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THE

WAR.

GERMAN

NAVAL RAID

INTERCEPTED.

BLUCHER" SUNK: TWO OTHER VESSELS SERIOUSLY

DAMAGED.

BRITISH CASUALTIES SLIGHT.

[THROUGH DEUTER'S AGENCY.)

WELL-CONTESTED NAVAL FIGHT.

GERMAN ARMOURED CRUISER SUNK.

LONDON, January. 24th.

8.55 p.m.

It is officially announced that a German Naval raid was intercepted in the North See, and that the armoured cruiser sunk, two others being Blucher was

seriously damaged,

LATER.

The Admiralty announce that in the arly morning & British patrolling quadron of battlecruisers and light

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN ATTACK

FRUSTRATED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1915.

CONCENTRATIONS SCATTERED WHILE FIXING BAYONETS.

LONDON, January 24th. ̈

5.30 p.m. To-day's Paris communiqué says ----- Tho

enery in the Nieuport and Lom- baertryde regions violently bombarded new positions we had captured, and the enemy then prepared for an infantry attack, which he was, however, unable to ruisers, under Vice-Admiral Sir David deliver. Our artillery indeed scattered Beatty, and a destroyer flotilla, under his concentrations which were preparing Commodore Tyrwhitt, sighted four to fix bayonets, Berman battle cruisers and several light Cruisers and a number of destroyers, apparently making for the English coast, The enemy immediately made for home as high speed.

the one

They were immediately pursued, and in action there joined at 9.20 the battle. cruisers Lion, Tiger, Princess Royal, New Zealand, and Indomitable on hand, and the Derflinger, Seydlitz, Moltke, and Blucher on the other. A well ontested running fight ensued. Shortly

There have been artillery engagements at Ypres and alse, in the vicinity of Vermelles, the Germans being compelled to evacuate a trench.

GENERAL

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRENCH WAR MINISTER IN LONDON.

IMPORTANT CONFERENCES WITH BRITISH MINISTERS.

LONDON, January 24th.

8.55 p.. Reuter learns that M. Millerand, the

LATE TELEGRAMS.

[FROM SOUTHERN PAPERS.1

POSITION OF ARMIES IN POLAND.

GERMANS CONCENTRATED IN A TEN-MILE ZONE:

LONDON, January 13th.

CONSCRIPTION IN HONGKONG.

SHAKING UP THE SHIRKERS.

(COMMUNICATED.)

friends road the article appearances might be against him. Five times did ho offer to go to the front, and five times did the adamant authorities rofuso hi services. Therefore, le argues, be catnos truthfully be called a ." Shirkor," In was written because the man who him, as he has no uniform and no gun, although superficially things are against is in the Reservos, and who is past fifty and never appears on the parade-ground. told me about the youths who went to play golf while he went to the Held-day the inspection of us all, it is rather like This particular case is submitted fo That one fact sot me thinking. Enquiries a challenge. If it is to be subjected to a cold scientific analysis, let us at once.

A message from Petrograd says the Ger- were made; various instances of shirking French War Minister, left for Paris men offensive in Poland is concentrated seomed to raycal themselves. Finally, an give rein to our emotional nature and in a narrow zono ten miles wide, thirty emphatic Volunteer told me the following shoat "Hurrah for anyone who has miles west of Warsaw, where two Army story-

offered to man the trenches. When the war broke out I was a private further, and say, quite bluntly, that Let us go Corps are operating with many heavy

in the Engineer Company. Why I ever while there are plenty of Sung right bank of the Rawko River. The know-it was hard enough to get into ried men who have not joined the colours,

The German line practically follows the joined that particular Company I don't

young

principal bone of contention seems to be it for at every hand's turn. I was

straining every nerve to possess.

to-night after visit to London,"

