THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
[Renter's Service to The "Telegraph."]
BRITISH DESTROYER STRIKES A MINE:
H.M.S. LYNX SINKS IN NORTH SEA.
August 10, 10,45 p.m.
The Admirally announces that the destroyer Lynx struck
men were saved.
SIR JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT.
GERMAN ATTACK BASILY REPULSED.
THE NEW NAVAL V.C.
The award of the Victoria Cross to the Commander of the submar ine Ell was announced on June
26.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915.
THE VOLUNTEER
RESERVES
From Our Own Correspondent.)
Friday July 2.
The Outlook.
Grounds for Optimism.
world's
Winston on the Hop.' The gossips who really think
CASE DISMISSED
P. C. Willa in the witness box, said he was on "duty at
to count the passengers, and
OUR LONDON LETTER. proving from our point of view.supplies from the
One bears that the Russian retrost markets." Noas of these advant is being very skilfully and ano. øges is possessed by Germany. Austrians nor the Germans have the Tenton giant is already be cessfully conducted. Neither the And there is a growing belief that Inspection of Kit, Yesterday all four companies of
been able to report as yet any of coming more than a little groggy
Bribery Charge Fails Through the Volunteer Reserve turned out
those ambitions captures of pri- from steer exhaustion. It is now
Confileting Evidence. soners and guns that marked some smatter of history how Japan, with EN., at the Marine Ceart for annual inspection of kit.
Before Commander C, W. Book- There was a good muster of
other retreate. And the further in her war with Russia, suddenly this morning P. C. Edward Wills There is no doubt that the back the Russians retreat from the had to agree to terms of peace. charged Chat Kit-toug, master of officers and men, and the inspoo views of the public in this country enemy's strategic roads and rail. At that moment the military the steam launch Les Heung, with tion was carried out ander thesup- about the war have recently ways into the trackless regions of situation was entirely favourable erintendence of Major Wakeman, undergone a change. At the their own frontier the less chance to Japan, and she had the freedom unlawfully carrying fifteen pas- Officer Commanding B.K.V.R. outset of the war all the military there is of anything of the kind of the seas. Yot Japan would engers in excess of the number
A considerable number of the critics abo spill so much ink in being reported. So long as the never have accepted those terms, bour on the 3rd inst. ance under the impression that a professional soldiers, helped to remain unbroken, and so long as collapse under the terrific straip general publio put in an appear. the newspapers, and most of the Russian armies maintain touch and bat for the imminence of economic
allowed by his licence in the bar. a mine in the North Sea yesterday and sank. Four officers and 22 general parade was to be held; spread the belief that the fighting they canescurely hold the strategic of war. It is by no means im- 1030 p.m., on August 3, when but, though this was not the case, would be all over in a few months. contre represented by Warsaw, possible that the world may be the gaid launch came alongside people had an excellent opportun- / Sir John French did not conceal the Russian position is quite surprised by a similar collapse; the Yaumati Pier, lying alongside ity of seeing this very useful body his opinion that Christmas would sound. It is the belief in Inndon only of a much more sanaational of men all together, and it has to see the end of it. In this respect that the Russians, with that won nature, on the part of Garm- 400ther Ferry launch. He board- be owned that they do the Colony we were almost as cocksure as derfal patience and big purpose any. credit. At a time when there is so the Germans, who gaily pro that have distinguished them, human endurance, and Germ-
There is a limit to ed the launch, made arrangements much talk of the necessity for en- phesied in Berlin, when war was have made grent eacrifices during any must be approaching it rapid-placed a seaman at either end of forced service, it is a matter on declared, that they would be in their present enforced retreat in ly. People in this country Field Marshal Sir John French states in a balletin that the to congratulate itself, that a large war by Christmas, How near adequats forces to guard Warsaw not at the military but at the dog with him and counted the
August 10, 10.45 p.m.
which Hongkong has every right Paris in six weeks, and win the the South to maintain at all costs who sometimes feel downhearted, ook the coxswain of the Lee the launch with instructions to gains at Ecoge have been consolidated and a German attack easily number of men of every class, the they were to realising the first and their Western line.
stop any passenger landing. He. repulsed. After this there was a violent artillery engagement majority of whom have reached part of that prophecy, and how believed that they have refused to remember Baden Powell passengers, finding that there the result of which was that all the tronches to the south of Hooge, at least middle life, can be found for they are from accomplishing all temptations to draw troops advice to nervous scouts and re- It is economic outlook, would do well- both British and German became untocable, necessitating slight willing to give up a good deal of the second, only those know who from that essential service or even flect bow mach wores "the other for 145, inclusive of the crow. withdrawals but making no material difference to the positions.
were 160 persons on board. The time and labour in order to make understand the real military im to draw upon the sorely needed fellow must feel."
