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FRMAY. "AUGUST 11, 181
THE
WAR.
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
GERMAN PLANS FOR
RETREAT.
LONDON, Aug 10. Reuter's Correspondent at Head -quarters writes:-
"We possess evidence that the Germans prepared plans for a retreat In the middle of June. It is pointed cut that this apparently explains the sudden military measures taken by
RUSSIA'S PROGRESS.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY JUNCTION NEAR, STANISLAV CAPTURED,
AUSTRIANS IN DISORDERLY
...RETREAT.
PETROGRAD: Aug. 11.
It is officially announced that the Russians baro carried the great
THE CHINA MAIL.
BRITISH NAYAL AEROPLANES (
BOMBEVERLEY
LONDON, Aug. 9.
It is officially announced that naval aeroplanes dropped bomba from a height of 200 feet on the airship sheds at Evere, near Brussels, an
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The seroplanes returned safely. Eight bomba were obsŭrved to hit, a shed, from which heavy columns of smoke issued
GERMAN OUTRAGES.
BRITISH RETALIATORY !
LONDON, Aug. 9 In the House of Lords, Lord Lans- downe stated that the Government were conferring with the highest commercial and banking authorities upon the ques tion of confiscation of Germaan property as a retaliation for outrages inmitted by the enemy.
TSINGTAO.
THE MAKING OF A GERMAN SETTLEMENT.
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combined operations, between armsy and (navy, in the war tempered yet with the I was hazards' heavily roduced. So they took it very slowly, going through all the maxima of the books. The German naval doctor told me that with enter prise Tsingtao could have been taken Mr. H. Sacher, The Machester three months earlier, and it is astonish- Quardian's "special correspondant, whofing how little damage was done by the made a tour of the Far East's short bombardment even to the forts. Very guns were dismounted by the time back gives the following impressions Japanese fire, and the atonework was hardly injured. Apparently permanent of Thingto---
With Thingtao the Japanese took over fortifications are the mercy only of the Shantung has which the Germans very powerful artillery. Incidentally. built and operated from Tsingtao for 250 were very poor things compared with it may be said that the Tsingtao forts miles to Tainanfu, the capital. The those the Hussians built at Fort Arthur. building of the lips could have offered Thay show no trace of engineering genius. no serious engineering difficulties. It is What has suspended the economic life. rolling sountry" all the way to Tangtao. Taingtao is not the siege. but the besiegers. As commerce is now.conducted but there are nq, stoep gradients and to in China it is dependent upon the bridging problems like the crossing of the Chinese merchant.The Chinese resent Yellow River near Tainantu, which the the presence of the Japanese at Tsingtao Germania have solved with the best and their intrusion into Shantung, the nitive, province of Confucius, and they bridge in China, or even like that at the are boycotting Tsingtao now because the Taly, which the Japanese have success-Japanese are there. Efforts are being fully tackled. The Germans have planted unde to break down this attitude, but it trees all along the ne-a this matter is likely to persist in the main, so long as the war lasts. That is those who of afforestation they have set an example are incarested in the economic fature of
| why which the Chinese Government are now Tsingtao are talking about the inter- following but thair, station, buildings, aro nationalization of the city in the inal very plain, not to my meagre. Every arrangement Apparently the Japanese are reconciling themselves to some such ments on the pretentious station Buildings measures already to secure the best site which the Garmana havo erected along in. Tsingtao for à future Japanese con- their section. They were doubtless built cession to impress the Chinese, and perhaps they have done so. In Isimas: it should be added that the wem not built at the expense of the permanent way, which engineers admit to be good work. But why this architectural levishnew on the Tientsin-Pakow line and this architectural parsimony on the Shantung line? Ward the Germans so sure of their future in Shantung that they felt themselves at home and under no obligation to keep up appearance? If so, the turn of eventa is curious footnote on the proscience of
Holland then, as the. Gorman would railway junction of Chripline, just THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN. traveller on the Tienic-Pukow line com- solution, for they are said to be taking i
possibly have retreated by the shortest way, viz across the Dutch province of Limburg.
