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WEATHER REPORT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, 1915.

On the 2nd at 10.30 am.-No returns from Indo-China.

Pressure has decreased moderately over eastern Japan, the Bonins, Formoss, and the south coast of China; it has decreased slightly aluswhere portion.

The anti-cyclous is now central in the neighbourhood of Tokio. Pressure is relatively low over the China Sea, and fresh monsoon will provall over the northern.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 Insha

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows ¿—

DISTRICT.

FORMOLOT (E. winds, mo- Bougkong & Neighbourhood derate to frosh;

fair to oloady. ¡N.E. winds, Formons Channel

South coast of Ukias beźwosaj The same Hongkong and Lamooks No. 1.

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RIVALS OF BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA,

The following interesting special articce appeared in a recent issue of a London newspaper :-

MANCHESTER COTTON

SINGAPORE,

FOR

END OF THE MADE IN GER- MANY" TYPE.

STORMING OF LOOS.

HOW "KITCHENER'S MEN" CAP-

TURED THE VILLAGE.

GERMAN DEAD PILED IN STREETS.

[By Percival Phillips, Special Correspon dent of the Daily Graphic " at the Front.]

GENERAL LEADQUARTERS, MITISH ARMY IN THE FIELD.

One woman was found actually in one of the trenches which run through the town; others were discovered in collars or similar refuges. I am told that at least six women were rescued alive, and onc man told me that he saw a little girl who had been wounded in the hip.

A BRAVE GERMAN OFFICER. There was one brave German in Loos,: and he must have his due,

While the street fighting and bombing were in full swing a battalion officer whe had made his way along the captured ground can into the seething fillage. He found a house that was fairly intact, near the centre of the village, and decided This is an account of the storming of to make it his headquarters. Up came flags, and presently the usual unflurried, Leos, the advance on Hulluck, and the the sigmilers, with their blue and white successful dash to Hill 70, incidents in the methodical laying of wires and unpack. British offensive south of La Basse,ing of feld telephones began.

Suddenly--and for no apparent "reason" -the house becane target for enemy which began last Saturday morning,

Undoubtedly the mosi: significant howitzer shells. The first burst in the feature of this initial success was the street a few feet away; the second ex complete demoralisation of the enemy wherever their trenches were captured

Battalion commander, signallers and Some of them 'rushed' and passed. The assault launched from others ran to cover. the vicinity of Vermelles at half-past six into the cellar.

There they found a German artillery was a shock from, which the entrenched

officer in the act of telephoning to his regiments around Loos could not recover, An hour and a half after the British battery! He had ordered, the bombard attack began there was witnessed in some ment, and was "registering” the hits. cases the extraordinary spectacle of Ger- man infantry, in batches of 20 and 30, surrendering to one or two men amid the ruins of Loos, which had been one of their strongholds, north of Lens,

It is more than probable that the vers last of the Germanized Manchester cotton While the war has seriously interferce is now being used up in Singapore, Cer with trade in India, as elsewhere, it is tainly every day a few more shirts for soldiers are cut and sewed from great! an indication of the prosperity of the bales of cotton goods. On close inspection country to find the Government discus. one sees some of these forty yard pieces with a wonderful trademark picture of sing two projects relating to the construe the house ofmann. Now what is that tion of two new parts, one at Vizngapa picture! Nothing but a sleepy monk in tam, on the East Coast, and the other at gilt with a gilt watchful owl, the Bird Cochin, on the West Coast.

of Wisdom, perched above his nodding bead. Is that perchance the Teutonic These projects, have been on the ouvides of typefying sleepy Britain encour for some years, but at the outbreak of aging ever watchful enemies in her midst? war in Europe many feared that the Germany in her blind fury at being out Government, would not take them up for off from her colton supply for Zeppelin at least another dreagle, In the case of

covers now pourtrays Britain in her the Vizagapataru project, however, the Lustige Blatte, as hysterically interning Government has now decided to leave the peacerul industrious Germana in Liver financing, or, in other words, the con struction and administration, of the pool and Manchester, as a reprisal fur

Zusitania crime. The scheme to the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, and as the railway company has been the most ardent advocate of the project it may be taken for granted that it will METEOROLOGICAL now make every effort to begin work at

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RELIEVING THE CONGESTION.

The new port will furnish an outlet for the trade of the Central Provinces, and a considerable portion of Orissa and the Madras Presidency. It will thus help materially in relieving the congestion of the port of

traffic, in busy times, at Calcutta.

more

A book of golden deeds could be writ ten about the first three hours of Satur day morning's battle amid the slag heaps. The New Army proved itself a worthy accessor to the Ariny of tradition. As fine exploits will be recorded of the wrest ing of this strip of mining country from the invaders as those performed at Ypres within the unbroken British line..