launch's Lassenger certificate was themselves efficient, for the sake port of what bas Happened and munitions kept available for the of the Colony.
is now happening. It was the use of the latter in the event of
When he had finished counting. From what we were able to see opinion of some of the very another German drive at Warsaw.
which took him from three to Nasmith early qualified for the yesterday, and from all that we highest and best authorities in If this view proves correct, and
five minutes, he told the defendant the number, and the command of a submarine. Al- have heard of the Reserves, they Europe, at the outset of the war, one is prepared to back it, the they know are quite certain Mr. latter made a movement with his though such vessels were then are, almost without exception, that no nation could maintain prospect that confronts the enemy Winston Churchill will not long bead to signify that he did not Memorable Exploit of the E of one of them on July 1, 1905, the youngest Volunteer could be, of a modern European war very from the point of view of Berlin He is said to have been with passengers ashore, and when scarce, he a placed in charge quite asa keen and enthusiastic as the stupendous and crushing cost in the East is not very reassuring remain Ohancellor of the Dachy. agree. Witness then ordered the The identity of the boat was not and those who have seen them at long, The theory was that or Vienna. shown in the Navy List," but their drill will bear testimony to modern were on a grand scale
difficulty persuaded to accept that about to leave, was invited by the it must have been either of the their general smartaces. To would be brief, bloody, and de-
Gabinet sinecure, and than only owner and oxswain of the Lee original "Hulland" or the "A" many, attendance at drill or cisive. There is a tendency now
on strictly patriotic grounds, be- Heung to go to their shop, which classes, as these were all which parade or guard means a serious to modify that theory, and every
cause it was undesirable to em- he told them he could not dog theu existed..
If the Austro-German forces phasise the changes that took The coxswain then offered him in Mar, 1957, sacrifice either of valuable time body is beginning to accept, with are going to accomplish their task place when Lord Fisher marred $100 it he would not go on with It is just a month since it was Lieutenant Naemith was given or of much asded rest, and to as much resignation as possible, of knocking out Russia for all his great career by retiring. the enmmone. first revealed that Lieutenant command of 7 in the Porte- these all honour is due for their the view that the present war may purposes of offensive action long The old First Sea Lord is report Commander Nasmith's boat had mouth Flotilla. After 18 months readiness to enrol themselves drag on until the end of next enough to concentrate their own ed to be much upset by what he
Defendant pleaded not guilty. been operating in the Sea of Mar. in this vessel he had a spell of and
to set an example to summer.
Lord Kitchener bas energies elsewhere, it is high now probably realises to have Police, said he was on duty in mora, and had made a dramatic services in the regular line, being the younger men.
Yau Kwai, Beaman, Water appearance off Constantinople appointed on November 1, 1908, be permissible to remark that, critics who expected a very short decisive result. So far they have very possibly leave politics at about 10.30 p.m. He was placed I may never been among the sanguine time they began to reach some been a mistake. Winston will Yaumati Bay on August 5 as itself. On May 27 an admiralty 23 8, watch-keeper in the battle in the long run, they themselves war. But, on the other hand, I merely pushed the Russians back together for a time and throw in a position to stop the passen commanique announced that Eli oruiser Indomitable. Returning are the gainers, for, during the am told on excellent authority not quite to where the campaign himself into the war service in ers from landing until permission had sank in the Sea of Marmora to submarine daty in January, past twelve months there has been that he does not accept the view originally started to disastrously some espacity. Some people was given; he counted the paseng-
vessel coplaining a
great 1911, he was given command of a very marked improvement in the that it will be so long drawn out for the Austrians. It will not talk of him rejoining his old era together with P.U. Wills, and quantity of ammunition, com- C 18, and in the following Sap physique and general fitness of as that. But for shortage of am- suif the enemy's book to have to cavalry corps, but there is a more after each was counted, he moved prising charges for beavy howit tember became captain of D.4. the men of the Colony, and many munitions it would probably have face a fierce winter campaign on plausible theory that Winston them aside. zers, several gun monatings, and Three months after this in- who, formerly sighed for soms been finished before the next the inhospitable frontiers of will became either first or second defendant went in the cabin, and After counting, s 6-inch gun. She also chased a leresting event Lieutenant healthy occupation for their winter was well upon us. But the Russis The grim ghosts of in command of the naval air witness heard him say that there supply ship with a heavy cargo Nasmith was placed in command leisure hours have now found it. Russian setback has materially Napoleon's famished legions will service. That is the way his was not that number on board. of stores, and torpedoed her of the submarine depot-ship The obligation thus becomes changed the programme. The haunt them if they do, Meanwhile enthusiastic ambitions Icoked His Worship dismissed the case, alongside the pier at Rocosto. A Arrogant a: Portsmouth, coupling mutual.