A conference with Lord Kitchener on military matters disclosed complete necord on all points, and also prepared the way for settlement of important provisioning questions,

visited troops in the vicinity of London and derived encouragement from the impression

no one could accuse this father of M. Millerand and Lord Kitchener the Bolimoff woods which the Germans are strongly advised to go in for the Artillery offered himself as food for powder in family of "shirking" if he had not or try for the Scouts-anything except France and Belgium. (One assumes, of According to the statements of prisoners, the Engineers. Perhaps I wanted to course, that the offer was to go in any the Germans are hopeful of piercing the know something about electricity, or it capacity, and that it was not made with M.Millerand also had meetings with Russian lines if they establish themselves may have been that it was just chance; limitations, such as taking charge of

at Bolimoff. Despite the fiercest fighting, but, whatever the reason, as soon as hospital, etc.) But etill, he did make the the Prime Minister, Sir Edward Grewith enormous loss and almost uncensing saw how very determined they were stoffer. His practice, his age, his wife, his Mr. Winston Churchill, Mr. Lloyd bombardment, the Germans have made no

Headquarters that I shouldn't join the children and his other ties were a second- George, and Lord Haldane, further serious headway One night, thirteen Engineers-sell, you know what I mean ary consideration; his country came first demonstrating the close understanding consecutive attacks were repulsed. The when I say that that sort of thing gets It was a step that few men in his circuru- between France and Great Britain. enemy, coming on in close formation, were my goat! Anyway, I did join-never stances would have taken those of our M. Millerand, in a parting letter to literally mown down. After the tenth, you mind when, but in time to have some countrymen who have done as much are,

sort of training before Willie went wild. indeed, patriotic. It was quite good fun at first. Decent enough people to deal with, and an must have meant to make an off of that annual outing on the searchlights. We supremo sacrifice. And think what a didn't take things very seriously always little thing, by comparison, it meant to plenty of R.Es. about to tell us what to offer to stay out two nights a week on do, and we had the feeling that they the Stonecutter's searchlights. In the one always would be there. Mistake number as you have the prospect of week after week, in the deadly trenches-shot and

Lord Kitchener, dwells on the spirit of resolution animating, the Government and people of Great Britain, and says that he could not have imagined the results already. demonstrated under Kitchener's energetic and skilful impulso. Confidence in the Allies must be increased thereby

PORTUGUESE CABINET

Lord

RESIGNS,

LONDON, January 25th. A telegram from Lisbon says that the Cabinet has resigned.

[HAVAS SERVICE.]

ROUMANIA MOBILIZES.

GERMANY PROTESTS AGAINST

THIS HOSTILE ACT.

PARIS, January 23rd The Fetrograd correspondent of The

attack the bodies were piled so high that they impeded the view of the Russians who were obliged to hear the bodies in such a way as to form embrasures for the

machine guns,

WAR AND WATER.

DIFFICULTIES IN THE TRENCHES.

LONDON, January 11th Rye-witness at Headquarters says The weather is still warm, but there are

troskling both sides. Continual baling and pumping is necessary in the trenches,

оде

Think for a moment what an effort it

ten chance of death or disablement for

«Then war broke out. The fun com-shell to take their toll of life, a one-hi- menced with a vengeance. Two nights out of three on duty on the lights; some life every six months, according to the of us in the engine room where the Pension figures. But the shot and shelf are not the worst. Picture to yourself. the taste of oil made you hate the thought flooded trenches for weeks; it doesn't yourself

of sardines. Some of us were on the

deluges of rain and the water problem thermometer stood around 120 and where men past the meridian of life in the

cowe.

and it is most difficult to pump the muddyghts. (Details must be omitted, but require a course of training in medicina water, but the diffeulty is being over sapper, will all in details with adjecof us who are used to the little comforts my fricad Sapper Blank, or any other to know that rheumatitin, enteric, and the other discases would badly hit these It is believed the Germans are tives.) That's five months ago, and of life. And if that risk was stoically, pumping by moans of electricity from

since that time it's been a cam of two faced, conjure up-no, let us screen those Lille. They have unsuccessfully attempt: nights on duty and one night off. Of ed to pump the water from their trenches course, there's the day's work to be done upon others during the long years, or sacred thoughts of the suffering inflicted into ours. Aviators report that whole

as well. Business as usual' and all that even months, of danger, while they waited districts of south Belgium are flooded, the sort of thing from the people who have Scheldt and the Lys having overtowed.

never missed a night between the sheets. Our artillery on the 4th instant in their lives.

