1915-01-26 — Page 5

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1915

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BY TELEGRAPH.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

THE

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

A DETACHMENT OF

BAVARIANS

CAPTURED IN LORRAINE.

THE BRITISH NAVAL

VICTORY.

THE GERMAN VERSİON.

LIVELY RIFLE FIRING AT THE FRENCH

FRONT.

A DETACHMENT OF BAVARIANS CAPTURED.

Lostos, Jan. 25, 3.10 p.m.

A romongnaque from Jormune states that we surprised and tored a detachnght of Bavarians at Embermenil.

Zhem is thick fog on the Vosges and in Alsace."

killed.

THE BRITISH NAVAL VICTORY.

SLIGHT BRITISH CASUALTIES.

LONDON, Jan.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BY

TELEGRAPH.

(British Foreign Office Telegrams.)

PROTECTION OF HOLY PLACES OF ISLAM.

An Imperial procla-nation declaring that the holy places of Islam will be protected by the Allies, and tha paruiasion given by the Viceroy allowing foodstuff to thexrted to Fledjaz, have been received with gratitude in Tadi pnterves of Jeddah, Lingah, Bahrein, Kowest and Mosul have waited on the Gorner of Bombay and earnestly expressed their thanks,

THE PORTUGUESE CABINET RESIGNS.

LONDON, Jun 25,

A telegram from Lisbon says that the Cabinet has resignsif,

ROUMANIA MOBILIZES.

A Protasi From Germany.

A Havas telegram atates that the Petrograd orrespondant of "The Times" reports that Gerthany has lodged a protest against Roumania for the mobilization of her Army, adding that she considera this as an hostile not on account of the now being officially unconfirmed.

SECRET DIARY OF EVENTS

IN BERLIN.

Remarkable

Disclosures

AUTHORITIES AT VARIANCE.

Petrograd, Dec. 17. One of the Waras papors has em menced the publication of an interesting document which purports to be the diary of some of the secret politiasi events in Berlin during the first months of the war

It is believed that the author is a well-known Pole, who was detained in Germany on the outbreak of hostilities, and has peat must of the intermediate time between Berlin Led Dresden. It was also suggested that the German military authorities sought to use him ne na instrument for fancting sedition among the Russian Pales, and that cap-by pretonding to fill in with this plan be cune into a position to obtain a good deal of confidential information, The local colour, it may be added, is fairly convincing to any one who knows Berlin and its political methods.

HMS Zion, which led the line, had only eleven men wounded and none

There were 123 men of the Blucher rescued out-of $85. Possibly mere wore saved...

No reports of any destroyer or Eght cruiser fighing have yet been received, though some fighting lias apparently takes place.

THE GERMAN VERSION.

BY TELEGRAPH VICTORIA THEATRE

(Router's Sarvice to the China Mail.)

NEW CHIEF L'BERAL WHIP.

LONDON, Jan. 45,

Me, JW, Guiland, M.P., « janior! Lord of the Treasury, has haan appoint. ed to succeed the late Mr. P. F. Iling. worth at Chief Ministerialist Whip.

Mr. Gullard la M. I. for Damiries, which constitueney he has represented sinca 1006. Ite was a well-known mer chant of Edinburgh and a director of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commere, Ho beesmo lenturar on the Fenetics of Cam merevin Heries Wart College, Edinburgh. and also a member of the School Board and Town Council of the Scottish capital. Enj

(Wah Tas Yat Po's Service.)

MAGISTRATES TO INSPECT.

PERING, Jan. 25.

The Central Government has or- dered that all mugistrites throughout · the country shall visis the principal markets and vitloges in their districts monilly in order to see that order is

CAPTURE OF DE WET.

Motor-Cam Co-operate With Horsera. being maintained.

