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GENERAL INFORMATION.
GREECE THREATENS TURKEY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19ru. 1914.
LONDON, August 17th.
5.15 p.m. Greece aniounces that she has received an intimation that Turkish troops have crossed into Bulgaria in the direction of Greece.
The latter has notified the Porte that in the event of the information proving correct, she will immediately take the necessary Naval and Military, measures.
GERMAN SOLDIERS' BRUTALITY-BRAZIL REQUIRES AN
EXPLANATION.
LONDON, August 18th.
4.30 &.in.
A telegram from Rio de Janeiro says that Brazil has asked Ger- many for explanations and to be informed of the punishment meted out to the guilty persons for their treatment of Senhor Campos, ex-President of Sao Paulo, who with his wife, are alleged to have been brutally beaten with the butt ends of rifles by German soldiers and then thrown over the' Swiss frontier..
BELGIAN ROYAL FAMILY MOVE TO BRUSSELS.
LONDON, August 18th.
4.30 a..
The Belgian Royal family, with the exception of the King who is with his army, and a portion of the Government, together with the Lega- tions, have moved to Brussels.
POLISH ENCOURAGEMENT FOR RUSSIA.
LONDON, August 18th.
4.30 am.
A Warsaw message says that Polish political and social representa tives have sent to the Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces, a telegram expressing their loyalty, and their longing for a Russian victory in the fight against the corsmon enemy.
THE TSAR AND HIS PEOPLE.
LONDON, August 17th.
6.20 p.m.
The Tear and Tsaritsa have gone to Moscow to attend the solemn invocation of blessing on the Russian arms. The Tear will walk to church Among the people, unattended, and will return similarly to the Kremlin, from which, plaen he will teave to join the armies.
WAR INSURANCE RATES.
LONDON, August 17th,
6.29 p.m.
The Government's war insurance rato stands at 3 per cent. EXPORTATION OF COAL TO TURKEY PROHIBITED..
LONDON, August 17th.
4,05 p.m.
The Government has informed the Welsh coal exporters that no trade with Turkey is now permitted.
SMALL GERMAN FORCE INVADES BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
LONDON, August 17th.
4.06 p.m.
A German force numbering 100 has acoupied Taveta.
Taveta is in British East Africa, and borders on German East Africa. It is a British Military Station.]
SLUMS IN SHIPS.
THE MOVEMENT TO IMPROVE SAILORS' QUARTERS.
OBJECTIONS TO BRITISH CREWE
The existence of slums in British ships, to which attention was called recently al the Sanitary Congress at Blackpool, is
a dificult subject which must inevitably
be faced in the near future.
QUARTERS IN THE ENDURANCE."
WAR NOTES.
THE PRICE OF FOOD.
DEFENCE OF TSINGTAO.
The G. Daily News of the 10th inst. says
· The Nanking express which arrived in The following Proclamation was pub Shanghai at 12.30 this morning brought some twenty-five passengers from Taing- lished yesterday:
tao, all of them Indies and children. A representative of the North China Daily Nets learned that a number of ladies, including several English, are remaining in Tsingtao, but it is highly probable that the majority if not all of them will return to Shanghai immediately.
FRANCIS HENEY MAY, Governor.
By His Excellency Sir Francis Henry May Knight Commander of the Most Distin guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same: Whereas by sub-clauso 10 of Clause III. of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-in-Council made on the 28th day of October, 1806, which was proclaimed in this. Colony on the 5th day of August, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor may by pro clamation prescribe the maximum price for which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such Packed shall sell any article of food at s proclamation and until it shall have been higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not oxceeding three months
Now therefore 1, Sir Francis Henry May Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governer and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dopen- dencies and Vico-Admiral of the same, do horoby prescribe that the respective maxi- mum prices for which the following articles of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows:-
(a.) Highost Grade.
Per bag of 60 lbs. Per lb.
(b.) Second Grade.
Per ling of 50 ha. Por 1b
24.00 ;18
$3.50 .07
(a.) Sweetened
Condensed
Milk, per 1 h tin
30
25
25
2. Tinned Milk:-
(b.) Unsweetened Condensed.
Milk, per 1 h, țining
(c) Sterilized Milk, per tin Note. In consideration of the loss sustain
ed by discount on subsidiary coinage, I. bins of Sweetened Condensed Milk, if paid for in subsidiary coin, shall be at the rate of 23 cents per tin for purchases amounting to 81 or less
Givern under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 18th day of August, 1914.
