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THE WAR.

GERMAN PREPARATIONS IN

WEST.

DO NOT PRESAGE AN OFFENSIVE,

FRICTION BETWEEN BULGARS AND GERMANS.

BRITISH SAPPERS ACTIVE.

CAMEROONS CLEANED UP.

#HANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH LEUTER'S AUENOT.] BRITISH ACTIVITY.

FIGHTING FOR MINE CRATERS.

LONDON, February 7th, General Sir Douglas Haig reports that That night the British occupied the western Bilge of three mine craters in the vicinity Vermelles and the La Bassee rond. The nemy in the morning exploded a wine north of Loos but there were no casualties, We occupied one edge of the crater. Ronewed artillery activity on both sideṛ is reported at Frise, north of the Lay Bassco Canal, at Wytschaete, and Ypres, Twenty eight aerial combats occurred on the stb. Six German machines were driven down in the enemy's lines,

EXTENSIVE GERMAN PRE- PARATIONS.

TRIBUTE TO MAGNIFICENT SHOOTING OF BRITISH.

AMSTERDAM, February 6th, The Germans continue to collect anor- mous stores, ammunition, and many guns Behind the Western Front, Engineers and Pioneers have also arrived, but no new ip- Tontry

German soldiers declare that they lost over 1,200 in the stack in the Armontieres region owing to the magnifont shooting of the British They complain that the officers are still using maased formation. British guns were terribly destructive

round Ypres,

GERMAN ACTIVITY AGAINST BRITISH.

AN EXPLANATION.

LONDON, February 7th. Reuter's correspondent at Headquarters

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 1914,

(THROUGH ENUTEN'S AŬRNOY.} BOMBARDMENT CONTINUED.

PARIS, February 7th.

A communiqué states:-Anglo-French artillery smashed German trenches at Boesiughe. Yesterday's bombardment in Trenches Champagne was most effective. were levelled, several munition depots were exploded, and reservoirs or asphyxi. ating gas demolished. Quantities of the gas were carried to the German trenches. THE BALKANS

[THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCE,]

TERRIBLE FRENCH AIR RAID.

BULGARIANS LOSE 1,000 MEN.

PARIS, February 6th

The Athens correspondent of the Temps says that the French aeroplanes hovered over Petritch for 20 minutes, and dropped 200 bombs.

A Bulgarian communique says that 470 men were killed in the Bulgarian camps. The total casualties were about 1,000.

ATTACK ON SALONIKA, CONSIDERABLE TEUTO-BULGAR

FRICTION.

RUSSIAN FRONT

{THROUGH BELTER'S AGENOT:]·

AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY,

CHASING THE TURKS,

WAR NEWS.

PANIO IN HAMBURG.

THE GALLIPOLI EVACUATION. THE BIGGEST BLUFF IN THE HISTORY OF THE WAR:""

[FROM G. WARD PIŁZOB. ]

OND OF HI, SHLES. DIE BUYLA, December 20th,

A sensation was caused in Hamburg on December 23rd, by a romour that an Allied Air fleet was arriving. The public fright was so grent that General Roell issued a PETROGRAD, February 7th long series of orders, to the effect that when

It is over at last! Every man, every A communiqué states-Aircraft activity 10 gunshots had been fired the trame and trains should be stopped and emptied of continues. Our aviators bombed Mitau, people, whe should go home by the shortest animal, every baggage cart, and out of

guns all but six, which were into routes. All lights were to be ex- and Russian scouts explored the enemy'stinguished, and speen) protective mea, tionally left behind to fire till the last mine fields which were connected with sures were taken in the harbour. When minuto and were then destroyed, have been the peril was over public criors would embarked from Suvia and Anzan under the wires, and then exploded forty mines.

parade the streets with trumpets and very nose of the unspecting Turk The The Russians continue to drive back the give the necessary instructions. The air biggest bluff in the history of the war has raid did not secur, but the Hamburgersbeon brought off. A new record has been Turks in the Canesans,

continuo panic-stricken, and fear to go set up, and the British Army and Navy, out after sunget,

working hand in hand, have set up a joint triumph of organimation which will last GERMAN MUNITIONS WORKS

long in the annale of wor AT SHAVLI,

Whatever the fruits of this Dardanelles campaign may prove to have been, it will always stand out in any military record for two things the gallantry of the first land- inga and the skilfulness of this evacuation Hard fighting is often the test by which you judge the credit of a successful offea sive, but sheer uneventfulness is the best indication of the efficiency with which are tirement has been organized,

PETROGRAD, February 6th. The Germans have established a branch of Krupp's at Shavli. Russian inhabi. bants and a number of French prisoners have been compelled to work there.