FURTHER BRITISH PROGRESS.
LONDON, Aug. 10. General Sir Donglas Haig reports: We have further progresed north- west of Pozières. Here we gained all our local objectives, which we are acnsolidating.
We raided a sap south of Arras. The enemy usuccessfully at- tempted to mid our trenches, north- west of Hullucb.
FRENCH PROGRESS.
PARIS, Aug. 10,
A communiqué says: We progressed in the region
Hem Wood.
Except for a bensibardment in the Fleury-Chapitre sector, quiet hae p vailed on the Meuse.
south of Stanislau
The enemy is retreating in dis- order.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
ITALIANS CAPTURE GORIZIA.
tür
COMPLETE ROUT OF THE AUSTRIANS.
ROM, Aug 9. It is oficially announced that the Italians have entered Gorizia.
So far 10,000 prisoners have been
taken.
ADDITIONAL PRISONERS.
ROME, "Aug" 10 The capture of Gorizia ha renewed the demonstrations of joy throughout Italy. The work of the Duke of Aosta's army is especially praised. It crossed the Isonzo preceded by swarms of cavalry, inflicting heavy losses. The Italians have taken an additional 2,000 prisoners and much booty.
AUSTRIAN ISONZO LINE
CAPTURED.
LONDON, Aug. 10.
the House of Commons, Sir J. Jardine asked-Will the report of the Commission on medical supplies and transport in Mesopotamis be laid on the table before the Housu rises!
Mr. G. H. Roberta pointed out that Mr. Austen Chamberlain bad promised to expedite the Report
Sir H. Craik and Sir Edward Carson Extrongly protested against the delay.
Mr. Lloyd George stated that he was satisfied there were now sufficient medical supplies in Mesopotamia.
EXPLOSION IN GERMANY.
All-
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 10. A German official statement ounces that the artillery depot at Rothenstein has been destroyed by an explosion.
"The casualties were 50 killed and 72 injured.
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THE RECENT DISTURBANCE AT
HANKOW..
A "DETAILED REPORT.
The Peking Administration of the Kin-Han railway received the following report from its branch office at Haukow. The report is dated July 31-
At 3 o'clock last night a telegraphic message was received from the Occupa tion Commissioner stating that the local tufeis were to start an uprising that night and notifying us to be pre- It also stated that orders had been given to the police and the regular troops to co-operate. Accordingly
wired to the Tu Chun, asking him to take the necessary steps while the railway officials at the river side
PORT AND GARDEN CITY. The Germans built three good hotelspared for it at Tsingtas The Government gave the land free and a subsidy, and even so the balance sheet never showed a pross: per haps under such a system a visible profit would be a miracle. The aim was to muke Tsingtao u rival to Tantsin as a commercial port, and alap the most delectable city on the coast. Tas Ger- mans went a good way towards this aim Tsingtao, on a peninsula, has the sea on three sides and hills rünning through and
were instructed to send cars for the conveyance of troops of the Emergency Corps to the Ta Chih Men station. The Occupation Commissioner was also requested by telephone to, send a large detachment of soldiers to the railway station to protect the same. We have
The whole of the Austrian Isonzo FROM THE MANILA CABLENEWS.Tonnd it. The Germans found the shore reported these facts for your perusal.
an anchorage for the, lew junks of a fish-;
ENGINEER'S REPORT.
from south Tolmino to the sea has been INFANTILE PARALYSIS SPREADING ing village and the hills stark stone. They We now have the honour to forward captured by the Italiana.
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The Austrians have been completely mated at Gorizia
Three German acroplans were brought down in the Somme region.
French air squadrous dropped 100 bombs on railway stations, a battery, and birouaen in, the Somme und Verdun regions.
AUSTRIANS IN GORIZIA OVERWHELMED.
ITALIANS TAKE OTER 12,000 PRISONERS.
