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THE WAR.

LINER

TORPEDOED.

ITALIAN

MANY LIVES LOST: MOSTLY

CHILDREN.

WOMEN AND

THE BRITISH IN SERBIA.

RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN VICTORIES.

BRITISH TRANSPORT ATTACKED: NUMEROUS CASUALTIES.

GREAT BRITAIN'S HUGE WAR BILL.

AN ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES

(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENOY.} ITALIAN LINER TORPEDOED. MANY LIVES LOST: MOSTLY- WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

HARROWING SCENES.

ROME, November 10th. The Italian liner Ancona was sunk by an Austrian submarine off Tunis. Out of 422 passengers and 60 crew, 270 were

- saved.

PITEOUS SCENES: RESCUE

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TWENTY AMERICANS BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED.

WASHINGTON, November 11th. The Ambassador to Rome reports that about twenty Americans are believed to have perished in the Ancona.

ROME, November 11th. The Tribuna says that 25 Americans were aboard the Ancona, WHAT AMERICA INTENDS TO DO.

WASHINGTON, Noreniher 11th. The State Department learns officially that were some Americans aboad the Aucona, but it is not known whether any were killed. If so, the United States

will pursue the same course with Aus tria as it did in the case of the

Lastani, unless it is shown that the Ascope ignored the warnings and at tompted to escape. ·

161 SURVIVORS.

PARIS, November 11th. 161 survivors of the Ancona have

BOATS SHELLED..

BOME, November 11th. The Ancona left Naples on Friday and called at Messina, which she left at five on Saturday evening. The vessel was between Sardinia and Bizerta when the submarine appeared. The Aucona · in- creased her speed, but the submaržas. overhauled, her firing repeatedly and init- ting the stern. There were piteous scenes, with the women and children screaming arrived at Bizerta, and have been convey- The Captain stopped the liner, but theed to hospital. submarine approached still firing, and then she discharged a torpedo. There was not sufficiens time to lower all the boats of the Ancona before sinking. Wireless messages were sent out for help, and faunches from Ferryville arrived, but they were attacked by the submarine and a mák, a woman and two boys who had just been rescued were killed by shells when

abord the life-boat.

FURTHER DETAILS,

PARIS, November 11th. A telegram from Cape Bon Tunis aaya that the Ancona was steaming slowly and sounding her siren in a dense fug at noon on Monday when she noticed two sub- ruarines, flying Austrian flags. One was 300 feet long and was carrying two guns, and the other barred the way of the Anconer, which attempted to escape but stopped immediately when struck.

ITALIAN COMMENT.

ROME, November 11th. The Italian newspapers are convinced that the ancenu's assailant was a German vessel flying Austrian colours, and point out that Italy and Germany have not declared war..

A GERMAN CLAIM.

AMSTERDAM, November 11th.

A Berlin semi-officisk telegram alleges that the Ancona attempted to escape, com- pelling the submarine to use her guns.

BRITISH VESSELS SUNK.

LONDON, November 11th. The British ships Californiasm and Mooring have been sunk.

BRITISH TRANSPORT

ATTACKED.

23 KILLED: 50 MISSING. The eighth boat had just been launched when the liner dived under the waveg

LONDON, November 11th. bows first, the passengers and crew The War Office announces that the crowding on the aftor-deck being on-outward bound transport Merelam was gulled.

enemy attacked by the gun-fire of an

The eight boats rowed southwards, and submarino in the Mediterranean. She the company sighted at six in the even reached harbour safely, but the following ing a vessel which was not showing her lights. They signalled to her with flares, casualties are reported.-23 killed, 50 and the vessel approached, but disap.missing and 50 wounded, peared again upon seeing the submarines which were following. Then the boats separated. One, with twenty six ca board, reached the coast of Tunis at nine

BRITISH DESTROYER

STRANDED,

LONDON, November 11th. The Press Bureau announces that the

on Tuesday morning and the Commander expressed the opinion that the other British destroyer Louis has stranded in boats, with 240 on board, had been lost.

Another bast, with twenty sight on board, was picked up on Wednesday morning off the island of Zembra,

Some of the survivors state that the the submarines were flying the German flag when they were first sighted.

