1915-09-11 — Page 5

Page

THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1915,

GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

FURIOUS ATTACKS ON WHOLE FRONT.

AMERICA DEMANDS RECALL OF AUSTRIAN MINISTER.

WAR AT CLOSE QUARTERS.

„LONDONERS INDIFFERENCE TO ZEPPELINS.

ANOTHER GERMAN AIRSHIP LOST.

BRILLIANT SPEECHES BY MUNITIONS__MINISTER.

RUSSIAN FRONT

GREAT RUSSIAN

[THROWAN REUTER'S AGENCY.]

COUNTER-

ATTACKS. DESPERATE FIGHTING ALONG WHOLE FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN ADMISSION OF RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) THE LATEST ZEPPELIN RAID. THE COMPLETE CASUALTY LIST.

LONDON, September oth The Press Bureau announces that the areas of last total osaualties in all

night'e Zeppelin shade on the Eastern coat and the London district are de

follows:-

Killed

Seriously injured Slightly injured

Mon. Women, Child-

12

2

2

38

23

11

29

· 19

All were civilians, with the exception of ons soldier, who was killed, and three who were injured.

AMSTERDAM, September 9th. Berlin Admiralty communiqué

says:-

wero

[THROUGH MEUN-R'S AUENOT.]'

A MAGNIFICENT BRITON. OFFICER'S WONDERFUL BRAVERY

IN GALLIPOLI. :

LONDON, September 9th. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to

[THROUGH BEUTRAʼS' AGRNOY.] THE MUNITIONS QUESTION. "MR. LLOYD GEORGE ASKS FOR

MORE MEN.

PEKING NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PERING, August Jet. EDUCATIONAL

The conference of presidents and teachers of Normal Schools has concluded,

LONDON, September 9th. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing the

and these educationalists have now to Union Trades

Congress, emphasised

turned to their respective spheres of Lieut. W. T. FORSHAW (Manchester Torri-the fact that Britain is making a labour to carry into praction as far as pos torials), for conspicuous bravery and deter-prodigious effort to increases the output of sible the excellent ideas discussed during Before their departure from mination in Gallipoli from the 7th to the

He asked the Congress the session. var materiale. 9th August.

to 'awist to the utmost, and declared that Peking they had an audience with the When holding the north-west corner of the required 80,000 more skilled mechanics, President, who delivered an instructive "The Vineyard" he was attacked and besides 200,000 unskilled men and watsen, speech in which he emphasised the neces heavily bombed by the Turks, who Organised labour must suspend its ressity for a uniform system of education and advanced time after time by three trenchestrictions in regard to the employment of the need for studying national characteris. ties in formulating sach a system Doubt- which converged at this point, but he held unskilled labour and any other regula-less he meant that method of Chinese his owo, not only exposing himself with tions hampering the increase of this nationat education should be devised and the utmost disregard of danger, but per output. This might make the differenos nog be enpied in blue frem, the Occident, and, if this be so, the President will have sonally throwing bombs continuously for between victory and defeat. 14 hours. When his detachment was must also be no stoppages during the given one more proof of his unerring ap- preciation of what the country really needs." relieved, after 24 hours servies, he valur. teered to continue the direction of opera- tions. On three occasions in the next night he was heavily re-attacked. Once the Turks got over the barricade, but after shooting three with his revolver he led his

Our naval airships last night attacked, with good results, the West City of London (sic), samo great factories near Norwich, and also the harbour works and There iron works at Middlesborough. were heavy explosions, and numerous fires

observed. The airships, thonghen forward and recaptured it. When be rejoined his battalion he was sickened heavily bombarded, all returned safely.

by fumes from the bombs and badly bruised LONDONERS' FIRST GLIMPSE OF

by a fragment of shrapnel, and could WAR AT CLOSE QUARTERS.

barely lift his arm from continuous bomb- throwing. It was dus his personal example of magnificent tourage and endur- anco that this very important corner was

war.

There

LACK OF SKILLED WORKERS. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S COUNSEL TO TRADES UNIONISTS.

LONDON, September 10th. The Trades Union Congress has passed a resolution approving the Parliamentary Party co-operating ip the Labour National Recruiting Campaign,

Mr. Lloyd George, who received an ovation at the gathering, soid the Trades

of the most

Unionists represented one LONDON, September 9th.

A German communiqué indirectly admits the Russian success in Tarnopol, when it says:-"The Russian advance mar Tarnopol is now checked."

THE TARNOPOL VICTORY.

