THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915,
BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
HOME FOOTBALL.
Some Remarks on Shipping Questions.
Washington, January 8: Opposition to the President's ship- purchase bill has been intensified by despatches from London par porting to forecast what will be the attitude of the English Covers ment with respect to the purchase of Interned German vessels by the Government of the United States.
Thus far, writes Mr. Augus McSween in the North American, there has been no intimation from the President or those who are advising him in this matter of any intention to purchase the vessela now in this country belonging to Germany.
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Instead, the President and those who speak for him refuse absolute-' ly to make known what are the intentions of the Government in
this connection.
Yot the despatches from London indicate that the proposition has been submitted in some form to the English Govorament," and that the Government; in replying
to the recent American note desl-
English Cup Re-plays.
The re-played ties in the Eog- lish Cup Competition (first round)
resulted as follows:-
Newcastle U. (b) 5 W. Ham U. 2 Manchester O. (b) 3 Preat'a N.E. D Birmingham (b) 3 Crystal P....0 Bury 2 Plym'b A. (b) 1 Chelasa (b) ...... 5 Swindon........? Bristol R. (b)...0 Sbaih'nd U. O
The second round was to be
played on January 30.
Distinguished Passengers.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
ALLIES TROOPS CONTINUE SUCCESSES.
BRITISH ARMED MERCHANTMAN MISSING.
[Reuter's Service to The "Telegraph."] Distressed Ship Lost.
Feb. 24, 5.p.m. The steamer which was reported yesterday as being in distress was the s.s. Oakby, bound from London to Cardiff. She sank to-day while being towed. The orew landed åt Ramsgate and Dover.
A. Qulet Day at the Front,
Feb 24, 4.20 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Paris reports that the communique states there is nothing to report except a few successful actions by our troops near Auberives-sur-Suippe and further progress northward
who left of Perthes.
and Princess Kam pengpetch and Vice Admiral H. Takarabe were anong the passengers for Earope by the Kashima Mora c-day.
ing with British interference with the public would sanction or the commerce of the United States, approve. will also discoes the proposed
This conclusion is strengthened purchase of the German ships. by the fact that for the last three The question which presents monthe there have been under itself in this connection is not! way secret and mysterious negotiz-. whether the purchase of the Ger- tione looking to the sale of the man ships would be a good or German ships to the United States bad thing for the country. It is Government. In connection with entirely one of the propriety of these negotiations the charge has legislation sad of executive sot- been made that a deal is contem-
intereats will profit hagely.
Armed Merchantman Misslog.
Feb. 24, 7.5 p.m. The Press Borean has issued an announcement that the armed merchantmau Olan McNaughton is missing.
It is considered that she was lost in the gale of February 3.
· Feb. 24, 7:45 p.m. Twenty officers and 260 men were lost on the Clan MacNaughton.
Two More Steamers Torpedood.
Feb. 25, 2.45 a.m. The steamers Rio Parana, for the Mediterranean, and the Harpalion, for Newport News, have been torpedood and suak oft Beachy Head.
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The crews were saved, with the exception of three Chinese the Harpalion, who were killed in the explosion.
[The Harpalion was a British steamer of 5,8 67 tone gross. She Hartlepool, her owners being Mesara, J. and J. Harrison, Ltd. port of registry wes London.]
THE COURSE OF THE WAR
NON SUITED.
The Wrong Man Sued."
[Continued from Yesterday.]
ALLEGED SILK THEFT.
Over 30 Bales Missing from Lighter.
This morning, four men and one woman were charged at the Police Court, before Mr. A. dazeland, with the theft of thirty- three and a half pounds of raw silk, valued at about $400 on the P. & O. Co.'s lighter No. 7. Mr. P. W. Goldring, of Masere. Mr. D. J. Lewis, of Menare. Goldring and Philipe, appeared Johnson, Stokes and Master, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Preston, prosecuted, and Mr. Q. A. 8. of Mesare, Johnson, Stokes and | Russ defended." Master, appeared for the defend-On January 28, it appears, a
ants.
