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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17ra, 1914.

A Chinese watchman belonging to the river bost Tai Lee stands charged at the Magistracy with the manslaughter of another member of the crew, who died after, a fight

A Chintman who was arrested with a quantity of dynamite in his possesion as ho was about to board a steamer proceding

WAR NEWS.

OUR INDIAN TROOPS.

ITALIAN DEPUTY SAYS THEY ARE MARVELLOUS.

„GERMAN'S CONFESSION OF W RAPINE AND MURDER-

reports of Guruan since

WOUNDED AND ALONE FOR

FIVE DAYS,

BRITISHI JÖLDIER SHOT THREE TIKER.

William Henry Gallimore, of the. Ist

OUR MEN LIKE VANDALB..

From the pocket-bank of a German officer belonging to the 178th Saxon An Italian Deputy who returned to Regiment of Infantry the following Joyal North Lancashire Regiment, is a Rome from Bordeaux told a repre-extracts have been made confirming the standing and heroic example of the sentative of the Tribenu that he saw the beginning of the war cities in the Englishman who never says die," writes Indian troops,

I visited," writes the officer, "little correspondent from Paris. He is They are," he said, "something marking of the Bolgans. Our men conducted him to day, & curious bundle of bandages cháteru belonging to the secretary of the in a hospital bed in Faris under the care of distinguished French surgeons. I saw d great soldier whom the whole nation Bion of the dynamite and & fuse, vellous. The British made them land and themselves like vandals, first ransacking the and splints, and heard his story of a

cellars, then melting everything in the

in dying practically on the field of action; and the circumstances of his death strike the popular imagination as a not unfitting termination to a brilliant military career. We can reccho to-day what was said of him by The Times but six weeks ago on the occasion of his eighty-second birthday Bad all has work been confined to the brilliant half century of his official career his name would still have gone down as that of

loved and covered; for it was 28ssociated with all the great forward movements of Imperial history since 1857-with the relestablishment of British power in India, the growth of security on the

ment of method and moral in the British Forces both in India and at home, and

to Macno was charged at the Magistracy yesterday with being in unlawful posses

Defendant pleaded guilty. When the Magistrate spoke of the defendant as being in possession of bombu, Mr. Ruse, who appeared for the defendant, corrected him, saying that the dynamite was for

camp on ground hired for then, in spite of the wish of the French authorities not. to accept the payment. The troops are a splendid contingent from which France will derive immediate benefit."

rooms of the house.

They even attempted to break open & strung chest, and magnificent pieces of furniture and chinure were broken. Our *A* Sovet a Belgian accused of espionage

North-West Frontier, the steady improve fishing purposes. The case was remanded LONDON “ ALMOST DESTROYED also took away a heap of useless things, my thigh., 1 went down all in a heap,

was shot

The Torquay correspondent of the “URSTROYED EVERYTHING." Times sends us some curious extracts from a letter received by a German lady there from her father in Berlin. He says:

“London must be awful Hall of it

The death took place at an early hour finally with the turning of the tide in on October 5th of Mr. Percy 4. Angier, the depose weeks of the South African who, after a service in the Far East of $2.065 War. But even that splendid record fails twenty-three years in the Chartered Bank burnt down, and Zeppelins always hover and placed them in three lines so that the

to give the full measure of his value in of India, Australia, and China, retired ing over the place. Two years ago we

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some fifteen months ago. Mr. Angier was in his usual health up to September 20th, says the L. and C. Express, buton Ones tion on the inner ear and for some brain symptoms became necessary on October

Ist.

This operation, though partially successful, did not entirely remove the pressure from the brain, and he slowly

was manager of the branches at Tientsin and Hankow. He was in his 49th year.

spent such a pleasant time in that beautiful city, and now it is almost Plymouth. I pray that you are, because destroyed.

I believe you are near The war will soon be over, because England cannot find the money to con- tinue it

A RECORD FALSEHOOD.

MOTOR-CAN THAT CARRIES 40, HEAVY-

AITEOMATIC GUNS..

The issue of September 10th of Les Persia, the Joarent states, contained the following intelligence supplied by a German local agency:-

The German army, having advanced to within twenty miles of Paris, decided A motor-car was fitted with forty to give the Parisians a good lesson. heavy guns, each provided with eighty shells of deadly effect. The car was thanks to the accurate calculations of the despatched in the direction of Paris, and German engineers, it drew up right in front of the Government House, in the very centre of the capital.

