The Hongkong Telegraph
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1915 by the Proprietor.
June 16 1915,
29:7 日四初月五
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
Temperature: 6 am. 81 Humidity
p.m. 86
87
77
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16,
1915.
WAR TELEGRAMS,
"EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE ITALIAN ADVANCE,
CONTINUANCE OF THE MALBORGHETTO
BOMBARDMENT.
Total Naval Casualties;
WHAT THE WAR IS COSTING BRITAIN,
[Renter'a Service to The "Telegraph."] ·
FRENCH
COMMUNIQUE.
ANOTHER GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK REPULSED.
June 15, 5.10 p.m. A Faris communique saga:A German ocunter-attack at Quenneviere was completely repulsed. A long-range gan fired into Compiegne did no damage,
TOTAL NAVAL CASUALTIES.
June 15, 5.10 p.m.”
la the House of Commons Mr. Asquith autonaced that the total
Naval casualties were as follow:-
· Killed-Officers 549; Men 7,600. Wounded Officers 181; Men 2,282.
Missing Officers 74; Men 2,785.
WAR FINANCE.
INDIAN CAVALRY GYMKHANA.
Jane 15, 4.55 p.m. Their Majesties the King and Qeen of Belgium and the Heir Apparent visited the Indian Cavalry camp and witnessed à Gymkhana erganised in their honour.
General Rimington and Staff welcomed the royal visitors, who were escorted by British Cavalry,
Their Majesties drove round the parade ground and through lines of Indian troopers drawn up in single ranks with officers in frort, and then entered the enclosure, from which they could see the whole brilliant array of Indian Cavalry gathered in dense lines.
After the Gymkhana the Royal visitors had toa at General Rimington's headquarters,
The King thanked the General warmly for the entertainment, and praised the bearing of the troope.
LORD HARDINGE TO REMAIN IN INDIA,
Jane 15, 6,50 p.m.
Mr. Asquith, replying to a question put in the House of Commone by Colonel Yate, said that in normal circumstances, Lord Hardinge's term of office-ne Viceroy of India would termipate in November, but the Government, recognising the great services he had rendered in India, desired to retain the advantage of his ex- perience during the coming winter, and had requested him to remain till the end of March. Lord Hardinge had contented, and the King had approved the arrangement.
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Mr. Asquith added:-"I am glad to take this opportunity to express our sense of the public spirit, in spite of the great strain of his laboura and in face of heavy private sorrows, with which Lord Hardingo has placed his services unreservedly at the disposal of the country. (Cheàrs.) ·
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STIFF FIGHTING IN RUSSIA.
June 15, 5.55 a.m.
Router's correspondent at Patrograd reports that an official announcement states that great enemy forces repeatedly attempted to cross the river Windau, near Liatzkow, on the 13tb, but were repulsed. A detachment crossed the river lower down, but its attempt to advance was checked.
The battle for a position near Shavli continues with varying factane. The town of Shavli has been bombarded with heavy guns. The fierce battle in Galicia was resumed on the 12th and 13th. Denas columns of the enemy succeeded in crossing the river Lubaczewka, and capturing the village of Tachla.
Persistent enemy attacks on the bridge-hen I on the left bank
several companies, and four hundred prisoners were taken.
An exceptionally bold Russian counter-attack was made by
June 15, 5:10 p.m. Is moving a vote of £250,000,000 Mr. Asquith said that this was the fifth vote of credit sisca the outbreak of war. There had been three such votes during the financial year 1914-15. Normal supplies on a peace ta is were voted before the war, of the Dneister were unsuccessful. sequently the credite provided for additional expenditure making a total of £302,000,000, which was £3,000,000 in excess of the actal expenditure.
ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE.
BOMBARDMENT OF MALBORGHETTO CONTINUES,
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IN NIGERIA,
June 14, 5.55 a.m;
June 18, 8:45 am According to Renter's correspondent at Rome, a communiqus
The Press Bureau announces that the Governor General "off states that the Austriane attempted to ignite the forest of Nigeria reports that Garus, on the Benne river, sarrendered un- Monfalcone, but were repulsed by rifle-fire.
conditionally to an Anglo-French force commanded by Colonel Cunliffe, on the 11th inst
The successful bombardment of Malborghetto continues. The lower part of Fort Hensel has been destroyed.
The enemy's losses at Plava are most heavy; the Austrians here have been withdrawn from the Sarvian front.
RACING.
The New DERBY RESULT.
June 15, 4.00 p.m.
The result of the new Darby ran off at Newmarket is as followe:
Pommern, Lot Fly, Rossendale,
11 to 10
10 to 1
40 to 1
There were seventeen starters, two longihe dividing the firet and second, the third being three lengths away.
[fa the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on the Extra:]
THE ELECTION IN GREECE,
June 15, 5.55 8.m. Reuter's correspondent at Athens reports that the Venezeloists are victorious everywhere in the elections, except at Macedonia,
FRENCH COMMUNIQUE.
PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH.
June 15, 12:55 am. The Paris evening communique seya ---- German attacke north of Arta3 and south-east of Hebuterne were repulsed,
We advanced our lines at Lorraine where our progress in the Embermenis-Parroy sector has been un-interrupted.
June 16 1914,
Temperature 6.a.m. 83 Humidity
79
p.m. 85 75
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Jane 15, 0.15 p.m.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED,
The result of the New Derby in published to-day in the telegrams.
