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OUND VOLIMJ-3 of the HONGKONG 1914. With INDEL. 'rios $7,60,

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Hongkong. 22nd Jan awry, 1915.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, May gist

Provion On Datojn Date

Day at

г31-6

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 22ND, 1915.

The following is a list of unclaimed telegram Bring in the Eastern Extnation, Australasia and China Telegraph Company's office at Hong

kong.

ADDRESS

Afrosido Faroand s, Aberdeen"

Rad

FROM

Connolly, Major Paul

Macao

London

congan, Signboard-Dealers,

Wongyokeken

Shanghai

Lingwai stiep

V soondray...

HeFarland, J. B.

Kwongwuchsong, Jervola St Rangoo

Pin or Quote, China Hotel

Vegzeil, et*. Miyasaki Maru Wingganz so, Qu'e Road

Central...

Manila- Eaigon Sing pare Lodou Manila Siog pore

Nogales

Following is a list of unclaimed lelograms lying in the Great Northern · Telegmp Company's office at Hongkong :—

ADDEE89

Hudions Mara

FROM

Quinyuen

John Wedge Williams Cwe

Bead B...

Joenoen Ve-ingles

Keinguenlong

Buangbal Mihinomiya

Shanghai Bhanghai Shanghai

Kringlat****

Shanghai

Laghus Keerinho

Amoy

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Market...

Amoy

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Shangh

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Kobe Shanghai Shanghai

"WEATHER REPORT.

THE LURE OF A FORTRESS.

PRZEMYSL AFTER THE FALL.

STORY AND LESSONS OF THE SIEĢE.

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The forest for the 24 hours ending at noor to-day la as foto WB 20

FORECAST.

DETRIOZ

Hongkong & Neighbourhood

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Temperature

85

61

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75

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77

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Formosa Channel

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29.71 29,70

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THE NEW REGIME,

The outer line is about 25 miles in ouroumang surprise that such a half-hearted and forence, from which it may be judged to how badly organized undertaking failed with a loss great an expense Austrin has been placed in of 3,500 in casualtios. One does not know fortifying this city. I was not able to get how these matters are regarded in Austria, but Any accurate information as to the number to the layman it would seem that some one of guns which the Austrians had on their or other should leave a lot of explaining to Various positions, but the opinion of an do as to the Inst days of this stage. The spirits of the anti-Russian element officer was that, excluding machine-guns, says Mr. Stanley Washburn, The Times thore was at least 300 of them. There are special correspondent with the Russian armies said to range in calibre from the field piece There has been no formal entrance of I was Russian troops, General Silivanoff himself were buoyed up by the spectacle of the great up to heavy guns of 30 centimetres. fortress in Galicia still holding out. As informed that there worn a few 38 centimetre not yet living inspected his prize. The first long as Przemysl stands, there is hope," seems and one or two of the famous 18 centimetre Russians to enter came in six military motor to have been the general opinion of all who guns here when the war started, but that cars without any escort, and went quietly wished ill to the Russians. Thus the fort the Germans had borrowed them for their and unostentatiously to the Headquarters of ress which at the outset, might have been operations in the West. In any case, it is the Austrian comminder, whore the affairs of abandoned with small loss of prestige to the hard to see how the big guns, eren the 30 the town were transferred. Following the Austrians gradually came to have a political centimetre, could be of any great value to officials samll detachments of troops came int as well ne military significance of the inest defence firing out over a crest of hills to take over sentry duty and other military far reaching importance. In the general in the distant landscape, behind which, in matters, and then came the long lines of Russian transport bringing in supplies for crash in September after the battle of the an irregular line of trenches, lay those the the half-famished garrison. All told, prob Grlek line, the loss of a town until then

