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THE HONGKUNG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AU 131 6, 1915,
Gérans on Beltish Ships,"
In view of cür recent editorialz); on the subjeol of Crerman. Ons on Hours employees' being allowed to search British ships in Chinese porte, it is gratifying to us to Jaarn from the officers of river boste that the objectionable pra otice has been discontinued. "So for as we can learn co definite instrnotions on the Foint have been issued from hosdgasriera. Some little time since, about fifty mait:ra of British ships addressed petition to the Ipspector General of Chinese Customs, showing that Germans and Austrians, in their capacity as employees of the Ch. inete Government, were continual- ly boarding British ships, and thes obliged to co of non & ponie obliged the captains to break the law of their own Government--
DAY BY DAY,
NOTES ON THE CRISIS PETROGRAD OFFICIAL POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. STORY OF
THEY SAY BEST MEN ARE GERMAN MISCALCULATIONS. NIESTER STRATEGY.
MOULDED OUT OF FAULTS—Shakt#- peare.
The Weather.
· Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 83; sunshine,
At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 76; sunshine.
Count the Columas,
Yesterday the Telegraph published 341 columns of solid reading matter. Today there will be 314 published.
The Malia..
Liangchow to-day. American Mail. Duo per 8.
Colombo Maro.
on U. Basila-Closed per as. Seattle Maru to-day
which anys distinctly that no alien
nemy shall be allowed on board UK
pro-
a British vessel, and which vides for no exceptions whatever.
The reply to the petition appears to have been the drafting of these obnoxious gentry to other work
p.m.
Fretch fail. Closes per ...
p.m.
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Russia's. Movements.
A Berlin communique: claims that "the Russiane Lave been thrown from the Blonis position into the outer lice of the fort- reason," while a Petrograd com- munique, received later, says that the Russians*"retited from Blonie anmolested."
OVER 120,000 ENEMY CASUALTIES IN A MONTH.
hard dr
Police Reserve order innsed to
day by Mr. F40. Jenkin D.8.P. (Reserva) Stalog prska
(Central Police Station), 9.45 p.m. Friday, August 6th. British - sergeante and 10 men, Chines 1 sergrant and 8 men, Portuguese 2 cergeants and 19 men 0.0 Gaard, Crown Sergeans Watt Saturday, August 7th.. Brit
I esrgtast and 7 men, Ports
2 sergeants and 13 men, Chine
2 sergeants and 14 men,
Guard, Sergeant Major Roylanes.
1
Sanday, August 8th-British
Sargt, and 7 mens Portuguese
2 Sergeants and 13 men, Chinese
Sergeant and 7 mon, Indian 1 Bergeant and 7 men, O.C. Guard,
Chief Inspector Mason.
Bat what's in a SIGNS OF DEMORALISATION. name. One known that the dreamy, imaginative German |would rather tell a lie than the * Petrograd, Jaze 18. The fol. truth any day, but just now we lawing official statement is issued bare tolooket net results and may Siberial Maila Dae per see the omamentation. The point The development of the battle is that the Bucsians have left their o the sixty-verat_Tyamonion Blonie position and have moved Swika front, an which one of the to another nearer Warsaw. Tak air armies attacking usin Galicia
3. may give is operating, ve soms ides ing this net realt view, probably there is little doubt that the of the magnitude of the actions in Monday, August 9.h.-British Russians have hitherto had the significance of the operations in Sergeants, and 13 men; Poringuess the progress in those regions. The 1erg, and 4 men, Chinese 2 Polynesian to-morrow at 4 battle. But that "worst one the direction of the Stry lies in 1 Sergeant and 10 msa, Indian 1 a result on which the captains gibarian Mail.-Closes per 8.8. positions which were nof, after all,vour to turn our front opposed to Inspector D'Almada, N. 0.0m.
only temporary abandonment of the fact that they are an endes Sergeant and 7 men, O. C. Gus) Anhui to-morrow at 5 p.m. vital; while Germany "beat" shephalanx of General Mackensen oera Paradelan
hts involved the drafting of men
The eventual success of the All N. C. Officers will Parade from the Western front and the enemy in the direction of Stry and in mufti, with rifles, under the loss of untold numbers at diff.r. Lemberg would attributes decisive D. S. P. at the Central Police importance to General Macken Station on Monday, August 9th, ent points along the Russiansen's offensive, which, in the con- and Thursday, August 12th at 6. defence line. The Germans ecom $830, to have set their heart on getting trary event, becomes merely a p.m.
series of fruitless frontal attacks, into the Polieli“ capital, even
Substitutes for Guard, Any member detailed for Guard. though they must know full well from a strategio, point of view.
