1914-09-29 — Page 3

[TBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

PURSUING THE AUSTRIANS INTO HUNGARY.

LONDON, September 97th.

8.10 p.m.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19m, 1914.

An official message from Petrograd states that the Russians compelled the Germans to retreat to Duskeniki.

The enemy has started an artillery duel with the fortress at Ossoweitz.

The Russians have occupied Domritza.

A large column of Austrians are retiring from Przemyl, leaving in

Trains and motor-cars.

The Russians have been successful in the Carpathians in taking gs and prisoners.

The Russia s are pursuing the Austrians inté Hungary,

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL BELGIAN SORTIE.

Loxpos, September 28th.

-240-a.m.

A message from Ostend says that the Belgians made a sortie from Antwerp on Saturday in the direction of Erpe. They drove back a strong force of Germans after a sharp fight, and occupied. Alost.

ANOTHER GERMAN OUTRAGE?

It is reported that Mous is añre.

VALUE OF GERMANY'S

COLONIES.

TRADE WORTH £22,000,000.

BRITAIN'S CHANCE IN THE PACIFIC The future of Germany's colonial possessions, which now lie at the mercy of the Allies and have in several cases already experienced the disadvantages of their helpless position, will provide an interesting problem for settlement when their present owners have been thoroughly beaten in the European field of conflict. It rany bo.assumed that when that day comes the German flag will have ceased to fly over every portion of the German Oversea Empire, which, in Afrien at any rale, makes quite an imposing show on the Dap with its 1,128,040 square miles of territory and 13,000,000 inhabitants; mostly of negro or negroid race.

The leased territory of Kiugchau, which will probably be restored to China through, the agency of Japan, is not a *colony," strictly speaking, being governed by a naval officer responsible to the German aval department. It has, however, the distinction of possessing a larger import and export trade than any other German colonial possession, the Tigures for.... 1911 being Imports, £5,029,000; exports, £3,332,000. This is readily understandable in view of the fact that it is an integral portion of China. Its garrison of 3,195 Ciernian marines will not be able to defend it for many days against the Japanese attack.

LONDON, September 26th. 2.45 am,

As might be expected, the trade between the German colonies and Great Britain has amounted to only a small proportion of the total trade of these territories hitherto. In 1012 United Kingdom exports to German colonies. amounted to £605,121, and the imports from the colonies into Great Britain, totalled £590,800. If the German colonies should become a portion of the British Empire for a time, it may be confidently expected that their trade with Germany, which, as already stated, is worth £5,500,000 per annum, will be diverted to the United Kingdom, and the colonies will not only furnish us with new markets, but will provide additional cargoes for our ships. The total withdrawal of Germany and Austria from the oversea trade should create an opportunity not to be missed by British manufacturers.—Standard.

CHINA AND JAPAN,

coni-

PEKING, September 21st.. The Japanese Government has pletely changed its policy towards China since the so-called war zone in Shantung has been declared.

While formerly

WAR NEWS.

THE OPERATIONS AT TSINGTAO.

PERINO, September 22nd.. The report that the South Wales Borderers from Tientsin will take part in the operations against Tsingtao under

Japanese command is confirmed..

OFF TO THE WAR.

Mr. H. G. C. Perry-Ayscough, of the Chinese Postal Service, Foochow, to rejoin his regiment, the Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Mr. E. C. Creasy, Second Assistant Superintendent attached to the Sikh branch of the Shanghai Municipal Polve, Laus resigned and returns to England to rejoin the Royal Artillery Reserve at Newcastle.

SHANGHAI BRITISHERS LEAVING

FOR SERVICE.

|

GERMAN REPORTS CAUSE UN- CONSCIOUS. AMUSEMENT,

We implored one of our companions | to write down the address of the British Consul, which he did, and later we found The following letter, signed K.N., that the address was a fictitious one. We appeared in the NC. Daily News:--|

toiled wearily into Visé, and at last found A great number of the readers of your a Belgian officer, who dicreted us to the esteemed paper wonder at the publicity Consulate. given, under the heading Germau Eventually we reached the station, Reports to wilfully erroneous news and were fortunate to get a train to Liégo, about the war, especially about the operu only to find the city in a state of siege.

tions in the western parts of the field.

The reason for this publicity might be granted as

a desire of equity and impartiality. Indeed the only or almost only telegrams that can reach China are official communiqués from the British and Frenel Governments, are forwarded by the Official Press Bureau, through the Router and Havas Agencies, or, when sent from private sources are equally submitted to a strict censure, and there fure, might be suspected of exaggeration and optimisma

Is is well to remark that if the sources of news above mentioned are sometimes very discreet, for reasons easy to under- stand, and do not tell everything, at least everything they tell is true and niust be true.

