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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 39TE, 1914.

MCCULLAGH who was one of the corps of Press Correspondents sent out from England to report the Russo-Japan War, and who is now at the Russian capitul says in a recent news letter that in times of excitement "everybody gets drunk."

A. S. WATSON Such was the case, he says, during the

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KYROCKIN than all the cannon and 'rifle of the Japanese. And one of the Russian naval officers who wrote a book on the naval aspects of that wer despairingly remarked, "How dreadfully the men drink sumetimes!" If this was the ease in 1905-1908, the prohibition of the sale of vodka on the eve of Ute $2.65 present war shows that the lesson of: the last war has not been forgotten. The originally CZAR's probibition 200, intended to cover only the mobilisation, period when noisy demonstrations were 3.00 almost certain to take place and when soldiers parting from their families were 1.60 most likely to indulge to excess in the national beverage. The beneficial results 34 of this prohibition, however, were

marked that the temperance reformers i had no difficulty in persunding the CZAR 3.45 to extend the term of the prohibition The over the whole period of the war.

"in the Czan's sympathetic interest. temperance movement has been expressed with great earnestness on many occasions, and now that the benefits of the prohibi- tion order have been so clearly seen it is improbable that it will be cancelled when the war comes to an end. So tremendous is the improvement, we wre told, that

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If this war makes Russia 8.63 sober," says Mr. McCELLAGH, it will have done good, on the whole, no matter 0.95 what it costs in money and in lives."

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temptations of wine, and the cables have told us this week of the efforts made by Lord KITCHENER's sister to get soldiers to sign the pledge for the period_of the War The armies in the western theatre of war have been fighting in a country where the abundance of wine is a special temptation. The greater, therefore, is the virtue of abstinence. Our troops in the field have taken heed of Lord the KITCHENER'B advice to them on subject. We do not know whether any similar advice was impressed upon the

KAISER's forces, but the reports from the field of war go to show that temperazo is not a marked virtue among them, and. the incredible atrocities with which they are continually being charged are not improbably in many cases but the direct resulta,

We regret to learn that Mr. A. Shelton Hooper underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Peak Hospital yester- day and is seriously ill.

Mr. Henry Keswick, M.P, for the Epsom Division, has joined the Scottish Borderers, with which regiment he served through the South African War.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks a donation of $20 from Brown Jones & Co. to the funds of the Hospitals.

Ir Chine has surprised the world by the success which has attended her efforts to

At a meeting held in the Institution of suppress the opium traffic, what can we

of the nction taken by the Engineers and Shipbuilders on Wednesday Government. of Russia to suppress the evening, the following resolution was sale and consumption of vodka? China's passed That the names of those wish- sacrifice of revenue is insignificant when ing to join the Engineer section as detail- compared with Russia's. The revenue ed in the circular issued by the Staff. of the Chinese Maritime Customs from Officer, H.K.V.C., be sent to Colonel the import of foreign and native opium Chapman, O.C.H.K.V.C.,” A list is now has never reached a million pounds open at the Institution for signatures of sterling per annum-far from it indeed members wishing to volunteer:

but the suppression of the sale of vodka in Russia mests an annual loss to the Government of no less than £93,000,000. For the Russian Government to face this sacrifice at a time when it has embarked on the most costly war in the history of the world is convincing proof that the Government recognises the growing consumption of the national beverage in

A thief or thieves broke into the store of a Chinese merchant at Li Sing Street on Tuesday night, and stole 27 rolls of Japaness cloth. On the following day Inspector P. O'Sullivan received certain information, as the result of which he executed a search warrant at No. 62, Connaught Road West, recovered 25 rolls

of the stolen cloth, and arrested four men Russia to be a grave mennec to the on a charge of receiving stolen property. highest interests of the State, and it is Later the same day the spector secured glowing tribute to the patriotism of a man who is alleged to be the thief. the people, no less than to the sagacity All five men appeared at the Magistracy On the applicatio of Mr.

yourday.

of their rulers that such a transformation ), H. Gardiner (who appeared for Mr. in the social life of the people has been R. C. Faithfull in defence of the four men 60 suddenly accomplished. The Russians charged with receiving) a remand was

"have had the not vomerited reputation

of being a nation of very heavy drinkers. If that can be said of them in times

of peace, how much more would they be likely to live

to

granted.

