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THE WAR.

JAPANESE MUNITIONS

THE ALLIES.

FUTILITY OF ZEPPELIN RAIDS.

FOR

AUSTRIAN

TURNING MOVEMENT.

GERMAN ADVANCE ON

VILNA CHECKED.

FRENCH HAMMER GERMAN LINES,

RUSSIAN FRONT,

(THROUGH BRUTHE'S LOKNCY.] PERSISTENT GERMAN

ATTACKS.

RUSSIANS STUBBORN DEFENCE.

PETROGRAD. Augu-1 29th.

The Russians havs successfully checked the Germans in their advance on Vilná. while they continue fighting in the retreat between Vilma and Pripes, holding 'she The Germans have enemy's offensive. begun two new attacks; one southward of Prip and the other on the east Galicia Tront. A communiqué says that there is no change in the ragion of Riga. but in the direction of Fridrickstadt stubbor?s fighting continues, the enemy attempting to force the Russian lines towards Brenzburg, on the Mitan railway. The enemy's night-attarks between the rivers Vilna and Niemen were held by Russian The eneiny began lo -advance-on-the-26th inst, in the district of Vladimiryolinski, in the direction of Torchin and westward of lamizk anl Lokalche, on the river Luga. and Ponitzk. There has been fighting on this front.

counter-attacks.

The Gerenns also attacked several sectors on the Upper Hug, the Zlatalips and the Dnister. They were particularly vigorous worthwards of Bræėjany and west- ward of Podgaitzi, where the enemy succeeded in establishing himself on the right bank of the Zlotalipa,

GENERAL.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AORNCY.)

MUNITIONS FOR THE ALLIES. JAPAN TO EMPLOY ALL AVAILA ABLE RESOURCES.

NEW YORK, Angust 30th. Japan has decided to employ all her availablo Governyat and private sources to increases the output of munitious

(for the Allies,

THE

31. the

EPPELIN RAIDS ON

ENGLAND.

MR BALFOUR ON A YEAR'S

RESULTS

THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31st 1915.

(FHROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.} CHOLERA IN GERMANY.

LONDON, August 20th.

Germany, Cholera is appearing in especially along the Spren

The police of Berlin have warned the people against drinking nuboiled water.

PAYING FOR AMERICAN

EXPORTS.

New York. August 20th- Twenty-five million dollars in British securities and aineteen millions in gold have arrived to pay for exporta.

AUSTRO ITALIAN-FRONT-

THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]

ITALIAN BRAVERY.

HOW A PERCHED POSITION

WAS TAKEN.

Rome. August 30th. (An Italian communiqué reports a daring

WAR ITEMS.

HUNS IN LUXEMBURG.

GOVERNMENT TERHORIBED BY THE INVADERS.

BRITISH SEA POWER. SERVICES OF THE MERCANTILE

AT THE MAGISTRACY. MUZZLELESS DOGS.

MARINE.

Mr. Nicholl, of The Peak, was fined $5 The splendid war service of the British at the Magistracy yesterday for per we have initting his dog to be at large without German military despotisns and daily mercantile marine, of which breaches of international law have exas heard all too little was acknowledged having affixed a fuzzie, Perated all those in Luxemburg who have recently by Sir Edward Hain, when, in any sense of national dignity to such a the capacity of cotiring chairman of the degree that an explosion of indignation London General Ship ners' Society, be must come soone day. Citizens who, do addressed the minal gathering of that not flatter the oppressor no longer feel body in Whittington-avenue. Leadenhaj!- themselves protected, for their own Gov-street

erament-does nothing to protect subjects Whatever captions criticism may have against German revenge.

to say in regard to our general prepared Inhabitants of Luxemburg are arrestedness for war." he said our merchau and sent to Treves for trial and sentence vesd wern wedy for the demands mast by court-martial without protest from the upon them and instantly available t nominal Luxemburg Government.

It is M. Fournille. employed at the Prinservice in any part of the world,

not, I think. to high a claim to make Heinrich railway station, was arrested on the charge of having informed the French, was in importane to the valour and Staff of miremonts of German troops. He devotion of our Navy and Arany, the most essential service in this war has been rey- "Way "sentenced rò death b Treves

M. Nopperey, a well-known barrister, Francophil editor of the Indipendence Luxembourgeoise, and president of the Committee for the Protection of Belgian and French Fugitives, has been sent tu Trives for trial by court-martial as a spy in the service of France.

TRYANNY IN BELGIUM.