"After many tedious delays we reached Brussels and Ostend, and took boat for England."

"OCEANIC" CHASED BY GERMAN MEN-OF-WAR.

A meber of the Central News'. New York staff, Mr. A. J. Rorke, who was call- ed Home to take up war duties, describes an exciting race for home by the White Star Liner, Oceanic, on which he was a passenger. The journalist's account of the chase is as follows:-

After an ocean rnce reminiscent of the day when the English clippers raced across the sens to feed England during the Napoleonic wars, the White Star Liner Oceanie, with $15,000,000 in gold and over ton of silver bars, has dropped anchor in Southampton Water.

they told

PRINCE OF WALES' FUND.

HONGKONG CONTRIBUTION...

From Mr. R. D. Harvey we have re- ceived the following statement:- Monthly Subscribers Amounting to

Monthly.

to 26th inst. Hongkong, 154.. Swatow · 2.1. Amoy Kongmoon

190

8948.2.1

216.00

00,00

24.00

$1,242:24 20 Hongkong Donations... 1,048.00 4 Swalow Donations ..... 176.00 1 Amoy Donation

10.00

$2,475.24

CORRESPONDENCE,

THE OVERSEAS CLUB.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE THONGKONG "DAILY PRESA."]

A party of British subjects are to leave

By comparing British and French | for Home this week to offer their services papers in Europe, we find that those

Sine the letter, relating to the Over- to the War Office. According to the latest Papers give the same information that is

seas Club, which you republished in your available information they will travel torments through special bulletins to ing: In the saloon, there were Anrican with your contributor that the critic telegraphed to us and is given by the We left New York last Saturday morn columns of to-day's date, I agrec home by the French mnil steamer Polynesien. This step has been taken by their armies in the field. It would be millionaires coming to Europe for has been a little hard on the people the men of the party, it is understood, impossible to provide officers and soldiers pleasure, Austrian, German and English of Hongkong, as everyone who was not because of any objections to the with false news, as the latter know all Navy and Army officers homeward bound able to come forward did so to a scheme which is now being prepared in about it and this would have the worst

in answer to the calls of their Father- man when they were called upon just Shanghai: but because they are anxious

consequence on their mind, a conséquence lands, and English and American news--recently. I think before Hard un to reach home at the earliest possible date just the contrary to the object of the paper man rushing to the firing line. In Hongkong rushed into print in the and they are all willing to take on what-issuing of bulletins.

The steerage there was practically a regi- | Overseas "Mail, he might have tried our ever work the authorities at home may

Some might say, 83 in Stendhal's ment of Servian infantry and Irishmen local papers. I think he would have. deem them best qualified for. All of the description of the battle of Waterloo, who, when they sailed, thought they were received sufficient support from the party are hard riders and in the best of that, with the exception of the Chief going home to fight for "an Ireland once members of the Overseas Club who resid condition while the majority are capable Commanders of the troops, nobody knows again," but who, when they heard war in Hongkong. About a year ago a Me of rendering service in other departments. what is going on on an extended line of had been declared, wanted to set about the Marsh, late of the Royal Naval Yard Their departure will, of course, cause no fighting: the answer is that officers and Servian regiment on alteration in the scheme which is being men are aware of the truth for the places. We are all going general principles advertised in the local Press calling a meeting in the Seninen's Institute, to developed for the raising of a corps of where they are fighting; and, as the mo as soon as we get ashore." On which only five members responded. If 200 men from the Far East and which bulletins mention particulars of what is Wednesday morning the ship's Marconi Hard on Hongkong er any other scheme is steadily progressing towards going on on all the front, wilful errors bulletin fold of Britain's ultimatum to member of the Overseas Club desires to fruition. Should the present arrange about parts of this front could not pass Germany and the same morning, a little call a meeting for the purpose of farming ments of the party intending to leave in and would not be admitted by free and later, the news spread through the ship a branch of the Club in Hongkong, they Friday materialise the men will carry liberal-thinking people such as British that war had been declared. The first should send their name and address to the best wishes of the Allied community and French renders.

insight we got as to what the war meant Patriotic," care of the Daily Presn whether they be stationed at home or have

was on Wednesday night, when to que Office, when a meeting will be called to the good fortune to be sent to the front

astonishment, the upper decks were all form a Commities for the purpose of Shanghai Mercury.

