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THE

WAR.

ATTEMPTED AEROPLANE RAID

ON ENGLAND.

BRITAIN'S REPLY TO

AMERICAN NOTE.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GENERALL

BOMBS DROPPED ON DUNKIRK.

GERMAN

LONDON, January 11th..

3.55 a.m.

A Dunkirk telegram states that a dozen German aviators flew over, the town and Deighbouring communes on Sunday and dropped about thirty bombs..

Owing to the precautions taken, tre Casualties were few and the damage not very important.

ATTEMPTED

AEROPLANE

RAID ON ENG LAND. SIXTEEN GERMAN AEROPLANES SEEN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 1995,

TO

(THROUGH WEUTEL'S AGENCY.)

BRITAIN'S REPLY

AMERICAN · NOTE. AMERICA'S EXPORTS ENORMOUSLY

INCREASED. -

LONDON, January 10th.

11.20 p.m.

Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a reply to the United States Note, entirely recognises the very friendly spirit of the representa- tions, and says: "Our reply is in the

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[HAVAS SERVICE GERMANS REPULSED IN THE of

CAMEROONS.

PARIS, January th Germans made a violent attack on Edea, in the Cameroons, but they were repulsed with very heavy losses. Our losses were trifling.

[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CABLE]

·AUSTRIAN FORCE ROUTED NEAR BELGRADE,

An official statement published at Nish says that

Austrian Force which occupied an island near Belgrade were surprised and rented by Serbians who took about 60 prisoners..

an

OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

It is officially anounced at Pretoria that the Union Forces occupied Schuitdrift on the 5th inst., losing five wounded. Germans fled across, the Orange River.

[FROM THE ORUNG NOOI SAN PO."] AN EX-GOVERNOR ARRESTED.

PERING, January 11th... Cheong Poy-chuck, formerly Governor of Szechuan, has been arrested at Tientsin on a charge of complicity with banditki.

Ten

persons altogether have been arrested and

informers have been rewarded:

THE YAMENS OF THE GOVERNORS.

PERING, January 11th. The proposal to change the place of residence of the Civil Governors in several of the Provinces has not yet been decided upon.

WAR NEWS.

THE GERMAN LEVY ON BELGIUM.

RAID ON AN ANTWERP:

BANK.

GERMAN SEARCH FOR GOVERN-

MENT FUNDS.

The Brussels correspondent of the Telegraaf states that the Governor of Brabant has summoned representatives of

A telegram received at Amsterdam, financial houses for the purpose of ac

November 30th from Antworp by the quainting, them of details concerning the Telegraaf staten that traders there are war indemnity demanded from Belgium greatly excited by the German proceedings The Governor stated' that an indemnity of the previous week. It is well known toat of 35 million frances (£1,400,000) would the National Bank and Treasury conver- be demanded monthly for the maintenance ed their funds betimes to London. The of the German troops. Besides this Be! Germans never believed, however, that the gium will be obliged to pay 375 million Government had exported the whole of its francs-as punishment for resisting the funds. They consistently imagined that violation of her neutrality and part of the Treasury funds were deposited indemnification of the losses which the in a private bank." Prestiminhly Berlin Germans have incurred.

advised the German Government -in Brussels that part of the Belgian State property had been deposited in the cus- tody of the firm of MB, Bunge, a born Dutchman, but the leading collaborator of Leupold II. fer the payment of the Congo Free State. After the Stale had. been taken over by Belgium, M. Bonge retained immense interests in the colony: The Germans therefore regarded the Ber lin communication as not improbable.

SHIP IN A FOREST.

'SURPRISING FIND IN THE PACIFIC,

A lieutenant-commander of the Austra lian Flect describes in a letter printed in a London paper how he discovered: a German ship hidden in a forest. He was engaged in scouring the blessed main," Pro-as he puts it, in search of the Comet and

the Planet

[One of the changes proposed is to remove the Yamen of the Governor of Pukien vinco from Foochow to Amoy.} AN ASYLUM FOR THE AGED. The

PEKING, January 11th. The Government proposes to establishi an asylum for the aged.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK..

LONDON, January 10th.

2.35 p.m.

A incssage from Athens says that the

LECTURES ON HOME NURSING.