2.00 the complex of great forces which makes the life of the Empire to-day. To have readily been 80 well equipped, so followed, zu decisive a commander in the feld, was high service to the country indeed; but to have been, and still to 3,45 be, so clear an example of a great life

greatly and simply lived is higher service sank without having regained conscious- still; and LonD ROBERTS' example hness. During his service in the East Mr. 3.45 never been brighter or more inspiring Angier was in Java, Sumatra, and

than it is today,” We may leave the last sentences as they stand, for though Japan, and for the latter part of the time Youvelles, a paper published at Teheram, dead, his great example stands, and will 4.00 not readily be forgotten. The dramatic

events of the past few months have A campen man named Fong You proved how sure was his reading of the reported to the Yaumati police that while 4.55 signs and portents of the times, and the he was rowing two men out into bay, they deep sincerity of the convictions which suddenly seized him and threw him over prompted his untiring energy in the board. He was rescued by a boatman of 4.55 latter years of his life in warning another boat and a chase ensued after the his countrymen of the grave signi- two men. Seeing that they wore likely ficance of continental militarism, and to be capured, the two men jumped into 2.65 in appealing to the young and the harbour, one was arrested while the

in to train

yet other escaped. Inspector Gerrard ex- e.es able-bodied men

greater numbers to support and liberate pressed in his report the opinion that 9.95 the professional arm. And when the while this was technically a case of

hour came which proved the truth of his robbery and attempted murder, apparent words he did not stop to call attention ty the intention of the two men was to to their truth, but, as the Times writer secure, without payment, temporary remarked, he returned with fresh energy possession of the boat. Fong stated that to all the help he could give in the

many other old men had: His he and practical prosecution of the war

treated similarly before, A insight and experience were freely

charge of robbery with violence and at the disposal Of those

attempted murder was brought against the prisoner. After hearing the evidence, was hard at work every day encouraging the recruiting of fresh the Magistrate (Mr. Wood) adjourned the troops, inspecting newly formed regi- cate until Thursday for another witness ments, collecting field-glasses and to be called saddlery, and adding to the spirit and efficiency of the national organization in

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RSS-On November 11th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Hugo REISS, a daughter.: JACKSON--On November 11th, at Shang- hai, to Dr. and Mrs. E. D. JACKSON, URBANEK. On November 1st, at Hankow, to Dr. and Mrs. URBANES, a daughter. BILL-On November 10th, at Shanghai,

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to Mr. and Mrs. E. BELL, a son. LUBBOCK-On October 4th, at Havant, Hampshire, England, the wife of Lieutenant REPEAT E. LUBBOCK, Royal Navy, of a daughter. SLOWE-On November 12th, at Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. CECIL R. SLOWE, a son (Edward Patrick).

MARRIAGE.

GOULBOURN-SEQUEIRA-On November 5th,

at Shanghai, WILLIAM HENRY GOUL BOURN, to AUREA MARIA Sequeira, DEATH.

he

and

By an automatic action produced by the stopping of the car, the forty guns were fired simultaneously any thousand persons being killed. After 3,200 shots had been fired the car was captured by the French army in Paris..

"The marvellous gun, however, remains where it was, the French engineers not having been able to master the secret of its working.

THE BRITISH

**IN HONOUR "BOUND."

TEAM FOR BERLIN, With a sarcasm and a topical sense that everyone can admire a well-known photo. grapher in Southampton-row is exhibit ing outside his studio a witty comment Ile framed the cirular which the Duke of Westminister sent round last Septem- in the Olympic Games at Berlin, in which, it will be remembered, the following

when

an the war.

a hundred different ways, reminding us THE NEW SERVICE BATTALIONS. ber asking for subscriptons for our share of the words which TENNYSON has put into the month of ULYSSES:

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!

As tho' to breaths were life.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all; but something ere the and, Some work of noble note, may yet be done Nt unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

But now, alas, all is over and done, and around the bior of the great soldier a grateful people pay the debt of bound less love and reverence and regret,"

Mr. B. G. Tours, C.M.G., of the British Consular Service in China, is a passenger on the Tasaka Maru for England,

The Hon. Mr. David Landale acted as

Chalmers.—At 33, Hart Road, Shanghai, on 16th November, JAMES L CHALMERS, Commissioner, Statistical Judge at the Shanghai races. Mrs Department, Chincso Customs Service, Shanghai.and man (1365

Landale reached Shanghai last Wednes day from Home. Hongzone Orrion: 10a, Dzs Vœux Road 0. LONDON OPTION: 181, Fur Staker, E,G.

The Daily Press.

Hoxoxone, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1914.

Mr. G. A. Dunlop has taken over the management of the Hongkong Branch of

the Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank (Netherlands India Commercial Bank) from Mr. G. Vermey, who is going on leave.

