WAR POINTERS.
About 30,000 French priesta sre under armg as combatante,
THE
WAR ITEMS.
HONG KONG TELEGRAPH
EXTRA
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1914,
On All Three Ships! Naval Oadet Wykeham-Mas- grave, aon of a Warwickshire. An order has been issued that magistrate, had a wonderful all homing pigeons in Portsmoutheries of escapes. He was actual must be destroyed.
ly on board each of the three oruisers when it was torpedoed. When the Aboukir was struck he was asleep, and barely bad time to slip into the ses. He swam to the Hague, and had only just been taken on board when that vessel was struck. He then swam to the Cressy, and was in her when she was torpedoed. De got a plank, and he and a seaman clung to this until they were palled out of the sea.
In a little Polish village the Germans killed a Jewish women 103 years of age.
Forty Germans who are con- sidered too old to bear arms are being deported from Plymouth,
Enrolment of special constables in Londod has been stopped for the present, 24,000 having been
attested.
Texi-caba in the Fulham die- trios are displaying the following notice: "Single men taken free to the recruiting office."
A woman just back from Lille says she was one of many who buried revolvers in their gardens ready for any emergency.
The Westphalian coal which the Germans must use for the navy now they cannot get Welsh ooal is much inferior.
Prince Radziwill Arrested, Copenhagen, September 25. A Berlin message states that Prince Radziwill, the leader of the Polish party in the German Iteichstag, has been arrested as a spy.-Central News.
Petrol Bomb.
newspapers are issuing appeals to the public adjuring all to sup- | port the loan. It would appear that to far the subscription list is very mengre.
The
RESERVES.
Mr. Redmond has received from HONGKONG VOLUNTEER America 26,000 to arm and equip the National Volunteers. latter have hitherto paid for all their arms and equipment.
Shoulder to Shoulder, Count Zeppelin, “
Paris, Oct. 2.-The King sent According to German journale, Count Zeppelin is at Wilhelms- two messages of greeting to the haven commanding a aquadron troops on landing at Marseilles.
The first to the British troops of airships. It is believed that he is planning an attack on said
"I have implicit confidence in England. In an interview the Count said, that he could not you, my soldiers. Duty is your forget or forgive Eugland, and he watchword, and I know your would shortly prove what he said. duty will be nobly done." English papers state that recently The second, to the Indians, the German Emperor summoned said Count Zeppelin to his presence at Mainz, and entrusted him with certain great task. His Majesty wanted to appoint the Dount Commander-in-Chief of the air ship squadron. Count Zeppelin, however, declined the honour, but said he would be willing to accept it after he had finished his mission against England,
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German Stage Management. London, Sapt. 30, The Ger- It is understood, says the Cen-man stage madegement is excel- tral News, that, the petrol bomb feat. While from 4,000 to 5,000 which has been constantly dia- French prisoners from Maubeuge wounded Germans charged from our apropisnes in paraded Brussels, a band of 200 the field with such excellent alightly reanita, is the invention of Flight marched to the railway station Lieut. O. R. Finch Noyes, of the singing patriotic songs. Nothing is said of the number buried on Crime is practically non-Royal Naval Air Service,
the battlefields and the dying in the hospitals. existent in Paris, and the bill of health is cleaner than is u ual at this time of year.
The King has sent a letter of congratulation to Mr. and Mra. Calpin, of York, who have ten Bone in the Navy and Army,
The British warships damaged in the fight off Heligoland have been repaired and are again fit for active service.
The military wing of the Royal Flying Corps has for some time been harrying the German lines; using these bombs, which are reported to have done serious damage.
The
Coal for German Cruisers.
New York, Oot." 1.-As the
Britain'e
request, reault of investigation shows that a German firm was responsible for the despatch of two vessels with coal believed to be for German cruis ers.
