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THE WAR.
ENORMOUS
GERMAN
IN CHAMPAGNE.
LOSSES
ENEMY OBLIGED TO FLEE IN DISORDER.
NEW BRITISH GENERAL STAFF.
DISCREDITABLE AUSTRIAN RUSE
PLOT TO WRECK JAPANESE ARSENALS.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] IMPORTANT GERMAN ATTACK IN CHAMPAGNE.
ENEMY MASSES DECIMATED.
RUSSIAN FRONT
FAILS.
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESU, TUESDAY, NOVEMBEK 2ND, 1015.
| AUSTRO ITALIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A RUSE THAT FAILED." AUSTRIANS SUFFER FOR THEIR VUPLICITY.
ETHNOUGH BELTER'S AGENCY.].
GENERAL JOFFRE'S VISIT. TO LONDON,
Losooy, October 31st. General Joffre has returned to France,
-UNDERSTANDING ON THE
BALKAN PROBLEM.
LONDOS, November 1st.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
THE MONARCHICAL QUESTION.
AMERICA FAVOURS A REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON, October 31st. It is understood that Mr. Lansing has declined to express to China his views on it the form of Government for China, as
LUXEMBURG TO-DAY.
POPULAR DISLIKE OF THE INVADERS.
[FROM THE TIMES" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,]
DELEMONT.
The wanton brutality of German be- -haviour-to-Belgium, as well as her viola
tion of the neutrality of the smaller State, has completely overshadowed the
The Times says that General Jofire came might be construeted as an interference similar breach of her international obli-
ROME, November-1st- A communiqué reports an attempt. by the Austrians to surprise the Italians in the Astico Valley under the pretext of surrendering. The ruse was discovered
to London to discuss the Batkan problem. and the Austrians were mowed down, two A complete and definite understanding hundred bodies being left on the field.
regarding military policy was reached, The enemy obtained a fleeting success at including that of keeping in the forefront Sextenstein, but the Italians. reinforced.the necesity for giving rapid help to
ejected the assailante.
The fighting on the Isonzo has been marked by artillery duols and infantry attacks. The enemy suffered a reverso at Podgora, leaving the ground covered with bodies.
GENERAL.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] PLOT TO WRECK JAPANESE ARSENALS.
TOKYO, November 1st. The police have discovered a plot to wreck arsenals, munition works, and a number of other places in Japan.
Sorbin,
CABINET PUZZLES,
WANTED-A NEW THINKING DEPARTMENT."'
LONDON, October 31st.
Public with China's internal affairs sympathy, however, favours a Republie. FRANCE AND THE JAPANESE NOTE.
:
to
gations which she committed in the case Yet 'bo. of the Duchy of Luxemburg. tween the initial crimes there was no difference, and without doubt Luxemburg would have defied, like Belgium, the Ger PEKING, November 18t
man Emperor's sovereign will, and have The French Minister would probably suffered the same treatment, but for one thing. Fortunately, or unfortunately for also have associated himself, as did the her, her army consisted of caly 240 men, British and Russian Ministers, with the 30 of whom were in the Ducal band. Resistance being therefore out of the Japanese Vote Verbale to the Chinese question it only remained for her, Government, but his instructions were submit, with the best grace she could, to the peaceful invasion of her territory, delayed,
and since then hardly any news of the Meanwhile the election of the repre-Duchy has penevated to the outer world. The following notes of the state of affairs sentatives to decide the Monarchical
there at the present moment give an in- existing between the Luxemburgers and question is proceeding, and has already teresting picture of the curious relations been completed in a number of Provinces. the Imperial troops. They are supplied to me by the Editor of the Democrate, a Swiss journal which has greatly added
ing the war. IN to its reputation and its circulation dur The Grand Duchy, which has a popula tion of a quarter of a million, is garri- The Chinese Correspondent of the Noted by 10,000 troops of the German Daily News of Peking says:-~
There is much speculation as to the conversations between General Joffre and the members of the British Inner Cabinet. The favourite theory is that a scheme of central military control is under disens FOREIGN POST OFFICES
CHINA,
sion.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GENERALA WINTER.