Weighed in the balance against all that, When I go off at five or 'clock for my night's watch Ice plenty seems like a feather weighed against an the two nights a week on Stonecutter's magazine in the enemy's lines south of of men who ought to do their share of anchor. Cold analysis tells us that the

Our guns in the Valley of Aisne and Esther silenced or demolished several German guns, obliged enemy aviators to turn tail, and destroyed some works near Soupir and Hestebise.

Our artillery, sustained a continn Times reports that Germany has lodged exploded an ammunition waggon

and effective fire on the enemy's works at

protest against Roumania for the

and waited.

after one o'clock the Blucher, which had Prunay, Sovain, Perthes, Beau Sefon mobilization of her Army, adding that she La-Basse and silenced a German battery. the defence work going to their homes or firm must have spared him altogether previously fallen out of the line, capsized and Massignes, and northward of Vill considers this as an hostile act on account The enemy a artillery was more active on the Club, and that's what makes me think if the War Office had accepted the offes;

and aank

Admiral Beatty reports that two other German battle-sruisers were seriously damaged, but they were able to continue

hoir flight and reached an area where The danger from German submarines and zaines prevented pursuit.

LATER.

No British ship was test and the kasualties among the personnel at present Jeported are slight.

Bur-Tourbo

The infantry action was continued in the region of Fontaine Madame and St. Hubert in section of advanced trenches which have been several times lost and re-captured in the last 48 hours,

We progressed at Hartmanns Weiler district on our right, despite the difficult character of the ground.

of the Lews being officially unconfirmed.

[BATTIER FOREIGN OFFICE CABLES.]

PROTECTION OF HOLY

PLACES OF ISLAM.

An Imperial proclamation declaring that the holy places of Islam will be pro tected by the Allies, and the permission given by Vi or allowing foodstuffs to be The Germans near Steinbach indulged exported to Hedjaz, have been received H.M.S. Zion, which led the line, had in a violent bombardment, and then with gratitude in India. Representatives only eleven men wounded and none killed. charged, capturing one of the advanced of Jeddah, Lingah, Bahrein, Koweet and There were 123 men of the Blucher trenches, which, however, was recaptured Mosul bave waited on the Governor of

by a vigorous counter-attack.

Bombay and earnestly expressed their pescued out of 385.

Possibly more were taved.

No reports of any destroyer or light @ruiser fighting have yet been received, Though some fighting has apparently taken placo.

[The German armoured cruiser Blucher, which was sunk, was completed in 1910, Bho was built at Kiel, and had a displace- ment of 15,550 tons. Her speed was 25,8 knots, her complement 347, and her main armament twelve 82 inch and eight 5.9 inch.

Battle-cruisers, of which the Moltke (28,000

LosDON, January 25th.

2.05 8.18. The Paris evening communiqué says:-- The Germans violently bombarded the district north of Zillebeke. There was a sharp fusillace near Chateau Harmtag. but there were no infantry attacks,

Some shells were fired into Arras

There was a fusilade north of Arrae,

She cost £1,250,000. The other German and the enemy fired numerous boobs into tons, ten 11-inch guns, 25 kuots speed, the La Boiselle region in Albert, but our

most recent artillery compelled him to cease fire are Among the

sister ship to the Goeben) was the kmallest,

and important additions to the German There was rather a sharp fusillado in Navy. The Derfinger which was laid down in 1011 carries eight 12-inch gus, and the the direction of Cernay. Stydlits ten 11-inch guns. Both these ships have a displacement of about 20,000 tons, The British ships named have between bhem 48 big guns, half of that aber being 19.5inch, and the remaindor 12-inch.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

Α'

says

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

UNSUCCESSFULTGERMAN-

ATTACK.

LONDON, January 25th.

3.40 a.m. Petrograd official communiqué

On the right bank of the Vistula there: Tere unimportant engagements on the

The fighting in the

to région of Four de Paris in Argonne is ended. We main tained all our positions except for fifty metres of a trench which was demolished by the enemy's heavy bombs,

The struggle in Alsace continued to-day in the regions of Uffholz and Hartmanns Weilerkopf, where we are close to the enemy's wire entanglements. No news of the fighting has yet been received.