Lost German Industry. London, Sept. 30-With the
"I know with what readiness my brave, loyal Indian soldiers are prepared to fulfil à saored trust on the field of battle. Shoulder to shoulder, omrades of all parts of the Empire, I bid you go forward and add fresh lustre, to the glorious achievements, noble traditions, the courage and chivalry of my fadiso army, whose honour and fame is in your hands,"
Orders by Major Wakeman in regard to the camp at Stone. cutter's are as follow:-
Orderly Officer to,day, 2nd Lt. Branch; to-morrow 2nd Lt. J. Owen Hughes. Orderly Sergeant to-day, Sergt. Johnstone; to morrow, Sergt. Tollan
'WITH JAPAN'S ARMY,
ponies cccupving one van, out- Felves the other. On arrival near the Haiho we had to detrain, business which required half an
The Last Stage From Welhsien hour'e shunting before the ponies"
to Klauchau.
The N. C. Daily News Special War Correspondent, writing from Gen. Kemio's Camp on Cotober 16, asys
van could be brought opposite a platform which did not entail a three to four feet jump. That done we had to get them over the river in a barge after a three mile ride across country. · Inducing a It became clear as soon as I Chinese pony to stop into B. All ranke are cautioned with had presented my credentials to barge which is swinging with a regard to care of rifles. Partioalar the Japanese, on the day follow-fairly strong current is not," by care mus. be taken in cleaning ing the events narrated in my any means, an easy thing to do, every part of the mechanism, as last letter, that there would be a and there were no spare planks to well as the barrel, after firing, delay of forty-eight hours at help one. However, they were Weihsion. To begin with, my eventually successfully shipped particularly in wet weather.
Group Commanders and N. call could not be paid till the and farried across to the opposite. Here again, one had C.O.a will frequently inspect rifles afternoon, by which time the bank, where another train was and see that they are being kept companion, whom I had eo and waiting. thoroughly clean and well oiled. Jenly abandoned the night before, need of some knowledge of eirons The attention of all ranks.ie had rejoined me, and in the tricks, for putting six boards called to orders previously put-second place a train could not together each no more than six lished, requiring them to complete be procured before then. The inches wide-and asking a pony a little to walk up them and get into s
van next door to a "hissing" their preliminary practices satis bridge over the Haiho,
cannot be held to factorily before they will be weat of Teoshan, had been car- permitted to take part in the ried away by floods, but as engine
the a fall within
limita of an engine and Standard Test or Field Firing.
couple of vans could be spared ordinary horsemanship. With they would, said the Commandant, time and patience that diffiority be placed at my disposal: The also was surmounted and we interview took place in what, journeyed without further adven during ordinary times, is pro ture to Kisuohan, which we bably porter's room. On the reached a little after five. other side of the door, near the booking offices, sat rows of Japanese soldiers, and through
German Paper for Paking.
London News Forbidden. The London correspondent of in London states that Salih Bey the Ottoman Telegraph Agency
Mr. Ostwald, formerly of the Gourdji, ita managing director in Constantinople, who is well known Deutsch-Japan-Post, Yokohama, for bis friendly feelings towards has appeared in Peking and, it is Great Britain and France, has reported, contemplates the found been arrested as the result of ing of a new German newspaper. pressure from Germany for having published authentic news of the war from London and Paris, supplied to his colleague" in London by Reuter's Agency.
Getting the Range. Petrograd, September 18. An interesting incident is reported from the Austrian front. A Russian lieutenant of rifles
The Master Touch.
8000 0.8
The offer of Baron de Forest to navel wing of the Flying Corps, 1 help of the Government, a factory picked up a timed shell of the German Official Agency intended train of some dozen carriages to the effect that I had called on
go on aotive service has been accepted, and he will leave for the front immediately.
A reign of terror exists in the Serb provinces of Austria, the gibbeta in each village finding fresh victim every day.
The "Temple. of Peace" erect ed at Bangor for the Eisteddfod has been let to the military su- thorities to house recruits.
The only troops who show intense hatred towards captured Germans are the Turcos, who cannot be trusted near a camp of prisoners."
