The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
(FINE)
Barometer 30.06
2
P.m. 68
78,
64
December 9, 1914, '
2803
Temperature 6 a.m. 61, Humidity
腱二廿月十年甲
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
December 9, 1913
Temperature 6 am. 62. Humidity
73#
m. 69
58
1914.
CHINA'S FLOOD AND FAMINE.
金盛號九月二拾英语
VULGAR WAR
POSTCARDS.
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS,
$36 PER ANNUM,
TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
Reclamation Report Made by American Engineers.
Strongly Condemned by German Officer,
ALLIES CONSOLIDATE POSITIONS IN
FLANDERS.
HOW THE GERMANS ARE BEING HELD BACK.
Russia Explains Evacuation of Lodz.
French Report
(Havas Telegram)
Paris, Deo. 8, 6.5 p.m. In the region of the Year we continue to attack a few trenches which the Germans hava retained on the left bank of the canal.
In the Armentieres region, and also in the Arros, Dise, Aisne and Argonne districts, we maintain our aupremacy. In the Cham- pagne distriot our artillery has secaro a marked advantage. On
the eastera front we hold our positions.
A Petrograd message anys:—Fighting is proceeding. We have repulsed all the German attacks,
(in the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on the Extra,]
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
[Renter's Service To The Telegraph."]
Russians Bombarding Cracow,
Deo. 8, 6.15 a. m. It is stater at the lagus that the Russians, under the command of the Bulgarian General Dimitrieff, began the bombardment of the suburbs of Cracow on Sunday.
German Losses,
Deo. 8,6.15 a.m. The Bourse Gazetta (published at Pairugrad) "estimates. the losses of the Germans in the battles before Lodz at 100,000 out of twelve Army Corps engaged.
An Explanation.
Russian Success in Armenia.
'The Bourse Re-opens.
Deo. 8, 6.15 a.m.
The Purie Bourse bas re-opened.
King's Message to British Troops.
Dec 8, 1.10 am.
Bcene of
CONDENSED.
The Paris Boarse has re-opened
The Germans bombarded Oost-
The King made so interesting speech before leaving France.
Washington, October 31~|
The Koelnische Zeitung publishes Major-Gen. George W. Davis, the following interesting letter United States Army (retired), from a German officer.command. chairman of the Central Coming a company in one of the miltse of the American National regiments now in France Red Cross, to-day gave to the Perhaps you will be so good Chinese Minister for transmissions to assist, by the publication of to his Government the report of a these lines, in freeing, our troops Dunkerke, east of Nieuport. board of American engineers to from an evil which they feel very Before leaving France, His Majesty the King issued an Order the effact that a great section of strongly. I have on many ooda of the Day saying: I am glad that I have been able to see my Chin which for centuries per the man the postul packets, ob- sions, when distributing among Army in the field and to gain some slight experience of the life you iodically has been a are leading. I wish I could have spoken to you all, to express my death and suffering can be reserved among them Dostcards on admiration of the splendid manner in which you have all fought claimed from flood and famine. which the defeated French, Eng- and are still fighting a powerful and relentless enemy by means of When the report renches the ligh, and Russians were derided discipline, pluck and endurance. Inspired by the indomitable regi-Chinese Government officials, it in a teteless fashion. mental spirit, you have upheld the traditions of the British Army will be made public by them áud and have added frosh lustre to its history. I was particularly im- by the American Rad Cross pressed by your soldierly, healthy and obeerful appearance. I simultaneously. The American cannot share your trials, dangers and successes, but I can assure engineers who went to China to you of the proud confidence and gratitude of myself and your study the situation in the stricken countrymen. We follow, in our daily thoughts, your certain road to districte have jut returned to victory."
this country. The board consist. ed of Lieut.-Col. William L. Si- bart, of the Corps of Engineers,
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King George Decorates Generals Joffre and Foch.
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His Majesty the King has conferred on General Joffre and obairman; Mr. Arthur P. Davis,
General Foch the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,
Strong Monetary Position.
Deo. 8, 7 p.m.
The French have completed "The impression made by these the capture of the village of. postcards on our men is highly Vermelles. noteworthy. Scarcely anybody is pleased with these postcards; on the contrary, everyone expresses his displeasure.
Won.
A Tribute to the Allies. "This is quite natural when know how victories are. one considers the position. We We also know at what tremendous We see with our own eyes the un- sacrifices they are obtained.
our
cbiof engineeroftheGovernment's Reclamation Service, and Mr. D. W. Mead, professor of hydraulice, University of Wisconsin. Col. speakable misery of the battle-
field. We
over rejoice. Sbert is the army engineer who mente, of which afty million sterling as a minimum was expected spillway of the Panama Canal. by the recollection of the sad The money markat is stronger in consequence of war loan pay-bail: the Gatun loka, dam, and victories, but our joy is damped to be done to-day.
