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WAR NEWS.

TWO MORE PRIZES.

The Tannenfels and the Rio Pasig were brought into the Harbour yesterday and anchored alongside the other prizes of war in Kowloon Bay. The Tannenfele is steamer of 5,34 tons built at Newcastle In 1918 for the Deutsche Dampfahrts Ges.

$1 ap

TSINGTAL NEWS.

THE CONTROL OF THE RAILWAY. The Peking correspondent of the J.-C.

Daily News, writing on October 1st, said thes he understood conversations were proceding between the Chinese and view to Japanese authorities with a arriving at an amicable arrangement for working the railway from Tsinanfu to Tsingtao.

Japan does not desire to occupy the railway, but the military authorities merely wish to control it pending a final seillement of the question of the disposal of the railway.

f the opinion of the Japanese the liat cannot. in the circumstances, remain ander Corinan control and China has no right or power to take charge of it, there- free it is necessary for Japan to operate the railway, at all events temporarily.

the occupation of priests against Weihsien or the movement of the Japanese froops westwerd of that point.

UNT

THE HONGLONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9m, 1914.

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THE CHARGE OF THE 9th LANCERS.

"BRAVELY THEY RODE; AND

WELL

ダ

LATE TELEGRAMS.

UNEMPLOYED IN HOLLAND. --

desperate.

cases is

Now, they have taken Fangtsze, and occupied Changtien, the former is several tens of ti- from Weihsien, but the latter is over 100 li away. Can it be contended

THE HAGUE, August 29th. again that these places are situated also

Queen, Wilnelmina felt for Rotterdam in the fighting zone? The object of the

Mr. J. M. N. Jefferies, who has been at room today to consult with the burgo Japanese in coming to Changtien must be the mines existing along the section in contact with the British soldiers, master of that city as to measures to be between Changlion and Poshan; so they vivid description in the Daily Mail of taken for the relief of the unemployed will certainly advance to Poshan in due memorable feat by the 9th Lancers, who whose condition in many

As the Japanese Minister is he says, seem to have repeated under time. whole railway from Kinochon to Taisan, charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava reported to have demanded the use of the almost identical conditions the fanions During the action in question, which their advance will not stop until they have reached Tsinan. We have read that took place close to the Belgina frolics,

1.as notified Government

the terrible havor had been cased in cur Diplomatie Corps to the effect that as the ranks by great shells from a battery

and the eleven guns poetes inside a wood. Kiaochou Tsinan Railway

By the disposal of arge quantities of mining works adjacent to that line were owned and operated jointly by Ching forage the guns had been given the and Cermany, Chinn would send troops appearance of small stacks or some caused terrible loss among our ner, who to that region for their protection. Tothing of the kind, and their Brat fire this notien, no protest has been raised by either of the Ministers of Japan, Great approached them unsuspectingly. Britain France or Ressin. Nevertheless, the Japanese Army. has taken such vigorous but unwarranted initial actions as above stated, not only in violation of Japan's own avowal respecting the object with which she is pursuing the war, but 130 disregarding the terms of the under She cannot possibly Great Britain). standing agreed upon (2 with China or instify such self-imposed actions even before her allies.

As stated in one of the Peking the English newspaper telegrams,

STRAIGHT. AT THE GUNS..

The small savings of the people are near the vanishing point, and the continuation of the war for a long time will see Hol land chiefly depending upon the inter nations, a tremendous problem. FRENCH ACTORS IN DISTRESS, change of commodities with neighbouring

CIVILIAN GERMANY. "LIVING ON CREDIT."

GROWING OSTENTATION.

would bring misery enough in its train, though it might relieve the necessitous But a defeat wants of the officer easte. to Germen arms! One of the most lurid chapters in the history of the Kings has yet to be writton.

THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

The recent manifestoes of the German Emperor begin to betray an acute anxiety, This growing nervousness is no doubt largely accentuated not only by the naval conrs ORDERS BY LIEUT.-COL. A, CHAPMAN, V.D.

and military predicament of the Empire

that the population in the various German Much good work has been done by pri- but by its economic situation, says The

been insufficient. bas rate charity, but the money thus raised Globe. One must not lose sight of the fact States amounts to nearly eighty millions. Five of these, let us say, are engaged in one respect or another in warlike operations, and there are in consequence who have to follow their daily avocations as far as possible. What is their position 5 at the present time? How are they likely roughly seventy-five millions of people

to feel the silent strangulation which results when all their commerce by land In the and sea is suddenly cut off } opinion of those who know modera

pinch is being felt already. Germans and have studied its conditions the plight of its inhabitants will in a short time become most grievous. Thic

PARIS, August 210h. A buffet has been opened by the Society It seemed impossible to silence their fire when the 9th Lancers mads their heroic of Actors and Actresses for needy stage attempt. The regiment rode straight at people, of whom there are thousands in netress or theatre employee at the buffet. the guns, debouching into the open and Paris. Not a theatre is open here. Tw charging under a hail of melinite orals a day will be given to any actor, | ddite from other German guns.

MINES IN THE. OPEN SEA. I have not been able to get an accurate estimate of the distance they rede, but Nothing could men aud horses were they reached their goal. stop them;

They reached the guns- infuriated. heavy guas, almost approximating to uf and put the gun out of action.

Thin Bike their prototypes Balaclava, they rode back, and on their return they fell in greater numbers still. The whole of the forces here are speaking of this charge.

Germany has steadily become more and more prosperons during the last five and thirty years. Her national and individual wealth has increased amazingly owing to the natural industry of her people. It has increased too fast, and therein lies For Germany has developed at a pace

is stopped the whole edifice seems only too beyond her true resources, and as money easily got is easily spent, once her credit likely to collapse.

No reply has yet been made to China's - Peking Gazette) severely criticizes siege guns-and-ent dovi, all the gunners or after August 20th, an Iceland trawler & portentous source of woe to the nation. I

GERMANS BLOW UP A RAILWAY BRIDGE.

German railway men blew up a bridge dese using the line 16 prevent the.

dhreaten to blow up westwards and t others if the Japa e endeavour to take

confrat

GPNB LANDED FROM GERMAN WARSHIPS. The gains on board two German warships confined in Laoshan Bay have been trans- ferred to the rear defences and the vessels Jave been prepared to be blown up- Morbi

CHINESE SÓLBIDES ALLEGED TO DE ASSISTING GERMASS.

Japan, and unflinchingly cries out for justice and fairplay its sound advice should open the eyes of all Japanese who read it." If the ignorant people, as pointed out in the joint petition of the Shantung gentry and merchants, should, in xasperation, turn and do something desperate, of course we would suffer, but could the Japanese be quite immane From harin then?

LOSS OF BRITISH OFFICERS..

A CASUJETY LIST.

On September 4th, the War Ofice issued a list of British officers killed, wounded and missing, no mention, being made of the action in which they fought. The list

·Th

The Chinesa Minister in Tokyo denies

wounded, and ninety-one missing. The report that Chinese soldiers in Shan-tains 18G nams fifteen dead, sixty lung are assisting the German army.

The leading Chinese marchants in Chimo have organized an association in order to ttend to the dend and aid the wounded of Holh helligerents. -Nichi Nichi

CHINESE AND GERMAN PROMISES.

As the Tsingtao Goverment has cancelled its notice that all damages suffered by the residents in consequence of the war will be repaid by the defeated belligerents, the Chinese have began to doulst the sincerity of the German and anti-German administration, tendency is showing itself among the antives,chi

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PREPARING TO DESTROY IMPORTANT BUILDINGS.

It is reported by a Chinese in Tsingtao. that the Germans there are preparing to In up all important buildings in case Tsingtao falls into the hands of the Japanese

Cotton, 15atting and such

Regiments and their losses in officers According to this list are as follows:-

Lancashire Fusiliers, two killed, nine wounded,

four

Regiment, Sontit Lancashire wounded, six missing.

