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THE

WAR.

EVACUATION

OF GALLIPOLI.

COMPLETED WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE.

LIVELINESS ON

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11rm, 1916.

WESTERN FRONT.

COSTLY ENEMY SUCCESS IN VOSGES.

"GOEBEN" ENCOUNTERED OFF BOSPHORUS,

RUSSIANS HOLD CAPTURED

POSITIONS.

HAVAL ACTIVITIES.

THE MEAP EAST.

(THROUGH REVIER'S AGENCY-] GALLIPOLI COMPLETELY

EVACUATED.

REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT.

LONDON, January 9th.. Gallipoli has been completely évacuated. A subsequent despatch states that “General” Monto reports that the complete dracuation of Gallipoli was successfully

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-].

THE ** GOEBEN;"

A LONG RANGE ENGAGEMENT. PETROGRAD, January 10th. A communiqué states that Russian torpedo-boats sank s big steamer which was leaving the Bosphorus to fetch coal. Encountering the Goebem, the torpedo

GENERAL.

(THEOTON REUTER'S _ AGENCY.]

NO CONFIDENCE.

SIR JOHN SIMON ASKED TO RESIGN.

GERMAN WOMEN AND THE

AVARA

NO UNANIMITY OF SENTIMENT.

BY FRANCIS GRIBBLE.]

STREAM OF RECRUITS.

IN KHAKI WITHIN AN HOUR OF JOINING.

"Why they have pst come forward be- fore," said an old warrior with half

SPORT FOR WOUNDED OFFICERS.

IRRESISTIBLE INSTINCT TO DIVE FOR COVER.

The wounded home from the war ars having a good time as soon as their con- valescence is suficiently advanced to allow them to enjoy themselves. In and around London there are motor rides for them witheat end, beanfeasts for the Tommies, and various and elegant "parties". for the officers. And, meanwhile, as certain announcements curd in the newspapers, - Cupid is busy amid the teacups and the: cakes, and many a young officer who has lost ad arms or a leg finds, not at all to his dismay, by the time he is able to take an interest in life again that he has lost hist heart also.

In the country just now the soldier, halt or innu, patched and mended, is the centre of universay attention. He is made muck

Since Lord Kitchener made bis first ap. He is a rash man who undertakes to peal for half a million men, Aldershot The Germans has seen nothing like the steady stream LONDON, January 9th. generalise about women. The General Committee of the Leyton have done so, picturing all their women as of recruits which flows down daily by willing to suffer hunger for the sake of way of the L. and SW, Railway. Nor Liberal Club has passed a resolution glory, eager to help in war work, and has it seen anything like the same type questing Sir John Simon to resign his seat proud to sacrifice their male relatives to of recruit since the first call brought the for the Division as he no longer has the the satisfaction of the Kaiser's ambitions; flower of the Empire's manhood flocking but that picture simply is not true. The to the colours. The drill sergeants have confidence of the constituency,

women who belong to the officer caste are batch they had the pick of the basket.

been wont to believe that with that first IRISH JOURNALISTS TOUR perhaps, on the whole, trus to their tendi-

They are modifying their opinions tu THE TRENCHES.

tions, but they only constitute a minority.

day Of the rest it would be truer to say that LONDON, January 9th.

the women who profess themselves willing Reuter's correspondent in Franco saye

to suffer hunger are the women who are dozen ribbons on his breast" is beato, foted, nnd fed; and there is a very that a representative party of Irish jour

the portions held by their countrymen, The party includes representatives papers which, from both sides, to August, 1914, bitterly preached Civil War, but are now animated with a single idea how to

The official view, at the beginning, was beat the Boches, and a determination to that the war and the cordial support of all the German women except Ross Luxem- let the people of Ireland know the magni-burg whom a paternal Government had ficent devotion of the whole Army.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS AND WAR CREDITS.

nalists are touring the trenches, especially hungry, and what the others smash known to themselves; but, by gosh, the holders of game, preserves to get him to

of

AMSTERDAM, January 9th. The Committee of the German Socialist

the windows of the bakers' shops, upset the barrows of the caster-mangers, and pelt extortionale butter merchants with pats of their bwn butter.

