1914-12-15 — Page 3

THE WAR.

(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY]"

FRANCE

THE OPERATIONS IN

AND BELGIUM.

LONDON, December 13th.

4.55-p.m.-

To-day's Parie communiqué saya : — Yesterday was particularly quiet, the enemy's activity being mainly shown in intermittent canonades. The enemy, however, made. thres violent infantry attacks southeast of Ypres, which were repulsed.

We made substantial progress at Bois-le-Fretre

The enemy in the Vosges made several attacks on Mother Henri Beacon, north-west of Senounes, and were repulsed.

LONDON, December 14th:

1,20 a.m..

The Paris evening announcement states that German attacks north-east of Ypres and on the railway station at Aspach were repulsed.

After the engagement in the Bois-le-Freire region 240 German corpses were found. French Government telegram via Peking.

THE FIGHTING IN POLAND.

SUCCESSFUL RUSSIANZOFFENSIVE CONCLUDED IN MLAWA REGION.

LONDON, December 14th.

8-35 a.m.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15TD. 1811

A Petrograd official announcement says --- We have successfully concluded an offensive along the whole front.. in the Mlawa region. We have captured the enemy's positions at Przasnysz and Ciechanow, and have pursued him towards the frontier.

A cavalry charge inflicted heavy loss on the enemy.

The Germans continue a desperate offe sive on the Lowicz-Flowo

front, and are losing heavily.

We

captured a new position north of Bzara.

The battles south of Cracow and on the Carpathians continue

unchanged.

SERBIANS FORCE THE AUSTRIANS ACROSS THE

Drian

DRINA.

LONDON, December 13th.

4.50 p.m.

A Paris communiqué says:- The Serbines, on the extreme left, forced the enemy across the

The Serbians also continue to drive the Austrians back in a northerly and north-easterly direction.

LONDON, December 14th,

5.30 4.00.

An official statement, issued from Nish, eays that the Serbians

their continued pursuit of the Austrians on the 11th inst, def

defeating all attempts by the enemy to arrest their retreat. The Serbians are now advancing on Belgrade and Mladenovatz: The Serbians captured on the

11th inst. 2,220 Austrians, twenty guns, and much materiál.

PARIS, December 12th. From the 4th to the 10th December, the Serbian Army took 21,000

prisoners-French Government Telegram.

ALLIES CONGRATULATE SERBIA.

The Allies have addressed to the King of Serbia congratulations

upon the brilliant conduct of the Serbian troops in routing three Austrian

Army Corps and on the capture of more than 20,000 prisoners,~~linvas Telegram.

A MONTENEGRIN SUCCESS;

LONDON, December 14th.

8.35 am:

A telegram from Cettinje says that the Montenegrins have occupied

Vischegrad, and have captured many prisoners anu a quantity of stores.

BULGARIA AND GREECE.

MIXED COMMISSION FOR FRONTIEN DISPUTES.

LONDON, December 14th. Bulgaria has accepted a proposal made by Greece for the appointment of a mixed Commission for the settlement of Frontier disputes,

BRITISH SUBMARINE'S THRILLING EXPLOIT.

TURKISH BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED IN THE DARDANELLES.

LONDON, December 14th.

12.60 p.m

The Official Press Bureau announces that Submarine 17 (Lieut- Commander Holbrook) entered the Dardanciles, and, despite the difficult currents, dived under five rows of mines and torpedoed the Turkish battleship Afresqudiych, which was guarding the minefield. B 11, although pursued by gunfire and torpede-boats, returned safely. She was submerged on one occamon for nine houre. When last seen, the Messoudiyeh was

sinking by the stern.

[The Mensoudiych was a very old battleship of 9,100 tone displace ment, with an indicated horse power of 11,000. She carried as her principal armament two 9.2-inch and twelve 6-inch gunt]

[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAMS:]

MINES CLOSING DOWN IN GERMANY,

It is reported that all mines in the industrial regions of Germany are closing down and that the miners are being sent direct to the Western front without any preliminary training. The shortage of coal is already. being fel oven in Berlin where part of the gaa lighting is not working. A report that the sale of motor tyres to private persone is forbidden, except with the special permission of the Government, shows the growing shortage of rubber in Germany.

