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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2514.

THE WAR.

THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY,]

THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE

AND BELGIUM.

To-day's Paris communiqué

LONDON, December 23rd.

4.30 p.m..

Yesterday we made slight progress between the sea and the road from Nieuport to Westondo, and also in the districts of Steenstraate and Bixschoote, where we captured a wood, some houses, and a redoubt.

We recaptured, in co-operation with the British, the village

of Givenchy-Les-La Bassco...

A thick fog in Arras checked our activities

There have been artillery engagements eastward of Amiens, on the Aisno, and also in Champagne.

At Perthes-les-Hurlus, after a lively cannonade and two assaults, we captured the last section of the enemy's line, making an average gain of 800 metres. We captured the last trench, with a detachment of quick- firers, men, and equipment. We repulsed a vigorous counter-attack.

We also progressed to the north-east of Beau Sejour, where the

cacy once made an unsuccessful counter attack,

There has been an appreciable advance at Bois-de-la-Grurie over a trench front of 400 metres, and a depth varying from 200 metres.

Wa blew up two German lines, and occupied the excavations thus

formed."

Fighting is proceeding in the region of Boureuilles, but the results scored yesterday, which were of some importance, do not appear to have been altogether maintained.

There is nothing to report elsewhere.

A Paris evening communiqué states:—

The progress of our attacks between the Meuse and the Argonne has been almost completely maintained. Our front in that region reached tko wire entanglements of the enemy at the south-west of Salient Bois-do-

Forges, to the east of Cuisy, which runs along the road leading from Bois

de Boureuilles. There was no other incident of importance.

THEIR MAJESTIES XMAS CARDS TO THE FORCES.

LONDON, December 24th- Every soldier in the trenches, mail overy sailor in the North Sea, along with those who are wounded in the hospitals, will

tomorrow

a personal greeting from the King and Queen on cards bearing their Majesties portraits and Christmas wishes in facsimile writing. The King "bus made a special sitting in khaki uniform for the soldiers, and in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet for the Navy. The card for both the

soldiers and sailors is inscribed as follows:- May God protect you and bring you home-safe."

The card for the wounded is inscribed as follows:-"May you soon

be restored to health.

The cards are enclosed in a special envelops bearing the Royal

Arms in a setting of crimson.

One hundred and eighty packing cases wore needed for the

conveyance of the cards.

THE RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

"GENERALLY FAVOURABLE ON ALL FRONTS.

LONDON, December 24th.

A Petrograd official statement says that the operations on the 22nd inst, were generally favourable to the Russian Arias on all fronts,

especially on the rivers Nida and Dunjetz and in the Carpathians.

The Germans concentrated their efforts during the night and all day on the 22nd inst. in an attempt to force the rivers Bzura and Rawa in ad

effort to reach Skierniwice. They were thrown back across the rivers to

their old positions, losing enormously.

·PORTUGAL TO BE ADDED TO WARRING NATIONS.

GERMANS ADVANCING IN FORCE AGAINST ANGOLA.

LONDON, December 23rd.

6.15 p.m. Reuter is officially informed that Germans from South-West Africa are advancing against Angola in force.

A mesago Irom Lisbon says that the Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution or confidence in the Government, and resolved to continue to defend tus republic vigorously, expedite arrangements for the Military defence ni bio Colonies, and preparations for intervention in the war on the side of eat Britain.

"LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE TO RE-OPEN,

LONDON, December 23rd.

It is officially announced that the Lendon Stock Exchange will

re-open on January 4th.

EXPLANATION OF AUSTRIAN DEFEAT.

LONDON, December 24th.

6.45 am. A Vienna communiqué explaining the defeat in Serbia, states that sufficient regard is not paid to the difficulties created by the bad weather which has made impossible the supply of the troops. Severe losses were thus inevitaulė.

Tho communiqué concludes by stating that Commander-in-Chief Fotiorek has resigned on account of health, and has been succeeded by Archduke Fagen.

WAR NEWS.

CIVILIAN COMBATANTS.