The successful bombardment of Malborghetto by the Italiana continues.
▲ German counter-attack at Quenneviere has been completely repulsed by the French.
The Austrians after an attempt. to fire the forest at Monfalcone. were repulsed by the L'alians with heavy rifle fire.
Mr. Asquith bas given the Reater's correspondent at Athens reports that two. French figures relating to killed, wound tells yet to be the base of the German submarines. All the sailing Lamoring a vote of 250 millione destroyera bombarded the port of Tchesme, Asia Minor, which ised and missing in the Navy since
the outbreak of war. vessels in the harbour were sunk, and the Customs and Telegraph Mr. Asquith stated that this was offices and petrol stores were destroyed. The garricon fled.
THE LABOUR TROUBLES.
Jane 15, 6,15 p.m.
At a meeting to-day of the cotton-waste employers, and spinners and manufacturers, it was decided to accept the offer of the Board of Trade to intervene in the cotton trade dispute.
It is believed that other sections of the trade will adopt a similar attitude.
PRINCE OF WALES' COMING OF AGE.
Jane 14, 8.40 p.m." congratulations on his coming of age shall be postponed till the E... the Prince of Wales, who is at the Front, desires that
conclusion of the war.
all
the fifth vots of credit since the beginning of the war
NEWS.
This morning in the Sammary Court, a Chinese applied to have a judgment set aside, med mag
"Our Contemporaries" appears on page 2, Commercial News an page 9, and Log Book on page 6,
SANITARY MATTERS IN PANAMA.
Malaria War Flisco
St. Louis, April 30. That Colonel George W. Goethals was to blame" for failure of the Panama canal zone's sanitary authorities to do away with malaria there, was the oharge made to-day by Dr. W. O: United Statesarmy, in the course Gorgan, surgeon general of the
of an address at Washington
[His Royal Highness will be 21 years of age on the 23rd inst.University medical school dedica-
THE DESTROYED ZEPPELIN.
June 14, 8.40 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam reports that the airship deatroyed at Evere was Zeppelin 28.
THE WAR AND THE SUEZ CANAL.
Jane 15, 8.30 p.m.
fion. Although Colonel Goethals name was not used, the references: were unmistakable. :
Doctor Gorgaa told how, at the end of his four years work, in 1908, the malaria rate had been reduced from 821 per 1000 to 282. He told of a new commia- son being put in power in 1907, and continued:
"In 1908 all power on the isthmus. was concentrated in the hands of a single man, the chairman of the commission. This cfficer thought it advisable to make radical changes in methode of sanitation, These changes, ordered by the chairman, took extention of the anti-malarial
"Reuter's correspondent at Paris atsies that the report of the work out of the hands of the Council presented at a meeting of the Satz Canal Company stated sanitary authorities and placed that the war had caused a falling off in receipts from commercial them in the hands of men who traffio estimated at nearly 40 per cent. in the second half of 1014 had no special knowledge of anti- Increased receipts from military transports constituted, however, an malaria work, I argued against important set-off. The decrease in the current year was estimated these changes to no avail," at 35 per cent. The Board proposed a dividend of 120 francs, Doctor orgas told of his fifteen allowing a sufficient reserve to be carried forward to avoid a fresh years' experience in tropical decrease next year...
sanitation, especially in Cabs, President Junnart said that the Company had suffered compara- and said that could he have con- tively little from the war. Its vital force had not been affected, and tinued his work in Panama the re- they could look forward to a prosperous fatare. All Tarko-German eult would have been the same an attacks on the Canal had failed, and any future attacks were like in Havana, and the canal workers wine doomed to failure.
would have been entirely free from malaria, as were the citizens of Havans
The repo.t was unanimously adopted, as was also a motion to withdraw the mandate from the German Director, Herr Heinecken.
HEIR'S DEATH ASSUMED.
June 15, 10.00 p.m.
"I feel convinced that if our chairman of 1908 had been able to put into effect in 1904 the methods be forced on me in 1908, we could not have accomplished the sanitary aucozas at Panama which we had accomplished prior to 1008," he said,
Dooter Gorgas said that when
In the Probate Court to-day, leave was granted to sasuma the knowledge of the means of proteo death of Gerard Freeman Thomas, heir of Lord Willingdon, who tion against malaria and yellow has been missing since the battle of the Marne when he was fever becomea general, white men wounded.
RENEWED SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.
June 15, 10.00 p.m.
Three trawlers have been torpedoed, and also the steamer Hope Mount. Ho
It is reported to-day that the latter was attacked without warn- Three abella struck the bridge, wounding the Captain and ing four of the crow, The crow were then ordered to take to the boats, and remained afloat for twelve hours until they were picked up by
Greek steamer,
will have a tendency to leave temperats zo388 and seek op portunities afforded in noh tropical countries, where returns from agricultural labour are much greater.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY
Bjoa Theatre-0.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre—9.15 p.m. TO-MORROW.
Bijon Theatre 0.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre -9.15 p.m. Dragon Boat Foatival.
Tuesday, June 22. of Land in Caine Brad.- Lammert's Sales Room
Sale
The same submarine sank a French schooner. It came from behind a fiagless steamer and gave the crew only two minutes to GP. abandon the schooner, which was then soak with shell fremmer 8 p.m.