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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1915.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
THE BRITISH BOMBARDMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE.
600 GERMANS KILLED,
COMMISSIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY.
A NEW ARMY ORDER.
TERRIFIC ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT
IN THE WESTERN FRONT.
BY
THE CHINA MAIL.
TELEGRAPH.
THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS
The Reason Of The British Reticazon.
LONDON, August 20. Mr. Balfour's letter was in reply to a currespondent, complaining of the lurid Gomen areciints of Zeppelin raids, widely believed by nou- truls, while the British.accounts waris for meogre.
Mr. Tatour says the reason of the British reticence is quite simple. The Zeppelins attack under cover of night in sich conditions that land- arks are elusive and navigation difficult. Errors are inevitable, soda times of surpassing ungnitude. The Germans constantly assert that they droppel bombs on places which in fact they never approachest. Why make future voyages casior by eling them where they blundered? The raids had been magnified out of all proportion by Ul-informed rumour
- JAPAN. TO SUPPLY MUNITIONS FOR THE ALLIES.
LONDON, Aug 30, Japan has decided, saya a New York telegrans, to employ all her avaiable. Government and private resources to increase the output of munitions for the Allier.
SCOTTISH LETTER. (From Our Oven Correspondent.)
Evisaunen, July 9.
DR. MURRAY OF THE DICTIONARY.
BY TELEGRAPH CURADERMA
(Router's Service to the Ching Moil.)
CONVICTS MUTINY AT KIRIN.
AN EXTRAORDINARY. CONFLICT.
LONDON, August 30,
A mutiny of convicts at Kirin, Man- churia, resulted in a fierce struggle, in which 10 Russian guards and 100 con- Pricts were killed, and from, 100 to 120
wounded.
(Wak Tin Yet Po'a Serolos.)
NEW WAR MINISTER..
PESING, Aug. 30,
A Mandate appoints Wong Shih Chan Minister of War, Tun Kr Shui continues on duty at the Generalis- being allowed to resign. The latter: simo's office.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
the Duke of Cumberland would bare aid if he bad seen one of his near relatives strutting about as the alusive young son of the Pretemler" whom he had tried in vain to round up" in the Highlands. At that time the kilt was not f shikoable and so English sportsman who venturad North ever thought of parading in the garb of old Gaal; but since then things have greatly The Ministry of Educatic pro- changed. I have reen a Seneticg ntleman poses to onforge compulsory educa- from the Stock Exchange thanting a kilte on
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The death is announced of Sir James Murmy, clitor of the Now English Dictionary, at the age at 78 A Scot in every tibre of hia boing. De Murty (For so we must call him, ne he loved to be a mane, and complaining the whils about ion and, for that purpose, requests add:ossed), was bure in the village of the attention paid him by the Chefe provision to be made in the forth- Donholm, near Hawick-the birthplace of midge, which seemed to be doing their coming burkzet, John Layden, the pot and scholar. He was tucated at Cave which, of course, ant correct. We naver Deiontalt to get a beather bloom on his keees.
express ourselves in the pural egarding Soma speak of the garments as “kits,” Minto, Hawick, and dinburgh. Teach
Scottish institutions except when we satur
LATEST NEWS FROM THE EASTERN FRONT. ingan the professing that claimed
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
him and retained the burden of als onergies for thirty yakis. He #g first an assistant master in Hawick Grant School, and afterwards master of Hawick deadawy. The scienting and anti- quarian bont of his mind early showed itself, and he was one of the founders, and for several years secretary of the Bawick Archaeological Society; had it not been for ho had cover beca editor of the New English Dictionary
In 1804 he left Hawick to become Fareiga correspondent to the Loudon And Orients! Bank, for which his extensive cornmand of Foreign Languages eminently fitted him.
But the stady of Hanoce was at mack to his tasto, and a few years
THE BRITISH BOMBARDMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE this little Society, he bus put it on recurd.
400 GERMANS KILLED: MILITARY BUILDINGS SERIOUSLY
DAMAGED..
p.m.
in
AN ELDERS · BUREAU.
The Goverment intend to estab to porridge as kail Our ancestors chadlish an Ellers' Bureau. them olves in It" and ate Themu."
RG BERNARD SHAW.
