OUR LONDON LETTER.
From Our Correspondant.) The Fate of Warsaw.
London, Friday, July 30. At the present moment every- body is intently following the stragglo in the East that her
centred itself on Warsaw. The Germana have been lucky enough
in this war to have two bitoa ot most of the oberries. They have made two main stempts to break through in the West, their firet grand advance on Paris, obecked on the Mirae and thrust
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back to the Aisee, and their furious drive through Ypres, parried by the steady valour and
Inspection of Arms. indomitable heroism of our man Wembers of Centre Section in thaki. Similarly the min M, G. Co, will return their rifle have been enabled, owing to the and bayonets to Headquartere unpreparedness of those ponerful before 10 nm. on Friday, 10th neighbours whom they donly, for inspection. They will be challenged to fight, to make wasty for re-issue on Saturday, bids for Warsaw. Their fit at 11th instan tempt was a very complt failure The Russians had not then leplet ed their mocks of ammunition. In front of Warsaw and along the Vistula and the 8-n, they fought the Germans to a stupdstill, and
Musketry Part I.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1915.
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in respect of what are called pre- The House will observe that in moratorium bills and other par- the note appended to the present "The local Manager of the Mar- Washington, July 27.-It is Votes of Credit for £1,012.000.000. poses at the request of his Mejos- supplementary role wider lan-cantile Bank of India Ltd. bag That is a guage is used or, at least, that received advice from London that ty'e Government. Announced that Sir E. Grey has
question mainly of adjustment. the words of limitation are omitt-au interim dividend, at the rate of cabled to Mr. Lansing Secretary
In the House of Commons on do not think it desirable to od, and we now ask that the 8 per cent per annum, free of iu of State, informing him that Great Britain is preparing another Note July 20, Mr. Asquith moved a disclose at this moment the exact money granted by the vote may come tax, has been declared on the to the United States, and has aek-Supplementary Vote of Oredit of amount, but the House may take be expended in advances by way A' and 'B' shares of the Bank," No. 1905 Gorinor J. Muirheaded that the Noto delivered yester- £150,000,000. He said: This is it from me that it is a very largs of loane or granta for purposes to N, 2. 8-con Artil ery Batty. day in reply to the United States the third Vote of Credit for the eam, raaning into a great many connected with the war. I think N. 19.18 Gunner C. Young to Note of March 30th shall be with- present Anancial year. It will millions. If these repayments are upon the last occasion the hon. 28 otion Artillery Barty. bold from publication, pending raise the total so voted for the made as property the period which member for Somerset (Mr. King)
RELIEF FUND. No. 1907 Gunner E: Beok to the receipt of thenew communica- year to £850,000,000, and the the existing Note of Oredit, which called attention to those words,
2 Station Artillery Baty. tion. The British Note will, total since the outbreak of war to I am now asking the assent of the and my right hon.
Subscription List No. 40. therefore, not be made public.
The Tung Wah Hospital bege £1,012,000,000. There were three Bonse for, will be materially, the Chancellor of the Ex- Mr. Lansing is said to expect Votes of Credit for the financial shortened. I do not like to give chequer stated with perfect to acknowledge with shanks the the new British Nole next week. year which expired on March the date, because that would in- accuracy that no advances ha following donations to the Kwang- It is understood that work on the 31. The first W08 on directly disclose the figures bat it been made, or were then in con-ung Flood Relief Fand. pending American Note to Great August 8, of £100,000,000 will be very materially shortened,templation, to any States or Gov- Britain has been deferred until the second on November 1, of The second point I desire to ernments which did not full with the new Note has been received £225,000,000; and the third on emphasise is that the daily rate of in the description of his Mjeely and digested.
March 1 of the present year, of expenditure is, with the best possi- Dominions or Protectorates and We purposely The announcement that a sub £37,000,000, making a total for blaattempt at forecast, necessarily Allied Powers. stitute was coming has caused a the financial your 1914-16, of in a large degres uncertain. The leave out that limitation on the fiuller among American officials, £382,000,000. For the present tendency, I need hardly say, of present occasion. (Cheera.) I am whale improved spirits seem to financial year the Votes of Credit expenditure for war purposes from sure that the House will not ask warrant the inference that hope are as follows:-On March 1, Vites of Credit is to increase, and me to go into any detaila. Wa is entertained of the new Note £250,000,000; on June 16, 250, while the sum of £3,000,000 a think of course, it is subject in being more favourable to the 000,000-that is, £500,000,000 day, which I mentioned when the end to strict accountabilit American contentions than the in all; and the sum which we are I last addressed the House to Parliament for the manner in anpublished Note at hand. now seking the House to Banction, in these matters, was taken which this money or any part of
the
of purposes
the it is expended-it desirable in Io some quarters, belief prevaile £150,000,000; making a total so for that publication of the third Am far for the financial year 1915-16 estimate, the daily rate may be the existing situation that we same time the Austrians were
erican Note to Germany showing of £650,000,000.
