The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1915 by the Proprietor
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Raromater
January 13, 1915,
Temperature 6 am. 62,
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·晚八十二月一十年寅甲
TO-DAY'S
81,
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
ANOTHER TURKISH REVERSE,
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FRENCH PREMIER CONFIDENT OF ALLIES'
SUCCESS:
لوگر
Fallure of German Aeroplane Raids.
French Reports.
(Havas Telegram.)
WEDNESDAY,
WAK ITEMS.
Greek Metropolitan Said to 1.ave Been Arrested.
JANUARY
13.
bospital ship Ebani, a converted Eider Dempeter liner. Her equip ment is being carried out by an infasatial ladies' committee, under an official committee, on voluntary aid, whose appeal has met with the most generous response from all parts of the Union, including a contribution of £30,000 from the Transvaal Chamber of Mines.
A hona, Dec. 2. It is semi- offio ally anucunced that the Turkisu aathirities at Aivali have arrested the Greek Metropolitan
To Rouse Hatred of British, under the pretex that he was in- oiting Christians against Ta key. Rome, Dec. 2—A dispatch from Enver Pasha before leaving the Messaggero's correspondent for the front arbitrarily approat the French front describes the priated 200,000 francs from the German psychological work in Otoman Bank.
1915.
FOREIGN CARGOES AT
TSINGTAU.
How Owners May Rogain Poasezaton.
January 13, 1914"
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
Turks Don't Löve the Kaiser any More!
Temperature: 6 s.m. 66 p. m. Humidity
Paris, Jan. 8 According to
how we give a translation of advices received from Constan-
the Pogalstion touching the goods tinople, recent events have severe- and cargoes owned by foreigners ly thinned the ranks of partisans and stored at Teingiau. This of Germans, and the anti German regulation was published on movement is increasing December 22 Inst. It does not, Many German families are of course, apply to Germans and leaving Constantinople. Austro-Hungarians,
General Von der Goltz's mis sion is regarded as doomed to failure.
The total Icases admitted systematically instilling into the 1. Goode and cargoes shall be by the Turks up to Novem-rope the polion of hatred taken cat by the end of March,
against the English, especially 1915. ber 23 are twelve thousand through accounts of atrcoities.
killed na wounded.
Alexandria, Dec. 1. The recent aruval of further troops increases the previous confidence that the Butish forces are ample to deal with any eventuality. Absolute tranquillity continues.
One of the most common ator.ea 2. Owners wishing to take related is that the English soak delivery of geode must present their prisoners in petroleum and an application directly to the tuen burn them alive. Naturally, Teingtau Wharf Bureau, clearly the dam-dam ballete stories are stating the marke, number and
till being repeated.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
The P. and O. steamer Nith struck at 2.30 a.m. on Monday, and disappeared at 5.15 ■.m.
The Russians have captured two Tarkish Companies and two machine gune in the Caucaina,
President Poincare, on return- ing from the front, expresses his confidence in the triumph of civilisation over barbarism.
Heroes of the Formidable.
London, Jan. 5-Stories of The Fukuji Mara has arrived survivors of the Formidable show at Wada with 17 passengers and that shortly before the vessel was 140 members of the crew of the struck aixteen belle and a rattling sunken P. and O. steamer Nile, of tin cans heralded the New Year. all suffering from exposure, names of goods, number or Most of the men were a-leep quantity of packages, destination, when the explosion occurred. port of departare, the way of They soon realised that there waOS Transportation, names and na- something serious, as the captain tionalities of ships on which the ordered the boats ont.. Tuis was cargoes were transported, names only possible to stai board, owing of shippers, and
any other to the list.
ship of the applicant.
saw men on the quarter deck, mostly smoking. The captain
· German Airmen Interned, British Subjects in Germany..
Copenhagen, Des. 1.-The Amsterdam, Deo. 1.-The German sirmen whose seaplane Brita paperantate that the Union came down in the North Bes near of German Trainere will shortly the island of Fange line been items necessary for proving owner- When the survivora left, they hold a protest meeting in Berlin interred. against the release of English (trainers "and jockeys from Rubleben. English subjects who have received permission to leave Germany and who wish to do so Dow must start before next San- day, Any who remain after that day will not be permitted to travel until January 8, when train will be placed at their dis-
posal. Paris, Jan. 11, 6.45 am, We took, after a fierce struggle, a trench in La Boiselle región. We repulsed attacks north-east of Sissons, then counter-attacked, carrying two lines of trenches on a front of about 500 matres.
We gained, north of Perthes, a line of 200 metres of trenches. We repulsed two fierce counter-attacks north of Beausejour, inflicting very heavy losses on the Germans.
The London Times reparts the complete failure of the project ed invasion of England by 16 German seroplanes.
Fruitless Attacks.