EAST AFRICAN MOSLEMS AND THE WAR

A telegram from British East Africa reports an interview with Sheik All who stated that the making of war against Great Britain was quite without effect on the Moilon population in East Africa who recognise that Turkey is the tool of Germany The Moslems recognise the benefits of British rule which assures religious freedom.

The Sultan of Zanzibar has issued a loyal address to the Moslems

of the coast region.

THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS TO SECURE TURKEY'S

PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR.

Further evidence of the extraordinary preparation mado by Germany for the participation of Turkey in the war is furnished by a dispatch from the late British Ambassador to Constantinople. The Syrian towns were filled with German officers, the Bedouins on the Egyptian frontier were bribed, and orders had been given for the manufacture of Indian military uniforms in Aleppo to simulate the appearance of the British Indian troops.

Although the majority of the Turkish Government was against war with the Allice they made no effort to escape the influence of this insidious campaign. The Press, which is entirely in German hands, made scurrilous attacks against Great Britain, and the hands of the Fence Party were forced by the War Party under Enver Pasha. The final cause of the rupture was the invasion of Egyptian territory by Turkish Bedouins and the unprovoked attack of the Turkish Fleet on the Russian Black Sea: porte, at the instigation of Germany.

HOW CAN MEN DIE BETTER?

A TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN.

BY A PEACE ADVOCATE,

THE AYTHAGE SAN

"I am not thinking of the rare achieve ments that win a V. Cor a Cross of the Legion of Honour, but of the common necessary heroism of the average men; the long endurance, the devoted obedience, the close-banded life in which self-sacrifice is tho pormal rule, and all mea may be forgiven except the man who saves himself of the men who share their last biscuits at the expense of his comrade. I think with a starving peasant, who help wound-

Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, has written a notable pamphlet on How Can War Be

of the Right ??__one excellent Oxford Pamphlets (2d)ed comrades through days and nights of Always a peace advocate, opposed to horrible retreat. who give their lives to

save mates or officers. the Boer War, the translator of Euri-

Or 1 think again of the expressions pidea"Trojan Women, the first great on faces that I have seen or read about, denunciation of war in European litera-something lort and glad and self respecting in the eyes of those who are ture, he is 305 compelled to admit that going to the front, and even of the wounded who are returning. Never once writes one correspondent, not once since I came to France have I seeh among the soldiers an angry face or heard an angry word. They are always quiet, orderly, and wonderfully cheerful

we were right to enter this war

The most moving part of this pamphlet (cays Public Opinion) is that in which he pays high tribute to our men and admite a feeling of almost passionate admira-

tion for them.

MEN MUST DIE SOME TIME.

THEIR HEIÐISM

SOMEEMDEN" HOWLERS.

Among the subjects at the recont examination for promotion in the clerical service in Penang, says the Straits Echo was an account of the visit of the Emden to this port. Three candidates, who shall be nameless, distinguished themselves by finishing off their efforts as follows:-

(1)Having sunk the Russian slip, the Emden fred at the oil tanks at Bagan Luur, but missed then, at which the manager was glad

(2.)When she had sunk the Russian cruiser, the Emden left the port without giving notice of her departure, contracy to the rules and regulations of the Harbour Department.

(3)When she had sunk the Russian cruiser, the Emden departed without firing at the town. This was a good thing,. as the Volunteers were at the cable station with no one to look after them.

TSINGTAO AND SHIPPING.

The Rickmers Siberian Line steamer Ellen Rickmers, which fled into the port of Tsingtao for refuge soon after the outbreak of the war oud remained at anchor there, had her hull badly damaged by the bombardment during the recent siege and sank in the main harbour together with another German stoamer, the Durendurt. The last vestige of the Ellen Rickmers is cow visible tear the floating dock the top of her funnel- emerging above water, riddled with bullets.