bstantially more than that. One should literally obewed up, and the
No. 2 Section Art. Batty.more clearly the American position The £3,000,000 Per Day Exceeded fast in particular bas to be always wider power than was Galician fortressos I like ripe G, R. J. W. Tatem.
is the occasion of the English It was estimated that the first borne in mind, and that is that ferred upon the last occasion plume into Russian hende. But the
desire to amend the English Note, sum of $260,000,000 in the pre- the item of advances to Allies may with regard to the countries or 7th inst long winter months that we and our
seat year voted on March 1 would grow with the adhesion to our States to which advances may failed to appear the case was dis Allies spent in on endeavour to
Washington, July 27.-There last until about the second week cause of States which did not take possibly be made. I do not think I missed.
L. Kay charged Chun Teim, quip ourselves for a modern war,
will be no break with Germany in July. When the second Vote part in the war in its earlier it would be right to any more. the Germaneoccupied instrenuous.
over the Leelanaw incident. The came to be taken, on June 18, stage. Further-I am obliged to (Cheers.) I am sure that the master of steam launch Kwong ly remodelling and equipping the
German captain seems to have that anticipation had to be deal with this very generally-in House would not expect me to Chae, To Po master of steam Austrian army. What shoy have
gone through the requisita revised, and it was then expected considering the amount which we say more, but I ara quite sure that launch flung Lee, and, and Wong aohieved in this respect is a mar-
preliminaries before dispos- that the money included in the ought to ask the House to vote at they will agree that the Govern- Lai Tuk master of steam Isunoh vellous tribute to German enter
ing of the ship and contraband first Vote would last till the end this moment we must remember ment ought to have is that matter Hop On, with unlawfully blocking prise and German brains. It is
cargo. The affair thue seems to of Jure. This latter forecast was that it is not desirable tocat these a free hand, subj sot, as I have al- the approach to the Hongkong, aaid that the Kaiser ommission.
add another chapter to the history practically fulfilled. The expendi- things too fine, and that although ready said, to our responsibility Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Commons. Company's piera at Kowloon on ed with this work is bringing bie
of the William P. Frye dispute, ture from the first Vote of Credit we are most anxious that the to the House of Ally ap to military concert pitch, Parades for Luaraday, 9th inst.: which turns on the right of Ger.fr the present financial year once should retain its Parliamen- (Cheers.) Those are all the mythe 2nd inat. Defendants pleaded 200 carefully selected offers,
5.30 p.m. Recruits of all units many under the treaty of 1828 to of $250,000,000 up to Janetary control over the expen liture terial considerations which it is not guilty. Complainant in the and their experienced direction (xoept Right Section M. G. Oo. sink American vessels laden with 30 this year, inclusive, was of the country on the war, I think my duty to lay before the House witness box stated that on the and organising genius have troos and Signalling Section) who have contraband, instead of to that of approximately €246,721,000. I am not over-estimating it when in asking for this extended vote. 2nd inst. at about 9.30 a.m., the formed the surviving remnants of not been passed out-Squad drill the Lusitania dispute at least, That, as the Blouse will see, sab-I say it takes the beat part of a The Adjournment of the House..8, Baigon Maru was coming into the Austrian Army. At this man Rfl exercises at Headquer
atantially exhausted the first Vote Parliamentary fortnight to pass ment controversy tages furiously tera aadar S. M. Higby and
of Credit for the present financial through all the various stages in in London on the question whether Sargt. Frith. Raminder Nil.
year. I come now to the second Committee and on Report and Warsaw is going to fall or not
period, which is covered by the and other etages of the Consoli Very little doubi on that subj sot
dated Fund Bill, any additional Vate proposed and sanctioned on is felt in Ministerial circles o e-
June 10 for another $250,000,000 sum which may be needed for tertained by competent military
For the first 17 days of July the that purpose. expenditure has amounted to
then thrust them back. At the
mer,
|
The present Austro-Gr man plan is working very diffr eatly from that which failed so disastrously is the surly menthe of the war. The movement that has now developed in the East is probably the most colossal thin of the kind over attempted. it is the famous cailitary strategy of the nutcrackers in excelsis. From the north of Poland right along to the north of Galicia, like a string of heade dra en agro a coatinent, innumerable Austro German army corps are cove oj - ing the Russians in a steady march
in which each army cɔrps keep- time with all the others. It is o arranged that a check ut BD
Arrest the onslaught.
