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THE WAR.

SERBIAN

THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH: 1915,

ARMY'S NEW

POSITIONS.

HEAVY SNOWFALLS MAY BRING RESPITE.

GREECE AND ALLIES' DEMANDS.

ENEMY'S ATTEMPTS TO EMBROIL PERSIA.

KAISER'S FRANTIC APPEAL TO HIS “CHILDREN.".

THE BALKANS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

AN EARLY WINTER. MAY STOP ALL OPERATIONS.

SALONIEA, November 28th.

RU881AN FRONT

(THEQUOR BEWTER'S AGENCY.).

THE KAISER'S “CHILDREN.” THEATRICALS ON THE EASTERN

FRONT.

A most important incident is that the

PETROGRAD, November 8th. Bulgarians aro attacking the village of

The Kaiser, learning of the privations Krushevo, some twenty miles northward

of the Germans in Russia from cold and of Monastir, where the inhabitants are exhaustion, appeared theatrically on the again in a panic, but the heavy and un-Eastern Front, and in an impassioned usually early snowfalls throughout Serbia speech urged the troops to have patience. may bring all the operations almost to a "Make one or two efforts more," he said

bondstill.

I assure you that the goal is near at hand, and it will recompense you for all Believe me, my children and my friends, you who are my glory, I know you are fatigued. We believed in a war of a few months, but it has been prolonged. We must continue the campaign with fero

FRICTION BETWEEN GERMANS

AND BULGARIANS. BERBIANS TAKING UP POSITIONS.

LONDON, November 28th.

A tulegram from Athens says that the Berbian main army is now taking "Pcious energy, opposing the iron glove to positions parallel to the Albanian frontier. They have established communication with Durazzo, thus scouring a revictualling base.

Friction is reported between the Ger- mans and the Bulgarians on the subject of the occupation of Monastir,

"DEATH BEFORE SLAVERY!" SPIRITED PROCLAMATION BY

MONTENEGRIN MONARCH.

PARIB, November 29th. "Death before slavery" is the keynote

the paw of the Russian boor."

TURES DISPERSED.

ONLY MINOR ENGAGEMENTS.

PETROGRAD, November 29th. An official communiqué states that only minor engagements have taken place on the entire front, with small skirmishes in the Cayensus.

There have been brisk engagements of a spirited Proclamation by the old King north of Lake Tortam, where the Russians of Montenegro to his people. "The Ser-after descending a precipice by means of bian Army has been obliged to withdraw ropes, dispersed the Turks, capturing a

gun.

to the mountains of Montenegro, where the forces of the two Montenegrin Kingdoms will valiantly resist to the death their com

enemies." His Majesty mentions that the Allies promise supplies for the population and Army, and says the FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT

The communiqué significantly adds that in the direction of Teheran there is nothing to report after the arrival of our troops ab the towns of Enghi, Imam and Keredj..

mon

lattor will not spare thoin blood, bat will fight from mountain tá moun-- tain around their King. with 2012 ardour inspired by confidence in ultimate victory. GREECE AND ALLIES' NEW PROPOSALS,

ATHENS, November 29th.

(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.)

A DISTURBED NIGHT.

SOME FIERCE ENGAGEMENTS.

PARIS, November 28th.

A communiqué states that there was a disturbed night in Artois, there being force engagements with grenades and

aerial torpedoes.

The most violent combat was in the region of the Labyrinth, after the Germans had exploded a mine. This resulted in favour of the French

The Government has not yet replied to the Allies, ponding the elucidation of cor- tain points of the demands formulated in Friday's noto. The Government will dis cuss the proposals in the same spirit that inspired the reply to the previous Note to

A squadron of our aeroplanes attacked Grecce, and is disposed to satisfy in prin-

the station at Noyen with huge bombe. ciple any demand not constituting a

They also forced two captive balloons flagrant violation of neutrality and preto descend. A French scout aeroplane shot down a German machine on the heights of the Meuse.

judioing its sovereign rights.

ATHENS, November 29th. The Greek reply to the Allies second Note was presented on Sunday evening to the Entente Ministers.

AUSTRO-ITALIAN. FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.}.

