THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1815,
GERMAN
N NAVAL DEFEAT. MESSES. SETHA'S REPORT. PASSPORT REGULATIONS DAIRY FARM NEWS.
LARGE BATTLESHIP BLOWN UP.
Sea Fights in Baltic.
The naval norivity of the Ger- many in the Baltic ban cost them the loss of two vessels save the Times of July 5 A pre-Drenti- nought battleship of 13,000 tons
leafing the enemy's line.
Monara, S. D; Setna & Co.' Fortnightly Report states: (From 28th July to 12th August 1915.)
The following is published in the Government Gasstte for general information,
must be forwarded to the Colonial 1. Applications for passporta Secretary's Office. They must be made on the authorized" form, copies of which are obtainable at that Office.
Some of Qur By-products and Specialities.
2. The charge for a passport CORNED BEEF,
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4. (1) The Governor may în his, discretion require an application made by a senior official of a to be verified by a declaration British Banking Firm established
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B'ghteen Months in Congo Forest
Bengal Opium. --- Nothing doing, market ruled quiet. Unsold stock. 46 chests of Patna New, 305 cheats of Patna Old, 31 Cheats of Benares New, and 90 obeute of Bmaren Old, in all about 472 Quente. Clearances mil. 3. Passports may be granted;-- Bid bas uncleared stock.29(1) To natural-born British sub- chests of Patna New, 123 oheets jects; (2) To the wives and of the Deutschland class, was tor of Patoa Old. lohests of Benares To persons naturalized in the widowe of auch persons; and (3.)| pedoed by a Russian submarine on New, and 38 cheets of Benares United Kingdom, in the British Friday and blew up. Earlier in the Old, in all about 279 cheats. same day's Russian squadron of Reported closing quotations of Colonies, or in India. A married four cruisers engaged an enemy the Opium Combine are:-Patna woman is deemed to be a subject squadron and wrecked the mine New 9325, Patos Old 89200, of the State of which her busbaud laying cruiser Albatrose, which Benares Now $9050, Benares is for the time being a subject. was run ashore and interned. Old, #8925. The loss of this vessel is admitted by the Germano..
Malwa Opium. :-After a lapse Petrograd July 4-The Naval of nearly more than three months, General Staff reports that at 3 Chinese purchasers appeared in p.m. on July 2 a submarine dia- charged two torpedoes which changed hands at $9350 to 0500 the Peace, Minister of Religion, AMERICAN SUPPLIES TO EXPLORER'S ADVENTURES blow up a German battleship of (per piqul). Clearance is reported Barrister-at-law, Physician, Sor the Dentro land type, which was of only one chost. Unsold stod geon, or Notary Public, resident is estimated at about 444.1-2 in Hongkong. The applicant's **The ships of the Deutsch-ohesta. Sold out uncleared stock certificate of birth and other land class are pre-Dreadnought ie about 91 chests. Reported evidence may also be required battleships of 13,000 tone. Their closing quotations of the Combine (2.) In the case of persons natur- speed is 18.5 kots, and they carry are. Malwa 9400 to 9500 (per
alized in any of the British Self- four. 11-inch (400sl.) guns in pioul): pairs in turrets fore and aft, 14 8.7-inch, 20' 3.4-inch gun, and four submerged torpedo tubes,
Petrograd, July 2. An official statement islued hore anya:-
This morning, parallel with the Oestergarn lighthouse on the pioul). eset boast of the Island of Goth- land, our cruisera encountered in Indian Yarn. :-Owing to de- the fog two of the enemy's light mand from the interior, and strong oraisers and some torpado-boats, market on your side, prices ad and sagaged in battle with them. vanced 31 to 1 per bales and At 9 o'clock in the morning a sales are reported of about 3550 "German cruiser, badly damaged, bales.
lowered her flag and ran ashore. Theothercruiser with the torpedo. In all about 3550 bales compris boats made off."
ing of 75 bales of No. 66-25 bales At 10 o'clock in the morning of No. 83.-1550 bales of No. 108,- our squadron encountered the 700 bales of No. 12-200 bales of armoured craiser Boor (9,350 No. 18, and 100 balea of No. tone, with four 8-2. guns), a 20. Unsold and uncleared stook his application. light orniser, and a torpedo-bost, Lis estimated at about 48,000 bales. and renewed the battle. At 10.80 Japanese Yar :-Salne are re-will be described as such in their the enemy began to retire towards ported of about 500 bales at $102 pasaports, which will be issued the south. During his retreat to 112 per bale the enemy, who had now been
subject to the necessary qualifion Sundry Articles.No change tion, joined by another light oruiser, to r: port. In Imports, sales are 6. Pasaporta are not available was attacked by our cruisers and reported of Angoor at $15 (per beyond two years from the data fled. At 11.30 the purauit ceased. Pical), Kismis at 815 (per Pionl), of issue. They may be renewed foot to revive peace talk. The Another effort is apparently on After the battle our equadron Bhesabale at $9 (per Picul), for four farther periods of two President's decision not to visit was attacked by submarines, but Myrem bollamy at 44 (per seara each, after which fresh San Francisco is rather widely without success. The damage to Pical),
Gum
Olibanum passports must be obtained. The attributed to his belief that there our oraisers is quite insignificant. at 812 (per Piaal), Parohack at fes for each renewal is $2.
