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LATE TELEGRAMS.

THE ROAD TO BERLIN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 230D, 1914.

STORIES FROM THE

BATTLEFIELDS.

DEFENCE OF LEIGE,

· DEFENDERS' HORRIFYING STORY, SA English officers who were recently in Brussels interviewed some of the de fenders of Liege. One Belgian officer in describing the German attack, stated:-

"DON'T" WANT TO FIGHT...”'

GERMAN *** NEWS" OF COSSACE DISAFFECTION.

COPENHAGEN, August 10th, More German newspapers have arrived NEW YORK, September 8th.

in Copenhagen. The Herliner Morgens A despatch from Petrograd to the

post states that the Frankfurter Zeitung Ner Tork Timer states that if the plans of the Russian army should

has had information of a manifesto by Suceved between the two rivers, the Vistula

the Czar to " My beloval Jews" printed and the Bug, a branch of the Vistula,

in Russian and Yiddish. In this the Czar is alleged to remind the Jews of the the road to Berlin will be completely

As line after line of German infantry benefits they have received from Russia, opened to them. This Austrian strategic position as against the Russian army is advancad we simply mowed them down, and from the House of Romanoff in very dangerous in three directions, and in They made no attempt at deploying, but particular, and his Majesty enlls upon the fourth direction there is a wide came on line after line, almost shoulder to the to volunteer in the Russian army, expanse of swampy ground by which the shoulder, until the fallen men were heap as Jewish and Russian interests are one Austrian movements will be hampered-ed in an awful barricade, the dead and and the same. In return for this the wounded threatening to mask our guns. Jews are to be permitted to live in Nichi Nichi.,

The barricade became so high that we did districts hitherto forbidden to them. The not know whether to fire through it or to Jews, the journal adds, are somewhat go out and clear openings with our hands.backward in responding to this invitation. In the meanwhile some of the wounded were trying to release themselves.

GERMAN MINISTERS

CENSURED.

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New York, September 8th. A llogue despatch reports that the German Emperor: censured Herr Beihmann-Hollweg, the German Chancel lor and Herr von Jagow, the Foreign Minister, for their diplomatic blunders which caused Great Britain to declare war against Germany, and Italy to stand aloof from the discharge of treaty obligations," THE RED INDIANS-OF-EUROPE and thus placed Germany in an isolated. position.

"This wall of dead and dying actually enabled the wonderful Germans to creep close in and to charge up the glacis whence our maxime swept them

"We had losers, but they were slight compared with the carnage in the ranks of the enemy."

As the result of this Imperial censure bath Ministers hate tendered their resignations--dupan Chronicle.

THE ADVANCE ON TSINGTAU.

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BRUSSELS August 19th. The French and Belgian cavalry, in their sweeping murement passed a series of ruined villages, which the Germans had sprinkled with petrol, and had then Eet og fire. The allies, particularly the Bel- gians, are maddened by these outrages, and they yow that they will exact a full measure of retribution. The Belgians have nicknamed the Prussians The Red Indians of Europe, owing to their farzı burning propensities. •

Cntroo, September 12th. The Japanese are rapidly landing froops at Lungkow by means of fresh Transports and are making a rapid advance in spite of the difficulties they

Bupeses, August 21st, have to contend with, owing to the bad The Mayor of Linsmean, near Tire condition of the roads. The country ismont, has officially reported that on Hussars, whose Hooded, the rivers and, roads being im Wednesday; German passable.

ollicer had been shot by a Belgian patrol. accused civilians of having done the shooting. They thereupon shut two vill lagers whom they described as spies. Then they murdered a man and his wife, set fire to their house, and cast their' bodies into the flames After that they shot three other persons, and finally they tied several villagers by their feet to mitrailleuses and dragged them along with their heads on the ground. Eight of the people, were shot send wih revolvers, and several more had their ears shot off.

The Chinese are offering no obstacle whatever. The report to the effect that the Chinese huyo attempted to prevent a Japanese landing is entirely without fondnation. The Tuotai has ordered each village in the Wonghsien section to pro- vide two carts for the transport of private families..

All along the line of march the crops have been cut down and are strewn on the roads. This has been done to facilitate the Japanese advance. Chinese coolies are being enlisted by the Japanese to facilitate their progress,

The Japanese are well equipped and are marching with very heavy kit. They have ample cans of transport in the form of horses and, mules." The field artillery are well furnished with horses. The men look fit and are marching in exerilent order.