LONDON, September 10th. The energy of the Russian counter- attacks along the whole front is admitted iz & German communiqué. The desperate nature of the fighting is attested to by n

FRENCH SATISFACTION AND Petrograd communiqué, which, after men-

GERMAN-ANXIETY. tioning that the situation is practically unchanged in the Riga region, says that

PARIS, September 9th the Germans between the river Lantze and

There is great satisfaction in official Jacobstadt were unable to withstan.) furious Russian bayonet counter-attacks,quarters over the victory at Tarnopol and The object of the enemy's offensive in this is regarded as an excellent augury of

region is apparently to drive the Russians from the right bank of the Divina. Fur

the future development operations.

Surprise and anxiety

LONDON, September 10th. Last night's Zeppelin visit is described in a lending article in the Pall Mall Gazette as a first glimpse of the war at close quarters.

The Evening Standard commends the people of London for their coolness every where, but says there was a dangerous disposition to regard the affair as a spectacle, whereas the Zeppelia, within its limite, is a terrible instrument of war, ANOTHER ZEPPELIN.

DESTROYED.

LONDON, September 10th:

held.

"With

powerful forces of the country. you," he said, "victory is assured; with out you the cause is lost. Yesterday you THE SITUATION IN PERSIA. pledged yourselves to assist the govern

PERSIA EXPRESSES REGRET TO

GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, September 10th. Reuter's Agency learns that the Govern- ment of Persia has expressed great re gret both to the British Minister at Tehe ran, and to the Foreign Office through thả Minister in London, for the attack on the British Consul-General stationed at Ispa A telegram from Amsterdam says thathan. The Persian Government has pro- a Zeppelin left Brussels and proceeded in mised full reparation and to do its utmost prevail in the direction of Antwerp or Tuesday oven-

to apprehend the culprit. It has also off

and while ever Stockel, near Brussels, the airship lost a propellor and fell on a house, The Zeppelin was entirely destroyed by the ensuing explosion, and the crow were killed.

of Russian

ment in the successful prosecution of the war, (Cheers.)

French recently

had never

CINEMA ENTERPRISE,

These people who prate about Germin infonce in China might reconsider their views had they visited a Chinese open-air cinematograph exhibition in the Central Foreign films Park, as I did this week. were shown, and among the number was one illustrating the ships of all nations, concluding with the representation of Bri- German tannis, the mistress of the sens! friends will have to get husy if they are to dispel this belief in the Chinese mind.

PEKING VOLUNTEERS. The British Volunteers have commenced work again after the mer heat, hut their numbers have been slightly reduced owing to transfers and to departures for the front. The company is striving for increased efficiency all the time, and should ertainly prove a very creditable addition to the British forces in North Chim in dub course. Many of their number hope to participate in the camp of instruction

month for the Indian detachment. which is being held at Huungtsan thin

PERSONAL

ther south, on the Vilna ronds, where the Borlin at the Russian resistanco in Easting. It returned on Wednesday morning, ed the Consul General gendarmerie and were constructing cleven more. It was diplomacy has been a signal failureja

position is generally stationary, the enemy is entrenching vigorously.

The Russian communiqué states that south-east of Grodno, towards Skidel, nul along the left bank of tho Niemen, Russian troops on Wednesday, by a sories of fierce actions aimed solely et inflicking the heaviest possible losses, succeeded in The checking the enemy's offensive. communiqué sage that the Russians con- tinue their retirement in perfect order in ponformity with the general plan, making elloccesful counter-attacks from time to time. Thus mear Kokhoro, west of Skidal, the Germans fed before the counter. attacks of the Russians.

Between the Niemen and the Pripet rivers the Russians are retiring towards the district between the river Zelvianka and the town of Rujamy,

A vigorous offensive by enemy infantry and cavalry along the left bank of the Priped towards the Piask marshes was arrasted, and a similar result was achieved on the roads to Korno, where the Russians are stubbornly holding their positions the Upper Stubel, and Ikva rivers under a very fierce artillery fire.

The communiqué, referring to the Sereth successes, says that the Russian Armies ar: firmly and resolutely carrying out a move- ment in conformity with the general plan,

Galioia. The Germans fear that they will be unable to bring the Turks any Assistance in time to be of any use.

ENEMY'S BRUTALITY.

PARIS, September, 9th. The German brutality in Poland is. causing the liveliest discontent among the inhabitants.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] INCESSANT BOMBARDMENT. DESPERATE BATTLE WITH CROWN

PRINCE'S ARMY.

