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THE WAR.

TALES

OF

GERMAN

TAY HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1914.

RAIDER.

FITTED WITH TORPEDO-TUBES.

BRITISH STEAMER'S GALLANT FIGHT.

ZEPPELIN RAID INCIDENTS.

ONE AIRSHIP WRECKED.

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS

HAVAL ACTIVITIES

BURNED.

(THROUGH NEVIEN'S AGENOT.)

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AFFAIR. APPAM THE BOW-PLATE DENTED AS IF STRUCK,

NouroLE, February 1st.

One of the dopam's bow-plates is dented if she had been struck. There were twelve Germans aboard and twelve of the Correspondents

Passengers were sick. bave, up to the present, been excluded. "WILL GERMAN CREW ELECT TO BE INTERNED

WASHINGTON, February 1st It is believed that the German crew will undoubtedly elect to be interned rather than risk being captured by re-sailing.

If the Appam is found to be a merchan ship it is understood that she will be returnable to her owners at the close of the war, but if a German auxiliary she will go finally to Germany.

NEWPORT NEws, February 2nd. The Dame of Appam's assailant is Hoer, and the names of the steamers the Matter sank are:-The Ariadne, Dromon- by, Clan McTavish, Corbridge, Farring, ford, Arthur and the Trader

LARGE AMOUNT OF BULLION ON BOARD

LONDON, February 2nd, It is announced that the Appam had bul hion on board to the value of nearly half

millim

[Tпaocon REUTER'S AGENCE.].

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGRICE,) The Moewe sank, on the 10th inst, the Farringford, and placed a prize crew aboard. The coal boat, Corbridge was sunk

FRANCO-BELGIAN FROM T

** THROUGH EXETER'SʻAGEN:3 ENEMY'S OFFENSIVE IN WEST

on the 13th, while the Dromosby, Author | EFFORT ON THE AISNE STOPPED. and Trader were sunk on the 15th inst.

THE BULLION.

PARIS, February 3rd. To-day's communiqué says:--A German The Bank of West Africa states that the attempted offensive on the Aisne, after Appam's bullion totalled £30,000

artillery preparation was stopped by a curtain of Are and fusillades.

NORFOLK, February ard. Some German senmen aboard the Appam wear cape bearing the name Taula. The Collector of Customs thinks that not the Moewe, but a larger vessel, captured tho liner.

NEWPORT News, February 4th. It has now been decided that overybody. aboard the Appam, except the prize-crew, shall be permitted to land whenever they wish. WASHINGTON, February 4th

The status of the dppam has not been decided, but official quarters believe that she will be held as a German prize un ler the Americo-Prussian Treaty,

APPAM'S FASSENGERS'

STORIES,

NORFOLK, February 4th. Sir E. M. Merewether, interviewed, said that the raider flew the distress signal. He paid a tribute to the courtesy of Com mander Berg and the prize crew of the Appam The Appam carried less than £200,000 worth of bullion, which is now aboard the German cruiser. The raider Was a vessel off 4,000 tons. He believed she was a fruit-trader.

Mr. F. Fuller (Chief Commissioner of Ashanti) said that the raider was equipped with two torpedo-tubes,

ACTIVITY IN ARGONNE,

PARIS, February 4th The evening communique says:--Enomy tronches and marching troops north of the Aisne were bombarded.

There was very active mining in the Argonne, The French exploded nine mizes at various points, wrecking enemy under ground works. An attempted enemy attuck was immediately stopped.

RECIPROCAL SHELLING AT

LOOS.

LONDON, February 3rd. Heavy shelling was to-day directed at Loos and at our trenches in the vicinity We replied effectively. There was some mining activity, mainly on our part, about the Hohenzollern Bedoubt, between it and the La Bassee road.

RUSSIAN FRUNT.

[TRROUGH NEUTER'S AGENOX,].

| ZRROUGE EUTER'S AGRNOY...] THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON

ENGLAND.

MUCH DAMAGE; MANY CASUALTIES.

OBURCHES WRECKED.

February Isl The Press Bureau has issued a statement saying that the Zoppolins last evening, apparently, attempted an extensive raid, but were hampered by a thick mist.

After orossing the coast they stoored various courses, bombing neveral towns and rural districts in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Stafford shire. There was some damage to property,

[TUROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN PEACE FEELERS.