THE CROWN PRINCE

cheerful conspiracy among landowners and men we are getting now are worth the come along and help to thin the ranks of having." One cannot say decidedly that pheasants. Of course, shooting this, your every military centre is being inundated over the coverts and among the roots in alt in the same fashion, but as a rule on our famous sporting areas has little of its can judge the state of the regimental de pre-war organisation; as a serious, jealous pote, says the London Star, by the overly cultivated art it no longer exists. It is. flow that is diverted to Aldereñot and the more of a happy-go-lucky, go-as-you- permanent flooding of the garrison in please recreation, plies apparently swollen currents else where,

DA A COMPARISON. -

In most of the shooting parties you will find the convalescent soldier taking part, raost honoured of all the guests. He is placed under lock and key. I was living The reception awaiting the new recruit given the best position in the lines," the at that time at Vianden, within a mile of to-day is very different from what it was, Indies are eager to act as loaders for him, the German frontier, and there was no such say twelve months ago. There is usually and everything possible is done to assuro unanimity of conviction among the Ger- no profit in distinterring the past, but for that he has a good time. He may shout man-women who resided in or visited our the sake of comparison it may do to re a bit wild at first, and the sense of free- village. Sons of them were very cock call some of the grievances and even hard-dom too, he finds very bewildering. ahoop, looking forward to the annexationships which the overwhelming response "I was out shooting the other day with of Belgium and a part of France, and last ausun imposed upon patriotic rea young lieutenant who was wounded at

cruits. Shortage of food and barrack Ypres," said see the German Emperor

well-known sportsmen expecting to

Emperor of Europe; others accommodation were admitted, while an

recently. "He was a crack shot in a appeal for blankets spoke to a similar. saw in the war only a catastrophe

One of those who wept | nettled the new men more than these pri- never know anybody with such a neat hand scarcity of bedding. But what perhaps Pheasant drive before the war-and I

procuring uniforms,

judgment. But Lieut., though he had servant. The former attributed all the venience imposed by the impossibility of hot shooting, a cool hend, and balanced and rowed with streaming eyes that it was

Today, one meets a swarm of civilian completely recovered from his wounds, and to the wickedness of the Crown Prince,garted recruits coming away from the snow, in fact, on his way back to busi-

Party passed a resolution on the 28th wt.crowd denouncing the members who opposed the

to cry abo

carried out, and all the guns and howitzers boats retired to the protection of the war. War Credits on the 24th ult, and repud.wns the wife of a landed proprietor vations was the relatively minor incon-among the snipe which means quick snap-

were got away except seventeen worn-out guns which were blown up before leaving, The casualties totalled one British soldier, who was wounded. There were no French casualties. General Morro adds that the successful accomplishment of a difficult Losk was due to Generals Birdwood and 'Davies, and the vainable assistance ren- dered in an operation of the highest difficulty by Admiral da Roheck and the

navy

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT

{THEOUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.'1 ENEMY TROOP MOVEMENTS IN CHAMPAGNE,

PARIS, January 9th.

ship line close by. A brief long range engagement ensued, but the Garber, having the advantage in speed, quickly withdrew to the Bosphorus.

LONDON, January 9th.

iating the Vernaerts as the party's organ BAN ON THE "ZUKUNFT."

in the neighbourhood, another was a maid-

suffering which had overtaken the world

We were walking 4 scandal that German blood should be railway station at 5 p.m., and an hours, made a very poor show in his day's

later the same men, clad in khaki, are shooting with me. poured out like water to please a person of soon making their way back to the through one of the avenues of a wood, and his abandoned character. The latter was station, with their civilian suits parcel. I noticed all the time that my companion was looking nervously to left and right of very bitter, not only because she had lost led for despatch to their several homes. her fance in the fighting, but because of It is worth watching this transformation him and treading softly as a cat. Ther the bald and brutal manner in which bis of civilian into soldier: The now air-anddenly he burst out laughing. I con- death had been announced to her. Her rivals, in charge of a non-com., are fess, he said, that I have & mortal dread own letter had come back to her with the marched straight to their regimental of trees since that affair at Givenchy, when word gefallen stamped across it with a stores, for the regimens has been apprised the Germans let fly with their machine- rubber stamp. 2

of their coming and bas everything in guns out of the wood." Contradictions of that sort bafle all readiness. The recruits are drawn up in attempts at generalisation; and the stories line, and an orderly bearing a pile of kit which one heard of the attitude of bags, passes along the line, giving one toy enchies were equally conflicting Some the. German"

their tach. man. women towards

Then they came out into the open again and at the corner of the wood, bare-

200 yards distant, half a dozen guns

blazed away?

AMSTERDAM, January Oth.:: The publication of Herr Max. Harden's BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK.paper, the Zukunft, has been prohibited

for the length of the war. "KING EDWARD" STRIKES A

MINE

PEACE PILGRIMS' PROGRESH.