GENERAL.

(THROUGH REUTHE'S AGEBOT.)

THE LOST L19.

COUNT REYENTLOW AND

HOLLAND

AMSTERDAM, February 6th. Count Reventlow affirms that the L10 was evidently crippled and should have obtained an asylum in Holland instead of being shot down. crippled German warship would be given protection in Dutch waters.

He contenda that a

GERMANS' HOWL OF INDIGNATION.

AMSTERDAM, February 8th, The German Press hng emitted a hows of indignation over the crew of the trawler King Stephen not rescuing the Zeppelin's crew. The papers say that the trawler could have disarmed the Germans.

END OF CAMEROONS CAMPAIGN. GERMAN ARMY DISARMED IN NEUTRAL TERRITORY.

MADRID, February 8th, Nine hundred Germans and 14,000 native troops crossed into Spanish Guinea from the Cameroons, and were disarmed and in berned,

BRITAIN'S WHEAT SUPPLY

ANGLO-FRENCH DEALING.

SALONIKA, February 7th.

LONDON, February 7th. There is considerable Teuto-Bulgar fric An official statement regarding the tion over the question of an attack on Government's whaat operations says that Salonika The Bulgarians are opposed to Great Britain took 50,000 of the 200,000 this, realising that they would have the tons bought by the Anglo-French Govern lion's share therefore of the heavy losses, ments from Australia. The total of Argen. which would compromise the Bulgarian tine wheat which she purchases will not military strength when compared with her exceed a quarter of a million quarters. neighbours. The Bulgarians also dis. The statement indicates that, the example favour the Zeppelin raids on Salonika, of France in requisitioning the home crop owing to the immediate and terrible at a fixed price will not be followed. French reprisals.

BULGARIAN DEPUTIES ACCUSED OF TREASON,

AMSTERDAM, February 6th.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN COMMERCERAIDERS.

MILITARY HONOURS.

DESERTIONS FROM THE ENEMY.

There is a marked increase in the ten ency to desert from the enemy lines says Router's representative at the British The Germans Headquarters in France. themselves are aware of this and take the atmost precaution to prevent it. Any man whose movements even give rise to the sus picion of a design to break away is fired at without demur. Deserters who have come in of Inte have been unanimous in their declaration that but for the perils and dif- ficulties of running there would be whole sale fitting from their lines. War-weari ness and a sens, of the hopelessnes of the outlook are the principal reasons assigned by deserters for their petier

PREPARING FOR BREAD AND PEACE RIOTS!.

..

The war has at last been brought to

Cross Society. Berlin, but only for the benefit of the Red

Realistic trenches have been dug outside barbed wire entanglements and all the old Kaiser Wilhelm's memorial chapel, with latest dodges to render them invulnerable, Entrance to them is priced at 2td. a hend, and the receipta all go to swelling the funds of the Red Cross.TAZA

In some quarters it is questioned whether it were wies to instruct the Berlin ers in the art of entrenchment like this, for the time may yet come when the women of the city may set to work to utilise them seriously in their constantly increasing encounters with the police

If not yet of daily occurrence, bread and peace riots are getting ominously more fre- quent every week, and every fresh one grows in bitterness and intensity.

"IMPOSSIBLE" OFFENSIVE.

RUSBIAN CRITIC ON THE WESTERN FRONT

DELIBERATE PREPARATION. There is no harm in saying now, when t in a over, that the price of the succes of this operation, less skilfully conducted: might well have been a deperate rearguard action. Every preparation was made for fighting auch an action, if necessary, and most people expected it. Yet, as it was, we mado our deliberate preparations ard de liberately carried them out under the un suspecting gars of the Turk. All these masses of men and material were brought time to Anzac and Buvla, chande down in an extraordinarily short space of

When they were all away, and it was as

erest of the sharp rige, that evan "real billetsif such a name can be given to the tiera, dug-outs, and caves cut in the face of the sheer aliff-were within shor range of a trench mortar, it not of a hand thrown bomb and the Australians, who had: a far more keenly-developed taste for fight ing than their onemies, harassed the Turk. night and day,

The Suvis left wing position, just given up, was partly the result of an independent landing on August 8th, but Anzac joined herself up with her new neighbour by hard fighting, lasting several weeks, along the coastal ridges to the north. and Suvia have grave disadvantages as positions to be held against an enemy, but the actual features of each are largely the converso of those of the other,

