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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 1914.

known as Gatun lake and is 104 square miles in area. At its southern end is the Culebra Cut, the channel through the continental divide. This excavation is described as the largest over made. The French canal-builders dug abojat 12,000,000 cubic yards out of this section of the canal and the Americans completed an

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BIRTHS. NEILD. On October 11th, at Shanghai, the wife of F. M. Nxito, M.B., B.B., of BOISSEZON-On October 11th, at Shang- bai, the wife of CHARLES BOISSEZON, of a son.

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DEATHS. Roc-At Shanghai, on October 12th,

PATRICK JOHN (Patsy), infant son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Rocus, age 9 months. SLEMBEN. On October 9th, at San Fran- cisco, WILLIE, third son of Mr. and Mrs. . H. SIEMEN, C. M. Customs: Aged 18 years. GAUSSEN. On October 10th, at Shanghai, PHILIP Lówny GAUSSEN, of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Co. SEIDLER On October 11th, at Shanghai, ERNST SEIDLER, M.E. of Messrs. Melchers & Co., aged 35.

The Ministering Children's League announce their annual sale of work to ba held in the Grounds of Government House on Saturday the 31st inst.

At a meeting of the Sanitary Board. called for to-morrow, a letter will be read from the Government relative to the #ppointment of a Select Committee to consider the whole question of the water. carriage system.

*** No Chits taken" is an announcement more in evidence in these days than formerly. We are asked to mention that the rule is one which has been adopted for the Sale of Work at the French Convent which Lady May is opening at 10.30 a.. today.

The Gazette announces that His Majesty the King has been pleased to. approve the re-appointment of Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., to ba an unofficial Member of the Legislative Council for a term of three years, with effect from

HONGROSO OFFICE: 10A, DRB VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFIon: 131, FLEET STazer, E.C.the 22nd inst.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, OCTOBER 19TH, 1914.

It is very unfortunate that traffic through the Panama Canal should be interrupted by a landslide in the celebrated Culebra Cut so soon after the opening of the waterway to commercial traffic.

What

We are asked to state that owing to the detention of the Miyazaki Maru at Aden, Madame Casulli will not arrivo in Hongkong till the 28th instant.

Her exhibition of Parisian novelties at the Peak Hotel will therefore not take place till the 29th. An announcement to that effect will be found in our advertisement columns,

A most satisfactory company sat down. caused the landslide is not suggested into the special dinner at the Grand Hotel the telegram, but everybody has foreseen on Saturday, the proceeds from which are the possibility of occurrences of this kind to be devoted to the Prince of Wales' ewing to the canal being in a zone liable Fund. The dining hall and lounge had to frequent seismic disturbance. Apart been profusely decorated, the colours of from that it would seen that there are the allied forces being predominant, and ordinary risks of landslides in the Cut during the evening several local vocalists rendered, iteros....... The pretty Tittle which have called for special precautions daughter of the proprietor, attired in a in navigating the channel. Hence, there dainty Japanese costume, had her own is a regulation limiting vessels to a speed special appeal on behalf of the less of six. knots per hour in the Culebra suddenly robbed of their bread-winning

fortunate children

been who have

Cut, while, when approaching turns, parent. She so successfully prevailed vessels are required to maintain the upon the guests to purchase picture post- slowest speed that will enable them to cards of the Prince of Wales that 830 was keep their headway. In some other parts realised this by a little girl of very of the Canal vessels are allowed to travel few summers.

up to a speed of fifteen knots, The Canal

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Any European desiring to leave the consists of three essential parts: a lake Colony should apply in writing for per formed by damming the Chugres River, mission to do, so to the Provost Marshal, and two channels leading from the Head Quarters Offices, at least 43 hours Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to this lake,efore the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height,

The surface of the lake ia normally at 85 complexion and occupation of the appli feet above sea-level, while the channels cant, and stating the name of the steamer. connecting it with the sea are at sea or other vessel or the hour of the train level. Ships are lifted from the sea-level by which the applicant wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for channels to the lake, or lowered from the their passes to the Provost Marshal at lake to sea-level in locks. The lake is Head Quarters Office between the hours of

10a.m. and. 4. p.m.

THE WAR.

THE

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SUBMARINE DANGER.

H.M.S."HAWKE" SUNK.

LONDON, October 16th. 12.16 p.m.

H.M.B. Hawke was sunk by a submarine in the North Sea. stated that about 50 of the crew have been saved, cut of 400.

12.35 p.m.

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THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE.

ALLIES CONTINUE TO PROGRESS.

LONDON, October 16th. 4 p.m.

To-day's Paria communiqué says:-Yesterday's progress is confirmed. The action of the Allies now extends from Ypres to the sea.

It is

atates:-

The Admiralty announces that the cruiser Theseus was attacked by a submarine in the North Sea yesterday, but was missed. The Hawke was attacked at the sains time and was aunk.

A trawler landed at Aberdeen three of H.N.S. Hawke's Petty

Officers and 49 men.

6.30 p.m.

H.M.S. Hawke was torpedoed yesterday and sank in five minutes Survivore escaped in an overcrowded boat. It was impossible to save those floating in cork-jackets and on rafts. The submarine's periscope disappeared

immediately after the explosion,

9.55 p.m.

An officer and 20 more men of the Hawke's crew have been · savod

from a raft.

[H.M.S. Hawke, one of the oldest cruisers in the Navy, was launched in 1891. Her displacement was 7,360 and her speed 20 knots. Sho carried two 0.2 inch and 10 6-inch guns. Her complement is given as 644. The Thesus is of the same class and displacement as the Hawke.]

October 17th. 1.36 p.m.

The Admiralty confirms the statement that Lieut. Commander Rosòman, Gunners Dennis and Evitt, and Boatswain Austin, were saved from the Hawke, but it fears that the remainder of the officers are lost.

