THE WAR.
LORD KITCHENER'S TRAGIC FATE.
DROWNED WHILE ON MISSION TO TSAR.
RUSSIA'S GREAT OFFENSIVE.
BEATTY'S MESSAGE TO HIS MEN.
INTERNAL DISSENSIONS IN GERMANY.
LORD KITCHENER AND
STAFF LOST.
His Excellency the Governor has received the following telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies
Deeply regret to inform or that His Majesty's ship, with Lord Kit chener and stuff on board, was sunk by mine or torpedo last night in beavy
Feared so hope any survivors."
[THROUGH REUTER'S (AGENOT.]
NX.
LORD KITCHENER ON H.M.S. "HAMPSHINE”
NO SURVIVORS FOUND.:
LONDON, June 6th.. The following is the full text of a maniqué from Admiral Sir Jellicu
com
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE EMPIRE'S LOSS. The gathering of representatives of all parts of the Empire at the Imperial Council of Commerce was dramatically terminated owing to the tragedy. Mr. Asquith should have presided at the luncheon, but it was announced by Lord Desborough, who is a relation of Lord Kitchener, that Mr. Asquith was unable to attend owing to the disaster.
Lord Desborough, who was deeply moved, paid an eloquent tribute to Lord Kitchener's great qualities.
The Lord Mayor, the High Commis sioners, and the representatives of the Dominions and India expressed the Em- píro's loss, which would only strengthen the Empire's determination to achieve victory.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE Sгu, 1910.
AN
(THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]
UNDOUBTED
VICTORY
FOR US.
ADMIRAL BEATTY'S LETTER TO HIS MEN:
LONDON, June 8th. Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, in a fetter to his mon, says:
The Germans thought to catch our Fleet unprepared, but they didn't. The great Day which the Germans expected
FRANCO-BELOTAN FRONT. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DESPERATE BATTLE IN YPRES SALIENT.
UNPRECEDENTED EXPENDITURE OF SHELLS.
LONDON, June 6th.. Correspondents at British Hend quarters describe the fighting in the Ypres salient, south of Honge, as most desperate, and say it has already dove
to fructify resulted in an unduubted vicloped into a most sanguinary engage tory for us, although not so great as we niet, though the area has not extended expected
beyond the original front of two miles, The losses of both Canadians and Ger
were very heavy.
The bombardment was of unprecendent-
e
We drow the enemy into the jaws of our Fleet. I have no regrets, except that gallant mon, who died gloriously, have perished. 16 would have warned your ed intensity, and the expenditure of hearts to have seen how gallant Hood Rear Admiral the Hon. Horace Hood, brought his squadron into action. Would to God he had been more successful in the general rešnit: We are ready for the next time. Please God it will come soon. The battle craiser fleet is alive and has
very big kick in her."
THE BRITISH CASUALTIES.
-LONDON, June 6th The casualties on ships not sunk in
GENERAL
[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENOT.]
HEARTENING WAR-WEARY
PUBLIC
INTERNAL DISSENSIONS IN
GERMANY.
LONDON, June 6th.
realised that the object of
Everywhere outside. Germany
it is
Hollweg's bombastic speech
Bethmann
hearten a war weary public. Indeed the
Was
speech revealed hitherto undremmed-of internal dissensions. He himself an nounced that Germany was flooded with pamphlets against Prussianism and Germany's forcing the war on Europe.
The general comment is that the Chap cellor has avoided looking at Erzerum,
Germany's lost Colonies, and ignored that there are still no German merchantmen on the son except in the Baltic.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
SETTLEMENT OF IRISH PROBLEM,
SIR EDWARD CARSON'S SUGGESTION,
LONDON, June 6th, At a meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council Sir Edward Carson anggested that negotiations for a settlement of the Irish problem should proceed on the
Armagh, Fermanagh, and Londonderry, basis that the counties of Antrim, Down.
County Borough of Belfast, and Londonderry he excluded operation of the Home Rule Act.
from the
JUTE STRIKE ENDING.
LONDON, June 8th, The Dundee jute strike has practically
ing an appeal by the Board of Trade, on also Union recommended: resumption, follow-
the understanding that their claims would be considered.
ANTARCTIC BELIEF EXPEDI TION.
shells was almost incredible compared Trebizond, German East Africa, and ended. The Committee of the Workers' with the previous experience. Canadians showed the utmost gallantry, in bombing and hand-to-hand fighting, end regained practically the whole of the last line, only to endure a most terrific artillery- ing Trenches were demolished and beaped with the dead, and it was im possible to hold the positions and live. Summing up, the Germans have won & mile front, of a depth of 350 yards.