On the completion of this work pia ures which we observe almost Wheat has advanced a shilling owing to the prohibition of the Chinese Government and the export from India.
Crew of the Charcas Landed by the Prinz Eitel.
Dec. 7, 8.10 p.. Reuter's correspondent at Valparaiso stated that the armed mercbantman, Prinz Eitel, bas landed the crew of the British steamer Charcas, sunk off Ocrral.
French Attack on Yser Trenches, (Official Telegram from the French Government, via Peking.) "In the Yeer region the allied troops continue to attack several trenches which are still maintained on the left bank of the canal by the Germans. In the Armentieres and Arra regions artillery fighting has prevailed, while artillery duela have taken place in the. Dise and Aisne regione, the French guns having the best of the exchanges. On several ocassions in Champagne the sa eriority of the French heavy artillery over that of the Germsde was most marked. The French troops have made progress in Argonne, where they destroyed one of the enemy's posts and two machine guns.
HOW ENGLAND WILL BE INVADED.
Elaborate German Plans
Revealed..
American Red Cross asked that be he assigned to the work of studying the situation in the famine and flood districts iù China,
the
daily.
The Russians have taken ad- vantage of the lull in the fighting to reform their line.
The Allies have made notable Roulers is now open to them. progress south of Dizmude, and
It is reported that the bom bardment of the suburbs of Cra cow has been commenced by the
Russians,
"Ánd our enemies have, in an overwhelming majority of cases, truly not deserved to be derided
Owing to a strengthening of in such a way. Had they not fought so bravely we would not the Allies positions, a German During the last six years
have had to register such losses. advance in Flanders is deemed American Red Cross has spent
"Insipid; therefore, as these impossible. hundreds of thousands of doilure postcards are in themselver, their fir famine relief in China, largely face of our dead and wounded, is effect here, on the battlefields, in in the district which the American only calculated to cause disgust. battle of Lodz are estimated rat The German losses in the engineers bave been studying Such postcards are as much out one hundred thousand, out of with a view to reclamation. The
twelve corps engaged.
territory isin North Central China, of place in the battlefield as a clown is at a funeral. Perhaps approaching to within about 150 these lines may prove iastrament miles of the city of Shanghai, aal in decreasing the number of part of the great country which has known but little rest from foods such Tostcards sent to and subsequent famine for the last 2,500 years.
1,000,000 Lost their Lives, In one floo in the district which it is hoped to reclaim, 1000,000
troops."
our
Lodz, having lost its military importance and presenting dif ficulties to the Russians with The postcards here alluded to are the so olled Ulkkarten-regard to communication, waa
evacuated. "comio" pictare postcards, rapre- eating various war cubjects.→ Exchange.
Austro-German forces have ap peared in the neighbourhood of
than to the sea, and that by so Cracow, German reinforcemente doing the entire bed of the Hun- being brought up to "stiffen" the teze Lake could be reclaimed and Austrians. made available for rice, which is the most valuable crop in this
of
China.
NEWS,
Chinese lost their lives. The total number of deaths which have rows of mines, especially anchored resulted from drowning and from mines. To anchor mines in these starvation in the affected district waters is comparatively easy.
is beyond compatstion, The Am If this triple minefield be laid erican engineering party spent from the French to the English four mouths in the work of in- coast, then the great harbours to vertigation. The members met the west (Portsmouth, Plymouth, good many hardships, but they etc.) would be cut off from the completed their labour and their It also found that by draining
Interesting war items North Sea. The connection round report has been written. Deo. 8, 12.15 p.m.
the bed of the Huntez Lake it given to day. The German plans for the in- Scotland would be difficult. Our A Petrograd communique states that Austro German foresa vasion of England stand revealed. own ships could pass by a chennelman of the Engineering Board, duce the flood effects in 5,000 appear on page 4.
Col. Sibert, who is the chair-would be feasible materially to re- Further notes on the orisia have appeared to the northward and southward of Cracow, German They are disclosed in a lengthy, known only to our own pilots, reinforcementa baring heen brought up to stiffen the Austrians, statement in the Saxe Start Gazette. Besides the mines, our torpedo assume his duties as division dietely north of thelake. The Board pondent appears elsewhere.
will leave Washington to-day to square miles of country imme News from our Pakhoi corres- The commanique affirms that during the fighting in the second by General Baron von Ardenne, and submarine division would engineer of the Central División, also found that by making certain half of November, the city of Lodz acquired great military import who in 1913 was in the General come into action. The submarines which includes the Ohio River charges and improvements in the The Kaiser Unmasked" appear General news and an article on ance. But when the German offensive at Lodz and Lowicz failed Adjutancy of the War Office in will play a big role in the mine- and its tributaries. His head- Grand Canal, which is simply an the former enormous city, which had drawn upon it the enemy's Berlin.
laying. bombardment, lost its importance. It presented the greatest
quarters will be Cincinnati. Be artificial river,... it
on page 3. would be The journal named he just
Querlila War. difficulties from a military point of view, giving our front an abnor- reached organ, and is quoted by
fore leaving for his new duty, Col., feasible to relieve a greater area
"Our Contemporaries" appeara mal contour and embarrassing our communications. Consequently, the Mail correspondent there. laid forts with the heaviest artil- the investigating work in China. Grand Canal, and furnish that page and log book on page 6.
