WAR TELEGRAMS,
(Continued from page 1.) THE SURRENDER OF GARUA.
(British Foreign Office Telegram.)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE
what seemed to be an oblong black object with four apparently dome- like projections. It seemed to move swiftly at times, then slowed down, disappeared, and appeared again. At last it disappeared altogether and the Lusitanis re sumed her even course at a spend, I judged, of about 18 koote, or per hape less. The conclusion we came to was that the object we had watched was asabmarine and that it had turned out to be a friendly one. At this time there was no
June 15, 12.15 p.m. The Colonial Office announces 'a telegram has been received om the Governor General of Nigeria who reports that the Garua sack, which commenced on May 31, earrendered anconditionally in eight. The land had been dis- June 11, to an Augic-French Force. Garus was an important erman station on the Benue Itiver, and since the rapules on August of the first British attack it had been considerably strengthened,
FRENCH COMMUNIQUE.
THE AIR ATTACK ON KARLSRUHE,
arned except two.
June 10, 2.50 a.m.
BRITISH OFFICERS IN GERMANY.
June 18, 4.30 a.m.
British officers who were solitarily confined in Germany have en released in consequence of the release of the crews of German bmarines in England.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S DENIAL,
June 16, 4.30 a.me :" Renter's Washington correspondent reports that President ilroa has denied that America has declined to participate in peace orts by various neutrals. He declared that America has done erything possible to facilitate the movement of peace.
MR ASQUITH'S DETERMINATION.
Ju e 16, 0.35 sm. All the papers endorse Mr. Asquith's unflinching determination continue the war to a victorious isena. It only remains for gisters to act upon Mr. Asquith's words.
VICE-ADMIRAL MADDEN PROMOTED.
"
Jane 18, 6.35 .. Rear-Admiral Charles Edward Madden has been promoted ce-Admiral.
THE LUSITANIA.
other vessel save a fishing smack tinelly visible for more than three hoore, and I should say we were about 12 miles out.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
BUTTER & CHEESE.
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...$1.10 per lb.-
... 1,00
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70
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came into force on 24th May, 1915.
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313
322
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296
287
320
299
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319
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258
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Total to 16th, inst. 4,770
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Daily average 298.125
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NOTICE.
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INCLUDING
CASEMENT CLOTHS,
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LACE CURTAINS.
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HEAR THESE NEW
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At 10 minutes to 2, I went down to lancheon. There was some, discussion at the table about the object we had seen, bat every body was calm and conflent. About 10 minutes later there was a mulled drum-like sound com- A Parje communique states:We maintained our gaine northing from the direction of the bow. d-south of Arras despite counter attacks, which were all tepulsed. It was accompanied by a shiver- reprisal for the German attack on defenceless British and Frenching or trembling of the vessel. Im-
to pick up other aurvivora, Not a was twenty-three aeroplanea left at 3 in the morning, reached mediately afterwards the ship the disseter, where we were able tisrobe despite a northerly wind, and dropped 130 bombs at began to list starboard side.
There were general exclams-few of them were injured. One ints specified viz., the osalle, arme factory, and station. A panio onrred as the latter, where trains were hurriedly despatched. The tions on the part of the women at little boy of not more than 10 or roplanes were heavily cannonaded on going and coming, but all the noise of the explosion. The 11, had his thigh fractured. I men soothed them by declar-improvised splints and dressings, and after a while we were delight. ing that there WAS.. no el to bear him sak, "Is there a danger, and that we had only struck a small mine. The first funny paper on board ?” panicy feeling of the passengers
20-after she was struck. As she soon disappeared and they began minates certainly not more than to make their way in perfect order from the dining saloon to the went down I saw a number of deak above. There was no crush people jump from the topmost. ing, the only trouble being the point of the deck into the sea. One of them, I think, was a sharp slope of the deck.
There were no bosta being the last, but a long, wailing woman. I heard no screaming at lowered on the star-board side, where the sea was now only mournful, despairing, beseeching about 12ft. below the rail. So I cry. turned, half-elimbing, round the deck towards the first-class part. I looked for a life-belt, but could
I have already said that the Bee. none. The only person I found there was a Catholic priest. stories of survivors are disquint ran back towards my cabin, icing. I give below some typical way I came to a stewardess who bring out two or three facts which the second-class part. On the statements. On analysis they Was struggling to get out some call for explanation. In the first life-belta stowed away overhead. place the Lusitania had no n67al I got them out and after helping escort.