Up to the time of cabling, our corres- pondent had bean no siege guns. The country south of Pingtu is flooded to such an extent that it is impassable. In conse- quence of this there is a possibility of any activities occurring for a fortnight at least and it is very probable that the delay may extend to a month?

The Japanese are in possession of maps, accurately compiled, and have a perfect knowledge of the whole locality. There is effry indication that the Japanese are forging on an extensive line of attack. At the Japanese headquarters at Lungkow there is a considerable quantity of coal and foodstaffs-Peking" and Tientsin Timne

The

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

American Consulate General Terived from the Manila Observatory at 4 pan. yesterday the following messages t

Cyclone or typhoon cast of the Visayan Islands moving W. or W.N.W.

Cyclone or typhoon south of Guam Island, direction unknown.

A CONCESSION BY THE CABLE COMPANIES.

THE FIRST MULHAUSEN BATTLE.

BELATIE. DETAILS: FEARFUL, CARNADE,

BERNE, August Mih. Details of the fighting that took place between the Germans and the French at Malhausen on the 8th and 9th are now becoming public.

It appears that on Sriday the Germans shelled the town, and the population took refuge in the collars. The German in- fantry stormed the French entrenchments at the bayonet's point, and the close formation of the French began to give way. Those on the cast and the north of the town retreated, the Germans follow- ing team at the ran.

At the street corners knots of breathless Frenchmen wheeled to face the enemy; and formed double and triple lines. Fusillades followed, but the result was always the same-the rush of the charging Germans, the clash of steel, the shrink as the bayonet was driven home, and then, the French ran again.

The ghastly work was continued until night fall. The German tactics involved. terrible loss of life, bus they practically assured victory to the superior weight of numbers. When the Germans secured possession of the town the dead and | wounded lay at every street corner and Nuxt day the beneath every archway French and German dead were buried in common graves in the surrounding fields. Maus of the wounded crawled into the cornfields to escape being trodden upon by the fighters, and for days afterwards the Germans searched through the growing corn for possible dead bodies. The schoola and churches, as well as many cottages, were filled with the wounded, who had been left for 10 hours, and in some cases 12 hours, in the Selds and on the roads while the rival forces surged backwards and forwards.

GERMANY'S MEAT SUPPLIES.

LONDON, August 18th. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs that Germany is drawing all food supplies possible from Denmark. The export of live cattle to Germany, through Jutland is so great that the travelling route is unable to carry the traffic. The railway farty between Gied- ser, in the island of Laulando, and Varne- munde, has been re-opened. The German duty on cattle is annulled, and the arantine restrictions are hot enforced.

A notice has hen issued by the Eastern *t Associnted. legraph Companies, announcing that with the view of reducing the cost of cabling during the present censorship, they have arranged with the Postmaster-General # A temporary, measure from to-day that the text of "full rate extra European plain language messages" (including signa ures) written in English, and exchanged between Great Britain, the Oversea Dominions and Colonies served by their system, incinding Egypt, will be counted and charged as if written in groups, of ten letters to a word. Figures and com- movcial expressions such as Cif, Fob, etc.,

THE HAGUE, August 21st. will continue to be counted separately as

It is stated officially that a bread at present. Any surplus group of letters famine is feared in Holland, as the whent immediately before a group of ôgures or Commercial expressions or at the end of stocks are only sufficient to supply the

country for two or three weeks. the text will be counted as one word:

Telegrams will continue to be written Government has seized all the wheat at and signalled as at present, but senders present stored in Rotterdam. would assist the Telegraph service and avoid delay to their felegrams by marking ||| every tenth lotter in thair outward. tele- grams before, handing them in for trans-

mission.

AMERICAN GRAVES IN CHINA.

DUTCH DISTRESS...

DEFENCE OF ANTWERP. .

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The Berliner Tagchlatt reproduces & letter dated "Königsberg, August 8th," stating that authoritative news has coine from Memel and Tilsit that the Cossacks. are disaffected, that they are willing to sell their horses For a sovereign, and are so hungry that they throw away their. arms, begging their enemies to give them: bread and work, saying, We didn't wish to make war and we don't want to fight."