The above-mentioned sector of who finds it impossible to attend that when the garrison abandons it (assuming that this should become the Dalester, however, is not the is made responsible for providing $400, necessary) there will be nothing scene of the principal fighting, a substitute sad for advising the left worth seizing. Perhaps they even with regard to the number 0 O. Guard accordingly at the
Charge-Room. are oat for moral affect "again, of troops engaged there. One's chief regret, in the event
Oo May 15 the enemy army,
may congratulate themselves.
Mexican Affairs.
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Southern Republics would do what America should long ago have done: take the ruling out of the disorderly hands in which it haa lain for the past eighteen months and make come arrange- ment which would render Mexico habitable by foreigners and by her own people. What these | Republica have been doing in the interim no one seems exactly, to know. They have had's unique opportunity of annexing the country and dividing the prol, or of occupying it with a combin- ed force until good government is permanently established; but to as outsiders it would seem, that they have thrown away the
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The Dollar.
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To-day's Anniversary;.
Victoria Theatre.
Martial Carblas. No. gr..
of Warsaw's falling into Prussian closely followed our troops which The member of the Portuguese hande, would be the wrecking of were retiring from the Carpat- or Indian Company to whom the the historic building there. hians, met our opposition in the above Carbine was issued is re- Moreover Warmw contains a region east of Drohobycz, near Sryquested to return, same to the valuable library, which German and Bolachow. TowardsMay 19the Store Sergeant at the Central loute could na more resist des enemy brought into action all his Police Station and to draw troying than a child can resist forces, but, at the end of two days another in its place. The number the temptation to play with he was compelled to stop his will be found on a small circular "matahes if it gets the chance, offensive, having lost tens of brass plate let in'o the batt.
Mr. Balfour and the Enemy's thousands of men. Bis only ano
Misreckoningscess in the eight days of fighting Mr. Balfour, in his speech was the turning of our right wing on Declaration Day, out near Slonsko, with a threat of lined the general position on flanking. Tery neatly, and drew attention
Four Day's Shelling.
DOCTOR SUMMONS:
TAILOR MAT
Trouble over an Altered Coat
This morning atthe Police Court,
to one or two considerations During this week we remained of which both Allies and enemy passive, confining ourselves to may very easily lose sight. The exterminating the enemy, as he before Mr. R. Lindsell, Dr. Joseph war, originally, was not smaan. approached our trenches. Then, Glaister summoned Ho Hing-lee, tially Britain's war. Our Govern- for four days, the enamy concen tailor, of Des Voeux Road Central, ment saw Belgium's neutrality trated his heavy artillery and the for assault, p violated without a shadow of 1 complementary elements nad on The case for the complainant cuse, and saw France, to whom May 25 began bis decisive attick. was that Mrs. Glaister took his To-day is the 45th anniversary with a war which had been in of fighting. A powerful force have some alterations made. Dr. it was bound by tresty, saddled The orisis came on the fifth day coat to the defendant'e shop to of the battle of Woerth, at which no way of her own aseking. I composed of thres Germna divi- Glaistir went for the utal but Now there is talk of one of the the French, under Marshal Mac therefore made an offer of a han- sions succeeded, as the price of was told he could not have it Central American Governmente Mahon, were defeated by the dred and sixty thousand men, incredible sacrifices, in carrying unless he signed a receipt for it. (Guatemala) and of Bolivia and Crown Prince thesis and implicitly we may take it Biry. Perceiving the exhaustion Complainant refused to do this, Uruguay joining with the United The principal features of the of the loan of a pars of the Brit of the Austrians attacking us who and so the defendant declined to Through no fault of his own or of his Government's, Sir Edward States and the A.B.Oto do Grey has again been forced to tell one or two plain truths to the what? Talk, presumably; As Theatre were a dramatic four obligation to which membership opposing army, we assumed the went behind the counter to get it. loat programme at the Victoria ish fleet, in fulfilment of the formed the right wing of the band the coat over, the former government in Washington. The latter's Ministera announce that though there had not been rather they do not recognise the validity of the British Prize Court, and more than enough talk already! part film His after Death" and of the Entente bound her. If offensive, and drove them back. He secured the garment, but, as