ITALIAN CORDON ROUND GORIZIA.

WAR IN THE AIR,

SOME EXCITING CONTESTS.

PARIS, November 29th.

An official communiqué states that the ground fighting has been featureless, but there have been most active air engage-

ments.

GRADUALLY DRAWING IN.

A German aeroplane which was being ROME, November 29th. A communiqué says that attacks on pursued by the French fell in the sea off the heights north-west of Gorizia were Westende. The boats hurrying to assist successfully continued. We captured were attacked by Alied seaplanes and strong hostile trenches and began the artillery, and one vessel was sunk. descent of the Leonzo watershed. took 115 prisoners,

We

In the neighbourhood of Oslavis, after fierce struggle, we conquered a hill, taking 261 prisoners.

On the rest of the front we made some

progre

Many bombs were also dropped on the sheds east of Mulhouse, and three aviatiks were smashed up

There was also a fierce air duel at Nancy, where an aviatik was brought down. A second German zeroplane fled.

THE HEAR EAST

{THROUGE "FUYER'S AGENT.]

TURKS USE POISON GASES.

LONDON, November 29th. The Torks for the first time bave used Auffocating gases against the British, bot without remalt.

GENERAL

{THROUGE AKUTER'S AGENOW. },

CANADIAN WHEAT.

COMMANDEERED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

OTTAWA, November 29th. The Government has commandoered all

JAPAN."

{TERVƆUGH EXUYER'S AGIDIOY.] BULGARIA AND HER PORTS, THEFT FROM " EMPRESS OF

The maritime commerce of Bulgaria TSAR'S WINNING WAY.

and ita merchant shipping have greatly increased since the modernising of the SEQUEL TO VISIT TO HOTEED OF Binck Ben ports of Varis, and Burgas,

SOCIALISM.

LONDON, November 20th. A telegram from Petrograd says that the Taar visited one of the largest munition works, known as a hotbed of, Socialism, and effected a remarkable change in the attitude of the men both towards the war and toward munition-making by the free dom and simplicity with which he talked

to them.

WAR MATERIAL.

MINISTRY..

LONDON, November 28th.

Dofondant said he did not steal the

Mr. William Fools, Inspector of Ships wrights, of the Royal Naval Dockyard, charged a Chinese at the Magistracy yo and would have been increasing still more terday with thefts of Government pro- rupidly if King Ferdinand's ambitions perty, namely, of $11 worth of pant from had left his people free to develop the the Empress of Japan, and of three brass new territory on the Egean in peace. Of locks, valued at $5. the two Black Sea ports, now cut off from the outside world by the closing of the Dardanelles, Burgas, at the head of the Gulf of Burgas and some 120 miles N. W. of the entrance to the Bosphorus, is connected by railway with Philip popolis (some 180 miles), and has a con- siderable export trade, chiefly in grain, and a population of about 13,000. It has a guy nearly 2,000 feet long, with twenty-five feet of water alongside, and

similar dimensions was in contemplation

the high grade wheat at the head of the UNDER CONTROL OF MUNITIONS the building of two other quays of Great Lakes, and in store or transit eust ward, amounting to 18,000,000 bushels, at the request of the British Government, This sotion ensures prompt delivery, as the grain taken is now en route to the sea board. The price is not yet fixed.

GOVERNMENT STEP CAUSES SENSATION.

before the Balkan wars,

According to Mr. Vice Coasu) Heard's The responsibility for designs and report of last year (Cd, 7048), the total specifications, the testing of arms and number of steamships clearing from the pore in the first nine months of 1912 ammunitions and inventions in connée- tion therewith, have been transferred from after which the gulf was blucked by Turkish warships) was 63, with a ton- the Army Council to the Ministry of Muni-age of 633,814. Of these, forty-one with PORT WILLIAM (Ontario), Nov. 29th.

tions, which will henceforth control the It is understood that the order com-Ordnance, bond, and researcli department mandeering wheat extends to the whole of at Woolwich, the experimental establish the Dominion, the effect, being that Canament at Shoeburyness, and the War Office dinn wheat can only be shipped in such inventions department. The services of vessels in Canadian ports as are consigned Major-General Ducane have been placed

At the disposal of the Ministry of Muni The news created a sensation in Winntions in this connection. peg. The opinion is generally held that the order will prevent shipments into the United States, but the situation as yet is obscure, as the Government plans respect- ing prices and disposition are unknown.

to the Dominion Government.