TAB cable which has swiftly carried to

British merchants in Hankow have the uttermost parts of the world the formed a Chamber of Commerce in which news of the death of FIELD-MARSHAL Loan the nationals of the Allies are permitted ROBERTS has rung a deep knell in the membership, with the object of safeguard beurt of every British patriot. It can ing British trade and developing the be said of him without the least

least trade which has been lost by the Germans, exaggeration that no soldier in our history has over inspired more whole- A return showing the number of cases hearted trust in his military leadership of communicable diseases which have been or greater affection and esteem for his personal character. For more than a generation past he has been idolised by the Army and by no section of it has his name and person been revered more than by the Indian troops, whose representatives he had gone to France to greet as their Colonel-in-Chief when

notified as occurring in the Colony during the week ended November 14th shows that there were three cases of diphtherie tall Chinese, one fatal) and two non-fatal cases of enteric fever (British and Chinese).

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sentences occur:-

"At Lisogne, from August 23rd oor men said they could not advance because marks men were shooting at them from the house They got hold of about a dozen sharpshooters

some shot would hit three men at the same time,

"At Bousines," the writer continues, our men destroyed everything. The spectacle of the bodies of the killed inhabitants defies all description. Not a hanse remains standing, Men, women, and children found in a monastery which had already been burned

were shot..

At Villers, the population having warned. the French of the passage of our troops, we also set fire to the village after having shot the cure and some inhabitants.

THROWN INTO THE FLAMES. "We crossed the French frontier and cantunned at this d'Ossus. The sing wis put in flames. A cyclist, in falling, made his gun go off and pretended that he had been shot at. For this all the inhabitants were thrown into the flames.NET

“At L'Epres 20 people were killed."・・・ At the comtuocement of September, at of the houses was charming and the furniture Rethel, the officer says, the interior of some magnificent, but now everything is in pieces

*The vandals could not lave done more fatis. They could have prevented the damage. The commanders are responsible pillaging and destruction."

The offer all of other page: found a fine waterproof and a good camera, which I intend to give to Feliz,^

On September 22nd, the 178th Regiment was at Alifoutaing, and the officer writes that he is convinced that their graves will be in that country dew

TENTO ONE.

terrible experience on the battlefeld :----

I was first shot three weeks ago come next Monday. I was in a cornfield whon & bullet got me in the leg and fractured

but managed to bind myself up and stop- the bleeding. There were lots of dead Germans near me, and one living German officer, who was lying quite close. He could understand a little English and gave me a piece of bread. That was the only food I had for five days..

After I was shot two of our stragglers same along and tried to help me to get along, but the fire was too hot for them and they let me down again. Then a German ambulance came and picked up the officer. I asked him to tell them to take me too, but although he was so kind about the piece of bread he wouldn't do it. He only said, You are an enemy.'

SAFETY IN A SHELL-HOLE. "That was my first night on the battle field. The xt day was Tuesday. · On this day I was shot for the second time, a stray bullet hitting my left hand while I was lying there. Seeing a hole in the ground made by one of those big shells the Germans fire, I rolled into it, and thought myself lucky to be there. They had trained @ Maxim on the part of tho cornfield in which I lay and the bullets were ripping across the top of the hole and hitting the opposite side. I watched them for quits a time.

I crawled out again to look for water, After I had been in the hole for a time

which I got from the water bottles of the

dead German But I could not find any- costers came and tried to make a stretcher thing to cat. On this day two Glen-

for me with their rifles, but again it was too hot, with the big shells and the Maximus fring, and they had to give it

p.

***** Tuesday night was my scoond night, On Wednesday I was shot again the third time in the right foot, the bullet entering the sole of the foot as I lay there. I did not think of much all this time EN- cept to call for help and to crawl round. from one of the dead Germans to another looking for water. About a mile and a half away I could see a regiment--it turn- ed out to be the Welsh-digging trenches. I got through the night all right and next * " I was now very faint and hunger, hot. day, Thursday, I crawled eighty yards in the direction of the trenches. For tho rest of the day I lay quiet. All this day

It was

An officer of the 24th Regt, writes on September 29th as follows:

I can't quite describe the awful sensa- tions of these days, being pounded all day by shrapnel bursting all round you, and in a small dug-out which might have been struck and burst in any moment.. But we had a good Eght last Saturday, I saw no one, but at night. I had my first th, which will remain in the annals of piece of luck. In one of the German and 250 of us fought and drove back be this, I think, that kept me alive thas the 24th, We didn't give an inch all day, water-bottles I found some rum. tween 2,000 and 3,000. Germans. Ther night. had only to make one, determined rush of 40 yards and all would have been up, but though they came and remained for hours within 70 yards under the slope of a hill mostly, and so under cover, they had not the spirit to do it. They are cowards a heart-I have no hesitation in saying so and whenever they showed themselves we