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Serious Plight of Large Sections in Germany,
at
blow from the military as well as
The Leelanaw Incident.
that is the view of the Frees, which urges patience and self restraint, and despatches from Washington say much the same thing on behalf of the Govern ment. Not that the intrinsic im- portance of the affair is minimis- ed. It is felt to accentaste in an extremely sinister way the chorus of obstinate Teutonic dissatisfac tion over the President's last Note.
tion.
Reasons for the £150,000,000
Vote.
havo a
rather con-
Before Comm.ader O. W. Beok- with R.N., at the Marine Court this morning Pte. Gates B.M.LL, charged two boat people with un lawfully moving about the harbour during probibited hours on the The plaintiff having
I will not on this occasion go the wharf when he saw nine into any general question either heavily laden lighters being towed of policy or of strategy, but there alongside the ship while she was is at least one subject which may still under way, these lighters be of interest and which may be were on the outside, making it to some extent material, and that very difficult to handle the abip is the length of time which we coming alongside. Witness took propose, at the conclusion of our the names of three of the towing present datics, which I hope mas launches as they were going
854,190,000. That is just a little I think it may be neamed reach an end early in next week, astera, there were six in all, Vole of that the House should rise. I Defendantu etatod that they did fairly need not say that the Government not tow the lighters to the ship,
above the estimate I gave of
by about Credit
$3,000,000 a day; it exceeds it that the existing a
giving
the amount
our intention.
J
Consignees Notice. Consignees are informed that goods ex 8.8. Manchuris if un. elivered to-morrow at noon will be subject to both landing and
storage clergen.
Sale of the Persia.
We are informed by the local
It is noticed that the gist of in the aggregata mach of the officially inspired £3,000,000. It follows that the wide and liberal allowance have no desire to ask the House of they were losing them to the Amsterdam, July 21-Rioting German comment is that the total expenditure from Votea (f for the considerations which I Commons for anything in the no-wharf. His Worship found them is reported to have taken place solution of the dispute depends Credit this financial year up to have stated, will last at any rate ture of a blank cheque or aa nadals guilty of the charge and fined Coloque owing to the exorbitant largely on the promptitude and July 17 was just over £300,911, until the end of August, and a extended period which would them $50 each, or in default of price of food. The secreia-y of firmness with which the United 000, or,
further vote now of £100,000,000 preclude or unduly suspend or which, two months' hard istour. in round figures, the Fodera ion of Ubristian Trade States approaches Great Britain £301,000,000.
would provide funds to carry on interrupt the sitting of Parliament Una stites in the Cologne regarding ber maritime policy. The House will naturally be the public service until the end and the operation of the House of Volkszeitnug that the conditions Bat the United States has no anxious to learn under what heads of September. That is the mini-Commons' criticism. Nothing is.
ng large sections of the people intention of purchasing the coa or categories that expenditure bas sam we can ask the House further from Are much more serious than is tinuance of friendly relations with heen incurred. The Army and to vile. But in view of the un-(Cheers.) I think I may say, with- believed in Government gaurtera Germany by any such bargain. Navy nocount for £241,093,000; Ceriain, fluctuating, and, to sont committing myasif at the Times telegram per Press Associa-losus and advances to the Domin largeextent, unforeseeable factors, moment to the precise da'e, that when we have ions and to our Allie, £43,015 which I bave indicated in general it is our intentio Gives Ample Time to Escape. 658, or roughly £44,000,000, erms, we advise the House, disposed of the business no be- given point can hardly avail to the political point of view, The captain and crew of leaving a balance of approximate having regard particularly to the fore us and which is in contem- Botions consequence which plation, to ask the House next but it would he as nothing com- the steamer Loclanaw arrived at|i, £15,302,000, which has boon would follow from any temporary week-I hope in the early part agent of the Pacifio Mail Com. Berlin is now playing for bighared with may norious disaster Aberdeen last night. They expended on food supplies and #takes, Germany is concentrat to the Russian armies in the field, aiate that several slote were fired other miscellaneous purposes, shortage of supplies, to increase of the week-to adjara to the pany that the Persia hae baen ing all her efforts on a droisier The cap ure of Warsaw would at the vessel by a German sub- The House will remember that
of the vote 10 middle of September. Some sold and will make no further movement in the East, lacident immen-rly harden the Austro-marine, but that they were given the figure of £300,811,000 exceeds $150,000,000 so as to make the people may think that we ought voyages on account of the P.M.
powerfully ally it may be pointed out thermn,
1 ffect
ample warning before the vessel the setual cost of the war up to provision absolutely secure. That to adjurn a little longer, and Company. what is now being developed b one neutral nations, deprive was sunk.
dale, since it includes the pro-amount of £150,000,000 would, if some people may think that we Germen strategy against the Regis of a valuable railway President Wilson's Critics.