LONDON, January 9th. It is officially announced that the

The Ford Peace Party has arrived at battleship King Edward VII, struck a The Hague. Mr. Ford telegraphed that mine, end, owing to the beavy sea, had this health is improving, and he hopes be abandoned. Sim sank shortly after soon to join his party in Holland. wards. The crew were taken off without

THE YOUNGSTOWN RIOTS. loss of life. Only two were injured.

NEW YORK, January 9th Three regiments are maintaining order

of another case case in which a German hastily, for before the detachment can be strikers is estimated at a million dollars, woman, married to an Englishman, tried dismissed the men have to draw pal- WAR SCENES AT SALONIKA. to persuade her husband to join the Ger.liassey and fill them with clean straw, take [HAVAS SERVICE]··

man Army, and, when he did not join it, over a bed-cot, and change into re deserted him for a Prussian officer, But gimentals. Long before the 1st stage is DECORATIONS FOR ALLIED that is only one side of the picture; it has completed they have been interviewed by

OFFICERS.

also another side. I knew of cases in the secretaries of the various sports clubs. Play football ? asks a sergeant of a which German girls betrothed to English prisoners have quarrelled with their fami- hefty six-footer, whose rippling muscles On recommendationi" made by. Generallies rather than give up their lovers, I be stands in the costum of Eden de.is lighting up the summits of Mount

have heard the German wives of English-light the non-com's eye. men declare that the cruelty with which them with their country for ever. Germany was waging war had disgustod

FILLING THE KIT-DAGS,

Lieut immediately dived for cover. of them were intensely bitter, others lost Then come further orderlies with The impulse was too strong, a though no opportunity of showing kindness. A "house wives, brushes, knives and forks, the lieutenant apologised for at after- man showed me a letter in which one of and boots, caps, great coate, tunics, wards, he qualified his apology by remark- them had expressed her delight at the trousers, and underwear of the various ing that since the war begun he confessed British civilians interned at Ruhleben all the kit-bags are filled, and the men announcement in a newspaper that the sizes required. In less than half an hour to the strongest respect for the ostrich, which, he declared, was surely the wisest were to be given only just suficient food are marched to their quarters, where tea of al birds.

[H.M.S. King Edward VII, was the first of her class. She was built in 1901, and tad displacement of 16,350 tons, with a speed of

To-day's communiqud says that the 18.5 to 19 knots. She carried four 12inch, in Youngstown. The Jozs caused by the to keep body and soul together, I knew awaits them. This meal is despatched

effective work

French batteries did against the German trenches in Artois, and also interfered with German troop movements in Champagne.

ARTILLERY EXCHANGES.

COSTLY ENEMY SUCCESS.

PARIS, January 10th.

of

four 9.9 inch, and teu 0-inch guns.)

INCIDENT OFF SWEDISH

COAST.

SWEDISH WARSHIPS AND GERMAN TORPEDO-BOAT.

MALMOE, January 9th. The Wilson liner Gitage was chased

THE BALKANS.

[1HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY ].

PARIS, January 30th.

A communiqué states:-In Argonna within Swedish territorial waters by German mine was exploded south of Butte German torpedo-buat, which attempted to de Mesnil, Grenade fighting ensued capture her. Two Swedish torpedo-boats about the crater of the mine, but we r interfered and forced the Germans war- main in possession. Our guns exploded ship to sheer off. an ammunition depot in the enemy's lipos at Fillemorte, In the Vosges we effective- ly bombarded Stocks, northward Metteral, and the Germans evacuating the ENEMY AEROPLANES ACTIVE.

Blage were caught by our seventy fives.

Near Stockweir, north-east of Murister; we caused several fire at enemy works. Bouth of Harimanns Weilerkopf, after a series of fruitless attacks, following a violent bombardment, the Germany cap- tured a small neck northward of Hirzstein summit. Our tronps occupying the sum

Our mit were consequently withdrawn. accurate curtain of fire inflicted heavy losses. The artillery struggle continues.

ENEMY ACTIVITY,

EFFECTIVE FRENCH ARTILLERY FIRE.

A communiqué states that on Saturday morning aeroplanes bombarded the Allies cantonments in the vicinity of Salonika. Insignificant damage was done, and our artillery brought down one of the aero- planes.

REPRISALS FOR SALONIKA ARRESTS.

ENTENTE SUBJECTS INTERNED.