300 DROWNED MOSTLY WOMEN

·AND CHILDREN.

LONDON, November 11th.

The passengers on the Ancona included several Americans. A boat has arrived. at Malta with 41 of the crew and four

the eastern Mediterranean, and has become a total wreck. All the crew were

saved,

SHIPPING RESTRICTIONS.

THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915.

AUSTRO FTALIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] CONQUEST OF COL-DI-LANA. FORMIDABLE MOUNTAIN

the Italians.

FORTRESS.

LONDON, November 10th. The conquest of the Col-di-Lana, a formidable mountain fortress, is one of the most brilliant of the achievements of It had been besieged for months, during which the outlying works had been gradually carried by the con struction of zig-zag entrenchments up the sides of the mountain in the teeth of machine-gun fire and mining operations, Among the hernic episodes of the siege was the following:-A large detachment of Alpini forced their way into an angle of the mountain, near the summit, and

TEH BALKANS.

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SERBIAN MISERY. CHILDREN DIE ON THE ROADSIDE.

LONDON. November 11th. A Finchley municipal engineer, named Jenkins, who went to Serbia in April, volunteering for sanitary work in the British hospitals, gives a thrilling descrip. tier of Serbian misery. When Belgrade was evnenated crowds trudged southwards long roads which were two feet deep with thick nud, and with rain and sweet falling pitilessly. The women took off their boots and stockings and walked in the mud up to their knees, many carrying babies and leading children. The and the old men were mixed inextrio b'y with cattle, sheep

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CONFIDENCE IN THE

GOVERNMENT.

RESOLUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE

COUNTRY.

LONDON, November 2

[FRHOUGH REVtrit's Agency.] DAILY COST OF WAR.

A HUGE FIGURE.

LONDON, November 11th. Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, said that the daily cost of the war was now £4,350,000, and there was a surplus.

At a meeting of the London County of about £150,000,000 for six months from April. The total expenditure from April Council the members, standing up and 4th to November 6th was £743,100,000, singing the National Anthem, unanimous- resolution assuring the of which the Army, Navy and munitions ly passed had absorbed £17,000,000 loans to other Government of the unfaltering deter- powers £98,000,000, and food supplies etc,mination of the people of London to sup. 4pprt them to the utmost in the prosecu-

tian of the war to a successful issue,

Besides the Lensdon County Council the Municipalities of Islington, Bristol and other places passed unanimous résolu tions expressing confidence in the Govern- ment.

$23,000,000,

BRITAIN'S WAR EXPENDI-

TORE.

LONDON, November 10th. Mr. Asquith demands an eighth Vote of Credit to-day. The amount originally

hung on bravely for several weeks, riskine and pigs. Sometimes the procession came contemplated was £250,000,000, but it is death and hunger owing to the difficultying togethers in the mud. There was no £350,000,000, will be demanded owing to to u hopeless deadlock, the people crowd-understood that £300,000,000, turd possibly of supplying them. The Alpini during this terrible period bored a counter-mineign of pile; simply a slid and hope the necessity for providing for a period

fess resignation. Thus they trudged for extending over the New Year. An im under the peak. When the supreme moment for the assault came the Austrian days, many net kuowing whither they portant speech is expected.

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These resolutions are unpreced:uted, as

a speech in which he senowned, the bitter,

vindictive, and ignorant criticism of a the Lord Mayor of Bristol pointed out in section of the Press, dangerous.y wenken ing the power of the executive,

The Daily Chronicle points out that the resolutions, be the Guildhall specches, prove that the speeches of Lord Loreburn

sentative of public opinion.

remnant made a stubborn stand in blind were going; and they seemed more afraid AN ALLIED' WAR COUNCIL, [aud Lord Courtney are entirely unrepro

ing snow and bitter cold, reling boulders and flinging boxes and bombs at the heads of their assailants, but they were unable

to withstand the final rush.

The conquest of the Col-di-bana gives the Italians the command of the forts of the Paroh and Livinalongo valleys,

AN ACTIVE OFFENSIVE.