THE JAPANESE EMPEROR'S · OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY.

Mr. S. Imai, the Consul General

of

up the reputa Japan, has requested us to state that on tion in such a time of excitement

the 31st October, the official birthday of as is

now passing over the entire.

H.M. the Emperor of Japan, no callers world, but for the timely action

will be received by him owing to the of the CZAR's Government 7 Mr. FRANCIS

rational mourning.

AND BELGIUM.

SEVERAL POINTS.

ALLIES CONTINUE TO PROGRESS AT

Losnox, October 25th,

.15.m.

A Paris commiuniqué sags:--

The enemy's attacks in the whole of the region between Nienport and Arras have been much less violent,

We maintained our positions everywhere, and continued to make- progress North and East of Ypres.

We also progressid between Cambrai and Arras

It becomes more and more confirmed that the German losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners have been considerable.

In the Northern region, the enemy on the right bank of the Aisne attempted a very violent night attack in the region of Craonne, but were repulsed.

We continued to advanco in Woevre into the woods between Apremont and St. Mihiel, and also in the wood of Le Peire

LONDON, October 29th.

4.55 a.m.

The official statement issued in Paris at 11 p.m. says: "

Two night attacks by the enemy in the region of Dixmude, have

been repulsed.

erased.

The German effort on the front Nieuport-Dixmude has apparently

Our offensive continues north of Ypres. We have made slight progress between La Basse and Lens.

Elsewhere there is nothing noteworthy to report.

PRINCE MAURICE OF BATTENBERG DIES AT THE FRONT.

LONDON, October 28th.

6.30 p.m.

Their Majesties the King and Quecii heard to day with great regret of the death of Prince Maurice of Battenberg, who was serving at

the-Front with the King's Royal Rifles. --

[Price Maurice was the fourth child of H.N.H. Princess Beatrice and the late Prince Henry of Battenberg, K.G., who died in 1896, the other children being the Queen of Spain, Prince Alexander and Princó Leopold. Prince Maurice was 23 years of age.]

GREAT RUSSIAN VICTORY.

AUSTRO-GERMAN FORCES HEAVILY DEFEATED.

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WITHDRAWAL OF ENEMY. ON MAIN FRONT.

LONDON, October 28th. 11.08 p.m.

A Petrograd communiqué says:-"

In four days' fighting south of Pilitza the Russians inflicted n serious defeat on the Austrian and German forces, finally breaking the resistance of the 20th Army Corps and the Corps of Reserve Guards.

The enemy fell back in disorder towards Edlinsk, Radour, and Ilja. The success of the Russians, which resulted in the withdrawal of the enemy on the main front, has enormous importance.

7.15 p.in.

A Paris communiqué states that the Russians in the North-East

of Rava inflicted severe losses on the enemy.

There has been heavy fighting in the forests between Kozienics and

Radom.

The Russians advancing south of Sambor surrounded the 38th Division of the Honvéd (Hungarian Landwehr) with details of the Landsturia, in the deep valley on Podbuz, and completely decimated them, capturing 20 guns and quantities of stores.

The enemy's partial attempts at the offensive have failed..

FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA,

REBELS DRIVEN IN HEADLÒNG · ROUT.

LONDON, October 28th. 11.05 p.m.

It is officially announcer that General Sir Louis Botha, in coramand

of the Union Government forces in South Africa, reports that he came in touch with Beyers' men on Tuesday, and drove them in headlong ront the whole day. Eighty of the rebels were captured fully armed. Only one of our men was wounded. When the report was made the pursuit was still- progressing.

LONDON, October 29th.

A telegram from Bloemfontein states that Major Brand, the Officer commanding the Defence Force encamped at Tempe (formerly a General

of the Boer forces), addressing the men, denounced the De Wet and Beyers rebellion, and said his holy duty was to support the Government, H offered a free pass to any men desiring to return to their homes instead

of proceeding to German South-West Africa:

Only four men out of twelve hundred accepted.