A series of lectures on Home Nursing, will be held at the roums of the Catholic

same spirit of frankness, which will boy Porte s concentrated all the subjects Women's League, 26 Caine Road, (next

serve the continuance of cordial Anglo- American relations." The reply concurs in the principle that a belligerent, deal- ing with trade between neutral nations, should not interfere unless it was neces sary to protect the belligerent's national safety, and says. Great Britain would

LONDON, January 11th.

7.15 a.. The Times states that sixteen German acroplanes were seen lying over the Channel yesterday morning, evidently intending to make a raid on England, endeavour to adhere to the principle on but, owing to the weather conditions the understanding that it admits the which prevailed, they turned towards right to interfere when trade is not bond- fide between the United States and a neutral, but contraband destined, for the enemy. Great Britain was ready to make redress when the action unintentionally exceeds the principle.. The reply em phasises that a misconception exists as to

Dunkirk

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ARTILLERY DUELS,

LONDON, January 10th.

5.95 p.m. To-day's Paris communiqué says:-

rom the sea to the Oise there have been artillery duels. The enemy, despite counter-attacks, were unable to retake Their lost trenches, and again bombarded Soissons.

the extent to which it is the practice to interfere with trade.

Sir Edward Grey quotes figures show- ing that the American imports into Den- mark, Sweden, Norway, and Italy enor mously crooed those in 1913, while into Holland they are about the same. Con- sequently, in view of such figures, ho could

of the Entente Powers and Greeks Aleppo.

in

door to the Italian Convent) on Mondays, 18th and 95th January, Tuesday, 2nd, and Mondays, 8th and 15th February, at 81 There are serious aggravations of ap.m Should it be considered necessary Greco-Turkish crisis:

LATE TELEGRAMS.

SENTENCED TO DEATH. FATE OF AN ENGLISH PRISONER

LONDON, January 1st. An Amsterdam message says an English war prisoner named Lonsdale, who was sentenced on December 2nd to ten years' imprisonment for refusing to obey and assaulting a guard when urdered to work was sentenced to death on retrial by a superior military court.

The report of the retrial in the German papers shows that no new evidence was offered. Lonsdale admitted he assaulted the guard, but declared that he was first

struck with a bayonet.

guards.

to extend the series, the lectures will take place on subsequent Mondaye.

"We anchored in a little harbour, and went up the creek in a small boat explor: ing, when one of my chaps who was walk ing along the beach ran into a great yellow fannel · from the land side. He hopped back and got a couple of armel hoots erows and drove into the bushes, and found D Norddeutscher Lloyd

stemmer !

IL

She was simply covered in foliage and palms to her mastheads, perfectly ean- conled. Wo, had her on in no time, and the skipper, a very decent follow, German Naval Reserve man, told me he had tried to get away three times, hat that each time he had seen one of my patrol ships, and had gone back and rofestooned his ship with foliage, She is safely at anchor here at Rabol at present."

SEARCH FOR CANNON IN A CATHEDRAL. ·

PITFALLS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Ladies (non-members of the League) who may wish to attend the lectures, are requested to send in their naires without delay, to Miss Loureiro, 2, The Albany. Fugitives from Jerusalem report that In order to defray expenses of the Stall it quiet there, though the monasteries, John's Ambulance Association fee, band-convents, and other buildings belonging ages, etc., there is a fee of 92 (notes). Any to subjects of the Allied Powers have been surplus which may remain after paying seized by the military, all expenses, will be forwarded to the Association which is doing such good work in nursing the wounded in the pre- sent war.

About 10 days ago, says the telegram, several officers, accompanied by a strong guard, visited M. Bunge's office and for bade all exit Strangers waiting before the counters were detained, while the firm's highest officials were subjected to an investigation conducted with the great- cat brutality. When this had lasted fully two hours, persons who were not in the employment of the firm were released. The employees, however, were detained until the first examination of the books had been concluded. This lasted two full days, during which time the prisonore were not permitted to leave the office for the purpose of obtaining food or Test, The Germans finally sealed the safes and confided the books to the director of the branch office of the Berlin Disconto Gesellschaft, which was established in Antwerp only a few months before the outbreak of the war. The director examined the books of his strongest com- petitor, keeping them for over a week, and derived information from them of immeasurable service to his bank. Mean- while M. Bunge's house necessarily crased work completely, the employer being un- able to pay his clerks,

Here are some things

The Trident must be in our fists,

GERMAN UTTERANCES PRIOR On the strength of the statement of a

TO 1914. frightened lad who knew a smattering of English that two.