GREEK GOVERNMENT AND VENIZELOS.
PROPOSES TO ARREST HIM.
MONTE VIDEO, June 6th.
LONDON, June 8th. A Relief Expedition starts immediate-
the battle are:-Killed, 162; wounded, FURTHER HEAVY FIGHTING, Greek Government proposes to proclaim panions.
138; missing,
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
LONDON, June 6th,
It is reported from the Piraeus that they to fetch Sir Ernest Shackleton's com
martial law and to arrest M. Veni- DEATH OF THE YUAN SHOP. telos and his principal political friends.
THE ALLIED ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.
LONDON, June 6th.
CONDITIONS COMPLICATED-BY- VARYING TREATMENTS.
ENEMY INFANTRY ATTACKS.
LONDON, June 7th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com Vice Admiral Sir Fredki Tower Hamil | muniqué, says-There was heavy fight- John HIS MAJESTY AND THE DISASTER.ed to the command at Rosyth and VicThe enemy at noon opened a heavy bom. ton (Second Sea. Lord) has been appointing in the afternoon to the east of Ypres,
Lord Crows will represent Great Bri-uremia. He bardment round Hooge and Ypres, had tain at the Economic Conference, in the exploded a series of mines between 3 absence of Mr. Bunciman, and 4.30 in the afternoon at various points on a front of 2,000 yards, north: of Hooge These were followed by an successful infantry attacks.
I have to report with deep regret flint H.M.B. Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener and Staff aboard, was sunk last night about 8 o'clock to the west- ward of the Orkney Islands, either by ming or torpedoi
Four-boats were, seen by observers on shore to leave the ship. The wind was North-North-West, and there were kea y sens
Patrol-boats and de stroyers immediately proceeded to the apot, and a party were sent
Boot along the search, but only some bodies. And a capsized boat have up to the pre- sent been found-
M
As the whole shore has been searchi sed from seaward I greatly fear there is little hope of any survivors. No re- Burt has yet been received from the sare party ashore."
LONG MEETING OF WAR COUNCIL
Owing to Lord Kitchener's feared death, Mr. Asquith has cancelled all his engagements. A meeting of the War Council was summoned and sat for over- two hours this afternoon.
LORD KITCHENER ON SPECIAL MISSION TO TSAR
The Tsar had invited Lord Kitchener to Russia, where, at the request of the Imperial Government, Lord Kitchener was to have discussed important military and financial questiona.
THE WAR MINISTER'S STAFF. The War Office announces that the special party on board the Hampshire consisted of Lord Kitchener, Lieut. Conel FitzGerald (Personal Military
Bocretary), Brigadier-Geneca: W. Eller-
"SUPREME AND DEVOTED SERVICE."
Lord
An Army Order says:
"His Majesty
King has learned 'with profound regret of the disaster whereby the Secretary of State for War ans perished, while proceeding on a special mission to the Tsar, Kitchener gave 46 yours of distinguish- ed service to the State, and it is large- ly due to his administrative genius and unwearying energy that the country has been able to create and pines in the held Armies which to-day are uphold- ing the traditional glories of the Em pire.
Lord Kitchener will be mourned by the Army as great soldier, who, under conditions of unexampled dif- ficulty, rendered supreme and devoted service both to the Army and Stato:"
THE ARMY IN MOURNING, His Majesty the King has ordered the officers of the Army to wear mourning for the death of Lord Kitchener for one week, beginning on the 7th inst
A MEMORIAL SERVICE.
The War Offer announces that a Memorial Service will be held in St.. Paul's Cathedrat. "The date has not yet been fixed.
HMS Hampshire, a ring of 10,850 con W on the Chin Station at the outbreak of way. She was built in 100 and carried four -7.5-inch and I sex 6-inch guns.] RAVAL ACTIVITIVES
THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY:]
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE" HIDING THE BATTERED FLEET
LONDON, June 6th
Admiral the Hon. S. A. Gough-Calthorpe has been appointed a Lord Commissioner at the Admiralty. #U881AN FRONT
(THROUGE ELUTER'S AGENOT.)
GREAT BATTLE FRONT.
KNEMY FORCES OPPOSING
The enemy immediately north of Hooge penetrated our front trenches after the explosion of mines. Fighting continues. RUSSIANS.
