1914-11-11 — Page 5

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1914.

BY

TELEGRAPH.

THE

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

PROGRESS OF

THE WAR

THE "EMDEN" ORÏVEN.

ASHORE.

"KOENIGSBERG

BOTTLED)

UP IN EAST AFRICA,

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GREAT SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH.

LATEST NEWS FROM FRANCE, BELGIUM

AND EAST PRUSSIA.

THE "EMDEN" CAUGHT AT LAST.

H. M. A. S. SYDNEY DRIVES HER ASHORE.

Emden's Losa Considorable.

LONDON, Nov. 10, 2.10 p.m. Ej slicially announced that the German cruiser Emden bas been driven shore and burned after a sharp action of Keeling, Cocos Island, yesterday.

F.M.A.S. Sydney, a cruiser of the Australian Navy, forced the Euden to light. The Emden's loss is considerable.

Our losses are three killed and fifteen wounded,

Another official mesange states that the Emden arrived at Keeling, Cocos Island, and landed an armed force with the object of cutting the cable but EMAS. Syrloey arrived.

THE KOENIGSBERG BOTTLED UP.

The official report also states. The German cruiser Koenigsberg has been imprisoned is the Rafigi River, German East Africa, by the sinking of colliers. in the mouth of the river-

The cruiser Chatham, which bottled up the Koenigsberg, bombarded the hatter and a portion of the drew which had entrenched on the river bank, but

sing to the dense palm groves it is impossible to estimate the damage.

INDIAN AND PACIFIC OCEANS.CLEAR.

With the exception of the German cruisers participating in the Chile engagement, the Indian and Pacific Oceans are now free of German craisers, Mr. Winston Churchill has telegraphed to the Sydney end Common wealth naval boats Lis warmest congratulations on the brilliant entry of the Australian navy into the war and the signal service "rendered to the allindi.

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THE FIGHTING IN FRANCE, AND BELGIUM.”

LONDON, Nov. 10, 1.55 m. The evaning communique issued at Paris wya:— There has been no notable modification in the situation in consequence al difficulties caused by a dense fog in operations of come magnitude.

In the North the day has been good. We have maintained our positions between the River Lys and Langemarck, and made appreciable progress between Langemarck and Dixmude.

LORD KITCHENER CONGRATULATES JAPAN.

LONDON, Nov. 10, 6.40 am, Lord Kitchener telegraphed to the Japanese War Minister his warmest con. gratulations on the taking of Tsingtau, and and: "The British Army is proud to be associated with their gallant Japanese comrades in this enterprise."

ENEMY STILL RETREATING IN EAST PRUSSIA.

LONDON, Nov. 9, 11 p.m.

A telegram from Petrograd says that it is officially announced that the bastle continger in East Prussia. The Bastians have occupied Boldau.

The enemy beyond the Vistula are still retreating, while oath of Przemysl the Russians captured another. 1,000 prisoners...

BY

THE CHINA MAIL.

TELEGRAPH.

`GUILDHALL"BANQUET SPEECHES,

ROUSING STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH.

The Rt. Hon. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying to the toust of His Majesty's Ministers, of the Quikthall Banquet roosived on ovation, Flo soil: Noyer has any government in our history more needed the shole hearted confidence and unselfish co-operation of the community without distitet of party or class. Never has that condense been more ungrudgingly expressed or that co-operation been more generously offered.

The European Skuation.

This was the seventh year in succession that he had suspended for His Majesty's Ministers to the Guildhull, During that time not only our own country but the world outside and experienced many strange vicissitunics and it was not inappropriate to recall the European situa- tion. It presented new features of startling and arresting significance which it had been left to time to unfold. First, there was the formul annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Advantago was then taken by Austria, with the connivance of another Power, to ride rough-skod over weaker nationalities and set aside the public lay of Europe.

The Young Turk's Vloss.

That was the first, though mos the most important of the causes which led to the present wHY. The other change in the European sitza- tion was the sudden emergence in the Ottoman Empire of the Young Turk Party. They had brought about a bloodless revolution; they had deposed Sultan" Abdul Hamid; they had established, we all believed, freedom and a constitutional government in the Ottoman Empire. Noter were hopes, so sanguinely entertained..doomed to more bitter or more complete disappointment, and after six years, we are reluctantly com- pelled to admit that the Young Turk has reproduced vites without either the 'vigour or versatility of the old regime.

Undermined By German Threats.

BY TELEGRAPH. VICTORIA THEATRE

(Wah Tar Yat Pa's Bervice.)

CHINA AND THE TRANSFER OF TSINGTAU.

PENING, Nov. 10. The Ministers of all the Depart ownts have inus in private consulta tion with the President over the wetion of the transfer of Tsingtau,

UNREDEEMABLE NOTES,

· The Government has refused to accede to the proposal of Leung Chi Chao to issue unredeemable notes.

CHINA AND TIBET.

The General of Szechuan has sug- gested that the Province of Tibet be divided inta 60 districts.