Germans will probably make an- there are ominous movemente since before the war. It is odda on the grounds that the evidence amall store ship was also chased this appointment with that of
other desperate bid, not for a foot among the Balkan States, on we yet live to see Winston up given by P.G. Wills, did not agree and run ashore. E 11 then assistant to the Commodore af
decisive success, because that is and at any moment the resistance among the little stare bomb with that of the seaman, and that entered the Golden Horn sad dis-the Submarine Service. He was charged a torpedo at a transport also responsible for instructional
now beyond their hopes, but for of the Tarks in Gallipoli dropping. VOLUNTEER ORDERS, something appreciable, with the may collapss under alongside the arsenal, The torpedo and drafting duties. In this post
the sime given for couuting 160|| the was heard to explode.
object of extracting from the strain of a war for which they
passengers was much too short to he remained for two years, or Some idea of the hazardous until war broke out, when he was
Allies a peace of despair.,
Anniversary of Armageddon. were least of all the belligerents
be accurate. In these wild and whirling. nature of the service upon which immediately appointed in com
prepared. Once the road was free times some people may have for Ell and E 14 bave been so suc-maad of his present vessel, E 11.
through the Dardanelles, Russia gotten that Monday, 28th Jane A cessfully employed is afforded by He reached the grade of lieuten
would speedily be able to 1915, was the real suniversary of the fact that three submarines of ant-commander in May, 1913.-
that, if they can deal staggering field, her huge reserve armies, year ago on Monday last since the The fervent hope in Berlin, is mobilise, well equipped for the Armageddon. It was exactly a the Allies have been lost in under Times.
or heavy blows east and west and we should be able to draw Anatrian Archduke Francis For taking duties of a similar
before the end of the summer, the some for pes away from Egypt and dinand was sesassinated. How This morning à conclusion was
Judgment Reserved oharacter. The French boat Saphir was sunk in the middle of
Allies may be inclined, with Gallipoli to co-operate in the many people opened their news reached in the case in which Tong another long winter campaign main campaign elsewhere. Ger-papers on the morning of Monday, Shun, of Breezy Terrace, is suing January, our own E 15 on April 17, and the Australian vessel. A E
Pte. R. H. Whittall is permitted drearily confronting them, to listen many no less than Austria has to June 29th, 1914, and read the Fang Pia Shan and Fang Yee to resign, dated 11; 8. 15. to specious proposals for a peace that is pressing steadily onward that Gavrilo Prinzip, so 18-year in the Supreme Court, before the 2 on April 30,
think also of the Italian advance account of the murder, realised Chi, merchants of Bonbam Strand, Lieutenant-Comniander
Members of No. 3 Section to Germany to save the faces of from the Adriatio. And what is old student bad fired a pistol-shot Chief Justice, to secure a deolar-
settlement sufficiently favourable Nasmith's Career.
Scouts Company will rotarn their the German War Lords. With the prospect in the West? The in Sarajevo the day before which ation that certain property is free Lieutenant-Commander Martin pore for this Port on the 10th instant at
pore for this Port on the lush intagaters on Thursday, 12th inst., he spared in the way of military fident that ro concentration of a blaze and to change the world's which has been before the court rifles and bayonets to Headquar- this object in view nothing will French and British alike are con- was destined to set all Earope in from encumbrances. The onse Eric Nasmith, V.O., entered the morning with the outward English Malls, before 10a.m., for inspection. sacrifices, the policy of submarine fresh enemy forces can effectually history? Probably most of us in since June 28 and has occupied Service in 1897, and reached the and led here on the 15th fast, at about They will be ready for re-issue and Zeppelin terroriem against break through their lines. On the this country were more interested the intervening time with the ex- rank of lieutenant on May 15,
daylight. 1905. In pageing for lieutenant C. P. R... MONTEAGLE on the 7th The Slik shipped from Hongkong by the
on Friday, 13th instant.. thie country will be energetically other hand, the German lines are in Jack Johnson's victory over caption of the sitting of the Fall
"Parades. he took first-class certificates in July reached New York on the 7th Aug. seamanship, gunnery, and tor-Vancouver on the 8th August,
Parales for Thursday, 12th German diplomacy exhausted in
weakening parsurd, and the crafty wiles of constantly
under Meran in a 12-foot ring in Paris. Court of Appeal has ended in The O. P. R. 5, MONTEAGLE left instant. 5.30 p.m. Recruits of the attempt to sow dissension the Allies
tho drain of war while That pistol it was, however, that judgment being reserved. pedo. His association with the submarine hranch began when he
Engineer Co. (excopt Quarry Bay among the Allies. Butherain Berlin strength in men and guns. The exploded the world's powder Hastings and Hastings appeared improve their truck the fatal spark which Mr. Eldon Potter of Mesars was appointed to the depot-ship
Section), No. 2 Section Arty. almost certainly deceives itself. Germans are attempting in the magazine Teames, then commanded by
Batty, Centre Section M. G. Co. Germany under estimates the mu-Weat, and may try the same thing quences to millions of men and Sharp K. C. nstracted by Mr. with tragic conse- for the plaintiff and Mr. E, H. Captain Reginald Bacon, on July
Up to the Mihute.