I" Proceeding to German South-West Africa" doubtless ineans going in pursuit of the rebel troops).

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THE SARAJEVO TRAGEDY.

PRISONERS' SENTENCED.

LONDON, October 29th.

An Amsterdam telegram states lint the Court at Sarajevo bas sentenced to death by hanging five of the then implicated in the assassina tion of the Archiluke Ferdinand and his consort Eleven others were sentenced to varying terms of penal servitude. Princip, who shot the Archduke, and Cabrinovie, who, threw bombs, were each sentenced to

twenty years,

IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIL.

DUM-DUM BULLETS.

PARIS, September 22nd. Thirty dum-dura ballets have been extricated from the bodies and limbs of wounded French soldiers.

PARIS 1914."

PARIS, September 23rd. A lag belonging to a Prussian officer captured at Verdun was found to contain a number of Iron Стоявся inscribed Paris 1914. The crusses were intended as souvenirs of the projected entry of the Germans into Paris. They are now being distributed amongst the British and French soldiers.

A BRAVE FRENCHMAN.

PARIS, September 24th. During a hot skirmish B French chasseur named Fournier with another. soldier found themselves alone under fire.

They returned the fire until the soldier was wounded. Fournier then picked up his comrade and carried him under a hail of bullets towards the French lines. Four Prussians barred the way Laying his comrade in a hollow Fournier shot two of his opponents, charged the others and bayoneted both. Though himself wounded he succeeded in carrying his comrade to safety.

THE GERMAN WAR LOAN.

New York, September 27th. German advices show that the success of the war loan of fifty millions was due to Government attaching twenty-five per cent. of all bank balances and forcing depositors to subscribe German mer. chants were forend to liquidate debts by investments in war loan, creditors being notified that if they did not agree theif business would be discontinued.. Firms even notified creditors in Switzerland that money owing to them had been invested in the war Juzn..

GERMAN SOCIALIST AND BELGIUM.

ANTWERP, September 25th. Horr Liebnecht, the German socialist leader, interviewed after a tou of Belgium, said he would inform his compatriots when he returned to Berlin that the condition of the various Blgian- towns was a disgrace to Germany.

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE IN WANT,

HUNGRY WITH £1,000.

How an enormously wealthy American was denied admittance to hotels because he had nothing but paper money has been told to a Standard representative by the Polish leader Dr. Retinger, who recently

returned to England through Austria and

Italy.

Before the war Mr. Cornelius Vander- bilt, who is a director of a score of Ameri- can railways and other business intereste, and practically owner of some of them, was making a tour in Austria, in a beauti fully appointed motor-car. The declara- tion of hostilities found him far from any

COUNT VON MOLKE'S SON KILLED

PARIS, September 25th. Count von Molke, son of the German chief-of-staff, was killed yesterday by a shell, blowing off the top of his head. large city, and when the news finally The Count had seen wearing a coat of reached him he did not alter his previous- mail and staying at a priest's house. Hely arranged plans. He went leisurely to daily threatened to shoot the priest if Vienna, and there found a number of ho discovered the slightest sign of

compatriots in difficulty about money treachery.

oving to a scarcity of coin. Letters of credit were valueless; banks would not cash thom.

GERMAN NURSES WITH SERVICE PISTOLS

PARIS, September 27th.

It is reported that at Perenne the French found-70 German. Female...nurses armed with service-pistols.......

A wounded officer states that Gorman ambulance waggons have been used for transporting combatants to the trenches. Wounded German officers bitterly com-- ment on the cowardice of their ambulance corps who fled with the retreating armies, leaving the wounded to die. A German professor, writing home, says: Our ambulance service behaved shamefully, It left us without food or drink for two days and then bolted with the army. If you come across any French wounded do all you can for them, for their kindness

to me.."

The Brussels correspondent of Le Matin states that the German losses at Maubeuge were 40,000. Le Matin, publishing details concerning the siege of Mauhenge, men- tions that the mound of Lonieres, six kilometres from the centre of the town, was offered for sale in July, 1913, and purchased ostensibly for buildings as a locomotive factory. It now transpires that the real purchaser was Frederic Krupp. After a concrete foundation had been prepared no further progress was made until it served as complacents for siego guns.