A Capetown messago to the Daily Tele graph, dated December 3, given those details of the capture of De Wet:-

Colonel

Brita, giving further particulary of the capture of De Wet, states that torty rebels under Wolmarans interrupted convoy of sine motar-lorries on a farm at Distin, difteen milos south west of Kommandantspruit, on November 27. Fall is partienkurs are not to band, but it urlerstood that these motor lorries werd taking petral and other supplies out to Colonel Brite's force, and had missed his change of direction northwards towards Kommandustspruit. Colonel Brits himsaif fallowed up Do Wet's spoor from Kommandantepenit with motors, and game up to him at Danent, and started an encircling movement to surround him. The ground, & werer, was too heavy for motor cars. And so Du Wet's borsemen got away.

Comandant Marias, of Lydenburg, fol- lowed up rory vigorously on the right wing. One of the most interakting passage notwithstanding the besty sand, and had of the diy reads the alleged serious a skirmish, during which one rebel, Van dilerence of epision between the General Rongen, was wenced De Wet then Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, trakked aneth, and Colonel Brits thereupon

F

INTERESTING DIALOGUE.

supplies of

FORGIVENESS FOR REBELS.

The Government announces that rebels who call personally to express their repentance will be pardoned, but letters cannot be regarded.

FOREIGNERS AND STAMP DUTY.

The Tiplomatic Body in the expi- tallats agreed to the use by foreigners of the Chinese duty stamps.

NEWS FROM THE FAR

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The Secretary of the Imperial Service Guild, Liverpool, ends of the following:- The Imperial Merchant Service Guild are informed by their representativo at Canton that he has drawn Attention there As to the utility of drugging Turkey into i took the cars to Murokwen to swait further to the free that although all the Germans and Austrians have been expelled at the war. fine of the leading Conservativo

On the same day Hongkong yes n farge number of thems of prety we dont commodat, Jerdand a com

the Chinese "Talk

Maritime main ber, said:

catranes inta mando caine up to Microken from Genees remised in the way threstens a serious complication, Colonel Erits despatched Colonel Cem-Customs, and in the courts of thuir

mandant Jordaan with seventy-five bore.uties border. British ships in Chines

Jt is understood that the No British ship was lext and the casualties among the personnel at not to England and France, but to our

Belves. With Bur own bands we are meu to follow up and attack De Wet with porta. present reported are slight

pushing Italy Spain, and the Balkan States the utmost despatch, fearing that De Wet Government on the spot have taken the into the arms of the Triplo Enteute." might get out with some of his men via

пccesary steps u dealing with this matter. At Shamieon, which is contiguous to Canton, Henning lei.

being a Concession, the British Goveriment UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs fully

had no power to expel them from there but shared this point of view. When the Staff, This it has now been ascertained was the Guild representative aprond the story without waiting for the necessary decision actually De Wet's intention, but Colonel about that 150 Volunteers from Hongkong of the dignitaries, of the Wilhelmstrasse, Brits sont Lieutenant-Colonel Ewinner were on the way to arrest the Germans or staged the attack of Tess German with five cars to obtain possession of the Austrians remaining there

the with Ateamers on the Russian crest, something water at that place. This was accomplished result that they all cleared out into Ohi. like the following dialogue took place after a very trying trek ncrow the desatt.nese To ritory. The Guild are advised by: between the representatives of the two Colonel Brits waited the petrol supplies at their representative that the German Departments:

Morokwen, and when they arrived in Coneulate at Shameen has purchased a General Staff: Your entire policy is mediately followed Colonel Commandant Canton Native paper and is publishing

concerai

log the engagement states thms during an advance in the North Sea thegdorance. If we could have foreseen this to De Wet on the farm at Waterbo that the German prisoners of war who sto

A telegram from Amsterdam says that the German official account chiefly remarkable for its irresolution and Jordaan, who had in the meantime come up it the most scurrilous articles.

