80 93,
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旗一十月九年寅甲”
THURSDAY,
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.
GREAT VICTORY BY THE RUSSIANS
Austro-German Resistance Broken.
Temperature 6 a.m. 70 p.m. 75
75.
October 29, 1913
Humidity
OCTOBER
20.
191:1.
四洋惑 號九十二月拾英迎咨
"TOMMY ATKINS.".
WAR NEWS FROM
By Robert Blatchford.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
'British Progress.
Oct: 28, 1.10 p.m.
A Belgian communique issued at Havre states: Our position at Nieuport and Dixmude is securo. The British have advanced to Passchendaele, ten kilometres (6 miles) north of Ypres.
Russians Capture 3,000 Cermans.
East Prussian front.
Oct. 28, 5.45 s.m.
A Petrograd official messago states:-Fighting has begun on the We have repulsed desperate German attacks in the region of Rakalarzewo.
Lakhting on Monday extended to Kutno, through Oeza SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLTERS DRIVEN IN HEADLONG ROUT. Rawa and Glowaczeff to the mouth of the Iizanke river. We carried a part of the enemy's position in the Jezow and Rawa region and captured three thousand men and some guns in Now Alexandria
[Reuter's Service to "The Telegraph'')
Ailies' Advance; Big German Losses.
Oct. 28, 7.15 p.m., A Paris communique statea that the enemy's attacks in the whole of the region from Nieuport to Arrns have become much less violent.
We have maintained our positions everywhere and havo north and east of Ypres. to make progrese continued We have also progressed between Cambrai and Arras. It becomes more and more confirmed that Gorman lusees, killed, wounded and prisoners, have been considerable. In the northern region, the enemy on the right bank of the Aisne attempted a most-violent night attack in the region of Craonne, bat were repulsed.
We continued to ad vance in. Woevre into the woods between "Apremont and St. Mihiel and also into the wood of Le Protre.
Great Russian Success.
Oct. 23, 11.5 pm. Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd states that a communique says that in four days' fighting south of the Pilica the Russians. inflicted a serious defeat on the Austro-German forcas, finally breaking the resistance of the 20th Corps and a corps of Reserva Quarde.
fell back in disorder towards Elliask," Radom and
The enemy Ilza.
The success of the Russians, which has resulted in the with- drawal of the enemy on the main front, has enormous importance.
Radom is an important town on the river Mieczna, with a pop- ulation of 30,000. It has fiae workshops for the Ivangorod-Dom- browa Railway. Situated to the South of Warsaw, Edlinsk is 48 miles, Radom 52, and Ilza 75 miles away.]
South African Mutineers in Headlong Rout
Oct. 28, 11.5 p.m. An official statement says that General Botha roporta having come into touch with Beyers' men on Tuesday. He drove them in headlong rout the whole day, and captured eighty of them, fally armed. Only one of our men had been wounded. When the report was made the pursuit was still progressing.
Prince Maurice of Battenberg Dead.
Oct. 28, 6.50 p.m. Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary have heard to-day with great regret of the death of Trince Maurice of Battenberg, while serving at the front with the King's Royal Rides,
[Prince Maurice was the fourth child of Prince Hoary of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice, and was therefore King George's first cousin. He was born on October 3, 1891.1-
BARLIER TELEGRAMS.
Allies Still Advance.
Oct. 28, 4.55 a.m.
An official Paris communiquo published at 11 o'clock in the evening stated that there was nothing to report except some pro gress on the part of the Allies in the region south of Dirmude.
and Solec.
Lodz Occupied.
A message from the Times correspondent in Warsaw states tha the Russian cavalry occupied Lodz after little resistance.
Lodz, in Russian Poland, is known as the "Polish cheal is a town of some 350,000 inhabitants, about miles from Warsaw.]
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Allen Enemies in the Far East.
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Oct. 28,"1.10 p.m. Ranter's Peking correspondent reports that all alien enemies in Hongkong and other British possessions in China are. baing pelled, except those of military âge, who are being detained,
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Angola Invaded by Germans,
Oct. 28, 0 30 a.m.
FRENCH SOURCES.
The following items are from the Courrier d'Haiphong
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TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
Progress by the Allies in the region south of Dixmudo is re- ported.
