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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1914.

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into the United States are based upon an inadequate or erroneous conception of her standard of civilisation. In their crusade against the exclusion laws the Japanese and

all for that matter Orientals-have a valiant champion in Mr. BENNETT, who contends that the doctrine of exclusion rests upon a mix- taken belief regarding the effect of labour immigration upon wages of intra-country. workmen. While the popular opinion is that such immigration lowers wages, Mr. BENNETT affirms that in truth it raises wages and increasca general prosperity." We fancy it will be difficult work trying to convince the people of California of the truth of. this. Mr. BENNETT is on much firmer ground when he argues that goodwill, in any effective degree, cannot exist between the people of closed nations."The very existence of closure No one in the United States ever heard any war talk about ourselves zeru. Japan, until the Japanese were excluded in 1907." That war talk, it may be added, has always been on the American side. Japan is far too sensible to think of war with America over the question. She understands the nature of the difficulties of the Government of the United States in regard to this matter and is content to rely upon educational and diplomatic efforts to remove the obstacles which now stand in the way of complete freedom of intercourse with the United States as well as with the British self-gov.ning Colonies.

is a state of passive war,

An English mail is expected on Saturday,

Owing to the war in Europe, it is

probable that the Autumn Race Meeting

of the Tientsin Race Club will be abandoned:

Lady May held her last At Home for the season at Mountain Lodge yesterday. There was a good stendance, D.C.L.I. band played on the lawa.

The

Shanghai papers record with regret the death of Mr. John McLeau Turnbull, sub-agent of the Mercantile Bank of

·Indin, · Ltd. (of. which corporation

·kg-m, M. ALA EDERICOU a co. divTMLIA.

local agents), which occurred în very sad circumstances on the 2nd inst. The deceased had been suffering from acute gastritis for a week, and last Wednesday he was found dead in his bed at his residence, No. 0, Medhurst Road. Mr. Turnbull was 32 years old, and was a native of Portree, Skye, Seritland. After heing in India and Singapore, he was appointed to Shanghai in March last year, and during his eighteen months" stay in the Settlement he had earned the respect of a large circle of friends.

FLOODS AT MANILA.

CAUSED BY PHENOMENAL RAINÉ.

We received by the mail from the United States yesterday a copy of a pamphlet written by Mr. John E. BENNETT, of the San Francisco Bar, in the form of a reply to a work entitled Japan's Message to America," being a symposium of articles written by thirty-five leading Japanese

As the outcome of a twenty-four hours' dealing with Japan's industrial, ethical portions of Manila Santa Ana, San rainfall of 9.72 inches, the low-lying

and sociological conditions, published Miguel, Santa Mesa, Malate, etc., were especially for circulation in the United submerged on the End inat, and the States. Apparently the object in view, is time owing to the water having reached affected parts were in darkness at night

to counteract the ideas current in the the fires in the power station. Business United States which go to support the was very much affected, only the more venturesome heads of departments and movement opposing the free immigration other employees going to the extent of of Japanese into the States, and the hiring high-standing vehicles,

and ап exciting ride along the purport of the book is obviously an appeal risking

flooded streets. Many clerks hired the to the goodwill of the American people lowly carratria and were to be seen riding In Mr. BENNETT's words, "it is a reaching with their knees up to the level of their out of the arms of Japan toward, that chins. The general hospital was flooded to a height of five feet, and fire pumps people who first called her out of the had to be requisitioned to deal with the night of feudalism and showed her the damaging water. During this time all which Wêre due to be road to the higher light, not to forsake @perations

performed had to be suspended. Numer her, but still to point the way." It is ous other buildings were also subjected the lower by the way, a somewhat exaggerated inter- to a Revere drenching in pretation of the facts of history to regard able for the Tanduay Fire Station was regions, and what are pumps were avail-

Commodore PERRY's arrival in Uraga | flooded--were bronchi juto 11se, But Bay as first "calling Japan out of the proved of little avail. night of feudalism into the higher light," but some latitude, we suppose, must be allowed the literary stylist as well as the common or garden port. "As the more Japan extends her colonial domain,” Mr." BENNETT tells his readers, the larger must be her armarnent, her expansion becomes a peril. If she does not expand she is defencelessly weak; if she does expand she may thereby be made still weaker." It is a little difficult, perhaps to follow the reasoning, but the point Mr. BENNETT seeks to emphasise through mit his pamphlet is that in her predica. ment Japan turas toward her powerful friend of the times pasi, her patron of old, who called her

There were three casualties reported, the victims being. Filipino girls, who were carried away by the current near All efforts to the Concepcion College... rescue them proved fruitless. Two. of the bodies were recovered.