By: Command,
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
Gon SAVE THE KING.
THE NORTH SEA BATTLE RUMOURS
In the course of an article discussing the contradictory nature of some of the war news, the Cabichews American (Manila) says: The news of the great naval victory of Britain over Germany and the death-of-the-British Admiral reached Manila from Madrid, and was sent by a correspondent who has served his paper faithfully many years and wou for himself a reputation for veracity that it would be difficult to beat, but even he, at the last minute, acknowledges that the news was fantastic." Still it sooms that it passed the British censor at Gibraltar!"
THE "PRINCESS ALICE" STEAMING SOUTHWARD. The Manila Cableness of the 15th inst. says:Steaming south under forced draft and making about 15 knots,, the North German Lloyd liner Princen Alice, which
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cleared for *Shanghai," WAS sighted at 8.20 Friday morning a short distance out of Corregidor by the U.S. Army transport Merritt Speculation worse, or, again, to the physical and has been rife as to the mission of the. moral degeneration which result from un- Princess Alice, but the most plausible healthy conditions. There is support for explanation is that she is going to sip the latter theory in the fact that in many out of the 3-mile neutral zone south of ships where the conditions are far above Mindanao and relay messages by wirclees the average, as, for example, in a modern between Yap and German New Guinea, better class tramp steamer with its high the German possessions in the South Seas, roofed and fairly roomy cabin in the fore-where cable communication has been cut castle, the appalling amount of dirt to be off by the British companies, or spen Frequently neutralizes the advantage which might be gained from the improved German war vessel now in an isolated conditions. It is not enough to im spot in the South Seas. Great' improvements have been made in
prove the conditions," an officer remark- EMBARGO ON SAIGON RICE recent years, but a visit to the Londoned; you must educate the men as well." Docks convinced
representative Times. that Dr.
Herbert of The Williams, Medical Officer of the Port of London, had some solid foundation for his comparison of the condition of seamen on any vessels with that of the cave Certain dwellers in prehistoric times. requirements are, of course, insisted upon by the Board of Trade, but even when these are fulfilled it is merely a matter of providing so many cubic feet space for each man, and when the proper space is given the conditions may be and often ars vory bad.. How bad they can be is shown by a report issued by the Port of London Sanitary Authority some months ago. in which it was stated, "the occupants of the seamen's quarters on board many ships may be described as troglodytes," for in- deed many of these places are verily similar to caves, constructed of airtight materials, dark. overcrowded in a hygienic sens, and ventilated (1) by an iron pipe which is generally blocked up, thus only allowing fresh air to enter by the doors.
THE MEN'S ACQUIESCENCE.
What can be done in the way of proper provision for tamen is seen at once upon an inspection of the Endurance, the new bent in which Sir Ernest Shackleton's next expedition will sail, or of the neigh bouring weather-hesten Discovery, which was built for Captain Scott. Here, particularly in the Endurance, where the seamen's quarters would compare very favourably with the first-class saloon on some channel steamers, there is admirabln provision for the men, but here, of course, the vessels have been built for a special a special Purpose, and the seamen are class far above the average,
RAISED. Governor-General Harrison of the Philip. pines announced last Thursday night that. he had received a cable from the United States Consul at Saigon stating that the French Government has consented to the exportation of rice to Manila for the present. The price, the cable stated, was exceedingly low, and the transport. Warren will sail at once for Saigon to load 5,000 tons for the Government to be used to control the Philippine market in the event of attempts being made to advance prices.
1 and 23,000 tons. Our Reservo Squadrons are more powerful than most of the ships which Germany has in reserve. This comparison of the Flents of the two Powers in Northern Europe shows that wo are maintaining quite enough battle ships in commission, and that the number of alder battleships in commission could be reduced without danger to national security,"
The following cables are from Manila spapers
Preparations for the defence of the port are proceeding with the utmost urgency Business is, of course, at a standstill, and all are assisting in the work of strengthen- ing the defences and otherwise preparing for a possible attack. The theatre of the Prinz Heinrich hotel, with the stage and AR aute-room, have been converted into a temporary hospital, some eighty beds has
ng been arranged down the floor of the theatre. The billiard room has hoen con- verted into a surgery. Supplies are being strictly economized. Motor car rides to been snecuraged, the reason, given being the outskirts of the Settlement have net a necessity for conserving the supply of petrol
There has been something like a stam pede amongst the Chinese but the authorities apparently are doing their best to persuade them to remain. The Chinese were told, wo are informed, that Still, numbers are there is no fear." leaving by train, but those numbers are limited by official ordors.