LONDON, Aug. 11. An Italian communiqué states that so far 12,000 prisoners have been
taken in Gorizia,
Italian cavalry inflicted very heavy. Iosaes on the enemy and took hun dreds of prisoners.
They abandoned large quantities of war material,
North-west of Pozicres the Australians advanced their line 200 yards ou frontage of 600 yards.
Otherwise the situation is unchanged
ENEMY GUN'S DESTROYED. As a result of co-operation between the artillery and aeroplanes severn! enemy gans were destroyed and magazines were exploded. A train was set on fire by aeroplane bombe.
Hostile aircraft were more active, but in trying to avoid combats several were damaged by our aeroplanes and rifle fire..
IN NEW YORK.
New York, Aug.
CAR STRIKE. AT AN END.
NEW YORK, NY., August 7. 1 Major John Purroy Mitchell an
nounced yesterday that a bans for the settlement of the strike of the employes of the surface car companies had been reached. The agreement, he announced, would become effective this morning. The settlement was agreed upon at s meeting between the directors of the transit companies and the strikers.
Major Mitchell was forced to take a hand after traffic on all surface car lines on the island of Manhattan beri been suspended.
decided to dedicate the worth and west you the report rendered by District to business and the south to the amenities Engineer Ti and Commander Tan of the of life. On the north and wess they Emergency Corpa, se follows: built a good harbour and good wharves. "In compliance with orders received.
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with railways and at the urnal adjuncts I at once wired to the Emergency Corp pursued the enemy beyond the Isonzo.
past 24 hours. The situation exceed of an up-to-date port, It is not on the to be ready without delay. At the ingly critical, and despite the fact that a great scale, nos comparable, with Shang. same time. 1 notified Ping Cheng to THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.rigid quarantine has been established by hai or Hongkong: nor decs Taingtao quite proceed to T. Chib Men with a company the bealth authorities the disease appeste look the staff of which a really Brab-class of soldiers. This detachment met the to be gaining. AUSTRALIAN LINE ADVANCED.
port could be made. But still it is all robbers at the rcssroads near Kung- sery tolerable, and business fourished locomotivo but the train proceeded on
hsing-tann. They fired at
LONDON, Aug 10.
heartily. The town which has grown Pits journer When the train reached General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- |
round the port is drab, with the add the Hau Ching Chieh (behind the muniqué, statea
sional drabness of 8,Chinese settlement Japanese Concession) the rabbers fired for the Chinese were debarred from several volleys, at the train. By the residing in the scathern part of Tsingtao. time the train reached the Ta Chih It is this southern part, Taingao Men station the straw huts on the north proper, which was the pride of colonial side were already on Ere. Bids firing Germany. With the Arception of the was heard countinuously,
OUTBREAK OF FIRE Peak district of Bangkong it is the nearest approach to a garden city on the In a moment fire broke out along China coast. The streets are wide, the the Han Ching Chieh. The troops road surfaces excellent. The Houses are under Ping Cheng and the police under
LIFE IN HELIGOLAND. none of them mean and all of a cheerful Hai Yuna examined the grounds north colour with pleasant tiles; nearly all have of the railway station. After 10 o'clock gardens rare virtus in most of the about 300 robbers suddenly rushed in
The Cologne Gazette" publisher a
war. The writer says: public buildings are handsome, and if the threw more than ten bombs and then
Messrs Polishwalls and Kotwall, cotton j Here on this steep island, which cue architectural note is café Gothic, that opened fire with their revolvers, way- WAR NEWS ITEMS.
must have made it more homelike to the fing flags in their hands. Another band and yarn brokers of Hongkong, say in ent walk round in an hour, our brave.....
of robbers, numbering about 30, rushed their report, dated the 10th in bluejackets have now been sitting for Germans in exile. It is worth noting into the local tax office and threw to the market, which has been greatly nearly two years in readiness for battle.
