THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915.
CHIEF OFFICER CHARGED. THE CALL OF COUNTRY, in any part of France-might EDEN AND THE CHINESE.
Alleged Theft of Coal.
At the Police Court, this after- noen, before Mr. J. R. Wood, 8. Miyaji, the chief cfficer of the 8.8. Komogais Maru, was charged
with the theft of about twenty tons of coal, the property of Mestra. Jardino, Matheson and Co, Ltd.
EARL KITCHENER AND THE DURATON OF THE WAR. and Mr. Lewis, of Messrs.
Jan. 12, 3.15 am.
[Reuler's Service To Tho. "Telegraph."] The Paris common que states that there is no change in the situation.
Two German neroplanes attempted to approach Paris, but French aircraft repulsed them."
"A Good Bit Longer."
.. Jan. 12, 3.15. Mrs. Parkur, siater of Earl Kitchener, opening the Soldiers' Wives' Club, London, said that from what she could gather from ber brother in occasional chats, he thought the war would last good bit longer and that more men were needed.
a
Bye-Witness" and France's
Conscripts.
The following descriptive ac- count, which has been com- municated by an eye-witness prosent with General Head quarters, continues and sup. plements the narrative publish. ed December 3 of the move- ments of the British Force and the French Armies ia im-
mediato touch with it :-
onllout soldiers.
a
the
from
A Remarkable Booklet by a
Local Author.
THOSE BROWN
RASCALS
Altered German Opinion of Indian Soldiers.
Amsterdam, Deo. 5. German soldier's letter, published The following extracts, from by the Frankfurter Zeitung, show that the Cerman army is beginning to realise the fighting qualities of the Indian troops. The soldier writes:-
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"The English stem to take a
doya it had rained suells and the diabolical pleasure in showering shells on as. When for three British thought we were beaten to
have come Ba Bomewhat of, a revelation. From the middle of October onwards the roade bave been thronged with men-literal- ly (housands being met with in the course of a short motor jour- ney-all trudging along towards In "To Creation the Real the mobilisation centres, carrying Situation of Eden and the Origin their faw clothes and necessaries of the Chinese," (Kelly and Walsh, in bags slang over their aboul-Hongkong: $2) by Tas Trautal, ders. Some have more, some lose, the author has given his readers, but few are without the spare whether Chinese or non-Chinese, pair of boots which they apparent quite a lot to think about, Mr. Mr. Shenton, of Messra. Danen,
ly, and quite rightly, regard as Tae, who is associated in business Looker, Doacon and Farston,
tho must necessary article of with the Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C. appeared for the complainants,
soldier's outfit,
"To-day, for the first time, we "The Emperor fights his cam kong, las devoted many years of and the devil knows those brown M. G., and is well known in Hong bad to fight against the Indians, Johnson, Stokes and Master, ap
paigns with our legs and cot close study to Bibilical exageaia rascals are not to be under-rated. pered for the "defendant. Two
November 20, 1914. with oor muskets," said the Chinese more charged with From the 26th to the 28th, the conscripts of Napoleon, and their well as to the classics of his At first we spoke with contempt receiving.
weather has continued warm, and descendants bore evidently not he has just published in the out-ed to look at them in a different owa nation; and the booklet which of the Indians. To-day we learn Mr. Shenton said he would ask except for an occasional heavy forgotten the lesson. The strange come of that study, albeit his light. to the Sessions. There would be days have been productive of no mixture of types. A considerable race had its origin in Chinese par trenches under an his Worship to commit the case shower has been fine. These three proosssion includes a curious
main contention-that the human For three daya we lay in a large number of witnesses, incidents of any magnitude, and proportion constata of middle-aged unless he could arrange with bid have on the whole been about the men of good physique, broad- Turkestan-seems to have come interrupted shell fire from the friend to admit certain facts. quietest we bave experienced for shouldered and sturdy, and of to him as a sudden inspiration. English, and weie lacking in the
Mr. Lawis said if his friend weeks. The perrative of opera-kely young men from
The reader need not necessarily
barest necessarie, as caly at⠀ mentioned what he wanted, he tione, therefore, can be dismissed countryside of a type to make ex literature in order to follow Mr. visions. Wator wo had enough
be acquainted with Chinese night time could! we obtain pro might be able to meet him. ia a very low words...
Mr. Shenton said he wanted Though generally innotive the tallyman's books admitted, to along out front, the Germans generally known, there have is founded on premisses that are, were hunery.
