THE
SPECIAL CABLE,
ADMIRAL TSENG ASSASSINATED.
TWO CHINES8 FIRE EIGHTEEN REVOLVER BHOTS
AT THEIR VICTIM,
(From Our Own Correspondent).
HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
Shanghai 10, 9.45 a.m. Admiral Tesag Ju-cheng, while motoring to the Japanese Consulate in Shangbai to attend the reception in connection with the Emperor's coronation, was assassinated near the Astor House Hotel, by two Chineso, who fired eighteen revolver shots at him.
"DISCOVER THE
CULPRIT!"
Premier's Strong Message to
Duke of Abruzzl,
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1915
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
[Beater's Service to the "Telegraph. "]
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.
PATROL FIGHTING IN FAVOUR OF THE FRENCH.
November 0, 4,30 p.m.
while, further south, there has been patrol fighting, to our advant A Paris communique reports a reciprocal, fupillade at Loos,
age. There have been violent German bombardments in Champagne and also at Bouvraignes.
WAR BRIEFLETS.
The Central News gives the name of the champion Swiss cyclist shot by the Germans as a
py as Doerfinger.
Thỏ Opening Cruise To-day. The Opening Cruise of the R. Home, September 28. Signor H. K. T. O. was held this after Salandra, the Premier, has ad noon having been postponed from dressed to the Dake of the last week on account of the Abruzzi, commanding the naval weather. To-day the weather again The great British and French forces, the following telegram: appeared to be unkind until about victories have been won on the "1 have read the report of Ad-noon when the aan decided to eve of Sir John French's birthday. miral Presbitero regarding the appear permanently. There was He was 63 years old on September explosion in the Benedetto Bria, a good attendance to watch the 27. in which it was announced that & events. Although the weather commission had been sppointed about 2 o'clock appeared favour- The Lokalanzeiger, in a tale. to hold an immediate inquiry into able there was practically no one gram, states that the only son of the causes of the explosion, and at the Club House at 2-30. Quite Admiral von Pohl fell in battle that the commission would pro- a number of yachting enthusiasts on September 23. osed with its work with the as-watched the event no doubt from
the numerous yachts to be seen
sistance of experts, who had been asked for.
adjacent to the course. The Club "But I -
interpreting and House and grounds were tastefully shoring the grave impression decorated for the occasion, and which the news of the loss of the it appeared that most of the powerful ship and somany lives of members there were watching brave officera and men will pre- the event from other points of duce-beg your Royal Highness vantage, but others had not yet Mo assume directly the task of made their way olabwards.
assortaining the causes of the sad The band of the Hongkong event, seeking without regard for Police Reserve was in attendance persons to find who may have and gave a good musical pro- been responsible, and reassuring gramme. the country and the Navy, which At about 3 a'olook Lady May has been and wishes to be expo-arrived at the Club, and, shortly ed to the enemy's blows, but not after, the first race (Ladies Double to the immense dangers arising Sculls) fell to Mrs. Arthur and perhaps from negligence or slack. nees, which must be rigorously inquired into and revealed, and the responsible parties must be punished."
DEATH OF MR. A. H. CHILVERS.
The Buds Peath newspaper As Est says that Herr Merey, former- Austro-Hungarian Ambas ador at Rame, will succeed Dr. Dumbs at Washington.
The Russian Committee in Petrograd is sending 100 Rassian flags to British town councils and 3,000 medals to promoters of the Russian flag day.
It isnow officially reported that Lient. Arthur James Dingle (Esst Yorkshire Regiment), the English Rugby international, is "missing, balieved killed."
Brigadier-General the Earl of Mrs. Villiere Smyth, the winners Longford, who was wounded in scouring their verdict by a Gallipoli on August 21, is 00 distance.
affioially reported wounded and missing.
The officials were:➡ Patron: His Excellency Sir F.
Colonel J. E. MacQueen, of the H. May, K. O. M, G.