A DISORDERLY NORWEGIAN.

A powerfully but young Norwegian sailor named Winterhus was fined $15, or mouth's hard labour in default, for dis It was atted that the orderly conduct defendant was asked to leave the Sea men's Institute, and apparently beeso He put his fist annoyed at the request,

was taken in eustody by mi Indian con- through a window, cutting his hand, Ho stable, and behaved in a very violent man-

on the way to the station. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. Leung Tik Kwong, dias Leung Taz Ching, was charged with the embezzlé, meng of a sum of $1,500, the property of the Wing Cheong Sing firms of No. 30, Beaham Strand East

deved by the mercatile marineindeer without this aid the splendid achieven mints of our fighting forces' would have been impossible.

And it is not only in association with th fighting services that ur merchant yassels and their crews have performed the duties assigned to them. In spite of merry cruisers and of murderous attacks from enemy submarines, they have kept the seas as if nothing out of thy common Since the recent national aniversaries was happening bringing food supplies for the Prussian mailed fist in Belgium hasar penge, and the raw material neces

Great freedom is happy people

MF £ leakin (instructed by Mr.

attack on the Upper Isonzo against tightened its grip on the lives of 14sary for our factories, thereby helping to Dixon) was for the precation, and Mr.

strong Austrian position, which was perched on, a peak at an altitude of 7,000 fer: The Grmy made a drtertainci resistance with gun and riffs fire, and also showered hand grenades and boulders on the Italians. Nevertheless, the Italians carried trenches, though the quemy is stiling order: resisting on thyextreme sammit,

Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. W. E. 2. Shton) represented the defendant,

Thir

given to individual Governors, who sees maintain in full and vigorous activity the to try to oitrics rach other in tyramy.comic life of the nation; and they hac,

Mr. Jonki aid that thi movey con- The most recent example comes from accomplished all this with a nsourceful

"eported in the chaug sent from Canton Ghent, where the following proction which has excited our warmest

admiration. (Cheers.) has been pasted on the walls

His Majesty the King and other big' through the On Yue Bauk, and was duly The way in which part of the people behaved on July 21 and exaggerated the authorities have in the most generons

revived by the complainant firm, the. tributes of may in which they wore the Belgian terus paid well-deserved colours compels me to issue the follow praise to our merchant sailors, and bay-bank-book being chopped with the firm's

*money-rverived chup. I forbid from to-day the expressed appreciation of their efficient wearing, showing, buying, and selling of public service. The Gergian tenace has Belgian colours, portraits, or pictures accomplished at least one good thing. It against the defendant, was that he received

the money and failed to account for it. of the Royal family, or green leaves, with has forced us to realise as we have never

dons before, that our very existence an if the books. There was at present pende. or without inscription, or any other dis-

a people depends upon the maintenance of

ing an action in the Supreme Court in BRITISH CASUALTIES IN A play of colour combinations meant to I forbich indicate political inclinations.

defendant was the our supremacy at sea." YEAR'S CAMPAIGN.

all Belgians wearing the insignia of any

which the present order of decoration. For any of these OUR LOSSES IN FRANCE AND THE offefics a maximum fe of 5,000 marks

plaintiff, and he was suing a number of or a maximum term of five years impri-

three of his witnesses. In his afflavit sonment, or both, will be inflicted. This

prople, aniong, whom he recognised two er . Aled in that action he alleged that the order must be posted on the walls, and cames into operation. immediately.

monnoy concerned was received by one. Tem Lient, GHAFF VON WESTARP. Ghent, Jaly 25.

Tas Chin, who was the accountant, wal that no he (defendant) but another mas had to account for the money, their case, said Mr. Jenkin that the, do fendant kept the books of the firm, and that all the entries were in his hand. writing.

Evidence was called, and tho remanded.

DARDANELLES.

LONDON, August 29th.

Following is the detailed statement by The Admiralty has issued a letter by the Prime Minister giving the total Balfour. the First Lord, en casualties among the British forces in all effects of the Zeppelin rauds the fields of operations up to the latest during the last twelve months, which available date, issued with the Parliament.

ry papers on July 27th:

NAVAL,

AN ENGLISH HEROINE.