ONLY GERMANS TRUTHFUL RE The Berliner Pageblatt, in an earlier issue, publishes a remarkable manifesto

issued to the German nation by General Stein, who belongs to the General Staff of the army. He cautions the people against believing any statements but those given ont by the General Staff itself. **In England and France," he says, "false hoods are being spread broadcast. You Germans have too much faith in the Government to accept rumours too easily. The English accuse us of having suggested a partition of Holland in exchange for British neutrality. Such charges are beneath contempt, and demonstrate the righteousness of our cause and the wicked

∙ness of our enemies,'

Another Berlin paper declares that Great Britain is paralysing American diplomatic relations by preventing the United States Ambassadors from sending their despatches in cipher

FIRST GERMAN ADVANCE.

THE ATTACK ON LIEGE.

GERMAN SOLDIER'S GRAPHIC STORY.

MASTRICHT, August 12th, Fugitives from the German army, operating against Liège, have given details of the advance into Belgiums and the attacks on Liège from the invaders' point of view. Here is the story of the inarch on fatge, as related by the most intelligent ones,

We went by train to Herbeathal, the last German town, the outskirts of which touch the frontier. We travelled in open goods trucks, and the journey was like, a CAIRO, August 18th triumphal-progress everywhere acclaimed The German newspaper, Egyptische by the people. Old men came out to bless Nachrichten, which has been in circula, and women and girls passed alongside tion in Cairo (or the last eight years, has the train encouraging us with kind words been suppressed for publishing sensational and more substantial gifts of food and news of alleged Garinan victories.

An old lady once went up to a sailor and asked him why the ship had stopped. Can't get along on account of the fog," said the sailor,

But can't you go by the stars?" said the old Indy.

We're not going that way, unless the boiler buats, mun.

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THE ACTIVE NAVY,

**MAMILIUS AND HERMINIOUS,"

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As we live in an island, and the com munications of the Empire are maritime, it has always been recognized that we require a great standing Nazy. AMSTERDAM, August 21st. Extensive preparatus-have been made and that proportion is larger to-day than portion of the Navy is always mobilized, to defend Antwerp. The neighbouring woods have been cut down, and the sur: Acts.

ever, before-thanks to the German Navy Whether the complements be rounding villages have been destroyed in adequate or not may be open to doubt, order to deprive the Germans of cover; but, at any rate, the assurance has been while earthworks have been thrown up in all directions, and part of the country given that the. First and Second fleets outside the fortifications has been flooded. can be manned with active service ratinga, Two Dover-Ostend steamers are lying in and in point of fact they are so manned the Scheldt, in readiness to remove the conditions, is far more ready for war to-day. The Navy, even under peace Queen and her family in the event of the

than the Army. The only ships which. city being besieged.

cannot be placed upon a war. footing at a few hours' notice are those which con- stitute the Third fleet.. They form an admirable resorve, but nothing more.. The present organization is apparently based upon a conception of the course of hostilities which the First Lord of the Admiralty explained to the House two years ago when discussing the constitu- The English expeditionary force. The body tion of the Home fects. He then stated Consul-General suggests that the coun of General Grierson who died suddenly the rules which guided the Admiralty." has been taken from Boulogne to England The first is that in times of peace wa for interment. General Sir Horace

measure the relative construction of two. Smith-Dorrien has succeded to the com-Navies by percentages. In save! war, mand of General Grierson's corps. ·

and especially in modern naval war,

A Washington report says:-Preserva- tion of the graves of many Americans and wther nationals in foreign cemeteries on Danes Island and French Island, near Canton, China, is urged by the American

·Consul-General at Canton in a report to the State Department,- The cemeteries

BRITISH GENERAL'S FUNERAL. contain the graves of Alexander Hill Everett, first resident Minister of the United States to China, who died June

PARIS, August 21st. 98. 1847, and a number of American mis- A great public demonstration, was made sionaries, seamen and merchents. Some yesterday at Boulogne at the military of the graves are said to be without grave funeral of General Sir James Grierson, stones and the inscriptions on many of commander of the second corps of the the stones are alait effaced.

Fries whose nationals are buried there should co-operate in making uscessary re- pairs, There are 2838 graves in the two cometeries.

another system of calculation becomes dominant, Battles are not decided by ratios or porcentages They yield definite and absolute results, and the strength of conflicting Navies ought to be measured, he contended, not as in peace by com

but by subtraction. We must

drink.