Commodore: Mr. Frank Smyth. 16th Gordons (Torritorials) a General Committee: Rear nephew of Lord Haldane, has Admiral Anatrather, O. M. G., R. been killed in sotion in France. Sutherland, Mr. T. A. Loughlin, He was an Aberdeen advocate. Mr. E. W. Carpenter, Mr. Hon.
Mr. Asquith stated in the House
H. E. Pollock, K. O., Mr. A. of Commons that he had received Darison, Mr. E. B. Reed, Lt. Col. same 400 resolutions against con- The
H. W. Iles, R. A. planting community
Boription from labour bodies in Yachting Committed:Bear the past three months. throughout Malaya will learn with deep regret says the Straits Admiral Anstruther, O. M. G., Times of November 2 of the pain-Capt. T. Arthur (Ohoial Measur Now that the British have fally sadden death of Mr. Alfred or), Bon. Mr. H. E. Pollock K. C., tended their lines south (i. 8.,
Mr. D. E. Blair, (Hon. Secretary), the neighbourhood of Lens) they H. Chilvers which occurred yoe-" terday morning at the General. A. Denison, Hr. B. Sather-have against them the troops of Hospital, Singapore, following an |land.
Bavaria under the command of operation for intestinal obstruc- Rowing Committee:-Lt. Col. Prince Rupprecht. tion. The deceased,
who
Iles, B. A., Mr. E. W. Carpenter,
to
SHANGHAI RACES.
We are indebted to the Hong kong olab for the following :— Coatinuation of Yesterday's Events.
The following realte came to hand after we had gone to press. Siccawel Plate. Beaconsfield (Stewart) Australian Chief (Jolinatone) Historio (Board) Time 3-04-2/5
Sycee Stakes. The Fly Bird (Burkill) Concert (Rowe) Arctic (Watts)
**
Time 1-48.
Racing Stakes. Homefield (Stewart)... Ridey Boy (Heard) Svinegel (Heard)
Time 3-09-4/5.
Rubicon Plate. Borealis (Rowe) House Boy (BMI) Woyfield (Hough)
Time 3-11 1-5.
Pagoda Cup. Haj (Hayes) Soda (Johnstone) Sid (Hoard)
***
+
Time 2-30-2/0.
and
Grand Stand Stakes.
3
1
**
3
***
was
To-day's Events, Pari-Mutuct Cup. Freddie (Vida) Cornfield (Stewart) Nabocklish (Hill)
Time 3-0 7-1/5. Borealis (Rons) The Fly Bird (Barkhill) Loefield (Stewart) ...
Flyaway Plate. Homefield (Stewart)... Standard Dablis (Burkhill) Bonnie Boy (Hill) Time 2.02-3/5.
FOOTBALL. Hongkang League (Second Division).
***
2
3
OUR LONDon letter.
(From Our Correspondent.)
London, October 1.
POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS.
WAR ITEMS.
Police Reserve orders issued to-day by Mr. F. O. Jenkin, D. 8. P. (Reserve) state :-
Parades.
No.
2
The Badge of Ananias. Amsterdam, September 20, According to the Lokalanssiger, Herr Wertheimer, the Brussels correspondent of Wolf Bureau, who is at present employed at the central offics of the Brusela Press Bureau, has been decorated with the Iron Cross of the second
The Advance in the Wost Everybody here is over-joyed Musketry Course Part I. with the news from France. The following are warned to People are congratulating each fire on Sunday, November 14, ather that something is being leaving Blake Pier at 0.00a.m.: done at last. But very few people No. 1 Platoon seem to understand what really Company No. 2 Platoon No. Iolate. is that modern warfare, as is happening. The simple trath Jompany.
developed under the novel.com- ditions of this campaign, was an entirely new problem. For the first time the huge mechanism of modern armies has been experimented with in grim reality in the field. Not only the soldiers and their regimental com- manders, but the Headquarter's Staffs, have had to learn their basiness to soms extent over agaio. In fairness it must be admitted that, while the French in the
Tharaday, November 11. All ranka parade for equipment at "Central" at 5.15 p.m. Details as in orders of November 8 and 9.