"canons." were Germany says that Great Britain attached to the British St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, Turkish officers, plotted the War. refusing to accept assurances that the that Germany said before 1914 :--- canons had nothing to do with artillery, tore up the floor of the edifice and destroyed part of the altar.

Great efforts are being made, so the fugitives report, to excite the population of Jaffa, where the German and Austrian Consular official applanded an orator who Heaverred that Great Britain had closed nli Mr. Philip Holt the mosques and universities in India. The next great straggle of the Germans

DEATH OF MR, P. H. HOLT. The death took place on 27th November at Liverpool, of Mr. Philip Henry Holt,

partner in Messrs.

Alfred

hitt C, managing owners of the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company A witness for the prosecution said the and the Ocean Steamship Company.

in his 85th year. English prisoners jeered at the Landsturmrns the last survivor of the five sons of Times

Mr. George Holt, the founder, early last century, of a well-known firm of Liverpool Cotton brokers. He was associated com- mercially with his brother, the late Mr. Alfred Holt. He had great administra live ability, and was besides a generous philanthropist, his public benefactions

The Socialist Deputy David, writing in the Foregerts, protests in the strongest terms against the revolting execution of an unfortunate youth carried away by excitement while living under abnormal condition's.

Our artillery, from Rheims to Argonne, not believe that the United States would THE RAID ON CUXHAVEN running to a large amount; i

fired with great effect on the enemy's tranches, and dispersed groups of nurks-

men

We repelled a counter-attack at Perthes, and organised all the positions gained:

We made double progress at Beau Sejour, gaining ground to the westward and seizing a redoubt to the northward.

The Germans bombarded the region of Four-de-Paris, and we replied and destroyed a German block-house. The enemy's efforts had been directed at a hill 263 metres westward of Boureuilles. All our positions have been maintained.

Our artillery stopped an attack in the Forest of Apremont. We also repulsed- attacks in the Vosges; at Wattetiller, and ThanD:

LONDON, January 11th.

2.15 a.m.

The evening communiqué issued "av Paris says:

In Champagne last night two German counter-attacks were repulsed-north of Perthes and north of Beau Sejour,

question the propriety of Great Britain FLIGHT COMMANDER HEWLETT'S taking suspected cargo to the Prize Court,

EXPERIENCES.

LONDON, January 2nd. Flight-Commander Hewlett, who has.

LO. returned

Ymuiden, has stated/

A CONTRACTOR'S CLAIM." In the Summary Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Coupertz, Chan Tung Bang sued the Wang Yick firm, and Lein

Our endeavour is, in the interests of national safety, to prevent neutral that ho commanded IL squadron Shiu Chuen, managing partner thereof, countries becoming a bass of supplies for of nine aeroplanes aboard three for $675.48, balance due on account of

warships, Only eight ascended, one work done and materials supplied. the enemy, and to intercept goods really having developed defects. Flight-Com- Mr. Agnesiz, for the plaintiff, said that destined for the enemy without interfer-mander Hewlett, who was leading, the work done was on the Blindenheim and entered a thick fog and found himself the Spanish Mission in 1913. The contract ing with goods which are bond-fide near the Schleswig cost. When the mist was not disputed, nor was there any ques cleared, the airman perceived that he had on over the work done. The defendants lost his direction. Descending at a cer- said that items were inaccurately inserted The reply concludes by saying that Histain point, he re-ascended, and flow over in the account,

The hearing was adjourned. stean, behind Heligoland A formidable Majesty's Government would gladly enter the German Fleet and trawlers, under. into an arrangement whereby mistakes fire was directed on him, and he was not and he believes hit one warship, because. will be avoided and reparation promptly inactive, for he dropped several bombs secured when there is any injury to

soon.afterwards dérise smoke arose. neutral owners.

neutral."

DRITISH PRESS COMMENTS ON THE REPLY.

The papers are confident that Sir Edward Grey's reply will be favourably received in the United States, and will convince the mass of Americans that the grievances have no solid foundation and

In Argonne two slight German attacks clear the way for a full and complete at Fontaine Madaine and St. Huniert agreement. They emphasise that it is

characterised by the same friendly yet! by the sare failed.

frank and practical spirit which marked the. American Note.

There was a lively cantonade in the direction of Hill 208, west of Boureuilles and along the Meurissons rivulet..

