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THE WAR.

ALLIES GRADUAL PROGRESS.

RUSSIANS REPEL GERMANS AND TURKS.

FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY,]

-SUCCESSFUL ARTILLERY

WORK.

LONDON, January 15th

5.15 p.m.

To-day's Paris communiqué says :- There have been lively artillery combats from the sen to the Lys.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)]

THE SOISSONS CHECK.

LONDON, January 16th.

2.45.4.m,

THI HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH, 195.

à Paris message states that a number

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.

TO BAFFLE AIR RAIDERS.

LONDON, January 16th.

A Paris message states that the Paris police have ordered a general diminution of lights in order to baffle, as far as possible, any air raidera

FRENCH SOCIALISTS AND THE WAR.

LONDON, January 16th

A Paris message says that at a meeting of the French Socialist Party they declared in favour of the continuation of the war until the victory of the Allies is complete

NEW YEAR SENTIMENTS. LONDON, January 17th, On the occasion of the Russian New Year, Lord Kitchener and the Grand,

SERIOUS COLLISION IN CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WEST RIVER.

STANDARD OIL LIGHTER SUNK.

SHUI ON BADLY DAMAGED

AND BEACHED. PASSENGERS EXCITING

EXPERIENCE.

CONSCRIPTION FOR THONGKONG,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DALLY PREBB. 818-Thero is but little for me to reply to in the letters which you have pub lished on this subject.

I feel a beast to be about hore at: all now, but I have no choice. My two part nors are corritorials and were called up at once. One is already a Captain.Six altogether have joined from my firm, and of course we are forced to keep our officer open under the Treasury Scheme

"I am an able scaman in an auti aircraft gun crew ub night and 2nd Lieutenant in 2 Cadet Corps for drilling

As the result of a pollision with a bulky I am not surprised to find that both boys of 14 to 18 in the evening.

Standard Oil lighter the Buil which was anchored to the shore near Wong

ence.

Rookie" and "Common-Sense

..

busy at the office 6 days a week, so I am trying to do the little I can

A

DAILY PRESS,

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG

SI-think I am only one of many

The writer of the

kong pointed out..

of French were made prisoners in the Duke Nicholas of Russia exchanged cor, at full speed, crashed into somethingment of either the Volunteers or the Re- has not occurred to the nameless writer

Soissons check, but their number does not

exceed 1,000.

The Paris communiqué states that there is nothing fresh to report in relation to

We made some progress in the regions the day's fighting.

of Lombartzyde and Becelaere.

The Zouaves, in a brilliant attack with the bayonet, north of Arras, carried the. rood from Arrns to Lille.

Our gans at Latargette and St. Laurent silenced the enemy's batteries, wrecked two guns, and exploded an ammunition depot, and also destroyed works which the enemy was building.

The Germans attacked the village of St. Paul, two kilometres north-east of Boissons, and runnaged to enter it, but we re-took it immediately.

There has been a violent artillery fight in the region of Craonse and Rheims We frequently silenced the enemy's batteries, and also destroyed, at 8t. Mihiel, foot-bridges thrown across the Mense by the Germans,

.......

At Bois-de-Ailly we repulsed an attack on the trenches which we had captured.

Our infantry in the Vosges, to the south If Senones, aftor a lively fight, drove the Gernians back, cut their barbed wire entanglements, and filled

thair trenchies

yp

LONDON, January 16th..

5.00 p.m. Te-day's Paris communiqué says:- There have been artillery engagements from Nieuport to Ypres.

The enemy at Notre Dame de Lorette detook a portion of his lost trenches.

Our progress was continued at Blangy. We repulsed a violent attack westward of La Boiselle,

RUSSIAN FRONT.

RUSSIANS DRIVING BACK GERMAN CAVALRY.

LONDON, January 15th. 10.20 p.m.

A Petrograd communiqué states that the Russians on the right bank of the Vistula continue to drive back, the German Cavalry, which is supported by small infantry units, towards Thorn, which is some forty miles westward.