The German Commanders. The British Army, of all ranks
Oct. 20,-According to ia- and of all arms, has in this cam-formation said to emanate from paign done more than its warmest Bordeaux, and published in Now admirera expecte I am doing York, General von Moltke, Chief my best to speak with judicial of the German General Staff, and The Russians have captured moderation, but I find it very General Hilderhein, commander 3,000 Germans and some guns difficult to rein in my pen when of the German army in East it has to write of Tommy Atkins. Prussia, have been relieved of Of the Army I will simply exprees their commands. the opinion that there are no batter troops in the world and never! Oct. 21-A telegram from East Prussian frontier. were any better troops in the Amsterdam confirma that General world. A famous cricketer being Von Moltke has been superseded the soldiers to take the pledge of asked if he had ever seen better as Chief of the German General abstinence during the war.
Von Moltke's Disgrace.
at New Alexandria and Soleo,
It is announced from Petrograd that fighting has begun on the
Earl Kitchenor's sister aske
bowling than that of Barnes in a Staff by General Letz, com Heavy firing heard off the Vir recent Teet matob, answered, mander of the 1st divi-ginian coast is presumed to in "No; there could not be any sion of the Prussian Guard,dicate a naval fight. batter bowling." That is my the Kaiser holding General von
weighed and measured judgment Moltke responsible for the Ger The Belgian position at Nieu- of the British Army; there could man disastere in France and the port and Dismude le reported rout of the Acatro German troops not be a better army.
in Galicia.
весиго,
The British have advanced to Passchendaele, 10 kilometres north of Ypres.
It is reported from Lisbon that German troops have invaded Angola.
As for Tommy Atkins, he is unique. To say that we love
The German Losses. him and are proud of him is not
A telegram from Copenhagen enough; we have to say that gives the official list of the besides being the finest soldier German losses during the month original and peculiar kind of Bavarian, Saxon and Wurtemberg
It is officially announced that we knew he is the most of August only, not including the soldier the world baayet produced. contingents. The total is 90,000, I do not believe that any nation of whom 1,000 were officers there is a German mine-field but the British could produce a killed and 2,000 wounded.
north of Tory -land, off the north-west omst í Ireland. Tommy Atkins, and I do not believe that the British have pro- The Germans aró estimated to The Times' Wnieuw correspond- duced him so successfully before. have at present 21 army corps in ent saya-Russian cavalry has Tommy Alkies marching or en France, 7 in Belgium and Alsace, cccupied Lodz with little resist training for the front; Tommy 13 in East Prussia, and 11 between ance. Atkins in ths. French villages; Thorn and Cracow. The total General Botha bas come in Tommy Atkins fighting day number of their effective forces, touch with General Bayers men after day on the retreat; Tommy including the Landsturm and the and driven them in head long rout, Atkins wounded; Tommy Atkins Landwehr, is believed to exceed
capturing 80. anywhere and all the time is the 4,000,000.
The German Forces.
most astounding and magnificent- The Krupp factories are work. ly Bitish personality ever seening night and day in the manu- upon a field of battle."
fac.uro of big gune.
I have seen a good many British soldiers. I was one of the soldiered with long service men. ex-first short-service men, and I Half my corps when 1 joined were Crimean and Mutiny veterans; the other half were recruits and chiefly cockneye. But Tommy Atkins was not thon invented.
A message from Lisbon states that Gorman troops have invad ed Angola (Portuguese West Africa,)
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German Mine-field off Ireland.
Oct. 28, 9. a.m.
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The Real Tommy.
About 40 new Zeppelins are said to be ready for service.
In the Black Sea and Sea of Mormora. Bitish and Italian merchant ves ele bave received from their respective companies instructions to immediately leave the. Black Sea and Son of Marara.
Gonera Sir William Franklys, Commanding the Central Divis ion CF "Earl Kitchener's Army, has suddenly expired."
Tho death is announced" of Prince Mancics of Battenberg, who has been serving at the front with the King's Royal Rifles.
It is announced that all alien- enemies in Hongkong and other The Cost of the War in France. British possessio..s in Chios are The cxpenses of the war borse being expelled, except those of by France since the commence-military age, who are being de ment of hostilities amount only to tained.
NEWS. Perhaps you think that Kipling 35,000,000 francs (£1.400,000)
Further notes on the crisis invented him. There never were per day. The Bank of Franco any soldiers like Kipling's, and bad on the 1st October a gold appear on page 4. Tommy Atkins is since Kipling's reserve exceding 4,000,000,000 time and quite beyond bis francs (£100,000,000). ken. You will not fad Tommy
In South Africa,
Interesting war items. given to-day...
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"Our Contemporaries" appours on page 2, commercial newe on page 9 and log book on page 8.
