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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 1914.

WAR.

ACTIVITIES ENDED.

ASHORE AT COCOS ISLANDS.

We learn that an end was put to the activities of the German cruiser Emden yesterday at the Cocos Islands, where she had evidently gone on a cable-cutting exploit, for Cocos Islands is an important station of the Eastern Telegraph Co. They consist of a group of about twenty small coral islands, lying about 700 miles 8. W. of Sumatra and 1,200 miles S.W. of Singapore, to which settlement they were annexed in 1003.

The Emden is stated to have encountered an Australian eruiser. We are without definite information as to what actually occurred, except that the Eden was run ashore. Her officers and crew, we understand, are prisoners.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

TSINGTAU TRANSFERRED.

LONDON, November 9th

7.p.m.

The terms of the surrender of Tsingtau have been signed, and the city has been transferred to the Japanese authorities.

LORD KITCHENER

ANGRATULATES JAPAN."

LONDON, November 10th. 6.40 a.m.

Lord Kitebener telegraphed to the Japanese War Minister his warmest congratulations on the taking of Tsingtau, and said: "The British Army is proud to be associated with their gallant Japanese comrades in this enterprise."

THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

FOG CONTINUES TO CHECK OPERATIONS.-

LONDON, November 9th.

6 p.m.

To-day's Paris communiqué says The Germans renewed the offensive-against Dismude and south cast of Ypres. The attacks were everywhers repulsed,

We made progress at the end of the day along the entire front, from Dixmude to the Lys. Nevertheless, the advance is slow

ow owing to the offensive which the enemy are now assuming, and also the enemy's effective organised defences,

Fog rendered the operations difficult, especially between the River Lys and Mise...

regions.

Our progress in the Centre was maintained.

There have been small engagements in the Argonne and Verdun

There is nothing further to report concerning Lorraine. The enemy made fresh attacks against Col-de-Sainte Marie, suffering distinct defent.

LONDON, November 30th. .1.55 a.m.

The evening communiqué issued at Paris says: There has been no notable modification in the situation in consequence of difficulties caused by a dense fog in operations of some magnitude,

In the North the day has been good. We have maintained our positions between the River Lys and Langemarck, and made appreciable. progress between Langemarck and Dixnude.

THE RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

RUSSIANS OCCUPY SOLDAU.

LONDON, November 9th.

11 p.m.

A telegram from Petrograd says that it is officially announced that the battle continues in East Prussia. The Russians have occupied Soldau. The enemy beyond the Vistula are still retreating, while south of Przemysl the Russians captured another 1,000 prisoners.

COLONIAL TROOPS ON PARADE.

STIMULATING RECRUITING IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, November 10th. 8.40.8.m

The War Office had been reproached for its failure to stimulate

recruiting by means of parades. The appearance of the Colonial troops at

the Lord Mayor's Show had an immediate effect, and a fresh boom in recruiting started yesterday.

Another deterrent was removed by the announcement of substantial allowances to widows and children of the soldiers and sailors killed in the

war dying within seven years. The minimum for a family of five is £1

or

per week.

ĮTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY |

HISTORIC GUILDHALL

BANQUET.

BRILLIANT GATHERING REPRESENTATIVE OF THE

ALLIES.

GREAT SPEECH BY LORD KITCHENER.

LORD MAYOR'S SHOW A MILITARY PAGEANT,

LONDON, November 9th.

The Lord Mayor's Show was a great military pageant, and was London's first opportunity of acclaiming the soldiers and sailors, The crowds rapturously welcomed the Canadians, New Zealanders, and the Newfoundlanders, and cheered the London Scottish till they were hoarse, and also the Marines who fought at Antwerp.

9.35 p.m.

The Guildhall banquet to-night, like to-day's Pageant with the Dominion troops, assumed an essentially Military aspect. There was a brilliant gathering representative of the Allies, who were specially toasted, besides honoured guests from France, Russia, Japan, Belgium, Servia, aud Montenegro, Ambassadors of neutral Powers, and the usual splendid gathering of Cabinet Ministers, ex-Cabinet Ministers, and representatives of every section of the community.