In honour bound Great Britain must send a team to Berlin, and, as this object can only be accomplished by an mowed them down at once. efficient organization and adequate financial support. neat addition

Below, by way of postscript, occurs this

The General Officer Commanding, South China Command, wishes it to be made known that the Army Council are now calling for candidates from the Colony for temporary commissions as Captains and Lieutenants in the New Service Batta- lions now being raised in Great Britain. Preference will be given to gentlemen with previous military experienes. Candi- dates should be not less than 25 nor over 40 years of age and must be certified as medically fit. Free passages will be granted to and from the Untied Kingdom is together with an allowance of 400 for uni- form and £7. 10. for camp kit Fay and allowance will be granted as in simi-

The response to the above appeal has been most successful; the money has been found, and the team, most thoroughly equipped, is now well on its way to Berlin.

Very little doubt exists that all the prizes will fall into its arms.

There were

60 to 70 German dead in one space of about 30 yards. They must have lost 300 or 400 before going off.

OUGHT TO GET THE V.C."

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fifth day in the cornfield-I felt better Friday-my On the following day. able to move, and I determined to make crawling along in the direction of the a last effort to save my life. trenches. It was very hard, seeing that my left thigh was fractured and my right foot wounded, but after several hours I covered 800yds.

I was about finished when a man of the Welsh Regiment saw mo and came out for mic That man ought to get the Victoria Cross. I didn't ask his namÍA? GERMAN PREDICTIONS.

and I don't know what it was, but he was a real good one, and no mistakes, Ho The war against England, the German got me up on his shoulders and he carried Press predicted, would only begin at the me right in. The Germane were fring end of October, when Autwerp had fallen all the time, and I was so near finished northern Belgium had become a base that I wanted him to drop me and let me for operations against Great Britain. die. It didn't seem right for him to be Admirel von Tirpitz, who is now at the worrying abrat getting me in. All bo said was, You hold tight, old man, I've got you all right and I don't intend to let you go!

And the appropriate heading for all this | General Headquarters with the Emperor,

In Honour Bound."

had already announced that he would transfer himself on board his flagship to direct the operations.

LINER CRUISERS' DUEL.

lar rank in the British service with which OFFICER'S ACCOUNT OF THE SINKING OF THE they will rank pari parsu,

CAP TRAFALGAR.

An officer of the Carmania' in a letter home describes the sinking of the German armed merchant cruiser Cap Trafalgar by the farmania....

Members of the Hongkong Volunteers who may wish to apply should do so through the Commanding Oficer, and their applications will receive careful

He says they sighted the ship about 10 consideration from the General Officer a.m. on September 14th in the South Commanding.\\/ /^ats Chalk Atlantic She was cealing from a collier, Gentlemen who are not in the Volunteer and two others were standing off. On sighting the Carmania the Cup Trafalgar Corps may forward applications to the hurried off to the south, the colliers going DA.A. and Q.M.G., South China Com- eastwards. mand direct.

Candidates from outside the Colony will also be considered, and their applica tions should be forwarded na above through the British Consul-General of their place of residence.

The surgeon's examination of the man when he arrived bore out his statement of FIRST DEATH AMONG BRITISH AT condition and the state of his three

TSINGTAU

Pte. Thomas, of the South Wales Borderers, died on the 2nd instant after some weeks in hospital the first death among British soldiers at Tsingtau. The bullet pierced the shoulder and gent an artery, death being due to internal bleeding.

"AMERICAN SAILORS' GREETING.

A SCENE IN HAVEE.

There was We steamed after her at top speed,"

a great moment which I proceeds the letter, and when about four experienced one evening at Havre and miles off she turned and steamed towards which so long as I live I shall cherish us. We were cleared for action and had (writes a Times correspondent). There ben standing by our guns for some time, was, I remember, a great sunset that night all strangely fascinated by the movements one of those mighty banners of crimson of our enemy. When about three and a and saffron that break from high right half miles off we fired our challenge shot above the zenith and are spread to the across her bows, and immediately after deep horizons of the sea. In the harbour this she displayed her colours at the lay the Tennesse, the American battle masthead and fired for first shot from her ship, awaiting her complement of refugees starboard after guns. This shot came from threatened Paris, mighty close over our heads, dropping in Suddenly the lock-gates were swung the water,