"At Herbesthal we took to the road and advanced into Belgian territory. On the frontier itself there was absolutely no resistance, though a few stray shots were frer at our cavalry scouts, who precceded the inain body.

Our

SERVIERS TAKES.

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"Their sufferings were heartrending, beyond the powers of description, and there were sights that even in the din of battle shook our nerves and struck teror to our hearts. The bravest of meu may well be full of fear on a modern battle- field."

The young German who told this fate of war was well educated and refined, n conscript from a middle-class family. His companions had similar things to relate. All agreed that the courage of the German rank and file was superhuman, and they

different were needlessly exposed to a hustile fire

tactics would when diminished the sacrifice of life.

事

have

THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF

BRUSSELS.

In a cable message to the London Daily? Chronicle, from Ghent, Mr. H. M. Dono hue wrote: The abandonment of Brus- sels was the result of a conference be tween the commanders of the allies and the civic authorities. It was deemed the: only method of saving the historic mona- ments in the town from German savagery, The decision was highly displeasing to the civic guards wanning the entrencliment. When disarmed the majority of the civic guards marched out and entrained for

hent in order to re-arm and fight else, where The Mayor of Brussels warned. the townsfolk that the city was at the mercy of the enemy and urged them to is nu ground for hostile action by the Germans. The townsfolk nwaited the coming of the Prussians bravely, although they had been witnessing the arrival of thousands of half-clad and homolest peasants, who had fled before the Prussiar bayonets.

"After cecupying the first Belgian town of Limburg where, locomotives and rolling stock were found, we continued advance to Verviers, which was cleared of Belgian troops by our cavalry before our arrival,... The inhabitants of Verviers watched our march into the town with torrer, withdrawing into their houses and peeping from behind closed shutters, When it was decided not to defend evidently fearing that we would commit Brussels, the wounded were entrained-tan outrages,

places of safety. Citizens often 10 deep Nothing of the kind happened, and stood bareheaded while the wounded wg we marched to the officers of the mani- carried out, and cheered the departing cipality and tore down the Belgian flag, trains. Later there was a considerable which was replaced by a German flag, exons of the male uopulation, from fear amid the cheers of our mea. A proclama of being made prisoners. The refugees tion of the annexation of Verviers and from the country are now encamped in the district was read in French outside the public squares. The roads frem Loa the town hall and pasted in all parts of an are still packed with retreating the place. Martial law was proclaimed,which are drawn by dogs. The majority soldier and fugitives in carts, many, of and the residents were warned that any of the fugitives fest their money and resistance.to. the German military cinthas and their horses and cattle were authority would be punished by summary saved only by great efforts. The Germans execution.

"

4 German officer took over the admini. stration of the town and began by requisitioning food and other supplies and various kinds of subsistence for the German troops. His orders were carried ont meskiy, even zealously, by the citizen's of Verviers, who told some of our men quartered in the houses that they had received instructions from Brussels 10 offer no opposition.

are pitilessly firing farms, villages, and.

crups,

A party of Uhlang occupied Brussels yesterday afternoon, the street being de sorted and the Belgian flag being draped with crepe.

THE BELGIANS RETREAT.

The occupation of Brussels was due to the Germans throwing two army corps against Louvain, which was the weak point along the line. The German force Among the regulations enforced was had a front of 20 miles, and was covered one compelling the townspeople to be by a great cavalry screen, with which the within doars by sunse, and not-leave their French and Belgian hotly engaged on houses before sunrise. They were forced Tuesday. The French dragoons repeatedly to find quarters for our men and hand crept up to the cavalry screen but, when over the broad from the bakeries, which they penetrated beyond the advanced were kept working night and day; also posts they discovered a large force of in- to yield stored meats, groceries and fantry and retired in good order with eatables of all kinds to such on extent practically no logs. On Wednesday, the that the Belgians themselves were left in German army corpy advanced stendily.

The first shock was encountered at a sorry light. Any kind of violence Dist, where the old forts and water meat against the civilian inhabitants was

provod but small protection against the strictly prohibited unless we were attack any shell-fire of the Germans.

