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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1915.

THE FIGHTING AT NEUVE

CHAPELLE.

MOVING STORY BY A COMBATANT.

THE KING'S EXAMPLE

THE NATION.

TO

GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA,

MORE SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE FIGHTING AT NEUVE CHAPELLE,

STORY TOLD BY A COMBATANT

HEROIC DEATH OF COLONEL MC, ANDREW.

LONDON, April 6th.

at

A narrative of the battle

Neuve Chapelle by + combatant is published.

The

It says that the Lincolnshire and the Berkshire Regiments made the primary assault with the greatest dash.

former lost 311 killed and wounded.

Two companies made the first rush on the morning of March 10th under a həb

Sro Captain Bastard was the first to

reach the esemy's trenches, closely follow- od by Captain Peake with a blocking The latter rushed up to the party. frenches and threw grenades at the retreat

Eng Gernaus, compelling them to return

to the trench were they surrendered Captain Peake was shot as he advanced down the trench holding a blue flag in the air and thus offering a conspicious target

Two more companies followed through the gap and made the first charge, the men being most elated. Many were bit, but the companies continued to advance until they were checked by a deep

BRITISH AIRMEN'S EXPLOIT. THE DAMAGE AT HOBOKEN. PARIS, April 5th Today's communiqué states that there is nothing to repert.

The French military authorities have received precise information of the dam- age done by British aircraft or Marel: The airship shed at Berghen St, Eaugathe was seriously damaged, and also an airship.

26th.

At the shipbuilding yard at Hoboken the British airships burned two b marine, which were destroyed, and a third was damaged.

MAVAL ACTIVITIES:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SKIRMISH WITH "GOEBEN“.

AND

"BRESLAU."

PETROGRAD, April 5tk.

An official announcement says:

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE,]

GERMAN AIRSHIPS FOR TURKEY.

ROME, April 6th, Since March, the Germans have up Our fleet on Saturday exchanged shots plied Turkey with a squadron of Tabs at long range with the Goeben and which have been carrying cut reconnais We sunces in the Dardanelles and the Bos

phorus.

Breslau, off the coast of Crimes. pursued them till dusk.

Our torpedo-bost distroyus encounter- ed them at night a hundred miles from the Bosphorus, but the cruisers opened a hot fire and escaped.

SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

·TWO MORE STEAMERS TORPEDOED.

LONDON, April 5th A small Glasgow, steamer, the Offring and a Russion ship, the fermes, have been torpedoed in the Channel.

The crows wore suved.

THE LOSS OF A TURKISH CRUISER.

Roi, April 6th.

* The Turkish headquarters admit the sinking of the Medjidich while pursuing Russian mine-sweepere which harap prooded Odessa. The vessel struck--ä, minic, and the crew were saved by other Turkish warships.

The Medjidiel was torpedoed to pre- vent the Russians salving hor. GENERAL.

(THROUGH_REUTER'S AGENTY.]

WAR AND DRINK.

THE KING'S EXAMPLE.

LONDON, April 5th. The King has directed that from to

THE SERBO-BULGARIAN INCIDENT.

AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT BEING MADE

HOME, April 6th The Tribuna's Salonika correspondut says that the Serlo-Bulgarias incident is closed Bulgaria has promised to giro satisfaction and to punish the guilty,

Soria, April 5th.. The Serbo-Bulgarian incident is being amicably settled.

The Bulgarian Com- mander at Strumnitza contends that the trouble originated with the Serbian inhabitants on the frontier who revolted against the Serbian unthorities and then fed into Bulgarian forritory. Measure were taken

disarm such rebels.

*PRINZ EITEL'S" AMERICAN VICTIM,

GERMANY ASKED TO PAY COMPENSATION.

WASHINGTON, April 6th The United States has asked Germany to pay $223,080 compensation for the sink ing of the William Erye by the Prin Eitel Friedrich,

LONDON, April 6th.

A message from Newport News says

HAVAS SERVICE.]

FRENCH COLONIAL

SITUATION.

PARE, April 3rd.

the Colonies, stated before the Comittee M. Doumorgue, French Minister for of Foreign Affairs that the cobrial situation from the beginning of the war had been at its best. He pointed out that

the state of siege or martial law decced in Indo-China was for the benefit of the Colony. The situation there, he said, was excellent. Continuing his statement, the Minister stated that measures taken against strangers bad hom onforced, and he concluded his address by saying that the oconomie atuation of the Colonies as excellent; commercial activity had been resumed and was already producing a surplus in the Budget receipts. The

from Relief Funds in the Colonies in id of refugees showed the spirit of solidarity that existed.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE

CHAMBER.