Mr. Balfour pointed out that On June 1 the f an uproarious farce of Max Lin-
a general situation in he was leaving the shop, the de that they insist on the rights of American owners to bring goods European attention has been foo out of Holland in neatral ships, even though those goods were much distracted by the war for it der's: Max Wishes he hadn't." Britain has done far more than Galicia osused ne to fall back on fendant stopped him and tried to
prevent his leaving....... do it justice, unlike the British Government when it is dealing with is happening in the far West, and in a specially attractive pro- generous spi-it See what we've made a demonstration against oase, remarked that although originally from Germany. It is unlike Sir Edward Grey and, to to be able to interest itself in what Tonight the management is offer the set out to do, the Allies are the Dniester.
well aware that he spoke in no on- Oathenight of June 2 the enemy Mr. Lindsell, dismissing the serious matters to introduce sentiment of any kind into a dispute, it is probable that not a twentieth gramme which includes another But the Foreign Minister knows his man; kawa that the Americans part of the events in Mexico, dar of the famous "Sherlock Holmes" done for you!" sort of business our bridge-heads in the direction what the complainant had done are themselves of a decidedly sentimental turn of mind, and we ing the past year, have ever been drama " A Queen's Love."
episodes and 'a'
bat that his sole ohject was to of Mikolalew, losing several was very natural, his going behind magnificent
make things a little clearer to the thousand men. An attack near the counter constituted a treepsɛs, think the public in general will applaud his pleading the Lusitania known beyond the limits of the etc., instead of confining himself strictly to the harah Thon Shalt Western Hemisphere. When the "The Boy Scout in Chian" votar at Bome, and to the enemy. Zidaczow was repulsed, but on and the defendant could not We have received the fourth The ungenerons min does not the night of June 6 Batmer croes-be held to have committed an story comes to be written imparti- issue of The Boy Scout in China, anish by saying: "This is what ed the Dniester, near Zurawno, Ragault. ally, an ultimately it will be, it is a cheery liule publication devoted we have done, but it's nothing to and, towards June 8, occupied,
and Thou Shalt Not of international law.
The Allies, says Sir Edward Grey, are facing an enemy who to be feared that there will be to the doings of Sconte, with what we're prepared to do if on the left bank of the river, a poisoned wells, who need poison gas, who sank a ship containing revelations of many an act of ty- special reference to Shanghai. A France wants more help." And district twenty verste in length Reply-A Londoner was Americans many of whom were women and babies-and who ranny which the United States or leading feature is a well written after all what we are doing for and fifteen verats deep showing some country relatives ahookingly violated the rule of civilised warfare. Consequently the Southern countries could have
the Allies mast take every step to overcome such an enemy" prevented, had they possessed the account of the Dragon Boat Festi. France, France would as readily On June 8 and 9 the bulk of the sights of London one day re- One would have thought that, at this stage in events, America would needful resolution. So far as one val, and there is also a practical do for us. If, proceeds Mr. the German forces suffered a gently and was painting out a little paper by a Shanghai Chinese Balfour, Germany had foreseen decisive, defest and was thrown magnificent old residence built not need to have thous litle matters pointed out to her. The testi- know, all that Amoxics has ever Scout on How to do your Daty how the war would go, not a life back scross the Daiestor. Never-years ago by a famous and rather mony of her own and of other neutral consular and diplomatic done has been to occupy Vera Germans accorded to the Belgisne. Not only so bat, she, who has to retire, and leave the Mexicans and interesting s8 are also the there be a doubt as to this? The commander of the enemy army was he abla to build a house officials shows her, beyond doubt, what manner of treatment the Cruz for half an hour and then The editorial matter is bright would have been lost. How can theless, already on June 18 the unscrupulous lawyer of his time.
