THE WAR.
ROUMANIA
AN ALLY. INTERVENTION FINAL VERDICT ON THE WAR.
GERMANY
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES“, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30% 1916,
DECLARES WAR ON ROUMANIA.
WHOLESALE INVASION OF HUNGARY
PROBABLE.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH ARUTER'S AMINOY.}
MORE PROGRESS BY BRITISH.
ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
LOSION, August 8th. General: Sir Douglas llaig in a cam anuniyní states:--Some progress has been
made east of Delville Wool.
The weather has been indifferent, but there has been inch artillery firing against parts of our line, especially at Delville Wood and north of Pozivres, Our artillery has also been active.
THE BALKANS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGESOY.] SERVIANS STILL WINNING. INTENSE. ARTILLERY, DUEL,
PAR18, August 28th.
that Saye
Au official message
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Salonica British monitora bombarded enemy detachments, reported at the mouth of the Struma.
{THROCOM REDTHRʼS ́AGRIGE.]
{THKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ROUMANIA AND AUSTRIA. DECLARATION OF WAR.
(THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCY.] FINAL VERDICT ON THE WAR.
GERMANY
- BERLIN, August 28th.
LONDON, August 25th." Roumania's intervention is regarded ty the papers us
the greatest! bail ** It is officially announced that Ron- mania has declared war against Austria.point for the Allies since the beginning of the war. Apart from its military CONFIRMED IN LONDON.”.
consequences, which will probably mean London, August 28th.
the shortening of the war by many Roumania has declared
war against
months, the moral effect will be tre mendous. Her intervention has fallen Austria.
on Europe with the force of a final ver
tiet on the war. The fact that Germany is beaten was probably long since known to the German higher command, but the opinion of the must astute and must in- terested neutral that Germany's don
GERMAN FEDERAL COUNCIL SUMMONED AMSTERDAM, August 28th. It is officially announced in Berlin that Roumania's declaration of war was made last night.
GERMAN EFFORTS TO PROVOKE DISSENSION FAIL.
BUCHAREST, August 28th.
The Federal Council was immediately is sealed now reveals the fact to the German nation. A striking military afterwards summoned.
fact is that a large force of fresh, enthusiastic, and thoroughly-trained and equipped troops is thrown into the strug gle at a time when, and at a strategical The Austro-German. Legations, sup- ported by some prominent pro-Germans,point where it will be most helpful to the finding pressure on. M. Bratiano, the Premier, futile, tried to provoke dissen- sion betwện hìm and the King, but the latter did not respond to this unconstifu-
*onal procedure.
The concentration of troops was almost completed before the Decree announcing mobilisation was issued.
Allies.
DECLARES ON ROUMANIA..
་
WAR
LONDON, August 28th,
A Berlin official message says that Germany has declared war on Roumania. PASSPORTS TO ROUMANIAN MINISTER
Tan HAGUE, Augast 28th. A message from Berlin states that Germany will haud passports to the Roumanian Minister to-day.
ALLEGATION BY GERMANY.
gestion
In a reciprocal bombardment from Strama to Jamnica, the Serbians made considerable progress near Veternik. On the road from Banicu towards Ostrovo
alarm
LONDON, August 20th,"
they repulsed three Bulgarian attacks, succeeding violent artillery preparation. Au intense artillery duel continues. The Bulgarians have occupied several locali ties, which the Greeks had abandoned, The Serbians have west of Kavalla. made important advances in the region of Kakurtz and are repeatedly defeating
General Bir Douglas Haig, continuing says:The enemy's his communiqué, Artillery shelled our front intermittently daring the day, nord especially between Pozieres and Thiepval Wood,
Our artillery and trench mortars have bega in action at other parts of the front especially opposite Caloune and Neuve Chapelle, and at Anchy and Hohen- zollern, also west of Wyschaete.
We have taken 137 prisoners in the past six hours.
FIVE AEROPLANES MISSING. A heavy storm overtook eight aero- planes on the evening of the 20th inst..
of which five have not returned.
BRITISH LONG-RANGE GUNS SUCCESSFUL.
guns
The anthorities are dismissing alien employés, including many Germans, of whom a number were in the technical vices.
LONDON, August 29th.
CANTON.
HOPE OF A SETTLEMENT. ADMIRAL SA TO ACT AS MEDIATOR.