PAR April 3rd The Chamber of Deputies has adjoum ed to the 29th inst, and the Senate to the 22nd inst.

SWELLING THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

PARI, April 3rd.

the colours, thus adding 100,000 men to Russia has called up the 1916 class to

her Army...

(THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.] JACK JOHNSON BEATEN. SUCCESS OF WHITE COWBOY PUGILIST.

Forty German workmen were killed, morrow no wines, spirits or ber shall be that the Commandant of the Norfolk and sixty-two were wounded.

consumed in any of His Majesty's Navy Yard boarded the Prinz Eita households.

Friedrich and conferred with her Com

HAVAN, April 5th. mander.. It is expected that the vessel The white pugilist, Jesse Willard, beat will be interned shortly.

Jack Johnson in a fight for the heavy weight championship of the world in the DISAFFECTION IN PORTUGAL. twenty-sixth wound.

THE GERMAN WAY. GRIEVANCES OF SAXONS AND BAVARIANS.

Lemo

THE AMERICAN NOTE TO GREAT BRITAIN. TREATMENT OF NEUTRAL VESSELS,

LONDON, April 5th:

(10.15 pum The Press Bureau to-night issued tho American Note, with a covering letter from Mr. W. H. Page,

LONDON, April Gtà. Eye Witness" at tho British Headquarters has bon quiet, except for a

day's that everything

fine marksmanship by our' gunenIS, who exploded a magazine and obtaine direct hits on German guos.

thes

American Prussians, Bavarians, and Saxons par- Ambassador, who expri

an earnest ticipated in the battle at Noury Chapelle, assurance that the views of the United but their co-operation was not hearty.- States are given in a most friendly spirit,

Saxon and Bavarian prisoners ex- pressed great indignation at the way in Bois du Piez to support an imaginary which they were flung into action from

fring line, and affirmed that they had been grossly mishandled by the Prussia

The Germans

treated

their

Own

wounded with the utmost callousness, and left many in front of the trenches. Our men, out of pity, went out to rescue them.

IV

BOMB-THROWING DEMOCRATS: LONDON, April 6th The Daily Mail's Lisbon correspondent says that a religious procession at Caldas da Rainha on Friday was hootd by the Democrats. A fight ensued and shots were fired.

now

SWATOW NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Swarow, April 1st.

BOYCOTT OF JAPANESE GOODS. The boycotting of Japanese goods is Guilds in market places are prohibiting a matter of daily occurrenos the buying or selling of anything Japanese.

One would think it had

reached the limit when servants refuse Japanese yen as payment! The old litan currency here, and goes at the same yen' is common money in the cosmopo-

rite us the Mexican dollars. Tha Japanese show their appreciation of the boycotting spirit by full pigo advertise- uents of their goods in the local papers] The native press is sovere on the Japaness Province is sending troops to the various attitude. The Military Governor of the ports in order to guard and fortify against invasion, and Swatow has received its quota. There is no doubt

by the inflow of Japanese soldiers inte China would, with much less provocation, Chinese territory. In former years

have resort to severer measures than mere diplomacy to thwart the designs of the intruder.

CHINESE AND ATHLETES,

In our neighbourhood them ars inter-. school Match Associations being formed, time honoured reserved, retiring, not That the Chinese should change their

stoop-to-play-attitude of their scholars and students to that of the oa and tumble of the football and baseball field showN to what extent modern China is coming into line.

A MISSIONARY CENTENARY. Any news of the week would be incom- plete without montion of the commemora, tion services by the Native Christian Churches of the Centenary of the Rev. W. C. Burns, the first English Prosby- terian missionary to China. The services were held in the various churches on April 1st. There are many alive still who remember him well. He arrived in China in the period of the Chinese Taiping Rebel lines at Nanking but failed. He had a remarkable facility in learning During his short

Rebellion. He endeavoured to reach the

Chinese dialects,

The sympathy of the public was with career in China (1847-08) he visited Hong- Willard, who is a cowboy. There were kong, Canton, Swatew, Amoy, Foochow, Afteen thousand present, who joared John Ningpo, Shanghai, Peking, and lastly on throughout, and many at the end of Newchwang, where he died. Mr. the fight forced their way to the platform Burns was one of the first foreigners and threatened the negro. The soldien who overcame the bitter,

wrath- who were present to maintala -ruer haiful, anti-foreign spirit of the Swałow

people. to protect Johnson, MA

He placated them so much

Johnson, smiling and eating, punished village of Swatow. His biography is very The fight was a forty-ave round contest his hired house in the ther small fishing as to get their consent to live in

The shop his nervous opperent severely in the interesting for those who would like opening rounds, but after prolonged sparglimpses of those early days in Swatow

The crowd attacked a shop which was

and in accordance with the usual candour sept by a democratic kader, why home characterising the relations of the two them, wounding severni. Governments, to which in large measure keeper was arrested.

onc

is due the uninterrupted pace and amity which has existed between Great Britain searched for explosives on Saturday.