The od. Then we had orders to shoot without garrison retreated, and the Germinus ad- Vand cautiously, fearing a surprize. The Eelgian cavalry, which was covering the retreat as a rearguard, had several

reshen witdi the enemy, who repeatedly- sought to cut off the cavalryinen. The latter's impetuosity led them to charge the enemy, and they incurred heavy losses, The Germans then attacked Louvain, whence the Belgian headquarters moved

Wednesday,

hesitation in self-defence,

"After a few hours the Belgians got over the first fright and fraternized with the invaders as far as possible with the differences of language.

Then followed with astonishing rapidity the advance to Liège, the first part of the journey being done by train,

but not fari

"The retreating Belgians soon begann to tear up the permanent way so we had to take to the road again, and march. The use of the railway to and beyond Verviers caused our sudden appearance before Liège.

DAYS OF HORROR. "Then we went through days of horror, I took part in the earlier attacks on the Belgians defending Liege, and, though I am not a coward, the sights I saw and the wholesale slaughter of our men filled me with dread.. Again and again we ad vanced, always in close formation, lying and, shooting at an elevation given us by officers, running forward and dropping again on our stomachs, continuing to fre and advanos again, always nearer, ncaror to the lines of our enemy.hand

As wo pressed forward, our ranks bo camo thinner. Shells burst among 13, killing and wounding, and euch wounds. were far worse than death itself; while the tille fire of the Belgians mowed down our men in dozens, score, hundreds.

*** Have you ever been under fire, ever pushed forward against the invisible onomy, with comrades dropping dead or mutilated all around you? Ever seen the effect of modern ertillery trained or masses of human beings 1. Ever seen heaps of dead and heaps of wounded, all mixed together Ever heard the ories of fallen- soldiers you were obliged to leave to their Bufferings in order to continue the battle t If not you cannot imagine what we went through at Liege. Some of our attacks were by day and others by night.

Our officers, reckless in their bravery, ledus, urged us, encouraged us to throw away our lives. I think there was much needless bloodshed. We marched straight

SUFFERING IN GERMANY.

THE HAGUE, August 21st." A Dutch official who was recently in Berlin states that wages in Germany have fallen 30 per cent, since the war broke out, The slaughter of cattle has been restricted. the object being to obtain supplies of nat from Holland and to preserve those already in Germany. Spy-hunting bas become a popular frenzy. The official saw several so-called Russians lynched, though they were apparently too frightened to Similar explain matters to the mob, scones are of hourly occurrence.

INTIMATIONS

CALDBECK,

MACGREGOR&C.

(ESTABLISHED 1864),

SOLE AGENTS FOR

Fact" he said, “that in a first battle toward the enemy's lines and toward between good and efficient Navies equally hostile artillery as if on a manmuvra held. matched tremendous damage will be It was magnificent, but not as war should FALCON LAGER reciprocally inflicted. Many ships on be conducted.

both sides will bo sunk or blown up.

RELENTLESS DISCIPLINE,

Many more will sustain injuries which If there were moments when we broke will take months to repair. Others will and ran it was because & further advanco not come out again during the whole of into the jaws of death was a sheer im the war. Indeed, the more wo force

posibility. After the first assaults, with ourselves to picture the hideous course of their disastrous endings, the spirit of the a modern naval engagement, the more one attackers was broken. Deep depression is inclined to believe that it will resemble fellowed the buoyant courage with which the contest between Mamilius and

we marched into the enemy's country. Herminious at the Battle of Lake

BEER

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Regillus, or the still more homely conflict The lack of enthusiasm spread through all MESSES. VAN VOLLENHOVEN of the Kilkenny cats." That he regarded the ranks and retarded success, yet with very satisfactory reflection for the relentless discipline we were required to strongest naval Power, since it will hurl ourselves repeatedly at lines which

Reemed unbreakable. always pay the strongest naval Power to

lose ship for ship in every class. The Then, when only a fraction of our process of cancelling would conduct us, regiment survived, we moved to a differ albeit by a ghastly road, to certain ent part of the battlefeld, while Tre h victory, and to a condition not of troops were brought up to go through the same course of action. It was common relative, but of absolute superiority, Further, with a reciprocal destruction of talk among our men that hundreds of the newer ships, the older vessels will rise wounded were left for hours without any swiftly in value. When the ace is out, kind of adequate attention. for the simple the king is the best card, and 10 on." reason that it was impossible to reach

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