And, the Lioner was,
Was naked called herself the champion of right and of good government, (aftar to their own devices-- which were various reports and smaller arti Kaiser, in his tragic conceit supporting the beginning of
seems to have thought that he had general offensive delivered a now
like that by this prac bat to breathe for all people, va attack with the remains of his was the reply, tions and languages to worship and regimente, directing the principal practice and his practices..
that Britain would want to cut along the right bank of the Stry in, and assumed that there would against the bridge-heads near Serious symptoms of demorali- |be just one big rush on Franos, Zidscor,
sation are now apparent in the Enormous Losses, ranks of the enemy in the direc- Towards June 15 the day came tion of Miko sieW.
cles.
having given the world so many indisputable proofs of her right to none of the most handsome. Now that somewhat wide claim) abould surely have been the first, and new opportunity seems to be not the last, to protest against Germany's violation of Belgian non-presenting itself for wholesome trality last year. If there were anything beyond words in her claim, outside intervention, and we most ENEMYS NEW WEAPON. obey. He probably never dreams forces of the German main body she would have taken steps from the beginning, despite the fact of earnestly hope, for the sake of ker not being directly concerned, to help in the punishment of foreignore domiciled in the coun- Germany for that infringement alone. Again; her subjects are try, as well as for that of the Jets of Fluid to Burn Through and all would be over. We hope drowned during the attack on the Lusitania; and, months after that Mexicans themselves, that action, dread event, she is still imploring Germany to say that the Lusitania and not talk, will be the order of was not sunk by German submarines!
the day.
It in right that every nation should protect the interests, com mercial or other, of its subjects. But to us the position seeme now, that while America will not protect the lives of her people against German submarines, she will protest, will even attempt to bully, when the more commerce of her people is interfered with-by Britain. What other interpretation does all this bear than that in
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Wire,
he enjoys his disillusionment, lage Turkey and italy,. The Warsaw correspondent of
There appears to be no small the Bourse Gazette telegraphs that significance in the announce the Germans are gaing on the that an Italian officer is:n Bzure a new instrament of war, ing with the British headquarters says the Daily Telegraph Petrograd in the Near East, as to co-opera- correspondens. It consists of tion against Turkey, Already metal cylinder filled with a mix Italy has been terrible Mossrs. Wright and Hornbytare of benzine and kerosene at
appointment to the ener a pressure of 75lb. per square without drawing for the current month is a Follo
her eyes, in spite of all that has been proved against our enemy adriss ne that the Langkat outpich, a turn of a moren opens resources, she has deal
Germany can steal a horse while Britain must not look at a halter ? The remainder of Sir Edward Grey's message shows the extremely reasonable view which he is taking, and is anxions still to take, of the situation and, if Washington wants to retain the respect of the people of the Allied nations, it will draw off a little and leave mino consideration till after Germany has been brought to book. Figures phow that America's increased commerce during the war hsa more than oompensated her for the less of German and Austrian markets," If America has protests to make, would she not do better to confine them to such subjects as the deliberate killing of her Own men women and babies Po
the yout and liberates, a jet. barning fluid 12 to 25ft dength
The sforming parties ara vided with these app
29
238
214
243
211
with which they fuse
through the wITH
Total to 5th inst.
1:148
The heat of the fame
that it outs throu
verago 220.6
structions like še
in Austria's own grogo comparatively trifl
for another reverse to the enemy. It is curious to trace the re- At Bereznics and Kralevaka Rection of events on the Daiester alone wo killed with the bayonet on the snemy's official announce and buried 1,000 Germans who mente. Every step, before it ham were abusing the hits flag been completed by the Germans, veen May 29 and June 15 we had been reported in their official in this sector about communique in their rotory and risoners, 880: Ders, a disorderly fight of the Ru
On the following day!
que states that the
sbourgnds of troops on whom she
never have to call for work pat pine districts, and fon tasse it should be possible for her element to des
rein-Eastein, Prussia
miti
oll if hood be dá o in the valley of