The Houses of the democrats were ring the negro was evidently fatigued, and elsewhere. The intensity of foreign and America for a century.

while Willard suddenly becameaggressive dislike will be appreciated wher and did what he liked with Johnson is reads that businessmen thought it wise the last four rounds, finally kzocking him to have their dwelling-houses on a small out,

island at the mouth of the Bay about five. miles from Swarow It is now

the summer resort of the Swatow community, and has a pleasant sandy beach and bathing ground.

The Note dwells on existing Interna- tional law, and says that the novel fea ture of the British blockade is tent embraces many neutral ports and coasts.

It is manifest that the limitations placed

DUTCH MAIL STEAMER WRECKED.

NEW YORK, April 6tå. The Dutch Mail, stemer Prina Maurita

channel of water. The men then retired officers, for fifty yards and entrenched. Hor they were exposed to an enfilading firs causing many casualties, and eventually a siper was hauled out of a "Jack John-

The Germans continued to fire at

has been wrecked off Cape Hattons. Her son" hole in a Scottish Rides uniformen, although they knew that they were

on a neatral ship, beyond the right of crew of 19, and four passengers wore and met his deserts.

engaged on an errand of mercy to the search and stoppage of contraland, are drowned. Saxons and Bavarians who were lying a distinct invasion of neutral rights. Of woulded while the Prussians manned the course, the United States aro not oblivious. tronches.

Eye Witness" quotes letters showing to the recent great change in naval war- that foodstuffs in Germany are growing fare, especially owing to the use of sub- expensive, and that a great dearth of pig marizes, mines and aircraft, but what- iron is hampering the manufacture of ever form an effective blockade may take munitions,

it is possible to conform, at least, with

Meanwhile, the second Royal Irish Rifles came up to continue the pursuit. We cheered them lustily as they passeit Lieut. Graham was rallying them around him with a French newsboy's horn, giving the hallon" occasionally just

as a master collects the pack of hounds.

The Lincolnshire Regt, entrenched themselves under Major Howley, who took command after Colonel McAndrew was killed. We were sitting in the trench next morning when a sudden flash knocked the writer forward. He was unscathed, though Major Howley, who was sitting close beside him, was killed by the shell which came through the para pet. The writer says that Colonel Mc 'Andrew's leg was shuttered shortly after

BRITISH CASUALTIES.

LONDON, April 6th. The latest casualty list is as follows Killed: W. Halswelle. Wounded: Major G. F. Ewins, W. J. Forster (Jang), and Lieut. A. X. Smith (R.A.M.C.).

A ZEPPELIN BAULKED.

DUNKIRK, April 6th,

A Zeppelin appeared in the roadsterd on Sunday night, but was sighted by ter pedo boats and returned to the German Fines.

the charge began, and he died within an RUSSIAN FRUNT.

hour. He must have suffered great agony. but his sole concern way how the regiment was doing. He asked constantly, "Have they taken the trenches" and insisted apon being propped up so that he could view the agmult; and he was thus watch ing when God called him.

RAIN AND FOG.

PARIS, April 6th, The evening communiqué states: Ther has been rain and log on the whole front

(THROUGH NELTER'S AGENCY.}

RUSSIAN PROGRESS

CONTINUED.

PETROGRAD, April 5th.

To day's communiqué stator: West. ward of the Niemen we have continued our successful advance. At certain points there was desperate fighting.

THE MUNSTER FUSILIERS.

ACTIVE RECRUITING IN LIMERICK.

LONDON, April 6th. Recruiting is most active in Limerick

[FROM MANILA PAPERS. MORE SUBMARINES FOR HONOLULU.

WASHINGTON, March 31st, Secretary Daniels has ordered three

| more"submarines to be sent to Honolulu.

UNITED STATES FLEET TO

GO TO PANAMA.

WASHINGTON, March 1st. Secretary Daniels announced to-day that the Atlantic fleet will leave for official opening of the Cañal, Panama in July to be present at the

THE GAMBLING MANIA.