Festubert, and other historic spots Battalions of the New Army gained their first experience of heavy fighting while capturing a position as strong as many stormed by the veterans of a year ago. The price was heavy, but they paid it without faltering. We may well be proud of them,

A CHARGE OVER THREE MILER,

The British colonel, who was as bravo man, expressed his admiration for pluck which caused his adversary to de liberately remain at the telephone, know ing that he would never leave, is alive, and order a bombardment which must cause his own death with that of his enemies.

PANIC-STRICKEN GERMAN STAFF.

The panic in which the German staff fled from Loos shows that the entry of the Field British was wholly unforeseen.

concrete platforms, were found as the German gunners left guns, mounted on

One gun was still hot, with a This battery had shell in position harassed the British position for days. Bridge. guided by the observer on the "Tower

them.

The twin shafts of a colliery-two square towers of steel girders, perhaps 300 feet high joined by a broad network of steel beams two-thirds of the distance

To return to the shirts, many sewing machines in Singapore are badly feeling the effects of wading through thickness of starch dressing laid on by Teutonie hands. Even the Dhoby, called in to wrestle with the material, finds it hard to satisfy the Mens, too much boiling, to plenteo trouble. But the toll of shirts required is being nobly answered, and as the merchant ships come in they bring more and more real British goods as they did in the days of long ago when the gedowns were piled to the very top with the best of Bluffs. In the Kaiser's Kingdom the young Frauleins are lamenting, for the fiat has gone forth, No are linen to be prepared for the Manchester cotton in Singapore evers- one wants it. Enterprising Chinese mer. chants are even now busily engaged in replacing the cheap cotton sarengs Made in Germany, with lengs of Manchester cotton beautifully patterned by the The port of Cochin, when completed as Malays in red and blues, in blacks and suggested by the planters of Southern whites, with figures of tiny birds and India, will serve Mysofe, Coorg, and flowering trees, or ferus and blossoms

The task confronting the battalions A marked in- other agricultural districts in Southern and little jungle fruits India now sending their produce to provonent, which makes for the revival attacking Loos and Hill 70 was not as It foreign countries through Bombay or of one of our simplest Malay handicrafts.asy as it may look on the map. Madras.

And again we perchance follow those meant a charge orcas level fields, through For some titue past, merchants in Indiariesha loads of white cotton bales which three lines of barbed wire, past slag heaps a hand-to-hand struggle for have recognised the necessity of opening seem to burst out of quaint gaudy wrap- new harbours to the trade of the country pings. They stop at a Native Dye Works, mastery of the German first line trench; With its anormous seaborne trade, India and one ventures diffidently across the then for the second line trench, and the has only four scaporis equipped with threshhold. But there is nothing to fear, trenches of cuminunication, and inter- modern appliances for dealing with

the Towkay's workers are excessively rening dug-outs filled with the enemy.

These cleared and the trenches won, cargo, the ports of Calcutta, Bombay, busy, yet allow one to enter without pro- there remained another dash across fields Karachi, and Madras, leaving aside test. The only fear is of being knocked

and a high road studded with unknown Rangoon, the port of Burma.

over by one of the mans perspiring Calentia deals with the trade of a tract coolies who stagger in with jars of liquid abstacles and visible entanglements until of country approximately six times the indigo depending from the useful bamboo, the western edge of Loos was reached; size of the United Kingdom, and has the These are tipped into a great tank in then the silencing of machine-gun batpressed through the streets to Hill 70.

of The bandful of men who took the hill absolute monopoly of the jute exports of which when duly prepared the Manchesterics, house fighting (with plenty the country, besides possessing a consid. ter cotton is immersed. A boiler, full of cellar-to-cellar searches for hidden ene stuck there from ten o'clock on Saturday erable share in the tea. seeds, and other hundreds of pounds of fish bones stands mies), and constant pressure through morning until eleven at night, when they vere relieved. They were persistently exports. As seaport, Bombay has a

ncar bubbling like a veritable cauldron of narrow streets eastward to the open fields,

shelled by Gerraan guns, but, having dog sphere of influence almost as extensive as the Witches of Macbeth, and one stops to beyond where a fural rush would carry

themselves in, were able to hold on with- then to Hill 70, for fresh fighting at that of Calcutta. Karachi deals with the hear the Witches'

"Double,

out heavy loss. The nearest village in grain and seeds exports of the Punjab double, toil and trouble; when lo and close quarters, and the endurance of a and Madras is the port for Southero behold these are the skinny arms of galling fire from a kind of machine German lands, called Cite St. August, until its guns could be was another stronghold of machine guns excited coolics, lifting in and out the gun fort

silenced.

and of snipers, who sought to clear the strange blue stuff.

kill and prevent a British advance be yond the crest.