Both Anza

Sulva is a place of broad spaces, com manded at long range by artillory; Anião is cramped and small, and under fire at short range to snipers At Suvia you con get about on a horse, or even, by keeping to the roads which we have made, in a motor car; at Auzte the only kind of trans. part that would be any good to you would be a cog-wheel railway. The Turks can see you almost anywhere at Suvla, bat only at a distance of five miles or so through glasses; at Anzac they get glimpses of you. just from one or two points, but the

Saipers Nest," for instance, which is one of those points, is only 800 yards from the beach

In the rear of the 12-mile front along which we were disposed were three beaches, where we had made it possible on that har hourless and wind-swept coast to Innd and embark troops and guns,

To the inexperienced eye indeed the ar rangements we had made there had the air of being themselves the haphazard product of a gigantic disaster. At Buvia especially stranded wrecks, canted pathetically on the shore is dotted with calamitous-looking, their sides. Some of these, however, are

serve as breakwaters, Others Ano used as hulks filled with sand and carefully sunk to jetties for ships to come alongsido

it that not a single man was left behind, sure as careful search, and tally could make the few stores we did not bring away were

Besides these there were small wooden. set on fire. They were chiefly bully beef, a very small proportion of the supply stages at Suvis, at Lads Baba, and at An- which is habitually kept there. Next, the zac. It needed nothing more than a briek break-waters, which we had built of old southerly gale to mash some of these jet- hulke, were smashed by shellfire at short ties, as they were smashed by the hurricane And though the at the end of November, while even if they range from the ships marching down and embarking of the troops stood firm, a heavy swell on the sea would was stealthily done, this store-burning and have been sufficient to make it difficult to pier-smashing must have been seen and embark gune or take off troops such a gale heard by every Turk in the Peninials.

indeed sprang up 24 hours after the eva- cuation was completed.

Yet even then the Turks, though puzzled,

The fact that the weather which did pre apparently never realised that anything un- usual was going on, and as this ship was vail was entirely calm and in every way as steaming away this morning, when all had perfect as could have been imagined count been over for some hours, the Turkish guned for an immense part in the success of the ners in an erratic way had begun as the sun undertaking. By the time the order came rose to sboll the beaches and places like Hill from home which set the machinery in Ter, which were formerly our artillery motion. the moon, indeed, was giving a positions, though not so much as a most good deal of light and it was within a couple of days of full when the final clear- ince was actually made.

Colonel Schumsky, the well-informed mili.room cat was there. tary critic of the Birzhenya Vyzdomesti, discussing a sensational report published. by the Berlingske Tidende of Copenhagen, that enormous German contingents were being transported to the French front, de clares, on the basis of data which, he says, are derived from a good source, that not only, now, but even in the future anv considerable German offensive 18 impossible on the Western front,

LORD KITURENER'S SURVEY, The decision to leave Suvia and Amgao

INCREDIBLE DIFFICULTIES, When you reflect on all these possible was reached after long deliberation. The final word in an operation of this magni- sources of trouble, if pot disaster; when you tude comes from home, and it was given remember that the lives of several scores of there on Lord Kitchener's return from the thousands of men and large quantities of Dardanelles. During his visit to the scene valuable guns, stores, and equipment, to say of operations here Lord Kitchener not only nothing of prestige, were at stake; when mot and discussed the position with General you think of all the minute arrangements The Germans, says Colonel Schumsky, Monro and the gonerals commanding under as to times, places, and procedure that and have definitely nailed the bulk of their him but came ashore himself, both at Suvla to be made, and of the courage, resource, forces to the Russian front, and will never and Anzac, and climbed at each place to and initiative that were required of indivi in cbservation post where the actual geo- dual officers in meeting emergencies that be able to detach for a sufficiently strong graphical and military characteristics of made the recasting of details necessary at a offensive against the French as many troops as are necesary without running the problem lay before his eyes. Whatever moment's notice; when you imagine the the risk of the Russian army, gathered his views were before he came to the Penia close harmony and co-operation that had to upon its last defensive line, overthrowing sula, t is certain that Lord Kitchener him he maintained not only between the Army what would remain after the despatch to self went home to London convinced that and Navy, but between the Army Corps, the Western front of the aforesaid German evacuation here was the wisent course, and the different divisions, and the different in this judgment he was in accord with the brigades by men living in narrow dug-onte, conclusion which responsible generals on with shells bursting casually on the beach the spot had reached.

outside them every day; and when you bear To understand what this operation im in mind that every step in the whole pro- plied you need to consider the situation cess had had to be carried out is the face of at Anzac and Suvla as Lord Kitchener a strong enemy within direct view of the found it when he climbed up to Russell's greater part of the places where the work

contingents.