CARRIES A WOUNDED SOLDER TO

FIELD HOSPITAL

The Karal casualtios up to July 2. are given as follow ;--

The correspondent of the Algemeen From the Killed. Wounded. Missing. Totale landet ud, in a letter

499

87

CAD English Front," tells the following story 7,430 187

8,19 of an English imrad-

Men

shows that 71 adults and 18 children-were killed and 190 adults and 31 children injured. No soldier or sailor was killed. and in only one occasion was damage Ofters inflicted-which-by-any stretch of language "coult be described as of the smallest mil tary importance. The Faida had been brutal, and served no hostile purpose..

moral er material,

MILITARY

29 2774

9.100

The military casualties are given to duly 18th, and are divided into three categories,

as follow:...'

WOUNDED

The letter is in reply to a correspondent, Ken: complaining of the lurid Germam accounts of. Zeppelin raids, widely believed by nentral, while the British accounts were

fon meagre.

Mr. Balfour says the reason of the FIGHTING. EVERY INCH, British reticence is quite simpla, The Zeppelins attack under cover of night in. BIC AUSTRIAN MOVEMENT.

such conditions that landmarks are elusive PETROGRAD, August 30th.

Errors an and navigation" difficult. A communiqué states that, the Russians

inevitable, sometimes of surpassing magni. are still disputing every inch of ground. They have retired to another front behiuttude. The Germans constantly assert that

Vladimirolinski in consequence of a big Austrian movement to turn the position in Galicia.

"

FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} HAMMERING GERMAN LINES. VIOLENT HAND TO HAND FIGHTING.

Other

France. Dardanelles, pincer

Officers Men

3,288 567 46.372

7,567

145 LA46.

Officers Men MISSING:

6,803 150,308

1,379

248

28.037

3,247

Officers

Men

1,163 50.969

198 10.292

22

611

2,144 Officers 11.254 Mee

255,649 -47,004 The grand total of casualties is follows:-

115

5,338

Nary

Army

.. Killed. Wounded. 7,920 974 61 384 196,620

303 9,108 63,886 321,88N

Total casualties:

After dealing with various schemes for the insurane and control of shipping during the war, and pointing out that neutral shipping had reaped a rich har British vessels. Sir Edward Hain con rest by engaging on voyages prohibited to

tinned:

"Owing to war conditions, prices for new ships in this country have reached to the higher standard, of value prevailing in other countries who may now very naturally endeavour to do for themselves what by our economic and efficient methods of ship construction and engineering skil we have hitherto very largely done for the It becomes of the shipowning world, highest importance, therefore, that our inercantile marine shall issue from the war - Far from the trenches I was walking with financial resources unimpaired. so along a sunken rond wira, rounding that our supremacy in shipbuilding, bent figure marine engineering, and shipowning shal curve, I suddenly way hurried be fully maintained, and that the best of slowly moving forward. and saw & girl of not more than 25 years labour depudent upon the success of of age carrying on her shoulder a young shipping in all its branches shall be fully English infantryman. The young man employed.

Personally, I am satisfied that w had been shot through the shoulder, and after preliminary dressing of the shall adapt ourselves to the new conditions: wound he had been told to go to the but it is only by steady and strenuous nearest field hospital. He had lost his deavour that wis shail wake good..

Trade relations in some degree.mil. way, and had wandered on until, from loss of blood and fatigue, he fainted. In of course, be resumed with the Ger this state the young woman-it was an pople, but myer by this generation-of English marse-aggidentally found him.nglishmen with the old confidence and Aa it was at least half-an-hour's walk 10

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EX-TRAN WAY Co. EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH LARCENT.

A charge of the larceny of $20, the of the Hongkong Tramway Company, was preferred against & far- property

mer employee of the Company yester day. ·Inspector Gordon informed be Magistrate that the defendant got on ons of the prosecuting Company's cars at the. Taiping Theatre, and remained on it. til it reached the Happy Valley R

When the motorman, left the car. to change the control, nad while the con

treat.

the nearest feld hospital she decided toast, and we mnist sees to it that never

Farin for the return journey of the car, the carry him there. The brave girl accepted gain shall our commercial activities b my assistance, any we utilised my over undermined by a bitter enemy, whluctor was engaged in turning round the under the guise of friendship, has for

defondant; it was alleged, went to the coat as a stretcher, and thus carried our

years hidden in his heart the determina-

money box which was kept under & sext as wounded man to the hospital.

tion to destroy us if he could,

in the first-class compartment and stole from je 820 in money, afterwards runding away.

Missing. Total.

60,313197,451 04188-30,993

The casualties in Clerman South-West

they dropped bombs on places which is fact they never approached. Why make Africa are not incinded in the foregoing list.