ROME, November 11

of the Bulgarians than of the Austrians. He cannot say how they were fed, -as there were few inns and the people were without food. Many of the children died, and their bodies were lef, on the roadside..

MONASTI: MENACED.

SERBIAN COMMANDER WINS AGAINST GREAT ODDS.

LONDON, November 10th.

INTERESTING STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH.

LONDON, November 11th, In the House of Commons, in the curse of a speech, Mr. Asquith forossowed the establishment of an Ango French War Council, on which French and British Ministers would it. It was hoped that Russin and Italy would also join therein. The Premier, explining the War Council, said that M. Briand and he hoped before long that British and French Ministers would sit in common council, with the expert advice of the united General Staffs, and so direct the joint operations. He would be delighted if Russia and Italy would join, for thus the would be conducted still more efficiently.

A communiqué states.-The Italians A correspondent at Monastir says that have actively continued the offensive on the oth the Serisan garrison, nader oporations at Cordevole, attacking the command of Colonel. Vassitz, the hero mountain ridge 7,000 feel high, which of Monastir against the Torks in the they crossed at several points. An enemy Balkan War, was unexpectedly calledwar attack on the Mrzli peak, on the Isonzo-

upon to arrest the Bulgarian penetration front, was repulsed.

in the district, and îl succeeded against | FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONË great odds, though b. sieged from all sides and cut off from the Central Government

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KEEN AERIAL ACTIVITY,

LONDON, Novergher 11th. Field-Marshal Sir John French, in a.

despatch, reports keen aerial activity, in the course of which a German acroplane

an

was overturned and fell 7,000 feet. On another occasion the British lust aeroplane.

There has been less artillery activity than usual.

SMALL GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED.

PARIS, November 11th. 5.85 p.m.

A communiqué states:-There was a small Genged attack on the western out- skirts of Givenchy Wood, which was easily stopped by a French curtain of fire. The French batteries replied very effectively to a bombardment of the French positions north-east of Tahure. There has been lively bomb fighting in east Argonne,

VIOLENT ENEMY ATTACKS.

PARIS, Novealer with

1.60 .. A communiqué states. Two violent enemy attacks at Butte and Tabure, in Elsewhere Champagne, were repulsed, there has been cannonading.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

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and from the main Arwy.

r. Asquithi also emphasised the great importance of strengthening the British General Staff, which announcement was greeted with cheers. He dwelt on the value of the inter-change of officers of the

Staff and the Army in the field. Sir - Colonel Vasitz had also to counter-acl Archibald Murray, he said, had been the Bulgarian attempt to provoke risings active in strengthening the staff, and be among the Bulgarian sections of the pepit- I was about to appoint General Kiggell as

commitidis who were found hiding in a lation in Monastir, Ocheid, and the assistant to the Chief of the Imperial

Seven Bulgarian General Staff, and General Shaw adjoining districts.

Director of Home Defence. shop confessed that they were the advance

guard of raiders.

as

Mi Asquith concluded by remarking

The Dudy Telegraph rejoices at the buoyant spirit and cheerful confidence of the speeches at the Guildhall.

The Daily Neps says-The remarkable confidence as to the prospects of the war expressed by Mr. Asquith and Mr. Ba four give the country new faith and fresh inspiration.

The Times says.-Mr. Asquith voiced the natións! attitude toward the war when he said that the delay in achieving a decision has not shaken our determination. Difi- culties and disappointments had only raised the British spirit te a

temper.

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INDIAN. OFFICERS.

QUESTIONS OF LEAVE AND PROMOTION,

LONDON, November 11th In the House of Commons, in reply to

Sir George Robertson, who raised the question of the hardship suffered by Indian Civil Service officials belonging to the Reserve of Officers, and who were now on active service in Mesopotamia, owing to the rule that military service outside India does not count for leave, Mr. Austen Chamberlain said this he will consult the Rag on the subject,

In reply to Mr. Oswald Partington, who that he was satisfied himself with the com- Colonel Vass'tą armed. the loyalisposition and the abilities of the General urged a reduction in the case of officers, Indian officers, during the war, of the inhabitants with rifles, thus overwing the Stag, on which there were no less than rebels, but the Albanien danger remains twenty six members with actual experi-period of service necessary for promotion threatening, and will create a southern ence in the present war. They would also to Major, Mr. Chamberlain said he slid area of effiet for the Shinny, who are have at the War Office from France a very such a measure, which was, counter to the not consider the circumstances justified, already besieged in the north-eiland the|| distinguished French Staff cliver who west.