the British, stating amongst other things wouldnt have brought the war about.” Colonel Commandant Jordaan had obtained "Sedlitz." Dertlinger," Moltke" and Blucher," accompanied by Foreign Affairs: And we, for var such valuable local information that he interned at Hongkong are only allowed four anul cruisers and two flotillas of destroyers, our squadron beenme part, would not have allowed the outbreak was able to around De Wat and his three cents a day for food, when, as

camped there for the engaged with a British Force of five battle cruisers, severd small cruisers, of war if we could bass forereen what commande, which had

botter Than the Volunteers. It for us. Recent events on the with a circumference three miles, gradual ale stated in this paper that the British French treat d

do not in way way speak in by drawing in his men, until he was able to and French in France are retreating all the your favour."

capture Le Wet's horses and about twenty time, that Paris is being bombarded and The author of the diary goes on to refer men who were undoing the horses bobbles, that the British have lost a great number to an article is which Maximilan Farden When De Wet found he was surrounded of their Drentnoughts. The Guild repre- attacked the General Staff, accusing it of and there was an cecape, he surrendered sentative reporte, however, that owing to ending all the nations together against arcaditionally. Calotel Canimandant for the fact that Germans and Austriare ave Gershy by its policy. This article, he dass states that all his officers, including all closed up busineen the Chinese are not Afirms. is not unexpected in the Commandants Flamman and Bazelden, attaching as much importance 10 there Wilhelmatase, with which Harden in at

statements as otherwise they would. present on very iutimate term. In fact long before the attack was published, it was known in political circles in Berlin that Haiden was being charged with inspir ation" by the Foreign fice.

Lesbos, Jan, 25, 12.40 p.m.

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and twenty-six destrogers. The British broke of the engagement after surprises your strategy was night. He started an encircling movement matter af fset, they are being fed

three heurs fight seventy mile#N,W,W,<«# Heligoland and retreated.

According to the information available one British battle cruiser and, on our side, the "Blucher," were sunk. All the other German vessels returned to the port.

In connection with the German version, it is noteworthy that the British Admity announces that all the British battle cruisers are safe.

1

THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

LoNDox, Jan. 23. 2.6 summ.

À communique insuell to-night in Puris sags - The Germans violently bombarded the district worth of Zillebeke, There was a sharp Fusillade near Chutesu Haritag, but there were no infantry attacks.

Some sheils were fired into Arrus.

There was a fusillade north of arras, and the enemy fired numerous bombe into the La Boiselle region in Albert, but our artillery compelled him to cease fire.

There was rather a sharp fusillade in the direction of Ceray... The fighting in the region of Four de Paris in Argonne is ended. We maintained all our positions except for fity metres of a trench which was demolished by the encing's heavy bainhs,

GENERAL STAFF'S TORT,

The General Staff retorted by the simple method of ordering the coutisetion of the article.

Captains H. de Jager, Cullinan, and Veld-Cornet Viljoen, as well as al hier men, deserve the highest praise for their conduct. Before the capture at Waterbury parties of the furetes under Colonel Brite's ALLEGED MURDER BY A BEGGAR. command captured about twenty rebels and horses not included in the capture at Kommandantspruit. At Waterbury fly. two prisonors, eighty horses, and thirty-was committed for trial in Mr. Wood's one rifles were taken.

Court this afternoon, on a charge of mur Clonel Brits especially praises the dering another beggar. motorcars

starcars and their drive nd mys they

A"Chino mendicant, aged 65 years,

A conference between the editor of the Sending Go man

f was alleged by the prosecution that re-behaved splendidly, and that De Wet's papers and the presentatives of the General Staff and capture was only possible owing to the prisoner killed the other man in a quare the Foreign Office takes place at ton every motuz cars acting in co-oporation with the rel, smashing in his head with a piece morning, in the Reichstag building. At borsemen. De Wet himself admits that of iron piping. All the witnesses called these gatherings the spokesman of the motor cus baished his hores.

were mendicants and in some cases they military authorities gives the journalists

as to the tone instractions

must which they

were totally blind. adopt towards the events of the war. It often often happens Presentative feola coureigo Office re- the capture of De Wet, agree that the i

that the agniast those instructions. treason, but they argue that the British ope occasion the Foreign can afford to be magnanimous under the

Thus, an

AMERICAN OPINION.