and Scouts Company who have tual good faith that animates her in the East, to hold their trenches women and babes, and results at W. E. L. Savuton, of Mesare The following quotations ap drill
not been passed oatquad foes. She does not understand the with a minimum of men and a presort incalculable that must Deacon, Looker, Denoon and
Rifle at Headquarters under Sgt. Mejor international understanding. And ported by heavy artillery. Bat time for ever. Could there ever
exercises honourable interpretation of any maximum of machine gure aup coho'down the long corridore of Harston for the defendant Higby, Remainder Nil. $201,
Detail.
ahe fails to realise the solid depth there is a limit to this possibility, ho a more impressive illustration and thickness of the bitter feeling and the drain on the material re of Fate's inscrutable mystery? Gun Olab Bill, Kowloon, on her perpetual aggressions of the sources of Germany mnat be very duty until to-morrow morning past and the arrogant brutalities/beavy. And this,brings us to the Star Forries.-$36), sales and Sasuta Company, Officer on datyof the present have provoked. It is most important consideration of Everybody who knows the middle sie, They are really made of
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LATEST SHIPPNIG NEWS
4.
MOVEMENT OF STEAMERS.
#
4, 1904, for a course of instruc-peared too late for insertion on
Macao Steamboats.
sales and buyers.
tion in the inecheniam and our page 4. handling of the new boats. He had previously bad experience in torpedo craft, and “on April 14, 1902, while he was perving as a midshipman in the battle= Madi-
ship Renown, in the ne terranean, he Was to the destroyer Dragon for a period of training. It is a coin- oidence, by the way, that among
Indos $154, sales,
buyers.
China Sagare $130, sales
and buyers,
Lazoos. $456, sellers. Langkate. Tlp. 384, buyers. Tronohe-30/- bayers.
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Lieut-Gol. A. Chapman V.D. Corps Orders issued to-day by State:
Joined.
Sapper G. H. White joined the Corps on 11th inst., allotted Corps No. 1890 and posted to Engineer Company.
Resignations.
Inspection of Arms;
and
Germany's Hope,
Marly War Horses.
LENGTHY MORTGAGE
CASE.
They stand for classic art in its H. K. V. R. Capt. Stewart. Next for duty
Victorian drawing room apotheo very difficult for the most clear all. Anyone who realises what class English suburbs knows epelter cant is moulda, and to-day, Detention Camp Kowloon. On to look abend at this moment. At will be on the United Kingdom repeted bronzes, described by spelter for purposes in the making sighted and well informed vision the effect of twelve months of war the Marly horses. We mean those thanks to the great demand for Batty, and the following members any moment one of several factors and France, commercially, in auctioneers as very handsome of nickel, these works of art 876 duty to-night, No. 2 Section Arty. the other midshipmen ia the Shanghai Dooks.-Tls. 57 Ramsay, Jennings, Jacobs and war, and all these factors would 18 pretty desperate, We and our mantelpiece in so many stately than for craament. Shops that of Signalling Section: Pies. change the whole fortunes of the believe that Germany's situation which adorn the sideboard or the new, fir breaking up purposes, may suddenly and decisively dustrially and economically, muet and exquisitely sculptared," sata:lly more valuable, brand- Ching Light and Power-841, Marray Scott. Next for duty, authoritative view regarde the Raisia who is more self-supporting they represent beautiful Arab them at a price far beyond their Young. Officer on duty, Capt. favour the Allies. The most Allies with the exception of homes of suburbis. Invariably stock Marly horses and now sell H.K.V.R. Orderly Officer until présent situation in this light than any other European Power chargers with long wing ait value for melting down." Alas, to-morrow morning, Lieut. Danby. First of all the progress of have an open freeboard. So far as menes and tails, prancing with the pour artists! Their mettle- Orderly Sergeant until to-morrow events in the East is steadily im the motivites of war allow, we can pride, and in the charge some steer's are to metalsome. morning, Sergt. Silas,
pursue our trade and draw our of a decoronely denuded catler.
Renown at this time was the pre-sales and buyers.
sent Lieutenant-Commander Ed-
ward C. Boyle, who, in command
of E 14 has also gained the V.O.
for his service in the Sea of Marmora.
and buyeră, Cements:-$8.20, sellers.
H. K. Electrics -$45 sales,
H. K. Ropes.30 males.
(To be ContinuLOCĪT)