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March 6 1915,
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2850 日一廿月正
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
THE ATTACK ON THE DARDANELLES,
FURTHER FORTS DEMOLISHED.
More Big Captures by the Rus lans.
GERMAN AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN IN FRANCE.
[Rester's Service to The "Telegraph."]
Allies' General Progress.
(Official Telegram from French Government, via Peking). March 5.
in Saros Gulf.
MARCH
WHO IS AN alien
ENEMY?
March 6, 1914
GERMAN BRUTALITY.
American Red Cross Nurse's Story.
Temperature 6 am. 73 p.m. 75 Humidity .......... 83.88
SINGLE COPY 10 ORTS $36 PERANNUM.
TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
SATUR
∙1915.
LORD JUSTICE KENNEDY,
A TEST CASE
Sudden Death in London.
German Ships Captured at Port Sald,
Court of Appeal Decision.
Americans have been rather
CONDENSED.
Progress in the Champagne
We regret, says the Times of January 22, to announce that The Prize Court at Alexandria, In fiva cases in which the fall Lord Justice Kennedy died on after several days' hearing, deliver Court of Appeal gave judgmont November 4 to the London Daily "A New York telegram of Sunday at his house in Phili-ed its first judgment on January recently were determined legal Telegraph says :---** more-gardens, from an attack of 8th. The cast concerned the questions of great importance angina pectoris. The news of his German steamer death will be o shook to his and the judgment is importsat, Under these deqisions the owner- tales of atrocities in the war told
Gatenfels, arising out of the present war sceptical of the generality of the region has been continued. friends, especially to those who as it substantially applies to many ship of much property which has by returning travellers, but the saw him apparently in fall vigour enemy vessels held as prizes al been bang up is settled; payments arrative of Mien Francen Watt, of mind and body in the Curt Alexandria and captored in sim- which have been suspended will daughter of the American Consul of Appeal on Saturday. At 10 lar circumstances,
Another french has been co-
o'clock on Sunday morning be The Gutenfels, which be made; and lawyere, puzzled General at Brussels, has created copied on the Belgian danez. was seized with pain and died eastward bound, arrived at Port Courts of first instance and the out the country.
was by the conflicting decisions of a profound impression through- within a few minutes;
Said from Antwerp, and the mas-evasive dicta of text writers, will
Miss Watt, arrived here yester Lord Justice Kennedy was a ter alleged that he was unaware be able to give advice to their day from Rotterdam on board the ment is being maintained at A stubborn artillery engago- ¡ careful and conscientions Judge of the outbreak of war until his clients with some degrea of cou*She was a Red Cross nurse, and
Holland America liner Potsdam. Onsowiece.
of the
from what she witnessed in Bel- gium declares that 'the German
The Russians have taken
mewhat slow and laboured arrival there. The agents infidence. both in the formation and the formed him he could not proceed. expression. of his opinion, but An Egyptian Army officer board. Certain of the questions which asually gound in his method of ed the vessel, followed by the the Court answered will seem to act like beasts. Their one ides further 21 officers and 600 men reaching conclusions and acurate captain of the port and a British the ordinary public elementary seems to be to devastate and at Kersec in the result. The eldest son Army officer, accompanied by na will be a matter of surprise destroy and outrage. No woman Rev. William James tive soldiers, and the master-wasthat some of them have been, leitor child. is enfo from them, Kennedy, vicar of Barnwood, he informed that the Egyptien Go-pop until now. In the history and their only excuss is drunk was born in 1848. He went to ernment had taken charge of the have been many wars, and it escking of Louvain was that the two airmen captured.
and development of English law
A German aeroplane has been eunéta, Their defence for the brought down, near Verdun and Eton, and from there woD & vessel, The Qatuf Is Wag foundation scholarship at King's ordered to get up steam, and, a seems strange that lawyers should girls poured boiling water on
new captain and crew being sent
be debating to-day points which them. My most dearly beloved ou board, wen taken cat of the lie, one might have thought, et barbour. About four miles out the very threshold of the law Louvain. She heard that the girl friend, my obum, lived at
The Admiralty sanonnosa that side she met the Warrior, relating to war.
Germana xere coming and she the attack on the Dardanelles was which seized her as a prize end Toa firet question to be decided knew too well their inhumanity, continued on Wednesday. took her to Alexandria.