vision for the ordinary naval and the expenditure be at all confined ought to adjouro for a shorter Bassians in the East is identico tre and base, and compel ber
Now York, July 27-A tele military expenditure on a peace 10 £3,000,000 a day, cover 50 period (though I do not think for some time to a purs de gram from San Diego, California footing, which, at £220,000 per the two factors I have dwelt opon quite sure it will be the general with the great movement attempt
days, and in view particularly of there are very many); but I am ed laat September in the Wet. ensive campaign. Bat so long as quotes Mr. Roosevelt no character day for 108 days may be taken General Mackendon is the Vinto Russian armies were still icing the torpedoing of the Let $23.780.000. If that is namely, the expediency of ac- sense of the House, as I believe it Kluck of the East, and intact and in the field, compelling elanaw by a German submarine deducted, there remaine a net war celerating and making ample is of the country, that we should swerve in the counterpart of to-day the enemy to keep adequate con- in the North Sea as a "damoable expenditure from the Votes of provision for ear obligations to adjourn for six or seven weeke, of Von Klack's much discursed | taining furcas against them, the outrage."
Credit, including loans and adv. the Bank and patting ourselves amongst other reasons because THE SUN KWOK MAN COM- wwerve last September east of Germans would not have achieved
"I think," contioued the former
in the position in which we can the obligations and duties which ancee to July 17, of £277,000,000, Paris. If the Russians succeed, as their main military objective. President, "that the condition to Sa mach as regards the past meet the ficaacial requirements are imposed upon Minister in the
of our Allies-we think the Hoare administration of the public service (In Liquidation.) General Joffre succeeded in the Moreover, the Russians are show which the peace-at-a-price West, in foiling this movement, ing themselves to be great policy has brought the United Tendency of Expenditure to will.agree with or that a sum of ou account of the war are of such
Notio is hereby given pursuant Germany will have lost the game 9 rategista, and it is by no means States is perfectly bellish. The
£150,000,000 which I now po an onerous kind and eo insistent boyond recall. In these circumst impossible that the Grand insult is all the more aggravatad If the future expenditore be pose is not in excess of the rea- in their demands that with every to Section 181 of the Companies ences the belief that Warsaw may Jaka may emerge in triumph from by the utter sanselessness of this taken at roughly $3,000,000 a Bonable requiremente of the case. desire which they have as servante Ordinances 1911 and 1913 that a fall has been industriously cirthe position in which he now finda latest at aok,"
day, the talanes of £100,000,000
There is nothing in the form of the House of Commana, as well Meeting of the Creditors of The Sun Kwok Man Company Limited culated in some quertere. Tue himself. The strategy which the From the opposite point of view remaining from this existing Votes of the vote which differs in any es of the Crown, to render daily (in Liquidation) will be held at surious hope of those who are Austro German commanders are Mr. Weissman, Fresident of the of Credit would last for 60 days. respect from the last Vote of account of themselves in this the Offices of the Liquidator. following the struggle from afar purening is as old as warfare it German-American Alliance, ad- that is to say until September 21. Credit. In the last vote of credit Assembly, the Honoo will see it No. 3 Queen's Road Central, is in the interest of the country Victoria, in the Colony of Hong- with friendly eyes however is that elf, though it has never before dressing the Valkfest at Utics, But there are some factors whiob, the language need was this:--
"Advances by way of loans or that they should be set free, at kong on Saturday, the 11th day our gallant Russian Allies who been attempted on quite such a New York State, roundly abused in considering the sum. we ought have played so brave a part and gigantic role. Tuo imagina President Wilson, declaring that to ask the casa to vote, we grants to biaMujraty's Dominions any rate for a reasonablo period, of September 1915 at 18 o'clock Protectoraten outside the to concentrate their undivided noon for the purposes provided born so sorely tried, may tion is appalled by the reflection he was a political bankrupt who have had to take into account, or succeed in extricating themselves that the nutcrackere ero compos- had violated his oath of office, which are, I need not any, to a United Kingdom and to Allied attention to that great and domi. for in the said Section..
Dated this 6th day of Septem- without disaster from the girdled, in the present instance, of bringing the United States to the large extent of a conjectural char- Powers for the purpose of war nating purpose on which not only of steel with which the German omething approximating two verge of war with Germany with-acter. In the first place, as I expenditure or of meating difioul- all parties in this House, but hor 1915. are seeking to encircle them. The million mer.
ou consulting Congress.-Central said last month on the introducios origing opt of the war and to evory section in the country, are fall of Warsaw would be a serious
tion of the last Vote of Credit, it local authorities and other bodies absolutely united. (Cheers.
(To be Continued)
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increase.
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