canvassed in, the portholes shattered, and making the necessary arrangements for the deck lights extinguished. At the samo the formation of the Club-Thanking H. A. L.

time a notice to the effect that, as a pre-you, Sir, I ata, cautionary measure, the ship would steam without Ights during the hours of dark- nees, and passengers would aid by ex- tinguishing the lights in their state-rooms as soon as possible was posted. We all began to think. The day before we had sailed, the Zaitonia had brought in n report that the German cruizer Dresden ing for British ships to clear from the from Vera Cruz, was lying outside wait- port of New York, and although Cap- Defence of the Union of South Africa, in intimation to his passengers that he was General J. C. Smuts, Minister of tain Sufh nayer gave the slightest

accepting the resignation of ex-General running Trom a German nan-of-war, Begers of the post of Commander of the there ems to be no doubt that th Union Defence Forces, makes the follow-feranic was pursued in-mid-Atlantic by And so the observations on the criticisms made German men-of-war.

The Editor of our contemporary adds the following comment:" At the begin bing of the war we published the German reports for the sake of impartiality. Now SUL-MOW" CAPTURED BY there is the additional reason of the un- JAPANESE DESTROYER.

donscious amusement they afford."]

The destroyer Hatsuharu captured the Hamburg-America 8.5. Sui-Mow in the Ki Channel and took her into Kobe on the morning of the 15th inst. The vessel was carrying 1,500 tons of coal.

A SOUTH AFRICAN INCIDENT.

COMMANDER STERNLY REBUKED,

PRRING, September 23rd. The following official iskgram dated have said that the German steamers been handed to Reuter's Agent in The naval authorities are reported to September 23ud, from the Foreign Office arrived at Shanghai from Hongkong, on the 4th ult. with a general cargo and left.

Peking: three days later, ostensibly for Kob, but had not been reported until her capture. It is stated that the H. A. L. 8. Nu four, was sighted at two o'clock in the morning by the destroyer Hatsukiru and immediately ordered to stop. Officersing of the destroyer went on board the steamer and questioned the officers, but as the latter could not speak English, or would

Tut, little *information obtained.

According to the Captain's statement the Sui-fow left Shanghai on the 7th adrift near the Bonin Islands. She had ult, but encounterei a storm and had hen 1.500 tons of coal on beard and no other

Cargo.

WAS

The Captain was requested to produce charts, bills of lading, etc.. but he declared that they had all been lost during the storm. It is supposed that the steamer leit. Shanghai to supply coal to the German cruisers in the Pacific but failed to do so. A Japanese account adds that she made her way into Japanese waters so as to be ready for captură!

The Sui-Mow is a twin-screw steamer 1,357 tons gross register and was built

Japan showed at least great reserve towards the Peking Government, and while the leader of the rebel movement has received all kinds of support, Japan is now suddenly prepared to protect the Peking Government against the rebels. It is alleged that a secret agreement, based upon reciprocity, has been concluded by the two Pourra, each binding itself to support the other in the suppression of "Although the trade between Germany any revolutionary movement. It is stated and lev oversea possessions amounted to that a Japanese connected with the in 1907 Es, $10,000 in 1912 (imports by Germany, Young Japanese Party has been arrested £2,613,000 exports from Germany at a Japanese hotel in Hatamên Street, £2.803,000), this was counter-balanced by the Chinese authorities assisting in the the payment of subsidies amounting to arrest in accordance with this agreement. nearly five and a half milliens to makeN.-C. Daily News,

up the deficits in the colonial revenues.

WORK OF PRESS BUREAU.

ZEPPELIN BOMB THROWING

HOW IT 18 DONE.

LONDON, August 97th. The method uzed by Zeppelin air-ships in dropping bombs has been described as follows by an English refugce, who has just arrived here from Belgium.

The dirigible hovers over its objective as a sufficient altitude to keep it out of range of the enemy's guns. At the same Liane it lowers a steel cage attached to a

Your bitter attack on Great Britain

That was

by the latter respecting the policy of the Cecanic, almost twenty years old, tried to Luion: Government:

do sume of her old-time two-year-old stuff. She ran away from any German ship that s not only entirely baseless but is they have been around to the tune of more unjustifiable coming as it does in something like 21 knots an hour. Thus the midst of a great war from the Com

we raced for over two, daps and two mandant General of one of the British nights. We were all thirsting for new, since the South African War the British on the ship, exercised a strict corship Dominions. You forget to mention that bit the Captain, evidently in order to spare the feelings of the foreign okument people gave South Africa her entire free over the Marco news despatches. dom under a constitution which makes it possible for us to realize our national deals along our own lines and which for panity a letter for which you would instance, allows you to write with in: without doubt be liable in the German the British Empire nor South Africa was Empire to the extreme penalty. Neither the aggressor in this struggle. So far as we purcelves are concerned our coast is threatened, our mail boats are arrested and our borders are invaded by the eneiny. My conviction is that the people of South Africa will in these dark days, when the Government as well as the people of South Africa are put to the supreme test, have a clearer conception of duty and honour than is to be deduced from your letter and action. Your resignation is accepted-SMUTE."

