THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SECOND
TO-DAY'S
EXTRA
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1916.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS
[Beuter's Service to the "Telegraph. "] THE BALKAN SITUATION.
TURCO-BULGARIAN AGREEMENT SIGNED.
[Beater's Service to the "Telegraph.""]
September 26, 10.85 p.m. Beater's correspondent at Sofia says that the Turoo-Bulgarian
GERMAN INTRIGUES.
· Exposure et Campaign in United States,
NEW NAVAL MEDAL.
Awarded for Service in Minor Naval Operations.
Now York, August 15-The from Saturday's London Gazette. The following is an extraot World devotes three pages to
The King has been plasaed to an exposure of the methods by which Germany has been secretly medal to be known sa the Naval ganotion the establishment of m working to shape opinion and stir General Service Medal, to be up discord throughout the United awarded for service in minor States. The whole exposure is naval war-like operations, whether based on correspondence between prominent representatives of the in the nature of belligerency or German Government with its police, which may be considered agents in this country, which has the award of a medal in cases of sufficient importance to justify come into the possession of the where no other medal would be medal will appropriate. The have a distinctive riband-white, crimson stripes, and a clasp with
World.
Herr Bethmann Von Hollweg is intrigus, the obief zotors in which
agreement, ceding territory and railway to Bulgaria, was signed shown to have participated in the with crimson borders, and two
by the Taroo-Bulgarian delegates at Dimotika yesterday.
BULGARIA NOT TO THROW IN HER LOT WITH GERMANY, were Count Bernstoff and fid appropriate wording,
anoiers in Berlin, Frankfort, and New York:
Ilie Majesty has farther beon" pleased to approve the award of
September 26,10,35 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam says that even the German
Two million dollars weekly is journalists are unable to twist the Bulgarian mobilisation into a promise on Bulgaria's part to throw in her lot with the Austro-Germans, estimated to have been expended the Naval General Service Medal with olaap iasoribed “Persian According to a correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, in a part on the scheme, part of which was Gulf, 1909-14," to the officers and ing interview, M. Rodoslayoff said that if the war approached to control and influence the Prese Bulgaria's frontierashe must protect her interests; but themobilisation of the United States for the pur-men of his Majesty' chips who was purely defensive and not directed against Ronmania or Greece in the slightest degree. "We wish emphatically to point out," he mid; "that we have no aggressive designs against these States."
FROM SIR JOHN FRENCH.
FURTHER BRITISH AND FRENCH PROGRESS.
September 27, 1.65 a.m. Field Marshal Sir John French, telegraphing on Sunday svening, says that severe fighting took place to-day on the ground won yesterday, the enemy making determined counter-attacks to the east and north-east of Loos. The result of this fighting is that, except just north of Loos, we hold all the ground gained,yes- terday, including the whole of Loos itself.
This evening we retook the quarries northwest of Hallach, which we won and lost yesterday,
We have in this fighting, drawn in the enemy's reserve thus enabling the French on our right to make further progresa,
The number of prisoners collected after yesterday's fighting, now two thousand six hundred, nine-guns were taken and also a considerable number of machine guns,
is
Our aeroplanes to-day bombed and derailed a train near Loffres, east of Dount, and another fall of troops at Rosalt, pear Bt. Amand. They also bombarded Valotonnes station,
GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. -
BERLIN ADMITS ALLIES' SUGGESS,
September 27, 12.35 a.m.
Beater's correspondent at Amsterdam reports that the Berlin official communique admits that the Allies have had successes. says: "Southwest of Lill the enemy repulsed one of our divisions near Loos and advanced to our second line. Naturally we had con- siderable losses including material of all kinds lying between the
two positions
We voluntarily evacuated Souches.
In the fighting north of Perthes, a German division was obliged to evacuate an advanced position, which had been rained by an uninterrupted and seventy hours bombardment, and retire two or three kilometron.",
TURKS' NAVAL LOSSES.
Battleship Gunboat, and Transport Sunk.
(Government Press Bureau)
pose of fomenting internal dis- oord.
were employed in the operations for the suppression of the arma traffic in the Arabian Sea ori and W. of Long. 64 deg. E. Persian Gulf N. of Lat. 22 deg N. batween Oct. 19, 1909, and
The journal says the Govern ment has possession of a bag of documents, which was found on a Secret agent of the German Gov- ernment. Among them we found August 1, 1914. positive proof of "German official Į motivities against the peace of the United States.