A Belgian refugee, about savanty years of age, who arrived at Tilbury, knelt down and kissed the ground he landed upon.
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A rejected recrait thinks it is time the War Ofice learnt that a. spectacled Englishman makes se good a soldier as a spectacled
German.
"The whole British Army is as
The loss of the Oceanic falls on the Government, so the under writers, who formerly had a policy for over $300,000, had a good
escape.
broke out.
Sir J. French, in despatches, has expressed his appreciation of the work done by means of this now incendiary device. offensive, now reported to have been adopted on land by the is no doubt being carried out with the same weapon.
Lient. Finch Noyes has been attached to the naval air service for 18 months, and his invention is the outcome of much research and persevering experiment.
Moral Force of Garibaldi's Name.
Rome, September 25, General Ricciotti Garibaldi has been urged to go to France to lead the "Red Shirts." It is pointed out that his presence, even if crippled and obliged to drive, as his father was in 1870, would be a great moral force, he having been the chief hero of the campaign in the Vosges in the Franco-Prussian war-Reuter.
No More Prisoners.
behind them.
Not Killed After All.
as
for the extraction of tungsten is being rebuilt in Yorkshire so to give an outlet for wolfram, for which lately Germany has provid- ed the only market.
to circulate for the purpose of arousing if possible. American prejudice against England and
Nearing the Fighting, Here, too, the lias-as it is, in- deed, at all important points east an iron-barred window one of Weihsien-is carefully guard- watched a squad of men having ed, the troops being, for the most their rifles inspected preliminary part, housed in trains. Captain to obanging guard. Sentries were Insoka, with whom I have just Washington, Sept, 30.-Ameri- posted with great precision and had an interview, is quartered can officials unite in discrediting formality all round the station, in a pleasant little ville, stand- the stories published of a the most distant one visible being ing north of the line in
He was politenes erat Anglo-Japanese agreement nearer half than a quarter of a the middle of a trim garden inimical to the interests of the mile away. No approach to the in flower. United States which, according line would be possible without itself, and readily responded to to trustworthy anthority, the letters such as I myself carried.my request for a card with a note had been converted into temporary him and been allowed to pass. barracks, the officers' quarters be For is will be dark by the time I ing on the second floor of the main reach Haibai, which point, pro- station building. I enquired how vided I can get a cart-I write many men all units totalled, but in the intervals of prolonged was politely told that that was negotiations-I expect to reach to-day. It stands at the head of not for publication.
Needless Chinese Nervousness. the galf of which Tsingtan is the Ignorance on this point is not, gute and from there I should bo after all, a matter of much impor- able to reach the headquarters tance. Far more interesting is it of the Japanese army in a few Even in Iceland. Bordeaux, Sept. 30. Packet to have scen, and to be able to boora. Cairo, Oct. 2-Sir John Max-American porta may carry arma-boats travelling to the North draw attention to, the very careful well, commanding the army of ment and ammunition for the report that the German propag. way in which the Japanese troops occupation, bas ordered the Ger- sole purpose of defence without anda extends sa far as Iosland, at Weihsien are being kept from mens and Austro-Hungarians in acquiring the character of a ship Egypt to register before October 10, and to obey the conditions under which they will be allowed to remain; otherwise they will be arrested.
enemy which had not buret, and brought it back on horseback to a Russian battery, which was thereby enabled to judge the range and ahoitly succeeded in silencing the Austrian guns Reater.
President Wilson Chagrined. Washington, Oct. 1-President Wilson is greatly chagrined owing to American steamships coaling the Germian oraiser Karlsruhe. Prompt steps are to be taken to safeguard American neutrality. belligerent nation entering
.
In Egypt.
Talk of Peace.
Like Paardeburg.
Armed Merchantmen.
Washington, Sept. 28, The State Department has decided that merchantmen of a
of war.
The masters must show con- clusive evidence that the arma but is not intended for offensive operations, and that the arms will not be used for the offensive,
manned by the same number of men in crew and officers as before the war.Reuter.
