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TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1916,

THE

LATEST

FILOT

THE CHINA MAIL:

SCOTTISH LETTER.

AMAZING BLUNDER OF BRITISH

WAR.

(from Our Own

TELEGRAMS.

"Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

GENERAL JOFFRE

INTERVIEWED.

VICTORY NOW CERTAIN.

PARIS, August 7. General Joffre, intergiewed, said bur enemies are showing signs of weakening. They are using up their last reserves. Jain,

Victory is now Cor-

General Joffre mentioned that there were still two-thirds of the German Army on the western front,

THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE

- SITUATION UNCHANGED."

ไ

Losbos. August 7. General Sir Douglas Haig reports kat the situation is unchanged.

We retain the ground won yester day.

A hostile.bombardment against par front line and the areas at the back continues.

We repulsed small counter-attacks east of Pozieres, and we successfully raided the enemy's trenches west of Neuville St. Vaast

Last night the enemy endeavoured to raid our trenches south-east' ui Bois Grenier, but they were driven back with buss..

AIRSHIP ACTIVITY ON THE FRENCH FRONT.

PARIS. Aughts 7.

A communiqué statas: There has been violent, artillery work in the region of Chaulnes.

Germans who attacked the Thiau. most work were thrown back on their own trenches by our curtain fire.

An enemy attack on Vaux Wood completely failed. ".

THE FIGHTING NEAR

SUEZ CANAL.

TURKS PURSUED FOR EIGHTEEN MILES.

FLEW FROM FARNBOROUGH INTO ENEMY LINES.

WITH PASSENGER AND "VERY LATEST MACHINE,

*It is not pleasing to record the fact that a British sirman daw from Farm borough across the Channel, and within three hours delivered himself, his passenger and the very latest air machine intact into the hands of the enemy, ways a London contemporary

But the amazing story was told to the House of Lords by Lord Montags of Beaulieu, who asked for information as to the start, fight, and landing of a certain FE 2D seroplane which left Farnborough on May 31 and has not yet joined the squadrons at the front.

It seemed, said Lord Montagu, that the pilot flew across the Channel passed over our lines and the German lines and descended in the German aerodroma LONDON. August 7.

France befors, and had no knowledge Gretural Murray reports in refer of the geography of the Western front. ence to the fighting in the Katin The pilot had only been garetted to the district thuit dir fire was most effecRoyal Flying Corpe nine days before ha tive and that the Turkish lesses in was he inexperienced with the machine, was in the hands of the enemy. Not only

killed and wounded uppeur to be but he had never flown over the sea

before very heavy.

OVER 8,000 UNWOUNDED PRISONERS.

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near Lilla Ha, had never flown: ta

ondent.

BOTE WELL 8 TOMBS

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bonnie banks 6"Loch Lomond,

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time ago he resumed his professional {work" in "London, and-ho has just bem clected President of the Archi- tectural Association, one of the most honourable positions in the gift of the profession. "Mr. Mackenzie served his articles in the office of his father, In last week's Scottish Letter" Mr. Marshall Mackenzie, it was stated that Professor Hanson, AR.SA in Aberdeen Among the the eminent Danish anatomist, had works with which his some expressed a confidant belief that the associated are Australis House auming in the little church of the Strand, which is being erected Faarevejle, in the north-west of to the order of the (tovernmantof Zealand, is really that of the notorious Australia, the Waldorf Hotel, the James Hepburn, Earl of Bethwell School of Tropical Medicine adal and Duke of Orkney, third husbandtions, and the memorial to King of the ill-fated Alary Stuart, Queen Edward at Crabhie Church, Balmoral. of Scots. Of courso. it is frankly admitted that definite proof of this is Balloch estate on the bounie, impossible.