PLIGHT OF THE GERMAN ARMY.
I'ETROGRAD, November 1st. Ice is appearing on the Neva, heralding a particularly early winter, The Germans are inadequately provided with winter day's German bombardment in Chan-clothing and hence it is more important TO-SUPERVISE THE WHOLE FIELD been expected to perform impossibilities. pagne developed
PARIS, October 31st, To-day's communique says: -- Yester
with the
greatest
than ever that they should secure Riga. violence on a front of eight kilometres, Russian military writers expect another
The from Tabure Hill to La Courtine. terman infantry attacked along the whole eight kilometres with important masses, composed mostly of troops who had recently returned from the Russian
Iront.
Despite the extreme desperation of the wure Gorman attacks, the enemy once
Waves of anffered a serious defeat. attackers were decimated by our fire along the whole front, and the enemy only suc eceded in reaching the summit itself of Tabure Hill.
Everywhere else, especially in front of the village of Tabure, where the fighting was particularly obstinate, the Germans were completely repulsed and driven back.
1
The Germans, along the whole scene of the struggle, left a very large number of
dead.
ENEMY RENEWS ATTACKS IN CHAMPAGNE. PROFUSE EMPLOYMENT OF CAS SHELLS.
PARIS, November 18.
and fereer attack with ever greater farcos, but a great deterioration of the German discipline
has been noticed
NEW GENERAL STAFF.
OF OPERATIONS.
LONDON, November 1st. The Daily News says that the Govern ment has completed the creation of a new General Stoff in London to supervise the recently. The officers are unable to pre-prosecution of the war in the various vent the men from plundering, while the fields of operations. The new War Conn- test arrivals from Germany openly eil of the Cabinet will confer with the accuse the officers of practising deception General Staff, in regard to the real state of affairs.
HARRYING THE ENEMY. RUSSIAN AEROPLANES ACTIVE.
PETROGRAD, November 1st, Russion acroplanes dropped bombs.or
KHAKI
ARMLETS.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SHIRKED.
LONDON, October 31st. It is officially announced that Lord the railways, enemy troops, and convoys Kitchener has decided to issue khaki in the region of Friedrichstadt.
The Russians repulsed an enemy attack on the upper Niemen, near Kupitzke Swamp. A number of attacks in the Strypa region were likewise repulsed. THE SERBIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE INVASION OF SERBIA.
ENEMY REINFORCED WITH MO INTAIN TROOPS.
Nish, October 31st. The Serbians are fighting very stub- The evening communiqué says that the French artillery, demolished several obser-bornly, despite the appearance of new vaion posts in the region of Lombaertzyde. Bavarian and Austrian mountain troops,
The reciprocal bombardment, was con
A communiqué admits that the Serbian timed north and east of Souches, parti-Army has taken up positions behind
cularly near Bois Enhache.
Territo fighting continues for the pos- session of the trenches in which the enemy We recaptured penetrated yesterday.
some parts.
The Gormans in Champagne, after fresh stillery proparation, accompanied by a profuse employment of big asphyxiating shells, renewed the attacks north of Mesnil
They attempted four assaults yesterday, the first at six o'clock in the morning and the last at four o'clock in the evening, near Tabure. the attacks were repulsed.
Pirot,
FRENCH DRIVE THE BULGARIANS.
WEAK RESISTANCE.
LONDON, October 1st.
armilets, first, to those who have enlisted under Lord Derby's scheme, and are. waiting to join the colours; secondly to the rejected; and thirdly to those who have been invalided out of the service.
The Observer declares that a re-organisa- tion of the War Office is essential, nad that a new thinking department must be I created to ussis; Lord Kitchener, who has
The provision of a General Staff with the ablest soldier possible as Chief was much more important than the creation of an Inner War Cabinet,
FRANCO-BRITISH
TION.