рагроза,
tracts to supply the British and Russian Governments, but there ie no penalty for failure to deliver, and it has, of course, no intention to make deliveries,
his
The Prass Campaign. The Washington correspondent of the Morning Post Bays The chief points made by the New York World are the at-
The New York World tempt by Germany to control and promises, in a future article, to influence the American Press, to give full details of this transac establish newspapers and news tion, the name of the plant, agencies, to finance professional and its location. There are also lecturers, and cinema exhibitions to be published later letters from and to publish books, all for the Captain von Papen, the Military
New York Attache, who reports to as the World explains, "of fomenting superior the steps taken by him internal discord among the to prevent the exportation to American people to the advantage England and France of liquid of the German Empire."
chlorine, which was first used by One of the earliest ventares Germane in the Ypres trenches, was to furnish money for Father and his plans to tie op American land, a German weekly organ in plants, "An undertaking of this New York, established shortly kind, saya the New York after the outbreak of the war, World, would be a violation of which has viciously attacked Dr. the Sherman Law. Another Wilson because of his impartial agent discloses to Heinrich Albert a soheme for acquiring neutrality.
Heinrich F. Alber is named by control of the Wright Airship the New York World as the Company, so as to prevent the chief financial agent of the Ger- exportation of flying machines to man Government in this country, the Allies. and one of his agents reported to
Bribes to Labour, him that he had secured on
Officials connected with the option for the purchase of the German Embassy are shown to Amerionn Press Association for have been in communication with $180,000, a conosrn which has labour leaders to promote strikes in munition factories at a coat of no telegraphic service, but sup plies several hundreds of minor £10,000. The names of labour papera with matter in electrotype leaders are given or described by plates. The president of the initials. German agenta organis company, however, denies that head movements to have an embargo gave option or is willing to sell placed on the export of munitions his concern to Germany.
and to create a hostile sentiment tongland because of the blockade.
.
his ex-
A plan was also proposed to establish a news agency to be
Out ofall this mass of intrigue secretly controlled by the Ger man Government to supply im- which has largely failed in its "to the American purpose because of Germen partial news Frees; as the news distributed by stupidity, one piece of sensible the Wolf Agency was discredit advice was given. The agent who
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prepared for the consideration of so, the loss of which was first en An attempt to purobase a New the German Foreign Office a plan nounced in a Turkish official re- York evening newspaper is also for the establishment of a news port issued last Monday, which disclosed. By order of the Gergency recommended that in stated that the greater part of the man Imperal Chancellor Count future there should be no re- crew had been saved. The Bar- Barnstorff was instructed to ference to Belgian. neutrality or barosse was an ex-German battle aspartain if's certain well-known pat the blame for the war on Belgian atrocities, the attempt to ship, sold to Turkey in 1910.
American journalist would like England should be dropped as London Angust:12,
gain to come to Germany as a The Secretary of the admiralty The Berk-i-Satvat wasn torpedo Frese representative,"
"a considerable English element makes the following announce gunboat displacing 740 tons, penses to be paid by Germany. exists in America," the pride and launched at the Germania Yard, This individual had been in Ger- imagination of the Americans The Vice-Admiral in the Darda- Kiel, in 1906, and completed in many, and was of great benefited by the assertion that German should not be continually offend- alles reports that one of the Bri- the following year she had to us by reason of his good culture is the only real culture tinhas bmarines operating in those length of 2023 feet and 2714 feet despatches." waters sank a Turkish battleship beam, and with an indicated horse- Buying Multions Plant, and surpasses everything else. on the morning of August 8th at power of 5,100 was equal to a While protesting against ship-
Germany should ceass publicly the entrance to the Sea of Mar-speed of 22 knots. Her armament ment of munitions to the Allies, to discuss the delivery of Ameri- consisted of two 4-inch, six the German Government is now can arms, and ammunition, as Turkish ganbost (the Barki 6-pounder, two machine guns, and engaged in buying munitions well as to les Americans feel ita Satvel) and an empty transport two light guns. Last April it plants and will begin turning out displeasure because of these have also been torpedoed in the waste ported that a gunboat of ahrapnel on September 1, and
shipments, s Tramelise by one of the British the Bark-1-Satret class had been will be running at fall capacity sunk in the Dardanelles by the by January 1 The manner of The above announcement oon-British aubmarine E14 There transportation, while not disclos Arms the report published on were two vassals of this class, sd, is to be conducted with the August 11 that a British sub the sister-ship being the Peik- aid of a neutral country in close marine was responsible for the Sherket, so that both have now proximity to Germany. This
of the Hairrodin Barbaros- been nocounted for,
German company has taken con-
ment
uubmarines.
it is estimated that Germany ha
The New York World says spent $409,000 in its campaign of corruption, and it traces one draft sent through the Deutsche- bank to the ferman Ambassador for $220,00