Manchester Regiment, one killed, one wounded, twelve missing.

Royal Lancaster Regiment, three killed, seven wounded.

one

one

East Lancashire Regiment,

killed, une wounded.

Suffolk Regiment, wounded, twenty-wo missing.

Worcester Regiment, one killed, four wounded, two thissing.

Irish Cards, one killed, one wounded. Royal Army Medical Corps nine missing

one

King's Royal Rifles, une missing. Wiltshire Regiment, one killed, four wounded

killed two Royal Engineers, things are firing soaked into coal-oil-in-wounded, one missing.....

15th Hussars, two killed, two wounded large quantitie→→→Audi... ·

one missing.

011

The

Coldstream Guards, one killed. Royal Field Artillery, one killed, ons wounded.

East Surrey Regiment. three wounded, ix missing.

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, three wounded, thres missing.

Middieses Regiment, two wounded Leinster Regiment, one wounded. Royal Inniskilling. Fusiliers, wounded.

fire

Royal Irish Rifles, two wounded. Royal Horse Artillery, one wound.d. Fifth Lancers, one wounded. Grenadier Guards, one wounded. Royal Scots Greys, one wounded. Royal Munster Fusiliers, one wounded,

missing.

Royal Welsh Fusiliers, one wounded. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, nine missing..

HEROIC CAPTAIN.

Mr. deed, says Another

gallant Jefferies, was that of Captain F. O. He Grenfell of the same 9th Lancers. was hit in both legs, and had two fingers shut off at the same time.

LONDON, August Roth: The Official Press Bureau has issued "The Government has learned that on the following statement :— is reported to have struck a mine 25 miles off the mouth of the Tyne and sunk, and at least one foreign newspaper has stated The mines of the Tyne were paid out that the mine was English. thirty miles to seaward not as part of a definite military operaton or by German- ships of war, but by German trawlers, of which a considerable number appeared to have been engaged in this work. One sich trawler actually seen doing this work was A-2 of Eniden.".

LONDON, August-29th.

Almost as he received these wounds a couple of guns posted near were deprived of their servers, all of whom save one

A despatch received her from Amster toan, were struck by bursting shrapnel. The horses for the guns had been placed dam says that The Telegraf, a heal We'll get the guns back, cried rowspaper, declares hat the German under cover.

men and in spite of his Japanese balances in German banks. number of Captain Grenfell, and, at the head of axchequer has taken steps to size all wounds, he did manage to harness the guns up and get them away. He was then faken to hospital.

THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. CARRIES CAPTAIN RENFELL INTO SAFETY.

*BOY SOLDIER KILLED...

on the "UNERRING BRITISH RIFLE FIRE."

He was in ampany of Captain Grenfell and Lieutenant Percy Wyndham, son of tis Countess Grosvens in a hot engage

was ment, when Captain Grenfell wounded.

The Duke of Westminster, at great personal risk, and in the face of a heavy harried the captain into safety,

THE CHARGE.

Molizia, lyduite. darkened heaven, But straight at the guns the Lancers rode By the light of the rage-that-within tlacoi

glowed.

Straight at the guns, the deadly Eleren, That had rake and shelled them seren

times seven.

With never a halt or a needless word, At the common in ambush our Eorsemen

spurred: Knights of liberty, glory's sons, And shew the gunners beside their guns,

the roaring And captard the cannon,

Eleven.

heaven.

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MIDDLEKEAKE, August 1st,"

A member of the Red Cross who has arrived from Mons says that a German officer told him that in the fighting at Cambrai on Wednesday the Germans lost 25,000 killed.

The canal between Mons and Condé is filled with bodies of the dead.

The Germans pay high tributes to the unerring rifle fire of the British troops. UNEMPLOYED IN GERMANY.

