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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, 1914.

THE WAR.

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THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE

AND BELGIUM.

VIOLENT ATTACKS BY ENEMY REPULSED.

LONDON, November 1st. 5.20 p.m.

To-day's Paris communiqué says; --- There is nothing new to report on the Nieuport Dixmude front. The enemy continued violent attacks on the whole of the northern region All these attacks eastward and southward of Ypres were repulsed,

We progressed to the northward and eastward of Ypres.

The Germans, beginning the day by debouching from Lys, succeeded in taking Hollesbeko and Messines, but we re-took both places in the

evening by vigorous counter-attacks.

On the rest of the front there were violent cannonades, and fruitless attacks by the Germans to re-capture ground gained by us.

The struggle continues very fiercely in the Argonne, where the enemy, however, are

making no progres

We captured 7,083 Germans in the week from the 14th to the 20th ult, not including wounded prisonere nor detachments en route from the

front to the rear..

LONDON, November 2nd.

3.15 8.m.

A communiqué issued at 11 o'clock in the evening says :— Nothing fresh has taken place in Belgium.

We repulsed in the course of the day violent attacks in the environs of. Libons du Quesnoy, and Santerre de Vailly-sur-Aisne, and also in the forest of Grurie in Argonne.

We continued to make slight progress north of Souain, and our offensive in the Vosges made us masters of the heights adjoining St. Marine.

GERMAN FAILURE TO INVEST VERDUN.

LONDON, November 2nd.

0.30 a..

- According to a message from Paris, it is semi-oficially declared that the Germans never invested Verdun.. They only attempted to bombard une fort from long range for 24 hours, without, however, damaging it.

RETALIATORY ACTION BY GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, November 1st. 8:05 p.m.

The Official I'ress Bureau says that the Government, in view of the fact that the Germans are removing from France and Belgium as prisoners all men of military age, has decided that all enemy reservists on board neutral vessels must be made prisoners.

HOSTILITIES WITH TURKEY.

AN OMINOUS

SILENCE.

LONDON, November 1st.

8.05 p.ui.

Reuter learns that there has up to to-night been no reply from Turkey to the Entente Powers' Note, although a reply was due last evening. ENTENTE AMBASSADORS REQUEST PASSPORTS.

It is officially stated that the British, French, and Russian

Ambassadors at Constantinople have requested passports.

A message from Amsterdam says that the Allies' Ambassadors at Constantinople have received their passports. The Russian and British Ambassadors were to leave last evening, and the French. Minister to-day.

LONDON, November 2nd.

0.30 1.0.

A message from. Constantinople says that on Saturday the British: Embassy arranged to leave to-night, and the Freuch and Russian Embassies will follow. Many British subjects have left.

BEDOUINS RENETRATE. EGYPTIAN TERRITORY.

LONDON, November 2nd,

6.30 a.m.

A telegram from Constantinople says it is reported that 2,000 armed Bedouins have penetrated into Egyptian territory,

MAHOMMEDANISM IN INDIA SUPPORTS GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, November 1st.

8.05 p.m.

The Viceroy of India, in a dignified communiqué, announced throughout India the unfriendly attitude of Turkey, and deplored the endeavour of the Chauvinistic element to drive Turkey into war to benefit

Germany and Austria, the secular enemy of Turkey.

The reception of the communiqué in the outlying districts will not be known for some days, but already the Mahemmeden leaders are holding meetings in support of Great Britain and offering prayers in the Mosques for the success of the British.

The Mullahs have been urging Turkey to remain neutral, or side

with the Allies.

THE SIEGE OF TSINGTAU.

MOST OF THE GERMAN FORTS SILENCED.