TUESDAY, p.m. President Li Yuan Hung has instructed all the different parties in the province
new Civil Governor Chu are both in that, as the new Tuchun Luk and the Kwangtung, Lang must hand over his post at once; and that. Admiral Sin will act as mediator between the two parties. Li Lich-kwan is also instructed to disarm his men and proceed to Peking,, and thence to his new post in Mongolia,
It is stated that Luk will coine to Canton and will take over From Eng personally under the wing of Admiral Sa and Civil Governor Chu. If things are settled in this way it means peace A German official announcement states: Germany, prefacing her declaration of in the province, and the only difficulty
budies of troops war against Roumania, states that the loft is the disposition of the different It is also stated fo-day that Governor latter declared war against her Ally
Chu has come to an arrangement with after disgracefully breaking treaties she
the money that (Roumania) had concluded with Germany Lung with regard to
Lung demands before he will hand and Austria-Hungary.
over office. Chu is to give Lung the fall amount that he claims, on condition that LUNG'S TROOPS.
he obeys the mandate of the Central The Austrian report of the fighting
PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT Government and betakes himself with
FROM KWANGTUNG.
5,000 of his troops to Ko Chow. Ho is shows that the Hungarian Transylvania, is Roumania's immediate objective. The
The inhabitants of Kwangtung have to be paid in instalments. Luk is to
2 petition to the Pre-
assume charge from the beginning of Sep. Roumanians are here confronted with the submitted
sident of the Republic, expressing
Lang Chi-kwong's sug-tember. This might prove the solution to the Central Govern-
of the whole problem if it were not for Carpathians, a barrier a hundred miles
road. Its conquest may not be rapid, ment that he shall reorganisi but the operations will immediately im-"Chi" troops into two army divisions the presence of Lung's soldiers and of stationed at strategical points and doing the rebel army around Shin Hing. AL the prove the strategic situation, us
mining work at the same time. This
troops (the petitioners say) have present people are hoping for the best Russian Left is now linked up with the Chi
been three years in Kwangtung, where and expect great things from Governor
by the natives Roumanian Right, while the Teutonic their violence has been felt
and where property has been looted and Chu and Admiral Sa. There is no news women violated. The attention of the from Shiu Hing, and Shum, Li and Luk Right Flank is now completely in the
are still there with a big army which has air. It hitherto rested at the Roumanian Central Government has already been drawn by many petitions from that pro- frontier, year the south-west corner of vince calling attention to their lawless not been paid for a period of nearly the Bukovina, and must now be prolongness and crimes. Being aware of his own three months.
and his troups' unpopularity among thes A Vienna telegram states that theed four hundred miles along the Car antives of Kwangtung, Lang Chi-kwong.
The other two ships of Admiral Sa's who is tyrannical in nature, would, no doubt, adopt a policy of revenge if he Roumanian Note declares that she conpathians to the Daibe. siders herself in a state of war with
At Verciorova it has been reported were allowed to retain his troops there. Squadron arrived at Whampoa last Moreover, the revolutionary leaders, like night. These are the Luan Cheung and that large Russian force is concen, MG Chin-yu, Li Yao-han, Lang Shih-hsu, the Hai Sau. This means that there Austria from nine p.m. on the 27th inst.
trating un the Danube close to theete, have sworn to suppress the robber
troops
at any cost, and as long as one will be an end of the river fighting and
A "Iron Chi" goldier remain in Kwangtung, that the delta will be in Roumaniau frontier, and the
there will be fighting and trouble. It is Gates" mny again be the son of n
therefore, certain that there is no roam left for Laing and his men in Kwang- struggle as in the time of the Romans,
It must also be pointed out tung.
A new Minister of Foreign Affairs has Chi troops are THE SURRENDER OF GREEK Roumanian Minister delivered the de- the Foreign Minister.
It remains to be seen which Front the that most of the claration to
Central Empires will denude or whether illiterate men, who are only instrumental been appointed for Kwangtung and is on Simultaneously he presented a document
for creating disturbances at the directions LONDON, August 5 25th.
**the German General Staff will decide to of their chief. There is no discipline and bis way to Canton. His name is Linng order among them. They have practised Lan-hsien, and he is said to be‘a very General Dousmanis, Chief of the Gen-containing a list of grievances his b
nel acts of violence against shorten their Fronts by:n retreat.
all kinds of corruption they issue good man, with considerable experience. persecution of and
Apart from the prospect of a whole licenses to graibling houses and opium lens, affording them illegal protection. states that the agreement, formerly attach sale invasion of Roumania by the Dual Monarchy, He'
of ungars, the ing Roumania to the Triple Alliance ceased to exist from the day on which Germany and Austria-Hungary broke the Alliance by forcing the withdrawal of Italy from it.
the enemy.
ENEMY GUNS SILENCED.
SALONIKA, August 28th. A communiqué says: Our artillery silenced the enemy's guns at Doiran.
The Bulgarians shelled Mekes, on the Struma front. :
FORTS.
A communiqué states:Our long-range
uccessfully fired; ou the troopcral Staff of the Greek Army, and Colonel traffic at different places between Mitaxas, Assistant Chief of the General Staff, mentioned yesterday as having Bapaume and Miraumont.
been given leave and relieved of duty, were responsible for the render of the Kavalla forts, including Rupel, to the Bulgarians.