AMSTERDAM, November 10th. A proclamation issued in East Prussia urges the whole population to take up arms and maintain guerilla warfare against the Russians.

THE COST OF A SPY SYSTEM.

NEUTRAL OBSERVER WITH THE GERMANY ARMY.

BIG GUNS ITS SOLE ADVANTAGE,

The Temer publishes a long article from the pen of a neutral who accompanied the Germany Army into Northern France.. Hosays in part –

ELEGRAM.|

[TZROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ROYAL FAMILY AT SANDRINGHAM FOR CHRISTMAS.

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KOWLOON FLOUR MILL COLLAPSES.

LONDON, December 23rd,

AMSTERDAM, November 17th.

To put the matter in a few words, the Their Majesties the King and Queen solo advantage possessed at the prosent by have gone to Sandringham for Christmas. The Kaiser's recent order to the pen the heavy artillery, the great siego guns, eants of East Prussia to wage guerilla and the preponderance of machine guna. An enthusiastic crowd witnessed their warfare against the Russians is contrast Their individual rifle fire is, as a rule, departure. ed here with the Gorman excuse for the inferior to the French, and cannot for a devastation of Belgian towns and the massacre of Belgian citizens. It is moment be compared to the accuracy or pointed out that wherever a shot was officiency of the British. As 10 their alleged to have been fired in a Belgian (ransport, the best of it, including almost town or village the Germans sacked and all of the big motor vans and motor

somewhat sensational. incident: burned the place and ruthlessly shot its lorries, went with the Army of advance. leading citizens on the ground that givi

That of the Landwehr and Landsturm is occurred in Kowloon yesterday morning lians must be taught to be absolutely non- rather of a male shift character, furniture when an Indian flour mill suddenly cof- combatant during invasion. The Ger- vats and wagons of all sorts and descrip- lapsed and buried six employees, three of man proclamation to the inhabitants of ions having been pressed into service. In whom were seriously injured. The mill East Prussia, however, declares that these many cases the lettering, still visible, is situated in Austin Road, and it is sup methods of defence are permissible when shows them to have hoon commandeered posed that the vibration of the grinding the enemy crosses the frontier. It sum- since the arrival of the Army of Occupa- machinery proved too much for the shaky mong all to take up arms and preferably tion on Bulgian soil. The horses are of a structure which caved in without the to wear civilian dress in order to surprise very inferior quality, except those of the slightest warning. One of the employees, the enemy bettor.

Uhlans and mounted forces, an Indian, had both his legs broken, and Where the Germans obtained their vast he, along with two other men, was con- array of automobiles and motor cyclos veyed to the Government Civil Hospital. might at first be thought a mystery, but The other three employees who were buried The secrot intelligence department of out of the 80 that the writer saw gathered under the debris suffered greatly from the German War Office," says the Chaayo before the Headquarters, over one half shock. One of the injured employees, a Daily Journal, is the wonder of the world. were of foreign make, there being many Chinese woman, is so seriously injured But did the Kaiser ever stop to think English and a few American cars among that she is not expected to survive. what the perfection of that, spy system is them. One never sees a galloping orderly likely to cost his subjects war has lost much of its spectacular side.

When the war is over, tens of thousands of young Germans will seek the ends of the earth to rebuild their shattered fortunes for win or lose, Germany's commerce has been annihilated, and many of her people will emigrate. These young wen, perhaps themselves single-minded and innocent of guile, will find the sinister reproach of German spy staring them in the face wherever they turn. The whole British Empire will have no room for one of them. France, Belgium, and Holland will bar them Italy will keep them out. Argentina and perhaps Brazil will look on them with suspicion and even in the United States, a diploma tic dispute such as has occurred several times in the past will throw them out of employment.

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Secret information bought at the price of the distrust of the whole world

is too dear,"

GERMAN SUFFERINGS,

HOW TRENORES ARE BEGUN UNDEN FIRE.

DISTA

CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND

AUSTRIAN LINERS.

