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THE WAR.

AGED AUSTRIAN

EMPEROR.

SAID TO BE SINKING RAPIDLY.

'GOEBEN'

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2üm, 1906,

DAMAGED IN BLACK

SEA.

ANTI-GERMAN OUTBURST IN SWITZERLAND.

SIGNIFICANT RUMANIAN REPORT.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.] LIVELY CANNONADE IN

ABTOIS.

PARIS, January 27th.

5.50 p.m.

A communiqué states:-There has been the most lively cannonade in Artois. We continued to re-occupy craters, discovering many dead Gormaus, and taking prisoners.. GERMAN TRENCHES

DAMAGED.

PARIS, January 28th. The evening communigud says:-Our artillery was most active along the whole front throughout the day. The German trenches in Belgium wore seriously aged.

dam-

Αυ endmy attempt to recapture craters to the east of Nenville was repulsed,

Fighting with mines in the Argonne con- The enemy lost tinued in our favour.

heavily in the struggle for the possession of a crater resulting from the explosion of two of our mines. We hold one of the edges of the crater.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY

UNABATED:

LONDON, January 28th.

A communiqué says-Early in the morn. ing we exploded a mine opposite Givenchy. Organised bombardments were carried out on several points of the hostile lines.

Hostile artillery was active to the east and north-east of Leos, south of Bois Grenier, north-east of Armentieres, and Dorth-east of Ypres..

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(TUBOVOM BEUTHE'S AGENCY.J

"GOEBEN" ENCOUNTERED."

DAMAGED BY RUSSIAN

BATTLESHIP.

PETROGRAD, January 25th.

(THROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.] NEW IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

TO ECONOMISE SHIPPING.

LONDON, January 27th. In the House of Commons Mr Bunci man said that the Government had decid ed, in order to economise shipping, to re duce imports that were not essential. A large percontage of imports of paper- making materials would shortly be pro hibited, as well as the export of rage and waste paper. The import of other bulky articles might also be prohibited, includ ing raw tobacco, building materials, furni ture woods, some fruits, and, if neces

ĮTAROLAM REUTER'S AGENCY-]

OF

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.

SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.

LONDON, January 27th. The Royal Commissioners have prore. guod Parliament.

The Speech from the Throne read:

For eighteen months my Army and Navy have been engaged, in concert with my brave and steadfast Allies, în defond- ing the common liberties and the public law of Europe against unprovoked en croachmonts by the enemy.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

REPUBLICANS OCCUPY SUL-FU,

YUNNANTU, January 25th. (delayed in transmission). The Kepahlicans on the 22nd just occu- pied, Bui-fu, in Schuen,

IMPUDENT FRAUD. CHINESE COLLECTS $1,310 FOR MYTHICAL HOSPITAL

A Chinese who was arrested on board the

Onsang by Sergt. Fincott was charged before Mr. F. A, Hazeland yesterday with obtaining money by falso pretences

LEARNING FROM BUCHES,

BRITISH SOLDIERS ACQUIRE SNIPER'S ART..

THE DUMMY DOOR,

H. F Provost Battersby, writing from British Hondquarters, says

It is good hearing that a beginning has already been made in bringing to the British soldier's notice the art of the sniper. Now the art of the sniper is by no means a mere question of marksman- ship. There are plenty of marksmen in ogr army-more, probably, thun in the Ger man men who can put a pretty pattern on the target in almost any weather. But successful sniping asks a good deal more... than that; it demond, vigilance, cunning, infinite patience and much ingenuity. For a long time the Germans seemed to enjoy, ponderance of these qualities. They had made an art of sniping before we loves took up the game. Before both sides were double anchored, as it wore, in their present trenches, the sconery provided for the sniper a variety of cover which has since disappeared.

sary, the list would be extended until I am sustained by the determination Sergt. Pincett mid the man was going as compared with ourselves, a large pre

the strain was eased,

to

of my people at home and overseas A Committee of four, under Lord Curoarry the Bag to final and decisive vic

tory." zon, is dealing with the matter.