DELICATE SITUATION IN

PERSIA.

MUTINOUS GENDARMES.

PETROGRAD, November 25th-

A Teheran telegram states that the Shah had an audience with the Russian Minis fer and assured him that the rumours of the Shah's intention to leave the Capital wore based solely on the announcement that he was going to his country residence He added that he had not sought to minimise. the gravity of the situation in Persia owing to the provocative attitude of the enemies of the entente, but he had reason to believe that the matineun gendarmes would surrender,

GERMAN INFLUENCE STILL AT WORK.

PETROGRAD, November 29th.

M. DENYS-COCHIN.

ATHENS, November 29th. Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the pupu Ince, M. Denys-Cochin, the French Minie ter, sailed aboard the Greek cruiser

Helle.

RUBBER.

AMSTERDAM, November 26th: The Dutch Overseas Trust announces that it will not accept consignments of rubber until further notice.

PORTUGUESE POLITICS.

NEW CABINET TO BE FORMED.

LISBON, November 29th The Unionists and Evolutionists having refused to join, the Democrats are forming a National Ministry. The President has entrusted Senhor Alfonso Costa with the formation of the new Cabinet.

WAR NEWS.

ANOTHER HURRIED EXECUTION

IN BELGIUM,

paint and brass locks. They were given to him by the No. 1 painter, who told him to take them ashore.

Acting-Inspector Brown said the looks were wrapped up in paper and put in the paint

.......

The No. 1 painter denied giving dcfen- dant the paint and locks to take ashore. Ho gave him one pail of paint with which

nothing about the brass locks. to paint the steamer. Witnes knew

Defondant was sentenced to a mouth's imprisonment for stealing the paint, 14 days for stealing one lock, and a further 14 days for possessing two locks renton ably suspected of having been stolen.

KOWLOON FATAL ACCIDENT

Further evidence was given in the caso in which a coolie is charged with the manslaughter of Miss Roza Pereira, wha was knocked down and fatally injured by a heavy truck, inden with about 18cwt. of carth, recently.

the scene.

An interpreter produced defendant's statenicnt, which was as follows: The lady walked between the two ropes and could mat get out. As soon as I saw this ran and pulled the rope back, to stop the truck, but I was not in time."

Sergeant Lannigan said that the master, ofthe defendant was in the country, and they could not obtain him vobe believed he was quite willing to assist Tho the police in every way possible. defendant told his master about the accident, and the latter straightway, brought him to the Police Station.

a tonnage of 101,840, were British, hut only three, and those in ballast, cleared for ports in the United Kingdom, the re- mainder proceeding to Bogian, Russian, and Rumanian ports. Varna (which is

Mr. A. J. Mackie was recalled and gavo Russian bombardment) is some forty miles evidence as to the positions of the truck reported to have already undergone a north of Burgas; it has a population of entangled dope day was not 40,000, and enjoys one of the best anchor. in the ropes when he got to ages in the Black Sca. Groat improve- ments and extensions in the port were made in 1908 and 1909, and a line of quays extends from the sea towards Lake Devna, situated about a mile inland,

Vessels cat load alongside these in twenty seven feet of water, but the approaches, both there and at Burgas, are commanded by high ground, and it would be difficult to lazd troops at either place, while the entrancs are doubtless mined. Varna is connected by rail with Rustehuk, on the Danube (one of the oldest lince in the region, and orginally owned by an English company), and with Sofia (336 railes) by Shumla and Tirnova, The steamships clearing from it in 1019 numbered 807, with a tonnage of 6085,079, of which sixty-eight, with a tonnage of