The gambling mania, ever rifg amongst Chinese but tabooed by the Trovincial authorities some time ago, is now getting out of hand again. It is the nam, not the actual gambling, that law prohibits; for carried on under the name of " kenevolent rocicties" it is permitted by the police!

THE CREDULITY OF THE CHINESE. A nativo, trying to play upon the eredulity of the prople declared that a certain idol predicted that there would be great distress this year. He begged

the spirit and essence of the rules of war for the Munster Fusiliers. Crowd SXCURSION STEAMER SUNK the people to bring loads of orange; and

assemble nightly outside the Barracks and cheer recruits. This is the frat tiruo such a demonstration has taken place in Irish history.

AT SAN FRANCISCO.

WAR'S EFFECT ON FREIGHT MARKETS.

rice to the temple praying the idol to avert the famine, They did so, to the SAN FRANCISCo, March 30th. delight of the deceiver who appropriated More than thres hundred excursionists the offerings of the people and sold them had a narrow escape from being drowned at their full value: MR. BALFOURS. SERVICES. to-day when the steamer General Frishic truck a rock off the Exposition grounds and was sunk. The General Frizbic had en chartered by Good Templars who were on the way to Vallejo to attend the dedication of a monument to the founder

their Order. Most of the passengers Report, says the Times of March 1, that It is pointed out in our Freight Market vers wonten and children.

chartering of tentage for exit of Brez was There was an entire absence of panic, difficult to arrange on Saturday, since the disorder or confusion when the steamer owners with suitable vessels were reserved

struck and commuced rapidly to sik.pending possible developments in the Lifeboats put out from shore and from Black Sea district.

which permit neutral traffic except in contraband. The United States Govern

ment notes that Great Britain arns the necessity to retaliate, against German methods, but, recalling the principley on which Great Britain had always scrupu fously acted, interprets this is the reason

LONDON, April 6. Mr. Balfour, leader of the Opposition for urtain extraordinary naval activi-has placed his services unreservedly at ties and not as unlawful action.

ar exccuse for any the disposal of the Government.

He will be constantly engaged on The United States expresses gratifica- | Imperial Defence Committee. tion at the wide discretion afforded. to the Prize Court, and also at the instructions to the Fleet and tho Customs Officials to act with

DEATH OF A FAMOUS CRICKETER.

verdict of suicide was returned.

was

LONDON, April 5th. the utmost promptitude. The United At the inquest on the famous cricketer States takes it. for granted that American A. E. Stoddart, who was found shot, a merchantmen will not be interfered with unless carrying contraband or goods destined for, or preceding to, belliger ent ports affected. The Note concludes by anticipating that Great Britain will make full reparation for any act violating neutral rights, should any such occur, and by reiterating that the Government insist on another

the rights of United States' citizens.

In the Carpathians, northward of Bart feld, we took 1,200 prisoners. We have continued to progress in the Mezalakor and Uszok directions, and taken 2,000

We captured thras lines of trenches in prisoners. We have taken Billy Wood, son 5 east of St. Mihiel, thousand in a fight north of Czernowitz

the warships of the Pacific Heat wh.ch

If and when the Dardarelles are re-

were anchored near at hand. All the opened to traffic a considerable demand

passengers were recued.

CHINESE VOLUNTEERS IN

THE MALAY STATES,

for tonnage may be exported for both the import and export trade with Southern Rusia.

Writing of the fighting around Ypres, the official Eyewitnes says:-

At a meeting of Chinese, at Ipoh on the 28th ult. to consider the quelion of the In front of the trenches the German [Andrew Ernost Stoddart, who

formation of a Chinese volunteer corps, corpses still lie thick. At one part of the manager of Queen's Chab, had, during his force of from 100 to 200 men should be rush our lire." At their head was a young it was agreed that a Chinee volunteer brickfields recently some 30 rnen tried to cricket career, captained two representative raised for service in Perak only, all non-German officer, who came on gallantly teams to Australia, His county was Middle- sex, for which he made many notable per commissioned officers to be Chinese and the waving his sword. He almost reached the formances. Stoddart was responsible for the officer in charge to be nominated by the barbed wire and then fell dead and he highost score on record, 185, which he made Chinese, and on condition that Governlies there still with his word in his hand. in the match Hampstond v. Stoics of Augustent would supply drill instruction, and all his 30 men round hirn, is the 4th, 1886. The deceased had captained ammunition, accutrements and uniforms, same all along the front in this quarters England beth at cricket and Rugby football and that the Chinese corps should enjoy everywhere the still grey figure, can be He was in his 63rd year.]

the same privileges as the European teen lying, sometimes clože together, come- volunteers,

times singly, or in twos and three