The enemy tried to occupy the fords of the rivere at Krawa, but failed, and con- tinued their retreat northward.

The German sttack in the region of Lotzon was defeated with heavy losses

Elsewhere the enemy made insigni- ficant and abortive attacks. ENTIRE TURKISH REGIMENT BAYONETTED.

LONDON, January 16th.

4:55 am

A Petrograd communiqué statce that in the Caucasus the Russians bayonetted an entire Turkish regiment at Karaargan, and captured a few of the survivors,

ed a few including the Commander. Other cap

tures included 5,000 prisoners, fourteen guns, enormous stores and 10,000 cattlo GENERAL.

[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CABLES.] OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

LONDON, January 17th.

Our artillery achieved appreciable From South Africe it is officially re Tesults at Soissons and Rheims. We disported that Raman's Drift, the principal persed a regiment which was assembling, caused an explosion of one of the enemy's Batteries, and demolished one of his

works.

The Germans fiercely bombarded Fon. Laine Madame.

A somewhat stubborn attack against our trenches at Flirey failed completely.

The Germans were forced to evacuate B crest northward of Clemery and east- ward of Pont-n-Mousson.

There have been artillery actions along the entire front of the Vosges.

There is no change in the position in Upper Alsace.

LONDON, January 17th.

2.10

A Paris

s' communiqué announces-We raptured another trench near Perthes, and also a wood 300 yards, beyond our lines north of Beausejour

Sorth of

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CABLES.]

OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM.

SUPERIORITY OF BRITISH GUNS.

LONDON, January 15th..

210 am.

In the report issued fo-day, the Eye- witness" emphasizes the great effective.

crossing of the Orango River into German territory, was occupied by Union troops on January 12th.

The Germans retired after skirmishes. THE CAPTURE OF SWAKOPMUND.

LONDON, January 17th. It is officially announced that the Union Forces occupied Swakopmund on Thursday morning. The British losses were two killed and one wounded,

(TEROUJE REUTER'S

AGENCY.)

LONDON, January 16th,

4.55 a.m.)

A metange from Pretoria states that Union forces have occupied Swakopmund, sustaining only three casualties in the operation.

dial telegrams, wishing success to the

Valiant Allies."

CONTRABAND. JAPANESE AND AMERICAN STEAMERS DETAINED.

LONDON, January 16th, A message from Vancouver states that the Japanese steamer Mexico Maru, and the American steamer Governor, have been detained on a charge that part of their cargoes is contraband.

HAVAS BERVICE.] RUSSIAN OFFICERS

DECORATED.

PARIS, January 15th.

The Military Medal has been conferred upon the Grand Duke Nicholas, and the Grand Officer's Star upon Generals: Janouchevitch, Dalinow, Rousky and Ivaspor.

(THROUGH REUTER BAGENCY.]

GERMAN SPIES' LIFE SENTENCE.

espionage..

LONDON, January 16th.

HAVAS SERVICE] FRENCH STOCK.

PAEIR,

January 15th: French Stock stands at 73.40,

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

con bar and, apparently, with her lights into my remarks mennings which they out, the Chinese West River boat Shus On were never intended to convey and which, damaged condition, her passengers having language, they cannot fairly be made to is now lying on the beach in a badly if I know anything of the English passed through a most exciting experiimply In saying this I do not for one moment impugs the honesty of your cor- It appears that the Shut On was make respondents' motives; it is their intelli-ho would like the " shirkers in Hong-

gence which is at fault People who are ing the return journey to Hongkang, and carried away by blind unreasoning, zeal article in your paper on the 13th inst., at about 8 o'clock on Saturday morning seldom pause to think whether they are must be a busy body. I will ask him she had reached Wong-moon par. Fifteen being fair to the object of their attack how he knows that the two young men of minutes later, and without any previous That was the reason for my first letter. the Happy Valley Golf Course, were not warning, the vessel, which was travelling I have not written one word in, disparage visitors or ship's officers? Evidently it once the Shui On began to fill and, realis- I should be the last to doride, and I chil: all the week, and needed to take a little indistinguishable in the darkness, At