The Magistrate again romarked on the 126,143, were British, none of these, how ever, proceeding to United Kingdom extraordinary nature of the accident. ports. Varna stood to lose heavily by the The road at the spot was very wide, and cession to Rumania of the Bulgarian there seemed no cause for such a collision. Dobrudja, which bad become one of the A truck at most could not go much more chief corn-growing districts of the king than ten miles an hour, and, besitles, dom, and whose exports were, or the the coolie, always shouted.

from The hearing was adjourned for a week average, one-fifth of the total Bulgaria. This bad checked, the projects in order that the master's evidenco might of extending the quays towards Lake be obtained. Devna, Baltchik, about twenty miles north of Varna, passed to Rumania with the Dobrudja,

The Magistrate said that the master's evidence was most important, and the case for the prosecution was incompléto without it

** PINING "

A Teheran memgo says that on the 27th there were dissensions among the Swedish officers of the gendarmery, some consuring the disloyalty of others to the Persian Government. Insurgent gendarmes and mercenaries are occupying the Hamadan ed at Ghent, The execution of the Count, this harbour, according to Mr. Vice Do you think inat the English will

AND PEERING " Bulgaria acquired two outlets to the Egean as a result of her brilliant cam-

FOR THE ENEMY. paign against Turkey in 1912. The first.

A GERMAN COUNTERBLAST. of these, Dede-Agatch (population, 4,000), about ten miles NW. of Enos on the

In an effort to offset the effect of Mr. frontier set for Turkey by the Treaty of London, grew up on the trade in the Palmers description of the British German authorities have valonia of the region, and was further Fleet, che developed by the opening of the Salonika permitted Herr von Wiegand to spend Constantinople junction railway in 1896; a few days on board the Mottle, and thence to send to the New York World but the port is only an open roadstead, subject to beavy seas in southerly gales, a ung account of the alleged desire nicet the during which steamers take refuge some of the German Navy to

of British Navy in a great high Be 18 under the "Tee twenty miles off Samothrace. Probably the approaches battle. Herr Wiegand's message is dated are heavily mined, and the water is "On board the battle-cruiser Adthe at shallow inshore. The projects of harbour sea, on outpost duty. By dispatch boat

to Wilhelmshaven.' construction there had been disposed of by the Bulgarian acquisition, under the Treaty of London, of Porto Lagos, some forty miles west of Dede-Agatch. On

road and fortifying the passes, under the direction of German officers, with a view to covering the district adjacent to the Turkish frontier. The committee at Kum,.

relations with

under the direction of Prince Reuss, is maintaining animated Teheran, hoping to influence the Shah and Government.

It is reported that the Turk'sh Ambas sador and the Austrian Minister are re turning to the capital with the same object, The Shah and Government are fully aware of the danger of any policy not benevolent

to the Anglo-Russians, but it is not wiso to ignore the fact that the concentrations

Kum and Hamadan include half of the Majliss and almost the whole of the Persian armed forces, directed hy Swedish and Turco-German officers, who are doing their utmoob bring about a rupture of the Anglo Russo-Persian negotiations, and for the definite creation of a fresh theatre »" war.

to

KHAKI ARMLETS ISSUED IN LONDON.

LONDON, November 28th." The khaki armlets issued under Lord Derby's scheme made their first appear. ance in London last evening.

LORD KITCHENER.

According to the Belgisch Dagblad, Count Joseph de Hemptinne was execut

member of a well-known Catholic family, was, it is stated, carried out with all haste, as the German authorities apparently feared the intervention of the Pope.

RUSSIA TO SEND 82 MILLION GALLONS OF ALCOHOL TO THE ALLIES.

?

There is precious little about the Ger- man Navy in the message, which is filled with high faluting passages such as this:

Consul Heard's report, already quoted, ever come is the question that has been £3,000,000 was to be spent, and contracts fired at me from the stokers deep down were expected in August 1914. A line in the bowels of the big Moltke, and from was to be made northward, at a cost of men in destroyers and dispatch boats to £1,000,000 or £1,500,000, connecting the the highest officers." port with the Oriens railway below Philippepolis and the line to Rustchuk through Stara Zagora, But all these projects may have been wrecked by the ambition of the King.

SEA POWER-1805-1915.

BY MARIE CORELLI.