Reuter's Paris correspondent states that wounded soldiers relate that when the Germans began bombarding Fort Troyen the French did not reply but the com- mandant set fire to two cartloads of straw | inside. The Germans, believing the fort to be abandoned, brought up guns and maxima. The French then opened fire, killing 7,000 men

were very

A journalist just returned from a visit to the battlefields says he saw the

Some German wounded. young, not more than -16. All vero apparently famished. One surgeon said be operated on teen nothing but skeletons, Both officers and men were very dejected and would not believe it when told that Paris was not invested. What impressed the journalist most was the spirit of confidence among the French whe are finding out the ways of Germans and how best to meet them.

KAISER REWARDS HIS SOLDIERS.

AMSTERDAM, September 27th,

A Berlin telegram reports that the Kaiser on the 20th decorated 37,000 soldiers, bestowing upon them the German Iron Cross for bravery in action.

WE WANT PRACE."

COPENHAGES, September 25th Socialist posters declaring "We want Down with the Kaiser," have appeared on the walls of Berlin.

peace.

BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE

ELBE

- Mr. Vanderbilt at once motored through to Genog in the hope of securing steam- ship accommodation to New York. He had 2. in cash and a bank draft of £200. He spent the 2, on the most modest meal ho-had-ever bad in his life, thinking that his name and his draft would provide him with plenty of money to go on with. On presenting himself at the bank he found that no business was being done in drafts. Steamship companies wanted cash, and so did botel proprieters.

The multi-millionaire was then reduced to the same straits as hundreds of other, though perhaps not quite so rich, Ameri- cans. Ho could not get food or a bed without cash, but managed to get a tow shillings from an acquaintance to tele- graph to bankers in London to apprise them of his plight. But it was not until two days later that instructions reached a local bank to negotiate the draft, and Mr. Vanderbilt was provided with cash. In the meantime he made his bed in his £1,300 motor-car and went hangry.

THE COBBEN ESCAPE.

The Press Bureau issued the following: The Secretary of the Admiralty an-- nounces that Rear-Admiral E. U. Trou- bridge, C. B., .C.M.C., M.V.O., has been recalled to England from the Mediterran- can Flect in order that an inquiry may be held into the circumstances leading to the escape of the Goeben and Breslau from Messina Straits.

The Court of Inquiry will consist of Admiral Sir Hodworth Meux, G.C.B., and Admiral Sir Gcorge Callaghan, K.C.B...

however,

Commenting on the above the Daily Telegraph says:-As the Admiralty have directed an inquiry into the escape of the Gueben and Breslau, the matter is not suitable for comment. For several wocks rumour has been busy,

It may, he recalled that Admiral Sir Berkeley. Milne, who was commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, and returned home some weeks ago, was exonerated by the naval authorities, it being announced that his plans for meeting the situation were approved. Rear-Admiral Troubridge was the junior officer in command in thems waters, having hoisted bis flag is the armoured cruiser Defence on 27th Janu-. ury last year, on relinquishing his posi- tion as Chief of the Admiralty War Staff. Before taking up this latter appointment. he had been Naval Secretary to the pre- sent First Lord of the Admiralty, Now he has been recalled, and two senior officera-Sir Hedworth Meux and Sie George Callaghan-will review all circum- stances of the ineffective pursuit of the two German ships.

It will be cause for general regret that any such action should be regarded as necessary at the very opening of the war.. But in such a case the naval authorities have to consider not only national but personal interests-for an officer's profes- sional competency must, for his own sake, be established as above reproach

Rear-Admiral Troubridge is the third. NEW YORK, September 25th. son of Colonial Sir Thomas St. Vincent A. British naval oficer's letter states Troubridge, and a direct descendant of that recently British submarines entered th admiral who won a baronetey by his the Elbe but were unable to attack the gallantry at the battles of the Nile and were St. Vincent, and at the blockade of Civita large German warships which protected by scores of trawlers and Vacchia, which was followed by the tak steamers, besides cables and nets.

ing of Rome.