The Hongkong Telegraph
February 3 1915. Humidity
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1915 by the Proprietor,
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2821 日十二月二十年寅甲
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
TESCRIBER'S
WEATHER FORECAST OVERCAST
Barometer 29.78
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES.
COLOSSAL CASUALTIES IN POLAND.
Russians Make Big Captures in the Carpathians.
ZEPPELIN SCARE IN ENGLAND,
[Router's Service to The "Telegraph."]..
A False Alarm.
Feb. 1, 11.15 p.m. It is reported that airships appeared off the south-east coast to night" and that the forts opened fire and drove them across the Channel,
The authorities in London and elsewhere were most prompt in taking precations to obscure lights and protect important pointe, All was done with splendid orderliness and calm.
Feb. 2, 3 a.m.
There was gun-fring by the coast batteries and searchlights were busy, but no hostile aircraft appeared.
Ramoure were rife in London that a fleet of Zeppelins was approaching, but the rumours were baseless. They were probably dae to trial defence measures, entailing a further diminution of light and the calling out of the special constables.
Feb. 2, 5.25 a.m. The gan-firing at Dover was due to the non-compliance of a steamer with the port regulations.
Nyassaland Rising Crushed,
Feb. 1, 11.15 p.m. The Pross Bureau announces that the Governor of Nyasaland farther telegraphe to the effec: that, although the leader of the rebellion is still uncaptured, he is being closely pursued. His followers have been broken up, and captures of other ringleaders continue to be made. The rising may be regarded as suppressed.
German Attacks Fall..
The Paria evening communique aaye;
Feb. 2, 12.55 a.m.
Colonel G. O. I. Stockwell, D 8.0., wae the Brigade Com- mander of the Highland Light Infantry. He served in the Chitral Relief Force, 1892 (despatches, medal with clasp); South Africa, 1899-1002 (despatches, Queen's and King's medals, four clasps,
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U. S. Democrats and the Ship Purchase Bill.
1915.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
No fighting is taking place in
knowledge of every branch of the When the British came up a profession is described by experts soldier one day noticed a peasant as astonishing. He knows all walking to the mouth of a care about guns-it won he that help carrying a wisp of bay. He ed Fisher to revolutionise the followed. The peasant went on guns of our Navy. Ho knows all and on into darkness and oblivion about torpedoes; he knows all that was the blacknees of night, about, and he could command, if Presently the peasant care to necessary, a submarine. He has some horses, which devoured always been a man of progress, the Vorges or in Alanos, where the wisp of hay. The soldier He helped at the birth of the there is a heavy snowfall. went back to the light and Dreadnought, at the side of Fisher The Governor of Nyassaland informed the Paymaster of the again. He trampled on the days the rising there may now be British Army where horses could century-old traditions of the Navy regarded as suppressed. be found and offered to act as that sailors need not fire straight. guide to the Faymaster's repre- Nelson had always sent his ships sentative. The horses were right, up to the ships of the rescued, requisitioned, and to the enemy, and in-fighting at short delight of the frightened French range does not demand very peasant, paid for in good English akilial marksmanship, gold.
Jellicoe changed all that; when But I learn from a Franch he was in charge of a ship he officer who has been with the insisted on his men learning French army at Soissons for over gunnery; and his ship always Col. Rowland Mainwaring, two months that the caves are took firat place in gunnery. O.M.G., and Col. George Stook daily revealing some wonderful His service has been varied. well, D.S.O., have been appointed hidden treasure. Cows have been Ha.nearly lost his life through a Divisional Commanders. brought out after weeks ofintern- tad wound during the expedition
Hoazobald in China which Admiral Ssymour all trenches at Borjimoff by a The Russians have re-osptured ment in the dark, 4
Feb. 2; 5.25 a.m. Renter's correspondent at Washington reports that the debate in the Senate on the Ship Parobase Bill, which the Republicans are obstructing, bas been adjourned aiter Senator Clarke (Democrat and temporary President) bad startled hie colleagues by moving to recommit the Bill to the Commerce Committee for revision.