(Official Telegrams from French Government, via Poking). On the 10th the Allies' artillery got a fine range while firing against the enemy's tranches in the Ypres region. The French seized a German trench north of Arras, after violent fighting. The Ger- mans delivered several attacks north of Boissons during the night of the 9th and day of the 10th in an attempt to retake the trenches lost by them on the 8th, but all were repulsed, and the French troops made progresa,
The French gained a line of 200 metres of trenches north of Perthes. The Germans attempted to retake a small fort which they had lost north of Bausejour. Their attempts failed and they sustained very heavy losses..
Snow is drifting in the Vosges.
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The Germans attacked without success a French outpost south- east of Wissembach.
German Aircraft Active.
German aviatore have flown over the Dunkirk region, dropping bombs which killed or wounded five civilians.
A German aviator was obased from Malo les Baines to Amiens, where he fell down on the French lines; one pilot officer was killed and the other wounded."
[In the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this
page they will be found on the Extra.)
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
[Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."]
More Russian Successes.
Jan. 12, 7.15 sm.
A Petrograd communique says: The Russian Arrey in the Caucasne has achieved further suc cerens, capturing two Turkish Companies and two mountain guns.
Cause for Confidence,
Germans Handcuffed..
Louvain the Second.
Paris, Dec. 5.-The Journal states that M. Lutaud, Governor General of Algeria, proposes iving the name of Louvain to the first village to be founded in Africa by Belgian refugees.
NEWS,
Interesting war iteme sp
to-day.
The latent Lengket output is given to-day.
Further notes”: on-the-origin
The bills of lading or the rewas on the bridge with appear on page 4.” csipte issued by the German cigarette in his month. Wharf Ollice shall also be pre- sented.
The last words they heard the captain say were: "Steady, man! It's all right. Keep cool! Be British! There's tone of life left in the old ship yet." mentioned, for any unavoidable The captain's terrier was stand- and reasonable canse, they shall ing by his side as the ship prove by other means their disappeared.
If the applicants are not able to present the B/L or receipt above
British Avlators' Success.⠀
Praise for the Berkshires, "It is mon like you that have ownerships and have to deposit Oae marine was blown twenty enabled us to gain the sucoses cash or any other bond which the foot in the air, and fell in the
bat have been won Your Wharf Bureau deems saitsble, water and was rescued. Amsterdam, Nov. 30-The glorious coloura bear the names jast in each an amount as to" Telegraaf states that on Saturday of nearly all the battles in which cover the value of the goods. some hundreds of German soldiers the British Army has been engag Owners wishing to have the arrived at Ghent handcuffed, od for the last two hundred years," delivery of cargoes and goude having refused to do duty. This said Sir John French in address transported to Tsingtan on board makan still stronger the opinion ing the 1st Battalion of the Royal ship are also obliged to have the that "it's a long, long way! to Berkshire Regiment at the front. B/L certified by shipping agencies "Your conduct throughout the to the effect that fraight was paid. campaign has been magnificent,"
Oslais."
divided into two armies,
Patron Saint the Poles.
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Yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board is reported ele where.
General newa and an article on the liberty of the Press appear on page 3.4
An election of two members of
the Sanitary Board is to be held on the 22nd just.
Bome facta concerning Philippine Constabulary Band are given in this issue.
"Our Contemporaries" appeara on page 2, commercial newa on
6. London Dec. 31. A New York page 9 and log book on page telegram states that officers from Sabecriptions to a Fund started the Tennessee declare that the by the Telegraph on behalf of British aviators are the best in British toldiers wounded at
Europe:
The French are individually Teingtau are. acknowledged on
page 4. the British is the most efficient. brilliant but as a military unit
Muddy but Cheerful.
[DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre--9.15 pm,
add & the Commander-in-Chief. If, afterwards, no diepate occur, Turkey's Army In Thrace.
German Socialists-Herr the cash or bond deposited will Liebknecht to form New Party.be handed back at the request of Paris, Dec. 3. According to a telegram from Sofia, based on from Berlin states that the Social-
The Hague, Dec 3 message the applicant after June 1, 1915. reliable information, the Tarkish ist party contemplate excluding In case applicants want to have London, Das. 31. The Paris forces now concentrated between Herr Liebknecht from the party the delivery of their goods, stored eye-witness says that the daily Enos, Adrianople, Kirk Kiliase, for voting against the war grants in the warehouse or compound record of fighting from the six- and the frontier of Bulgarian Thrace amount to upwards of yesterday in the Reichstag. It is which was leased from the Ger-teenth to the twenty-fourth shows expected that Herr Liebknecht man Wherf Office, they shall pre- that our offensive continged with 300,000. They are well supplied will, after the war, organise a sent an application clearly stating increased violence and energy. with powerful artillery and are new Socialist party, of which he marks, numbers and names of The enemy's counterattacke show. will be the head, including all the goods, as well as the number ad that his assumption of the the Socialists who disapprove of or quantity of prokages, and the defensive was compulsory. A the attitude of their members name and whereabouts of the notable result of the fighting was Warsaw, Dec. 1-Archbishop in the Reichstag, especially these warehouse or compound where that we captured important points Kavovsky has sent a telegram to who have given coqualified sup: goods are stored. They must d'appui. The bad weather bas Vatican stating that the Germansport to the wr policy of the aleo present the deed or any other rendered the operations very
document of the warehouse or severe. Government, operating in Poland are system- atically using Catholic churches British Persecuted in Germany. compound.