LONDON. Sontember 1st

at least to 100,000.

Among the trades chiefly affected are That denfered the earth and darkened the metal workers, with 11,000; the trans port workers. 5,076; compositors; 4,000; builders, 2,200, and woodworkers, 14,000 members unemployed.

Then their dauntless remnant rame Out of the hurricane, nut of the flame, Covered with smoke and dust and fame.

RECKLESS SPENDING, "

THE LUXURY OP BERLIN:

PARADES.

--Parades for to-day (Friday), 9th inst..

6 am. Recruits Artillery Battery, Aiming Drill and Musketry Instruction, Murphy,

under Sergt.-Major D.C.L.I.

Remainder Group 1 and Civil Service Company under Company. Officers. p.m.--Group 2 and 3 Route March.

DETAIL. -

2-0 duty: Group 1 and Civil Service

Company.

Officers on duty: Capt. Soott, Capti Churchill and Lieut. Kennett. Orderly Officer: Lieut. Kennett. To furnish Guard to-night: Civil Service

Campany.

Orderly Sergeant to-night: Sergt.

Barlow.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVES.

PARADES

Sos, 3, 2 and 3 Companies will parade on- Sunday, 11th October, at 8.15 am. Dress, drill arder, shirt-sleeves, and water-bottles.

ASSEMBLY.

Revised telephone lists must be hauded in

by Section Communders today.

C. V. S. SKRIMshtré, Capt., Staff Officer HK.V.C...

THE YARN MARKET. 3lessrs. Polishwalla & Kotewal report

being booked at declining rates. We have has resolved itself into lots ranging from to report a fall of fully $5 per bale siner bales to 25 bales, each saccessive lot our last issue and total sales of hardly 1,000 bales.

A.

The popular idea of the Germans is that they are economical and sparing. The meanness of the Teuton is proverbial. in small things this is true to-day. Where the American or Englishman will give a waiter sixpence the German will draw a

On the other hand the German as follows:-Since despatching, our last. JAPANESE MONEY SEIZED. BY penny with great reluctance from his

GERMANY

purse,

"The stock circular per str. Salsette on 25th Septem character loves ostentation. theories of bis simplicity and abstinenceber our market has become completely are a travesty of the true facts. Having demoralized, and it is impossible for us issuing our usual reports All we can say made a great deal of money your modern to give any individual quotations of the German spends it recklessly, and there different mills, and weare, therefore, not families, who now live habitually beyond is that both importers and dealers aro their mean9.

Scarcely an officer in the showing intense nervousness, the former Army but is over head and heels in debt. ready to pounce at any chance sale, how- are tens of thousands, individuals and

This growing extravagance is reflected ever smiall the quantity, while the latter MONTREAL, August 29th.

Consequently, the business Sixteen-year-old Gordon Bettes, private among all sorts und conditions, from the are chary of buying a single bale mora

tains no fewer than fifty-four Royal day to day. in the Fifth Royal Highlanders, was shot Emperor downwards. The Kaiser main- than what they absolutely require from in the eye and killed to-day by an unseen assailant while on sentry duty at the residences, including shooting-boxes. He The Chester correspondent of the canal at Soulanges. Soldiers at Soulanges has an elaborate Imperial train of ten or enormous fleet of motor-cars, an neoan- guarding the canal have been fired on re-fifteen 'sumptuous saloon carriages, an Control Yews telegraphs-

going yacht, a racing schooner, and his Authoritative news has reached Chesterpeatedly during the last few daya.