LONDON, February 3rd The Chicago Tribune publishes now Geg man pence foolers, These state that Ges many is ready to relinquish Kinochan and the Pacific Islands and to conclude an agreement with Great Britain under which Germany will acquire an African Colony composed partly of former holdings, or new block. Germany also demands the re- cognition of a German protectorate in the Turkish Empire, the cession of Russian Courland, the creation of an independenti Poland under the German Crown Prince and the ocasion of Bessarabia, Austrian Bukowina and Transsylvania to Bumanis.

LONDON, February 3rd. Unofficial accounts of the Zeppelin raid state that the Zeppelins arrived off the Nor- folk coast at 'o'clock in the afternoon. One dropped a message, "We return later.". It was 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning be fons the last Zeppelin departed. Most damage was done in Staffordshire, where after there were nine casualties.

AFTER THE WAR.

SAFEGUARDING BRITISH

INDUSTRIES.

LONDON, February 3rd-

A Board of Trade Sub-Committes

measures recommends

to enfeguard, the war, British industries

which are most open to German The first intimation of the arrival of the competition, including larger funds for Zeppelins was the extinction of the fights research and training, uniformity of the in the theatres and cinemas. Some of the patent Jay throughout the Empire, trade entertainments were continued by candle marks distinguishing foreign goods, great- light. There was no panic. One bomber financial assistance to British industries, the re-organisation of the Consular ser the formation of a Ministry of Commerce, vice, and tariff protection where necessary. The Sub-Committed gays, regarding trade marks, that the taj should be urged to re-consider the question of the establish- ment of trade mark registration in India.

Captured skippers said she was a con- SCOUTS BLOW UP RAILWAY fell on a mission meeting, killing three

verted merchantman, named the Panga

NORFOLK, February 3rd. The German commander Berg says that the capture of the Appam took place sixty miles north of Madeira on the 16th inst. The More on the 17th engaged the Clan

All expatiated on the gallantry of the McTavish and sunk hor niter un exciting fight put up by the Gian Melavish, combat. Fifteen of the crew of the Clan which insted for half an hour. Her gun continued to fire long after the German Tavish were killed. The Appam return-shell, haud fired the ship in half a dozen Led and picked up four of the crew of the places. The Clan Vefuvish was sunk by

two torpedoes, 17- Clan Velavish from the water. The com- mander of the Movie then ordered: Com mander Berg to make for America,

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

LINE.

PETROGRAD, February 1st. Russian ecouts have blown up the part of the Baranovitchi Vilna railway which the Germans had recently repaired.

The Germans are using new small acro planes on the southern front.

SUCCESSFUL RUSSIAN

"APPAM" DECLARED A PRIZE.

WASHINGTON, February 4th. The Appam has been declared a prize.

ENTERPRISES. Mr Lansing states that though the Appam has been declared a prize her die

PETROGRAD, February 4th. posal involves further consideration of the

A comniuntqué says that Russian Scouts Hague Convention and the Prusso-Ameri- in the Rig region, are most daring, cross- can Frosty, pod Crew of the Cla

The European crew of the Clan Meing entanglements and bring at enemy Armoured motorcars were working parties.

dashed to the front trenches and shelled the Tavish aro safe. The casualties among the Iscars,

enemy, returning scatheless, though can- monaded,

It is stated that Sir Gordon Spring Rice and Count Bernstorff are going to. Norfolk. The former has already inter- viewed Mr. Lansing. It is stated that Sir Gordon Spring Rice insists on the Appam || DUTCH being returned to her owners in accord-

ance with the constant British contention that a belligerent, is not entitled to bring a prize to a neutral port, which contention Germany upheld at The Hague.

WASHINGTON, February 2nd: Bir Gordon Spring Rise applied to Mr. Lansing to release the Appam and return her to the owners in accordance with The Hague Convention, which, he argued, superseded the Prusso-American Treaty of

1898.

VESSEL ATTACKED

BY SUBMARINE.

AMSTERDAM, February ard. The Dutch motor-vessel Artemus was torpedoed near the lightship Nord Hinder,

arrived at The Hook The Artemus leaking. She reported that she had been attacked by a German submarine. Gr man boarded the vessel and demanded that the lights be extinguished. DUTCH MAIL-BOAT BEACHED.