For some yeara, as is probably Tee's reasoning, much of which both above and below ae, but wo begin with. The abip was char-have continued to press in one besn no exemptions
at least, daring, from some pec fered to bring coal for Mosera, quutur-against tha Jardine, Matheson and Co. from troops, where, in apita of the loss tional standards and professions, correctnsse of the writers of Indian military service in France. Educa-ple's point of view, inasmuch as they challenge the geographical GREEN ISLAND CEMENT HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Hongay, there being an under-suffered by them in their last such as those of the noir, standing with the Charbonnage attack in this direction, they have lawyer, doctor, and artist, which
Genesis CASE.
Company in Tonkin for the been busy extending their saps in were formerly Excepted, are
a jelly they had then in store for exclusive importation to Hoag. order to carry out assaults from now
no longer. Besides Chinese are directly descended.
His argument is that the 8 a visit from their brown allies. kong of coal, and the Komogala short distanos, None of these, those who escaped in the past, from Nosh (Nu Wa or Shi) English had put into those fellows. "The devil knows what the Maru was the vessel used for the however, has been carried out in many others have now been through his son Shem. What Anyhow, those who stormed our Notification Regarding Dividend. purpose of bringing it to Hong
gathered in the net of service and Semito writers will have to any linen seemed either drunk or kong, Oa Domber 31, 3,765
have gone to swell the numbers tons of coal were put on board this
of those who have recently bed to this we cannot foresee our possessed with an evil spirit. With ship for shipment to Hongkong,
streaming along every road in read the book firet, and then with which our hurrahs are like suggestion is that they should fearful shouting, in comparison There were 2,85 tons of lamp
France to answer to the call of argue. With mach that the writer the whining of a baby, thousands 1,109 ton of dust coal and 300 coal, 300 tons of small lump coal,
their country. tons of briquettes. The ship
The change that within the last with his readiness to take cert upon us as suddenly as if they has to say about the Delage, and of these brown forma rushed arrived
few days has come over what may ain points in Genesis literally, were shot out of fog, so that af in Bongkong on
There seems little doubt that the be termed the "stmosphere" of persons of the Bigher Criticism first we were completely taken by January 4. On January 5 the Germans are employing civiliscs, the battlefield is marked. cool was discharged, and, by the either willing or unwilling, to dig regards noise, the cannonade bas selves at variance. Ethnologists we opened a destructive fire As way of thought may find them surprise. At a hundred metres tallyman's books it would be seen, trenches, for some have been seen now decreased to such an extent in general, too, may not be en which mowed down hundreds, that thirty-two and a half tone and shot while engaged in this that for hours on end nothing is tirely at can with Mr. Tre in his but in spite of that the others ad were missing. Coal in junks work."
heard but the infrequent boom of deciding to class the Indian vanced, springing forward like Causeway Bay osme On the 27th the enemy ancceed one of the Allies' heavy guns, the peoples with the African negroes, date and surmounting obstacles under the notice of the police, ed, by means of sapping up and occasional rattle of machine guns, as children of Ham. and on questions being asked, a then assaulting from a short sad the intermittent poo
with unexampled agility." pass eigned by the chief officer dialance amidst a shower of for that word expressed the sound sincere, to much the result of But the book is so manifestly was produced. When Iaspeotor bombs, in gaining possession of a best of the snipers on either careful and painstaking researdh, Gordon saw the pass he inspected pcrtion of tranch on our right, side. And in certain quarters, and so full of new ideas, that it the coal and refuted the officers From this, however, they were where the combatants are close should-sad will be read, and Mr. Potter contended that the
authority to pass off coal belong. soon ejected. defendants had mistaken plaintiff
|ing to consignees without the On the 28th, facing our centre, of siege, warfare, the bombe of a fuller and more exhaustive and operations appertain to those should, further, pave the way for for Wong Lee who was actually
permission of the consiguess. It there were signs of some change the Mirenwerfer and the Emslier treatise by Mr. Tee upon what all Tung Yick's foreman. Assuming Tokyo, are staying at the Boug instituted which led to the pre which was employed in "register. But the air no longer throbs to
Professor and Mrs. Parvis, of was then that enquiries were having been made in the com- bombe thrown by hand are his readers will feel is a most in that plaintiff did stand by while kong Hotel. Professor Parvia is sent charge..
position of the hostile artillery, detonating almost continuously. tereating.subject. he was introduced as the Tuoga professor of naval architecture Yiok'aforeman, it would be merely
B. D. F. Beith, of Messra. ing" fresh zones of fire. On the to the continuously dull roar of evidence of holding out, and this at the Tokyo Imperial University. Jardine, Matheson and Co., said right one of the German batteries beavy artillery and the detons-boing enfiladed. In either case
the coalhe, Haw et No. was discovered in the morning to tions of great projectiles 2 Station, was the company's have been left out in the open. Of course, if an attack is in cavating at one end. At what is rise to myths in their lifetime
forward progress is made by cr
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Again Continued this Afternoon.