passion for extravagance and pomp is of an act of great bravery performed by

notoriously so great that he cannot live

At the Summary Court yesterday, be- Westminster

within the bounds of his enormous civil

Hazeland, an Indian. but befield. the Duke of

list of a tailliou sterling a year. Criticism Foro Mr. F. A. has been publicly directed against the chauffeur named Mohammed Boston sued growing luxury and extravagance in the Dragon Cycle Cu...to recover $160, august quarters. A few years ago when being as to a wages due for the month of the Reichstag was discussing a new tax September; 255 for wages in lieu of mutice, with the object of raising a farther and $50 being deposit alleged to have for military purposes, the then Chan-After hearing the defendants story, that twenty-se millions sterling per annum hre left with the defendant fer enstody. and paid $75, his Lordship said be cellor, Prince Bülow, said everybody plaintiff was dismissed for disobedienes

A leading in Germany must retrench."

a verdict in favour of the defendant com Socialist, hinting at the Kaiser's love of believed that such was the ease, and gave

query,

Mr. Heywood, who represented display, interpord with the

pany. Bülow retorted without plaintiff, remarked that he could not

That

accept the judgment and wanted to me A despatch to the Daily News says that Everybody ?!! the General Feleration of German Trade hesitation, "I except nobody!"

the Kaiser subsequently adopted the peal. His application for 4 stay of four- Unions has taken a census of the un-. employed among the Berlin organizations simple life has ever been evident to the teen days was therefore granted

The Hongkong Club has now regained affiliated with it and found that out of a eyes,

As the result of The capital has vividly reflected the its marble clock.

Detective-Lance-Sergeant total of some 300,000 organized workern 57,188 are workless. As the total number of workers employed in Berlin is about growing extravagance and ostentation of enquiries

The accountant 600,000 the Formers concludes the num the nation. Gorgeous palaces and built Clarkes recovered the clock, which is ber of unemployed in Perlin must amountings have sprang up in every direction. valued at $60, at a pawnshop at No. 131,

Charlottenburg, Berlin's most wealthy Queen's Road Central.

with magnificent yesterday that a man named Fong Itt suburb, contains a coristant succession of at the pawnshop told the Magistrate pretentious streets borrowed money by speculative builders. inst., the date on which it was missed. residences and elegant flats, all built on Lam pawned the clock for $16 on the 4th. The streets of the capital are crowded with His Worship warned the accountant to be high powered and expensive motors. more careful in future. He should have Luxury-shops confront the visitor on every known better than to take a clock of that hand. And what is true of Berlin applies description from a coolie, and ought to in greater or less degree in the other great have made enquiries. Lance Sergeant A strongly-built Chinese, wearing the cities, such as Hamburg, Frankfort, Clarke said the accountant had been distinctive. garments of the Northerner, Munich. Dresden, etc. Not so long ago cautioned before for his indiscretion. the old. King of Saxony smoked penny Mr. J. Chaupion, steward at the Club, the one of along walking

home-made cigars. In Berlin to-day no identified the clock by its general appear besiest streets in the Central district high class establishment would think of ance, and his Worship ordered its rezura on Wednesday when a pickpocket sidled offering a box containing cheaper ones to the Club without payment. up and quietly extracted a pocket-book than a shilling apiece. Luxury, in fact, there is this difference between the other containing money and uotes from his shows its face in every direction. WILLIAM WATSON.

pocket.

An alert District Watchman, world capitals and Berlin. They have whose attention had been attracted by the evolved in the course of time, and are reflection of the wealth of communities ODDS OF FIVE TO ONE.

curious movements of the thief, saw him legitimate to this extent that they are the take the pocket-book, and seized the thief built up on a solid basis. It is not the "TIRUUGH THE UHLANS LIKE BROWŃ PAPER."

beeu spoon-fed, and she has been financed with foreign capital. Once that machinery MACGREGOR&C.. "We have been fighting without ceasing even before the victim was aware of the case in Germany. Her industries have for ten days. We have had no rest, andtheft

The pickpocket appeared before the is put out of gear, and the State can no PARIS, August 29th.

gain foreign The value of aeroplanes in scouting we have been fighting with odds of five to

one against us. We have been through the Magistrate yesterday, and admitted the longer grant subsidies or bonuses to enable work is a subject of discassion.among the

Uhlans like brown paper. But we must theft and also that he had been brought her However, a slight modification in their technical observers.