IMPORTANT SERBIAN

SUCCESS.

ATHENS, November 11th. It is reported that the Serbians hayo gained an important success against the Bulgariang advancing on the front from Uskub to Prizrend. The situation of the Bulgarians at Kuprulu is mest dan gerous on account of the Franco-Serbing attack from the south,

FRENCH RE-CAPTURE

KUPHULU.

Rome, November 11th. A telegram fröm Monastir states that it is officially announced that the French have recaptured Kuprulu.

BRITISH REINFORCED.

SALONIKA, November 11th. The British line has been considerably reinforced, and is pushing northwards, thereby greatly facilitating the opera tions of the French, whose flank move ANOTHER RUSSIAN VICTORY.ment tends to relieve the pressure on the

Serbions in the Babuna Pass.

GENERAL.

MANY CAPTURES.

PETROGRAD, November 11th,

A communiqué states.-There is a lull

in the Courland and Dvinek regions, but

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FUTURE.

LONDON, November 11th.

on the southern front there has been des- THE JAPANESE CORONATION,

The perate fighting north of Yolki. Russiana repulsed number of enemy SIR EDWARD GREY AND JAPAN'S attacks and pierced the enemy front south east of the village of Budki, which was occupied along with the adjacent forests, and they captured over 2,000 prisoners, half of whom were Germans, and twenty maxims. Great numbers of the enemy were drowned in the river Teherniavka. wery largely contributed to the Russian victory.

would be in daily communication with the General Staff. We would similarly reciprocate with France..

POWERS' LOAN TO GREECE.

OF 40,000,000 FRANCS.

LONDON, November 11th. Reuter is informed that Great Britain.. France and Russ'a have concluded a loan of 40,000,000 franes to Greece, and that the money is already at the disposal 4 | the Hellenic Government. The matter was negotiated for when M. Venizelos was in power, and it is also understood by M. Skouloudis, the new Premier.

ALLIES" UNITED RESOLVE. COMPELLING APPEAL OF BELGIUM AND SERBIA.

principles of the Indian Army system. To grant temporary rank in certain cases now being considered, and had already burn applied to some extent.

WILS

INDIA'S LEGAL BUSINESS, GREAT CONGESTION IN THE COURTS

LONDON, November 11th, In the House of Cominons, in reply to Mr. MacCullum "Bectt, Mr. Chamberlain said that it did not appear that the appointment of temporary judges at the Calcutta and Madrus High Courts had materially reduced the congestion of work, The hut it had prevented an increase. establishment of a new High Court at Patna would relieve Calcutta, while the Madras judges hoped that the arrears would be much diminished at the end of the year. He was aware of the disadvan- tage of temporary appointments, but an increase in the permanent strength of the benches was not suitable to remedy tem-

LONDON, November 9th, At the Guildhall banquet Bir J. Simon, proposing The Allies," paid a warm tribute to each. He declared that the experiences of the war confirmed the Porary congestion of work. opinion that civilization is struggling for life. Referring to Japan' adhesion NEW LIEUTENANT GENERAL. to the no separate peace pact, he added that the time to discuss in common the terms of peace is not yet. The greatest of all securities for the continued united resolve of the Allies is the compelling appeal of Belgium and Serbia.

PRUSSIA BLEEDING TO

DEATH,

LOEDON, November 11th. The Prime Minister of Nepal has been gazetted a honorary Lieutenant General. DIS MAJESTY AT WORK AGAIN.

LONDON, November 11th, His Majesty the King presided at a

HALF A MILLION LOST IN THREE meeting of the Privy Council.