There are in these sass, based her to tie one on, I put one on
The Public are hereby notified on Queenstown and elsewhere, B myself.
number of steam launches, traw-that the second payment of Near this spot I saw a woman
interest of the 6% Internal clinging to the gunwale of an lers, and other small craft which Loan of the third year of the ahlowered. bat, Looking over are used by the Admiralty for Chinese Republic (1914) will fall ed and half-swamped boste, men the side of the ship I saw a boat conveying warnings to ships and due on the 30th of June of this lifted the living and the injured. which was being lowered, about for other patrol duties. It bas year. With the oxception of the From the sea they picked up here 8ft. below, so I pushed the wo-been stated on the authority of a detailed regulations, governing and there men, women, and man over. She fell into the boat man who saw the disaster from the payment of interest of the children, some clinging to wreck and I dropped over after her, the coast, that a quarter of an hour said loan, which have been publi- 2536 age, some supported only by life-As the lowering of the boat before it occurred a patrol boat shed in the Government Gazette the ropes at the passed the Lusitanis, turned and which have been printed for
followed ber, the information of the Public by 2537 belts. When their errand of re-proceeded
all the establishments authorised The same observers states that for the payment of interest, the scue was done, they brought the bow got fast and the stern fell round and living, the dying and the dead to until the boat was almost perpen- harbour. Most of the survivors dicalor. A young fellow one of a patrol boat darled up from following important points are 2534.
the
west immediately the hereby published for general
sank. These state information: 9. The were bare-beaded and scantily the stokers, I believe-promptly
Some had injured seized a bachet and cut away the Lusitania orror, which filled the mind at clothed. he first tidings of the crowning heads and arms, and "some were ropes. The boat dropped straight ments, however, are in direct con- verman atrocity deepens with chilled by hours of immersion into the water with a splash. flict with the unanimous assertion very hour that passes. Yester Tteady hande took care of them, Strangely enough roas of us fell of the survivors that, though they ay one clung to the alender hope and soon they found comfort in out. Two men, one of whom had felt sore the Navy was taking hat some of the missing might hotels and private houses facing enng in a concert the night before, care of them, they saw no war- were in the water alongside us ship or patrol boat either imme- ave been picked up by passing the Larbour,
Bat those survivors who had and tried to get into the boat, but diately before or immediately. essels and carried to England.
Another fact which, emerges friends and relatives on the ship some of the mon already in after the ship cank,..
from the stálement of aqrvivors is could not rest. Women appealed exclaimed, "Shove away or we ed that over 1,400 men, women, piteotely for news of husbands shall go down in the suction."
We took the cars and pushed that the Lusitania was not going and children have been sacrificed and children, and now and then to the enemy's mad lust fa distraught mother, hearing that off about 50ft. The boat was so at full speed. Before the morning a little boy or girl had been taken crowded and low that water was fog lifted she was going slowly murder.
Bat grief and loathing do not to this or that house, would go to lapping in rapidly over the side. and sounding her siren, but exhaust the feelings of those who ask, with dread and hope fighting We tried to Fale her out, some when the atmosphere cleared she have listened to the poign at for the mastery, "Is it my boy?" of us using our hats, but we did did not steam much faster.
The Public when claiming for In the or it my little girl?" Un- not make much progress. As the timates of her speed, are gonerally stories of survivere. emaller details the accounts do happily in hardly any case was boat was gradually being sab-between 10 and 18 bn to. Earlier
merged. I threw out a keg which in the week she had been doing the interest must cut down the Dae survivor matured coupons and proceed to not all agree; it would, indeed, be hope justified.
that ΠΟ smoke was any of the above mentioned Behind these broider facts of was lying in the bottom of the over: 23 krots. extraordinary if they did, for when
from the. rear most organs, with the said coupons. men have been face to face with the disaster lie bucdreds of boat and jumped out after it. I states death their recollections are apt to individual experiences which will swam to it and held on. A coming
be forgotten-Lowever steward named Freeman, who win faunel, and little from the The said orgaus after examining ba blurred. Yeton the vitad points never
the interest and retain there is no osnflict, and the story much they may wish to forget-by olinging to a deok-chair, came next. Whether she was economis the said coupons will then pay
and joined me. of the tragedy, reconstructed from those who have lived to remem this common evidence, is not only ber. Who shall tell of the last. Looking back over my shoulder
coupons so paid. But the holders
harrowing but disquieting...