Russian's Inflict Heavy Losses.
Feb, 2, 7.50 a.m.
yesterday that a fleet of Zoppolins Rumoura were rife in London
was approaching, but these were
baseless.
Bat In the Carpathians the Rust ins captured 78 officers and 4,005 men between January 26. and 20.
A Petrograd communique says:-* An attempt was made by the Germine on Saturday to take the goods galore have been rescued, commanded" when the Boxers: vigorous counter-attack, the Ger offensive on the Lipno-Dobrzin, line (on the right bank of the Vistula code families detorted the ves were turning things upside down towards Thorn), but they were repulsed with heavy loss. The for the open life of Soissons. Every Bat there is this remarkable fact caves He has commanded many ships. enemy was forced to evacuate the village of Makow.
The Germans on Sunday concentrated large artillery forces in the region of Sokhaczew-Bolimow, and then attacked in strength An impetacas German attack on Sunday in the region of jimoff forced us to retire to our second line of trenches.
and close formation with large supports..
Over 10,000 Austrians and Germans Accounted For.
man casualties being colossal.
Senator Clarke has startled his district the people betake them-man of action, has had abundant mit the Ship Purchase Bill to the time the Germans bombard the this man, who essentially is a colleagues by moving to recom solves to the caves, where they can experience of the office desk as Commerce Committee for revis live in safety, and where their well. He has been almost every-ion. Bor-knowledge of the subterranean thing in the office of the Admir- The Germans violently attacked ramifications is of no small alty except First Sea Lord. The the Alliea" trenches north of the military value.-Daily News.
modern organisation of the fleet La Basseo-Bethune road, but is due largely to his labour not were repulsed, leaving numerous on sea but on land, in Whitehall, dead. not in the North Sea, which is one
Prisoners captured by the
The prisonera captured in the Borjimoff region say that the German attacke between January 23 and 30 coat them over 6,000 killed,
In the Carpathians we captured 78 officers and 4,085 men be- tween January 20 and 20.
Colossal German Losses.
Feb. 2, 8.55 a.m.
We re-captured all the trenches at Borjimoff by a vigorons counter attack.
The German casualties,wers colonial,
The enemy simultaneously attacked the villages of Goumine and Moghelj, being supported by a withering artillery fire. We repulsad them by artillery and bayonete, and regained our positions.
Horses & Cows Hidden Underground.
In France, Deo. 24. In the whole of Europe there is no ground more precious than that which has been wrerted from
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Well Buried Treasure.
“LITTLE JELLICOE"
of the reasons why his knowledge Russians say that the German is so all-round. Which also attacks between January 23 and The Man who Commands. makes for greater efficiency, be- 30 cost the Germans over 6,000
our Fleet.
cause Admiral Jellicoe et ses killed. Frederick William, the father perfectly understands the work- of Frederick the Great, who ing of the great department at trawled all Europe for girnte, home. And want of harmony mans on Saturday to take tha would have been very much dis between the bigwigs in White- ofensive at Lipno and Dobrzia, gusted with our choice of our hall and the Admirals at sea has near Thorn, was repulsed with leaders in this great war, writes T. often risked our whole fate at heavy loss.
Prince Arthur of Connaught a Target for Alrmen.
An attempt made by the Ger-
NEWS.
Interesting war items will be. found elsewhere.
Further notes on the crisis
The report of the Union Water- boat Company appears on page 6: Football fixtures for Saturday are given elsewhere.
General news and an article. beaded All is Not Going Well," appear on page 3.
DON'T FORGET.