We had one thrill, however. when so heard that the Prime Minister had asked for a hundred millon sterling, American said to me,. This is some poker and had practically got it amid cheers, Au gaus Germany wanted to go in and says, nothing doing don't let us ha play a dollar ligit, but England" now pikera; make it a ten-dollar limit and come right in. The water's fine." Thursday. after lunch we all of us got a very special and distinctive thrill.. We saw amoke on the horizon, and powerful glasses showed us men-of-war. Were they German or British! We could not tell. The Germans gathered together and had practically made up their minds that they were the ships they hoped to set. lines of our own ship. After ten minut.s we waited anxiously, watching the signal

of doubt, up the line went a string of ENGLISH GIRLS IN THE BATTLE of war that had now come reasonably near flags fluttering out greetings to the men-

and those signals were quickly answered by one of the cruisers, which, we then re-

Rear Admiral.. They came nearer and nearer, talked to us for some time wh the bunting and the semaphore, gave us instructions as to our course, and passed on along the trade route of Atlantic."

AREA.

Then

the authorities have been decidedly steel wire rong 2,000 or 3,000 feet long. their holidays at Aywaille, a Belgian cognized, was flying the flag of an English

Four English girls who were spending

village near Vise, when war broke out, returned to England, after a thrilling experience.

WAR ITEMS.

A German Boy Scout arriving from solicited assistance from the Belgian Red Aix-la-Chapella crossed the frontier and Cross on the gronor that he had ben seriously shaken, and suffered internal in juries. His vague, evasive answers to plain questions arousing suspicion, the authorities had him searched, and found

Macstricht on hima

mileage of about 3,000, early half of messages are being censored independent MENDACIOUS GERMAN REPORTS. | could obtain no information at the post complete plans of the fortresses cf

Yours faithfully,

PATRIOTIC,

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In the case of German East Africa and German South-West Africa these subsidies amount to $1,065,000 and £2,363,000 respectively in the latest estimates. But the trade of these constries, is showing In an article dealing with the War signs of expansion, and there can be little Press Bureau, The Newspaper World doubt but that under British rule all says that na to comfort and convenience, would soon pay their way.

The total trade of the German colonies thoughtful, About twenty telephone This cage is divided into compartments amounts to about £22,000,000 per annum, boxes have been installed at the Press and is carries one man, whose duty it is imports execoding exports by appraxi Bureau, cach box being allocated to a Hi throw down the bombs. The cage is mately £3,000,000 German Bouth-West separate paper with a distinct number of sufficiently strong for rifle fire against it Africa is the only territory in which the its own. There is a waiting-room for to be ineffective and because of its smail

We came

down to breakfast one balance of trade is in favour of the colony, duly accredited representatives, and a size and the fact that it is kept constantly morning," said one of them, to be told this buing due to the pastoral and mineral service of attendants for delivering the in motion it is very difficult for heavy that Germany had declared war on wealth of the country. German South-type-written copies of the messages to be guns to hit it.

Belgium, that the German army was West Africa alone contains about 15,000 communicated. Every facility is offeredt Refugees from the scene of the fighting advancing on us, even that they were even Europeans (of a total of 25,000 in the officials in respect 10 mesages, curning prominent part in directing the German rate of siege, and nobody might, enter or for communication with the censorship around Mona report nirmen took a now entering Aywaille, which was in a German colonies), over 18,000 being independently to the papers, Germans, of whoa 3,000 are imperial whether they are accurate and, if so, in Paris. Aeroplanes hovered over the confusion and panic.

as to artillery, says The Times correspondent leave the town. Everywhere there was troops mid, pulico.

whether it is advisable in the public British position and their pilots signalled 'ALL BRITISH, CAPE TO CAIRO.

Communication with the outside interest to publish them. The German colonies have a railwayrection it may be noted that cable sung at the end of a line.