Bomb Dropped on to Neutral
Territory.
Зараа.
The British Embassy intimates that a warning had come from London some time ago that such a report was being hatched by Germans in China for American consumption.-Reater.
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where merchants are receiving all possible chance of causing from their German correspondents friction with the Chinese. The political pamphlets and papers, city lies barely a mile away, but together with communications no soldiers, other than santries, couched in the following terms: are to be met with beyon‹l a limit "Despatches will cause you no of five hundred yards from the expense. Let us know what it line. costs you to circulate this nowa. We shall be obliged if you will forward to us newspapers "oir- culating in the countries with which we are at war, and will reimburse you for expenses in- curred in this connection." Central News.
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
Arrived. Australien, Fr. 8.5. 3,543, Cazal, 3rd Inst.
-Marseille, Gen-M. M. Co.
"Passengers Arrived, Perss, Australien from Marselllo eta-- Capt Marubal, Mosary Brimo, Kybarg. A dar, H Vemazes, Parturoh, Courslas, Mrs Riza Pocack.
Bol, RP Desmuraux; R Papada, RP Or
Liquidators.
It is stated in Bordeaux, says
It is difficult, therefore, alto- the Central News, that General New York, OctoLor 2-Victor The calibre of the guns mast not an American metal exored six inches, and none must
gether to understand the state of nervousness in which the Chinese Stenger, commanding the German Lassen, 53rd Infantry Brigade, has ad- manufacturer, who has beau be mounted forward,
A few small arms and a small
military authorities appear to be dressed to his troops an order of commissioned to bay material on the day instructing them to take behalf of the Russian Government, amount of ammunition may be
Every gate of the city and of no more prisoners, but to kill all, states on official authority that carried, and the vessel must be
Tangkuan its suburb, every yamen, the telegraph and post fit as a fiddle, and the lads are as whether isolated or in groups, the Kaiser telegraphed to the
offices are guarded by men with keen as mustard," writes a non- who fall into their banda.*
Car, enggesting that he should
fixed bayonets as though Wei- Through their newspapers commissioned officer of the
Wounded, armed or unarmed, withdraw his troope from Gar Dragoons at the front.
It will be seen from adver are to be killed, as Germans many and Austria; also making
the German people are informed hsien, and not Teingtau, were that the German Army is cap-being besieged. Punctually at must leave no Frenchman alive suggestions for peace. The Cair
The Hague, Sept. 29, turing a daily average of 40,000 sundown the gates close, and it tisements on page 5 that Mesare. sont a telegram to London and
The commander of the garrison prisoners from the Allied Armies," took my Japanese companion, Lowe, Bingham and Matthews Parie, and next day the Allie
at Maastricht has telegraphed to states Mirs Herbert, of Cardiff, who happened, on the second day have been appointed liquidators The first case of an officer who signed a declaration regarding the commander-in-chief of the who has just returned home after of our say, to return to our inn of the following firme: Messa With a little speeding up, killed turning up alive appears
had been apparently returned as common terme for pesco, Dutch Army a communication in two months' enforced stay in few minutes after closing time. Melchera and Co., Gaupp od an hour and a quarter to get Co., Blackbead and. Co., Her Germany could add by next in the latest casualty list. It is London, Oct. 1-A Paris mess-regard to the throwing of a bomb, Germany.
them open. We must have been blinger and Co., and Kruse spring four new Dreadnought that of Lieutenant J. B. L. Nosi, age states that a fight which is promitted to the War Minister, The The message has been trans-
Brave Cyclists. Paris, Oct. 1.-A wounded visited by guards at least half and Co. battleships to the thirteen she of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, ceeding in one region on the had in commission before the war who was one of the 11 officers Allies' left resembles Paurdeberg text of the message is not known, Frenchman narrates that during dozen times, and on
Candia's Cargo. The car o shipped from Hong of that regiment reported killed Some 3,500 Germaans are in the but it is understood that a bomb the Aisne battle it was found occasion there were so many bay- Writing home from "France, after the fight at Mons. Lieut. same plight as was Cronje, The has been dropped from a German necessary to warn the French re-oneta pointing at different angles September 2," saked: "Did you go shooting wounded.