Friday, November 12-Re craits of all Companies at 5,30 p.m.
Another U Boat Lost? Copenhagen, September 19.- According to a telegram from Stavanger, a German submarine bas been seen destroyed about fourteen miles off Utaire. Three German bydroplanes are reported destroyed in the Baltic.
Monday, November 15.-Whole of No. 2 Company at 5.30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 16-Re-south-west coast of Norway.] craits of all Companies at 5.30 p.m.
[Utaire is an island forty miles north-west of Stavanger, of the
Wednesday, November 17.--
¡Enemy's Metal Campaign Paris, September 20.- A tele- gram from Geneva to the Journal Baya the German newspapera con- 18.tinue the campaign inviting the
West were the first to discover Whole of No. 3 Company at 5.30 the unlimited flanking movement | p.m.
that chooked the main advance Thursday, November
of great forces, the Germans in Whole of No. 1 Company at 5.30 public to give up all metal and the East were the first to hit p.m.
upon the means for overcoming
Roll Books.
on
the apparent atalemate of New Roll Books are being the resultant parallel lines of issued for all Platoons, Reoraits trenchen. Dating the first Ger- and Ambalance Corps. These 1 man advance on Paris, when Von will be kept in the Charge Room Kluck swerved inward to close at Central Station. They will be the jaws of the iron trap that issued by and returned to the was to Sedan the French armies Sergeant Major whenever of the centre, General Jofre de- Parade, and on other occasions by 1fested the design by spinning out each N.U.O, as may be directed 2 his web to the sea, and com- by the Senior Olicer or N. O. 3 pelling the Germans to do the Officer on Parade.
eame, or be outflanked and taken in the rear. In the same way, 1 when the Germans had battered 2 themselves to picasa in the East 3 against the long lines so indom
itably held by the Russians, it was Von Hindenborg who die covered, and put into operation I the true solution of the problem
articles which would be useful in the making of munitions for the continuanos of the war. Hante- men and sportsmen are now asked to keep their cartridge cases so that the metal they contain can be utilised:
Kaiser's Cousin (njured. Amsterdam, September 21,- According to a Berlin telegram, Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prus eis has had an automobile acci- dent. The Prince and a com. panion were thrown out of a car, the Prince sustaining several light injuries, while the other coonpants were more severely in- jared. The automobile emashed, Prince Josobim Al- brecht had gone to the theatre of We are indebted to the Ameri-war four weeks ago can Consal General for the fol lowing:- The telegrams quoted
Reported Death of Zeppelin Commander.
TYPHOON WARNINGS:
2 of colossal immobiliem. He had below were received from the
3 discovered in the East what the Manila Observatory,
French and British had found out
the
in the West. That no real pur-
6 p.m. November 9 1915, Oyolone or Typhoon E. of 1posa could be served, and only Visayas Islande moring W. or 2 heavy losses incurred, by break-w. N. W. 3 ing through the lines on a narrow front, It was like sticking your 1 thumb into a football. The only 2 effect was to cause aelight 3 salient which in no way relieved the general pressure. To break through on the Vistula the Ger
The 88th Company B.G.A are playing the Shropshire L.I. this ex-afternoon on the Naval ground at Happy Valley, Mr. Gordon Banks refereeing. The Score is a fol- lows, at Half Time:
88th Company R.G.A. 2 goal■. Shropshire L..
1 goal. Fall Time.