After

few experiments against never heard of the West, outside of military works the Russians seem to have reached ably there have not been more than a few cicles, would have escaped anything more the conclusion that it would not be worth thousand Russian soldiers in Przemysl since than passing comment. Not until the while even to attempt to carry the trenches its capitulation, and these were grested Russian armies had actually swept past its by assault. The only way possible would warmly by both prisoners and civilians, trenches and musled its fort did the world have been by the slow and patient method There has been no friction whatever, and at large know that such a place was on the of sapping and mining which was employed everybody seems well satisfied with the end

by the Japanese at Port Arthur. Even of the siege methods so costly, both in time and lives would seem to have been hardly justified here, because, as the Russians well knew, it was merely a question of time when the encircled garrison would eat itself up, and that the whole position would then fall into their hands, without the cast of a single life.

map.

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Thas an army which has proved to be a huge one was isolated from the field at a time that Austria needed every able-bodied man, end a fortress that was doomed from the start was allowed to assume an importance which made its fall not only a severe military loss, but a blow to the spirits of Austrians, both at home and in Galicia. The fall of Przemysl has gone further toward I shattering any hopes of ultimate victory than anything that occurred since the war started,

The greatest task at first was the 'relief of the population, both soldiers and civilions, Countess Shuvaloff came the second day, and immediately commenced feeding the population from the depot, where she organizal a kitchen and a service of dis- tribution which supplies 3,000 persons a day. The Army authorities arranged for the care of the soldiers and much of the civil popula tion as well, and in three days the situation was well-in hand, and practically all the suffering climinates

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The lesson of Przemysl may be a very in structice one in future wara, and the friends of General Sukhomlinoff, the Russian Minis As Count Bobrinsky, who for six months ter of War, aro claiming with some reason that ha heen-labouring to restore-norinal-condi- what has happened here is a vindication 1 of tions in Galicia, stated, his task has now his theory that fortresses in positions which been onormously simplified, and there isnro not of absolute necessity to the military scarcely an element left here that now situation should never be built at all, or believes there is any chance of Austria winning back her lost province. Austring agents have abandoned hope, and sympathizers with Russia are now openly declaring their loyalty to the new rigim There is, however, a class of bureaucrats left here that have for generations been holding, the best offices at the disposal of the Vienna Government. These are,

of course, almost to a man, out of their verative posts and represent the element that has most vivities of the Government installed by if quietly, sought to undermine

Thetructed should be abandoned at the in a fortress captured, the Austrians at

the Russians. But even these see in the collapse of their great fortress the vapors tion of their last chance.

"It is a

of war rather than defended un- wisely and at great cost. It is declared that had not the Warsaw forts been scrapped some years ago, the Russian army to-day would be standing a siege, or at least a partial siege, within the city, instead of fighting on a line 25 miles west of it.

·ROW, FAMINE CAME

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

WILL THEY SUFFER FROM "STARVATION?

NEVTRALS' ANXIETY.

LAUSANNE, April 21st The report of the second visit paid to the prisoner of war in Germany by the delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross Society is about to be

published.

M. Eugdter raises the question of the lood supply of 800,000 prisoners in a country that can barely find subsistence for its own army and civil population and that cannot import food, and sug gests that the Triple Entents should pro- vide grain or flour for the prisoners in Germany to be introduced under the supervision of a neutral State such as Sweden or Norway.

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FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."

Sure Signs of Blood Impurity.

1

The continual appearing through the skin of ECZEMA, BLOTCHES, SPOTS, BLACKHEADS. PIMPLES, BOILS, SORES AND ERUPTIONS OF ANY KIND.

The throbbing aciting pains of BAD LEGS, ULCERS ABSÕESSES, SCRO FULA, GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, BLOOD POISON, PILES..

The Dread Grip of RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, GOUT.