[FRENCH GOVERNMENT CABLES.]

thanks.

[THROUGH REUTER'S ACKNOV.]

UNITED STATES AND THE WAR,

LONDON, January 24th.

12.50 p.m.

Tuesday, but ours was superior and checked the bombardments of our trenches. The Germans on Wednesday heavily shelled the suburbs of Armentieres W continued to progress steadily on the right despite the waterlogged ground Infor- Diation regarding the prevalence of typhoid in the enemy's trenches continues to be received.

NO TIME FOR SPORT.

'VARSITY BOAT RACE ABANDONED.

LONDON, January 13th. The Inter-University boat race has been abandoned for the first time since 1856.

CERTA

THE INVASION OF ENGLAND,

that there ought be conscription."

and

Then came the complaint that some of they must surely see that ridicule will the young fellows in Hongkong were meet excuses that he cannot now bo playing golf while the older ones were spared for two nights a week. I do not training at Fanling. Finally, three wish to publicly reveal the businces of specific instances were submitted-young every hong" or institution in the men in this Colony who are not officers Colony, although that would be exciting; in mufti, but who had never lifted a but Dr. Harston has thrown down tho finger since the war broke out, and who, gauntlet Can he avow that any patient apparently, are still allowed to continue would even suffer-oh they might be in- in their indolent selfishness, while their convenienced," but in

Britain countrymen are dying in the trenches to Belgium tears of blood are flowing, and savo them, and their kith and kin.

convenienco" is a word which war has The correspondence has shown quite obliterated-would any patient suffer if clearly what the general public thinks Dr. Harston and all of his partners At the outbreak of the war H.E. the joined the Volunteers, Reserves, or even Governor (whose most severe critic could did two nights a week on Stonecutter's never truthfully call a shirker) made an Island, so that some of the Volunteers appeal on behalf of the local Volunteer might sleep in their beds throw nights a and Reserve forces.

Later on he week instead of two!

went away sorrowful, for he was a young History abounds with such CASCH. "Ho

Those who dread the German invasion of England would do well to remember that the enemy can never succeed so long as the circulated a most interesting pamphlet, British Fleet maintains command of the entitled, I believe," God's Test by War, Sea An army afloat in transports is not or something similar, which told us that an army at all; it is a crowd of discipline.

man with many Dossessions. pictures the earlier struggles.

Ond

Tho

What a

men who cannot defend themselves against almighty God sent wars to test our attack by naval guns and torpedoes characters, and make us gcod. The logic Even if German trunsports conveying of the pamphlet was, perhaps, beyond prospect of Death, under dramatic cir- A telegram from Washington says that 100,000 or 200,000 troops contrived to reach some of us, but, at any rate, we all felt cumstances, for this great Teacher could Mr. Bryan has issued a straightforward Great Britain's shores unperceived--to

elude the observation of the British Fleet satisfied that the Government had given possibly be faced, but to sell all oro's and vigorous reply to charges made by it would take a long time to disembark the lead-public opinion would do the tame ending to the story.

goods and give to the poor. German sympathisers that the United, guns, horses, and munitions of war, rest. But we reckoned wrongly. Either

Let us be just, oven in our anger. and no vigilance could prevent our sub- States has been showing partiality to the marines creeping near enough to catch the people are too lenient in the East or these Perhaps when the writer penned his bold invader and cripple or even utterly young gentlemen are too thick-skinned who shirked, he himself felt that in the Baming protest against the young men Allies. Mr. Bryan affirms that the Ger destroy him. But suppose we concede "And if a man is not a member of the past years he, too, had failed. Of course, mans and Austrians appear to assume landing. On this point Dr. Miller local Volunteer force" (says a correspon. he learnt to shoot and to drill and to