P. O'Conner in the Globe. Innen. Poor Nelson was often tor- The large passenger lines have politics we have Loyd George and lured almost into despair by determined to continue their Winston Churchill, and they are triotion thus produced. But sailings from Liverpoal, being emall men, French, our Com-Jellicoe holde his place, he was fully confident that the A imiralty mander-in-Chief, is a small man, lifted above the beads of innumer will dispose of the raiders. and finally Jellicoe, the Admirsi able rivals to the chief command, of our Fleet, is a small man. I thanks to the trust in him which bave heard him referred to in is felt by Mr. Churchill and Lord private even disrespectfully 40 Fisher, And the three work to- "Little Jellicoe." But I should tell gether with perfect harmony and the circumstances under which entire understanding and sym-appear on page 4. SECRETS OF SOISSONS. from his home. In a few weeks the familiar title was applied, pathy between them. Fisherspeaks This morning's training times
We Bhall find him tilling As everybody will remember, of Jellicoe with unstinted eology, are given elsewhere. the explosive Boil
while on the fatal 22nd of June, 1893, and the Admiral that Fisher trusts the guns get fainter and fainter in the Victoria came into collision England can well trust too. the distance, and finally there with the Camperdown, and will come the great day for the Admiral Tryon, whose ill-fated rebuilding of the homestead or order caused the disaster, 21 of ootinge.
bie officers, and 350 of the men were drowned. But Jellicoe was not drowned, though he ought to have been. For when the
Our Contemporasics" appears At one recovered point in collision came he was lying!
Peris, December 17-An 6-on page 2, commercial news on the Germans in the recent fight Flanders there was an old peasant in his berth and had been planation of why the German page 0 and log book on page 6. ing. All told it does not amount sometimes to be found selling there for daye down with an attack sirmen are persistently dropping to very much actual territory, bootlaces to the British soldiers of fever. It was there that he bombs an Hazebrouck is furnish- This morning the enemy violently attacked our trenobes northbat there is something in capture The other day the Allied line went heard the grinding noise of the ed by the announcement to-day | which is irresistibly isractive to forward towards Zonneheke, and collision. He forgot his fever, that Prince Arthur of Connaught of the La Baasse-Bethune rond, but was repulsed, leaving numerous the allied soldier, conscious for behind the army wers the old jumped out of bed, gave the slaying there as the gust of German infantrymon at Beaumont Hamel, north of Albert, the first time in this war of a men. When the point had been warning to all the sailors, and the famous politician-priest, Abbe attempted to surprise one of our tranches, but wore repulsed, military superiority over the recovered the pensant identified rushed up on deck till he saw what remained of his home, and everybody off the doomed vessel, abandoning the explosives with which they were provided.
Moreover, it is now almost safe having one so immediately and the last sight we saw,'
The V. C. and the Iron Cross. There has been great activity in the region of Fontaine-Madame to say that what we regain in commenced to burrow in the sys the man who tells the story
contrast with the lavish France and Belgium we hold, erih. Suddenly he gave a with great gusto,was little
TO-MORROW. A German attack in the direction of Bagatelle was repulsed. Our strategio pointa, trenches, little ary of satisfaction and draw Jellicos. It wasn't till ther in which, the German Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. One of our trenches was mined and wrecked. We evacuated the and artillery combine to make it forth his stocking of saving of 'every man for himself was Keiser has been flinging about Victoria Theatra 9.15 pm,
***The Grotesques," Theatre trench and auffored no losses,
There has been no fighting in the Vosges or in Alsace, where possible for the allied soldier to buried there when the Germans given that Jellicos jamped into the Iron Cross-although there is
carry out bis heroic resolve of began their grand march on the sea; then he was so weak thats story that his Majesty recently Royal.—9,16 p.m. there has been a heavy fall of snow.