DAMAGED BY A MINE

Similarly, ir Galicia, between Tarnopol and Lemberg, Hussian bombers destroyed entanglements, captured Lunette, and pursued the fooing garrisons,

There was heavy cannonading on the The enemy, Pruth and Dalester fronta. covered by the fire of 12-inch guns, twice attacked, but was repulsed,

RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN CAUCASUS,

PETROGRAD, February 4th,

A communique says that Russiana con- tinue to advance in the Caucasus. They found 300 frozen bodies of Turks in one

position. LONDON, February 3rd. The Dutch mailboat Princess Juliana has been damaged and beached at Felixstowe, GENERAL, The German Embassy maintains that the She was apparently struck by a mine. The passengers and crew were landed at Har Treaty is applicable and permits the intern-wich, there being no-one missing. The mails. There were joyous scenes in the shipping ment of the ship as a naval auxiliary with were saved.

its subsequent return to Germany.

offices when relatives were told that the passengers were safe. ·

The report which reached shipping cireles fortnight ago that a German ship escaped from a neutral port, becomes siga ficant in view of the marauding of the Woene. That the ewe escaped from the Kiel Canal is regarded as most unlikely,

GERMANY CLAIMS VESSEL AS PRIZE.

WASHINGTON, February 3rd, Count Bernstorff formally claimed the Appani as s príze under the Prusso-Ameri end Treaty. The State Department has ordered the release of the Appam's pas

Bongers

INDIGENT GERMANS FROM THE CAMEROONS,

America's attitude on the question has hitherto been non-commmital. The only

NORTH SEA DANGERS.

LONDON, February 3rd. Three smacks and a trawler have been sunk in the North Sea

BRITISH STEAMER SUNK, LONDON, February 4th, The British steamer Belle of France hos ngo, when Mr. Bryan ruled that the Fornben suck Nineteen Lascars are missing.

German auxiliary cruiser and ordered her internment

parallel during the war is the case of the British Farn, which was taken to San Juan with a German prize crew a year

was

HOW THE VESSEL WAS CAPTURED

NORFOLK, February 2nd

The Appam is still under the guns of

THE BALKANS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGHMOY.} FIRE IN CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. BUILDINGS BELIEVED TO BE DOOMED.

OTTAWA, February 4th. The Parliament Buildings are on fire, and it is believed that the are doomed. Members sitting narrowly escaped; two are missing. Two nieces of the Speaker were killed. It is believed that the fire was due to the explosion of a bomb.

The bodies of the two nieces of the Speaker have been found.

Members who were near the Reading room confirm that the fire was due to a bomb explosion. Ali were thrown to the

(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.] ZEPPELIN DROPS BOMB ON floor.

BALONIKA.

SALONIKA, February 2nd.. A Zeppelin dropped sixteen bombs on the the fortress and the passengers are pro-town and harbour, killing three Greek, one menading the deck, Captain Harrison told French, and two British soldiers, four at American pilot that the weather was Greek civilians, and wounding twenty

Greeks. bright and clear and they were moving at a fair speed when they sighted a tramp approaching. They had no fear and were unprepared when suddenly the

WASHINGTON, February 3rd: The Immigration Officials refuse admis slon to fourteen persons as indigent They

several Germans

the fired. from

tramp

Include

hovs to," said Captaia Harrison, Cameroons

GERMAN COMMANDER'S STORY. and simultaneously the tramp dropped

-NEW YORK, February 2nd.

the canvas from the forecastle revealing a The Appam', arrival caused a tremend- battery of large guns. We surrendered one sensation, as it is the first instance of unresistingly. A prize crew boarded the the pirates capturing a liner, while the Appon under the guns of the raider. They question of status is likely to make a cause disarmed and imprisoned the crew in the Eelebra in. International law,

cabins They then. liberated twenty Ger- The German Commander has already cir- man prisoners who assisted the prize crew

The tulated the story that the Appam cap-to-head the ship towards America.

A mosque, a warehouse and several houses and thops have been destroyed.

BANK BURNED DOWN

SALONIKA, February 3rd. A Zeppelin bombed Selonika on Mon- day night. Two projectiles fell in the Greek Prefecture and a third on the Bank of Salonika, which was burned down Other bombs caused slight damage.