CO-OPERA-
NEW FRENCH PREMIER'S DECLARATION.
LONDON, October 31st,
China will shortly approach the Powers with regard to the abalition of the ioreign post offices in Chinn she having already inte the international postal entered.
service.
The Chinese Press eulogizes the progress of the Chinese postal service, which it thinks will satisfy foreigners after the abolition of the foreign offices, but it believes that this cannot be settled until the termination of the war.
MALAYAN AIRCRAFT. SPLENDID GIFT BY MR.
• MANASSER MEYER. Mr. Manassch Meyer has given the sum of £2,250 sterling to purchase a 100-Horse M. Briand, the new French Premier, Power Vickers Gnome Armoured Fighter telgraphing to Sir Edward Grey, says: Aeroplane for the Malayan Air Squadron. It will be named the Manash Meyer, "At the moment of assuming the diree-just as Mr. Meyer humorously puts tion of Foreign Affairs, I beg to declare it to let the enemy, see that though the that France intends to pursue, with the Anglicised form of my name has a German sound, I am heart and soul with the British cause." same desire for intimate and active co!
laboration, the policy so happily binding France and Great Britain since the beginning of the common fight."
Sir Edward Grey replied: 1. an glad of this opportunity, of re-affirming the unswerving determination of the THE REIGN OF TERROR IN Government to co-operate with France
BELGIUM.
and bring the struggle to a successfu! issue,"
MORE DEATH SENTENCES.
AMSTERDAM, October 31st. An official telegram from Berlin says that twenty-one arrests have been made in Belgium in the last few days, including four women, for espionage and plotting to dynamite railways and public buildings, The espionage system was detected in the north of France, and was directed by the wife of French officer and two women, who are among the arrested.
Nine persons were sentenced to death in Belgium on October 26th for espionage, and were executed on the following Friday. Ten others have been sentenced to penal servitude, including three women.
WAR WORK.
A telegram from Salonica says that the French occupied Strumnitza on Wednesday, The battle lasted from five on Tuesday evening until nine on Wed-
WHAT LABOUR CAN DO. The French drove the nesday morning.
LONDON, October 31st. for six miles beyond Bulgarians
Mr. Thomas, the Labour M.P., address- Everywhere Strumnitza, and they are thus over Our artillery twelve miles from the railway. Theng meeting of railwaymen at Middles- and infantry fusilladed the Germans, French state that the Bulgarians yielded borough, remarked that all sections of the easily. Their resistance was not com. community were now saying that if the who were obliged to fee in disorder,
Nation were to be victorious Labour must with enormons losses. We captured 350 parable to the Germans, prisoners.
SERBIA'S CONFIDENT play its part. Labourites were naturally proud of this recognition, and they should see to it that the obligation was carried "WILL FIGHT TO THE LAST MAN," out by enlistment, munition making or radway work, and give of their best. No peaco overtures should be recognized until Prussian militarism was vanquished.
A GERMAN AMBASSADOR.
There was violent artillery fighting in the Vosges, in the region of Ban-des-Apt. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SUBMARINES. BRITISH GOOD WORK IN THE BALTIC.
PETROVEAD, October 31st.
attributes the German slackening in the Baltic Provinces to the
The Reich
shortage of ammunition owing to the activity of British submarines in the Baltic.
GERMAN STEAMERS
CAPTURED.
PETROCHAD, November 1st.
A submarine Russian cruisers and captured two German steamers in the Baltic.
DETERMINATION.
PAR18, November 1st.
The Serbian Minister has made a state- ment that Serbia is assured of the effective co-operation of the Allies. and that the Serbian Army will fight to the last man. The commanders are very confident of the result, despite the efforts of the enemy in attacking on three fronte
[HAVAS SERVICE.]
BRITISH JOIN SERBIANS.
The British troops, starting for the Serbian front, have effected a junction with the Serbians.
GERMANS
EVACUATE **
KOVEL.
AMSTERDAM, October 31st. Count Wolff Metternich, ex-Ambassador to London, has been appointed German Ambassador to Constantinople.