American write, in commenting upon

10 enter * Boer general deserves death for rank

The struggle in Alsace continued to-day in the regions of Wibeln and protest Hartmanns Weilerkopf, where we are close to the onemy's wire entangle-office deputy expressed the wish that circumstances, and that to condene blin to meuts. No news of the fighting has yet been received.

GERMAN AEROPLANES OVER DUNKIRK,

A French Government telegram states that numerous German zero- planes flew over Dunkirk, dropping lambs. They were pursued by Allies' Reroplanes. The Albatross was hit in its motor, and two aviators were teken prisoners.

LIVELY RIFLE FIRING.

LONDON, Jan. 25, 5.10 p.m.

A Paris communique states:-We progressed slightly to the east of St. Georges.

the

At the rest of the front intermittent gui-firing took place from Lys to the Oise.

-enemy counter-attucked at Berry-an-Bac and was repulsed, the tronches in dispute remaining in our possession.

THE COST OF THE WAR.

The crat of the war to England alone. the Press should cease the publication dio ns a traiter would han set of political reckoned ab over £1,000,000 per day, of the highly-coloured descriptions of fly His execution," Bays the New

is simply, tremendous, and it has been alled atrocities committed by the York World, would be sure to create estimated that the very least it must total Russians, Belgians, and French.

*Our

more hostility among the Boers than he £800,000,030, and possibly twice that sum. Tress

he mid. "overices the hectors. was able to krona by summoning them to But there is no reason to be appalled In most

most cases these stories of the shooting rebellion noder his leadership."

oven at the larger sum. The national of harmless persons and oturders of women Thone Americans who kaow De Wat

2,150,000,000. · nod. Berlin editorial rooms. The foreign Provinentsily sound, for which ensun he was seem to be found on the ceilings of the always duciare he is for years been incorre last year was £2,1

in 1903 £1.700,000* 09. showing a gain of $400,000,000 in eleryn yusts." Recovery. inser faith to the veracity of Berlin rows. easily julled by Germass, who persuaded from war is usually a rapid process. The We must not have recourse to Artificia) | Lím to take up arnis in the bapa of realis.

Ponca German wat of 1871) 1 jasted about fanning of flames of hatred against curing the dream of a Dych South Afica, nine mouth. In addition to damage to

nomies. Without that the fire is bizni e The comment frequently heard here is.

and cansation of industry, the ang cunchably."

What fate would have attended the imposed an indemnity of

Germade cran general if he had rebelled against £200,000,000. It would be idle to minimise German authority, And, being captured, the severity of the biaw, but the fact In answer to thir, the representative, of was tried by a German court! Americans remains that the intcanity was reddily that I am unable to share the point of viaw which enomics in German South-West the productive capacity the General Staff said: "I wincordly regret are well aware of the circustances under found, and before many years had passed of my respectel colleiguo.

Abro Africs induced the poor old general, whose increased beyond the anto war level: Cer mach is written of our crueltics that we are faculties are long been decaying, to South African war, which coat, kuughly. compelled to pay back in the rame coin. A espouse a forlorn cause, and in his essa to

remit the death penalty would not be £225,000,00; shered in 4 period of

unparalleled prosperity.

· PLAN OF 'CAMPAIGN.

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A word

Among the military authorition them.

of

France had

WK MŰST MEWT IT: Geranny and Austria must pay for the present war and ores if the cost to the Allies be as much as £2,000,000,000, that sum is far less than one year's income

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Very lively rifle firing at Bois de Ingruria was checked by ourselves there is constant friction and can et artillery and we completed the destruction of the bridges at St. Mihiel. of amone propre. Some of the merebers which then could have been captured at of Germany and Austria-Hungary on the Price Per Case 1 dozen Quarts Duty Paid... $21.00

THE AUSTRIANS AGAIN REPULSED.

LONDON, Jan. 25, 3.40 a.m.

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An attempted Austrian advance in the region of Jasliski in Gallois was repalend with heavy lower

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