There is hardly anything to report on THE RUSSIAN CAPTURES.
that in every foriegn settlement of the bombs from the upper-storey Ping perturbed during the fortnight con- The men who serve here do not have PARIS Aug. 10. "
Far East the Germans give their conces. Cheng then opened fired on them in sequent upon the chaos and panic pre many experiences. High above them..... A communiqué states-North of the From the time the Russian offensive ions a defrite aspect and atmosphere of defence. This was followed by the valling in Canton and surrounding stretches the broad dome of heaven, and Somme we entirely re-occupied the began down to July 16th the Russians their own, and are perhaps the only railway police. At this juncture a territories. We have not heard of any at their fest is the sen Far behind one trench north of the Hem Wood in had captured 275,000 prisoners, 209 which the enemy had gained a footing guns and 813 machine guns. In the era who do. All the other foreign detachment of troops under adjutant business during the last few days, he sees perhaps a patch of moka which
They few sales that transpired, having been last night.
three weeks that have since elapsed the settlements are European, a greatest Chen arrived on the scene. In the House of Commons Mr. Me
The land is far away. But in spite of developments We have continued to make progress Russiane in their highly successful common measure lacking "all indivi-arrested a rebel spy at the station, who recorded in the beginning of the fort comes from passing steamers or warships The German settlementa are was immediately executed A revolver night. Recent political business, all their loneliness the bluejackets, are
have blasted all Kenza, Chancellor of the Exchequer, north of the Hem Wood.
operations must have added enormously duality. Both the French and the enemy to these figures..
and a bomb were taken. In reply the which would other in have been brisky happy on Heligoland'a soil. They know. national, German, often oppressively robbers, fired two volleys and several stated that, deducting £800,000,000 artillery have been most active on the
Taingtio is the most German of them, tens of shots by revolvers. They then normal
It to be some time before what a weight of responsibility resta advanced to Allies and the right of the Meuse, but there has beent
·GERMAN **FAITH IN VICTORE.”
upon every one of them, if the serioas Dominions, our total indebtedness no infantry action.
which dis by March, 1917, was estimated at
irelines dealers for any operation. On dag should attempt to approach, on the other fund at Bangkok from London to the British lined every street with trees and ware
high Limits from £2,600 millions.
Bom coasts. Then the war watch of Heligo Legation included the following:-
bay, where some large lines are reported and will spring to the guns and the turning the barran hills into forests. Bat For the first time since the war began they meant that Tsingtao should be not heard. Men were sent to scent and improved rates, incapacitate importers wind will carry the sound across the sea Bomb explosions and ride shots wers to have been booked at sabatantially thunder will echo from the cliffs. The German Military Headquartes have only a place of business and of residenes they returned with the information that from considering offers at current rates to the mainland as a greeting from the issued a direct appeal to the German but the health resort of China. So for the troops under Chang, Chief of Staff shrinkage of business, the sales during island to fight for the great German The result has been considomblé lonely men who are here on the little people for "faith in victory" The couple of miles along the southern shore to the Occupation Commissioner, were the fortaigh hardly approaching 3,000. neutral European press regards its
foreign settlements of the Far East. The from the north of the station. They THE COTTON AND YARN MARKETketch of life in Heligoland during the
The Italians have occupied Boschini in Carso."
Enemy counter-attacks elsewhere. FRENCH RECAPTURE A TRENCH. failed.
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BRITAIN'S WAR BILL
LONDON, Aug. 10.
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This, Mr. McKenna added, is less than year's national incotac and we are able
to maintain our credit, however long
the wat lasta.
THE ZEPPELIN ‘RAID.
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REVISED CASUALTY: LIST...
LONDON, Aug. 10.
and
and in a better style than the reet; perfed to the north At this time the fire a $50.5
An unofficial summary of the warhaps chiefly because of the trees and
news telegraphed to the British Legation parks which are its glory. The Germanalong the Hu Ching Chich had crept steady
advance into the hour should ever come and Britain's
very near to the station
BOMB EXPLOSIONS.