Onr general line is still intact. PETROGRAD, June di Enemy attacks further north, were un-
2.15 p.m.
successful. The day was comparatifoly quiet on the reminder of the front.
We exploded a defensive mine north of Roclinepirt, considerably damaging the enemy's galleries.
The smith-western battle front exceeds 250 miles. The enemy forces number about 40 Infantry Divisions, including two German Divisions, and dozen Cavalry Divisions, totalling
25,000.
AN IMPORTANT SUCCESS.
Paris, June 6th. It is reported that the Russian General Kaledine has scored a mot important stress in the neighbourhood of Olyką,, furcing three strongly fortified Austrians lines. The Austrian prisoners now num ber 15,000.
AUSTRIA'S ASSUMED
INDIFFERENCE.
COMMENT ON BUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.
Small bodies of British troops last night entered the German treaches at three points, inflicting casualties, bomb- ing the shelters, and capturing prisonera, The inelenient. weather yesterday. hampered operations in the air.
FURTHER GERMAN EFFORTS FAIL.
PARIS, June 6th..
·3.50-p To-day's commaniqué says:--Two Cer- mun attacks last night on our positions
between Jaux and Damloup were com
IMPERIAL COUNCIL OF COMMERCE.
MR. C. H. ROSS REPRESENTS HONGKONG.
LONDON, June 6th. The Indian representatives at the Con- ference of the Imperial Council on Com- morce are as follow
Bir E. Cable, Mr. C. McLeod, and Mr. T. McMorran, Bongal.
PERING. June 6th. President Yuan Shih-kai died of was attended by three French and a number of Chinese doctors. The conditions were complicated by varying treatments The instructions of the Frenchmen were often ignored.
Vice-President Li Yuan Hung has been appointed temporary President.
IN ENEMY EMPLOY.
WHAT THE NEW REGULATIONS
MEAN,
The now regulations, prohibiting sor vice in enemy employ (No. 8 of 1016), which were just recently published, mean
Sir Hugh Fraser and Mr. A. J. Yorke, that watchmen who are British Bubjects Madras
Sir James Walker and Mr. H. Chal- mers, the Punjah
Sir A. Binning and Mr. C. Findlay, Farma.
Sir A. McRobert, Upper India. Mr. R. P. Hardie, Coylon.
and who are in the employ of enemy. firms or individuals, are liable to pro-- Becution under the new regulations and all such will be procended against unless they immediately vacate such employ-
inent;
This will affect a number of Sikh watchmen who are in the private employ of eneniy firms and individuals, not only in Shanghai but in the outports, as the order is applicable to China. A number of the Sikhs in such employ are
Mr. G. M. Gordon represents Aden and of the sort that are not desirable in the
Mr. C., H. Roas Hongkong,
The
Lord Doshorough is presiding. Conference was discussing a resalution arging early arrangements for reciprocal preferential trade relations between the Empire, and the Empire and the Allies
when the news of the disaster to H.M.§.
"Hampshire and the fate of Lord Kit
pletely defeated. There is no change at Fort de Vaus, which the enemy is bom-chener was received, and the gathering barding with continued violence.
BRAVE DEFENCE OF FORT DE VAUX,
PAR 18, June 7th.
3. m
was immediately adjourned,
NEW SECRETARY OF IM
PERIAL CONFERENCE.
LONDON, June 6th. Mr. Boner Law has appointed Mr. H
C Lambert Secretary to the Imperial Conference, in succession to Bir H. Just,
AMSTERDAM, June 8th. “Vienna reports in a tone of assumed indifference that a violent battle has been raging for 24 hours on a Russian front of over 300 kilometres. A communiqué speaks of countless waves of Russian în- fantry attacking, and says that General The evening communiqué says: There Brusiloff, who is apparently command has been no infantry action on the north ing, seems to be following the Russian ern front ar Verdun, but the artillery who is retiring. Tudications of the heaviness of the tactics in the Carpathians, trying to duel continued, andiminished in the Khan, Second-Lieut. R. D. MacPherson, damage suffered by the German Fleet break the Austrian lines by massed at- Vaux--Damlaap region, and also Mr. H. J. O'Beirne, of the
gcontinue. It significant that the
Governor of Wilhelmshaven issued Foreign Office (formerly Minister
warning that temporary visits to Wil Bulgaria), Sir H. F. Donnidson, Mr. L Robertson, of the Ministry of Manitions, a few clerks, detectives, and servants.