AMSTERDAM, January 8th,

As a reprisal for the arrest of Consuls at Salonika, Turkey has ordered the arrest of the Anglo-French officials who were left in charge of the Embassies. As a re- prisal for the arrests of other Turks at

PARIS, January 10th. A communiqué states:-Last night there was some activity south of Armentieres, the enemy employing heavy rifle, machine Salonika, 1,000 subjects of the Entente gun and artillery fire. To-day there has | Powers have been interned,

been rather more than the usual artillery RUSSIAN FRONE.

activity opposite Hulloch. Our bombard-

n

ment south of Frelinghien caused serious fire in the enemy's lines. The Artillery was active on both sides about Ypres.

Our artillery in Belgium surprised and dispersed two parties of the enemy east-

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED WITH CONSIDERABLE LOSSES.

PETROGRAD January 10th.

A communique states The enemy re- attempted to recapture Czartorysk, and ward of Lombaertzyde. In Champagne, were twice repulsed with considerable of our lines between St. Hilaire le Grand losses. Our troops definitely expelled the and Ville-sur-Tourbe. The enemy, despite enemy at various points on the east bank preparations for attacks, which were seen of the Strypn

we effectively replied to a bombardment

by our observers, were unable to leave their trenches.

The prisoners we took on the 7th inst." portbreast of Czernowitz totalled 1,195-

Joffre, the French Government has an pointed General Halion, Commander-in- Chief of the British forces at Salonika, Grand Officer of the order of the Legion of Honour; General. Surrail he's been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour; and General Bailloud, the Military Medal.

B. I. BOAT'S NOVEL" EXPERIENCE.

“A bit, but not just lately."

Whom did you play for?"

"The Villa reserves last season, but I should have bad a trial with the first team this year at centre-half."

MERCY AND YON BIBBING.. from each other in the tone they took, so Moreover, as individual women differed also did groups of women. There were women engaged in Red Cross work who refused a cup of coffee to British prisoners at railway stations; there were women tures him who gibed at the prisoners behind their barbed wire at the notorious Sennelager.

"My hat" gasps the delighted ser- goant, and rushes off to manœuvre the newcomer into his own platoon before any other marauding football, secretary cap

L

GREAT DISPLAY OF MILITARY COURTESY,

A correspondent writes from Salonika:

It is early morning and already the sun Hortiah. The natives rise early; they devote little time to their toilet, except the wealthies. The people seces all to go barefoot and in rage, except on Sundays, when they turn out in fez embroidered Turkish jackets, in white, green, or red stockings, and felt slippers.

"There are Jews and Muhammedau and amongst them a good many "Greek villagers, who have been chilised. They are dressed in black and white and look as if they were in half-mourning for a That is another phase of the recruits brother who has fallen or a province lost. They wear a black jacket and trousers On the other hand, a man who was most life which was noticeably absent 19 abominably treated told m that his months ago Then there was neither time with mother-of-pearl buttons, amidst which gaoler's wife cried for him when he was nor thought for sports or athletics. Comare risible nether garments of white linen brought into prison and insisted upon mending officers and company officers or silk, wooden shoes with painted prow The B.I.S.N. Co's steamship Burma entertaining him at ten before her nus were too much concerned with the feed and a black tuft at the end. They are from Bombay, which arrived at Calcutta band definitely locked him up, and 1 ing and equipment not to speak of the the originals on which the uniform of the fanions Euzones the Greek Rifles, as from Basra ve Karachi on the 13th inst..i have before me a proclamation issued by training-of their men to trouble about had a curious experience on going up the the notorious van Bissing denouncing their recreations. But today that is all been copied.

"Rue Venizelos, near the harbour, runs harbour. The ship's speed was suddenly German women for giving pris.ners cho- altered. reduced. The third officer on going for colstes and cigarettes, and protesting

that

No matter what a man's hobby, he will along terraces crowded with cafés, which ward found a large fish of the skate or these ill-considered proceedings showed and nails and encouragement tip fullow at night are glittering with light and stingerie variety transfixed by the bows that they did not possess truz German it. If he is a cricketer, although the sea noisy with talk and laughter. Officers, and stuck fast. A hook was driven into souls."