servas, whose self-sacrifice and patriotin that the men may have worked arduously ing the seriousness of his position, the lenge your correspondents to point to recreation on Sunday to enable them to Captain ran his boat ashore and sent up any passage in my letter which will do justice to their duties, beginning on rockets. Assistance did not arrive until support the charge that I seek to dis- Monday. daylight, and it was 12.30 before all the courage" those who are striving to be of Shirkers, my nom de plume may help Perhaps I am one of the shivering and frightened passengers, who, use in guarding the Colony or that I am with one exception, were Chinese, had been trying to allay the promptings of my

you to decide.

A HOLY TERROR"- removed or transferred. With the dawn own conscience by "belittling the efforts of collided with & Standard Oil lighter, purely academic point of view, in show- it was discovered that the Sha On had others" I am merely concerned, from a

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG. the latter had sunk, and in rushing that wholesale denunciations are

DAILY PRESS;1

ing his boat for the shore the Captain of the Shui On had run across the lighter and become fixed. Had the collision

likely to be unjust, and that a good cause may be damaged by bad advocacy. I am not concerned in defending my- self, for I do not admit the right of any her mas to constitute himself keeper of my "Conscience_

SIR,There appears to be some little

Hongkong, 16th January, 1915. bickering in your columns on the subject of Conscription, and whether it should. ir enforced or not and, since there is not the least likelihood of its being enforced

occurred in deeper, water the results might have been even more serious, for, damaged as she was, so the result of the impact, the Shut On would have disappeared in neor of Common Sense in the particularly stine persons who at pre- a very short time, with no immediate help

at hand.

gard to my smug satisfaction at making MoneyAS LIsual? may be answered by "Rookie's" remark that a man's salary

The only European passenger on board the Shui On was Mr. Elliot, a representa nord by joining the Volunteers in an interview with a Daily Fress repre- also makes an important admission live of the Standard Oil Company, and in Hongkong. Each correspondent, yesterday he gave some interest which I commend to the notice of your sentative ver ing details of a most exciting experience. In addition to the question of the future, original contributor.. ́ ́ Rookie" says: "I was sleeping in the Captain's room," he said, "and the ship struck about 2.13

What did you do?' there will be asked am. The shock was one to make

· What did you enable others to do for you you as an alternative." Clearly, there think. I ran on to the deck and saw fore, it is, as I ventured to suggest, pos

or of our opinions in any way influencing

sent have the task of stemming the turbu lent torrents of our all-wisdom, I sec no reason why various members of the com munity should not be given the oppor think on the subject by writing it down tusity of finding out what they really do and sending it along to you for insertion the case may be. The knowledge gained In your paper or waste paper basket, as by so doing should fully compensate for the tempers lost during the process, and, could you only induce some dingusted loyalists or anti-heretical-humbugs to

It seems to me that the adoption of Con-

Two Gerinans have been sentenced to something sticking out at right anglessible to do something other than enrol 1 enter the discussion it might prove, quite imprisonment for life at Casa Blanca for from the ship. This eventually turned out the local Volunteers in order to be of ser

to be the Standard Oil lighter Ruth She vice to the commanity at this timemusing. was stove in amidship and sunk in an Common-Sense admite that there is hour and a half. - We the Shut On-had no need now to go to one extreme or the scription by a free people, though it may 16 fest of water at one end, and six at the other. Then why all this pothor, this possibly be expedient under exceptional other and the Captain quickly ran her clamant demand for conscription on the circumstances, must always sayour some- schore. It was a terrible time cold, part of your contributor, and these minn what of the expediency which induces i dark, not knowing exactly what had tory outburste? We have travelled a drowning man to clutch at the tail of a happened, and the Chinese looking the long way along the path of reason already, shark. As a method of defence, Con- picture of frightened misery. Signals of Mr. Editor, and If this correspondesice scription is clumsy in the e distress were sent up, but it was not until should lead the self-righteous to pause be instance, I hear that Herr Kubelik is now the extreme. For noon that any real assistance was forth fore pouring the torrents of their sbuse serving as a private, which, if you come to coming. I was taken away by a Canton upon every man not in crutches who fails think of it, is just about as sensible s Boat and some of the Chinese went away to sport a uniform it will have served procedure as it would have been had in junks and some other Canton boats. I useful purpose. It is easy to criticise, and hurled a priceless porcelain vase at my was the only European passenger on