When once these mines are Sibert told briefly of the result of from floods to the east of the on rage 2, commercial news on the city was evacuated and an opportunity taken, during a lull in In the coaree of time (says lery and airship sheds will be He said: the fighting, to reform our line.
country with a sure supply of General von Ardenue with mach built. A guerilla war with sub "About 500 years ago the water for irrigation purposes. confidence) we shall be in posees marines supported by air ordinera Yellow River, known as China's The value of the land to be re- sion of Calais, probably also of will cause oor enemy much anx-Sorrow, left its bed to the north claimed, and the benefits, that Dieppe and Havre. At Calais iety.
of the Phantong Peninsula and would come to the two areas re- the Channel narrowa down to a In the French barbours which came Bunth of that peninsula ferred to above, should, in the width of 36-40 kilometrз8 (22-25 lie opposite Great Britain our surping that portion of the bed opinion of the Bard, pay for the miles).
fleet of commerce-destroyers would of the hut River, lying between work proposed. Our 30.5 (12in) bowitzers have also find a base. This seems to the Grand Canal and the sen. The "The coat of the investigation a range of 14 miles (height of be more easily carried out because flusi liver empties into the was paid half by the American such a shot 4.370 yarde). The of England's rapeated breach of Huutze Lake, a body of water National Red Cross and half by range of our 47cm. (17in.) howit international law. Deo. 8, 1.10 am,
about 700 square miles. The China. The Red Cross is acting A Paris official statement issued yesterday evening says:
zere is still greater. England That thie will be no joke for channel usurped by the Yellow aimply as an intermediary in this can expect still further artillery the British Isles can easily be River was the outlet of the lake. matter, trusting that the neces- In Belgium the Germans bombarded Oost-Dunkerke, east of Nieu-surprises. port Between Bethune and Lene we completed the capture of the
seen from the fact that England: "The Yellow River bailt up the sary Chinese bonds can be floated. Even if we cannot shcot from is, so far as food is concerned, bed of the Huai River, and filled The good offices of the Red Cross village of Vermelles and a position at Rotorie, to the east of which the French coast to the English, dependent chiefly on foreign Huntza Lake until its bottom is are to be exercised in marketing we are lining the railway. Our troopa made an appreciable advance a safety zone can be made for countries. Any disturbance in now thirty-three feat above the the bonde for the accomplish in the region of Rouvroye, Parvilliers and Le Quesnoy-en-Santerre. German ships which will cover its supplies would be hadly felt. level of the sea, thus depriving ment of this work, thus to re-
There is nothing farther to report,
more than half the navigable In spite of all England's mine- the Finai River of its outlet to the lieve the organisation of the duty laying, in spite of her great Fleet, sea and of the reservoir capacity of assisting in relief work in the Zeppelin Bases,
she is always afraid of a German of the lake. The Bjard investigat area which periodically for years Monday, December 14. In the French harboura base force landing in the United ed the question of making a new has been devastated."A Organ recital at St. John's Deo. 8, 6.15 á,m,ten /
can be had for torpedo-beats and Kingdom. When the French cutlet to the sea for the Busi Correspondents in Flanders state that the French south of submarines, craisers, scouts, etc., aorth coast is in our hands #gch River and of an outlet to the port of the American engineera Saturday, December 19.
It is understood that the re- Cathedral-5.30 p.m.. - Dixmade have made notable progress, and that Roulers is now open to and last but not least-basea for au invasion which is now con- Yangtze River.
includes an estimate of the cost Y.W.C.A. Sale of work at 8 them. The Allies made many strategic changes, strengthening their our Zeppelina.
sidered a foolish romanos will New Outlet Feasible. of reclamation of the affected ares Paul's College. positions, and the British haye shortened their lines. A German These bases on the French coast be easily possible, especially when Ite investigation showed that in China and of the time which | B Saturday, January 30, advance is now regarded sa imposible.
can be made absolutely impreg- England continues to send troops it was feasible to make the outlet will be required to complete the Garden Fete, B.K. University, mable for the son by double or triple away from the island.
to the Yangtze River at less cost work.
3-7 p.m.
Dec. 8, 8.15 8.m. It is announced from Petrograd that the Russian coonpation of Barai and Basobkala, in Armenia, opens a direct road to Van and gives the Russiana the flourishing part of Armenia:
Allies' Appreciable Advance,
German Advance Regarded as Impossible..
water,
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DON'T FORGET.
Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Bijou eatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-0.18p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, Boxing Tournament at City
Hall-9 p.m.