MONTHS,

ROTTERDAM, November 10th. Tou more lists of Prussian casualties,

At the Coronation · dejeuner at the Japanese Embassy, Sir Edward Grey, in proposing the toast of the Mikado, said that there was a brilliant future in store

for Japan, and her interests and those giving the names of 79.376 casualties of the Allies would be secured as the between the 22nd October and the 2nd result of the war. After the war he November, bring the aggregate Prussian RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON THE trusted tha peace would be long losses to 2,099,454, including 503,190 during

assured.

the last three and a half months. STRY PA..

The King conferred on Mr. Inouye, the Japanese Ambassador, the Victorian

[DAVAS SERVICE.] GERMAN PRISONERS ATTEMPT

Order. TO ESCAPE.

GREEK MOBILISATION

LONDON, November 10th. Details published in Petrograd of tho General Ivanoff's latest success on Strype, when he took 8,500 prisoners, as recorded in a communiqué on the 7th inst, show that the Russian advance began on the 30th October, budging front the Strypa and Lake Ischkuve, and was carried out for two nights in face of heavy gunfire The Russians as they crossed the lake arranged for elaborate telephonic com LONDON, November 11th.

munication at their reir, laying cables by The order prohibiting British vessels pontoons beneath the waters of the lake. carrying cargo between foreign ports. They then gained a footing on the right bank, and built bridgeherde as a prepara unless licensed, comes into force on De- tion for an eventual withdrawal. Tho days, especially at the village of Semi- fighting was of maximum intensity for six koytze, where the enemy artillery as most furious, When the Russians: began to retreat many of their numerous prisoners desperately attempted to seize rifles and produce a panic among the Russians, but the prompt application of machine guni frustrated the coup..

ember 1st. The Board of Trade says that it is not expected that it will be nécessary to interfere with established passengers,

Lloyd's Bizerte agent says that some 300 services, and they will do their utmost to have been drowned, mostly women and avoid disturbing pre-existing business children.

arrangements.

INCENDIARISM IN AMERICA

MUNITION SHOP DESTROYED.

NEW YORK, November 11th.. One of the largest machine-shops of the Bethlehem Steel Company, in south war Bethlehem, containing guns and material worth $1,000,000, has been des troyed by fire, and it is believed to be the 800 narrowly work of an incendiery,

2.050 men escaped. The shop day and night.

employe

GREEK NEUTRALITY.

LONDON, November 11th. The Greek Government made a Formal the sincerest goodwill towards all the declaration of continued neutrality, and entente powers, in the capitals, yesterday. GREEK POLITICAL CRISIS.

Artens, November 11011 It is stated in Government circles that a dissoutien has been decided on.

EXPENSES.

ALLIES ASKED FOR ANOTHER ADVANCE

Paris. November 9th. Greece has asked of the A lies a further advance of £40,000,000 to cover expenses resulting from the mobilisation.

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A BELGIAN LAWYER,

WASHINGTON, November 11

The State Department announces that M. Deloval, the Belgian lawyer who rican Legation at Brussels, has left Bel- was employed as Counsellor in the Ame gium and will not return

Germany informed, the United States that M. Delaval was a perona non prala. M. Delaval, whose report of the Cavell case figured largely in the American Minister's correspondence published in Grest Britain, probably goes to Havre,

MILITARY SCHOLARS.

LONDON, November 11th. H. R. Hunt, 25th Punjabis; and P. L. Captains D. D. Wilson, 17th Cavalry; Leured, 7th Gurkhas, have been passed out of the Staff College.

BIG LABOUR COMBINE.

An

LONDON, November 11th. amalgamation of the British Miners' Federation, the Transport Workers' Union and the Railwaymen's

ha* Uurion

been atified, embracing 1,500,000 workers.

RESIGNATION OF RUSSIAN MINISTER.

PETROGRAD, November 11th.- Privy Councilor Rukhkoff, Minister of Ways and Communications, has resigned. TRINITY HOUSE YACHT SUNK,

LONDON, November 10th. The Daily Telegraph says it is reported that the Trinity House yacht Irene has been sunk. Thirteen of the crew were.

aved and twenty-two are missing,

THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN.

CAPETOWN, November 11th. A telegram states that probably. General Smuts will command the South African contingent in East Africa, with General. Britts as Chief of Staff,