Inture voyages easier by telling them where they blundered? The raids had been magnified out of all proportion by ill-informed rumour.

GERMANY'S VOLTE FACE.

WAVE OF MISTRUST INCREASING.

There was an intense bombardment of the | established

the

enemy's trenches and working parties Lusitania, The State Department fees along the whole of the Lorraine frontier,

THE CUSTOMS CONTROL AT

TSINGTAO.

GERMANS ON-THEIR FOES.

POINTS IN WHICH THE BRITISH, FRENCH -AND-RUSSIANS -EXCEL.

That the regular British infantry is far better than any other taking part in the war is the unanimous opinion of German prisoners.

Interviewed by M. Loudovic Naudeau, of the Journal, a number of prisoners, ost of whom had seen fighting on both TEXT OF AGREEMENT SIGNED Arfronts, expressed the opinion that the

PEKING.

The following in the official text of the agreement relating to the re-opening of the offics of the Chinese Maritime Cus toas at Tsingtao, wow. in consequence of the war, under the Military Government of Japan:-

best infantry was that which, in propor tion to its numbers, killed the largest number of the enemy, and the British Regulars unquestionably did this. They They aimed just the never shot blindly. same as et practice, and their fire was deadly.

-It is bereby agreed that the Office of the Chinese Maritias Customs shall be re-opened at Tsingtao,

The Agreement about the establish- ment of a Maritime Customs Office at Russiart. Tsingtao. signed at Peking on the 17th April, 1899, by the German and Chinese

for their respecti representatives Governments, and the amendment to the same signed similarly at Peking by the German and. Chinese representatives en the 1st December, 1908, with replacement the term "German" by "Japanese

NEW PEACE OFFER?

RUSSIA AND GERMANY: AN INSPIRED GERMAN ARTICLE.

We must de-Germanise our political and commercial life, and for our own pr servation, place our shipping and other interest abroad in futur, either in the hands of our own people or in those of asured friends.

But these considerations must be put aside for the time. They are subordinate now to the national determination to w in this war. After a year of conflict the situation still calls for every effort, hat we shall go on undismayed. and with our qurces in men and material greater than a year ago we have the fullest as ange that we shall prevail in the end."

MOUNTAIN GUN

Two Portuguese ladies were in the companiment at the time, but they Ho could not identify the defendant was arrested at his home in Lower Lascar Road and brought to the station and He was an old servant of the charged.

Company and only left a few days ago, That was all the evidence the prosecution could adduce.

The Magistrate--It is not very conclu- sive,

Inspector Gardon ngro, d. and said the ease would have been stronger if the two ladies could have identified the fendant. Mr. A. H. Course (Traffe Superinten.1- MANUFAC-ent of the Tramway Company) asked for leave to withdraw the cas, and this was accordingly done, the defendant being dis- changed."

The

SHIPS OFFICERS AS LETTER C'ARRIENS.

Defendant explained that the letters were handed to him just as the camer was leaving Canton. it bring too late to post them.

TURED AT LIAOYANG, WASHINGTON, August 20th.

One of the mountain guns ordered by PARIS, Angust 29th,

The optimistic speculations aroused by

The prisoners considered the French To-day's communiqué says:-Our arti

the German declaration regarding sub

infantry excelled in hand-to-hand fight the Chinese patrolling soldiers stationed lery continued its continuous bombardment marine warfaro have been followed by a

ing, which they always tried to bring at the south of Liaoyang was completal about by admirable charges, but their recently at the Chinese foundry within big fault was that they shot to high. the walls. The new gun was subjected to a

Before Mr. Lindsell, Harry Stainsfell, of the German lines during the night,

wave of increasing doubts. An intimation

The results were tolerably good. particularly in the regions of. Ablain, | from German sources that a modification

The best cavalry was without doubt, ferial firing on the bank of the Taitze.

projectile fired from the gun, attained the Chief Engineer of the Paud Bean, was maximum range of 2 1/3 miles. There is summoned for bringing letters into the Roye, north of Lens, in the neighbourhoo! of the submarine warfare-would be deper

wid to be still some room for improve Colony on which postag had not been went. of Craonne and Berry-au-Bac, and dent

This new pattern of gan was 1+!] American representatious to

manufactured chiefly for the sake of the | paid. between the Aisne and Argonne.