BRITISH SUBMARINE CRUISE.⠀

The panic in the Bea of Marmora lately reported at Constantinople is sasily under stood from the narrative of a British sub marine officer describing his 24 days" cruising in the Sea of Marmors. The sub-op at Anzac and to the old corps observa was actually being carried on you will ap tion station at Suvia on November Hepreciate something of the burden that has marine was under fire on the average had before his eyes at those two places a weighed upon our Staff at the Peninsula. thrice daily; but the penetrated to all continuous front of some 19 miles from the Yet, moring about as I have in the last LONDON, February 6th.—sorts of places; sholled a coast railway, left of, Suvla to the right of Anzac, along fortnight from one point to another of our His Majesty the King, at an investiture and blocked the line. The narrator says:

"A troop train came up, It was the which we were locked with the enemy in a positions, I have nowhere seen a sign on Coolness and at Buckingham Palace, conferred the Com. funniest thing to see a train hidding, among close embrace of parallel trenches, and a nervousness or confusion,

the trees. We smashed it all to blazes, and more variegated, eventful, and confusing confidence were the habit everywhere, from The Bulgarian Government has demand-mandership of the Bath (K.C.B.) on the troops sonttled. They fired tons of line of trenches it would be diffent to the sapper lying out in front of our wire discredits the idea that increased activity ed the Sobranje to permit the arrest of Lient. General Hubert Gough; the Order Altogether ve sank a gunboat, five steam sighting them than the arts of military en yards from a Turkish trench, to an 1.1.0. ammunition; but we were out of range. imagine. Nature had far more to do with at night, scooping a hole for a mine 30 là Deputies accused of accepting bribes of British-India, second class, with the ers, and 17 large sailers and destroyer meet races of rock souit, above sea-level, beach controlling the confusing movements gineering. Bome ran along the top of or N.T.O. on an occasionally bombarded three trains and one embankment." from a French agent.

title of Bahadur, on Jemador Sads Bingh, dived into Constantinople, torpedoed the some almost below it in the fat and marshy of the motley fleet of trawlers, transports, of King George's Sappers; the Indian arsenal wharf, and blew up lighters teaded plain; come had only seven yards of neutral pinnacee, and lighters or marshalling men,

with munitions. The explosion was terri NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

Order of Merit of the second class on Buba fr. We had a duel with garboat, which ground separat.tg them from the enemy's mules, zootor-cara, guns, and packing cases dar Dansinglama, of the 2nd Gurkhas; the was driven off, and after that we were left paripet, others were half a mile away from in congested space, and in the dark to that the Turkish lines. It was a front that each unit, man, animal or thing, should be. alone. Everything rar when we were Indian Distinguished Service Medal or near. The only drawback was that we all twisted and turned in all sorts of awkward there in the proper place and at the right angles, making a bewildering series of un-time to go aboard. With quiet efficiency, suffered from dysentery."

scientific but inevitable salients and ra

with regularity, even without noise, it was Reasaldar Udmiram, of the 4th Cavalry,

entrants

done. It may be said that the only "fight- and on Subadar Sher Singh, of the 34th

ANZAC AND SUYLA POBITIONS

ing" that took place in connection with In a country where Nature is an n- the embarcation was that which occurred Sikhe

methodical in her designs we could not in these Australian brigades to decide who IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN, Courses of instruction in the latest dove afford to be too particular, and the variety should have the privilege of staying to the lopments of scientific warfare for officers of our positions was such that, while one last. Many men paraded before their com LONDON, February 6th. 1 the French Army are now being held trench would be so low-lying that to upset manding officers to protest vigorously Their Majestics the King and Queen atmportant French military centres by a mess-lin would almost inundate it, there against being ordered to go on board the order of General Joffre, and they will con- would be trenches in the same division less transports while men who had arrived on than half a mile away only approachable the Peninsula after themselves were allow- tended the Choral Society's performance time throughout the winter.

The opinion is strongly held by many by such steep saps cut through the dryed to stay an hour or two longer with the of Verdi's Requiem at the Albert Hall in French military experts that military rock that officers there would count the rearguard. The 200 men who formed this science has been making such rapid strides selves lucky if they could be allowed a half- ultimate rearguard at Suvla had been the memory of the fallen.

during the past sixteen months that regi- mental and staff officers have been unable gill of water for the whole process of bath first to land there in August and, suffering heavy loss had set foot ashore almost on to keep pace with it. It is hoped that 1g, shaying, and washing.