Maguire, the wall-known strategic expert,

He now feels ashamed that he has done of the Great War

"wherein lies the sin of playing golf so little. He offers a very sincere apology way how would it be fed how would its at the call of duty. If it be true, as most demnation directed at young men youths Whither would the invading forço wend its | The "sin "--it certainly is a sin to shirk to Dr Harston that the lines of con- enormous expenditure of Ammunition he of us believe, that greater low hath no volunteered for nothing that such con- between twenty and thirty who have plenished? Thore is no need to emphasise the oft-repeated saying of van Boltle that man" than that he lay down his life for demnation was possible of application to he could draw up many plans for invading his fellows, yet it is also true that greater one who had offered the 'supreme sacrifice. It is not generally known that no fewer than in national crisis like the present. is one man who would have failed where unr islos, sut none for getting home again. dishonour hath no man than that he fails for humbly and with sorrow it must be confessed, had we to change places, there 180,000 German troops were required fo guard the homeward railway line of communi

** Shirker “ ́ ́ ́ must join the Volunteer the other succeeded. And yet the dreary cations in France in 1870, and that, if the Engineer Co. He will have the satisfac drudgery of daily small sacrifices may, Lagay tannel and a few other important tion of knowing that by so doing he can invisible hosts who now lock down upon perhaps, he counted as something by those railway posts between Paris and Chalons and liberate regulars now engaged in the a world torn with anguish. Mots and Strasburg had been destroyed by defence of this Colony," But Shirker" The last word is almost written. If it the French, the invaders would have had to will not do so; he will funk the public & protest against these young men is possible, never again will I make capitulate to starvation long before Paris

who shirk and are accepted as members

that some obligation rests upon the writes as follows in T.P.'s Great Dearle dent who signs bimself" Shirker apologise for taking his duty seriously.

United States to prevent all trade in contraband, thus equalising the difference due to the relative Naval strength of the belligerents No such obligation existe, and it would be an unneutral act and as act of partiality on the part of the Government to adopt such a policy.

NEW GOVERNOR OF INDO- CHINA.

LONDON, January 26th.

7.45. a.m.

M. Roume, ex-Governor of French West

23rd inst, from Radranovo to the Vistula GERMAN AEROPLANES OVER announced, has been appointed Governor En the region of Borlimoff and Gouming, where a German attack was ropulsed with:

Joss,

DUNKIRK,

vicided. There are no precedents of really nights out of three on the searchlights. offectivo raids that produced permanent He will explain that he is not an of the Golf Club, of which H.E. the effects in modern history.

out aloud; an apathetic Golf Club com-

Africa, and not M. Baudin, as previously There is not one point in England north Engineer. You may reply that many of Governor is President. The wrong cries

of the Thames suitable for any maneuvres the men now doing the night work are mittes may be galvanised into action, of Indo-China.

by half a dozen big ships of the great not ongineers. It doesn't require much dormant public opinion may make such transport-liner type; and as for landing intelligenes to pick up the routine work, things impossible. At present both thes NEW CHIEF LIBERAL WHIP one Army Corps and its guns and baggage Shirker may be modest once again have failed. While some of the men of LONDON, January 23rd.

on any beach, as in the case of the peace

the Colony are doing defence work two Numerous German aeroplanes flew over

LONDON, January 25th, maneuvres at Clacton some years ago and doubt his ability to turn a handle nights out of three there are youths who

the idea would be scorned by none more But, at least, let him offer.

have never even joined the Volunteers Dunkirk, dropping comba

They were

Mr. J. W. Gulland, M. P., a Junior Lord sincerely than by the able staff officers of THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA.

They have not lifted a finger to ease the the German naval and military forces,

burden for their fellows; they have not There was an artillery duel all day on

pursued by Allies' neroplanes. The of the Treasury, has been appointed to

Let us now take the case of Drevon had the decency to show a respect who are not ignorant of the discussion as Montagu Haraton. He explains that he for those who have died that they may the 22nd inst. near Kimpolunga in Albatross was hit in its motor, and two succeed the late Mr. P. H. Illingworth as to Napoleon's plans, nor as to the Bukhovian.

Therefore, thera remains only aviators were taken prisoners,

elaborate French plans of 1898, which came is isn't really a shirker, although it live. Chief Ministerialist Whip..

to nothing so soon.

occurred to him that when some of his salvation by conscription,

An attempted Austrian advance in the region of Jasliski in Galicia was repulsed with heavy loss.

IRISH