In this con- the German batteries by means of a disc world was cut off. The railway station was closed and strongly guarded, and we which is in South-West Africa. The mostly of the Press Bureau. important railway in the German colonies, One of the first executive acts of the

office. The day was one of the greatest however, is the line, completed in the

Bureau is worthy of mention. On a The NC. Daily News publishes the anxiety for us, and we determined that In practically all the London markets early part of this year, which connects Monday night a message was circulated following cablegram, from London dated next morning we would set out on foot in there is a return to normal conditions. Dar es Salaam, on the Indian Ocean, with requesting that the papers should not September 22nd:-

an attempt to reach Liége. On rising Luxuries at the outset of the war dropped Kigoma, on Lake Tanganyika, 143 miles publish translations from foreign

The Germans are attributing to Chinese on the following morning we could see a in price, while the necessities of life in distant. This line, which parallels the journals respecting the landing of British sources the wildest and most absurd troop of German soldiers entering the some cares went up with a leap. The level British Uganda Railway, will soon form troops in France. It now turns out that fictions. Their special Attaché at Stock-village. We could get no porters, and has now been substantially restored. part of an east and west transcontinental, the Paris Sunday papers ineinding The holm quotes the German Legation at know! g no word of French, we dared not line from Dar es Salaam to Lobito Bay, New York Herald in plain English Feking as having stated that the Japanese face the journey alone. Eventually the There are 300 or 400 German prigoners in Portuguese Angola, traversi g part of published a French War Office com Government has officially informed China cool from our hotel decided to come within Olympia. and this is how London re-

muniqué, the Belgian Congo en route.

to the landing of British that a revolution has broken out in India,us, and, abandoning our luggage, we zel gards the amazing fact: "For all you FALCON Although the British Empire did not troops on the Continent. I have before that Great Britain has asked Japan to alf for Liége. There were no means of can see there might be no state of N enter the present conflict with any idea mea. Brussels paper which copied the send troops there, and that Japan has conveyance and we were determined to no detentions, no concentration camp at of territorial aggrandisement, the German

news next day.

consented in return for a loan of attempt the walk of thirty miles across all. Three or four loafers and a small colonies must be occupied as soon as Apart from details, which, no doubt, $200,000,000 a free hand, in China and the country, not knowing then that Liege was boy loiter outside the turnstiles and per possible, so that their ports will not bo

will adjust themselves in time, the War unrestricted entry of Japanese into Great the centre of Germany's attack.

through the glass doors for the joy of available as bases from which stray satisfactory from the point of view of the

Press Bureau arrangements are eminently Britain's Pacific colonics.

"The direct road was barred by the beholding vast empty spaces within. German cruisers may harass our shipping working journalist.

Even Swedish papers question such military, but we went by side routes and There is not so much as one policeman on Those of us who obvious and impudent mendacity. It They will also be of use at the termination recollect the Boer War and the chaotic shows the worthlessners of all German the same plight as ourselves. Hour after evidence of alarm. Not even anale or joined some men who were apparently in guard. At the back door you find yet less of the war as counters in the peace settle condition of things in Pall Mall, can best news, which even Germans no longer hour we stumbled along. Here the ground surely did e nation at war gather a carn waits there. The gates are closed. Never jucut. But if with the possible excep appreciate the change for the better believe. tions of Kizochau and the Pacific posses in the Whitehall region. There

was a network of wires through which we of its potential enemies with less, alarm." sions, they are eventually restored, the was every politeness in Pall Mall, but

could only creep: there we had to be opportunity must not be allowed to pass the journalists, when supplied with news,

lifted bodily over fallen trees. All the of rounding off British South Africa by hed to scour the neighbourhood for

roads were barricaded, and whenever we retaining the pan-handle of German telephones or hunt for cabs to get to their

rezebed a main road we were stopped by South-West Africa, which forms such an offices. And I fancy that under the the Foreign Office has been handed to the soldiers. unnatural projection into Rhodesia, and present systematic arrangements there Reuter's Agency at Peking. by securing a strip of territory between will not be the leakage' which

LONDON, September 18th. Northern Rhodesia and British East prevailed at the time of the Boer War, The British Admiralty announce that Africa to enable a Cape to Cairo railway when a

<rupner

in touch with the the Germans have already sunk H.M.S. to be built without passing through attendants. was sometimes able to Warrior three times since the beginning foreign territory.

anticipate the journalists in favour of of the war. It is suggested that another information. a certain erening paper.

ressol should be selected for the next lie.

ур

"THE NEXT LIE.”

PERING, September 22nd. The following official telegrun from

We began to suspect our companions, who would give us no information as to where they were taking us. We asked for the British Consul's address in Liège, and they refused to give us any definite

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