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The hearing of the action of The Man Shing Leo firm against
BANK
the Groen laland Cement Cim- We are officially aathorised to pany, Ld., for $3,818, for work Directors of the Hongkong and state that, subject to audit, the dons and materials supplied by Shanghai Banking Corporation the plaintiffs to the defendants on will recommend at the forthcom board the steamship Ching Chowing meeting: at the request of the defendants, was resumed by Sir William
Dividend of £2.3/- per share Rees Davies (Chief Justice) in the
Bonas of 5 shillings per share; Supreme Court, this afternoon."
subject to deduction of Income
Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, appeared. for the plaintiffs, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. Hang, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon and Horton, represented the defendants.
had not been pleaded by the de
Tax
And carry forward about $26 in lakhs.
DAY BY DAY.
Visitors.
fendants. It would not be at all Clearing Our Thoroughfares,
extraordinary for a Chinese to
force.
South of the Lye generally there has been some shelling of localities in roar of our front line; but this form of annoyance front. Sniping is curried on el diminishes daily along our whole most incessantly.
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Chinese the Children of Shem
trenches, and truly these brown In no time they were in our enemies were not to be despised. With butt ends, bayonets, swords, and daggers we fought each other, which, however, was lightened by and we had bitter bard work, reinforcements which errived quickly before we drove the fellows out of the trenches. Renter's Special
"A Vetera" of 1870. Journalists very gelom give
Sixty prosecutions for infring coal. He saw briquettes, fair. This was probably due to the progress, there is again turmoil, considered a possible assaulting in the case of the late M. de Blo stand by and pass no 'remark in ment of traffic regulations were sized pieces of coal, and there was failure of an attempt to move it but it is more lccal and does not distance these approaches, or saps, wilz some of the mythical stories Police Oourt, this morning, with no dust from briquettes. There ever the case of its exposed recently reigned on a large scale roughly parallel to that being creation. According to a con brought before Mr. Wood at the also some dust. There should be during the night. However, what approach in intensity that which are joined up by a lateral trench were more of less of his own
Buch c'roumstances,
The case was proceeding as we want to press.
varying results.
was no understanding that those who cleaned the ships should get more permitted to take coal sweep suo quantities of coal. The men inge (duet) up to a certain weight. give any ecal in consideration for The officer had not permission to
Those Dogs. ONE-WORD TELEGRAMS.
G. Hastings, the Peak, was fined $5, at the Police Court, this The Hongkong station of the to be bufanzzled. Legable, morning, for permitting hia, dog Bietern Extension Australasia Mount Kellett, was fined $5 for cleaning, and China Telegraph Co., Ltd., a similar offence. has issued the following intima- tion:-
Referring to the express issued
Hongkong Journalist's
Bereavement. We regret to record the death,
His Worship intimated that he would personally go and inapest the coal apart from the samples
of
-Globe
position, our gune did not fail to The scene, as a whole, as viewed take advantage of it.
from one of the few commanding for a fresh rusb,
attacked. Here the stormere collect active against us, the Germans of peace as compared with that ranonn or semi-underground life he is a veteran of the Franco
On the same day, though in- points on our front, is almost one
temporary, a queer legend is in The extent to which subter- Belloc. This is to the effect that circulation concering Mr. Hilaire made an isolated and unsupported a week or two ago. ........... They were easily beaten back of the fighting on the Aisne that, varies with the nature of the fought in 1800, far from having attack on the French on our left.
ia forced on the combatants in the Prussian War. As a matter of It was mentioned in the account neighbourhood of the firing line fact, Mr. B and, it is believed, lost some 400 so far se we were concerned, the ground and depends on the killed and many prisonere.