With the Army of Occupation are larg ambers of Gerinan boy scouts aged from 15 to 17 years, they are all mounted ori bicycles, and there are to every infantry racage from Peking appearing in the An Exchange Telegraph Company's regiment at least 10 bicycle scouts, and to London papers of November 17th states every brigade motorcycles as well, many that the Chinese Government is endeavour possessing English and American motoring to purchase a number of Austro-Lloyd cycles

steamers, now lying at Shanghai, for the The military motor-cars, almost without purpose of putting them on to the route exception, are equipped with wire cutters, to the United States under the Chinese

framework of light steel that protects flag. both lamps and extends over the heads of the occupants of the car, thus pro testing them from the wires which have often been stretched at night between the trees at about the height that would catch the recupants of a motor vehicle scross the throat,

A Besides the soup kitchens and army bakeries on wheels that trundle along with the Army, and keep steadily at work on the march, the German machine possesses travelling chemist shops, automobile repair wagons, and others for the repair ing of aeroplanes, each with a force of trained mechanics; a loro of wheelwrights and carpenters is in every division. Ia little or no time thoy transform a paxicab into an ambulance, espable of carrying eight men.

BRILLIANT FEAT OF ARMS.

400 GERMANS CAPTURED BY 50 BEITISH

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LONDON, December 12th. During the bombardment of Ypres on Tuesday the Germans shelled the railway stutión hoping to blow up au szinoured train, At the time a special train was in The burean of misinformation must the station conveying 1,000 German posse ad efficient, á staff as that of the prisoners to the south of France. Only intelligenes department. Only a week or 284 prisoners escaped injury 161 being so ago many of the German soldiers seriously wounded and the balanco, “being believed that the Allies were utterly killed. The corpses lie uuburied at the cefeated - General French was a prisoner, railway station.

MA and that their own troops were in Paris The Paris

correspondent of the Derly Mobs in Lendon were besinging the War Telegraph reports that interviews wir Office, alemouring for the war to cease wounded German soldiers show the following method of beginning treache under fire is common with the German army. First an officer selects a man and orders him to divest himself of his rifle and heavy pack, take a spade and march from the cover some paces in front. If the man hesitates the officer puts a re-records a feat of arma ucar Ypres by an volver to his head and covers him until English detachment of 30 soldiers, which, he has turned the first sod. The man separated from its regiment, made 400 seldom survives sufficiently long to turn prisoners. The episode, says the writer, more than two sods. A second, third, places in brilliant relief the tranquil and fourth man follow until the begin-heroism of our valinat British allies. It The gratifying announcement is made simples: aing of the trench is deep enough to cover was at the end of the day of November in the semi-official Kalnische Zeitung that Then another man is sent with 11th, considered by many combatants one the Kaiser has conferred the Iron Cross on an armour-plated shield which is setup of the most terrible since the cornmen co in the hole, thus enabling the rest of the ment of the campaign. The battle was the director of the Wolfi Dureau.

No man in Germany had a better claim men to work in comparative Safety. On at its maximum of intensity For the to it. He has raised lying to the status an average 15 men are shot down before tenth time perhaps, tho Germans the beginning of the trench is effected. returned to assault the Allies positions of a fine art. Mere mendacity has been The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspon between Hallebeke and Messines. thrown entirely in the shade by his colossal dent also states that many wounded Ger In course of the flux and refur of so efforts. Ananias was a child compared man soldiers have been brought to French determined a struggle detachment of with him, and met a just fate; for the hospitals naked, their comrades having an English infantry regiment found bungler, the fiery furnace; for the artist, stripped them in order to soad their itself isolated. In vain it sought to the Iron Cross clothes to Germany for drafts. A wound, retire, but the way was barred. Happily, Under the direction of this expert, the ed man said the German Red Cross offi- night fall, and the men in khaki found German Press for nearly four months has cials had orders, to pick up officers only, a refuge in a little wood in the neigh-poured a constant stream of splenetic unless there was ample room for men.bourhood. There they hid themselves, as abuse on Britain and all things British, Several times he saw severely wounded host they could, in the undergrowth, and no fiction has been too grotesque to men shot, as they lay on the field and whilst the officers consulted together. serve its purpore. It set out to fan the stripped of their uniforms and accoutre- Several solutions were examined, none flames of German hatred; it has succeeded ments before their bodies were cold. appeared: practical. The chief of the in making itself supremély ridiculous,