With the object of utilising the heavy stocks of alcohol which are at the dispo] of the Treasury, and in view of the fact that countries friendly to and allied with Russia are in need of alcohol, the Minis ter of Finance has proposed to the Council of Ministers the export in the near future of about thirty million Glory and terror and splendid joy of the galicas) of alcohol. redros (eighty-two and a half million

Thunderous Sentinel-Guard of our flower-

ing Isles of the Free!

THREE BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK Fortress impregnable, built with the moun-

tainous waves AT HAMBURG.

Toppling in fury of laughter slicer over

our enemies graves] God!..

It is all we can ask for A Lloyd's message states that the Bri-

that still we over may be tish steamers duh, Inis, and City of Berlin, which were detained at Hamburg Saved by the glory and terror and can at the outbreak of the war, have been quering joy of the Sov! sunk by the enemy..

The Auk is of 1,055 tons, the Irix of Ses that sprang to the keels of the ships 942 tons, and the City of Berlin of 909 tons.

The only suggestion shipowners could make to account for the cutrage was that the steamers had been sunk in connection with the defences of the Elbe.

OUTRAGES COMMITTED IN BELGRADE,

A message from Turin to the Petit Journal states that the Serbian Minister at Bukharest has officially protested to the United States Minister against the excesses of the German troops at Bel- grade, where the masculine population has been completely exterminated and the women were subjected to the most fright

Even women of eighty years of age were taken as prisoners to Austria.

MILAN, November 28th. Lord Kitchener arrived here this morn-ful violence.. ing from the Italian front. He made a hasty visit to the archaeological and ort museums, and then left for Turin.

All this was done in order to spread terror among the Serbian population in the Barat

MIL

of Nelson and Drake- Billows that leap'd for delight in the

battles for England's ake - Will re fail us now? Nay, never! Ye

are strong as ye were of yore, And Victory's voice rings clearly out in

your rush on the rocky shore And thark-like Death, at the enemy's cry,

to meet him swiftly runs, For your swirl and sucking sonda are as

sure as the fire of a thousand güns 1

Gory and terror and conquering love of

the Ser Circling our Fortunate Isles of Fame, more

famous still to be!. Let us praise the Giver of Life for the

aiver and azure band. She hath set between us and our foes on the

other side of the land! Break, it cannot-Yield. It shall not!

England, home of the free, God keep the safe in the strength and

light and conquering love of the Sea! -Evening Standard.

"even

According to von Wiegand, the men and officers of the German Navy have. now been pining almost a year and a chance to measure their quartor for the skill with the English, for whose bravery and traditions I heard nothing but re spret and admiration? He describos every type of ship, including Zeppelins, as reconacitring,

in amazing weather for the aerial craft, faz cut over the North Sea, peering toward England." Many of the German officers, he says, have lurking deep in their minds the idea that the curtain to the world war will be a gigantic battle at sea but others argue that Great Britain is too wisa to take such a risk, since she has more to lose than gain by such a step.

The primary object of von Wiegand'a trip seemingly is to convince the world that the Moltke still floats. He indulgest in some heavy satire on the reports thats a British submarine sank the Molike, and adds, The British submarine command- er's work against the Moltke was not un to the mark set by Weddiger, Germany's lamented naval hero, who put down the Aboukir, the Greasy, and the Hoque within a few minutes. The Britisher appears to have fired a torpedo at tho Seydlitz, off Riga Bay, missed and caught the ulike in the bow, which was not so bad-after all, but might have been

have better."

Yo Wiegand assures his readers that he has personally seen the Kolberg, and he further understands"? that the Pommern and the Bremen, which also have repeatedly, been

sunk, are

aflost, undamaged.ported

***It was reported in the Duma oni August 22nd that among the warships sunk in the naval battle in the Gulf of Riga was the Moltke, the Gernian battle cruiser with a displacement of 22,625 tons, and a speed of 25.5 knoft, The official Petrograd communiqué of August 21st stated thaa British submarins The Russian official estimate of the successfully torpedoed a German cruiser.” results of the Rigs battle was that two German cruisers and eight torpido-hosts were either put out of action or sunk. The Times.