Our military aviators are rendering have men.'

The above extract from a letter by Sirup before on a similar charge. He was markets, she must experience a big tot altitude has set in and strenger language

EFFECTS OF MILITARISM. has been used since the Japanese troops invaluable service," says the Temp, quot-

the 5th British Cavalry Brigade, was real plainant turned out to be a policeman in and quarrelsome capitalists will withdraw Janded on the coast of Shantung, Their ing an authority on aviation whose name Philip Chetwode, D.S.O., in command of sent to gaol, for three monthe. The comback, and if her Government is aggressive Germany has expanded marvellously disapproval of their neighbours subse is omitted for military reasons.

Sir Philip from Canton..

during the last two generations, but acute quent behaviour, as alleged, is quite paper continues: Our aerini forces are by his father-in-law, Colonel the Hon. the Canton Force, and the defendant their support.

observers have noted that she has not pronounced, still, they give went to their infinitely superior to those of Germany, Stapleton Cotton, at a recruiting meeting admitted that he had only just come down

harboured her resources along economic feelings quite dispassionately, counselling and our best civil airmen are in the ser at Blabber's (Carnarvon).

lines. HONGKONG WATER SUPPLY.

Militarism has swallowed up Japan to observe moderation and trusting vie, Brindejone des Moulinais, Roland Cheterode's brigade brilliantly routed the to the sense of policy, if not of justice. Garros, Eugene Gilbert and Jules Ved-Prussian Horse on August 8th in the a nation have rines are all at the front. Vedrines has Cambrai-Landresies-Le Cateau fighting, which the Japanese as

Sir John French's dispatches.

The water return of level and storage amounts which were far beyond her shown they possess, to right the bad just completed a raid with an apparatus and was the first man to be mentioned in

of water in the reservoirs on the 1st requirements for defensive purposes, and

745.05 her people have indulged in all the FALCON LAGER impression her troops have created in one of extraordinary power.

October shows that there were of the most ancicut provinces of Ching.

ménage" of The following is the summary, of a

Some striking stories told by wounded million gallons, just a trifle in excess of extravagances of the nouveau riche." Chiness message regarding Tsingiau:-

An official telegram from Japan reports the occupation of Chinhnaling by

soldiers returning from France are given the storage at the end of September last This canker has eaten into the heart of ing:-"The lue-grey uniforms of the population of 238,619 was 167.75 million the average Hausfrau has gone up in gallons compared with a consumption of recent years by leaps and bounds, The the Japanese troops. The German news

by the Standard, among them the fallow-year. The consumption by an estimated the nation. The modest

paper also admits that the Waldersechähe

"The most difficult thing is to determine Germans are hard to see at a distanra,

are more population of 255,019 in September, 1813. enorma extension of the credit system.. line has been abandoned and the fortresses are entirely invested. Both reports thus the commands by discriminating among said a Yorkshire Light Infantryman, "and 171.10 million gallons by an estimated mania for ostentation has resulted in an ngre. To fight several thousand men cut the uniforms. One danger to the French for conecaling movements

In place of the old off from relief and communication with airmen is from our own solders, who have effective than our khaki hut it is surpris Tbs average consumption per head per Borrowing, speculation, and gambling

show of wealth. En army of 30,000 40,000 strong, the not karned to distinguish our aeroplanes ing, how quickly you learn to pick out day was 21.8. There was a co stant sup-have kept pace with the demands for But the from those of the enemy. I would suggest such things as buttons, badges, armlets, ply in all districts during the month of luxury. Family outvies family in the issue cannot be doubted.