India.

JETTY SHEDS CRAMMED.

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from the ground, but from a distance looks inch like its namesake on the Thames.]

Three men were found on the “Tower. Bridge when the British troops got to it. The tavin shafts had been scarred by shells, but were unweakened, and the mine buildings round about had not suffered heavily. The parish church-which was another artillery observation post for the enemy-day in ruins. Many buildings in the vicinity were unroofed or had great gaps in the walls. Loos was not wholly destroyed, however. Our troops were not as they materially impeded by debris.

Altogether a journey of perhaps three And now, away out into the open to As the exports and imports of India spread the bundles in the coarse long miles.

Here a Before the first British troops entered

A LITTLE SIGNALLER'S HAUL have increased year by year, the problem grass to "jmer" in the sun.

One eye-witness told me how he saw of the congestion of traffic has assumed dark blue shade which will make fit Luos, many batches of Germans prisoners garments for ricsha coolie, also line from the trenches west of the village alarming dimensions at the ports. Mer

German feld guns galloping frenziedly There a pale sky were already on their way to the rear. chants using the ports of Bonbay and my lady's sunblinds. Calcutta, particularly, have been com- blue, just the thing for the young amah's There was very little resistance in the away from the castern outskirts of Lous, thinly and infantry running in the hope of prisoners plaining bitterly of the loss of trade morning coats, bye and bye she will pur-first-line trenches, which were

re reaching the first fortified position e- In some cases prisoners were arising from the slow handling of the chase some in one of the strange small held, a fact which some exports and imports at the ports. The shope down town. This again is a shade ferred to with bitterness. I talked with yond. Port Commissioners of Bombay and Ca-between the two, of great use for working a prisoner who had surrendered instantly bagged with considerable ease. A little when his captors came over the parapet, signaller a youth who is a mere banlam- cutta are, however, not to blame, as they people, men and women.

He We were only one man for every in height killed the Germans and took have done everything possible for the But nothing is finished yet, the dry

prisoners single-handed. "There was nothing to do marched his men out of a cellar as proud. expeditious despatch of cargo. It is the lengths are dragged back into the cool twenty yards." he said he may have thirty immensity of the trade at Bombay and aitap roofed buildings, then calendered been lying).

And he lookedly as though he, had captured a city. Calcutta that has baffled their experts. with skill on primitive stone rollers but to save one's life."

A captain and a corporal rounded up It is not unusual, during a busy year, worked by active coolies springing from very happy at having done so,

another batch of twenty-four and forced MACHINE GUNS IN THE CEMETERY.

them to surrender at the point of the when the monsoon has been satisfactory, one foot to the other. Near by stands the to find the sheds at the jetties in Calcutta head of the business with clerks, count-

Serious resistance

They dropped their rifles was encountered revolver. crammed from floor to ceiling with mering, buying, selling all day long and

when the attackers came up to the ceme

meekly and asked that their lives might be spared. chandise of every description, the yarde every day Manchester cotton, and if we

alive with machine gun

The whole story of the collapse of Ger-- crowded with bales of jute or consigu- are curious we follow the buyers of the tery. It was

parties, sheltered behind low earth on Even parapets raised among the graves,

marr resistance when they were brought ments of seeds and bides and strings of now blue bales, and trace the history of the transformed material down in one

inface to face with British troops and waggons laden with seeds, tea, jute, or hides lying in the railway sidings for of those extraordinary nests of houses the tombstones were used as cover,

ascendancy which our Army has over its daya awaiting the removal of goods from where ricsba coolies twenty at a time addition to a trench dug at the uppershorn of their machine-guns proves the

end of the cemetery. the sheds to discharge their burden.sleep in one long room playing Box and

The men who flung themselves on this opponents man for man. Once they ara machinery which is While the waggons wait at the jetties, Cox with twenty more, we find darksome goods accumulate at the railway stations cubicles set apart for the widows of the desecrated burial-ground rapidly added deprived of the

Patiently they toil here, carn- to the number of corpses contained there their mainstay in battle, the Germans position, much less in the interior, and the merchants raise pullers.

ing a few, a very few, cents by, stitching in. They leaped from one parapet to cannot hope to hold a wail of shortage of rolling stock,

The heroes of Saturday are modest men, Similar conditions obtain at the port of at those weird kind of bathing suits another, bayonetting as they went. They attack une.

which the coolies adorn themselves. Some-lost many men, but the Germans lust Bombay.