GERMAN ATTACKS. EASILY REPULSED.
PARI, August 28th. A communiqué says:-German attacks at Fleury wewo easily repulsed.
There has been calm elsewhere. GERMANS FRUITLESS ATTACK.
PARIS, August üth. A communique states: There has been artillery activity on the Somme front. The Germans on the right of the Last of Meuse fruitlessly attackedl
bombarded aod they Fleury, trenches at Vaux-Chapitre,
The day was quiet elsewhere.
GERMANS SURRENDER AFTER SHOOTING THEIR OFFICER.
ONT
LONDON, August 20th.
Head- Reuter's Correspondent ut quarters in France reports that a party of Germans surrendered to the Warwicks nt the Liepzig Redoubt after shooting. their officer for trying to prevent their surrender.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]. SUBMARINE HUNTING. ELABORATE BRITISH SYSTEM. LONDON, August 29th. Mr. Alfred Noyes, the well-known writer, describing the British system of sulanarine hunting, says the fleet of traw lers, etc., now numbers 3,000, with a personnel of 100,000, mostly fishermen. Within twenty-five minutes of the pre sence of a submarine being reported, most of the home waters can be enclosed like a steel trap from which there is no
49cape.
Mr. Noyes says that he saw a net trap one hundred miles long, able to change shape and shift position at a signal He mentions that on one occasion two sub- marides were caught receiving oil from a neutral tack-boat.
sur-
The Paris newspapers regard their dis- missal hopefully, and say they are the frst victims in the commencement of the national awakening of Gregbe.
GENERAL.
{INBOUGH ABUTER'S AGENCY.)
ILLNESS OF KING CONSTANTINF.
ATHENS, August 20th. His Majesty King Constantine is suf- fering from an inflammation wound.
A small operation was performed yesterday.
His Majesty, consequently, was unable to receive a deputation of Liberals.
INTERNED FISHING BOATS,
ANGLO-DUTCH AGREEMENT
CONCLUDED.
LONDOS, August. 29th.
DATE OF STATE OF WAR.
AMSTERDAM, August 28th.
ROUMANTA'S REASONS.
GENEVA, August 28th. A Vienna telegram states that the
The declaration proceeds to formulate the reasons dictating Roumania's entry into the war-
are now
able to march on Bulgaria through Roumania, employing important railways and utilising their base at Odesen. In this connection the interest ing statement comes from Petrograd, that Russia has armed and trained very cou siderable forces of former Austro-Hun Firstly: The anxiety of the Roumaniansgarian subjects for use in the Balkans, in Austria-Hungary, who are exposed to officered partly by her own and partly the risks of war and invasion, whi
by Bervian officers. These have taken Secondly: Roumania believes that by the oath of allegiance to the Tsar, intervention she will shorten the dura ROUMANIANS BAPTISM OF FIRE.
LONDON, August 28th. tion of the world war
The Roumanian troops have already been in action.
Thirdly: That Roumania takes her place alongside the Powers who are able most effectively to assist her to realize her national ideals.
The telegram adds:--The declaration, though not unexpected, came as a shock and has created most painful excitement in Vienna
NEWS WELCOMED IN PARIS AND ROME.
At Austrian ammuniqué states.
the Red There has been an action at Tower Pass, south-west and south of Brasso,
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presently.
ADMIRAL SA'S SQUADION.
normal state
MINISTED OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
SHER LUNO.
Conditions around Shek Lung. have still further improved, though to the of bringing reforms into the Army it would be necessary to disband Lung's
Trains troops without hesitation, and if any in-east fighting is still going on, vestigation has been instituted at all by are running through to Kowloon to-day. the Government, it will never listen to the demands made by this illiterate and Wai Chow and district are still the head- quarters of Wong Wo Shun, the other tyrannical General:
famous robber chief, and around here also is Chan Kwing Ming, so that the East River is, still in a very unsettled state, Lung has been moving troops in this direction for the last four days, but General Tuan Chi-jui has been ap pointed Premier. He was nominated by progress is necessarily slow, and troops the President and the vote in the House have to be moved up the river in junks. of Representatives was practically unPeople are still running away from this district and trade on the river is at a animous,
standstill..
CHINESE NEWS. APPOINTMENT OF PREMIER.
PROPOSED TECHNICAL COLLEGES.