FOREIGN SHIPS AND THE AMERICAN REGISTER.
WIRELESS" IN SHIPE.
SCHEME TO PROTECT SHĮPOWNEIS,
There has been published in this form of a letter from the Marconi Interna tional Marine Communication Company (Limited) to Sir H. Llewellyn Smith, of the Board of Trade, the draft of a pro- posed agreement between the Company and the Board to take effect when the Merchant Shipping (Convention) · Bill comes into operation.
The most important feature of this Bill is that which provides that every British foreign-going ship, however, propelled carrying 50 persone or more,
with shall be provided
# wireless telegraphy apparatus Although the proposals in this communication are pro- visional, it can be taken as most probable upon will be almost that the terms of the agreement even-
draft. One of the principal aims of the. identical with those embodied in the agreement is to prevent the shipowner from being forced to pay too high a prise
his own agreement with the Marconi for the installation of the apparatus.
The shipowner will in each case make
Company, This will be binding for 12 months, and the shipowner will be able to terminate it when the months have The conservative newspapers in the expired or at the cal of any subsequent 12 States are printing scarcely a line about months. Thore is, however, provision for the European war because of their the payment of compensation to the com inability to secure news of the conflict.
pany in the ease of a cancelled agreement, Many papers are printing a mass of The shipowner may purchase the instal contradictions, but otherwise the situationlation outright. The shipowner is at is unchanged.
liberty, so long as his vessel has some PRICES IN THE UNITED STATES.installation, to select whatever system he
President Wilson has taken the food situation into his own hands and has ordered the prosecution of the inerchants who have taken advantage of the Euro
WASHINGTON, August 13th. One hundred foreign ships, mainly British and German, have announced their intention to go under American register, should the pending law making registry easier pass. The law is now intually decided the Senate and it is believed that it will be passed within a few days. US. GOVERNMENT IN THE DARK.
The Unto the war developments in United States Government is in the
Europe and is making overy effort to sceure authentic information, but with out success.
THE FLEET OUTBIDE. All last week most strict precautions were taken in reference to the defence of the harbour. All the lights on the front: have been extinguished, and on Thursday night the order went round that there were to be no lights in private houses and hotels, the whole place thus being in abso lute darkness. It was on. Thursday even-pean crisis by inflating their prices. ing that the entire fleet left harbour. Next morning, firing was heard, but the who inquired for a reason were told that the gunners were practising. The men- of-war had not returned on Friday evening.
The passengers and crew of the Russian Volunteer Fleet str. which was captured by the Emden upon landing at Tsingtao were quickly put on a train and taken Tsinuniu.
"NAVAL BATTLE AVOIDED
THE YANGTSZE.
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The price of foodstuffs in the States is very high and there is every reason to believe that the price of sugar will reach ton cents a pound
The export of grain from the United States to foreign countries has ceased.
U.S. ADDRESSES NOTE TO JAPAN.
SHANGHAI, August 13th.
may desire. Other main points in the communication are:-
The agreement is to apply to any British ship, within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Acts, registered in the British Isles, or if the Board so desire
India or in the Crown Colonies, but: governing Dominicis, not to ships registered in any of the self-
The company will fit, maintain, und repair installations up to the standard required by the Board of Trade, the ship- owner to provide and maintain the neces- sary shipowner's apparatus.".
The company will agree to supply such The Manchuria Daily Neus carries a
operators as are required by the ship- stary to-day saying that the United owner. The shipowner may supply the States has addressed a Note to Japan,necessary operators himself, but must ON asking the latter to open Manchuria and obtain the approval of the company to to show her good faith in acknowledging any operator so supplied, and in that China's suzerainty.
ovent, the shipowner shall maintain the wireless installation at his own expense.
From the l'eking Daily News of the 8th inst, wo extract the following:-
Yesterday the Diplomatic Officer at Chungking, Kn Hsi-ching, telegraphed to the Central Government stating that the British, German and French gun-boals were in close proximity to each other and they wore making preparations to fire on cach other; that he earnestly dissuaded them from doing so in Chinese territorial waters and ultimately the German gun- bonts complied with his request by moving out over ten miles from their avdersaries' vessels.