Perey Jones, Chief Officer on the Onsang, spoke to defendant coming on board the boat on Tuesday and Wednesday and producing the book mentioned above. Witness gave him $8.

round with a book, saying he was collect ing for a Chinese hospital. According to the book, the defendant had collected no less than $1,342.40 in two years.

Alfred J. Holland, Chief Officer of the The Speech thanks the House of Con AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

mons for ate ungrudging liberality in pro-Empress of Japan, said that defendant went on board the boat on December 28th, CANNOT BE USEFULLY HELD ATviding for the heavy demands of the war,

and produced what sormed to be a book PRESENT.

struggle, and concluded: In this forced upon us by those who hold in light soliciting assistance for a Chinese hospital.

Witness gave him $1. esteem the liberties and covenants which we regard as sacred, we will not lay down our arms until we have vindicated the cause which carries with is the future of civilisation. I rely with confidence on the loyal and united efforts of all my sub- jects which have never failed me, and

hospital as that described in the beginning pray Almighty God to give us His bless that he examined the book, and no such of the book was known to oxist. Without ing."

Fo being questioned, defendant made a con- fession, saying he was very sorry. would not have taken the step but for the fact that he had a wife and five children, He asked to be excused.

LONDON, January 27th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Low said he did not think that an Im perial Conference could be usefully hold at the present time, but shortly they would have a full and frank disenssion with the Australian Premier, as they had had with the Rt. Hon, B. L Borden in 1915. They

were constantly in communication with the Dominions on all mailers connected with

the war.

It is authoritatively announced that after a fight on the 8th inst, between the Gochen and Russian battleship the former returned to Constantinople. dam- NOTABLE aged, having lost 33 killed and 80 wound- cd,

ARMING OF MERCHANTMEN. AN AMERICAN MEMORANDUM TO

ALLIES.

NEW YORK, January 29th. Mr. Lansing old reporters that the United States and addressed à Note to a foreign Power or Powers on the subject of the arming of merchantmen

The Evening Post says that Mr. Lan sing, in a Memorandum to the Allies, asks them to discontinue the arming of mer chantmen, whereupon the Austrian and German Governments would be asked not

to

torpedo merchantmen without a warn ing and to remove the crews and passen gera to places of safety if the destruction of a vessel was justifiable.

THE NEAR EAST.

[TROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.] MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN, TURKS EVACUATE THEIR

TRENCHES:-

GERMAN AIRMAN KILLED.

LONDON, January 18th,

A German wireless message reports the death of Lieut. "Boehme," who has been frequently mentioned in communiqués. He fell while flying in Alsace, The name Boehms is probably Beelke, who was one of the most notable of the Fokker pilots. LABOUR AND COMPULSORY

SERVICE.

LONDON, January 27th The General Labour Conference at Bris. tul passed a resolution by 1,716,000 to 360,000 again recording opposition to the principle of Compulsory Service, but a resolution in favour of an agitation for the repeal of the Bill was defeated by 649,000 to 814,000,

WHAT GERMANY MUST SURRENDER,

PARIS, January 28th An International demonstration at the Sorbonne in honour of Serbia was attend- ed by President Poincaré and representa tives of the Allies, M. Barthou and the principal speakers emphasised that the LONDON, January 27th. Major-General Townshend reports that war would not cease before Berbin, Bel- Our artillery retaliated successfully on the enemy has evacuated his trenches on gium, Poland, and Alsace-Lorraine had

one side of the Kut-el-Amara defences, been restored. hostile batteries and trenches,

and has retired about a mile from our én- | SERBIAN PREMIER TO VISIT

LONDON AND PARIS. trenchments.

LONDON, January 27th. Renter's Agency learns that the Serbian Premier will shortly visit Paris and Lon don.

THE BALKANS

-{THROUGH REUTER ́S AGENOX.)

--RUMANIA'S SYMPATHY WITH

ENTENTE.

WILL ALLIES TAKE OFFENSIVE IN BALKANS!

LONDON, January 29th. The Morning Post's correspondent at Budapest says that Hangarian correspon- dents at Bukharest state that Rumania's Entente haye Sympathies with the Increased owing to the belief that the Allies contemplate serious operations in the Balkans from Salonika, while the pro-Russians in Bukharest are again in the ascendant.