As far as one can learn there was no parti- enlar pinch until the stores were nearly denly neute. It is improbable that econo exhausted and then conditions became sud- was enforced in the early dispensation of food supplies and the husbanding of such sources as were at hand. When the crisis came, it fell first upon the unfortunate soldiers, with whom their officors seem to have little in common. Transport horses were killed first, and then the cavalry mounts went to the slaughter-house to provide for nip the garrison. The civilians next felt the of hunger, and every live thing that could nourish the human body was eaten, including cats and dogs. The officers, recording to the evidence collected from many sources, never even changed their standards of living. While the troops were starring in the tren- ches, the young bloods from Vienna, who were in command, were taking life easily in the Café Sieber and the Café Elite. One of the haggard, starved-looking servants in the hotel where I was quartered told me that several of the Staff officers had lived there. "They," he said, "had everything as usual.

I principle Germany is bound to carry Fresh meat and all the luxuries were at their disposal until the last. Yet their the burden of the prisoners she has taken It is her duty to feed them soldier servant user to come to me and buy in the war. food. One day when I gave bin half of a and to give them the same rations which piece of bread I was eating his hands trem- she apportions to her own soldiers-or re- blast with informant passed, and the only too clear that Germany would starvo

lease them. weakness as he reached to take it

In practica, however, it is frean se concluded sardonically, “No, the officers here her prisoners rather than release them, did not suffer. Notthey. Itwasenfés, billiards, and that as the supply of food within linners, and an easy life for them to the As for the rank and file, I think it safe to end. But the rest of us. Ab, yes, we have the Empire grows Juss it ie they who will say that not one in a huntired has my gel-suffered. Had the siege lasted another week be made to feel the shortage first. ing at all except that of hopeless misery. we should all have been black in the face for But the full of the fortress at any rate means want of food. to them three murals of some sort a day, and treatment probably kinder than they ever got from their own officers...

discovered a couple of non-commissioned officers who, when they heard that I was an American, talked quite freely. Both took great pride in repeating the statement that Przemysl could never have been taken by nasalt and that it had only surrendered because of lack of food. One of the men was from Vienna and extremely pro-German. He took it as a matter of course that the Aus trinns should be defeated, but seemed to feel confident in the German troops. He knew nothing of the situation outside of his own garrison, and, when told of Kitchener's new

he laughed sardonically. Apply joke i said.Kitchenor's Army is only on paper; and even if they had half a million, as they claim to live, they would be of no use The English cannot fight at all. When told that over two million toon had been recruited in the British Empire, he opened his eyes a bit, but after swallowing a few times, here Lorted,

Well, even if they have, it does not

your sufforing. can't fight. His companion matter. They was chiefly interested to know how long the war was going to last. He did not scem to feel any particular regret at the fall of the fortress, nor to care sory much who won; su long as the war would soon be over, So that

he could go home again.

الله

SITUATION OF THE TOWN.”

about it.

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Heading between the lines of M. Eug- ster's remarks one can believe that the personal impression he has received from his contact, not only with the prisoners but with German officialdom, is that a new form of wholesale barbarity in to be fores on and wait, be dealt with in time.

An Austrian Sister who had been working in the hospital confirmed the story, "Is it true that people were starving here?" I agiced her." Indeed, it is true," she told me, the soldiers hul almost nothing sud the civilians were little better of. As for us in the hospitais, well, we really suffered for want of food." ***But how shout "the officers " I asked. She looked at me sharply LORD GREY ON CONDITIONS out of the corner of her eyes, for she evidently did not care to criticize her own people, but she seained to roll something, and her face suddenly hardened as she suapped out:

The officers starve? Well, hardly. They THE VOICE OF THE DOMINIONS. lived like Dukes always." More she would not say, but the evidence of these two was amply confirmed by the sight of the sleek, well-groomed specimens of the "Likes" that promonaded the streets.

EUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN P

OF PEACE,

Lord Grey, who presided at the annual mesting of the Royal Colonial Institute, said that the whole world of neutral nations was watching with heartfelt hopes for the complete and conclusive triumph of our arios, because we were fighting not selfishly, but for ideals as to ouratives. It was too soon to discuss precious to the whole civilized world as conditions of peace. He ngrel with Dr. Eliot, the ex-President of Harvard University, that it would be a sin to pray for peace until the barbarous and world-enslaving pretensions of the Ger

prominent landmarks. No peace would be acceptable to us wirch way not also aceptabls to be oversen Dominions and India, who had rallied so splendidly to the flag. No poacu would contain within its womb the gerus of permanence unless

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Przasnyst itself is an extremely old town From the most remote days it has been a fortress, and each successive generation has kept improving its defences, until to-day it is a modern stronghold. Why the Austrians should have seen it to make this city, which in itself is of no great importance, the site of their strongest position in not in the least shricus to a layman. The town, which is a mixture of quaint old buildings and com- paratively modern structures, lies on the The northern depression has passed into the east bank of the Hiver San, which at this Pacillo and the anti-cyclone now covers Japinpoint is about the size of the Bow liver at the southern depression ha: broome deeper and Calgary, in Canada, and perhaps two piles more satentive.

above the point where the small stream of the Wiar comes in from the south. The town Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at is hardly visible until one is almost ant the I can quote the statement of the Countess 10 m. to-day, 0.10 Inches,

SO screened is it by rolling bills that lie Elizabeth Shivalo as further corroborative eviclence of the conditions in the town. The The prevailing Impression in the world Countess, white to the wants of the civil popu- is in charge of a distribution outside may be that the Russian guns station to have been dropping shells into thelation, said to me -"It is true that the heart of the town, which many people people were starving Common soldiers 5. winds, moder-even in Lwow believe to be in a half-ruined occasionally fall on the street from shwer

ale to fresh of th

condition. As a matter of fact, the nearest weakness for want of food. Some lay like

of forts in the first line of in a matter of six the

the dead and would not move. cloudy, squally,

But their miles from the town.

the whole officers ? A frowe said, "they are not like

over her handsome mans had been killed. There were two THE ONE GREAT REMEDY showery.

siege not a shell from the

ussian batteries features.A has fallen in the town Our officers share the hard therefore no danger of the civiliau popule ships of the men. You have seen it yourself," tion's suffering any adverse effects from the with glarice at me. You know that one bombardment as long as the outer line of finds them in the trenches, everywhere, in forts held, as they have from the beginning. cnitorias as worn And

ragged as those of The road from Lemberg comes over the their men, and living on almost the same erest of a hill and stretches like a open ratine i en stap would ever living ribbon for about three miles over an open while his men starved.. I am proud of my plain, on the western edge of which a slight people! But these officers here! They care rise of ground afforded the elevation neces: nothing for their men. You have seen them sary for the first Austrian line. To the north in the strests. Do they look as though they of the road is a fort with the glacis so well had sufferedi ?" laid out that it is hardly noticeablo as one Imochately on reading the town we approaches, though the back is dug out and sought out the Headquarters of the new gallerie for heavy gans, Before Russian Commandant of the fortress. Over is a ditch, with six CATHEDRAL

rows of sunken the door of the building, in large gold letters, Hongkong. Wait Sunday, 23rd May, 1915. Holy Com- barbed wire entanglement, and a hun- were the words indicating that the builting munion 8.05m. Malins (11 am). Responses dred yards from this is another series of haal formerly been the leadquarters of the Ferial: Peninas, Cooke, Crotch and Coke, Te entanglements, 12 rows deep and so Eriss 10th Austrian Army Corps. At the entrance Deum, Oakley in F; Jubilate, Oaseley in G. crossed with barbed wire that it would take two stolid Russian sntries gloomily eyed the Holy Commation (12 Noon). Hymns, 217, 167man bars-to-out his way through with constant line of dapper striat, afficers that aad 154, N.B.-Peala 48, ora 1, 6, 8 and no one to impede his progress.