The old story is known to every which was recently purchased by the one, with the two great central Corporation of Glasgow, is now incidents-the murder of Damiey on formally open to the public. It is February 0, 1507, and the marriage ore of the most beautiful sites in of his Royal widow to the man Scotland for a national park, the pointed at by the public opinion as loch with the surrounding moun his murderer on May 15 of the same tains Fr Exactly a month later on

providing omagniñcent panorama of setery. For many June 15, Mary and Bothwell parted years the authorities of Dum- on Curberry Hill never to meet hartonshire tried to obtain north to Orkney and Shetland, ond the south, but always without suc again. Both wall took ship.went free public access to the lock from there seems good ground for the belief

cess. It was not until, Glasgow, that be

engaged in piracy spreading outwards towards the Eventually he sought refuge in north-west, became affected by the In a letter from an officer, which Norway from the pursuit of the Scole restrictions of the landowners, that Loni Montagu rend, it was stated that Lords, and was brought to Berget.matters came to a head. Then the the pilot had no experience of theIt is said that he got into trouble Corporation of the City with a rich machine, and did per know the way. through being recognised by Annepurse behind it, soon discovered a The writer added: Thus, thres Thorssen, his first wife--or mistress oftion. They bought the whole of hours after being turned out of Again it is alleged that soing Scots the Ballet astute which barred the Farnborough, our latest machine was merchants who recognised him com handed over intact to the Hun. It is municated with the Confederats to the fimous stretch of water. The Egyptians are eluted at the the second time our beauties in the Lords. Certain it is that the latter Queen of Lochs," The estate ear which bears the proud title of War Office have lost a new machine in sent a message to the same way."

the King of braces some 300 acres, with a front- Denmark demanding that the fugitiveage of over a mile on the river Leven should be put to death for an and Loch Lomond, and it lias rich example to all that shall attempt at historic association it has rich Prince's life."

The King of Det that the Baris of Lennox, until there mark made so diplomatic delays. fell on them the fatal blow of James he did not wish to embrol himself. maintained their great fendal with either of the parties in Scotland.

state. On the division of the Earl- But the divorce which Mary obtained dom, the stronghold of Balloch was virtually settled Bothwell's fate...r

The pursuit continued for eighteen niles and the Turks are now well clear.of the Katia Urnzisha basin.

We took prisoner 45 officers and 3,100 men, unwounded.

EGYPTIANS ELATED.

Turkish rout.

.LONDON, Aug. 7

Hundreds of prisoners, in the dirtiest and most disreputable condi. tion, live been brought in suffering om thirst. More are expected, including German officers. THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE

.

*OUR WAR OFFICE. BEAUTIES,”

Earl Curzon, in reply, said the noble lord was obviously fully acquainted with all the details. It was true the acre plane left England on June 1, and was! not heard of again. The German Wire lees of June stated that a British biplane landed near Lilla, and the Government now knew that it was the missing machine, and that the pilot and AUSTRIANS FALLING BACK FROM tion had been received, were prisoners his passenger, from whom a communion

TARNOPOL.

of war. The pilot, after crossing the Channel, appeared to have lost his way and to have descended by acrilent within the German lines,

Wing

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and Rebertson. Bothwell was transits walls. Though no part of the On June 16, 1578, writes A. Ire-tained in the Darnley branch, and royalty was often entertained within ferred to the "Castle of Drachsholm, ancient custle remains, there can still thrown into a louthsome dungeon.be traced the fosse that encircled the and is even alleged to have been knoll on which it stood. PETROGRAD, August 7. The successes southward of Brody

Such instances had happened before chained to the wall The Histone

JOCK IN THE TRENCHES, * bring the Russians within fourteen and would happen again, and they wore of the Reigne of Murie Queene" of

not confined to one side. They had Scots asserts that "none had rece

Captain Beuth's lectura on miles of the Tarnopol-Lensberg rail happened to the Germans in the same to him but those that carried to him Human Nature at the Front is In consequence of this the way as to our own pilots. He believe such scurvy meat and drink as was a great success. The gullant. Cap- Austrians are falling back from it was true the pilot had never flown allowed, which was given him in attain is bester known as Jan Hay." a little window. Tradition assets the story writer, and his First Tarnopol in the direction of Zot-over the Channel before. No doubt, in