holding on. The peasant popula-Calais. He was fortunate, for the bat for a friendly midshipman's tore that decoration off the breast Chinese Play Queen's College tion are so thoroughly convinced Germans have dog pp almost help he would have had to go of an Imperial Prince, who had Hall.-Q.C.A.0.0.-7.30 pm. that all is well that they are every equare yard of ground for down. But Midshipman West made a fool of himself in France-Friday, February 5. returning to their ruined homes Belgian buried treasure. They held him up fill they were both the Victoria Cross is still as difficult to win as ever. Up to or just so much of home as shelle had missed the old man's stocking rescued by a boat,"
The favourite hiding place for Indeed, Jellicoe ought to have November 27 bat nineteen swerde and mines and other side to do. struction have left. The peasant the French peasants round been dead long ago, for he has had been made, four to the Royal in this part of the world is a very Soissons was the caves. When been in as tight plasse as ever a Field Artillery, three to the Royal shrewd judge of warfare. Honaw the British were at Soissons they man was, He went out to the forze Artillery The Royal the German flood and the steps made a requisition of horses dia- rescue of a boat at Gibraltar in a Engineers havo aleo secared three, that wore taken to beat it back loovered by some Sherlook Holmes roaring gale; the gig was captized while the Royal Fusiliers and the He has stood by and watched in the ranks. It was in this way and Jellicoe was washed ashore, King's Own Yerkshire Light Havco at its worst. He is to be The Soissons caves have subter- He got a silver medel from the Infantry have each gained two P. Lammert's Sales Room-2.30 Feb. 2, 5 25 a.m. found everywhere in the zone of innean ramifications of which Board of Trade. That medal went decorations. The other units that pm
Tuesday, February 9. Colonel Rowland Mainwaring and Colonel. Goorge Stockwell fire, indifferent to danger, and Baedeker or any other guids down with the reat in the Victoria, have each got one VC are the
The H.K. Canton and Madsa have been appointed Divisional Commanders,
where secrecy is the essence of except the peasant himself is He asked the Board of Trade for 9th Lancers, the 15th Hussars, [Colonel it. B. Mainwaring recently returned to the Army anrlars, sometimes a menace ignorant. When the Germans duplicate; he was politely told the King's Royal Rifle Corps, the Steamboat Co., meeting of share- after retiring. He has served on nevers! expeditions, and even to his own friends. He has invasion of France began the he could have it if he paid for it. Welsh Regiment, and the Royal holders con
is a career that follows Army Medical Corp. Nine of Union Waterboat Co., Ltd.
doad.
and Boie de la Grurie in Argonne,
Business as Usual.”
^.. Fab. 2, 5.25 a.m. Some of the regular sailings of cargo-steamers between Great Britain and Ireland have been cancelled, but Liverpool is not scared Vessels were entering and leaving that port yesterday as usual.
The large passenger lines continue their sailings, fully confident that the Admiralty will dispose of the raiders..
Promotions.
enemy.
Lemite.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre-9.15 p. Vintoria Theatre-9.15-z.m, t Toe Grotesques," Theatre Royal-9.15 p.m.
Sule of sait-lengthe --G. P. Lammert's Salon Room-11-a..
Chinees Play-Queen's College Hall.-Q.0.A.D.O.-7.30 p.m.
Saturday, February 6 Chinese Play-Queen's College Hall,-QU.A.D.0—7.30 p.m.
Monday, February 8.
Sale of Obina and Carios-f.
was in the Barmese expedition in 1885-86 with the 1st peddled buttons and bootlages French pestants took to the caverently. Its destined course the awarda have been given to Meeting of Shareholders, Mesaro
Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He commanded the 2nd Batt among German troops and French-men, women, children, farni- B.W.F. in Crete in 1895 (Brevet of Colonel, O...), and brosme and British troops, shrewdly ob- tare, Horses, cattle, dogs. The from the first hour for at school officers (four of whom have since Dodwell & Co., Ltd, offic Colonel in the following year. He was A.A.0., Portsmouth, 1800rved the spirit of both, and has whole household went to the and college Jellicos determined died), and the remaining ten to 11.80 am A.A.G., South Altion, 1899-1900, being mentioned in despatches, come to the definite conclusion caves. The French Government to be master of his profession, non commissioned officers and Queen's Moral and two clasps. Olonel Mainwaring also command that the Garman flood of borror wanted the horses, but once in the and he studied every branch of it, men, several of whom have now P. Lammert's Sales Room-2.30
the 23rd Regimental district, 1900, 6.-
sad destruction is receding oaves they could not be found. and all the literature upon it. His been promoted from the rank
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