Paris, Septopmber 8th. Besides the continuation of the bom- bardment of German positions on many sectors the feature of to-day's communiqué is the violent fighting against the Crown The battle was Prince in Argonne. specially desperate the whole night long at Fontaine-aux-Charmes, the Germans attacks with great renewing their persistence, but the French line, with the exception of a portion of one trench, We made was everywhere maintained. prisoners.

PARIS, September 18th. Last night's communiqué says:- The artillery duel continues around

Champagne and Argonue,

GENERAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) AMERICA DEMANDS RECALL OF AUSTRIAN ENVOY.

SEQUEL TO DISHONOURAELE

INTRIGUES.

WASHINGTON, September 10th. The American Ambassador at Vienas has been instructed by cable to inform the Austrian Government that Dr. Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador to Washingten, is no longer acceptable as Envoy to the United States and to ask for his recall.

America was recently greatly angered at Dr. Dumba's attempts to induce strikes by Austrians in munitions works, and ai other acts regarded as an interference wit the internal affairs of the country. BRITISH EXPORT OF CLOTH.

guard.

Reater's Agency learns from a foreign diplomatic source that the affair rendered

crition) a situation already serious.

THE AMERICAN CROPS. REPORT BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED.

LONDON, September 9th. The American Government crop report It is is better than was auticipated. estimated that wheat will amount to 031 millions of bushels, as compared with: 891 millions bushels last year; cornTM 2,995- millions, as compared with 2,072 millions; oats 1,408 millions as compared with 1,141 millions; and hay 81 millions, as compares) with 70 millions.

ANGLO-GERMAN NEGOTIA- TIONS OF 1912. FURTHER "LIGHT" ON THE SUBJECT.

AMSTERDAM, September 9th. Another long statement published in the semi-official organ Norddeutsche Zeitung on Lord Haldane's mission and the Anglo-German gotiations in 1812 remarkable for a sentence illuminating Germany's designs. In summing up the failure of the negotiations it says: Great Britain declined Germany's far- reaching offers, previous to the outbreak of war, which would have rendered it possible for her to hold aloof from the war without prejudicing her interests,"

The statement also reveals that Sir

"The Government desires your aid. The Russians have been driven bick to lack of war material. Inadequate material

Field-Morsba! meant defeat: sufficient material meant Sir John victory,”

told him that he

Mr. Hioki, the Japanese Minister, left witnessed troops mote on Monday for a holiday in his native He was to ask land, but no great surprise would be occa- We sioned if he did not return to Peking, as. contemptuous of death. Trades Unionists to back them up. had established sixteen vational arsenals there is a feeling-in Japan that Japanes almost entirely a labour problem, Trades China, an accusation which is more port

tically inspired than actually true.

Mr. H. C. Adams has rotarned to Pek- Unionists alone could assist. Our machin- ery was not yet working night and daying in order to proceed further with the If it employed every skilled worker eran then we should not have too much labour. He believed that if the Trades Unionists censed to place certain restrictions on out. put, in some places it would be increased by 20 per cent and in others by 200 per ceat The Governmcut intended, owing to the lack of skilled workers, to give the unskilled workers work which they could do, reserving for mechanics the highly skilled work.

work of unification of the railway accounts, en undertaking which should do much to remove the inconvenience occasioned by having so many different national systema operating on the several railways built by. foreign contractors.

Mr. J. W. Fenton, a popular British resident of Peking, left yesterday for home on vacation leave, and though be is over military age he hopes to be given the opportunity of doing his bit with the British Force "somewhere in France." Congratulations are being extended to Dr. and Mrs. Morrison, on the birth of a son (the second) last week.

Prof.

for

Goodnow leaves to-day Amerion, travelling i Korea,

THE ROLES REVERSED. BAVARIAN CROWN PRINCE ON ALLIES' STRENGTH.

A Fress correspondent in Norther France a month ago wrota:-

I am able to-day to record & prophetia statement mare recently by the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria in conversa- tion with a member of the Reichstag wo was visiting the German lines in Artois.

Mr. Lloyd George referred to a eircular jesued at Coventry, which made a deliberate attempt to restrict the output of guns. He asked if anyone defended such action? (Laud cries of "No"). Hermed that ho knew they wouldn't-(Ch). Evan Belgians had been invited not to work i their full strength, although Belgium bad boon ravished and her women dishonoure.1 Mr. Lloyd Gronge called upon the work-

After admitting the importance of the men to fearlessly and courageously declare a vouch for this story as authentic. that they would in no way hamper their successes, gained in the north of Frauce, the Prince saxl:"I must confess I ai no longer an optimist. It will take sono time before the Allies seriously affect our position in France, but the roles ara

The reversed. native land, which was fighting for its lifs.

undoubtedly

enemy'a Let them share in the greatest victory

too well ever achieved.” (Cheers.)