EARL KITCHENER, Secretary of State for War, responding to the toast of The Army," said

Every

"The soldiers in the Field deeply appreciate the toast. officer returning from the front says the men are doing splendidly." He referred to the good work of the London Scottish and the Indian troops, and paid the warmest tribute to the gallant Allies, especially expressing his admiration for the French Generalissimo, General Joffre, and the Russian Commander-in-Chief, the Grand Duke Nicholas. "The Empire is now fighting for its existence," added Lord Kitchener, "and I want every citizen to understand this cardinal fact. Only from a clear conception of the vast importance of the issue at stake can come the great national and moral impulse without which Governments, War Ministers, even Armies and Navies, can do little. We have enormous advantages in our resources of men and material and our wonderful spirit, which, has never understood the meaning of defeat, All these are grent assets, and they must be used judiciously and effectively, I have ng complaint whatever to make about the response to my appeal

for men

The progress of their Military training is most remarkable, and the country may well be proud of her recruits; but we want more men, and still more nien, till the enemy are crushed. Our losses in the trenches have been severe, but they will act as an incentive to British manhood.” The Secretary for War paid a heartfelt eulogy to the British Army, and said that Field-Marshal Sir John French and his Generals had displayed military qualities of the highest order. The same level of courage and efficiency had been maintained throughout all ranks." The enemy concluded "must also reckon with the forces of the great Dominions, the vanguard of which we have already welcomed in very fine bodies of men. Besides these there are training in Great Britain over a million and a quarter of

men, eagerly awaiting the call to take their place in the field. and to sustain the credit of the Army, which has never stood higher than to-day."

The Rt. Hon. WINSTON CHURCHILL responding for "The Navy" said that eighty miles away the world's greatest battle was raging. Here they sat in the old Hall as usual. That was due to the Navy. (Loud cheering.) The Navy were naturally impatient to strike a direct blow, but they must be patient and their time would come. The conditions were curious and novel. We were securing all the seas for transporting troops, thus offering a target incomparably greater than the enemy. Mr. Churchill, emphasised the economic pressure of the blockade and said it would ultimately spell Germany's doom Despite losses, the British Navy was stronger to-day than at the outbreak of war, particularly in its most

· important branches.

The Right Hon. H. H. ASQUITH, the Prime Minister, received an ovation when he rose to reply to the toast of His

ty's Ministers,

He said: "Never has any Government in our history more needed the whole hearted confidence and unselfish cooperation of the community without

distinction of party or class, and never has that confidence been more

ungrudgingly expressed and that co-operation, more generously offered.

This was the seventh year in succession that he had responded for His Majesty's Ministers at the Guildhall. During that time not only our own country but the world outside bad experienced many strange vicissitudes. It was not inappropriate to recall the European situation. It presented new features of startling and arresting significance which i had been left to time to unfold. First there was the formal annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Advantage was then taken by Austria, with the connivance of another Power to ride roughshod over weaker nationalties, and set aside the public law of Eu ope,

[The remainder of Mr. Asquith's remarks on the events leading up to the War had not reached us when we want to press but we gave. two later sections of the speech.]

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Turning to financial, and economic questions, Mn Asquith

explained the measures take by the Government to deal with the abnormal situation at the beginning of the war. He thought that the results were

very satisfactory, Foreign exchanges were working in the case of most countries quite satisfactorily. The gold reserves of the Bank of England which were forty millions sterling on July 22nd, and which had fallen by August 7th to twenty-seven millions, now stand at the unprecedented figure of sixty-nine-and-a-half millions (cheers.) The central gold reserve after three months of war amounts to eighty millions, almost exactly three times the amount at which it stood at the beginning of the crisis..

Mr. Asquith pointed out that the bank rate, after fluctuations, now was about the level at which it stood this time last year. Food prices had. been kept on a fairly normal level, and though trade had been curtailed in some directions unemployment had been rather below than above the avorage. In this connection, Mr. Asquith paid a tribute to the co-operation of City financiers in relieving the situation and announced that H., the King in recognition thereof had conferred a peerage on Mr. Walter Cunliffe, the Governor of Bank of England. Mr. Asquith told his hearers that they should not be moved andaly by the conflicting fortunes of the campaign, which going be a long struggle.

The Right Hon., A. BALFOUR, M.P., proposed the toast of "Our Allies. He said that Japan had given a good omen to the Allies in taking Stan from those that had flouted her. He expressed boundless admiration for the triumphal progress and remorseless speed of Russia. "Never will those days be forgotten when England and France were fighting side by side against a common enemy of civilization." (Great cheering) Mr. Balfour praised the wonderful courago of Servia and Belgium,

The FRENCH ANDAYSADOR to London, responding for the Allios, emphasised that when history sought the responsibility for so much blood- shed, those barnings, and those methodical massacres, it would find that the responsibility did not rest with the Allies. The barbarism raised by the dogma taught by Professors and reinforced by science was new to all times. The Allies believed in eterual Justice, and awaited its decrces with. unshakeable confidence.

THE GERMAN CONSPIRACY

MANIA.

STRAUSS OR SMITH?

HUMOURS OF THE WAR ON GERMAN NAMES.

NO MORE FRAULEINS. When you meet a stockbroker who belongs to your club and has a rolling the name of Schoppenheim," you feel accent, and who need to answer to pained, says n writer in a London paper, when he savagely cormels you and enys his name is Chichester.