Formidable.
literary hand in by writing on the I see that G. B. S. continues to keep his diplomacy of the war to all sorts of papers. Panjabis, then at Suer whence, he proceed was shortly afterwards gazetied to the 16th More entertaining than his contributions ad to the Persian Gall. Mr Hathera's The truth is that in these Shavin can. are the strenuous replies of bis critics. wibutions wo hara an tronist at play. The
brother lost his lie in January on H.M.S. first time I met G. B. S. he reves ed his led in France, as the noble amateur Lieut. George Mitchell, Black Watch, peculiar genius, which was mailier more
propriate on that oction than at this wrestles and boxer who last your had a
Friendly grate moment of crisis: An extremely
encounter with Carpenter in admirabis Liberal politician and addressed Paris: He was related to the late Right afterwatils he accepted a past as one of the ante ips is a Lochfraesido village, and. Whip, himself an athlete of merit.
Hon. Peroy Illingworth, Chief Liberal of masters of Millbur School, in the North of subunitted himself for heckling.
being sisa a Parliamentary candidate, be
Major. G. S. D. Forbes, C.31.G., D.S.G.. London. Daring all this time he pursued mostly fishermen in the dim, vilago na, M.L.C., Tar King's Own his favourite stuxlion, published Tho and when a fisaly phrased hockle cante Borderer, diel from shall wounds in Fortsigh Dialecta of
the Southern Counties of Scut. from a tall, bearded roan is a barris tweed France, as the second son of the inte land,"
and calibe++ Scotland" and The Complayat of gait, there was some excitement on the plate General Sir Jobs Forbos, G.C.B. of David Lindy-all studies well fitted to stranger was a Tariff Reformer, and the South African War, and indeed the whole some of the poems of Sir form. The certion suggested that the Inverospan, Stratador, Aberdeenshire. prepare him for the grest work of his life. honest candidate replied in
the | Us sarved in the. Matabole War and the stereotyped
LoxDos, Aug. 30. 1.55 Heuter's Amsterdam correspondent telogmphs that according to news from Belgion 600 Germans were killed in the British bombardment Zeebrugge, and that military buildings were seriously damaged.
COMMISSIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY.
A NEW ARMY ORDER.
Losbos, August. 30.
An Army Order suspends during the war competitive examinations for commissions in the Regular Army, and announces monthly nomina- tions in the Regular Army for comunissions for service in the field.
TERRIFIC ARTILLERY WORK ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
Losnox, August 30.
A telegram from Paris states that the terrific artillery work, which has been the recent feature at the Western front, reached a climax yesterday in the Argonne, where it was accompanied by mine esplosions and greaade Eghting over a wide front.
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He was thirty-six years ago that Dr. Minrray, form. The heckler confloued, but his next af bis life work was complied
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in THE EASTERN ASBESTOS: CO, dertook the task of the Dictionary, and his et, and the simple candidate rejoiced that political, social, and industial affairs. An in the dauntless spirit of Dr. Jobaron, an- question suggested that he was a Free Ted.Africs, where he took an important part in scope of a puroly Scottish Lotter." life and work now passes beyond the proper he had made a convert.
But further electrical engineer by profession, he was may be said that the dagged perseverance hopeless angle.
But questions put the poor fallow into
prominent in the mining industry on the. and persistent cheerfulness with which be meeting, the stranger approach a the pioneers in Rhodesia, where he was
At the close of this
Band, later becoming one of the carly faced his tank were characteristically Sect candidate, and said. My name in Shaw President of the Rh desian Chamber of tish, and as such were recognised and ad. You spoke very well; but why should
managing director at many companies sul mired by all with whom he came in contact wast to get into Parliament! As I told Miues and of the Pioneer Rociety. On the He was well equipped for the ambitious Mr. Asquith, with whom I was dining Rhodesia, he was douted a representative enterprise: he had a marvellous memory the other day, it is better to be for Bulawayo, which position he had ever formation of the Legislative Contact of for rate words; it was said of him that sostryman than a at aber of Parlia hekao more of languages than ang meet. other man; and he tnd shown a special usa. I attend to drainage and such thing! : As a vestrymau. I am of some
since retained aptitude for philology. tific and methodical, and when his own was that the honest Liberal did not know of all, the bent of his mind was scien-probably ly talk. The humour of it But chiefest in the House of Commons I would scholarship fai'ed, he know how to tap the who Shaw was, and as we walked to the knowledge of experts. A Scottish Puritan, ferry which was to take us to Inveraray, of the strictest type, he feand happiness in he sought enlightenment from his chair- ot his home. Severe as was the ruling, somewhat contemptuously, I diena ken be could unband on occasion and onder much aboot him. I believes he is a crectic readier Guarda, killed at Villers Cot- himself ty nets of graciousness Hofras London. He crimes here every year terata. was a man of the scholery presence, on holiday, but he is a vara mysterious a dignity quite partriarchal, with his person, and he never goes to the church high-domed had and snow white bair and ora Sabbath." Sowing beard. He did not acorn stamp and strict teetetsler; and his recreations collecting as a hobby; he was a non-amcicer were gardering, cycling, and-when on almost to the end he preserved the vigour holiday-mountain cimbing. 40 and health of his young days.