88th Company RG.A. 4 goal Shropshire L. L
1 goal,
had been out East for some in, (Hou, Secretary), Mr. F. A. E.A. Wiggin (in Gallipoli) and Mr. H.S. Rouas, Mr. T. A. Lough wounded are Brigadier General Among the officers reported thing like fourteen years, wa first associated with the teaching Biden Mr. E. B. Reed,
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. Harrison,
to
M. E. Bullook.
11 a.m. Nov. 10, 1915. Oyolone or typhoon E. of the Northern Visayas or Southeastern Luzon, moving W. N. W.
WALA
A French official communique dated September 20 atates:-I ie reported that Dr. Sticker, com- mandant of one of the largest and most modern airships of the Ger- man fest, has recently been kill- ed. It would be very interesting to know the manner of Dr. Sticker's death. Was he strook, for instance, by a chanes shot in one of the recent raids on Eng- load?
Life Saved by Letters. in his breast-pocket was the moans A packet of his mother's letters
mans had to delivers simultaneous Allies are now contending for the attack all along the lines, and, more cause of Earopean freedom and than that, to break through over our old civilization have to be of saving the life of Private C. This is precisely what is now be until they are thin enough to in the fighting in Gallipoli, a broad front at a crucial point. rabbed down like a bar of iron Murrell, who has been wounded ng attempted, so far with prom break. Towards this achievement While running from the trenches ang suovere, in the Weat. But the French and British forces in he was picked off by a sniper operation that compelled our gal- the first six months of the war. right breast: He would have been it took weeks to complete the the West nobly did their part in the ballet striking him on the lant Russian Allies to begin their Before the Germans settled down killed had not the letters in bis general retreat. And it must in their treaches, abandoning as breast-pooket diverted the bullet, fake weeks to bring the Germans hopeless their original plan of which went down his ribs and to similar conclusion in the West. overwhelming France and taking came out of his thigh.
The Real Situation, Paris, the Allies took heavy toll of By general consent all the news-them. They probably lost. be-
Uloma and Enver. staff of Baffles Institution and, for Yachting-Officia! Starter.-
papers, and a good many other twoon one and two million men gram from Turin says the real
Paris, September 21.-A tele-· 0. B., D.3.0, 12th Battalion Min- some years subsequently, was in Mr. W. Logan, Official Time
people, are referring to the present permanently 38 the result cause of the agitation in Turkey charge of an English school in Keepers Mr. F. Smyth, Mr. D.K. chester Regiment (in Flanders).
By order of the Swedish Govern- advance as the long expected and of the desperate fighting of against Enver Pasha is under- Johore. Daring one of his visits Blair.
Major General Sir William ment, the police in Getlenburg the Allies. It remains to be seen have since
often postponed main offensive by those months. The Russianstood to be the violent campaign England be accompanied Rowing: Starter and Umpire.- Shmoud, K.C.B., retired pay, ie have forbidden the sale of German
then contributed which is being conducted against His Bighoess the Sultan Lt. Col. H. W. Iles, R. A. Judge-ganetted a colonel commandant wa: stampa printed with the whether this is really no. It may their share to the wastage of the the dictator by the Ulems, follow of Jobore
RE., in accession to the its motto "Got strafe England," Allies will accept with grateful back by sheer weight of metal far ordering the mobilisation of be taken for granted that the enemy. They have been forced ing a decree which he issued 59 private вес
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Lieut. General Charles Augustas and have confiscated a stock of alacrity whatever the gods may into their own territory, Bat all seminarists of Mohammedan retary, and upon bis return was placed in charge of the Sulton's Mr. T. A. Loughlin.