Finally, in the opening month In the Summary, Court, this of the Great War, when the for-afternoon, T. Arakawa, 18, Lynd- lune of the Allies in the West was hurst Terrace, merchant, sued the most desperate, it was the victory Wing Wo Sung, Central Market, of the Serb at the Jedar which butchers, for $1,000 for damages opened themore prosperous period sustained by the plaintiff on that culminated at the Karae. At December 11, 1914, through the the Jedar four Austrian army defendants', or the defendanta' corps had been routed, Austrian servants negligence in permitting prestige in the Balkans shattered, water to flow. the first Slav triumph won in that long series which by December was to being Austria to the lowest ebb in her history since the Han- garian Revolution.
On December 1 Servis was again in the presence of graVG peril. The October drive of the
Mr. Goldring said the position number of balss of raw silk were Germans had released severil Aow was and he thought his sent from Canton by the s.o. Chan. army ocrps of Austrians in Galioia friend would agree to the course Hardouin and the e... Fateban and Poland, and these came south he would propose that there was and placed in the lighter No: 7 complete the work of destroying some doubt as to whether the for transhipment to Europe by the troops of King Peter, who perion served, and the person the a... Nubis. Every bale in bad for months defended their represented by his friend, was the weighed and measured in Canton frontiers. Before this overwhelm- person who was the tenant of the and again in Hongkong, and it ing force the Serbs had retreat or above his client's floor, was found that one bale weighed ed. All the corner of Servis bis Lordship permitted, 34 lbs. above what it should. between the Save and the Drius and his friend agreed, they Examination showed that
the issue first quanlity of silk had been abstract was lost. Ooming east from might take
as to whether or not the ed and a jersey filled with rion Bosnia the Austrian right ap defendant was the tenant of the weighing 19 lbs, was found in proached Belgrade, which for Grst floor st 18, Lyndhurst Ter- its place. In all, 115 lbs. of silk four months had defied daily bombardment, the aspire reached rade, because, if he was not, he are said to have been stolen.
would have to consent to a non- Valjevo, the left penetrated to Uchitza, on the Servian Morava: ano o had had an enormous amount of trouble in getting the Presently Belgrade fell,, a birth writ served at all and his lion day present to the aged Francis Joseph, the only real conquest of was a Japanese and he had considerable difficulty in getting his army in the whole struggle.
interpreters, In the first week in December
to
Au sesistant of plaintiff, on
ivity to accomplish" a purpose plated from which some special was built in 1910 by Meaara, W, Gray & Co, Ltd., of West the fate of Servia seemed sealed. being asked if the man Wat Kat
which neither the President cor the majority of the legislative branch of the Government is willing to acknowledge to the people, whose money is to be expended and whosa welfare is involved.
When the President demanded the repeal of the law exempting American ships from the payment of Panama canal tolls, for reasons which he publicly announced he qould not explain, it was thought. the very
limit had been reached. in the policy of secrecy, and in the effort to deal with the affairs of the American people w that permitting the people themselves to know the purposes and motives behind the Government's action, In the shipping bill, however, a farther stop has been taken. and the London dospatches indi- cate that President Wilson has permitted the English Govero
mont to learn of an intention which he persistently declines to make known to the American people.
Nothing so nearly approaching slarchamber government has been known in the United States since
the civil war.
Congress is asked to place $40,000,000 in the hands of three members of the President's cabinet for the general purpose of purchasing or chartering ships, with no farther explanation in the law respecting the purposes to be carried out or the manner in which they are to be carried
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Moreover, it is charged that behind this legielation proposi tion there is a purpose
Her
A second Belgium, another little state destroyed in the contest, in Court, was the man who between the great, seemed as said he had not seen him before. was the tenant of the floor above, anred. "Austrian armies appeared
Plaintiff was non-auited with certain to reach Nish, the tempor- thatory Servian capital; to open the costs.
Two Russian Regiments Escape.
Feb. 25, 1.25 a.m. to give the secretary of the The official communique published at Petrograd reports treasury the power both to win the two regiments of the Barronaded corps broke through the enemy's gratitude of the special intereste lines in the forest of Augustowo and rejoined the Ruseisus. to be benefited and at the same time to alaim credit for any good that may come, if the lagislation is successful,
Showing how far the scheme to purchase the German vessels has progressed without letting
Severe Fighting.
The Germans ara making repented attacks on the whole of the Bobr front in the district of Edvabno to the Vistula, and in the district of Bodasnoff. Fighting is extremely severe in the region of Prasnyeh and a desperate battle is proceeding in the Carpathians.