Great Britain is regarded as showing the

greater facility for transportation over the hills and helds. Its muzzle has a Violent hand-to-hand fighting occurred possibility of tany conditions being at Maris Therese, west of the Malancourt

attached to the final German proposals,

The Felin de Paris states, in a messageiameter of about 4 inch and the barrel from Bale. that the Calngan Gazette | is 2 ft. 10 in. long. It may be easily car ied on the back of a horse. A shell is Wood, for the possession of mine craters, The United States holds that Germany's of the te the principle of this Agreement publishes a curious article, it when

said to cost about S. Yen 4.--Manchurian Daily News. of which the French remained the masters. sincerity in the Arabic case mud he demands such change, shall be held opera-offer is made to Russia to conclude a

tive between the Governments of China separate peace with Germany. before it discusses

The Cologne Gazette, inspired by the and Japan regard to the re-opening of the Chinese Maritime Customs Office at German Chancellery, strives to prove that AMERICAN AUTHOR BECOMES taxed when they came to Hangkong. Tsingtao and in regard to its regulations Russia has been sacrificed, and that Eng land has not held to its promises, with and procedure.

3-The Chinese Maritime Customs the result that the Tripartite Declaration of September 5th, by which the Tripte chives, Servics, moneys and all Servica

Ententy Powers pledged themselves hat property formerly under the control of the

to conclude a separate peace, is null and Inspector-General of Customs, which were

void so far as Russia is concerned. taken custody of by the Japanese Military The article is significant as if the Authorities at the time of occupation Germans had any hope of crushing the shall be returned to the Inspector-General. Frassian armies they would hardly offer

4. After dedueting 20 per cent,, of he net Import Duties as provided for in the German Amended Agreciment of 1903, the Japanese Government shall hand to the the Inspector-General the balance of Customs revenges collected ch Tsingtao by the Japanese Authorities to date of re- opening the Maritime Customs Office. (Sd.) E. HIOKI.

Minister of Japan. (Sd) F. A. AGLEN.

Inspector-General of Customs Signed and sealed at Peking the sixti August, 1915.

FRENCH ARTILLERY

SUCCESSES.

PARIS, August 30th.

A communiqué says that French artil lery activity contimes on the greater pari of the iron with most successful results

several points.

GERMAN TRENCHES BOMBED,

PARIS, August 30th.

French aeroplanes, Blying over the enemy lines at Bixschoote, dropped over 100 bombs on the German front tranches, kill ing and wounding many soldiers.

that the information received from British and Amrican sources is complete, Uni awaits the German presentation of the caso before it makes its fund decision.

AUSTRALIA'S NAVY,

LAUNCH OF A DESTROYER.

SYDNEY, August 30th.

-

A new Australian destroyer has been launched in the presence of a vast and

enthusiatic crow. A

H.. The King cabled congratulations upon the early prospect of further impo.t and additions to the Australian Navy and the sea-power of the Empire.

peace.

A FEARFUL ATROCITY.

A BRITISH SUBJECT.

HENRY JAMES CHOICE Henry James the American write according to an unong ment in The Timas, was granted naturalization papers In his petition for last month and took the oath of alleginace British subject, naturalization he sets forth the following

reasons;~~~~

Because of having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty A special committs of inquiry. with years; because of attachment to the cour Keatsoff, a member of the Russian try and sympathies with its people: Senate, as president, has examined the because of the long friendships, associa evidenes of the wife of the hospital at- tions and interest formed these last tendant Abankumorf, whose rose and ears including the acquism of some property were cut off by the Germans, and who all of which things hav: brought to n was afterwards disembowelled in the pre-head a desire to throw my moral weight sence of his wife, whom they had bound, and personal allegiance, for whatever they may be worth, into the scale of entendrag because he refused to speak German, a

nations." language of which he had no knowledge.

The Postmaster-General (Mr. E. D. C. Wolfa) said there was a post-box on board the band. and the defendant could have posted them and they would have been Defendant declared that he intended to post them when he came to the, Colony.

The Postinaster-General aid that in: that case one of the two letters was-in- sufficiently addressed, though the other. could havs been delivered," addressed merely

whose suldrews was given. Hammett" and the other to "A. Arcalli,” nothing particular in the letters. All ships officers had been warned by the police not to convey corespondence into. the Colony. It was a serious matter in wartime.

to

One was "Master Toin

There was

·

Defendant asserted that there was no post-box on the steamer, which flew the Chinese Aug.

The Postmaster-General replied that the Commissioner had informed him that they

If ther had post-boxes on all the boats, were no boxes defendant could have re fused to take the letters.

A fine of $10 was imposed.