Mr. S. Imai, Consal-General for Japan, forwards the following official news received by him yesterday morning and published by the Naval Department on the 1st November:-

Early on the morning of the 31st October, the second division of our Navy, together with the British cruiser, renewed the bombardment of the enemy's forts and the coast as on the firevious day, and the bombardment continued until sunset. We sustained no damage. Most of the enemy's forts kept silence, the two exceptions being the Hoi Chuan Chue and Tai She Chen forts, which directed, s fieres fro upon our army position. Tho former fort especially did its beat by replying to our attack the whole day long, either firing upon our Navy when we came nearer, or guns on our Army when we a little further from them. According

moved to our observation, most of our shots were accurately placed on the Hsino Chan Shan fort and Chan Shan vicinity, and we demolished the enemy's defensive works. At daybreak to-day, a fire broke out near "Great Port," and an explosion of an oil tank ensued, black smoke spreading all over the sky. In the evening another fire occurred at Hsiao Chan Shan and the flames were reflected far over the sea.

ecting their

An enemy gunboat of the Tiger type which lost one of her funnels on the 20th October, consequent upon being hit by the heavy gun corps of our Navy, is not seen in the Harbour this morning.

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THE RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

ADVANCES IN EAST. PRUSSIA AND BEYOND THE

VISTULA.

LONDON, November 2nd.

2.45 8.00.

An official Petrograd message states on the East Prussian front the Russians have advanced in the region of Vladislavoff, and in the forest

of Romintin..

The German attacks in the Bakalarjevo región have reased owing to the enemy's terrible losses.

The Russians on the other side of the Vistula are advancing

victoriously along the whole front.

We have occupied Petrokoff, Opotchua and Ojaroft. Fighting occurred on the road to Djarof, and the enemy's rearguard was routed with a loss of 400 prisoners, quickfirere and

provision convoYE.

The Russians on the river San near Lezachova stormed the Austrian

fortified positions and captured 500 prisoners and quickfirers.

THE MARITZ REBELS.

MOST OF THE CHIEF REBELS NOW ACCOUNTED FOR.

LONDON, November 2nd.

6.30 a.m.

A telegram from Capetown says that the rebels in the Lightenburg district were defeated, and lost 12 killed, 36 wounded, and 240 prisoners. Most of Maritz's chief supporters are now accounted for.

NEW FINANCIAL MEASURES IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, November 2nd.

6,30 .D.

In order to avoid forced realisations, the Government has arranged with the Bank of England to make advances to certain classes of lenders on the Stock Exchange to enable them to continue loans till the

end of the war..

GERMAN AVOWAL OF ATROCITIES.

BOASTINGS OF SOLDIERS,

galloped off with his comrade. The ather seren Frenchmen, who had grounded their rifles and were quite off their guard, failed to hit them as they rode off.

This is called Ein kühner Beiterstückchen

of sa "a gallant stratagem.

(2) Extermination of Y villago. Narrative of an artillery officer (page 26). E

STATEMENT BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. REMARKABLE STORY OF GERMAN

INTRIGUE.

The Mosul Damascus Army Corps have RELATIONS WITH TURKEY. since their mobilization been constantly sending troops South preparatory to an invasion of Egypt and the Suez Canal from Akaba and Gaza. A large body of Bedouin Arabs have been called out and armed to assist in this venturo. Tran- sport has been collected and the roada have been prepared up to the frontier of Egypt. Mines have been despatched to be laid in the Gulf of Akabs to protect the force from naval attack, and the notorious Sheikh Aziz Shawish, who has been so well-known as a fire-brand in rais ing Moslem festing against Christians, has published and disseminated through Syria and probably India on inflamma- tory document urging Mahommedans to rise against Great Britain. Doctor Prueller, who was so long engaged in intrigues in Cairo against British occu- nation and is now attached to the German Embassy in Constantinople, has been busily occupied in Syria trying to incite the people to take part in this conflict.

The following statement concerning relations with Turkey is published by direction of His Majesty's Government in Gazette Extraordinary which was issued last night:

The attitude adopted by the Turkish Government in regard to the German men- of-war Gochen and Breslau aroused great misgiving in London, Paris and St. Petersburg, These ships were flying from the French and British Fleets in the Mediterranean and took refuge in the Dardanelles, where by the rules of interna- tional law and under Turkish treaties they should have been laid up by the Turkish Government and their crews detained until the close of the war, or made to leave for the open sea at the end of twenty-four hours.

Instead, the ships were allowed to remain in shelter and to exercise on a basis of belligerent rights, and then it was suddenly anilounced that they had been purchased by Turkey, who retained the German crews and dismissed the British Admiral from his executive com mand of the Turkish Fleet.

Aggressive action was certain to be the result of the activity of the numerous German officers employed in the Turkish Army, and acting under the orders of the German Government, who thus have succeeded in forcing the Advisors of the Bultan.