coupons themselves, as the said leave-taking of husband and wife, I saw a number of people scrambl
of $1,000 Bonds and of $10,000 Could the disaster have been parent and child, friend and ing out of the boat I had just left,
Bonds must not cut down the
by the organs concerned... prevented? If not, could not friend, in the moments before the and in a short time it turned com.liance placed upon her speediness, Bonds have to be examined first Finally, there is a statement of The matured coupons can be many more lives have been saved? ship went down? These things pletely over. There was another the point is important. These are questions which have are locked in the hearts of those boat very heavily laden, some
big framed themselves as the resoced who were spared, far too sacred distance away, and a number a survivor that in the lowering of used as cash in payment of land of contrivances which appeared the boats there was a lack of tax. The interest of the coupons
discipline, is expressed in term of have given their sad tale, and to be spoken.
to be small rafts. Altogether I organization and American Doctor's Story."
Othera of those aaved, while sug- dollar" and if it is required to be they are questions which demand
should think there were about There are some experiences,
done more, point out the extra cash, then the rate of exchange olded and posted in conspicuous however, which can be told. Here ten or a dozen boats or rafts gesting that the crew might have converted into taels or copper is the vivid story given to ma by
The steward and I floated about ordinary difficulties orested by for different diatriots will be de- Dr. Moore, of Yankton, South clasping our keg for at least an the heavy list of the vessel; but places by the various Financial Dakota, who was coming from hour. Then managed to reach the fact remains that several bosts Bureaux concerned. Americs with a fellow doctor to our hen we manage to iron were, smashed or swamped in offer bis Bervices to the War rowlocke. There were about 25 lowering, and that some were not
THE SINKING AND AFTER.
Account by Passengers.
Queenstown, May
fo-day that hope has gone, and
he appalling fact must be accept
an answer, '.
It has already been briefly told how the great ship was steaming on a placid sunlit ses, only a few miles from the Irish coast, when
torpedo, despatched by a hid- den, merciless fos, shattered her side and seat her with awful suddenness to her doom. For!
afleat,
"
Es-
ing coal in order to reduce her smoke trail or whether the slow speed was involuntary, cannot yet be ascertained. In view of the re-
Office. I found him, hetless, people on it, two of them women. lowered at all.
Farther, there is the curious collarless, and with slippere in They helped us on board. We place of boots, on the jetty, at took a light-house as our objet statement, made independently by tive and rowed desperately, two American passengers, that an faxing turns at the bars, for about order was received not to launch the
Queenstown.
for
1. The date when the pay-2538
ment of interest beg'ns: 30th June, 4th year of the Chinese Republic.
2. The organs authorised for the payment of interest: ā All Magistrates Yamens.
b. The Head and Branch Offices of the Bank of China and of the Bank of Communications..
c. The reliable agents of| the above mentioned two banks.
d. All Maritime Customs Offices.
3. The methods for the claiming of interest:
the
The blank coupon No. 1 of each timo when the coupon No. 2 is bond must be cut down at the presented for payment in cash or payment of land tax and to be handed over for cancellation Public are requested to read over together with coupon No. 2. The ing the payment of interest which are obtainable at all authorised organs above mentioned,
perhaps 20. minutes she floated, listing helplessly on her side, while those on board sought to save themselves. Then, without plunging or rooking the vessel noticed was a swaying or zigazg gently dipped her bows and was/ing of the ship. This was at about an hour. Then we were cheered boate. In one case the passengers the detailed regulations govern~|
"The first abnormal thing
1 o'clock,
At the same boss by the night of a patrol boat: She signalled to us and we ceased several of us, using glasses, rowing. gono
The Living and the Dead. Two hours afterwards, fehing observed about two and a half boats, tags, and trawlers began miles away on the port side-that
"The Last Moments.
She came up, took us on board,
to reach the spal. From crondin, between us and the shore and then went on to the scene of
already in the bost got out, and in the other case the narrator threatened to shoot any man who tried to prevent the lowering of the boat,
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