THE NORTH SEA FLEETS.
SYRENGTH OF GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY
The Naval Annual, the 1014 edition of which has just reached the East, gives some very interesting official figures of the comparative strength of the Powers, After giving the number of warships in course of construction, Viscount Hythe, the editor, writes, "It is clear that Germany, by steady adherence to her programme of construction, has again slightly improved her relative position as regards most other navies during the year. The position of France is improv ing; while we have no reason to be dissatisfied with the progress achieved by the British Navy."'.
The fleets in commission in Northern European waters are as follows-
GREAT BRITAIN.
IRON DUKE (FLEXT FLAGSHIP),
Battleships Cruisers. 1st Squadron
Following the receipt of the Note in Tokyo & secret meeting was held, accord- ing to the story. Later the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs conferred with the French and British Ambassadors, Then another Cabinet meeting was held. The Asia Fil Pao, a newspaper pub lish in Peking, reports that the Japanoss troops in Peking have been ordered to mobilize and to stay in their barracks for
the time being..
RECENT BRITISH NAVAL CHANGES.
The following appointments in his Majesty's Fleet were approved by the King last month:--
10.
Vice Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe to be Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets, in Admiral Sir George succession Callaghan, who will complete his tenure of the command at the end of the year.
Vice Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton to be Second Sen Lord of the Admiralty, in succession to Sir John Jellicoe, who will vacate his office on September 1st. prior to taking up the command of the Home Fleets.
Rear-Admiral Henry Loftus Totten ham, C.B., to be Admiral Superintendent of Malta. Dockyard in succession to Rear- Admiral Carden.
Rear-Admiral Arthur W. Waymouth to be Rear-Admiral, Third Battle Squadron, in succession to Rear-Admiral Browning. to date September 1st, 1914.
POWERS OF THE BOARD
The clause safeguarding shipowners through the Board of Trade provide that the company shall quote to the Board the figures to be charged in respect of services and supp' of installations and other matters under the agreement, and such quotations are to include(1 The amount of the rent payable by the ship- owner to the company is return for their supplying him with an installation and operators, and the benefit of their organi- zation throughout the world and for their maintenance of the said installation; (2) The purchase price of an installation if bought outright by a shipowner; and (3) The compensation payable by a shipowner in the event of his putting an end to an agreement for hire (otherwise than by purchase) The Board of Trade shall thereupon appoint two · persons examine whether the figures so quoted fairly correspond to the prices charged to- shipowners by the company in respect of services, installations, and other matters as near as may be similar during either (a) fairly selected recent period; or () The three years 1910-12, both inclusive.
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If the Board of Trade do riot accept the figures quoted, or the company does not agree to figures acceptable to the Board of Trade, the question shall be referred to a referee to be mutually agreed upon, or, failing agreement, to be nominated hy some independent person.
The figures shall not be subject to any further revision until after the expira-- Rear Admiral Henry H. Campbell to be Sion of three years from the date when The agree Rear Admiral in the fome Fleets at the they were last ascertained. Nore, in succession to Rear-Admiral meut shall be in force for £0 years, and thereafter from year to year subject to Nicholson, to date December 5th, 1914.
Rear-Admiral Frederick CT. Tudor, six months' written notice of termination C.B., to bo Rear-Admiral, First Battle by either party-The Times. Squadron, in succession to Rear-Admiral
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Evan-Thomas, to date. Dece
Ath
1914.
to be Rear Admiral, Second:
Light Cruisers: 10
Total
GERMANY...
FRIEDRICH DER GRÖSSE (FLEET FLAGSIUP).
Battleships. Cruisers.
包 1st Squadron
2nd 3rd:
4
#
0
Reserve
4
0
Light Cruisers
Total
36
Of these ships, the Tron Duke, com- pleted this year, has a displacement of 25,000 tons, length 580 feet, and carries the regular armament of 10 13-8, 12 6in. 3in. and 4 3pr. guns. Her speed is given as 22 knots.
The Frederick the Great was finished in 1912. Her displacement is 24,310 tons, length 6644ft, and her armament 10 12in., 14 5.9, 12 3,4, and four light guns; with
speed of 22.4 knots,
10th,
Rear Admiral Alexander L. Duff, C.B.,.
Battle
Squadron, in succession to Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, to date October 28th, 1914.
INTIMATIONS
CALDBECK,
Rear Admiral Edward F. B. Charlton, MACGREGOR&Co.