Japanese reperis state that af fairway for ingress into Kiaochou Buy was opened last week and a warship of the Second Squadron made a trial entry into the port. The main harbour is, however, inaccessible at present, the entrance still being fraught with danger. Half the number of the 297 mechanical mies laid by the Germans have so fur been fished up. The objects thrown into the Bay or sunk by explosion will prob ably be sold by auction as a more ready and proatable means of disposal, says a Tientsin contemporary

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THE IDEAL DISTEMPER

Speaking at the general meeting of the, 87th, Baron Kondo, the president, company, held at Tokio on November expressed regret that, notwithstanding their exertions and good fortune, the "SYNOLEO" company had not been able to escape the general oss which the war had inflicted oa commerce, and so could not show an altogether satisfactory account of their work during the past half-year. As for that the most sanguine estimates could the present half-year Baron Kondo said not put a term to the war which would

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THE question of wall decoration is

give this a chance of its ocing any better one which should secure Brat consideration than the last half-year. Apart from the war, however, the foreign services must in the decoration of the Home be regarded as the life of the company.

SYNOLEO is. the Distemper and the question of the subsidies for these is to come before the Diet when it mesta a few days Eerce, the present subsidies supplied in a beautiful range of artistic expiring on December 31st. According tints, suitable for inside or outside use, to the company's information, they pan- not hope for the subsidies to be renewed which produces that soft velvet finish so on the same generous scale es heretofore looked for in modern House decoration, and the company has already to consider how it shall face the close of its business year next September. In the event of the subsidies being cut down, a special meeting of the shareholders will be called and their views sought on the course to

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And no one who has followed the war reed be told of their heroism. I do not Men mus die some time," says Pro- forget the thousands left on the battlefield 1 b faken. It will devolve on this meeting fessor: Murray, and, if we dare really to die or the groaning of the wounded to formulite and settle the future policy information to the Manufacturers to confess the truth, the thing that mostounding all day between the crashes of of the company

of us in our hearts long for the thing which either means ultimate happiness or eise in greater and dearer to men than happiness, is the power to do our duty and, when we die, to have done it,

The behaviour of our soldiers and sailors proves it.The last I saw of him was on the after bridge, doing well." The words come in the official report made by the captain of one of our lost cruisers, But that is the kind of epitaph nearly all men crave for themselves, and the wisest men, I think, even for their nation. ZWAR NOT AIL EVIL.

the guns. But there is a strange deep gladness as well. One feels an extra- ordinary freedoni, says a young Russian officer, in the midst of death, with the bullets whistling around. The same with all the soldiers. The wounded all want to get well and return to the fight. They fight with tears of joy in their eyes

WILL OF THE LATE MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN

WILKINSON.

HEYWOOD & CLARK, LD.

(HONGKONG BRANCH),

Alexandra BuILDING.

Telephone: 703.

Hongkong, 17th November, 1914 [13613

CALDBECK,

(ESTABLISHED 1664).

Among the wills proved on October 30th was that of the late Mr. Joseph Chamber lain, who died on July 2nd. He left human nature is a mysterious thing, unsat led estate in his own disposition of adds Professor Murray, and man finds the gross value of £120,019, with ret his weal and woe not in the obvious places, personalty £123,408. The executors, to To have something before you, clearly whom probate has been granted, are his reen, which you know you must do and sons, Mr. Joseph Austen Chamberlain, can do, and will spend your utmost P., and Mr. Arthur Neville Chamber "And if we accept this there will follow that is one form at least of very high 41,000 to the executors of his will, to he strength and perhaps your life in doing, lain, of Birmingham. The testator lett further consequences. War is not all evil, happiness, and one that appeals the distributed as gifts He also left It is a true tragedy, which must have facts prove it not only to saints and £90,000 to ench of his daughters, Beatric sobleness and triumph in it as well as heroes but to average men. Doubtless the Mary, Florence Ide, and Caroline Hilda, disaster. This is dangerous few who are wise enough and have enough £10,000 upon trust for his granddaugh ground. The subject lends itself to foolish imagination may fed opportunity for ter, Mary Hilda Richards. To his wife bombast, especially when accompanied by that same happiness in everyday life, but he left £500 absolutely, and £40,000 upon a lack of true imagination. We must not

in war ordinary men find it. This is the trust, to pay to or not less than £2,000 begin to praise war without stopping to inward triumph which lies at the heart per annum On her decease, this sum is refect on the hundreds of thousands of of the great tragedy."