In short, there is no unanimity son has ended, he will be dragged into soldiers, civilians stand and read the last its carcase but owing its great weight it of sentiment; and one is not surprised to the bomb-throwing competitions. Should dispatches, put up here and there, and was found impossible to dislodge it until find that German women have now begun his talents be of the vocal order, the repass on. It is impossible to read the soul the vessel was berthed in Victoria Dock.to squabble in print over the question gimental glee club will adopt him. Is of the people. General Sarrail has given The fish measured 14 feet and is estimated whether the war is really a good thing

he an amateur wood-worker, there are orders to the French troops to salute the to weigh upwards of a quarter-of-a-ton. It for Germany,

openings for him in the pioneer's shop. Greek; General Hamilton has done the had a pointed bead with eyes practically The protagonists in the dispute are Cross-country runner, footballer, boxer, same to the English, The Rus Venizelos on top and a formidable mouth measuring Fraulein Dr. Kate Searcher and Frau swimmer, there are opportunities for him sees a great display of military courtesy. ahont 2 feet wide. The incident

Kassone. The former lady 28 the everywhere,

Greek officers of all arms, in splendid created much commotion angst, the passief of one tiernas champions of women 3

Nos only is the War Office encouraging uniforms, with all their decorations of the sengers. The carcase was towed out of

rights.

able-bodied sport and recreation as a means to physical last two Balkan wars are much in ovid- the dock the next afternoon when a large women in Germany to be enlisted in a crowd gathered to witness the novel sight sprcial Landwehr, Sae is not, Ouly infitness, but it is also approving every at- nee; they talk loud, and salute in the favour of the war, but she has cimitedtempt to introduce a sporting or cope German fashion, At nine o'clock sounds titive clement into military training it the curfew; then silence descend and herself to the opinion that the longer to self, and is thus preventing those attacks darkness over the city and the camps; war lasts the better. "We Germans, she of nestaglia to which recruits were par French and English patrols make the round writes, **needed to break with number

of the deserted streets; the only sound of bad habits which we had falun ticulary liable even in peace time.

one hears is the challenge of a sentry or the neighing of a horse; of strange and througn cur comfort and our enjoyment

weird effect is the peal o bells in the French hospital, belonging to the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul; the bells rinsing every hour an Ave Maria Etella or Venite Adoremus amidst towering minarets,, ze- mind one of France,

She wants' alt The

A FORTUNE UNDER FIRE. Mr. H. Warner Allen, representative of the British Press with the French armies in a long despatch descriptive of the of life. A long war will accomplish thay shell-shattered city of Arras, declares realt for us toore thoroughly than a It is a lusting gir for that, of its 25,000 inhabitants, perhaps short one.

it

THE TWO YUICES. But Frau. Ellen Pasche will not have How it it possible," she asks, that a woman can have so hard a heart)

800 remain in the place. There is not a the unity of our people that soul and single house, he says, that has not re cast and west and north saould here to ceived its shell. The writer tells a story join in defending that unity with their of a wealthy resident who, when driven bod. Only a long war can thus educate out of Arras, buried under a tree in his and intensity cur sentiments. garden 200,000 in notes and stocks and shares. Later he returned to dig for his treasure. He dug and dug, and still his spade did not strike the leaden chest in which he had hidden his fortune. Fer- spiration poured down his face, he tore his hair and bewailed his fate quite gardless of the fact that the Germans had just began

to bombard the town with ex-

Thru anddenly plonal violence. looked up, seized the space and began to dig madly under another tree. minute or two later his efforts were w warded. And he brought to the surface the still unopened chest. In the excite ment of the moment he had forgotten the tree under which he had buried it!

How is it possible tint a women can tel us that we are living so comfortably tha caly prolongation of the way can sav us? Can be, she continues, tha Kraulein Schirmacher has lust no relative, no laver, uo friend for whom she werpu 15 s, let her thank God; but let her als.. ture my eyes to the future:

You wires who have given your dearest, you mothers who have lost your only 20 or all your sons, you sisters who will never again see a loyal brother standing by

be,

your sides, think of the future: Are we young women who have bright young esildren playing round us to sacrifice them too in twenty years' tume? It must not Or are women to bear children merely as food for powder? That also is

The Consul of Dedeagatch told mo German womez must now hard to admit. hear many children to fill up the gaps that the order o mobilisation had bro- that have been made; but not for war dured amongst the Bulgarian people a ng, for an eternal and blessed peace. And feeling of profound consternation. They so I say

did not wish to fight the'r berators, their brehren, the Russians Wath all that the mobilisation was carried out in perfect order, but the ammunition was insufficienti and the artillery had not beer jourganised.

No half-heartedness! Think of all that you may have to lose in twenty years time and you who have nothing more to lose, because the war has taken everything from you, think of us and help us younger woman that we may le spared such tears and lamentation in the years to come

The Galle del Popolo assert ther tha Austrian prisoners now interned in Italy number 45.000, of whom 15,000 have been- Buch are the two voices. Which is the taken during the present offensive Ac fanc voice? That is what time will showcording to conservative estimate, Austria but we do not need time to toll us which has hure de combat in the Itan the more womanly.Daily Graphic. 300,000, of whom 60.000 are dead.