to some people it is very congenial, but ithead, instead of the editorial inkpot, board" Mr. Elliott added that it seemed.

is generally useless and mischievous when I brought that little poem of pas- the Standard Oil launch Comet was stand- that the Ruth had been deserted, though Yours, etc., ing by. The Shui On struck the lighter

sion round to you the other day.

amidships, and much confusion followed among the Chinese passengers. The Pumps were set working, but they were not capable of competing with the heavy

ONE OF UNPRECEDENTED

VIOLENCE.

LONDON, January 15th. 10.40 p.m.

A message from Rome states that the King, who has visited the scene of all the earthquakes in his time, declares that the present one surpasses all that have occur red before, even the earthquake which wrecked Messins, as only three per cent of the population of Avezzana are alive, whereas at Messina 30 per cent of the population were saved. The violence

this earthquake is unprecedented.

HONOURS.

of

LONDON, January 16th. The Gazette announces

that the K.C.M.G. has been conforred upon Mr. Ronald William Graham, C.B., Adviser to the Egyptian Ministry of Interior; and also upon Mr Milne Cheetham, C.M.G. Acting High Commissioner in Egypt.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, January 18th. The death is announced of Sir George Nares, K.OB.

[Swakopmund is an important const station in Germian South West Africa. A railway 237 miles in length runs from Swakopmund to Windhoek, the seat of the administration, and another railway rune from Swakopmund to Tsumeb (359 miles). The late Sir George Strong Nares, K.C.B.,

SHIRKER

HONGKONG

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.

66, The Peak, Hougkong,

January 18th, 1915.

you

In the second place, Conscription is weakening to the State in that it” tekis to make men slaves of the State instead of pillars of it..

inrush of water. The last I saw of the has had the effect of inducing your cor- which adupts it are so lacking in man- Lastly, it is a confession of failure in 81,-1 sm glad to see that my letter that it shows that the men of the country Shai On was with her bow high in the

air, her stern almost under water, and respondent Irish to qualify his statehood, and have so small an appreciation dynamos gave out and everything was he now says "let us pour scorn on those and Patriotism, that they acually have to with several big rents in her. When the ments. Though rightly-unrepentant," of the meaning and duties of Freedom black it was anything but pleasant, I can who," in reply to the question: Are you be forced to defend their country by Law. assure you. It was a jolly lucky thing.

that this did not occur in very deep water; in the local defence forces answer in we should all bave had an icy bath, to say a negative which cannot be justified.”

As far as I can see, the only arguments the least."

which can be urged in favour of Con- This shows sound common sense, which scription are that it instils a sense of dis- Mr. J. W Bolles, local manager of the Standard Oil Co., interviewed by our is always to be found in every Irishman. cipline into the rabble; it improves their representative, explained the presence of Now I wish to make an appeal to "Trish." physique, it insures shirkers being killed from Wong-moon when she sprang aleak, Instead of wasting time "pouring as well as Rookies, and, feally, that it as a consequence of which she was beached scorn." will be not endeavour to organise imbues the nation with a hearty dieliko and anchored so as to prevent her slipping a public meeting in favour of conscrip- for militarism. into deep water. The man in charge put tion, in order that we in this Colony may As to the first, I am not much enamour-

the lighter. The vessel was coming down.

up fore and aft red riding-lights, but these may have gone out. When the strengthen the hands of the Governmented of a disciplined and docile rabble. It Shui On came down the lighter There are many of us who would be only may be possible to lead docility captíva was, apparently, invisible, and she was too glad to be commandeered. strick badly amidships and sunk On