Mr. Leslie Robertson was a son of the ex-Governor of Bombay
to
RITAIN'S RECEPTION OF THE
NEWS.
Consternation mildly describes the nation's reception of the news that Lord. Kitchener had been drowned. The public did not even know that he had left London, much less that he was on an important mission to Russia, whose offen sive bas rivetted all eyes.
World wide praise of our greatest soldier”
pouring in, messages acknow ledging with gratefulness that he laid down his life for his country.
is
helmshaven will only be granted in cases
of the utmost urgency for the next few mbaths.
MORE DAMAGED VESSELS. It is reported that a German torpedo boat towed into Zeebrugge on Saturday a destroyer and a submarine, both of which
were badly damaged.
WHY THE ADVENTURE WAS UNDERTAKEN,
tacks.
SUCCESSES DEVELOPED.
PRISONERS AND BOOTY INCREASING.
PETROGRAD, June 7th. The Russians continue to develop their successes from the Pripet to Rumania, and have up to the present captured 460 officers, 25,000 men, 17 guns, and over 50 machine-gung.
TURKS FAIL TO DRIVE BACK RUSSIANS.
There is evidence that the German. Fleet's adventure was undertaken for the
PETROGRAD, June 6th A communique states that the Turks purpose of satisfying public opinion in
continued an offensive in several sectors. Germany, in view of the growing dis in the Baiburt and Erzindjau region, content at the effectiveness of the British and were everywhere repulsed. We de blockade and the inactivity of the Gerlivered a blow at the Turks man Fleet,
Hannekin on Saturday.
near
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Battalion Commander Raynal," who is defending Fort de Vaux with tireless energy, has been
appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honour,
ITALIAN FRONT
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HEAVY ATTACKS IN SNOWSTORMS,
ITALIANS HOLDING FIRM,
Roxy, June 6th.
A communiqué reports that the enemy made heavy infantry attacks amid a rag ing snowstoru on Sunday night in several sections, but all were repulsed.
Platean, wilere great masses of troops The fighting was fiercest un the Asiago
vere hurled into action.
The Italians regained some ground at Monte Cengio,
TERRITORIAL SYSTEM IN
INDIA.
LONDON, June 6th
· Discussing a proposal to adapt the Territoriale system to India The Times saya that it seems well adapted to meet the requirements of a complex situation, and would give Indiana of good social position opportunities they have long sought of military ervice under the Crown and would meet appropriately an insistent claim
INDIAN ARMY PROMOTIONS.
country in any event, and if they persist in remaining in the employ of the enemy they will be prosecuted and, perhaps, sent back to India.
The order not only affects the Sikh watchmen, but all british subjects re mining in enemy employ. It is not by loved that there are now remaining in Britons, but there are believed to be such employment more than a very few in enemy employ, at Shanghai and in born of other nationalities, and the new the outports, not a few British subjects, regulations apply to them. In fact, the purpose of the new regulations seems to be to require all employees of the enemy in China to leave such employment.- NA: Daily Nous
HOW
FRANCE RECEIVED * RUSSIANS,
GENERAL'S DINNER TO THE OFFICERS.
The General Comnauding the 15th District, who had with him a number of French, British, Serbian, and Belgian officers, received the Russian officera who have arrived with the Russian detach ment to fight in France, and gave them luncheonflag
In welcoming them the general said: "Your presence in
in France can only tighten, if possible, the bonds of our allegiance by making it more intimate and more conspicuous Everywhere, both on the fronts in the west and on the frontiers of Rumia, the struggle is heing carried on with the same bitter energy and the same unshakable conviction of Anal
The general concluded by drinking the healths of the Allied Sovereigns, and General Joffre's Order of the Day greet
the Russians was then read LONDON, June 6th,
In the evening, the general gave a The following officers of the Indian Speaking afterwards, he congratulated dinner party in honour of the Russians, Army have been promoted.:--
his Russian brothers-in-arms on having Colonel H. L. Brooking, to be Tempor work on every side, and he paid a glow- accomplished such valiant and diment
sry Major-General.
H. L. Richardson, to be Brigade Com- Colonel EW. Maconchy and Colonel
manders.
Colonel A. G. Peyton to be command- ant of lines of communication.
ing tribute to the defenders of Verdw And the conquerors of Erzerum and Trebizond
The Journal publishes a carton show- ing two soldiers, a French and a Rus- sian, fraternising The Frenchman ye to the Bussian, You say that van can speak French, as you are already able to say We shall get them.**
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