The Battle of othland, $120 (per Pionl), Bezoar Stone
may be a chance of mediation The great difficulty was to get Stockholm, July 3, The ships engaged in the battle Musk at $800 (per Catty). In
at $150 to 200 (per Catty), and THE IMPERIAL RESCRIPT.rague stories from London, Berlin, noiseless way like the Bambati. before long. Stress is laid upon through the forest in a catli, e aud off the Gothland coast seem to Exports parabanes are reported
Petrograd, Jans 30. The follow- and other capitals about vague The work was vary trying. Con have been four Russian and two in Cassia at 39 (per Picul), ing Imperial Rescript has been eirenic activities, but officials in staat rain, continuous twilight, issued, addressed to the Premier, Washington state that there is no and a plague of flies and ticks reason to believe that the Presid-made progress hard. Practically From all parts of the country Ient is likely to be deceived by the whole time marching was have received appeals testifying
New German Intrigues. (From the Times own Correspondent.) governing Colonies the applica apsiring, probably, of securing known traveller and authority on Washington, June 30.-De Dr. Cuthbert Christy, the well- tion must be accompanied by a an embargo on the export of sleeping sickness, he returned, Cotton.:-Sales are reported of recommendation from the Govern- arms to the Allies by agitation says Router's Agency, from a about 240 packages at $31 (perment, or from the High Commis- and political intimidation, Ger- three years' scientific expedition pioul). Unsold stock is estimated London, of the State concerned. another track. They assert that Belgian Government. He was the Bioner or Agent General in man propagandists are now on in the Congo undertaken for the atabout 2400 packages. Closing 3.) In the case of persons natar- the authorization by the Federal only white man on the journey, quotations.:-827 to 32 (peralized in a British Crown Colony Reserve Board of the use of as his European assistants fell sick the application must be accom- Federal reserve notes in buying and had to turn back. Dr. Christy from panied by a recommendation munitions of war, or in assisting spent eighteen months in a part- of the Colony concerned, or from rents, is tantamount to a breach tically unknown. It was only by the Government the raising of loans for bellige of the Itari Ferest, hitherto prac the Colonial Office. (4.) In the of neutrality on the part of the the help of the Bambuti dwarfa, case of natives of British India American Government. Taking with whom the traveller lived, and of persons naturalized there their coa from a recent article that it was possible to penetrate In the application must be accom in the Vossische Zeitung, to the baunts of the okapi. from the Government of India, or labour meetings have passed these animals and succeeded in panied by a recor mendation various German -controlled Dr. Ohristy himself shot one of from the India Office.
resolations to this effect and a collecting four altogether. He be- 5. In every case a naturalized pro-German member of Congress gan his expedition at Homs, the British subject mast forward bis has approached the Federal Re-month of the Congo, at the com certificate of naturalization with serve Board. It is not thought mencement of 1912, and went likely that the Board will play right up to Stanleyville, thence tions are concerned. The ques into the forest. In the unknown the German game so far as muni- trekking across to the Ituri and tion of loans is rather different in portion of the Ituri he came Boros view of the President's original some remarkable people who, by proclamation against lending to means of dull red lines painted in belligerenin
various directions scross the body, organies great drives in the forest, render themselves invisible. They catching the animals by means of nete. They are very aby and quite naked.
Naturalized British subjects
German cruisers, the latter having China Roots at 871 to 12 (per been detached from the German Pical), Galangal at 88 (per M. Coremykin:-- Baltio squadron. One of the Pioul) and Cardamam Seeds at German, ships escaped and was $35 to 38 (per Pical!! able to signal to the aquadron
that the Albatross was badly damaged and had run ashore în a
sinking condition. The German waters the British Government
to the firm determination of the Russian peoples to devote their strength w the work of equipping the Army. I derive from this
them.
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MR. BRYAN REBUKED.