The storage in the Kowloon Gravitation Spartan simplicity, life in Germany Japanese are apparently not concentrat that we do not fire upon aircaft at all and even peaks of caps or spikes of September in both 1913 and the present struggle to obtain social precedence by a moving men you can not see otherwise. ing their attention upon Tsingtao, but until adequately, sure that we know their helmets in the sun and tell by them the

716 ONLY GENUINE CHEAP upon the whole line of the Kiaochou identity. Tainan Railway. The other day when the The Journal du Loire, at Angiers, pub-Aim at a button a mile off and you hit Reservoir was 352,50 million gallons, coun-to-day has become luxurions, and almos

the Weibsien Ished a letter from one in the French a German in the stomach, is what we. occupied Japancee

that upon a dinser-party. Now that the station, our commander protested; but frontier forces, in which the writer com- say, and it's near enough to the truthpared with 374.00 in September 1913. The invariably vulgar. Whilst von Moltke to they replied:We are ordered to take plaints of the loneliness of the life there. The Germans are such sticklers for rules consumption was 34.34 million gallons by the end of his days kept his house going A successful campaign be the result? aver control of the railway of Shantung; It would seem that the only sport of the that I have seen their artillery keep firing an estimated population of 95,150, the for £15 a month, hundreds of persons

great machine has broken down what willLACER FEER on the Market. neutrality garrison is to watch for German aero away at a position of ours after it had average consumption per head per day every night in Berlin spend more than we do not know what

The Japanese Minister still lanes and fire upon them. Three Ger- been occupied by their own inee, and at being 10.00 galions. reans."?

Germans hit by their own rifle fire."! gave the lame explanation that Weibsien an acroplanes have been brought down the hospitals they find quite a number of station was win the fighting area, then. while the aviators were throwing bombs.

JAPANESE HEROISM. Shizuo Ishimaru, 3rd Class Warrant Officer and Eibu Kiyoiye, and Teizen Shibagaki, both first class sailors board the destroyer Kagero, have distin

the themselves by braving guished

When from the enemy's forts. fire

reached 21 certain the -destroyer point near Kianchou Bay it found Several mechanical mines afloat. vessel. tried to blow up the inines, but a it was in danger of making itself a target from the forts, it was going to lower a boat. Just then, these three sallors leaped into the sea, and by netting the mines together and attaching mechani-nineteen cal devices, succeeded in blowing them up, while an incessant are from the forts threatened them, Their courageous action was recognized by the commanding officer, and they were immediately raised in rank. CHINESE PRESS AND THE WAR.

A despatch from Berlin says the defence! of Longwy, department of Meurthe-et- THE QUESTION OF THINGTAV

Moselle, France, was the most heroić since and the beginning of the war. The town sur- the progress la chronicling aneidents of the present war, says the rendered only after an extraordinary - Daily Nees, the majority of the display of valour - There were thirty-six Chinese Press are adopting the sale and siege guns, and all except one correct attitude of a neutral people, dismantled. The Germans co admired Prince Frederick William begged the giving publication to reports from both the brilliant resistance that Crown sides and showing no partiality to either party. They refrain from making French commander at the moment of sur free remarks or unjust comments upon render to keep his sword. all events of the war for obvious reasons, although most of them have deduced their wn conclusions from the telegraphic news of the war, and have them published in uncles form, together with a lucid summary of war news either daily or every alternate day.

BRILLIANT DEFENCE OF LONGWY

ROME, August 30th.

guna

Shout, you shires, with a choras sent From far Northumberland down past Devon, Ringing from Caithness right to Kent, Shout for your heroos, Britain's cons Who quended in silence the thundering That darkened like doom the golden heaven, The courage that lifted their hearts shal

forth were From east and west from south and north,

All-who in England's name go Under the great Godspeed of Heaven.

--The Times.

INVALUABLE FRENCH AERIAL. "WORK.

The

Aeroplanes are safe from bullets at 1,000 yards high, and at 2,000 yards an aviator still can observe accurately with the naked eye. As cur fyers can guide a machine with one hand and use glasses with the other, the masses of the enemy cannot escape observation.

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SOLDIERS STORIES.

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year.

The Gover men Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality,

manufacturers to

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