that
A coramunique rays that the enemy's trenches were seriously damaged, doing his daty and in the simple pleasures man, a fishermosa. That worthy replied Queen Victoria. He was predeceased by
But that by night it was calmer over the whole front,
THE BALKANS DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT.
STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE CENTRAL AND
ENTENTE POWERS.
Lowboy, August 30, The Timea Bukharest correspondent telegraphs that the diplomatic conflict ins Ponched a height, and that the Central European Powers are employing every means to increase the premilag discord and if possible to, einse wat hetween Balmain and her weighhours, while the Entente Pawes are endeavouring to promote an understanding on the basis of Serbo-Grecian concessions to Bulgari
GERMAN TROOPS ON BULGARIAN FRONTIER.
It
of
Two hundred thousand German troops lavo anived at Brasso. a believed that the German invasion of the North-Eastern corners Serbia will begin in ten days, the enemy entering Bulgaria westward, to widen while advancing on Nish from the Bulgarian side.
BULGARIA NEGOTIATING WITH TURKEY, SERBIA AND GREECE.
Actelegram from Sofia, states that the Promier las received a deputa tion, from the Agrarian party demanding the convneation of Parliament and counselling prudence,
Tho. Premier, replying, intimated that negotiations with Turkey were on the eve of conclusion, flat concessions received by Bulgarin in nowise implied a political engageraent, and that the result of the negotiations with the Entente Powers depended on suplies Frota Nisha und Athens.
LATEST NEWS FROM EASTERN FRONT.
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approval is being expressed by prominent In the Stirling Burghe, strong dis
regard to the war. Various meetings have Libomis nt. Mr Pousenby's attitude in been held, and formal resolutions pulset condemning his conduct. but this vivocate the opinion of his constituents. of "demarstic control" continues to flout
· PICKLEDEKBEING AND THE SUMMARINES,
St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, it at ready crowded with regimental hanners, and an addition has just been made to the number, the King's colour of the Beay It is a matter of surprise that, so far, po Mackay's, raised in 1794 and disband din Foncibles, the family regiment of the submarine attack, has been made on the
his only aon, Captain Iain MacDougall, 2nd
OBITUARY. William Gilbert M'Intyre, late of Tientsin, China, fourth son of the late Har: J. B. K. M'Intyre, Nordon, Larga, and husband of Lilian Brinkman.
manufaturer. Mzilla, Philipine Islam WILLS AND EXTATESMAN Joba Drummond Maclavin, retired cigar 17 Carden Piacs, Aberdeen, £13,162 A Fire and Sons, Ltd., Stacey wood paper Francis Langlo Picie, latoly chairman of Works, Aberdeen, £716,233.
1802. Lord Reay, the Chief of the clan, regularly the danger one of the North
in Orkney and Shetland steamers plying To-day's Advertisements the present az 1100 M-ckage were serving reason why their islands, are lavlate and ia presenting the colour, mentioned that in Sea. The Shetlanders say they know the is the Army and Navy, and one of the their trade runtos at aes escuro,
"You transports from New Zealand carried no soo, thus goes the island talk,the less than 50 Mack ya.
Germans are the greatest customers we
of an article in the "Eresioz Now" bering from us. Think of Shetland being hare for pickled harring, and they know Professor Patrick Geddes, in the course camera they would never get another that if they dared to touch one of car points out to Londoners what Scotland bas saved, and perhage humanity with it, for done during this war time, do pot the lore the Germany bear to the thirstTHE Under-igned, know the recruiting úgures in Scotland,"
he
EGUTLAND AND RECRUITING,
retain statistics, but I might have recalled
*my men ry does not readily creating berzing?
few facts here and there, ant Highland
THIS WEEK'S STORY,
PUBLIC NOTICATION.
RELATION No. 10 or 1915.