German intrigue cannot influence the loyalty to Great Britain of the 70,000,000 of Mahammedans in India and the feeling of the Mahommedan inhabitants of Egypt or of the millions of Moslems in Africa and in Malaya and elsewhero under Hist They must look Majesty's protection. with detestation on misguided action under foreign influence at Constantinople which would inevitably lead to the dis- integration of the Turkish Empire and which shows such forgetfulness of the

At the same time the passage of the Dardanelles was sown with mines and all British merchant vessels in those waters or coming through from the Black Sea were held up, first on the prefext that their cargoes were wanted for troops whom Turkey was mobilizing, and then any occasions on which Great Britain that the presence of mines rendered it has shown friendship to Turkey. They unsafe for the vessels to proceed. This must feel bitterly the degeneration of was not only totally unjustifiable inter- their co-roligionists, who can thus be ference on the part of a neutral State with dominated against their will by German the trade of Great Britain, involving both influences, and many of them realise that shippers and merchants in heavy loss, but when Turkey is pushed into war by it paralysed the movements of all British Germany they must, dissociate themselves shipping in the Black Sea, amounting at from a course of action that is so pre- the time to sixty or seventy vessels, since judicial to the position of Turkey itself. not only was it impossible to get through and without notice on Friday shut off into the Mediterrancan, but there was nothing to prevent the Goeben and telegraphic communication with the Breslau passing into the Black Sea and British Embassy at Constantinople. This destroying all the shipping collected is no doubt the prelude to further acts of The Dardanelles have now been aggression on their part, and the British closed in defiance of international treaty. Government must take whatever action Another reason for grave disquietude is required to protest British interests, has been the unfriendly treatment by British territory and also Egypt from responsible Turkish officials in Bagdad attacks that have been made and are and Mesopotamia of British subjects and the open incitement of the population by Turkish official eireles against Great Britain and her allies

there.

Notwithstanding all this provocation His Majesty's Government intimated, that if Turkish were substituted for German crews on the Gochen and Breslau, it British merchant shipping was not in peded, and if Turkey would honourably. carry out the duties of a neutral state, alt there illegalities and hostile acts would be overlooked, and a solemn and written guarantee would be given that Great Britain will scrupulously respect the independence and integrity of the Otte man Empire. 42--5-

Furthermore, assurances were given that. at the conclusion of peace Great Britain. would see that no conditions were laid down which would impair that indeper- dence and integrity and that econontic conditions of a character favourable to Turkey would be obtained.

In spite of these assurances the attitude of Turkey towards Great Britain became increasingly provocative. Evidence con- tinned to reach His Majesty's Government. of military preparations in Syria which could have no other purpose than to facilitate attack upon Egypt; and of active propaganda carried on by Turkish- and German agents among Bedouin Araba regions adjoining the Egyptian frontier. Similar intrigues were set on foot elsewhere and reports were even reived of the despatch of Turkish emissaries to India with a view fo stirring up anti-British feeling among. Indian Mahommedans,

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Great Britain, the greatest Mahomme- dan Power in the world and the faithful and consistent friend of Turkey, whom sho has steadfastly helped to recover the stability shaken in the Balkan Wars, would ece with the greatest regret that' Turkey had been decoyed into ranging herself on the side of England's enemies, and adopting an attitude as unjustifiable as it would be ungrateful, but it cannot be denied that the present situation shows that there is a Chauvinistic element endeavouring to drive Turkey into war with England for the benefit of Germany and of Austria, the secular enemy of the Türkish State.

A striking illustration of the extent to which intrigues have been carried on is furnished by the case of a German employé in the Alexandria City Police who lately returned from leave vit Con-

The Turkish Government summarily

threatened.

INTIMATIONS

HEAD, HANDS, FACE

MASS OF ERUPTION

Disfigured Face and Neck. Hands in Terrible State. No Rest At Night for Itching and Burning. Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment Healed,

6, Durham St. Grangetown. Cardin, 8, Wales. My hood. hands and face word one masa of notes, with the cuzemná. I had. When I rubbed thèm water wough run front them and wherever the water wiht a freakt sruption of sores would break out. It cle figured my face and neck bul ray bands wee in a terrible state. I had to wrap my Doud in cotton wool and I had no rest at night for the itching and burning. I could nos do anything about the house and I tad to chas ploy a girl for the time being to do my hous work.