The cold is intense and the Beyreuth, Nov. 30-The On the applications above-men- as positions for their mitrailleuses,
have to stand gets into the wirelesstations, &o, as the result Scoialist newspaper Volkstribuene tioned the applicant shall write liquid mad in which the men
has been suppressed by the com- his address and sigu whereof many have been destruy: mander of the Third Army Corps
breeches of the gans, preventing 3. Those who have been per ed. The Archbishop points out that the same danger threatens for appealing to the Reich tag to mitted to take out their goods them being fired, to the men have. P. Lammert's Sales Rooms the old Cathedral of Cracow, put an end to the persecution of bare to pay storage and fee to the to fight with the batt-ends and 2.30 p.m.
British people in Germany. Wharf Barean, the list of which their fists. The soldiers rra Annual General Meeting of the which contains the relics, of St.
described as blocks of mud but Hongkong Benevolent Boiety Germans and Canada. is attached to this regulation.
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TO-MORROW.
Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15pm.:
Friday, January 15.
Sale of Household FarnitureTM.
Friday, January 22,
Sanitary Board Election.
Saturday, January 30,
Garden Fete, H.K. University.
Stanislaus, and bags the Popa Ottawa, Nov. 20-The author 4, In case no application in their imperturbable good humour City Hall—coon. for his protection. St. Stanilasities are searching for secret made, the Whort Bureau will enables them to endure the hard- is the patron saint of the Poles,tores of arms in the Isle of keep the cargoes and goods at
ships. They greatly appreciate and was Bishop of Cracow He Orlesne, on the St. Lawrence the expense and risk of the owner, the baths and changes of linen is said to bave been slain before tiver, where & concrete base upon and will publish the mark on leaving the trenches, Before the alter in 1079 by King which a alege un might he numbers and quantity of the Nieuport are fands on one side Boleslaus."
mounted has been found on a tract packages in the Official Gazette and the sea on the other and dunes where the Germans two years ago published at Tokyo, antbe intervening ground. South Belgian Premier's Son Killed. established a plant for the manu- 5. Those who wish to takeout the of Ypres there is most difficult facture of concrete blocks. The above-mentioned goods shall take fighting in water, yet nothing but Amsterdam, Deo. 2.The island commands the defences the same procedure mentioned in gains are recorded and there is no Nieuwe Roterdamsche Courant of Quebec and the St. Lawrence Art. 2 and, moreover, must pay ba
wavering. lens that the son of the Belgian channel. The concrete base the whole expenses caused on the From the Oise to the Argonne Pmier, M. de Broqueville, s has been demolished. A goods and storage plas five times our artillery has been most Argonne forest are even more volunteer with the Belgian Army, search for stores of arms and the fee. pa prominent in destroying the arduous and the difficulties of ha+ been killed. It is rumoured ammunition is being made. It is 6. If, by the end of May, 1915, enemy'e gone. In the region of wooded and maddy ground make- that a second has also been recalled that lest summer a Ger- no application is made, the goods Rheims there has been principally continued progress all the more killed. Renter
man moving picture company and cargoes shall be confiscated artillery fighting. The enemy praiseworthy. There has been filmed a " battle" on this island, by the Government.
has fired twice as many pro-mach mining and countermining
ng in the Untor Hospital Ship.
previons and on four occasions we exploded Lieutenant Briggs. 7. In the case of goods perish-jectiles as in Copenhagen, December 4able or dangerous, the Wharf week but was unsuccessful in German minca (Our moral Ope Town, Dec. 2-Lady Lieutenant Briggs, the British Baresa will dispose of them by wresting from n the heavy superiority laindisputable despite Buxton, in the presence of aviator whose agroplane was shot auction. The proceeds thus gain advantage our artillery had the unfavourable conditions. surge arrembly, including during the inh-dropping raided will be kept by the Bareau till acquired: The effect of our attacks Aeroplanes and dirigibles have between Rheime and the Argonne done excellent work in bomb and the Administrator, Sir N. at Friedrichshafen, has now applied for.
is shown by the fact that all arrow throwing and also in com pointe d'appui we intended to operating with the British foot carry, to-day re in our possession on the Belgian coast and regulat The circumstances of the con- ing the range of guns and watch ditiona
operations in the ing for submarines,
De Waal General Thomp- almost recovered from his wounde, 8. Storage ein to be calculated Jan. 12, 7.15 a.m. von the Chief Justice, Sir Thoms and, according to a Berlin die from the day when the regulation
has become operaivo, President Poincare, speaking at Hazebrouck, after returning Smart Bir Lewis Michell, and patea has been conveyed an
09. Lais regulation shall be in from the front, expressed the opinion that we ought now to be more the Archbishop of Cape Town, prisoner to the than ever bonfident of the triumph of civilisation over barbariam, yesterday inaugurated the Union
force from December 28, 1914
fortress