the ordinary course, they would be that, he became insane as a conseHundred Thousand is by far the only too glad to send with a machine a quence of the cruelty inflicted on most popuhur book of the war. An pilot who had done the same job him. Büt be lingered on in captivity officer of the Argyll and Sutherland before, but pilots with those qualifica till April, 1578. His body is belieyed Highlanders, Captain Beath de tins were likely to be well employed to have been put into a plain, coarse, seribes the making of a working. already at the front. It was one of the wooden chest, and to have been kept man's battalion, and its life and con- riska of aerial warfare that bad to be in the dungeons at Dachsbol for duct when it comes to the real thing rus.

many years. Later it was deposited in Flanders. His own company at in the vault of the deler family, the the beginning, he says, would havo proprietors of Drachsholm or Adelers made a drill sergent weep. Que of borg, in the church of Faarevejle. the reoruits was a waiter from a Afterwards it was placed in the type third-class restaurant, and he paraded so that it might be seen more con in a swallow-tail coat, a decollete

uboff.

According to prisoners, three Divisions of German reinforcements have been sent to Zlotchoff and Romeriany further south.

The enemy activity northwards of the Carpathians is regarded a chiefly for the political purpose ti influencing Rumania

:

Three German aeroplanes were brought down in the Somme region THE ARAB REYOLT AGAINST and three others were forced to land. in their own lines.

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THE OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA

THE WORK OF THE NAVY.

Loyoos, August 7. General Smuts" reports that a Caval detachment occupied the minor port of Sadani on the 1st inst. after slight opposition. Other Naval operations are progressing at various points along the coast line....

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BORNEO DOCTOR DIVORCED.

action of divorce on the ground of In the Scottish Court of Session, Lord Anderson heart proof in an desertion, at the instance of Isabella

THE ** BIG PUSH

in war-time aroused much comment of Jutland," published 55 years ago, itary service. In this garb he paraded Oir aquadrons bombed, Maiz

Lossos, August 7.

an appreciative nature in Holland. The short account is given by bir. Homce from day to day until the kilts and Sablons und Thiouville rüßway The Time Correspondent at Great Eastern service has been run Marryat of a visit to the church. khald arrived. Another private in most successful bowler, but stations, factories at Rombach and Constanza says the Ulema and Sheik almost with the regularity of clockwork. In a vault he says he found the coin the platoon found it exceedingly steadiness of E. E. Corstorphine Many are the stories told of encounters of Bothwell, and on the lid being difficult to test himself of his during a long spell also der rvus corn; which the Brussels, the Copenhagen, and raised saw the figure of a man of former views as a trades unionist mendation. to. Enver Fasha's pro-German policy the Croner have had with submarines about middle height, having red hair and regarded the officers as rapaci and anti-Islamite tendencies. They Germans in Rotterdam talked freely of mixed with groy His aspect oua capitalists and the two ser sympathise with the Gmnd Sherif their Government's determination to suggested an ugly Scotsman. He geants as hired billies. This and hope that he will proclaim him only a week or two before the capture book nose, and a wide mouth. The that the money be paid in fines went sink one of the daring boats, and it was had high cheek bones, a prominent man was at first firmly of opinion self Caliph and obtain the recognithe Brussels that a young Germs allusion to an ugly Scotsman" into the pockets of the officers, and

attempted to place dynamite on the Copenhagen. Luckily, the plot fra recalls Mignet's description of Both-took quite a different view when it B. Fraser or Mirvlees, 107 Esplanade A correspondent at British Headquar- discovered before the boat sailed. well as "far from handsome," was explained to him that they went Road, Bombay, against her husband,ters says it is not correct to describe the On one occasion a Great Eastern bout although possessing a martial, bearing to die King Ad an illustration of Oswald Moir Mirylees, B.M., ChB, present situation, as is frequently done, arrived at Rotterdam with the paint and having certain powers of the wonderful array of talent among sometime residing at Goobilt, Sam moment be is hermed in, besieg

asiege warfare, because from the Camo, August 7, burnt from her funnels. The boat had fascination.

the men of Kitchener's Army, Capak, Borneo, but whose present enemy cannot increase his fighting re A declaration, perznitting the pil-encountered a submarine on the way Fifteen years ago there appeared, tain Beath related a story of how he address was unknown to the Pursuer. Once, whereas Germany seems to be grimage is momentarily expected.