detachment then assembled his men, and SEUTTLING OUT OF INDIA. addressed them *RA follows" My The Tron Cross, however, has spurred friends, we are surrounded, and there is it to still more ambitious efforts. Here little chance of escaping from the fate is one of them, the source being the stend your liberty to the utmost. Now If we Germans wish to see the British which you all know I'm sure you will Fossische Zeitung:

A let us take a little rest. To-morrow we seuteling out of India we have an excellent will consider our positiva." means ready to hand towards hastening

These proud words were listened to such an eventuality with admirable flegme Not a man showed signs of fear, and when the major hired prisoners back to their own country. Let us do all we can to help our brown- ended the detachment stretched itself Then, as a running fire, the tidings will quietly on the ground and awaited

THE KAISER ON GERMANY'S

BRILLIANT SUCCESSES."

A copy of the Kaiser's order to his troops has boon found on German wounded in Each Prussia. It reads

Thanks to the valour of my heroes, Francs has been severely punished, Belgium, which interfered with our attack, has been added to our glorious provinces, while Germany's punitive expedition to Russia has also been a brilliant success. developments. The night was untroubled spread through every bazaar in India: The white sabibs have been beaten by the Geriaans."

But although we have received due requital for our affronted patriotism we must turn to the new task of protecting the hearths which moribund France and barbarous Russia are proparing to attack Henceforward the military operations must take a new form. It is necessary to con- centrate our energies upon the repulse of our enemies. Otherwise Germany may he transformed into an enslaved and degraded province of Russia or Tranoa,

Remember, rot one step backward into aur, country,

by any attack, but at dawn a violent fusillade broke out near the wood Profiting by the obscurity, the Allies had advanced close to the German lines and when day broke they commenced a vigor one counter attack.

No Afghan invasion, no boly war could possibly create so stupendous an upheaval in India against the arrogant, contemptuous overlords as the welcome Buddenly the major of the detachment news that Britain can be, and has been, had inspiration. Lie down," he conquered. It would be money well spent mid, and don't fire until I give the were we to build a golden bridge for every order. Some minutes Inter the Germans Gurkha prisoner to cross over on his home- were forced back upon the little woodward voyage

With each fresh arrival on the shores This was the moment awaited by the English officer. "Fix bayonete. Charge," of Hindustan another nail would be he cried. The men emtorged from their hatamered into the coffin of British

domination.

THE GERMAN SPY SERVICE IN Hiding places, flung themselves upon the

THE FIELD.

enemy, and threw them into confusion. Not knowing the number of their adversaries who had intervened so sud- denly in the fight, the majority of the Germans throw down their arms and surrendered to the number of 400. The others succeeded in getting away.

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THE CORMORAN INTERNED.

Remarkable instances are continually being discovered of the elaborate arrange ments made by the Germans to aid their spy service. A wonderful and of this sort was made recently at Laventic. The town had been formerly, in possession of the Germans. They were driven out of it, and it was occupied by the British,

The Navy Department, Washington, has The Germans in their turn bombarded it and our men had to retire for a while advised by the Governor of Guam Some time after, when the shell-fire had that the German converted cruisor censed, a party of British officers wont Cormoran had been interned there. The over the ruins to cammina the Cormarua is one of the ships which the explosions In the course of their inspection they came upon no fewer than four subterranean telephone lines run- ning towards the German positions, which had been laid by the Germans during their occupation to be used by their spies after they had retired.

caped from Tsingtau before the Japanese declared a blockade on Kiaochow.

The London Daily Telegraph's Shilling Fund for a Christmas Gift to King Albert for the Belgium people amounted on 5th | November to over a million shillings.

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