General news and an article on
It is now known that the Ger- It is officially announced that there is a German mine-field Atkins in any literature. You
will certainly not find him in any mans guaranteed to the rebel north of Tory Island,
The army of Boer colonii Maritz the constitu- [Tory Island is off the N.W. coast of Donegal. If has a light-books of mine. house and a signal station connected by telegraph with Londonderry] which I wrote has vanished; that tion of a republic in the region of
of which Kipling wrote never the Orange River, Maritz premie-military control at Harbin appear existed, The real Tommy Atkins; ing to e de Walfish Bay to on page 3, the fully developed Tommy Germany.. Atkins who nursed Frezoh babies, scrubs bia landlady's etable
Canada's Fine Response.
The men required for the second Canadian contingent have marches to battle singing music- been secured twice over..
Temperance Advocated.
Earl Kitchener's sister writea supplementing her brother's appeal to the public not to treat" the soldiers. She asks the soldiers to take the total abstinenca pledge during the period of
WBT.
A Naval Fight?
A wireless message received in New York states that there wa, heavy firing off the Virginian coast on Monday. It is presumed that there was a naval fight.
British General's Sudden Death.
THE WAR.
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Oricket Club was held 1st evening.
Fuotball prospects were dis ussed of a meeting of the Hong-- kong Football Association lank
Indian and African Troops in evening.
France.
DON'T FORGET:
TO-DAY. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m.. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. BATO-MORROW.
Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.10 p.m././
hall songe, argies about Gunboat Smith in the midst of the ebell! fire, and laya down the fag of his oigarette while he goes out to fight two German Guardsmen with the bayonet-hia Tommy Aikina waa
News is to hand concerning born after the Boer War. Cock-
the arrival of Indian and Algerian ney Tommy, Lancashire Tommy, Devonshire Tommy, Irish Tom- troops in France. It is said that my, Highland Tommy, Tommy of in the early part of last month the line, Tommy of the Lancers, no fewer than 82,000 Indian and Tommy of the Grenadiere, Tom- 32,000 Algerian soldiers were my of the artillery and of the landed at Marseilles and conveyed Sale of Furniture, G.P. Lammert, hospital corps, Tommy in Bengal, in the direction of Paris by train. 14, Humphrey's Building, Kow- Tommy at Gib., Tommy ca the All ordinary traffic was suspend-loon-11 s.m. trooper, Tummy at Manswesed, while for some days no mer- chandise was conveyed over the there ever such a soldier ceen or heard of? Find him in books? rails and only a minimum of No, Dickens could not have in personal luggage was allowed. vented him; even Laurence Sterne could not be invented him. As a Franch officer says of him "He is always brave, and calm, and
courteous and clean;
de
Tending the Wounded, ......
Organ Recital, St. John's
Wales' Tund-0.16 p.m.. - Cathedral, in aid of the Prince of
Saturday, October 31. Ministering Children's Leagua bazaar Government Hones Grounde,
HK. Jockey Club meeting-
noon..
Stirring scenes were also wit nossed at many important railway stations, where ladies from the highest circles in booiety gathered I discovered Tommy Atkins to attend to the wounded men General Sir William Franklyn, O.B., K.O.B., commanding the
Sale of Furniture," "Ahmet"Villa Robinson Road, G.P. Lammert Central Division of Earl Kitchener's army, died suddenly yesterday for the first time in the Vale of being brought back from the Monday, November 2
the White Horse, in 1909 and 1 front. They were there ready with freeb bandages, medicines, evening.
www2:30 p.m. etc., and staffs of doctors and [The deceased General, who was Military Secretary to the thanked God, Scoretary of State for War, entered the Army in 1874, was made Some tell us England is deoad nurses took part in the work of Captain in 1881; Major 1886; Lisat, Colonel 1880, and Colonel ent, that the British are played allaying the sufferings of the 1888, commanding the Infantry Brigade, 2nd Army Corps. He out Bat the nation which can wounded. Kitchens and restaur served on the north-west froutier of India, 1897-98, In command of turn out men like Tommy Atking ante have been established at the 2nd Batt. Yorks. Regiment (mentioned in despatches, Bravet by the hundred thousand has not many of three stations, and no- Col medal with two plasps). Deceased commanded the 3rd come yet to the top of its form, thing is left undone to smocour Division, Southern Command, up to 1910, and was Director of the is only now, moving towards its those who have suffered for their Ad General's Department at the War Omice, 1904-5]
best achievement.
country
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Wednesday, November 4 Licensing Sessions, H.K.F.O Annual General Meeting, 5.30 p.m.
Thursday, November 5. Hongkong and South Chins Steam Fisheries Da Led Meeting