WA, Who ie " 'on alien enemy" so she killed herself, The owners contended that the and who "an alien friend? My friend Baroness Fallon
After winning the Craven and Bull scholarships and the Powis medal, he was Senior Cluesici 1-83. Soon afterwards be woselected to Fellowship at Pembroke, of which in later yeare he was made an Honorary Fellow, In 1870-71 he
practico
In the attack on the Dardanelles,
The Germans, north of Arras, took up an advanced trench whe Mr. Goschen's private circumstances of the expulsion The Court answered that by aw her husband shot down like The Russians have captured in previously dug by us and being in close formation with their lines, secretary at the old Poor Law from Port Said and the capture making it clear that the test is not an animal. She fled to her home, the Carpathians and in Galicia The Rheims bombardment was resumed with incendiary abelle. In Board, and was called to the Bar by the Warrior were equival nationality but domicile, a test and the Germans killed her aunt 47 officers and 3,000 men, also Champagne French progress is sull proceeding and is accentuated by Lincoln's Inn in January, eat to a constructive capture at which, by the way, the Legislature and anale end three cousins 10 quick-firers. on more than six kilometres. We hold the whole of the German 1871. Joining the Northern Port Said, which was a breach of seema recently to have forgotten simply because they had neglected lines, representing a deptz of a kilometre. Progres has been Orcuit, he settled as a local the Suez Canal Convection. A in framing section 1, subsection to keep their door open as the peculiarly effective at Perthes, where we carried murderous trenchec practitioner at Liverpool. ternatively it was argued that, an 7, of the Emergency Powers Act. Germans marched by. Of all and widened our positions. Several counter-attacks delivered by He trok silk in 1885, but his the Gutenfele arrived at l'ort Acc:rding to the technical defiai- those killed in Belgium four of six modern field guns near Fort Sid without any knowledge of tion, on Englishman may con- stery five were civilians. My B have been destroyed, making a Germans, in which two regiments of the Prasaian Guard took an effective part, sustained a total failure. The Allies' squadrons have Liverpool and on sironit. In was liable only to detention till foreigner, a subject of a belli-Wayratest, was made prisoner inf
was still mainly in the outbreak of hostilities, she ceivably be an alien enemy, while friend, Count Gaston Iridondon's total of forty gans demolished. bombarded Tehanak, in the Dardanelles, and Bulair lines beyond, 1891 he published a book on the the cessation of the war, and not gerent State, may be treated an a Brussels after being wounded.
law of Civil Salvage. A second edition appeared in 1907, and
to confiication.
subject of the English Crown. He was kept in a house four doors The Crown disputed the Thas an alien, who is registered from his home, and was no: The Austrians continue to make this is still a book of recognised plaimante right, being alien ander the Aliens Act of 1914, allowed to communicate with his Aburtive day and night slacke authority on the subj.ot. In the meantime he showed himself and that the Gutenfels should permission of the Crown, is as much from the sour milk they
enemies, to be beard, and contend- and who is resident here by family. After a week he died, between the Ocdawa and the Ban active Liberal politician. Stande condemned bronse she was entitled to sue in our Courts. gave him as from his wound.
and are suffering immense losses. ing for Birkenhead, which had ai that time been considered a fairly alternatively because she was authority an alien subject of a Red Cross nurses to c.ke for the captured on the high reas, and But in the absence of licence or "The Germans compelled the anfe Conservative seit, he was detained by the Egyptian Govern- belligerent State may not sue German wounded and to neglect defeated in 1885 by General Stment, which was friendly to the during the continuance of war. the wounded Belgiane, They Edward Hamley, whose majority British Government, and because, On the other band, there is no take food from the populace, and was considerably over 1,000 being fitted with wireless, she valid reason why, owing to his in every community scores die In a Recond contest must have been aware of the out-hostile character, he should be from nothing but hanger." be following year the elu- break of hostilities, before her relieved from liability to pay hie tive positions of the two candidates
British creditors. Accordingly and weary. were virtually unchonred. At St. Relone, however, in 1802, he came within 60 votes of his Conserva- tive opponent, the late Sir Henry
[in the event of telegrams ärriving too late for insertion on this
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BARLIER TELEGRAMS,
Further Russian Captures.
March 4, 1045 p.m.
To-day's Petrograd communique says:—| The Austrians in Eastern Galicia are endeavouring to maintain
positions on the River Lukwa.
Oor offensive tween the Nismen rad the Vistula continues and our troops are progresying in the Greden district. · ·
A stubborn artillery engagement is maintained at Osowiece, Further south, the Russians advanced end hand-to-hand fighting is proceeding in the villager,
We took a further 21 offio-rs and 60 men at Kersec. Violent fighting is in progreso borween Midwa and Horzole.
Seton Kerr..
arrival at Puri S. d.
NEWS,
Further Notes on the Orisin appear on pago 4.
Hongkong Twenty-five years Miss Watt is broken-hearted ago appears under the heading
1890 on page
General news and an article headed Germany's Threatened Blockade" appear on page 3.