British officer
kong recently by the 5.9. Candis marching into an ambush. Two was positively dangerous to move. included 200 bales of cocoon, 565 Frenchmen, signalling with flags, One was asked for one's passport cases of preserves, 2,222 rolls of yesterday? I enw several large
Terrible Sufferings. were successively killed, and the anywhere and everywhere in spite mate and 260 bales of canes for. coveys here, but we were after larger game."
London, Oct. 2-At Chalons French in the trenches were in a of a formal call on, and a polite London; 250 cases and 100 casks Asked by an Italian nowepaper sight of Windsor Castle was ed the enemy, and are shelling retirements took place along where the British force was hidden. It is oll done as they are care- 300 bales of waste silk for Man. A pretentious residence within troops have completely surround on Monday last the German dilemme until from some trees reception by, the Chief of Police. of preserves for Glasgow and during his stay in Rome if the raided recently by the police, who them in order to compel them to strong lines, where 6ft. trenches a agclist dashed forward, but was fal every time to explain to one chester. war was popular in England, seized a quantity of German entrender. Cardinal Bourne replied that it correspondence. The occupant of
were protected by reinforced shot after covering a few yards. --for one's own protection, but had created unanimity in the the house, a German was arrested
ed to regard most Chinezo, cities London, Oct. 2.-A meeting of Conorete, executed by the forced
While the Germans were fight. A third Britisher set off at fall as a great deal eafer than London The French Journal Offisiel for had forgotten their old quarrels detention camps for German Committee of the Irish National and sworn to overcome the prisoners. The prisoner is said Volunteers elected Mr. John Red- og on the Marne the conditione speed through an inferno of fire, or Paris it is all a little irritating, the 28th August contains a Pro- to have moved in the best oirales mond president. Other officers the trenches were terrible. his head bent over the handle and spells more than solicitude. sidential Deorée, dated the 21st The Day's Adventures. Angust, in virtue of which the Officers of the East Surrey Boat Windsor and to have enter were appointed, and resolutions Mon were living like rate for bars. He reached the advancing It had been arranged during Castoms duties on coffee, tea and
weeks in undrained holes, and French without being harmed. giment at Tilbury, due to leave tained members of the royal were adopted, appealing to Irish the fighting was without pause. The commander, took from his my interview with the Japanese residues of tea of foreign origin for the front almost immediately, family,
men at Home and abroad for funds The wounded and dead had to lie onto medal won for Commandant that, unless I heard imported into French Indo-China aleared the railway station buffat Krupp and the War Loan. to equip and train volunteers to where they fell The French bravery, and, pinning it on the to the contrary, a train should be are in future to be levied at the of cakes and sweets and distribut An Italian paper states that the sesiet in carrying out the defence could hear the eries of the wound arolist's breast, said: "It won in readiness at half past eight in full rates prescribed by the m:80,000,000 (£1,500,000) of the Irish rights, and the maintenance ed at night when the firing given to me for saving one life; the morning. We started yester French Metropolitan - Customs
day shortly after that time, the Tariff. German war loan. The German of self-government.
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river bed, like Oronje, but are in Central News.
* Influential German Arrested
In England.
quarries, some of which are con nected by tunnels. The French
Ireland's Spirit.
nation; politicians of all colours and is now held in one of the the majority of the Provisional labour of the inhabitants. 2f whAnother cyclist who followed to the foreigner who is accustom-
enemy.
ed them amongst the Belgian women and children who arrived on the Copenhagen.
firm of Krapp have underwritten of Ireland, the advancement of
paused,
shared the same fate.
you have saved hundreds.":
Tea and Coffee Duties in Indo- China,
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