His Britannic Majesty' Envoy Extraordinary sud Minister Plenipotentiary, publicly notifies
Rear Admiral Busty is gifted with an decided by His Majesty's Government that all whom it may concern that it has beca
and Hibrid. an villagos which at the very first easy flow of picturesqas" language, a
delivery of
of gonds already sold to enemy
call to arms were practically depopulated characteristic example of which was given arms in Chins its be expleted by he
of
f their mag-as 20 men from one hamles on the pier of the East Coast seaport following time limits:
Not later then August, 25th, 1918, in
of 26 cottages and 5 from another of 23 othewhere in Scotland a few days ago, point struck me lately in Dundee, which-Some maddics were allowed on shore, and peculiarly a yaman's town, and poor from the usture of its staple industry is one of them, the son of a Foor, brought aspect of goods already in stock in
oat of proportion
men
"to other later blevole with him. When this young
cities. Yet out of the recent return of fall quarter of a million exstaltics puz. total
Not later than fivadays aftos arrival in
assumed to presage an advance on Kiel, but military experts opine thet population of 43 milions in there and HR for that goods which left the United King
telegram frorn Petrograd states that, according to latest advices, Grodno is still in the hands of the Russians.
The enemy's sudden movement at Vladimirolynsin is popularly this movement, coupled with the ronewed activity in Eastern Galicis and resulting in a crossing at Zlotalipa is only intended to over the forees advancing eastward from Brostlitovsk.
"CHOLERA IN GERMANY.
Cholera is appearing in Germany especially along the Spree.
Toxboy, August 30, The police of Berlin have warned the people against drinking anboiled
PAYING FOR AMERICAN EXPORTS,
Toxoúx, August 30,
A New York telegrafo states that twenty-five million dollars in British arities and nineteen millions in gold have arrived to pay for exports
AUSTRALIA INCREASING HER NAVY
A Destroyer Launched.
Laxony, August 30. A teloriam from Sydney states that a new Australian destrogaz has been Jadached in the presence of evast and enthusiasic crowd.
HM, The King cabled congratulations upon, the early prospect it fa mpartant addition to the Australino Nary and the ses power of the
which have
China Biogra Aar has leaped arbore be cried rathe
to the bindjackets N the port of discharge in China in lively Dandeo's proportion as well ever double hear the peremptory command, nudged the bot yet dried is ends for Sentiend with only double or Then, why the bishfety-hank 'don's your
Admiral Beally happened, to price in July 25th, 1915, the normal (average) thars. If the war middy, and is
vaid, ***Fou're waiting are you? two and a half times her share shall be surprised-ant counting of course, mightily astonished, but took the hiut
gub it out yourself? The lordling the Loudon of Liverpool Scottish, nor the and the bluejackets tarded their twickling Scottish Vanadians, Africanders Australiane, eyes is another direction, and New Zealanders, who baik so largeir
in these Dominions contingents, and The WAR CABİİVIIa.
Serttish Blood-tas and race-loss will be the Inteet Hat containing the names of especially in the first and last named. The 4th King's Own Scottish Borderers, Flockooing thews. the proportion of our
This soffered heavily at the Dardanelles. raised to these times the average, if not offers frilled and 7 missing. Among those three and a ball times or oven four, rinsing is Lieut. Col John M'Neile of THE TARTAN Be Earl Calron, and a cousin of the Kippiala, Boxburghshire, a nephew of the fa connection with the tart in bon, Duchess et Portland.. demand for varied and artistic checks eves friend reminds me that the great modern Captain Andrew Wallace, who was filled,
fingdom after July 25th, 1915, but which that September 28th, 1915, in respect of goods hich left the United had been handed to an inland carries for shipment before July 20th, 1818,
Delivery of goods to enemy Erms in China will not be permitted after the dstor pentioned abovEN TAUPENALT
J, N. JORDAN, His Britannia Majesty's Ministar. Peking. August 15, 1015 NBI
Accordance with instructions dated August 20th, from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, it is hereby notifed
mmanded the Coldstream Cox, of the roads from the United in reference to the above that goods from any British Colony or Dominion much to Queen Victoria. Hereby hangs K 0-5 U~In his yotinger days he sailed
will be accorded treatment precisely tal in the days when Edinburgh was 47 + ship a doctor to Chits and Jamie on the Kingdom. completing the Scott monument by slow. Ofen Avon, vesel which on the degrees, Charles Mackay the sathor of homeward ugage was wrecked off the
Cheer, hoye, oboer, did his utmost, with harbour at Hongkong
the Lil of Charles Dieleni to raise funds in Second Lieutenant Shel, MDaasil Hat
Acting British Conn) General,
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London. A rest fsney dream beil was or bath T6th Funjabir killed action at Exibited 25.8.15
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