Tairteen persong were killed and sixteen injured, including three soldiers.

An enemy aeroplane was brought down west of Balonika, and two airmen cap- tared..

SALONIKA, February 3rd.

A Zeppelin again approached the town on Wednesday night, but stopped. It is believed that it was hit by British batteries,

tured two British ships crossing the At Germans received messages from the Fourteen French seroplanes boobed and

lantic with the object of proving that sho

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AN AIR REPRISAL.

SALONIKA, February 3rd.

encampment greatly damaged as wireless, but sent none, They thus Petritch, as retaliation for the Zeppelia "has been used as a cruiser and thus ought ascertained the whereabouts of British raid on Salonika

BALONIZA, February 4th. Aviators dropped 181 bombs on Petritch, causing 28 fires. All the machines re turned,

to be interned. He admitted that the

cruisers, from which the German Com- Appam did not resist. He says he captured mander Berg stecied.” her four days after she sailed and took her

Sir E. M. and Lady Merewether and Mr.

WASHINGTON, February 3rd.

to Norfolk, fearing to meet a British Fred James are safe on board the Appam."

ruiser if he went towards New York- When the Appam passed Virginia Capes, xhe was asked by the fortress to state her name and replied that she was the German cruiser Buffalo

It is believed that it was an armed tramp and not a submarine which captured the Appam. A German commander says that the Appan did not resist.

SMALL FRONTIER

ENGAGEMENT.

ATHENS, February 4th It is reported that there has been an encounter between the Bulgars and Ales on the Greco-Bulgarians frontier. The former fired at & French reconnaissance, but were repulsed.

LATER.

The Duke of Connaught watched the

scenes.

Several policemen and firemen were buried in the collapse of one end of the building

The Speaker's wife made a perilous "of the leap for life. The corridors Speaker's chambers were aflame when she jumped a distance of 20 feet into a lifenet. Her two children were rescued with difficulty.

Fortunately the debate was most unir- teresting, and the House was very thin.

A northerly gale for an hour converted mass of fierco the Parliament into a Rames,

The fire has now been controlled. The damage is estimated at £1,000,000.

CONSCRIPTION IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, February 3rd, A Proclamation enforces the Militsly Service Act from the 10th February." RUSSIAN PREMIER RESIGNS.

PETROGRAD, February 3rd. M. Goremykine, the Fremier, has re signed on account of impaired health, M. Surmer, Councilor of Empire, has been appointed Premier.

AUSTRALIAN WAR LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED.

MELBOURNE, February 3rd. The War Loan of £10,000,000 bas been oversubscribed.

ladies, including the speaker and injuring

Another bomb fell in a billiard rou, killing a player. Most of the houses in one street of town in the Midlands were destroyed and five members of our family, grandfather, grandmother, daughter, and the latter's two children were killed.

LONDON, February 3rd DEATH The Press Bureau announces that the casualties in the recent raid by Zoppeliss now totala 58 killed and 101 injured,

A Church and a Congregational Chapel were badly damaged.

A Parish room was also wrecked, and fourteen houses were demolished, while a great number were less seriously damaged. There was slight damage in two places upon railway property. Only two fac tories were badly damaged, neither being of military importance. A brewery was also badly damaged. Two or three other factories wore alightly damaged.

The total number of bombs discovered up Many fell in the rural places without to the present is 300. result

The Zeppelins used searchlights and threw out flares.

The Mayoress of one town was seriously injured,

in a train heard a Zeppelin Passengers crossing and re-crossing the railway and bombing for half an hour, but the train was untouched.

Then

OF TURKISH HEIR- APPARENT.

SUICIDE OR FOUL PLAY!.

AMSTERDAM, February 2nd, A Constantinople telegram states that tho Heir Apparont, Youssuf-Izzed-din, "has committed suicide on account of illness.

A later message states that the news- papers doubt the truth of the suicide of Youssuf-Izzed-din and hint at foul play. The Heir-Apparent was an Anglophile, and advocated peace with the Entente. Merle that no PARIS, February 3rd.

interviewed, General Cherif Pasha, assorted that Youssuf-Izzed-din assassinated because he opposed the Young Turks, dis successor, Vahid-ad-din, I He did not also an anti-Young Turk. dare to prophesy long life for him.