Borosa, and every ounce of steam had in a leading Danish newspaper, the sent a man out scouting one day, und Desertion was proved, and degree of and the supply of shells she arrays. been required to enable her to get clear. "Dannebrog," an interesting descrip-before his departure explained in divorce gras granted.

always increasing the weight of ufetal

· INCREASED BRITISH TĦADE.

The stokers backed the captain to such tion of the appearance at that time most careful detail the rudiments of

against the British front: How will this good purpose that the bout came into of the body. Among some loose map reading and the use of the coin-"

stendy aggregation of artillery affect the the Mans with her funnels almost red straw, carelessly wrapped in its pass. Afterwards he learned that

prospects of the big pal

when the Sir John H. A. Micdonald hus time is judged ripe to the somats The refugees on the Brussels when she winding sheet, lay a grey shrunken this man was o land surveyor in always & fund of story. Ata

ing blow. Hanifestly it means an in- was captured were mostly women and corpse, the face still wearing a civil life. That the Boches have luncheon in Edinburgh the other day accompanied by corresponding loss of crossed power of resistance. But this is children, and the Brisels also carried marvellously lifelike expression. sense of humour after all is shown five stewardesses, one of whom was to Even the skin, though grey and by the story that one night a voice have been married in a fortnight. Her shrivelled, was clearly traceable all come from the opposite trenches, prospective husband was on his way over the long-shaped face, and I was Are you dere, Jock? Have you from America to be married. The cap much struck by the strongly marked got any whisky We have plenty of tare of GER steamer Brussels (Captain features, the high intellectual fore water. Fryatt) was spoken of in the Home head, the sharp aquiline nose, and 3: papers as a record North Sea feat by the poined, masterful chin. But the

AN ECEO OF THE SUTLAND BATTLE.

it that there is a larger proportion that, whatever the military policy of the) the enemy" for it was the first time in mouth, with the pale, compressed At Glensimond prize-day, the This was not true, but the Aber Broken infantry can always retire upon of lunatics here than anywhere else? moment may be, we have long ceased to regard corselves as the defensive, afdle, Russian Admiral who fought, at Post taken a British prize in the North Sen the rest of the face, is the most berday sald a cousin of his, the compass for very sensible people any time to get great assemblages

22 months that the German Nagy had lips, even yet warmer in colour than Primate of Scotland (Bishop Robdonian quiesty replied. They would a prepared position butt takes a long- Arthur, has been appointed to the Time after time had the Brussels been remarkable feature, and having ones munder of one of the biggest battle where else. Black Sea command

attacked by the enemy's vessels, but noticed it I had eyes for nothing else. ships, told him a touching incident Another of his stories was an old obstructum to any push than the

Mandy Bun moving In point of he

by machine gun if an infinitely more deadlya each time by skilful navigation had It is a mocking, disdainful mouth. connected with the recent navul succeeded is eluding them

Major Veneral Van de Venter is pursuing the enemy towards Mpapua from the Kilametinde-Dodoma Kikomba areu..

Brigadier-General Northey reached Nadibiri, in the direction of Iringa. --

SHIPS. BUNE

LONDON, August 7. The following steamers have been

sunk

Tottenham and Favonian (British), Tricoupia (Grook), Siena (Italian), Jaegersborg (Danish), and Com marce (Swedish).

THE GRAYES OF THE ENGLISH IN FRANCE.

LONDO, August" 9. The French Parliament has passed law assuring the inviolability of the graves of the English in France.