Goodfellow, V.O.
them found in a shop there. plantation at Ula Ayer Molok. It
3.00 p.m.-Ladies Double
send them. If they succeed in that long and bitter way the religion. Soulie, (Gentleman Coxswain) Mr. Gaffney, the American was only within the pret for R. H. K. Y. O. Championship. been asked to resign owing to his connections, states that the Gerroot and brauch, of course they ning down process has been charge of snared matters. The Consal-General at Munich, has journal with intimate German tar organisation in the West, dead and wounded. The thin learned men in Turkey who have The Nya Daglica Allehanda, a rampling up the German mili- ground is strewn with German
[The Ulema is the body of tome of illness and despite prompt Mrs. Villiers Smyth, so that he began to feel symp" (Present holdera. Hrs. Artbur sad|pro-German utterances. If he maps made certain alterations in will push on to the utmost, But working all the time. Germany members of the body are not medical attention he passed away Distance mile. To be rowed refuses to resign he will be dis the Baltic minefield. Tartead of the impression in these airoles that has been piling up her casualties liable to military service. funeral took place at Bidadari off in heats if necessary.
picking up the mines the Geraro beat informed about these mat- on two fronts, She canill spare the last evening, many friends gather
ters has been that the present men now to deliver those įfurious
Italy's War Budget, The Telegraaf learns that the mans made them explodo. ing around the graveside, inclad-Smyth beat Misa Dennison and Dutch correspondent of a London
heare would not be protracted. counter-attacks on the positions Degree has been issued contain- Rome, September 17.—A Royal Captain the Bon, G. Legge, In other words, the opinion was just captured from her in the Westing, with a view to providing for ing H.H. the Sultan of Johore, Miss Lammert.
paper who some time ago was second son of the Earl of Dart that a serious effort would be made which are the very basis of German the extraordinary needs of the Mr. Douglas G. Campbell, O.M.G., Owing to the wind failing the arrested with an English journa-mouth, and younger brother of to push the Chermans back a bit textbook strategy. General Adviser to the Johore yachtsmen the rest of the sailing list on a obarge of endangering Viscount Lewisham, MP., is before the winter, and to occupy temple to hurl her mea against the measures. These concern: (1) If she at Treasury, a sorica of financial Government, Dr. Wilson, P.M.O. Programme had to be postponed, the neutrality of the Netherlands officially reported to have been favourable positions, but that the Alliee front in the West, the A tax on export concessions (8) Johore, and other officials, includ. and they will be sailed some other was discharged from oustody, killed in action. ing a detachment of the Johore day. Boata were sent out to tow
He was pre-real main offensive was not likely process of final exhaustion will an increase of the sale prices af to be launched until the coming merely be hastened. And very tobacco; (8) a tax on the sale of Volunteer Corps, of which decens-in the sailing oraft.
Raynes Park Golf Links in sid of The names and ages of the spring. Apart from the fluctus. well-informed people still cling mineral oils, with the exception German Lord Roberte's Memorial Fund for male gipsies working in the Kent. tions of the fighting, and the ebb to the conviction that a dramatic of petrol; (4) a reform of s H. G. Peile officiated. The symprisoners who were captured dur- Workshops for Disabled Soldiers ich bop gardens have been taken and flow of the conflict, in. differ- change will come over the spirit legislation regarding the sale of pathy of a wide circle of friends ing the recent operations in resulted as follows:-
by the police, as it is believed parts of the gigantio erens of of the German dreams, once the alcohol, with special measures will be extended to Mrs. Chilvers, France have arrived at Southamp J. H. Taylor, 72; George Dun- that many of these have hitherto the war the main factor in this process of exhaustion begins for Sardinis; (6) modifications of who is in Johore, and to her tion. They presented a sullen and can, 74; Harry Vardon, 76; Tom soaped registration. In some raggle is the economia and really to bite into the vitals, of the fiscal regimess regards bo daughter at present at home. aloverly appearance,
[Bali, 79.
districte large numbers of gipaios The forces against which the!
military exhaustion of the enemy. Germany's military strength. and (6) a surtax on the manufao are employed in hop-picking.
(To be Dontinued)
tare afenger.
as stated yesterday morning. The
ed was a member, and who bore
Mrs. Arthur and Mrs. Villiers
the coffin to the grave. The ROT. Eleven hundred
missed.
A stroke competition on the
viously reported missing,,