Along most of this line the advantage of the very same spot where last night they the majority of young staff and regimental the artillery position is with the Turks, Leld the final barrier unt the work of em officers will by next spring have passed who hold the entire length of the monstain Larking the last detail was completed. through the new courses.

chain that harred our view to the eastward, At Anzac, where this chain draws close up six weeks to the sea we disputed the ridge with

them, each clinging to one side, bi

By the enemy in the northern British sec Bor presages an offensive, These opera Mons, he states, are purely local and limited in character, and are not heralded by any particular artillery preparation, neither are they pressed with ̈ delarmina- Hon. The biggest affair was opposite Cook, on January 28th, when a battalion made a sudden attempt to rush a position, They were met by a force rifle and machine-gun fire, and cannot have lost less than 200. As to the affair on the Ypres and Pilken road, the enemy, were ap- parently under the impression that we had withdrawn from a stretch of trenches, otherwise it is hard to account for the Isunching of an infantry attack at noon day, which was not prepared by artillery os gan. A possible explanation of the greater activity is the need for making a more than purely defensive reply to the

constant barassing which is adversely affecting the enemy's moral. The flow of enemy deserters is appreciably increasing.

GERMAN

TRENCHES

BATTERED.

PARIB, February 6th.

A destructive bombardment of German trenches in Champagne is the feature of to-day's communiqué.

A French gun-neroplane southward of Peronne felled a German Drache, which was sfilme

ENEMY'S BOAST..

NEW YORK, February 6th. The Gormany boast that sine cotameros raiders have been built, and that two are now in the Atlantic.

The Captain of the sunken Corbridge is quoted as saying that the raider was a 26-knot boat He saw the name Ponga in the chart-house, and that she was built in the Baltic in 1914. He fears that the officers of the Clan Melavish were shot because the gun carried by that ship killed three Germans,

LONDON, February 7th,

It is stated that the German raider,

which was specially fitted for minelaying, had strewn mines before-raiding the trade roates. The reason no wireless calls were received was because the raider's wire- Zees operator invariably jammed all dis- tresa signals.

THE HEAR EAST,

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TURKS? REIGN

TERROR.

YOUNG

THE OTTAWA FIRE, COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.

OTTAWA, February oth

A commission has been appointed to investigate the fire at the Parliamentary buildings.

DONKEYS AS FOOD.

SCIENCE IN WAB.

NEW INSTRUCTION FOR FRENCH OFFICERS.

A captain in a French line regiment who took part in che of these series of practical lessons lectures and practical expert ences I had not an idle minute. Up early in the morning, we were all of as at work hy eight o'clock, either listening to a lee ture on tactics, following courses of signalling, or in the open country studying the effects of artillery fre, and learning to read angles and distances on the telemeter

The Germans find the food problem now so acute (says the Paris correspondent of the Chroniric) that they are sending away In the afternoon we were taken up in civilians from the invaded French proteroplanes to appreciate for ourselves how vinces in order tog

get rid of useless much of a carefully built trench is visible mon the.

bra hostile airman, or taken along the OF・ The repatriated men and women declare front to view different sectors,

that the Germans can no longer conccal In the evening, after a frugal dinner that they are threatened with famine. The at our headquarters, we were expected to troops are on short rations, and donkeys sit down and write out a full report of all and dogs are requisitioned for ford, we had seen and done during the day and Twenty thousand French civilians are add to it any practical ideas which our under orders to quit the invaded territory. own experiencs might suggest

Aruess, February 7th,

The Young Turks have created a reign of terror at Constantinople."

GERMAN HUMANITY LEAGUE.

IMPEACHMENT OF THE KAISER

Anzac, the southern section of the joint position we have just evacuated, is one of the two places where we first landed in the Gallipoli Peninsula, The Australians and

The German Humanity League in the New Zealanders forced their way Christmas manifesto appeals to Germans ashore there on April 25th, and on the to end the War, and adds:To-day the first day drove the Turks off the ridges German name is the scorn of civilisation, overlooking the beach which we had held and the German flag has become a badge of from then till this morning. It was first infamy, while our chivalry is buried in the distinguished a Gaba Teps, the name of village grave plots of Flanders, Germany the enge to the north of which the Austra must restore her character and win back lians landed, but it was not long in taking the honour which has been forfeited by the rebus name of Anzac, made up of the Larbarous cruelty and insatiable lust. initials of the words Australian and New Napoleon failed. The Kaiser must fail. Zealand Army Corps." There was fierce There will be no peace until he is, deposed fighting hera in the early days, and trench from a throne which is fouled, and until his warfare has gone on uninterruptedly, for fellow conspirators have met their fate at the lines are so close set, so they are on the the hands of the executionere