The Congress passed a cordial vote of strength and resources are now

organised, and he is in a position to holi the balanes in his favour. thanks to Mr. Lloyd George.

FAR-REACHING NEW REGULATIONS.

LONDON, September 9th. The Daily Telegraph says that the Lancashire cotton trade has received new The enemy attacks in Argonne have not regulations from the Board of Trade which require a certificate concerning every yard been renewed.

cloth exported except to Colonies, in order that such may Edward Grey rejected the proposed National Defener Committer, held at KWANGTUNG FLOOD RELIEF

and contemplate the future with cou-Arras, in the region of Roye, Wooro, fidoncs, relying on their faithful Ally, the French Army, which for a fortnight hal beon bombarding the German front with terrible effect.

BULLETIN FROM SIR JOHN FRENCH. LONDON, September 10th. Field-Marshal Sir John French in a bulletin states that since August 30th there had been some mining and also artil lory activity eastward of Ypres, and two German aeroplanes had been felled.

PRESS TRIBUTES TO THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS.

LONDON, September 9th. The Novoc Fremya (Petrograd) com menting on the Tsar's assumption of the supreme command of the Army in the beld, says that His Majesty's action xatters the dust of German hopes of peace. There is no illusion possible regarding the Russians laying down their AIRSHIP ACTIVITY. arms before final victory is secured.

The journal movingly pays a tribute to the Grand Duke Nicholas, who, it says, has inspired the Army with a deep affectin and boundless confidence. His name will live for ever in the hearts of all Russian soldiers.:

THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENOY.] FRENCH AIR-RAID.

PARIS, September 9th.

A communiqué says:- French akroplanes dropped fifty bombs. The English newspapers also express on the Challerunge station, and a French their heartfelt gratitude for the Grand dirigible attacked the station and factories -Duke's great servicer.

of Neele,

al

the

The authori- that Lancashire

not reach enemy hands, ties are convinced cloth, which was apparently unsuitable for aircraft, had been obtained by our enemies through neutrals and had been trested so as to make it suitable for ai

craft.

As the exports of cloth amount to £100,000,000 annually the wide scope of the new regulations is imaginable.

BRITISH REAR-ADMIRAL

WOUNDED.

LONDON, September 10th. The Admiralty announces that Rear Admiral A. H. Christian, M.V.O., has been slightly wounded.

Neutrality Treaty because it was tint amount to an Alliance, going further than any Treaty Great Britain had con- cluded with any European Fower except the old Portuguese Treaty of

Alliance.

The Forddeutsche says that this might be true, but that Sir Edward Grey over looked the fact that the equivalent which Germany had offered was unprecedente in history.

TRADES UNION CONGRESS REPUDIATION OF DISLOYAL INTRIGUES.

LONDON, September 9th. moeting

of

the Socialist

Au

2

Bristol, a resolution was passed repudi- aling the disloyal trigues of a small and unrepicsertative group of scheiners and pabifut fanatics and protesting

peace which failed to restore the freedan. against the ratification of any terms of of Belgium, Northern Frano Alsac Lorraine and Poland.

Mr. Join Hodge, M.P., who presided, avid that Mr. Ramsey Macdonald, who had fallen sadly from his high estate, had declared recently that, despite anything THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. and everybody, a deputation would be sent to the International Socialist Con- LONDON, September 10th.

ference on the Continent, Mr. Hodge. "We Trade Unionists must Sir Arthur Evans, of Oxford, has been declared:

Party" chosen as the new President of the clear such gentry out of the Labour

British Association.

"It must be obrians to our best friends that we are utilising the maximum of our resources, while the enemy, in a much im- proved position, has still important. reserves to draw upon. The New British Army has had a long training, and is presumably an efficient fighting machine."

FUND.

The Tang Wa Hospital begs to acknowledge with darks the following donations to the Kwangtung Flood Relief

Fund-

Per Mr. Kwong Chuk Shan from

the Chinese Society Broome, West Australia.£40.12.6. Wah Kew Ke. He Yo of Balik Papau, East Borneo, 480 guilders

Per

the Chinese merchants Guild- Kiangtung Society of Hanvi hall of Sun Kwong

Yau Shi Street of Leungshan Per Krangting Society from the

from Mr. Ka Lam Tsim .... Per Kwangiang Society of Hanoi Compradore staff of Hongkong

and Shanghai Bank Already acknowledged

Total

445.86

442.37

100.00

20.50

57.90 8520,222.35

.8521 269.89