C.B.. to be Rear-Admiral in the Home Flects at Portsmouth, in succession to Rear-Admiral Currey, to date Noyember 18th, 1014...
It is also announced that the appoint- ments of Admiral Sir A. Berkeley Milne, Bt., to succeed Admiral Sir Richard. Poore as Commander-in-Chief on the Nore Station, and. Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson, to succeed Admiral Sir Berkeley Milue as
Commander-in-Chief on the to date Mediterranean Station, are August 29th.
It is further announced that the period of appointment of Vice-Admiral Sir George J. S. Warrender, in command of the Second Battle Squadron, has been extended to a third year till December 31st, 1913; and of Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, in command of the First Battle Squadron, till July 1st, 1918, making a total of three years in command of Battle Squadrons in the Home Fleets.
THE WAR AND THE "QUINTUPLE GROUP"
CONCERNING ITALY, The information that Dr. F. C. BRITISH SAILORS' GRUMBLING. The movement for British sailors for Zitelmann, German Consul at Manila, British ships commands comparatively is to continue his duties as Honorary little support from the officers of cargo Consul for Italy, a Manila contemporary boats. Several stated without hesitation says, is of special interest because of the yesterday that they would not have messages received by the Manila Press British scamon to work under them if they since the outbreak of war, to the effect would possibly get foreigners. They de- that Italy had refused to accede to the The eight battleships of the British scribed them as much more dirty than Kaiser's demand for co-operation as First, Squadron are the Cailingwood, This picture is not overdrawn, for there foreigners, much less willing to make the contemplated by the Triple Alliance. Colossus, Hercules, Neptune, St. Fincent, various sources Superb, Temeraire, and Vanguard, from are many ships in which the seamen's best of things and to keep thuir quarters Cablegrams from
announced that Italy would remain 18,600 to 20,000 tons, and carrying com- quarters are very little removed from neat and clean, and much too fond of slums of the worst type, such as upon grumbling. Grumbling is generally re-
The German First Squadron is com- land would be closed instantly. The fact garded as a sailor's privilege, but the neutral; that Italy was sympathizing plements totalling 6,303 men. that sailors are a healthy class, and that British sailer is said greatly to overdo it, with the French; that Italy had declined their open-air life conduces so largely to For many years he was an inarticulate the request of the German Government posed of the Ostfriedland, Thuringen, creature who put up readily enough with for assistance; that heavy pressure was Helgoland, Oldenburg, Nassau, Rhein
Four of Jongevity, seems in the past to have made
bankare has. shipowners regard it as unnecessary to any conditions, and shipowners took ad being brought to bear on Italy to secure and, Pozen, and Westfalen.
tive of the Japanese make any proper provision for their ac-vantage of his ready acceptance of what her active co-operation with Germany and these are 18,600 and four 12,500 tons, solved. It is learnt that the representa-
Had there carrying in all 8,279, men. commodation or comfort. Even now their they thought fit te per un complaints; been any real friction between Germany
to provide. When the Austria against the Allies.
Of the other squadrons the anal temporarily left Peking for home to quarters, situated in the forecastle, stuffy, ill-lit, often dirty and evil smelling, are now, however good it may be, there is and Italy the Honorary Consul for the Annual informs us that "Our Third recape the summer heat, far from healthy Yet here the seamen asually grumbling and growling. "I nat latter country would, of course, have Squadron is much more powerful than the have to live buddled together for weeks inclined to believe the sailor of to-day is resigned immediately. The fact that German Second," while the total strength,
Ouene-cutting is again being enforced and months at a time.
rather spoiled in some ways," one officer Berlin states there is no objection to her as seen from the first table, is 43 battle-
in Peking, according to the Chinese press. That they do so, and that on the whole remarked, while another complained that representative continuing in his dual ships to 25, and 25 cruisers to 4.
Germany's Third Squadron of four The police there are making a census of A number they do not complain of their quarters in these days of co-operation the British office is undoubtedly to be taken to mean Hoveral questioned appeared quite sailor is a very powerful person indeed that there is a mutual understanding and battleships, however, is composed of her those who still wear queves satisfed with them may possibly be and a continual source of trouble to his that reports to the contrary should not be largest ships of 24,310 tons against our of wearers have been asked to submit due to the fact that they have known officers.
seriously credited.
Second Squadron of eight ships of 22,500 their reason for so doing.
was bad
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