THE KING'S ACCIDENT. HIS MAJESTY MAKING SLOW
PROGRESS.
LONDON, October 31st.
The Press Bureau announces that the King is making slow progress. The pain is diminishing, but His Majesty is still The pulse and temperature are
The Russians have occupied Bourki, and weak, the Germans have evacuated Køvel.
normal.
NEW RUSSIAN CHANCELLOR,
IN SUPREME CONTROL OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS..
PETROGRAD, October 31st. It is understood that the Premier, M. Goremykin, will shortly be appointed Chanceller of the Empire, being only the! twelfth Chancellor in Bussia's history.
The Bourse Gazette says that M. Goremykin will have supreme control of Foreign Affairs, probably assisted by L. Shebeko, the ex-Ambassador to Vienna,
RESIGNATION OF M. SAZONOFF.
It is reported that the Tsar has acorpted the resignations of M. Sazonoff and two other Ministers, while M. Kyostoff will become Premier.
PERSIA'S NEUTRALITY, RUMOUR OF ENTENTE WITH THE
ENEMY DENIED.
,
This is the first fighter" aeroplano contributed by Malaya, the others being the best type of scouter" craft. The "Manush Meyer" will be No. 8 of the Malayan Air Squadron
Cordial thanks to Mr. Meyer-hearty congratulations to Mr. Alma Baker on the growing success of his efforts Straits Times.
AFTER THE WAR. YOUNG GERMANS AND EMPLOY-
MENT IN ENGLAND.
Landsturm half of which are engaged in guarding the railways ronde, nud bridges of the country. The other 8,000 are quartered in the capital, where there is also a Dneal Guard consisting of 600 In spite of Luxenburger volunteers. their defenceless condition the citizens keep up a brave, if rather pathetic, show of independence in their dealings with the foreign garrison. The Volunteers of the Guard, who often arch through the streets, singing marching songs in Luxemburg dialect and proudly holding aloft their sabres, moke point of never saluting the Imperial troops,
Proclamations are posted in the town forbidding the Cornian soldiery to set foot in the court-yard of the Ducal Palace, to which the civil population aro freely admitted; if they try to enter it they are promptly stopped by the fixed If, bayonet of a Laxenburger sentry. as sometimes happens, they are so in- judicions as to offer any kind of insult to an inhabitant, the aggrieved person or his or her friends are quick to re- aliate whenever they have the chance, secure in the knowledge that nens, of their fellow-citizens will inform against them. A favourite plan is to rob the offending soldier of his rifle or bayonet, or some part of his equipment, which means, of course, that he gets into serious trouble with his officers.
THE KAISER AND HIS PORTRAIT, Next to the Laxenbarg dialect the lan guage must commonly talked in the capi
al is French. In the streets adults as well as children wear tricolour badges and favours of the other Allied nations (anything but the hated red, white, and black) and go about singing the Jar scillaise and the Sambre et Meuse. They like to think that, in spite of the viola- tion of their territory, they are a neutral nation like the Swiss, and constantly talk of them as "our brothers." The When a Germans they frankly detest. citizen meets a soldier he has a trick of
Mode હેવ Guillawne,
Down muttering.
which is another way of saying with militarism," and if a Gerion mili- tary band gives a concert in the open the natives never will listen to it. The only people who do not boycott the bands are the clergy.
A rather entertaining discussion is proceeding at Hamburg as to whether it will be proper for young Germany to seck- employment in England after the war. The editor of a journal devoted to the interests of German commercial employees abroad has published a letter pointing
Photographs of General Joffre, Presi- out that German clerks who go abroad
dent Poincaré, the King of the Belgians, do so in their own interest. He says:
The advantages which they have gained and others of the Allies' leaders are on were in most cases advantages sooner or sale in the book-shops, but never a one The German of the German Emperor shows its face. later for German trade.
above all, During one of his visits to the town, the clerks in England' were,
multi was strolling along also pioneers of Germanism-as is proved Camp in pioneers of German trade, but they were Kaiser, accompanied by two Aides-de- by the flourishing condition of German looking at the shop-windows, and notic associations in the great trade centres, ing this omission went into a shop and which made it impossible for them to fall asked why there were no partraits of his "There is no demand for Imperial self. into foreign ways.