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Trenches Captured.
the public know anything about East of Lupkof our troops had a series of accessos it, it is declared that the British and in the Munkees region we captured three lines of trenches Ambassador has discussed the daybreak of February 22 on a precipitous height. The German matter informally with the state defenders were killed or captured. department, and that the British The German attacks south of Koziomoka have been repulsed, Government has been kept fully while we checked an important offensiva by the enemy on the Daline advised of these discussions.
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view of. these circumstances, the fight against this bill, whether based apon opposition to Government Ownership or any other specific objection, becomes a fight against 8 manifestly vicious form of legislation, which cannot be too severely condemned, no matter what resulta might follow its 63actment.
That the fight against the bill is to be exceedingly bitter ja apparent. Senator Barton, who made a speech upon the measure yesterday, has announced that he will talk for ten daya against it, if DEODsBary.
The fact that the bill is being kept in such a position before the Senate that it can be called up
-Galisez roads."
Orient Railway to the Balgarian frontier and persuade Bulgaria,
TYPEWRITER.
still smarting from her defeat by PAWNED THE Bsivia, to cast her lot with the two Kaisers and open her territory. for the passage of the Tarke to the battle lines of western Eur ope.
Chloese Youth Fined One Dellar.
Mr.
the
Gunner Buckle said on January 28, about 11 am, he took the lighter from Robinson and moored her to the Austrian Lloyd buoy, lighter's crew remained on board and looked the hatches. The
all day.
The case was proceeding as we went to press.
ROME CHOWDS SHOUT FOR WAR.
Demonstrations on Arrival of Body of Second Grandson of Garibaldi,
In the moment of greatest peril, however, Servia was saved, partly by her own courage, by her
The youth charged in connec own determination, without which tion with the thelt of a type destruction wae fescapable, writer, the property of Messrs. partly by the new advance of the Siemsses and Co., was fined $1, Russians. While the Austrian at the Police Court, this afternoon troops were still before Belgrade for illegal pawning
Rome, Italy, January 12-A Cossacks once more orcased the
D'Almada,
great crowd assembled in a severe for Carpathians, swept down into the the defence, pointed
storm here to-day to meal the body Hungarian Plain, panic resobed that
out of Constantino Garibaldi, grand- the very gates of Budapest, and pawned for safe custody whilst who was killed while serving in machine Was son of the famous Italian soldier, three army corps were, burriedly the defendant was away during the French army. In the crowd at Belobera or not,
are recalled from Servis to defend the holidays. It was a common were veterans of the Garibaldian required to forward the following Hungary. Once more at the practice to pawa winter clothing campaigns, wearing their red particulars to Lieut. Smith at 12, critical moment the Des Vour Road Central forth-German alliance had to surrender and redeem them on the fall of various political parties.
Austro- and furd whe winter was over shirts, and representatives of Corps: Ordare issued to-day by with: Private addrera and triumph in one field because of the summer. Lient-Col. A. Chapman, V.D., telephone number, if any. If no deadly peril in another. state:-
telephone, name of nearest mem- Resignation, Pie F. J. ber of the Section Having a Rodrigues is permitted fo-resign, telephone. Basiassa address and dated 20. 2. 16.
telephone number, if any.
'VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Transfer-Pto. T. Young from B.KV.R, to Engineer Company, dated 24. 2. 15. Pie. L. Brown
Returned.
M. Berindoague, Manager of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, ar lived from Home by the Atlantis que today.
No sooner had the three corps been withdrawn than the Serba again took the offensive. Old Old King Pa'er, now stricken in years sad infirmities, but retain log something of the fire that earned him his orona of the Lo
Boldier of
Back Again, Francs in 1870, rode in front of Mr. E. H. Sharp, KC., was hie troops, mounted on a white among the passengers arriving charger, and harangued them as by the Atlantique to-day.
from Civil Service Co, to Enginer VOLUNTEER RESERVES, gion of Honour as a Co., dated 25. 2. 15.
Parades. Parades for Friday,
26th instant, mil. ****.