Vizagapatam is likely to prove a seri-time if interrogated one woman will more. It was three-quarters of an hour but they are proud men to-day as well. ous rifal to Calcutta. With the port of timidly draw forth from a still darker before the cemetery was cleared of Ger-They have comic back from Loos and Hill Vizagapatam in full working order, Cal-corner a box of tiny pink and yellow mans cutta will soon cease to tap the seeds and grain exports of the Central Provinces The development of the port facilities at Cochin will relieve the congestion of traffic at Bombay.

A BITTER AWAKENING.

The Corriere Della Sera's late Sofia correspondent says the King and Govern- men were confident until the last mo- ment that the action of the "Entente " would not exceed diplomatic conversa tions. The landing at Salonike surprised 0 all at Sofia. He witnessed the present mobilisation as well as that of 1912 and was greatly struck by the difference. Everywhere there was deep silence where before was joyous enthusiasm.

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70 because others carry on the work they began with a victory, and I saw some of them enjoying a well-earned rest, quieti smoking or chatting in groups as they wrote letters home.

Their pride is not because of their own greatness-I do not think any man of

Thus they beat their way into Looy a garments made so happily for the little one who died. Or it may be that a widow step at a time, bearing gifts in the form shows with mournful pride a sturdy of bombs, which they hurled at each little girl for whom she is trying hard to likely refuge. The cemetery being swept of its concentrated machine-gun support, save up cents to get back to China.

And so it is by the highest and the the men who depended on this protection lowest, the cargoes of Manchester cotton to keep the British out, had little stomach them considers himself a hero. It is be The Malay would not be for further resistance, and the desire to cause another soldier came among them are wanted. '

alive-if possible-spread this morning riding on a horse. When- respectable were be nut to have his wind-surrender ing sheet all ready laid by for the day of throught the militant population of Loos. ever be found a group at the roadside he

The cellars were packed with grey-reined up and said a few words.

No other than the Field-Marshal him-- entering the Paradise. He must also

refugees. Some belligerents have always at hand long strips of that coated white material for adornment of floor, sniped from the broken windows of cafés self, telling them that he was proud of and, it may be, ceiling for wedding feasts and cottages until their last cartridge his new troops,

That was what they talked about to- Often very often the was gone, or until their enemies eon- and rejoicings. Byces and Kebuns quite transmogrify fronted them in cold rage, and then theyday. their outhouse rooms with Manchester would threw up their hands despairing

and cry Kamarad." cotton artistically arranged.

.

Some of the Germans tried the old Our plain duty is now to honour our

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. soldiers and sailors who are fighting our trick of pretending to surrender, and GERMAN GENERALS AND THE battles on sea, on land, under the sea and then shooting point blank at the British in the air by seeing to it that henceforth soldier in front of them. One man was window none of the enemy's goods enter our deliberately saiping from a

According to the Retch, friction has Colonies. To emulate the Bird of Wisdom when one of our men passed. The Ger would be better far than in careless man held up his hands in token of sur arisen between the various members of slumber let things slide as we have been render, then, as the soldier was covering doing, and for which we are reaping a him, he raised his rifle and pulled the the higher German command. Geseral full reward, the innocent suffering as well trigger. The cartridge did not explode. von Hindenburg's party insish upon ad- at all costs. Another party, Instantly the man threw down his rifle, vance as the guilty.Singapore Free Press.

Up went his hands again."Kamarad," headed by General von Mackensen, advise he whined. It was too late..

the securing of a strong defensive posi- Bombing parties want down the side tion on the Tine Riga-Kovno-Grodno- streets, searching cellars and marking Breat-Kowel-Dubno-Kamenec, until the line of communications can be thoroughly their progress by explosions,

There were trenches in the streets reorganised. This party points out the where a few Germans sought cover, show impossibility of satisfactory progress over Sir John Brunner, speaking at Chertsey ing that the intention had been to defend from seven to eight hundred miles of recently, said that for a long time he the village house by house. But for the front without perfect order in the rear. praised the Germans for their devotion fact that they were rushed on three sides, The present rear is served by imperfect to education, but he came to the conclu-cut off and left helpless without supplies railways and broken bridges while the sion 30 years ago that it was a shame for of ammunition this would undoubtedly high roads are in no better condition. An attempt to continue to advance under a man to remain a German if he could have been done.

The strangest and most pitiable sight such conditions, they argue, is too risky. The Germans wanted escape being one

our men found in the ruins of Loos were The Emperor William has not yet given to dominate the world, but they were a poor, cowardly lot to submit to the in-women-yes, women and wounded child-his adhesion to either group. A decision famous Government which they had over ren, who had not left their homes or were must, however, be arrived at before long

not allowed to leave by their captors. now, them to day.

SIR JOHN BRUNNER'S OPINION OF GERMANS.