The Morning Post, while commenting There were no attacks on the rest of the in a similar strain,on the conditions of the front and the night was calm.

Government's abandonment of the old practice of confiscating all enemy goods FRENCH PREMIER'S SON

nantrals

ships, says every pound of food and raw material entering Germany

KILLED.

PARIS, January 8th.

on

Flight Commander Hewlett says he tried to find the British Flect, but the motor was running hot and he was forced to descend, when he was picked up by a Dutch trawler.

BRITISH HORSE ARTILLERY AND CAVALRY. WARM PRAISE FROM COMMANDER

IN-CHIEF..

TROUBLESOME CHINESE

SEAMEN,

COSSACKS' NIGHT RAID.

·GERMAN · WOMEN, DRESSED AS SOLDIERS.

An exploit by sixty Don Cossacks who captured 300 German cavalrymen nal found out much of interest for their.com- manders in a night raid upon Czensio- chowa is described by the Morning Posts eorrespondent, The Germans have long been and still are in occupation of Czestochowa, which was seized in the first week of the war without opposition. They feel quite at home there, having murdered most of the inhabitants in the manner universal with German troops opening this wat of conquest, as the term it, or war of shame, as the rest of the world calls it.

These threescore Don Cossacks were out scouting, with special instructions to and out what was going on in Czenstochowa. Riding quietly within half a mile, they divided into ten sections of six men each and, timing a concerted movement, dashed into sleeping Czenstochowa simultaneous ly from all sides. They killed a consider able number of startled Germans, whi know not where to hide, and created a panic throughout the town.

They met in the centre of Czenstochown, When

dressed in soldiers'

THE KAISER'S SPOTTED PIG

wer:

At the Marine Court yesterday, three and drove off before them to their own Chinese employed on the Irish fonarchlines three hundred prisoners. were charged, the first two with unlaw- these came to be examined forty fully combining to interfere with thefound to be women:

uniforms. navigation of the ship while on her voyage from Whampoa to Hungkong, and the third with wilfully disobeying the layful commands of the master. The Master, Mr. R. H. Potter stated that one of the defendants (Choy Chuen) refused to do his dury and was dealt with by him.

How the Kaiser just before the nut. under the articles. The following day-the LONDON, January 2nd. other two defendants were seen convers breas of war bought a pig of the newly Sir John French, in a speech to a ng with some of the men, who thereupon revived breed known as Gloucester Old battery of Royal Horse Artillery, said no

left their work and went up on deck na Spots and sent the money but never branch of the Bervice kad done better body. The master found them there and received the pig was told to a representa- ordered thea to return to their tive of The Daily Mail by the secretary work than the Horse Artillery.dk

This battery was continuously in action duty. They refused to go until he of the Old Spots Society, for tea deys, during which a cavalry told them what he was going to do about corps also performed ··2, feat neverChoy Chuen. Defendants were sent to approached by cavalry in the past. Iprison for six weeks, Choy Chuen being held up determined attacks of two Army ordered to pay for his kexp out of the

wages due. Corps for forty-eight hours,

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

HONGKONG F.C. STAFF AND DEPARTMENTS.

EDUCATION FOR ALL IN CHINA,

and of their merits as becon pigs, with

a picture of a typical specimen, appeared.

THE KAISER

We have reckoned with France and Austria. The reckoning with England. has still to come.--TREITSCHRE

will be a combat for the annihilation of England.--PROFESSOR DELURVEOK.

It is an insult to the German Army to compare the British soldier with the Germans-COUNT BELOW.

We are ready to make use of the sword (against England) at a given moment..

DE. VON HEYDEDBAND, (Conservative Leader in the

Neichstag). Anglo-German war cannot be avoided.

'novisson DELBRUECK.

May nur German Fatherland be des- tined to become as commanding as was ones the Roman World Empire.

*

-THE KAISER,

In Germany there is ferce hatred of England-DIE ZEIT.

The conditions of Germany's develop ment and her rivalry with England for world-power will of themselves bring about a fatal collision.-DE POST.

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If an honest endeavour were made to make Germany the first Power in the world the Socialist Party give it unquali- fied support-HERR BEEL (Leader of German Socialists)

The landing of a great German Army in England is a mere master of money.

-HERG RUDOLPH MARTIN,

*

As far as Germany is concerned there will be no disarmament, no arbitration, and no naval agreement with Great Britain. The old saying still holds. good that the weak will be the prey of the strong.