"I tried ointments" and herbs but they did me no good and I oven underwent a treatment. At last a felend asked me to go some Cuticura Soap and Ointment so I wrote, for a froe sample of each.

washed

the affected parts with Cutleurs Soap and warm water and put the Cuticura Olatment on.. I have had a set of Cuticurs Soap and Ointment since and they thoroughly cured me." (Signed) Mrs. A.Whooler,

ier, Jen.21, 1914. Although the Cuticura Soap and Cint ment are most successful in the treatment of affections of the skin, scalp, hair and hands, they are also most valuable for overy- day uss in the tallet, bath and aureory be. cause they promote and maintain the health of the icin and hair from tafaney to age.

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CALDBECK,

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stantinople saying that he had been MACGREGOR&C.

THE SHOOTING OF A FRENCH BOY TRAITOR." (& dashing cavalry exploity, and spoke excused from military service. He was

Belgian

arrested on suspicion on landing, and on him were found a detailed map of the -Suez Canal, a sheet of cypher messages concealed in his tarboosh, and other com- promising correspondence. He had also entrusted to members of ships' companies two boxes of detorators for exploding dynamite and nitro-glycerine.

Further, a steady stream of German

German

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officers and men both naval and military together with all kinds of war material has flowed unceasingly into Constan- tinople, which has been converted to all FALCO LAGER intents and purposes into a military base. German officers are known to have penetrated far into the interior of the Turkish Empire in the endeavour to stir up agitation against Great Britain and her allies. All these movements, it is impossible to doubt, have been carried out with the direct connivance of the Ottoman Authorities and can point to only onge conclusion,

LONDON, October let. The following communication was issued by the Press Bureau last night:-

Among the not infrequent German The countryside was full of our troops pamphlets seized by the Customs House nevertheless the stupid peasants must authorities from aliens at ports of needs shoot at our men as they marched landing, some are printed in English (or by, from lurking places. The day before what is expected to pass for English), yesterday morning Prussian troops sur others are in the original tongue. Among rounded the village at 4 a.m., put women the latter is a little volume called Ariegs-children, and old people aside, and shot Chronik, consisting partly of a highly all the men; the village was then burnt to untrustworthy chronicle of the war the ground. partly of soldiers letters from the front. (3.)--Guerilla war in the Vosges.

As showing the methods of thought of

A traitor has just been shot, a little the enemy these last have considerable French lad (Fin Franzüsting) belonging value. It is not the truth or falsehood to one of those gymnastic societies which of the tales in them that matters, but the wear tricolour ribbons (ie., the Eclaireurs applause and self-congratulation of the or Boy-Scouts), a poor young fellow who, writers or dogde of gross treachery and in his infatuation, wanted to be a hero. cruelty claimed to have been done by the The German column was passing along a writers themselves or their comrades. wooded defile, and he was caught and The following may serve as examples: asked whether the French were about (1.)" Bold exploit of two dragcons He refused to give information. from Duisburg "(page 27),

yards further on there was fire from the That this neutral Power mean A patrol of German dragoons, entering cover of a wood. The prisoner was asked deliberately and intentionally to provoke a village incautiously, were surprised to in French if he had known that the enemy Great Britain to war is shown by instruc find it occupied by the French The was in the forest, and did not deny it. tions issued not later than October 18th majority escaped, but the two leading men He went with firm step to a telegraph post to the Turkish commandant at Jaffa by were surrounded by eight French infantry and stood up against it, with the green the Turkish Minister of War, which soldiers. They pretended to surrender vineyard at his back, and received the already allude to His Majesty's Govern (Sie ergeben sich anscheinend), but, when volley of the firing party with a proud ment as the enemy, give detailed orders a. French sergeant came forward to receive smile on his face. Infatuated wretch!

as to resisting attack by warships and their carbines, one of the dragoons, It was a pity to see euch wasted courage,

flagstaff and remove the insignia,

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purporting to hand over his weapon, shot This is the sort of material on which include an order to break the Consulate the man through the head and then Clermany is at present being fed.".

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