While it is necessary to accept sumed the character of siege in the particular locality in which But a good many of the people struggle had to come extent as character of the enemy's activity in a French artillery regiment. year, and as a young man served the evidence of all prisoners with operations. The same can be said they are. Where sniping or rilla who res his weekly articles will caution, there is a change of tone with still greater trath of the fire is alone to be expected, the very likely continue to believe the officere recently captured, engaged. Both sides have had time the front line is limited. When he was presen at Gravelotte. in the views expressed by some of battle in which we are now amount of the excavations behind which appears to be genuine. to dig themselves in and to streng-bombardment is or has been They admit the failure of German then their positions with all the severe, everyone within range of strategy, and profess to take a resources available in the field. In the enemy's guns, the brigadier to prevent being afiladed, and gloomy view of the future. At spite of this the Germans, urged not excepted, will be found en-liberally partitioned into oom- the same time le must be copless by weighty motiver, limited as to sconced underground in "dug partments by traverses so as to ed that there is as yet no time, and content in their num- onts," or funkholes" as they localice the effect of shell fre. sign that their view is that erical superiority and the weight are familiarly called, for in the For some time the character of gonerally beld by the enemy. Nor of a very powerful siege armament zone under fire, bouses are no the artillery fire has been auch has there been any definite in- —uoh as has indeed never before better than shell traps,
ae to force both combatants, even dication of a lack of morale been brought into the field-bave, Behind the firing-line trenches, for some distance behind the amongst his troops.
when face to face with the Allies are found the shelters for the firing line, to barrow into the various mobilisation orders call frontal attacke. Having failed in for the supports. Theas are and to conceal their works as fare Daring the last six weeks line, attempted to break it by men bolding the line and those earth in order to obtain shelter Hoom as soon as possiblo a list of Lancaster concentration
ing up different cleeses of men thie, in spite of desperate efforts, more elaborate and comfortable as possible, in order to gain pro- the members of their units who whore 2,000 alione are interned.
liable to service have been issued they are now endeavouring in to the fire frenobes, usually tection both from were not on parade and the A crowd of 1,000, armed with
by the French Government come quaiters to progress by the are roofed over, and contain cook places. This has been carried reasons for their absence.
bricks and stones, rusbed for the
To the average Englishman, alower methods of aege warfare.ing placea and many conveniences. on to auch an extent that behind Parades Parades for Wednesgate, The guards fixed bayonets
whom a day 18th instant, nil, and charged the prisoners, who Court, Commander Basil Taglour, to render animaginative, even the they now move forward by several luxurious and
This mording, at the Marino from all that war implica is apt their infantry has to advance quarters have now become almost French, and Germans are perfect Derail-Orderly Officer, 2nd fled back to the barrank rooms. R. N., fined the coxswain of the immediate effect of such orders is nairow end-on approaches which Communication between the firing types. The principal feature of Lient. Murphy, Orderly Sergeant, Some were slightly wounded. No steam launch Tak Lee 340 for hard to conceive; and to him & are either open to the air or a foot line and the various shelters in the battlefield, therefore, as had and contain windows, labyrinths of burrows of various Sergt. Frith. To forgish Guard fatalities are reported. The ring carrying 60 persone on his launch journey made shortly after their or two below the surface of the the rear and with the leadquarters often been pointed out, is the to-night, Scouts Company; to leaders have been placed in soli- in excess of the number allowed issue along the highwaya of Nor ground. Where open, these ap of units is kept up along ap morrow, Scouts Company.
tary confnment,
y his licence;
thern France or for that matter | proaches are zigzagged to avoid proach trenches, all, sigargged beingu.
absence of any signa of human
under date 8th instant, the Chief
exbibited in Court. Censor, London, advises that the in Scotland, of Mr. John S. Petrie, witness said there was no-one on Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis, recent instructions prohibiting father of Mr. T. Potrie, of the board for the company but the telegrams in plein language con- South China Morning Post, nowe tallyman. It was the custom with taining a single word only are of which came to hand by cable ships discharging coal in this suspended till farther notice. to-day. The sympathy of many Harbour to discharge less coal friends will go out to Mr. Petrie than appeared on the bill of lad- VOLUNTEER ORDERS. in his bereavement.
Mr. Lewis asked if the amount Carps Orders issned to-day by
Returned.
of shortage varied from 1 per Lieat-Col. A. Chapman, V. D., Mrs. Edkins returned from the
Sir Charles Eliot and Mr. and cent. to 77 stats:-
Wilnese replied he could not North by the Hirano Maru.
say what the average was; he had not had a case as high as Boven It varied considerably.
The case was adjourned.
Field day, 10.1.16.-0. O's Companies and Sctions are ro
guested to send to the Orderly
Interutd Allens.
A riot occured last month at camp,
ing.
Too Many Passengers.
gans and Baro