By the 4th inst. it was estimated that no less than 24-41 inches of rain had fallen during five days, but by this time. the foods had disappeared as rapidly as they developed. Indeed, so quickly did the huge volume of water disappear that boats were left high and dry in the streets," and waggone bad to idea of the volume of water which poured requisitioned to convey them away. An over the top of the spillway of the Mariquina in twenty-four hours may be gathered from the fact that if this water could. have been stored it would apply the city of Manila for four years, even though not a drop of rain. should fall within that period.

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Only on three occasions since 1867 has forth 'and' whose protégé she the twenty-four hours' rainfall passed the begame. She does not know whe total of 9.72 inches in Mauila.

September, 1867, 13.25 inches fell in a she so turns, but she senses security in day, in July, 1980, 11.42 inches, and in American goodvill" Probably none will July, 1899, the twenty-four. hours' read Mr. BENNETT's patronising views rainfall totalled 9.59 fuches..

THE

WAR.

ANOTHE GRREAT BATTLE IN FRANCE.

ALLIES ON THE OFFENSIVE.

GERMANS COMPELLED TO FALL BACK.

The following official cablogram, received by H.E. the Governor, was forwarded to us for publication last evening:-

General Joffre's plans are being stendily carried out. The Allied Forces are acting on the offensive and have been successful in checking and forcing back in a north-easterly direction the German forces opposed to thein."

[A similar message issued by the Press Bureau, comes to in through' Reuter's Agenor.]

{THROUGH REUTERS AGENCT)

Loxton, September 7th, 8.05 pm.

An official announcement at Bordeaux (the present sent of the French Government) states that the Anglo-French army, alter two days' fighting, compelled the Germans to fall back.

LATER.

A Bordeaux communiqué published, this afternoon says that a general action is proceeding at Nantoul, and from there all along the Grand Morin river to Vitry-le-Francois, extending to Verdun, Thanks to the vigorous action of the French troops, powerfully supported by the British arty, the Germans, who advanced on Sunday as far as Coulommiers and the Laferte-guncher district have been compelled to fall back.

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THE BRITISH CASUALTIES.

The British casualties altogther

follows:-

LONDON, September 7th,

total 15,141, made up

Killed Wounded Missing,

Officers Men

03

1912

102 1,001

230 13,413

·CASUALTIES OF H.M.S..

"PATHFINDER.

LONDON, September 7th. 11.10 p.m.

The casualties among the men of H.M.8. Pathfinder are given aa

four killed, thirteen wounded, and 243 missing.

THE GERMAN AND BRITISH ARMIES.

COMPARISON OF THEIR MILITARY DEFICIENOV.

Yesterday the final section of the Press Bureau's review of the situation in France reached us through Reuter's Agency. repetition in part of the Foreign Office dispatch received by H.E. the Governor and printed in oar yesterday's issue, but the following portion

jy new:-

"The shooting of the German infantry is poor, while the British rifte

fire has hitherto devastated every attacking, column. Field-Marshal Sir John French's report dwells on the marked superion,

of the British

until troops of every arm. Our cavalry do as they like with the encing confronted with twice their numbers, and the artillery have never been opposed by less than three times Hair number.

THE OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM.

BELGIANS INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES.

LONDON, September 7th.

1.50 p.m. The Belgians inflicted five thousand losses in the fighting on Friday

and Saturday.

MANY GERMANS DROWNED AND OTHERS

LONDON,

STRANDED,

September 7th

1.50 p.m.2

The dykes to the south-east of Antwerp have been opened and are causing tremendous flooding at high-tide beyond Termonde. Many Germans have been drowned and others are stranded on trees and house- tops. The Germans have also lost several guns.

DINANT SUFFERS THE FATE OF LOUVAIN:

LONDON, September 8th.

1,50 8.m..

A message from Ostend states that the Germnus have destroyed

the city of Dinaut by shell fire and incendiarism, alleging that shots were fired from the heights overlooking the town.

[Dinant is on the right bank of the Meuse, 14 miles S. of Namur. It is a citadel town and is noted for its manufactures of cotton, iron, and copper goods. The population is about 8,000.I

BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS IN A VE HOURS' BATTLE

**LONDON, Beatenber 8th;

Belgian Volunteers resisted a superior force of Germans, and after five hours battle between Melle and Quatrecht, retired in good order, whereupon the Germans occupied Melle and are now marching on Ghent

[THROUGH REUTERS AGENCY).