It is officially sanounced that the appearance as a sign that the sixthers runs a fine promenade, to what is engaging tho robbers. At II-- s'élock | Balestes during the fortnight, 2
revised list of casualties resulting from ~PROPOSED EXCHANGE OF CERTAIN the air raid shows that one man, two
PRISONERS.
woman and three children were killed, and that five men, six women, and six children were injured.
LONDON, Aug. 10. In the House of Commons Lord Robert Cecil atated that the Govern- ment had agreed to an exchange of interned British and German sub- jects over the age of 15 on condition that the remaining interned will be exchanged in equal numbers.
"MORE RUSSIANS LAND IN FRANCE.
"LONDON, Aug. 10 Another detachment of Eurainze has landed at Brest."
A MASTER REMEDY NHAMBERLAINà Coức Chrilers) and Diarrhoes Homely Is mustar over champ.solid, drsentery and all intestinal
́GERMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS,
taneous offensives on all fronts on the ons commonly called the best bathing place hand and the increased vigour of the on the coast Hence, too, those three blockade on the other handy are felt hotela, and particularly the ong facing by the German satborities to have the beach shaken for the first time seriously the German confidence.
Meanwhile a meeting of English
million British workmen, has
***TSINGTAO APTRE THE WAR
sediste
the robbers again attacked the railway Total sales during the fortnigh station with the eridant intention of balet
Sold and Unsold Stacks in godowns To-day's Advertisements penetrating the railway line and then
$47,000 bales.ENDAA fee. They were dispersed by the trooper SHANGHA-Market is in a more satis Fire then broke out at the south gate factory stato as evidenced by the fort and 's small hand of robbers attemptnightly sales which are returned at 5,000 And now I ingent city, the war ed to rush the station. They were hands Yann-Have been a firmer
It is a almost dispersed.
JAPANDIE trades union leaders, representing three dead city. I saw only two ships in the "Another abortive attempt was mads market in sympathy with the big
harbour, and the harves are very holidays till the end of the war in order the cafes, the beer gardens that were carly morning and it was then found and rates in spite of much better: animously voted to postpone ali public languid The apops, the business houses & daybreak Roll call was taken in the advance reported from Headquarters."
AMSTERDAM, “Ang 10.
to maintain the regular supply of German are all closed, most of them that no one had been hurt Foxchange, are up to $3. The German newspapers state that munitions to the army. The meeting the Gorman artillery set fire to the enthusiastically sang "God save the Ferozno Library and Museum. The famous picture gallery containing pictures by Anglo-Fresch meators) was destroyed..
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bricked up in dread of looting when the robbers were shot dead and over ton city sorrendered. In the streets of were captured alive. These wore taken Tsingtao proper you will see an occasional away to the office of the Occupation European woman or child very midció
om Commissioner. o man. In summer they hope for Visitors Tapanese company has taken over three hotels, and 1 is operating them under English manager. But com mercially Tsingtao is only the faintest THE JUDICIAL MURDER OF CAPT. Daily News O
The following is rom the Peking of shadows of itself, nor is it ex
pected Lito revive very soon. What is It has been ascertained that two FRYATT
We understand that the Ministry of the reason for this blight 1 It is not the human heads found in the River beginning of the European war, there is Finance has wired to the Director of siege. Very few traces of the bombard. Whang-poo and ado two headless bodies every possibility that the product a HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. the Opium-prohibition Burganz in ment are to be noted in the town for found on board the steamer Taming at De maulastared in the Philippines at § 1 Kiangsu, Kumghai And Keangtung re- the Japanese were very prirle fusing to nocept the request of the siege of Laingtao will not the Shanghai Optum merchints to oer enterprise, which the Demans furtoar monomry contributiora" to the to the world. The gur ENDON, AugCentral overnight on the ground that largely of business men Viscount Gray, through the United the object of the late Yuan Government all over States Emonkey i Berlin has protested in appoint
ton: by Lin nost strongly against the shooting Capt, Fryatt, which he wants could only
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