IN THE CAMEROONS.

Details concerning the bombed mission meeting in Staffordshire show that the wife GERMAN DESERTERS SURRENDER of the vicar was standing reading a Bible to an audience of 200 women and girls,

AMDA, February 1st. when a bomb fell between the room and Colonel Dobell telegraphs that the const line of the Cameroons is clear of the the church, with a blinding flash there was darkness. The vicar's wife and enemy. Over seven hundred Germang ar azother lady were killed on the spot. The now on the Spanish frontier, while many screams of the injured were torrifying. deserters are surrendering to the Anglo- Two clergymen who were present were French authorities, injured, but they assisted heroically in rescue work.. The Church and vicarage were partly wreckel,

ENEMY TWICE DEFEATED. .......... LONDON, February 2nd, General Dobell reports that General Another midland town was plunged into darkness and the tramcars were stopped. Haywood's column occupied Baing and The Zeppelin pasted without bombing. Nkan after defeating the enemy in the General The inhabitants listened to an explosion engagements, with slight loss. in a town twelve miles distant. Thinking Cole's column occupied Lolodorf, Large the raid over they resumed their ordinary enemy convoys continue to enter Muni

At life. midnight the Zeppelin re-ap peared and bombed the outskirts of the town, Little damage was done.

The Coroner at an inquest in Lincoln- shire pointed out that fifty bombs were dropped, but only three people were killed, in Lincolnshire The undoubted result would be to make Britons redouble their efforts to punish the miscreants,

Another Press Bureau announcement states that the utterly inaccurate Berlin official report of the raid further proves their position and to shape their course that the Zeppelfs are unable to ascertain with any degree of certainty.

ZEPPELIN WRECKED IN NORTH SEA.

LONDON, February 3rd. The Admiralty announces that a fishing. trawler reported to-day that she had zeen a Zeppelin in the North Sea in a sinking condition.

A French vessel which has arrived at Hull also saw a wrecked Zeppelin in the North Sea on Thursday morning. ZEPPELIN SINKS COASTING STEAMER,

LONDON, February 3rd. The Franz Fisher, employed as a coast- ing collier, from Hartlepool to London, was sunk by a Zeppelin on Tuesday night. Thirteen persons were drowned, and three were saved by a Belgian steamer. Franz Fisher was a captured enemy vessel of 957 tone.

RIGHTS OF AMERICANS,

The

TOPEKA, February 3rd: President Wilson, in a speech, declared that it might be necessary to use force to vindicate the rights of Americans to the COMMONWEALTH AND FRUIT protection of International law.

PROHIBITION,

MELBOURNE, February 3rd.

The Commonwealth has informed the Imperial Government that arrangements had already been made to ship one and three-quarter of a million cases of fruit, and that an entire stoppage will ruin the small growers.

AMERICA'S NAVAL

AMBITIONS,

THE LUSITANIA.”

AMSTERDAM, February 3rd.. Berlin has telegraphed instructions to Count Bernstorff which it is hoped will lead to a final understanding with regard to the Lusitania, zaklad

PERSIA SURVIVÊR

DECORATED.

LONDON, February 4th.

At an Investiture at Buckingham Palace Lord Montagu of Beaulieu received the Companionship of the Star of India,

樂

THE FIRE ON THE "SCINDIA."

LONDON, February 4th. The fire on the steamer Scindia, off Gibraltar, has been extinguished.

INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES.

IMPORTANT MEASURE PASSES SENATE.

WASHINGTON, February 3rd, The Senate passed, by the President's casting vote, an amendment to the Philip pines Bill, withdrawing the sovereignty of the United States within, not less than two, and not more than four years,

The amendment, which President Wilson favours, bas. not yet come before the House of Representatives.

SILVER MARKET REPORT,

LONDON, February 4th. Messre, Montagu report that the under tone of the silver market is good. The movement of price is narrow. American bullish," and Indian operators are bazaars are chary of buying, but the re- duced stock in Bombay indicates the nece ST. LOUIS, February 4th.

sity of purchases. The Continent continues President Wilson said the United States an active buyer. should build the greatest Navy in the world and be anconquerable.

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