RICE TRANSPORTATION BUREAU.

It is proposed to establish a Rice Transportation Bureau at Shanghai with bauches in all the rice produc- ing provinces.

THE EMDEN.

London Cricitiam.

When the war began we made it clear. in conjunction with our Allies, to the Turkish Government that, if they retrained neutral. their Empire should tot suffer in integrity ar nuthority. The Turkish states- men vacillating in council from day day allowed their true interests to be undermined. By German threats, by German ships, by German goldrinking four of bar prizes, has sent all the they were tempted, to one futile outrage after another.

Ottoman Dominions Doomed.

Lawless bombardment of Russian open ports and equally lawless incursion into Egyptian territory continued until the Alles, after observ ing anexampled patience in the face of veileil menaces and impudent equivocations, were compelled to yield to the logic of facts and recognise the Turk as an open enemy. It is not the Turkish people. it is the Ottoman Government that has drawn the sword and I do not hesitate to predict that that Government will perish by the awont. It is they and not we who have ring the death krull of the Ottoman dominions not only in Europe but in Asin,

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No Quarrel With Massulmans..

With this disappearagee of Turkey will disappear, as I hope and believe, a blight which for generations past has withered some of the fairest regions. We have no quarrel with the Mussulman subjects of the Sultan. Our Sovereign clains, among his most loyal.subjects, millions of men of Moslem faith. Nothing is further from our thoughts than to encourage a crusade against their creed or their holy places. We are prepared to deferál them, should the need arise, against all invaders and intain them inviolate. But the Turkish Empire has. committed suicide and dug with its own haada its own grare.

British Gold Reserves,

Turning to sunncial and economic questions, Mr. Asquith explained the measures taken by the Government to deal with the abnormal situation at the beginning of the war. He thought that the results were very satisfactory. Foreign exchanges were working in the case of most countries quis satisfactorily. The gold reserves of the Bank of England, which were forty millions sterling on July 22 and which had fallen on August 7 to twenty-seven millions, now stand at the unprecedented figure of sixty-nine and a half millions. (Cheers.) The central gold reserve, after three months of war, amounts to eighty millions, exactly twice the amount at which it stood at the beginning of the crisis.

The Bank Rate.

It is reported, anys the "Daily Telegraph" of 30th September, that the Eenden har captured in the Indian Ocean five more steamships, to say nothing of a collier, and crews to Colombe on board the Bfth. I on almost hear thousands of readers exclaim. “When will ikis German cruisch bo captured 7 What are the Admiralty about?" Where to our man-of-war, that they do not sink her "As there are, no persons who can produca yewapapers so well as those who have never tried, so there are no naval strategist who co compete with those who sit in armchairs and never

go to ver

The experience of put wars shows that, it is an extremely difficult business to catch

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cormi-a instance the long careers of

the Alabama and Shenandoah. We talk airily of hunting down the cruisers of the enemy tieb are still at large on the roas, but we are apt to forget that these sank cover ire-seventhe-note the proportion: ef the suface of the earth. Here, there, and everywhere are unfrequented baya in which a vessels can hide and rest; a chart of the son in which the Emden has been operating with an area of 17,890,500 quare miles, and many welecme islands for shelter, will give some idea of the difficulty of Ending her. If ́s render were told that there was one mis-spelt word somewhere on one of the pages of this imae, he would not find it easy to track it down; how much more difeult if that errant word were continually jumping about. while the search was in progress!

#STEED, "SPEED, "SPEED,

As a matter of fact, the Emden has found an ideal seone for her operations, passing to and fro, and she has many bays because there is a great deal of shipping and inlets to which to run for the purpose of hiding if a British cruiser comes Der bar. She has moreover, the advantage knobs at a pinch; she can always bolt when of speed, for she can steam at twenty fre in danger. In order to catch her we need ships not so swift but swifter, and after deducting the cruisers with the Grand Fleet for the best ships aro parded in the main strategicni ares-we have not more than about half a dozen vessels in the outer sons which can equal this very energetic German ship much less beat her.

Her exploits, though they have probably résulted in a lose of shout a million sterling-lor the vessels sank by her had

Mr. Asquith pointed out that the Bank "Rate, after fluctuations, now was about level with the quotation at which it stood at this time lust year.

Food prices had been kept on a fairly normal level und.orage of nearly 50,000, and many of thom bad valuable cargoes-mut more though trade had been curtailed in some directions, unemployment had us to a certain amount of admiration. We been rather below than above the avenge. In this connection, Mr. can afard to salute Commander Karl FOR Asquith paid a tribute to the co-operation of City financiers in relieving Maller, her commanding officer, according

the this service, had conferred a Peemge upon Sir Walter Cunliffe, Governor not merely with humanity. but with ma the situation. He announced that His Majesty the King, la recognition of to last official information, for Eis enterprise, because he seems the beasting of the Bank of England.

The Allies' Tut.

sideration, towards the British crown. Ho is making history, bemuse he is doing what hardly anyone thought could be done.

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