RUSSIA'S GREAT VICTORY IN GALICIA.

TWELVE AUSTRIAN DIVISIONS COMPLETELY DESTROYED.

LONDON, September 7th.

0.00 p.m.

An official mesauge states that altogether twelve Austrian divisions have now been completely destroyed near Lemberg.

Another Austrian army operating in the Lublin district sustained serious losses and is now acting on the defensive.

FURTHER BIG CAPTURES AT NIKOLAJOF?.

LONDON, September 8th.

4.10 p.m.

The Russians have captured the fortress of Nikolajoff, twenty miles south of Lemberg, and captured forty guns, mounted on steel cupolas, and also stores sufficient for a year. The fortress commands the passage of

the River Dniester.

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The Russians have also captaeril. Rawaruska, which is thirty-two miles north-east of Lemberg, at the junction of four Austrian railways..

GALICIA MADE A RUSSIAN PROVINCE,

Count Bobrinsky has been appointed Governor-General of Galicia, which has been made à Russian province.

BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE GENERAL SITUATION.

GRATIFYING LIST OF BRITISH ACHIEVEMENTS.

The following official review of the present general situation was received by H.E. the Governor, and kindly forwarded to us for

puhlication :--

September 6th.

At the end of the first month of the war the command of the sea is left unchallenged in the hands of Great Britain and her Allies. The main German and Austrian fleets remain in their harbours under shelter of their mines and batteries. Four German cruisers, one auxiliary cruiser, two destroyers and a submarine, and an Austrian cruiser have been sunke A German Dreadnought and a cruiser have fled without fighting and have taken refuge in the Dardanelles. The loss to the British Navy has been one light cruiser only.

the

As a consequence of this naval supremacy, over 300,000 troops have been able to cross the sea in different parts of world British Expeditionary Forces

without the loss of a man, The

have been carried to France. Colonial Expeditions have been sent to attack the Colonies of Germany in Africa and the Pacific, and the French troops, under cover of the combined Anglo-French Mediterranean Fleet, havo been escorted from Algeria to France. The resources of the Empire, under cover of the British Fleet, will be fully developed, and the armies in Europe will be reinforced by those of Australia, Canada, India, and

Africa without

ti ceasing, German mercantile marne has disappeared from the ocean, while the seas are open freely to the commerce of Great Britain. In every part of the outlying seas, in China, the Pacific, the Atlantie, German ships have avoided action with the British ernisers, preferring to *** make meffectual attacks upon unarmed merchant vessels to encountering

men-of-war. Although German cruisers, are sill at large, their depredations have been small and they are unable to remain in any part where attack could be made upon British commerce.

Strong as the British Navy is to-day, there will be an accession of strength within the next twelve months of not less than ten first-class capital ships, fifteen cruisers and twenty destroyers, thus still further increasing the margin of naval superiority in ships of all classes over Germany, who during the same period will not add more than a third of this number to her fleet.

The prices of commodities have only riten very little; there is only a small amount of unemployment; a fund amounting to over two million pounds has been voluntarily contributed by the people to meet any distress that may Inter arise,

The British and French Armies in France have fought & series of hotly-contested engagements in which they have inflicted on the enemy far larger losses than they have suffered. In the meantime, in response to the call of the Government, 300,000 fresh recruits have joined the British Army voluntarily. Many new divisions are already in process of organisation and the number of recruits now enlisting each day are equal to one division and a half. The whole Empire is absolutely united and firmly resolved to carry the war to a successful issue.

Great Russian armies have invaded East Prussia and

The are on the point of entering Central. Germany."

Austrians

have been decisively beaten, first by the Servians

at.

Shabatz

and on the river Drina, and afterwards by the Russians in Galicia. They have abandoned their campaign against Servia, and have lost the fortified city of Lemberg:

Outside Europe the Japanese fleet and a force of troops are

blockading Tsingtau in China. The German colony of Togoland in West Africa has been surrendered to an Anglo-French force. By the capture of

the German armed vessel. Fissmann on Lake Nyassa, the control of the whole of Lake Nyassa has been secured to Great · Britain. Trade and

industry in all British Colonies remains undisturbed. The colony Samon in the Pacific has been taken by a force from New Zealand.