The arrival of the body was made the cocasion of a
patriotic demonstration of remarkable for vour, in which the while olty participated, Floge everywhe were at half-mast. The emotions of the crowd were mont tense, when Gen. Ricciotti Garibaldi, the father; his wife and children, including the sons who a fow days ago brought back from France the body of Bruno Gar ibaldi, threw themselves, weeping, upon the codin,
In the minority discussion of
Guarda Firat half March. Orders issued today by Major their chiefs of remoter centuries the bill; by the committee that
March 1, Scouts Company: 2, Wakeman, Commanding H. K. were accustomed to do. Then reported it, because of the lack of
Scouts Company; 3, No. 2 Section V. R., state: followed the most complete of information respecting the use for consideration at any time, Artillery: 4, No. 1 Seation M. G. that will be made of the legiale causing senatora to prolong debate Co.; 5, Centre Station M. G. Co., crails) will be held on the Cricket the whole force had fled across still insist that the fate of Cracow then wrapped about the coffin. Parades. Squad Drille (Re Austrian disasters. In a few days Galicia, although Russian reports Italian and French flags were tion, it was found possible only upon such appropriation measures 6, Oivil Service Company 7 Ground at 5.15 p.m. on March let, the frontiere, leaving thousands of will be settled by a battle in its The French Ambassador, Gamille to atate that the purchase of in as are now before the Senate, and Kight Section M. G. Co.; 8, 3rd and 4th. Recruits must attend priar mere, cannon, and material be vicinity on a field selected by the Barrere, was present in his official terned vessele appears to be the will undoubtedly produce a de- Scouts Company; 9, Soonte Com-until they are passed out bind them. Belgrade was retaken, Russian general staff, motive of those responsible for liberate filibuster before the
the pany: 10, Brouts Company: 11, Masketry. All members who by December 15 Servia wae free What was most noteworthy in was represented by two colonels capacity, and the French army the measure, because it is man- session terminates,
No. 2 Section Artillery 12, No. have not yet fired Part of the of Austrians, saved for the time, the days following the Savion sent by Alexandre, Millerand, ifest that no other vessels are now for sale.
Indications are that the meation M. G. Co.; 13, Centre Secor Recruits) are to attend at the
1 Section Artillery and Leit Sac Muskairy Coness (Trained men perhaps, for all times
victory was the first considerable Minister ofWar. Certainly if the purchase of sure cannot pass, but inthe-mean- tion, M. G. Co.; 14, Civil Service King's Park Range at 9.0 am, on transferred to the Hungarian Vienna, in Prague in Budapest, Bat the Austrian troops thus evidence throughout Austria, in Germanships by this Government time every effort will be made to i jaqtifiable, the time to justify force the Democrats to disclose o.15, Right Section M. G. Co.; Sunday, February, 28th with their frontier presently began to flow of discontent, wearizens apost the sction in before the purchases exactly what is the intention of 16, Soonts Company, rifles. Uniform will be optional. ever the Carpathians; for a se, for pesos. However, un
unbending are made. The secrecy and the President and the secretary: Danby Orderly Sergosat, Sergt. to be Lee. Sergt. Pie. B. W. Gray cleared cut of Hungary, out of tion still were, there was no long- Detail Orderly officer, Liont. Promotions Corpl. J. Oxberry cond time Russian invaders were German courage and determina- mystery reapooting this particular of the treasury. In this effort the policy of the President, forcen public should be even more in Barlow To furaish Guard to- to be Corporal, vios J. Oxberry the Carpathian passes, and in the er any mistaking the declining inevitably the conclusion that he terested than in the possible night, Centro Section M. G. Oo, promoted third week of December, w
when and his advisers are afraid to take acquisition of the German ships Civil Service Co.
To furnish Guard to-morrow,
spirit in the Hapaburg Empire, Postings. Loe. Sergt. J. Ox- these lines are written, there is at no mistaking the wrath and dejou the public into their confidence, at prices to be agreed upon by Notice: Right Section, M. G. B. W. Gray to A. Coy, Section 4, point to the possible drawing of that despised state, whose am- Chins, arrived from the North by berry to B. Coy., Corporal least a measure of evidence to tion which followed the triumph British Ommercial Attache for
Mr. W. P K and, therefore, are intent upon a the New York financial interests
Oo-All membera of the Pter, 8. G. Nowall to O Coy. back of the Russian troops from bitious had led Austria to plunge the ae, Malta to-day. course which they do not believe and the secretary of the treasury.
Section, whether employed Section 4,
before Cracow and in western the Continent in ʼn world war,
Commercial Attache's Visit
0.M.G.