FATE OF PRINCE MIRKO.

LONDON, January 28th.

It is feared in Rome that Prince Mirko of Montenegro perished, or was captured, In the defence of Skutari.

FLIGHT OF THE SERBS.

LONDON, January 28th. Thousands of Serbs are struggling towards. Alessio, being succoured by Admiral Troubridge and British blue jackets.

It is hoped that Prince Mirke's splendid rearguard action at Skutari will enable the Berbs to escape.

ITALY TO DEFEND VALONA.

HOME, January 28th. A Cabinet meeting resolved to defend Valong to the utmost.

Major-General Aylmer reports that the situation of his force is unchanged. GENERAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] AGED AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S HEALTH. REPORTED TO BE SINKING RAPIDLY.

ROVE, January 27th. Vatican circles declare that the Aus trian Emperor's bealth is causing anxiety, and that he is sinking rapidly.

ANTI-GERMAN FEELING IN

SWITZERLAND.

CROWD ANGERED BY HOISTING OF GERMAN FLAG.

BERNE, January 28th.. On the occasion of the Kaiser's birthday the German Consulate at Lausanne hoisted the German flag. A crowd demanded that the Swiss flag should be substituted, and then, overpowering the police, hauled. down the German flag and damaged the escutcheon.

NEUTRAL COMMERCE.

AMSTERDAM, January 27th, The Berliner Tageblatt states that Colonel House (President Wilson's repre sentative) has arrived at Berlin to dis cuss urgent questions relating to neutral

COMMERCE.

BRUSSELS DEATH-TAX, THE ENEMY DEFIED.

AMSTERDAM, January 27th, Brussels refuses to pay the fine of half a million france for the death of Miss Cavell's betrayer,

BRITISH BOSPITAL DES- TROYED BY FIRE, BRAVERY OF DOCTORS AND NURSES.

SURVIVORS OF THE "TARA,"

LONDON, January 27th. The Admiralty announces that a report bas been received that 05 survivors of the auxiliary cruiser Tara are in the hands They are being well of the Senussi.. treated, and an attempt is being made to send them clothing, etc. AUSTRALIAN TRADE

WITH

RUSSIA.

MELBOURNE, January 28th. The Minister of Trade announces that he will do everything possible to establish direct trade with Russia. The question of preference will be submitted to Parlia

ment,

Mr. E. E. Lindsell (Chief assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs), said

Defendant said that owing to the war he was compelled to do that art of thing. His worship said he regarded the offence As very serious. By proposed to convict A previous conviction was proved, and defendant was sent to prison for six

months.

drawn

LOST COVER.

Trees are gone, along whose branches he. used to lie like a wild cat, with a smear of his ruddy countenance and a bunch of green slime from its linchered bark over green leaves tied about his shoulders; and fluttering over his head like a Bersaglieri's feathers. Cottages are gone whose thatched and baystacks that made such cosy nesting. roofs offered just the screen to suit him,

quite utterly bare, we were puzzled for Along one stratell of front, which is not yet some time by the angle at which the snipers bullets were coming over. There were a few pollard willows on the left of bare of leaves, and from one point we could soo that no one was standing behind the line, but the osiers had long been swept

their trunks. One officer after another had tried to find a solution, till one happened to be in charge who knew the ways of old pollard willows. Ho got three men and onde them fire a few shots st each of the willows. The sniping ceased. Two of the willows were hollow and the Germans had crept inside the trees, and were fring through a crack in the stem with automatic pistols. Our shots had evidently put an end to their business

Three days later the sniping recom menod, and fire was opened again upea the willows, but this time with no effect. But the officer was still suspicious, and he asked the nearest battery to remove the willows from the scene. This was done, and the third to go revealed the enemy's cunning; for inside the willow was not only a German, but a steel plate, which WAR NEWS.