by apart. A great booming of steam whistles became fast and furious. Projectiles and She swung down on the tide, her every "Then the firing from both ships announced the passing of a transport. splinters from bursting shells showered deck thronged with soldiers. She drew around us. The engagement commenced abreast of the black war-vessel with its about 1.10 p.m., when she showed signs of stately between pilot and following tuge, at 12.10 midday and lasted hot until long, grim funnels very solemn and having been badly hit and was taking à The fluttering Stars and Stripes at the heavy list to starboard, being on fire fore stern-port of the American was dipped in and aft. We were also on fire on our greeting a greeting that spoke, or so it forebridge. Our bridge telegraphs and seemed, a full and friendly sympathy. and the captain's cabin, the charthouse, Suddenly there broke forth from al} and a number of officers quarters were these decks that grandest of all our war gutted. We were also badly holed by her songs (and why do we sing it so

seldora!) After the Cup Trafalgar sank some! boats with survivors could be made ont, Arose from out the aguro main, and one of the colliers rendered assistance. This was the charter of her land,

"We had to clear away, adds the

And guardian angels sung the strain, writer, because low down on the horizon And then an amazing thing happened. I the signalman saw smoke and what heard it, thrilled. The gallant American appeared to be a German cruiser. We sailors took up the rolling chorns

Bale Britannis, steered away south, and then doubled on

Britannia rules the waves, our course. By that time darkness was setting in and we thus escaped her clutches."

separate wounds were sufficient evidenco of the truth of his story, which is one of the most curious that have yet come under the notice of the hospital doctors.

THE KAISER'S PLAN FOR FRANCE.

·TEN COMMANDUENTS OF CRUSHING -

SEVERITY

Although France has always realised that Germany would like to reduce her to impotence, considerable surprise has been aroused by M. Clemenceau's revelations, cbtained on the unimpeachable authority of an American correspondent.

According to this gentleman the Ger- man Ambassador in the United States. Count Bernstorff, speaking in a club, re cently enumerated the German conditions. in the event of victory, as follows:→

1-All the French colonies, including

Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis, (2-411 the country east of a line from

Saint Valéry to Lyons.

An indianity of ten milliards of franes,

4.—A treaty of commeres, allowing Gor- man goods free entry into Franer for twenty-five years without reciprocity. 5-The suppression of recruiting in

France for twenty-five years, 6-The demolition of all French fort-

-The handing over by France of three

million rifles, three thousand guns, and 40,000 borses, -The admission of German patent

without reiprocity.

DEATH OF MR. J L CHALMERS.

We deeply regret to record of the death of Mr. James L. Chalmers, Commis aloner of the Chinese Maritime Customs, attached to the Statistical Department at Shanghai. As the author for some years past of the able reviews of the foreign trade of China, published as an introduo tion to the abstract of the annual statistical returns, bis name is well known Mr. C. Holstein, managing director of throughout China, and it will he born in India, and forty-one years of Nickel & Lyons, Limited, Kobe, & Customs Service of China has lost a very his military career were spent in that German subject has been arrested and able officer, Mr. Chainers had been country helping to create from the detained by the local Court. A formal

gunfire. seriously ill for some time and he passed splendid material there an Army which is charge of abduction has been made. The now winning for itself imperishable glory Japan Chronicle says that presumably the away yesterday at his home in Shanghai, and renown on the battlefield of Europe. * abduction" refers to the case of His widow is a daughter of Mrs. David We can imagine how greatly the veteran Japanese who left Kube some weeks ago son, who for the past twelve months bas Hero of Kandahar and of Pretoria must on a German steamer and was found on been residing in Hongkong with her son have regretted that the infirmities of age the Marshall Islands by a Japanese man- and daughter at Saiwan Terrace, Quarry debarred him from more

One of the vernacular papers has Bay, and the sympathy of many friends active of-war participation in the war, but he has at been publishing thrilling accounts of this in Hongkong will be extended to the

family in their sad bereavement.zelec, least had a true soldier's satisfaction, man's adventures:

death overtook him. LonD ROBERTS was the stevedoring firm of Messrs. recognised that by his death the Maritime steering gear were completely wrecked. For remember this was the week of Mons rights in France for twenty-five years

****** When Britain first at Heaven's command

Britons never, never, never shall he slaves. It was the most perfect act of brotherliness which I have ever witnessed.

1. The abandonment by Franco of

Russia and England) 10-A treaty of alliance with Germany

Commenting on Germany's ten com- mandments," the Temps・・ remarks: “Further proof is bere afforded that Ger- many systematically prepared for the destruction of France while the latter was nursing pacik illusions," and concludes, We must bear this in mind when we come to consider our own conditions, of mcace, with a view to removing for ever

Reuter

the possibility of Germany preparing for

our dismemberment.