-HERE, VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEO, (German Imperial Chancellor

-KREUZ ZEITUNG.

The German risk in an Anglo-German Details of the revival of the Old Spots war is not nearly so great as the English.

~COUNT REVENTLOW.

British naval supremacy under all Inter the society waived from the circumstances is doomed, in the Haily Mail last May: A few days Kaiser's agent an application for parti culars to be sent to Potsdam. This was followed by an order for a thoroughly There was some representative, buar, delay in sending the pig owing to ques- POLICEWOMEN IN CANTON.

Germany

Immediately after the revolution in A lengthy Mandate was published by tions of trasport intu the President of the Republic of China Eventually the secretary received the The Hongkong F.C. will play the Staf on the Ist inst. urging upon the nation money asked, with instructions for ship Cayton three years ago there were woman will proportionately prolong the war. and Departments on the Club Ground at the great importane of educating the ping the animal viú Hamburg, where it legislators in the Provisional Assembly, a score of policewomen are employed by It is officially announced that the why deal tenderly, it asks, with the trade Happy Valley on Wedeesday, play to people. It says that owing to the was to be franked ashore. The pig was and how to prevent another revolution

commence at 4.40 p.m. sharp. The follow internal turmoil following upon the on the point of being embarked when war of Germany who has dealt so ruthlessly ing will represent the ClubR. C. revolution and the inauguration of the broke cut, snd an urgent telegram was the police department, says the Canton As proved by the woman legislator No orders have yet bien reived. A Cantonese women are still equal to men with the property and food of civilians in Barlow; A. Hamilton and M. Railton; Republic, the Government had not had received: Don't ship pig until further correspondent of the Peking Daily News.

Whitmarsh, Stewart, and W. B. Rigden; time to devote much attention to this crdera, "

"We have the pig in judgment and in alertness. Many of Belgium, France and Poland. The Allies N. V. Croucher, J. Wood, J. Fraser, J. question. Now, the nation is compara-

Stalker, and F. W. A. Wilkie. Those tively at rest, the moral culture and the the secretary said: have already been injured too much by unable to play are requested to inform general education of the people should be and the money, too. Of course as than the policewomes now on service as found taken in band at once. To tim should ship it cr an equally good animal who tardy, many arriving long after their me

By that time the such relaxations in deference to neutral the Captain as early as possible..

be to make education within the reach of the order arrives all classes. With this objec in view, Kaiser may he setting up as a farmer, comrades have gone to their rounds. These interests. Further relexations would be

the President suggests two foremost steps and as a tribute to his discernment in the policewomen are employed to search intolerable.

to be taken, namely, the training of as matter of farm stock we will give him women entering the ancient city in order many schoolmasters as possible and the a start by making him a present of no check the smuggling of bombs end Recently many women were executed as rebel suspects. compilation of suitable Erson books. He supin of young sows to mate with the other unlawful articles by female rebels. period of primary or elementary educa also considers it advisable to x the or." tien at four years as the minimum time during which every child should attend

youngest son of M. Viviani, Fremier of France, was killed on the 22nd August during an attack delivered against the

German trenches.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

It is

announced

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE v. QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

The following are elected to play for the above Club, against the Queen's Col- lege, on the H.K.F.C ground to morrow, at 3 p.m. sharp-U. Omar; J. Bol Iard and J. Xavier; Jackson, H. Johnsen

[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CAELE.}

The Daily Chronicle also, in a more RUSSIAN NAVAL OPERATIONS.

moderate tone, remarks that in view of officially

at the Egure: quoted, the public are bound Constantinople that Russian warships to ask not whether the Navy has inter- bombarded Sinopo and sank all vessels in fered too much, but whether it has and L. G. Cordeiros O A. Goldenberg, school as in duty bound, although he basin that of the Ypres Tower, at Ryo, A London correspondent says the com- A Hamid, I. L. Goldenburg, L. Xavier not much faith in the citizens under Sussex, though local talk knows nothingfort of the troops in the trenches is of its proper pronunciation, and broadly carefully studied 200,000 sheepskin coa in and A Corre Reserves—Boontaits standing of their duty in such affairs. Daniel O'Connell.

calls it the Wipers Tower.!!

harbour,

interfored enough.

There is the name of Ypres in Englend

hare reached the front.,