Open Letter from Baron de Constant,
squadron harried to the resone, did not hesitate to offer the national unanimity the anabak- and the Russian cruisers retired, customary apology.-Times Dor-able assurance of a briliant future. (From the Times Correspondent.)
The Albatross, which is a miñe- respondent.
laying craiser of 2,200 tons, with
a crew of 225 men, is agronad
The German Version.
160 yards from the shore near the
hamlet of Oestorgara, on the east coast of Gothland. Her foremast
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The food problem was a serious one, and sometimes the traveller had only a few bananas tied to his belt, and often had to subaist entirely on wild kola nut. Occa sionally be slept out in the forest in a little leaf abelter erected by the dwarfs, ? D
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A prolonged war calls for ever Paris, Jane 30.An open letter fresh efforts. Bat, surmounting has been addressed to Mr W. J. growing difficulties and parrying Bryan by Baron d'Estournelles de On hearing of the war Dr. the vicissitades which are inevit Constaus, whose activity in revent Christy decided to make a bao- Amsterdam, July 3. able in war, let us strengthen in years in endeavouring, even by line for the Nile, and finally arri- The German Admiralty to-day our hearts the resolution to carry personal interviews with the Em-ved at Rejaf, proceeding down is knocked over, bath funnels are issues the following
com- on the struggle, with the help of peror William, to put an end to river to Khartoum, Afterwards blown away, and she has 25 holes munique :-
God, to the complete triumph of Franco-Garman sumity bas arous he spent some time in the Soudan, through the hull. The captain,
the Russian arms. The enemy od bitter opposition in certain which was not in the least affect- recognising the impossibility of On its return from outpost duty must be crushed, for without that French circles. The writer, who ed by the war. putting to sen within 24 hours, a portion of our light Baltio naval peace is impossible.
reflects the views of French Paci- fowered his flag, and the ship was forces; which, according to orders, With firm faith in the iner-fists, expounds his own stiitude, placed under a guard of officers, was steaming in extended order, haustible strength of Russia, 1 and takes Mr. Bryan to task in while the crew were confined. mat, about 8 o'clock on the mornrnticipate that the governmental the following words: There are 27 killed, among them ing of July 2, Russian armoured and public institutions, Russion And what are you doing now? being First Lieutenant Lower-cruisers which were patrolling industry, and all the faithful You are preaching peace What HONGKONG & SHANGHAI berg, who was buried in the little between Gathland and Windan cons of the Fatherland, with kind of peace ? A pesce that will BANKING CORPORATION PRICE PER CASE. 1 DOZ, QUARTS, DUTY PAID $80.00. ohuichyard of Destergarn. in somewhat hazy weather. Isol out distinction of ideas and enable German militarism to re.The Dividend Declared for the Thirty-three of the crew were sted fighting developed, in which classes, will work together in tire from the struggle unhurt Half Year ending 30th June, 1915, wounded, many of them, includ our weak forces attempted to draw harmony to satisfy the needs of neither victor nor vanquished, to shillings Sterling per share, is at the rate of Two Pounds three. ing the ship's doctor, gravely, the Russian vessels within range our valiant Army. This is the make preparations for another payable on and after Monday the They were removed to the hospital of other German ships. In the only and, henceforth, the national attempt whenever Germany, its 16th day of August, Current, at at Rums,
couree of the fighting the war problem to which must be viotim and dupe, thinks there is the Offices of the Corporation, The Russians continued to fire vessel Albatross was unable to directed all the thoughts of unit a chance to realize ita fatal where Shareholders are requested at the Albatrosa while aground. regain touch with her own forces. ed Russia, invincible in her unity. schemes of conquest, iftam to apply for Warrants, The Albatross was interned by After two hours' heavy fighting Having formed, for the discoe Excuse me, my dear Mr. Bryan, By Order of the Court of the authorities, and the Swedish against four armoured ornisers, sion of questions of supplying the if I speak thus frankly. Yon are Directors an Minister at Petrograd has been which continued firing within Army, & Special Commission in acting againet your own pure
Chief Manager, N. J. STABB instructed to protest against the Swedish territorial waters, the which members of the Logislative You are running the risk of pro- Hongkong. 14th August, 1915, violation of Swedish territorial Albatross, owing to several hits, Chambers and representatives of longing the war by placing your watere. Commenting on the was obliged to run aground in industry participate, I recognize eloquence on the side of German incident the Press expresses the sinking condition near Oester the necessity, in consequenos, cf militarism. Yon will cause still
BELLE VIEW opinion that the Russian officera gara, in Gothland. Twenty one advancing the date of the ro farther bloodshed. The georaits were probably unaware, in the on board were killed and 27 opening of these Legislative who ealiat under your flag are 80
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