passed in and out of the building, where as 13 in unison; Praim 68, vores 1 2, 7, 8, 11, 14

we subsequently learned they were assisting To the right of the rout runs & line of the Russians in their task of taking over tho 9, 20, 24, 25, 32 and 33 in unison. Evense modern trenches. These are covered in and city. (45 p.). Responses, Festal; Psalms, On

General Artamonoff, the new Governor, Trimme

(Oth evening, Travers and Cooks, banked deep enough to keep out anything blagniizat, Stainer (29th ovaning); Nund less than a Gin field howitzer sheil unless if placed an other, Captain titubstitch, at h. m ft.in. b. m. ftia. Dieitti, Folt a; Hymas, 215, 135, 209 and came at a very sharp angle. To shrapnel or our disposal, and with him our way was Bator. 22 No inter high or low water 155, N.B-Paalm 101, verses 1, 7, 20, 21, 21, any field gun high explosive shell I should made comparatively easy. From him and 2 11 5 7 10 29 1 7 25, & and 36 in unison; Pealm 146, verses 1, think it would have proved invulnerable. other officers whom we met we gathered that The trench itself lies on a slight crest, with the Russians were utterly taken by surprise 5:21 44 m 962 4 0 2, 10, 11, 12 and 21 is unison.

enough cusation to give the loopholes come at the sudden fall of the fos tress, and amazed any other purtion of the Empire, had H of the MEETINGS of 345 5.4 11 16

Sr. L'eran's CHURCH, West Point. San-mand of the ground in front. The field of at the strength of the garrison. The general also contributed to the Army the largest LEGISLATIVE ·COUNCIL 49 jm 11-81

day, 23rd May, 8 am.. Holy Communion. fire, visible from these trenches must be idea was that there were not, over 50,100 percentage of soldiers. In Guateinada, Salon 1914. 11 am Morning Prayer and Bermon, vearly 4,000 yards, so perfectly pleared of soldiers at the disposal of the Austrian cour the war broke out, there were re- Preacher, Rt Rev. The Bishop of Victoris.

Highnat open air Temperature on 20th... 85 Lowest open air Temperature on 20th... 79.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From 22nd to 28th May.

HIGH WATER

LOW WATER.

H'kong. Mean Timo

B'kong. Mean

1 8

3 2

5 14 5 3] -libfa 2 1

BUD.

23.m

24 m 6 36

T'heu

25 m 5 59

W

6 26 & D 6272

28 m

23

Benth cast of China between [The mms s

Hongkong and Hainan...

St

banish the pain No. 1.

CHURCH SERVICES.

Joax's

THE DEFENCES,

this

56 ||-0 34 × 2′′ 4

shelter of all sorts that it would be difficult ander. Three days before the fall a sortie 0.93

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road, Sunday, for a rabbit to cross it unseen. The ditch 7 22 6 0 1 29 1

23rd May. Morning Service at 11.m. and two series of wire entanglements extend 12. 2:5 Psalm 100; Hymes, 541 133 sud 150 Anthem, in front of the entire position. This line is, 2:19 08 "O For a Close Walk with God,” Preacher:

believe, typical of the whole outer line of 124 27 Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. Subject, "Babai and fortifications, which is composed of a number Pentecost," Ereding Service at 6 pm of forts, all of which are linked up with the l'reactor: Rer. T. Robinson.

trenches.

Thare 27m 7 169 m

ki

8 35 a 4 7

9.39 a 16

£8 7 39 7 bm

3 90 2

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was made by some 30,000 Hungarian troops.sident & Britisk men subjects. Eighty Why out of 130,0,0 men but 30,000 were of them were Fellows of the Institute, allotted to this task in such a crisis does not and 6 had left their homes and crossed appear. Another remarkable feature of this the Atlantic at an average cost to them- last sorties was that the troops went to the sires of over £50 in order to shed their attack in their heavy marelling kit. Prebblood, if necessary, for the cause of ably not even the Austrians, themselves felt civilization.

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