SHEK WAS TONG. Lung has moved the three 3-inch Ku Chung-hsiu, Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce, has submitted to the Kropp guns, which were on the jetty at Cabinet a proposal for the establishment of four colleges, namely, one Agricultural | Wong Sha, over to the other side of the Mining College in the Three Eastern
railway station at Shek Wai Tong. and Forestry College in Peking, one river, and they are now placed near the Provinces, an. Industrial College ut Shanghai, and one Fishery and Indus Everything has been quiet in this die trict now for a week, but from the nam trial College in Hupeh.
ber of troops that Lung has quartered in this section he means to hold the rail- way for a good many miles if there in
CHINESE LABOURERS FOR EASTERN EUROPE.
the The comncunique adds: On south-eastern and eastern Hungarian frontier ramparts our new Roumanian enery exchanged in a trencherous sur
We are in a position to state (says the prise first shots with our frontier posta,"
Peking Daily News) that the enlistment a continuation of hostilities. His men LONDON, August 29th.
of Chinese labourers for Eastern Europe at present are stretched from the News of Roumania's declaration of war GAME AS A THUNDERBOLT.
COPENHAGEN, August: 29th....
has bee sanctioned by the Chinese Gov terminus right up the line to the first has evoked the most jubilant comments
A telegram from Berlin states that ernment, The men are, therefore, re-
CONDITIONS IN THE CITY. An Anglo-Dutch Agreement has been in Paris and Rome, where it is described
trees, cultivating lands and other peace-
More, shops are open in the City and concluded providing for the release of as an historic stroke of justice, marking Roumanie's declaration of war camecruited under proper contracts. These station, Five-Eye Bridge.
scribable consternation" and indignation, ful works miles behind the fighting front
there are more people than ever in the
Things the Dutch fishing boats interned in the beginning of a phase of great tribulike a thunderbolt. There was indelabourers will be employed in felling
from Bre still far The total number of labourers to be re-streets. Scotland--some sincs, the month of June lation for the enemy.
One of its most important consequences as the Teuto Roumanian Commercial without anything to do with the war. -un condition that Germany does not re-
will be the final enclosure of Germany Agreements, were signed only a few days eruited for Russia this time is 50,000 men normal, however, and in some places, as,. ceive more than 20 per cent. of the sea-
in a most formidable blockade, supple-previously. This had lulled everyone into son's catch of herrings.
mented by concentric advances from all the belief that the storm had blown over, and great quantities of ammunition JAPANESE PEERS'
DELEGA-military fronts, TION.
which the Germans had delivered in Roumania to be exchanged for grain now be hurled back on our heads."
GREECE CHANGING.
LONDON, August 29th. Signs are multiplying of a profound change of opinion in Greece in favour of the Allies.
A VISIT TO PETROGRAD.
PETROGRAD, August 28th. The delegation from the Japanese. House of Peers has visited the Premier and other Ministers at the President's Council of the Empire and the Duma. The Japanese Military Mission has gone to the Imperial Headquarters.
PRICE OF WHEAT. EFFECT OF RUMANIA'S ENTRY INTO THE WAR.
LONDON, August 29th. The price of wheat fell 4/- a quarter at Liverpool on receipt of news of Rumania's declaration of war, closed slightly above the lowest price...
and
It is pointed out in Rome that the war is being returned with the greatest in tensity to the Balkans, where it originat-will ed and where, perhaps, it will find a solution.
The wisdom of the Allies in holding. Salonica is now recognised as a struke of genius, and it is not doubted that Greece also will be bound to come in..
REJOICINGS IN ROME.
BOLD SPEECH BY M VENEZELOS.
ATHENS, August 20th. ROMs, August 20th. M.Venezelos, in a speech, boldly con- There are rejoicings in honour of Boudemned the Constantine policy. He de
clared the King to be a victim of mania.
from Manchuria, Chihli and Shantung toe. On account of the existing unsettled Suburbs, where most of the shops are under the control of the Yi Cheng Kung-for instance, in a street in the Western condition of affairs in China, which has
rendered many people destitute and silver shops, you find six or seven shops men have already been enlisted by the traffic is almost normal and nearly ali homeless, about thirty thousand young in a row closed up. On the new Bund contractors for Russia via the Trans- Siberian Line:
the big stores have opened up again. There are a great number of police about, and here and there, especially at the junction of streets, you find a patroi of soldiers. On the river also there are many more craft moving about and gun- boats have not been in evidence at all during the last 24 hours. Goods continue to be taken from the godowns in Shameen into the City, which is perhaps the best 2.16 ex dix sign of all that a settlement is imminent.
SINGAPORE RUBBER SHARES. Messrs.. "Vernon & Smyth Edvise us that they received the following quota- tions by wire from their Singapore Agents yesterday: Alor Gajahs Glenealys Kedahs Kempas
Malaka Pindas Malakofs New Serendahs weakenSandverofts
A huge procession made a demonstra informed military authorities, also of his tion before the Roumanian Legation, and own admiration for Germany, throngs the Minister and Staff, appearing on the whose victory he hoped to
the constitution and concentrate the balcony, received an ovation.
power of the monarchy......
There have been similar demonstrations in all the towns in Italy.
Thousands cheered the speech.
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