Gifted outside him and inside the willow, DEVON MAN'S BRAVERY AT SEA.

and was, doubtless, proof against rifle bul- lets. In one spot between the two lines of The brave exploit of a Devon man, Cap tranches, which were about a hundred yards tain Leslie Webb, son of the well-known apart, a door, was lying dropped there physician, Dr. Webb, of Exeter,

possibly on its way from a ruined cottage attention to by a correspondent to The to a dug-out. The top glass panels of it Fimes. He says:His ship, an auxiliary were broken, the wood beneath them was steamer, on her way home from India, ran broken, too, and over the woodwork & among the German submarines soon after gandy paper had been pasted. Our mon midaight in the middle of November, The used occasionally to test their sights by Canard steamship Caria and the liner Clan making a dent on the door knob, or break- Macalister had just been saxt to the boring off the tip of a splinter of glass, tom while another ship was also sunk at hand; but Webb, with rate pluck and sea- One day the shooter was surprised to The Federal War Committee recom-manship, came to the assistance of the boats see that though his bullet struck where

land settlement for returned

glass seemed to be, it left a white smear and produced no tinkle. Then he took a soldiers, which may cost £20,000,000.

shot at the woodwork, and again scored a smeer, but raised no splintera. That set him thinking, and the same night he crept out, and discovered that the old door had been removed and n steel shield put in its place, beautifully painted to look like wood and paper and broken gines, with a bole

RETURNED AUSTRALIAN

mends

SOLDIERS.

A LAND SETTLEMENT.

1

1 MELBOURNE, January 28th.

COMMONWEALTH AND TALLOW.

MELBOURNE, January 28th.

and was instrumental in saving the lives of 82 men from the submarined vessels Twice be turned back and ran the gauntlet, splendidly served by his officers and crew. At Malte the Admiral sent for Captain Webb and said, You have done what not one max in a hundred would have done. I am proud to shoke hands with you,”

THE WHITE KWEAR,

The Coutoonwealth have prohibited the OXYGEN AS HEALER OF WOUNDS. As we knob for the sniper's rifle. The

export of fallow.

PRESIDENT WILSON, WOULD ACCEPT AN INVITATION TO FIGHT

NEW YORK, January 28th. President Wilson has begun his speech. making tour of the States. Addressing railwaymen, he was much applauded when he said: I shall always accept an in- vitation to fight, but I hope to conduct my fights with fairness and justice."

President Wilson's tour is on behalf of the Government's programme of national preparedness.

WILL OF MISS MOLYNEUX

01.

LONDON, January 28th. Miss Molyneux, who died on December 20th, leaving £25,000, bequeathed her house at Kensing on, and the residue of hot estate, after legacies amounting to £3,400 had been paid, to Lord Chelmsford, and her chian and wax miniatures to Lady Chelmsford,

WHEN TOMMY COMES HOME.

A case of a hand wound which "healed with marvellous rapidity" after an acci- dental oxygen bath is described in the British Journal of Nursing,

artist was apparently a bit diffident of his success, but when he did begin shooting, we had ranged a piece of artistry to match his own for it sent him and his pie- ture back almost into the German trenches, The patient, who was suffering from te and the picture was the more intact of tanus, was being given oxygen, when the the two. Thomas Atkins is now being end piece of the tube fell away, and the taught to be up to these dodges, and a few oxygen went on the wounded hand.

The unexpectedly rapid healing of the of his own to boot, but one great advantage wound, which was covered only by a thin to be derived from a closer acquaintance with his opponents' methods is that he layer of gauze, was presumed by the sur- becomes inspired with a caution which only geons to be due to the effect of the free the respect bred of that acquaintance seems oxygen,

VETERAN NAVAL V.C'S BIT."