The story, which the Forwärts bas proved to be false, of a woman at Mülhausen who tried to poison German soldiers with soup,-is-one-of those fictions which are more significant than truth, eince they throw light on the state of mind of those who believe them. And it is not the only fiction of the kind that Germans have belierod.It is said that wounded German officers in English hospitals have You know he was naturalised some a great fear of being poisoned; so much years ago, and is not a bad sort of a so that in some cases they have refused to

fellow, even if he is a German or Austrian eat unless the nurses tasted their food for by birth; but you can't stand him as them. This seems to us almost madness; shocks you. But you'll get a lot of these "Chichester," and you never will. It and it is a madness produced in minds shocks as the days follow each other. You otherwise sane by the German conception are told that Haarsenbeck is now of war and indeed by the German concep plain and simple Harris; and Nerden- tion of all international relations. Webaum, your bailer, tells you he had to know how. persecution mania in do it to save his sadly depleted custom, individuals begins often with a vague sense and he hopes you will call him "O'Reilly" of general hostility and ends with definite in future. delusions such as this poisoning delusion, Then your wife tells you that the Well, the whole German nation seems to König which adorned the front of have been suffering for some time from the enrio shop has been changed to persecution mania. They were taught to Cadby," but that she is sure he is believe that nations were necessarily training pigeons on the sly, and that the hostile to each other, that peace was only manager at the restaurant where she liked a kind of secret war or preparation for to take an occasional luncheon used to open war; and their minds, fevered by this be addressed as Feuerberg," but has doctrine and by their own practice of it, now become “ Fife.” contracted the further belief that there A little inquiry and observation reveals was a conspiracy among other nations to an extraordinary amount of name- fall upon them at the first favourable changing among all sorts of people who opportunity. This may or may not have have the misfortune to spring from boen believed by the Government; but it families which originated in the Han is a belief that the Government fostered country. Exactly what William the for its own purposes and relied upon when

Butcher will think of all this repudiation

it provoked and declared war. And the it is easy to imagine. He will almost coalition which its unscrupulous clumsi-twist his monstache off when he hears ness formed against it was, of course, only of it.

a confirmation, to the ordinary German,

CONSOLING THE GOVERNESS;

of his belief in a conspiracy against his There's Mrs. Adolf Klinkenstein's letter Fatherland Germany could not have so marked private," which intimates to many enemies unless they had plotted to you that her husband has (by deed poll) destroy ber The explanation that she changed his name, and the encloses you had made all those enemies by her own Everhard. The Schlessinger family are her new visiting card- Mrs. Alfred conception of international relations is one that he has never heard and would not Watermans." That pleasant man at the Welbys" and the Einsteins listen to for a moment if it was put to piano who composed a song for your him. So the mass of the German people daughter and signed itCarl Humper- approve what they believe to be a war of stechnitz sent some flowers yesterday defence by persecuted Germany; and they with Charley Hall's kind regards." Ia approve of the manner in which she con his case at least it must be a relief to drop ducts it, partly because they have been such a lot of letters 1 taught that civilized war is a contradic- There's the governess, poor little tion in terms, and partly because they woman She says she can't get back to think that a nation so persecuted has a Darmstadt, and you gladly keep her and right to commit any excesses against her console her when she begs that you will persecutors. The German Government forbid the children to call her Fraulein, knows well enough that it is harrowing and that she intends changing her name Belgium because it hopes, by terror, to from Schwartz to Taylor. At the same prevent the Belgians from hampering the time you make up your mind to watch German communications. But the her a little; you can't help suspecting a ordinary German believes that Belgium is German after all you have heard, and you in the conspiracy and must be taught a won't have her writing to her home people lesson. That is enough for him, and all in the land of the Hune giving informa the reports that reach him of German tion she may overhear. cruelty, if any do reach him, are part of

And so it is everywhere; you have nevor the conspiracy too. The conspirators are realised what a lot of German people you trying to defame Germany as well as to know you are discovering it now, and destroy her. So the German officer, having neighbours of yours the Ocheonbergers, not always pleasantly....... These nice practised the German doctrine of war who gave such delightful Sundays with assumes that his enemies practise it too violin concertos, have changed their name and carry it farther than the Germans to "Chumley, but it is quite obvious because they are his enemies. He cannot that all their sympathics are believe that he will be treated humarely Germany, and so your acquaintance has when he is wounded and a prisoner, and been reduced to a stiff bow when you he sees only treachery in the appearance meet, As for other names, you hear that of humane treatment. His delusions can" Schloss is now

"Castle be proved to be false; but behind him there berg," "Peters" "Backhaus, is whole nation delude 1, mad with "Klein, Little "'* conspiracy manis, and threatening the Kingsley Rosenheim, civilization of Europe in its madness; and Bieberich, Bloomfield" against this nation Europe has to protect nooker-Do - Vero"; herself until it has learnt sanity in

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