"Our Contemporaries" appears
An interesting article by Rad- yard Kipling, on a visit to s Indian camp in England, appeara
Judge Cator d'cided that the Court decided that he may be toughout the present proceed. aded; and if he is exposed to a age he would allow an enemy to action, it follows that he may raise any delence founded on The appear and defend proceeding Strangling Germany, Aga Queen's Counsel, Kennedy done by the English Prize Court, him that right would be to deny Hogue Conventions, s had been taken against bit. "To deuy never rore to the first rank, and and would extend indulgence t
Copenhagen, Jan. 27-The bim justice, and would be quite stoppage of the sea route from most part. On the resignation in upon the terms of any convention guiding the King's Courts in to German trade, and oattle im- his reputation was local for the any enemy who bases his claim contrary to the basic principles Trelleborg to Sassnitz is a blow We captured during the day in the Carpathians and Galicians appointed a Jadge of the the special relations in Trick There may be sometimes a great sent via Denmark. Traffic on the on page 2, Commercial News em
1892 of George Deoman, Kennedy relating to the Suez Can-l or upon the administration of justice," ports from Sweden will now be 47 officers, 3,000 raen, and 16 quickfrore,
The Austriaan costique to make abortive day and night attacke the only Judge of the High Court te held that the Gutenfels had alien notice of the proceedings stopped owing to the sighting of
Queen's Bench Division. He was Egypt stands to Great Britain difficulty in giving the absent Trelleborg Saesnits route was page 9 and Log Book on page 6. between the Ondawa and the Sin, enffering immense lowea. We zominated by Lord Herschell in fact taken refuge at Port Said against him, and we are not sure enemy suboosrices, one of which repelled them with hand-grenades and the bayonet, and in counter during bis second Chancellorship. and thus was not protected from that the suggestions of the Coori the Germans admit torpedoed the attacks we captured many prisoners and guns,
able from a strictly professional Convention, which was framed to in most cases it is not insuperable. Tue choice, though fully justif- capture there by the Suez Canal quite overcame this difficulty. But German craiser Gazelle. Frint of view, WEB mewhat of a secure free transit and did not The decisione in the actione Arrangements for Wounded at to-day. men, Liberals in politics, and even found that the ship was a priz and Rabber Company determine Burprise, as there were one or two give immunity in such cases. He brought by the Continental Tyre
Boulogne. members of the Nibero, Here- properly seized, and ordered her the question, much controverted has received a report from Sir The British Red Cross Society chell's old, Circuit who were to be detained pending further of late, whether a company regie Courtauld Thomson (Commi thought to have greater claims, hearing, as he was not satisfied tered in England as a joint stock sinner in France representing the But no Chancellor can afford alto whether she had knowledge of company, all of whose sharehold Joint War Committee of the Red gether to disregard party claims hostilitics before her arrival. ere except one-sad he holding a Cross Ucelety and of the Order of and Kennedy had fought three on quently further evidence single sbare were alien enemies, St. John) as to the arrangements elections. Another German trench has been occupied on the Belgian dunes. Notwithstanding his brilliant decide what faal order he should accordance with the opinion ex-soldiers at Boulogne. He says: would be required before he could could sue. The Court held, in for the reception of wonaded Our progress in Champagno continues, Fresh German counter-attack on the orest north-east of Meanil give the impression of aclorer man in which the Egyptian Govern- could. The judgment of the only way of removing the wounded 9.15
university career, Kennedy didnot make. Similarly the relationship pressed by most lawyere, that it In the particular train I saw the and attacks at Four-de-Paris and Vazquois, in Argonne, have beer Nor did he feel called upon to ment stood to the British Govern House of Lords in what is known was through the windows of the repulsed.
enter into a competition of wit mett when the steamer was ad the One Man Company" case railway carriages, and, as you with the advocate who was pre expelled required more evidence, virtually determined the point be- senting his care. He attempted A German aeroplane has been brought down near Verdon and no bons mots crights of rhetoric similar order has now been made the composition of the company ground. This difficult operation Judge Grain cozcurred, and a fore the Court. Whatever might be stand a great height from the know, the French railway carriages two airmen captured."
ur style. Indeed, of literary in the case of three other enersy it was for all purposes a distinct carried out in a tononor which quality there is bardly a trace in ships. his judgmente. His strength lay
legal entity areated by statute. was little short of marvellous, From this view Lord Justice The whole train was emptied with in mercantile Isw, and he WAS E frequent member, whether sitting
Buckley diesented. His res remarkable speed and in almost alone or with a colleague of the 1907, Mr. Justice Kennedy was viction to lawyers.
roning may fail to carry con complete silence." marcial Court."
Batit decisions were rarely reversed
appointed Lord Justice
will be generally agreed that, The late Lord Jattice took an if the opinion of the maj
Allies Continue to Advance.
March 5, 1.25 a.m.
The Paris evening communique states:-
Aeroplane Brought Down.
The Attack on the Dardanelles.
March 5, 1:30a.m.
The Admiralty announces that the attack on the Dardanelles was continued on Wednesday, but the Admiral has not yet reported
the results obtained within the Straits.
oncil
legislation.The
B.M.8. Dablin, outside the Straits, demolished the Obervc Station of the Gallipoli Peninsula, and H.M.8. Sapybrded on ppeal and scarcely ever active part both in the old Bar oorrees, the matter arge gone and troops at various points of the Gulf of any six reached the House of Lords, Committee, of which be was a for modern field-gans near Fort B were desir ye makis a toil of 40 On the momotion of the late member from 1883 to 1892, and fiction which one guns demolished.. LedebakelitLord Collins to the House of Lords in conferences and congrense enemy by
The French battleships bombarded Bulair fort and wrecked the and of Lord Cozens-Hardy to the fabri
Mastership of the Rolle, in Mar
Karaok bridge
was president of the
aboard than any tion, and oug
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TO-DAY.
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