IN FOUR SUNK MINE SWEEPERS AT 84. How Israel Harding, V.C., late chief gunner in the Royal Navy, bas" done his bit" in the present war at the age of eighty-four is told in the hefteld Daily Telegraph. Harding, when his ship was blown up at the Dardanelles while mine sweeping, had his left leg broken. He is now in a convalescent home,

Harding ran away to sea when a boy, and after working in a trawler joined the Navy He took part in the bombardment Naval Brigade a landing, le was in the Indian Mutiny and was again wounded

in

able to instil. The nice" K. boys" full of enthusiasm and energy, and what they believe to he cunning come into the trenches each determined to account for a German at the earliest possible moment, with the result that, almost inevitably, the German accounts for him, The youngster generally begins by seeing what he takes to be the spike of a German helmet, The Germans do not, as a matter of fact, wear helmets in their fire trenches, but, being posted in the fact that a New Army batta tion quite green to the business, has taken over the trenches in front of them, they supply the particular bait. Er which their subtlety tells them a man new to the work will be most, anxiously looking

TAKING THE BAIT,

Even if the youngster has been told that the thigh. After service in the Zulu War caps and not helmets are the enemy's wear he took part in the bombardment of Alex- andria in 1882 and gained the V.C. foring, this glimpse of what obviously is a throwing overboard a shell which dropped helmet will only the more rivet his atten- near the magazine. Everyone over forty tion, as proof that some sort of superior will remember how Britain rang with the and exceptional being is making a round of the lines. He sees the spike again, and exploit.

Leaving the Navy in 1883, be took part then a gleam of something glossy black in Admiral Markham's Arctic Expedi- beneath it. If the German is an artist he tion. At the beginning of the war he may oven remove the spike, as though fear. offered his services and was engaged in ing detection, a piece of kidding

He now trains his rifle with in- mine-sweeping. Three ships under his which, of course, only makes the youngster command were blown up, and last som keener,

Two of Harding's sons were killed at Loos, one is a petty officer in the Queen Elizabeth, and another a seaman in the Achilles.

The Federal Council has apologised to destroyed by fire. Sixty-six patients wers les that would follow peace and the mer be was transferred to the Dardanelles, finite care on the suspicious spot, and waits

the German Minister and telegraphed the Foreign Office at Berlin promising that the incident would not be repeated. RUMANIAN GRAIN PURCHASE.

A YEAR'S FREE INSURANCE AGAINST NO Worx During a debate last month in the House of Lords on the social and industrial prob demobilisation of our

great armies, Lord Newton, the Paymaster Genera said that among proposals agreed upon by the War Office and the Board of Trade for helping the soldiers back to civil work

were

LONDON, January 8th The Grand Hotel, Wimereux, which was occupied by the British as a hospital, was saved by the doctors and nurses,

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN EGYPT.

LONDON, January 27th.Working furlough on full pay and allow- anges for four weeks during which Lient-General Sir John Maxwell, Com

separation allowance will continue to be In the House of Commong Lord Robert mander-in-Chief in Egypt, has been gazet

paid, Travelling warrants from place of disband. Cecil said that the Government had con- ted temporary General,

ment to bome, et fagte) cluded contracts for the purchase of

Money gratuities for services and awards

on a scale to be fred by Parliament Rumanian grain, which would be held

Insurance policy against unemployment

valid for year. for our disposal in Rumania and would

Help in finding work, be exported after the war.

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LONDON, January 27th.

NEW PRIVY COUNCILLOR.

We LONDON, January 27th." Sir Lawrence Jenkins has been sworn in as a Privy Councillor,

for the reappearance of the helmet. This is sure to take place from a sightly differ ent direction, which compela him to alter. the line of his rifle, and the arrangements he has made in his "cunning" to secure his head from observation. This happens Arriving at London Bridge from the several times, he becomes hared by the fre- front, chilled, wet tired, mud-covered,quent changes it involves in his protective party of our soldiers recently entered devices, and grows more coreless each time Lady Limerick's free bufet, and there in replacing them. At last, when his eager- they had the delightful experience of being neas in keeping his sights on the object has handed a plentiful supply of refreshments make his concealment quite peffunctory, by Queen Alexandra herself. Her the top of the hoet slowly rises above Majesty arrived, quite unexpectedly, took the opposite parapet he leans his cheek her turn with the other lady workers, and against the butt of his rifle, increase the served oat coffee and cakes and sandwiches pressure of the second joint of his fore with unflagging enthusiasm and activity finger, and falls back dead with a bullet.

through the brain, for an hour and a half.

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