The writer thinks it is a great mistake them," said the girl behind the counter, to suppose that it will be impossible for without the least idea whom she WES German clerks in future to seck work in talking to. Another day he was visiting England, and says that, if they go abroad a hospital in which there were French as well as German wounded, and left a to learn foreign commercial methods and B
foreign language, the benefit to Gerano white rose on each bed as he passed. As trade will be far greater than any injury soon as he was gone the French soldiers began to throw thear off, but the nursing to themselves.
sister of the ward asked them not to touch the flowers, and said she would go and fetch a brush and dustpan.
SUGGESTED GIFT OF DREAD- NOUGHT BY INDIA
from
GERMAN BEHAVIOUR.
An
On the whole, it is evident that the Gerusane, whose one object is to con- An interesting appeal made France by Majer H H. Sajjan Singh, ciliate the Luxemburgers, are behaving PARIS, October 30th.
Rajs of Ratlam, suggests the presentation themselves with comparative self-restraint of a dreadnought to the Imperial Navy as and decency. Practically the only articles The Persian Legution denies a tumour
a mark of appreciation from the princes of which they have taken forcible posses sion are gold and horses, of which last that Persia has concluded an entente with and peuples of Indis of the magnificent there is a great lack in Germany, where manner in which the Navy has protected ploughs and wagons are largely drawn
The Raja at present hy oxen and even cows. Germany and Turkey and adds that the India from the Empire's foes,
new and heavy taxation in England, will- of affairs in this forcibly occupied coun- Persian Government will Grily maintain of Ratlam says: "The imposition of the odd example of the topsy-turvy condition ingly borne, indeed one might say wel- try is that a frontier guard of Luxem its attitude of neutrality.
Russian reinforcements have arrived at comed, makes an Indian like me out here hurger volunteers has been formed to ask what have all those, whose wealth has prevent the dominant fiermans from re been gained solely through the peace which moving to Germany or Belgium certain has reigned in India and the oppor-articles (the chief of which is horseffesh) Another grievanco tunities they have had, as citizens under the export of which is forbidden by the the protection of a powerful Em Ducal Government. pire, to extend and increase their busi of the natives, but one for which there is no redress, is that they are forced to ness, and who even now continue to carry on their affairs unmolested." He suggests work in the factories which produce the that a representative committee should be munitions of war for the German armies.. formed to invite subscriptions.
Enzels
THE GERMAN WAY.
LONDON, October 31st. A telegram from Athens says that details of the sinking of the Marquette show that the Germans fired on the boat after the latter had left the chip.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, November 1st The death is announced of Sir Charles Tupper, the former Canadian Premier The death is also announced of Colonel Denne, who captured Arabi Pasha
The death has taken place nt Erith of Rear-Admiral Arthur Morrell, age 84, We have been asked to state that con- who during his 30 years in the Navy saw tributions to the "Hoop-la" stall at the much active service in the Far East. M. O. L. Bazaar were received from the Entering the Navy in 1843, he served on Asiatic Petroleum Co., Messrs, Butter- the Chus Station from 1852 to 1857. beat He was men- field & Swire, Messrs. Bradley & Co., being constantly employed in Messrs. Brewer & Co., the British-Ameri- service against pirates. can Tobacco Co., Messrs. Caldbeck, Mar- tioned in dispatches and received the gregor & Co. Cassum Ahmed, Messrs. thanks of the Admiralty and the French Donnelly & Whyte, Messrs. Jardine, Government for reuing after a severe Matheson & Co., Mesars, Kelly & Walsh, engagement French lady who had
fallen into the heads of the pirates. and Messra, Lane, Crawford & Co.
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