The Army Council has replied expressing the appreciation of the kindness of the French

INGLO-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT REGARDING PERSIA

PREROGHAD (uðugust (8.

and Russian Ministers ment regazung financial and mily

Losbon, August 7, The increases in British trade

were-Exports, 811,601,516 Im ports, £1,046,604, as compared with July last year.

RUSSIA'S BLACK SEA FLEET.

PETROBA Aug. 8:" Vice Admiral, Kalichok, the youngest

GERMAN MAXIMUM TARIFFS APPLIED TO ITALIAN. PRODUCE,

AMSTERDAM, "Aug. 8. The German Finance Minister an nounces that the maximum tarife will henceforth be applied to Italian produce

FRENCH SOCIALIETS: AND THE

MAHARA

PARIS Aug 8. The National Council of French Socialists fins passed a resolution declar- ing the right of the country to defend itself when attacked, and afirming it to be the duty of International Socialiam to denounce the aggressor and preserve the peoples from another war LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND

A LONDON, Anger It ją oficialy announced that Led Winkyrne has been re-appointed Lord Lirut bant of Ireland:

hot.

A STORIES.

he kept the table it arour. One of mobility. More gubs and bigger guns

his stories was about an Englishman as an ever mind doctrine in stationary

in Aberdeen, who observed to a warfare. But once the line cracks, ande native, You Aberdonians think we get the enemy going, he will feel the great deal of yourselves, and that you is futile to say that the same

handicap of his ponderous

are amazingly clever, but how comes applies to ourselves, for t

For a particularly brilliant exploit in turned down at the corners, its fight in the very heat of the one but a good one, and it will be bigget howitzer the Germans poses

baim the Scot who still feels hurt March 1916, Captain Fryat was acoffing expression seeming to utter action, a big ship passed a raft with by the bang tent caxpence presented with a gold-i watch suntably a farewell sneer at the world and at three bluejackets hanging on to it legend When George Hariot, the To-day's Advertisements

inscribed by the Lords Commissioners the capriciousness of fortime. Burvivors of one of the ships lost goldsmith to King Jamie, returned of the Admiralty, together with their The mouth with its expression of They knew the ship could not stop from London, he was naked,What thanks on volume over one

wild passion seemed rather to belong to save them. What did they do do you think of the English? O HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE Less than twelve months ago, when out to the living than to the dead ward bound from Harwich to Rotterdam,

"They did not cry for help, but gaTO God Almichty has gien thêm three, hearty cheers for the bathymickie ketike, but they are grand his vessel was chased for over an hour

ship as she swept on her wey. Waafowk to ve amang.

„A SCOTSMAN'S GLIT-

CRICKET AS

NOTICE

By order of the Committed

EDWARD AL RAYMOND

Hongkong, Ang 8, 1916.

by a submarine. The enemy demanded On the outbreak of war, ethong the it not magnificent these three f him to haul don his fag, instead of young Scote in the Metropolis who chops going to certain death and

MISCELLANEAT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that ther Hongkong Stock Exchange will be which the captain hosted the biggest joined the London Scottish was Mr. thinking of the honour of the Navy Thutees of the 1p whips which Mr. CLOSE on WEDNESDAYS at 3PM. Union Jack that was available, and got Alxander G. R. Mackenzie, a Fellow and of the country? Hughes, Prime Minister of Austraat further notice. safely away,

of the Incultute of British Architects, A few days prior to that, when off and a descendant of a family who for

lans purchased for the Commer the North Hinder Lightship, a tropedo

were Glagow stenmiers. was fired, but this, happily, missed the centuries have been distinguished Owing for heavy rain, all the cricket fen

to the cargo fleet of vessel, passing within eight feet of it.

ornaments of the profession in Sept matches in Scotland were abandon Me Burrell & Sons, all being land. As Private Mackenzie, a od Among them was the two days:

vessels Strathaven Stra battalion Scout, be rendered splendid School Championship engagement of Jamley, Two, the Aragon services soon after hostilities began, Loretto and - Merchision – Castle, | but at Messine, in the first alpres Lotatia scored. 188 and 123 and

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