If we to Heaven, but I strongly suspect that Oil Co., travelled to the scene of the ther bickering as to whe is a shirker and to find its own way Saturday, Mr. Fothergill, of the Standard bad conscription, we should have no fur- St. Peter would kick it out and fell it collision with towboats and pumps to see who is not. There would be no question

there. I am what can be done with the sunken lighter.

poative that if St. Peter didn't,

A new harbour has been constructed by the FR.S, was a Vice-Admiral (retired). HeThere was no loss of life, but the 48 to whether those of us who have St. Paul would, as soon as it got inside, was born on April 24th, 1881, becoming a Passengers and crew of the Shut On had volunteered for the front and have been The rabble should be disciplined from in-

Germans at Swakopmund.]

SITUATION IN INDIA. ENGAGEMENT ON THE NW. FRONTIER.

A telegram from the Chief of the ness of the British guns of all calibres. General Staff at Delhi to H.E. Major

Artillery duels are repeatedly turning in our favour, and they have formed the General Kelly, dated January 14th,

main feature of the fighting in Belgium, says:→→ where the floods are spreading rapidly.

The river Lys has risen two metres, and

In many places only roads on embank ments remain above the water level.

The situation in India continues satis- factory.

On the North-West Frontier an attack

The quality of the German soldiers by Tribesmen on Spina, Khaisore was opposed to us differs greatly.

repulsed by the Militia, who killed about The Landwehr men are highly spoken of, 30 of the enemy, losing only one officer but the Landsturm men are mostly over

..

35 years of age and are seldom fitted for killed and five men themselves. Recruit the hardship of active service.

ing continues good.

Vice-Admiral in 1802. During his naval most trying experience. career the deceased commanded, the Chat lenger in 1873, and was also in charge of an Arctic Expedition from 1875 to 1876. He wae Professional Officer of the Board of Trade, 1879-96, and was also Acting Con- servator of the Mersey]

"DAILY PRESS "EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAM.

CHINA'S SAUT REVENUE,

HIGHER THAN THE CUSTOMS REVENUE.

PERING, January 16th.

ARMED ROBBERY

KOWLOONS

AT

A house-boy named Chan Ming has given information to the police concern ing an armed robbery in the servants quarters at 7, Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon. The boy states that during Friday night six men, alleged to have been armed with revolvers and daggers, entered the servante quartera They tied up Chan and his two fokis and stole t money and clothing to the value of $8.40.

refused can truly be called shirkers (I am

The third

haping ◄ Irish” is one of us, but I don't side, not from outside. The second secans know yet!) We would all have to do to lack the merit of economy. what we were told to do, except in this, I admit, a fairly strong argument; but I feel inclined to doubt the wisdom of the case of those who would be specially exempted by the Government for business, Policy which loses a battle in order to kill medical, or other reasons, of which the Government would be the best judge. I am Yours faithfully,

G MONTAGU HABSTÓN.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.?]

off shirkers.

The fourth I heartily approve of, but I do not think that we Englishmen need it; for, though we sympathise with the householder who shoots a burglar, when a householder goes aburgling with a pistel it is our custom to endeavour to hand him SIR-The following extract from a letover to the police. W

spiritualise the Suffragettes by ruffling There, now, if only our self-opiniated that to pieces, instead of trying to the terapers of inoffensive nonentities, what fun we shall have. Yeurs, etc.

The Salt revenue for the past year Chan asserts that the robbers were on ter of a young business-man may interest but withal spriglith Hereticrill pullA mounted to Shanghai Tls. 67,893,716, managed to roll over and untie the hands" This must be an anxious time for you

the premises for eight hours He your readers:

of one of his fokis and discovered two

which is higher than the Maritime Cus-rs and an electric torch; The police with so many soldier relatives, I wish

toms revenue.

are conducting enquiries.

them all the best of luck

SOPHIA

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