[Licut. Commander Rosoman a few years ago was attached to the Tour in Hongkong and therefore is known to many in the Colony.]

BRITISH NAVAL VICTORY.

FOUR GERMAN DESTROYERS SUNK OFF DUTCH

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LONDON. October 17th.

7.30 p.m.

The Admiralty announces that cruiser, accompanied by destroyers, engaged four German destroyers off the Dutch coast in the afternoon. All the enemy's destroyers were-suuk

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The British loss in the action was onc offer and four

men. wounded,

The damage sustained by the British destroyers was slight Thirty-one German survivors we made prisoners.

RUSSIA LAYS MINES IN THE BALTIC SEA.

PRECAUTION AGAINST. SUBMARINE MENACE.

PETROGRAD, October 17th.

1.35 p.m.

It is officially announced that owing to the presence of German submarines at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland and the danger from torpedoes on the Russian coast, the Russian Government has been compelled to mine the sea from the Gulf of Riga to the Aland Islands.

DUTCH LINER STRIKES A MINE. *.

LONDON, October 18th.

The Dutch liner Noordam (gross tonnage 12,531), bound from New York for Rotterdam, has sent out a wireless message that she has. strack a mine in the North Sea, but is proceeding under her own steam Seven persons on board are injured.

GERMAN CRUISER WITH DAMAGED ENGINES.

ARRIVES AT HONOLULU FOR REPAIRS.

LONDON, October 17th..

2.50 p.m. The German cruiser Geier has arrived at Honolulu for repairs to her engines, which will occupy several weeks.

The American Government is watching to prevent a violation of neutrality.

A TURKISH FLEET MOVEMENT.

LONDON, October 17th.

6.25 p.m.

A message from Constantinople states that the Turkish feet has assembled at the entrance to the Bosphorous. Several warships have proceeded to the Black Sea. The gathering is apparently due to the cruise of the Russian Black Sea fleet.

7.15 p.m.

The Turkish Fleet has returned to the Sea of Marmora

TURKEY AND EGYPT.

LONDON, October 18th. 2.00 p.m.

A message from Constantinople says that the Porte states officially

that Tarkey entertains no aggressive intentions against Egypt, which, the statement points out, is a Turkish province,

LONDON, October 17th.

1.15, 8.m

An official Paris communiqué issued at 11 o'clock in the evening

The battle on the Left Wing is continued with vigour, and we are holding the ground ecrywhere. We bave also gained ground at certain

points.

We have opied notably Laventil, east of Estairs in the direction of Lille. Nother noteworthy has taken place elsewhere, except an unsuccessful Gḍfman attempt to attack Malincourt, north-west of Verdun.

LONDON, October 17th,

4.05. p.m.

Another communiqué says that the German troops in western Belgium have not passed the line formed by Ostend, Thourout, Roulera

and Menin.

The greater part of the front is comparatively quiet.-

There is no change on the Left Wing in the region of Xpres. The Allied Troops on the right bank of the River Lys have occupied. Fleurbaix and also the immediate approaches to Armentieres.

We have gained some ground in the Arras and St. Mibiel districts

LONDON, October 18th."

1.15 am.

A official statement given out in Paris at midnight stated that along the front there had been simple cannonading. The progress on the Allies' Left continues and the Allies have occupied Fromelles, south-west of Lille. French marines along the Ypres Canal to the sea repulsed a German attack.

THE NAVAL BRIGADE CASUALTIES AT ANTWERP

LONDON, October 17th-

4.15 p.

The Admiralty announces the following casualties in the Royal Naval Division at Antwerp-

Battalion Commander Maxwell, late Grenadier Guards, and Sub.

- Lieut. Ridge, Volunteer Reserve, killed.

Thirty-six officers are interned in Holland, including Commodore Wilfred Henderson, Commanding First Brigade.

All are in the Volunteer Reserve, with the exception of two Officers

of the ludian Army, a Commander in the Navy, five Lieutenants in tho Navy, a Captain of R.M.L.I., Major Hon. W. Trefusis and Major Bryce, Coldstreams, and Major Fletcher, Scots Guards.

GERMANS OCCUPY OSTEND.

LONDON, October 17th

4.20.p.m.

An Amsterdam essage states it is officially announced in Berlin that the Germans occupied Ostend on Thursday.

GERALANS REPORTED TO HAVE MINED. THE SCHELDT, LONDON, October 18th..

It is reported that the Germans have mined the Scheldt below

Antwerp.

Warsaw.

Prussia.

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

RUSSIANS REPEL GERMAN ATTACKS.

LONDON, October 16th 4 p.m.

The Russians have repelled the German attacks on Ivangorod and

LONDON, October 17th.

4.10 p.m. A Paris communiqué states that there is no marked change in East

The Austro-German armies in the middle of the Vistula have boent compelled to act on the defensive along the whole front.

There is continual fighting south of Przemysl, and the Russians have taken 500 prisoners.

4.30 p.m.

A Petrograd official despatch states there have been slight engage ments on the East Prussian Front. The Austrians and Germans took the offensive on Thursday, on the middle of the Vistula and in Galicia,

AUSTRIANS DEFEATED IN DESPERATE BATTLE IN BOSNIA.

LONDON, October 17th.

4.50 p.m.

A Nish official despatch states that the Servians and Montenegrins,

on Wednesday completely defeated the Austrians in a desperate battle at Glassinatz, a plateau which dominates the fortifications of Berajevo.

BOMBARDMENT OF CATTARO.

LONDON, October 17th

4.30 p.m.

A Rome despatch says the Allied Fleets' guns at Mount Lovelen

violently resumed the bombardment of Cattaro,