to be divided as to one eighth to each of human beings involved in such horrors of BE SAVED OTTERS.

his daughters, one-eighth upon trust for pain and indignity that, if here in our Professor Murray cites by way of illus Richards, and the balance to his two sons, Mary Hilde his granddaughter. ordinary hours we saw one man so treated, tration the following story of an

Austen and Arthur Neville, in equal the memory would sicken us to the end of unidentified private of the Royal Irish M our lives; we must remember the harzos Regiment who deliberately threw away his shares. The residue of his proper MACGREGOR&C. remember the gentle natures brutalised. by hardship and filth, and the once decent fs in order to warn his comrades of an his son, Joseph Austen, and one-fourth persons transformed by rage and fear into ambush, told by a wounded corporal of to his son, Arthur Neville The testator

the West Yorkshire Regiment now in younger brother, Bir Arthur Chamber devils of cruelty. But when we in hospital in Woolwich

lain, chairman of Kynoch. Ltd., left realized tha,, we may venture to see in the fight in which I got hit was in

unsettled property of the gross value of this wilderness of ovil some cases of extra a little village near to Rheims, We were £143,588. ordinary good.

working in touch with the Trench corps on our left, and early one morning wo These men who are engaged in what were sent ahead to this village, which we seems like a vast public crime ought, one had reason to believe was clear of the would think, to fall to something below oceny. On the outskirts we questioned their average selves, below the ordinary a French lad. but he seemed scared and standard of common folk. But do they ran away. We went on through the long Day after day come streams of letters parrow street, and just at we were in From the fronty odd stories, fragments of diaries, and the like; full of the small sight of the end the figure of a man dashed intimate facts which reveal character, and Immediately the rifles began to crack in

out from a farm house on the right almost with one accord they show that front and the poor chap fell dead before these men have not fallen but rien. No he ranchotus, general court-martial, dated September doubt there has been some selection in the He was one of our men, a private of letters to some extent the writers repeat the Roval Irish Regiment. We learneil what they wish to have remembered, and that he had heen captured the previous say nothing of what they wish to forget.

day by a marauding party of German But, when all allowances are made cavalry, and had been held a prisoner at one cannot read the letters and the the form, where the Germans were in dispatches without a feeling of almost ambush for us. He tumbled to their game, passionate admiration for the men about and though he knew that it he made the whom they tell. They were not originally slightess sound they would kill him, he It has been discovered that the German a set of men chosen for their peculiar decided to make a dash to warn us of what who attempted to blow up HMS. Dwarf qualities. They were just our ordinary was in store He had more than a dozen/ with an infernal machine was a mission fellow-citizens, the men you mest on a bullets in him, and there was not the ary. When questioned as to how he crowded pavement. There was nothing to

BUT DO THEY

COLONELS CASHIERED.

London Gazette on October 30th Royal The following, notines appeared in the Warwickshire Regiment Licut-Colonel John F. Elkington is cashiered sentence of a general court-martial, date Fasilics Lieut. Colonel Arthur E Eeptember 14th, 1014 Rofal Dublin Mainwaring is cashiered by sentence of 14th, 1014

SOLDIER AND MISSIONARY.

A British Legation telegram published: in bangkok papers says

suggest that their conduct in common te slightest hope for him. We carried him reconciled his action with his profession, was better than that of their neighbours into a hones intil the fight was over, and he said he was a soldier frst and s

then we buried him next day with military missionary afterwards. Yot now, under the stress of war, having honours. His identifiertion disc and

a daty before them that is clear and everything else was missing, so that we unquestioned and terrible, they are daily could only put over his grace the tribute doing nobler things than we most of us that was paid to a greater: He saved have ever had the chants of doing thing others himself he could not save There nede for the Chinese school boy who which we hardly dare hope that we might won't dry eye among us when we laadeferred to the antics of the be able to do.

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