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COLOURED COLONIALS

THEIR SHARE IN THE WAR.

A. PLEA FOR THE CROWN COLONIES.

[5 JOHN HARRIS.)

In every part of the Empire, Britain's coloured Colonials forgot their unre dressed grievances and rallied upon the Country. In certain territories the rising enthusiasm was damped down by a frigid oficial, but in most countries the warm-hearted offers of help were readily accepted. The Central Empires bargamed, with good reason, upon the Patentive memories of native races

TRR HONGKONG DAILY..

FERDINAND OF BULGARIA ON TREACHERY,

INVECTIVE AGAINST RUMANIA,

The German papers publish a telegram from Boka reproducing King Ferdi- nand's proclamation to the Bulgarian nation, which was posted on the walls of the city. The proclamation is as followa

A GREAT DAY ON THE

SUMME

ALLIES SUCCESSER,

[HY *** THE TINES –– SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Sept, 3rd, and chat her adorary avogants from We have had of fighting different parts of the field can be pieced Logother day of gesat success for the Allies. No small part of the glory be while perhaps less dazzling, are also of to have been triumphant. Our gains,

the first importance

yon both high We struck the enemy on both the right and left of this battle front around Guillemont on the one side and by Mou- quet Farm and towards Thiepval on the other. The stick on the left was made

BOUMANIA'S NEW BOUNDARIES.

FROM THE THEISS TO THE BLACK STAK

King Ferdinand of Houmanis issued the following proclamation to the nation in the war on the side of the Entente announcing the decision to Power

Bulgarians! In 1913, after the termi outbreak of war to the help of the Mother nation of the Bulgarian war, when the longs to the French, whose success seems frontiers more and more closely has

Bulgarians were obliged to fight against their disloyal allies, our northern neigh- bour, Ruman a treacherously attacked us under pretence of a breach of the balance of power in the Balkans, and invade 1 the andelended portions of our Fatherland without meeting resistance there.

in the early

By this predatory invasion of our al noong that on the right I is the day, of the union of all the

But solidly these native children closed their ranks, forgot their grievances, and with unexampled loyalty forwarded from their modest savings substantial gifts to country she not only prevented us from help the Mother Country. Where, then, burvesting the holy fruits of war, bat did Germanin stalesmen miscalculate also succeeded, a result of the Feas They overlooked that cardinal feature of of Bukharest, in humiliating us and British rule the altimate triumph of depriving us of our fertile districts of British justice. The native races of the the Dobrudja, the nucleus of our king Empire know well enough that though dom. Obeying my orders, our brave ofttunes delayed almost to the breaking army fred not a single shot against the point of loyal patience, British publie Rumanian soldier and allowed him to opinion, when it is thoroughly informed wil insist on justice being done, and it gain sorry military triumph of which

he has not dared to boast till now is this article of faith amongst nur coloured children that provides an un- breakablo bond of Empire solidarity. If we should ever forfeit that tradition thé

days of the British Empire are numbered Compared with the total gifts of from seven lo ten millions of money provided for charitable objects by the white and Indian racce of the Empire the sum of by the standards of loyalty and ability £180,000 seems but trivial, yet, measured to pay, it falls not one whit behind the most generous of individual gifts. This sum of £150,000 has come in the main from the illiterate communities of the Empire, or at least from those who but a generations ago were unable to read or write a single line. One of the most princely of these gifts was that of £38,000, Bent to Sir Frederick Lugard by the Emirs of Northern Nigeria, a gift that to the Governor was as spontaneous as it

was surprising. The Alske of Abeokuta, whose principal mind was captivated a few years ago by the cotton

of gins Manchester, sont £500 Khame, whose guulianship of the Kalihari Desert so materially assisted General Botha, has given altogether nearly £1,000. There is, however, one noble incident aweighs Sir Frederick Lugard which even that of Khama and the Alako of Abeokuta. It seems that the Governor of Niguria reoetred one day a message from one of the Emirs of Bornit, named Mai Arri, to the effect that for the period of the war this native ruler wished to devote half his income of £180 a year to help the sufferers of the war. Sir Frederick Ingard, we are told, expressed to the uld man the warmest thanks of the Gov ernment; but said that no more than £10. could be accepted, because “a larger Ku would be a disproportionate con- tribution from his resources

But in equal measure this generosity has been shown amongst the very poorest of his Majesty's subjects Even the in poverished islanders of Tanna, in the New Hebrides, now reduced to a few scora of people, collected £70-a people, heit remembered, who but yesterday were living in their Stone Age, and even now use stone axes and adzee in their industry. The negro coral islanders of the Bahumas, and even the defendants of the German colonists from the Palatinate, together sent £4,000, and when forward ing this sum, Mr. Haddon Smith, the Governor, remarked that this gift had in many cases the involved giving up in necessaries of life, although to have re fused their offerings would have caused pain," while there have been other instances of people who had buried gold which they would not have unearthed except in dire need, but in order to be one of the subscribers to the War Fund they have dug up their hidden treasure." "The Waffs" have often been the butt of ridicule, yet the troops composing the

SERBIA DESTROYED,

Balgarians Today, when Bulgaria, with the assistance of the brave troops of our Allies, has succeeded in repulsing Serbia's attack on our territory, in de feating Serbia and in destroying her, and in realizing the unity of the is mistress of almost all the territory Bulgarian people, to-day, when Bulgaria over which she has historical and ethod logical cisims, to day this selframe neighbour Rumania has declared war on our ally Austria-Hungary, this time also under the pretence that the European War involves important territorial changes in the Balkons which would menace her future.

victory

Forward.

ROUMANIANG, The war which for the last two years has been encircling our

to their depths It has brought us the shaken the ancient foundations of Europe day which has been awaited for centuries by the national conscience by the founders of the Roumanian Stute, by those who united the Principalities in the War of Independence, by those responsible for the national renaissance. ing on branches of our nation. Of two actions fought at such widely

To-day we are able to complete the task separated points, and both at places with of our forefathers, and to establish for which communication is extremely diff- every that which Michael the Great was cult, it is non practicable vet to send any only able to establish for a moment, this acts as they stand, however, slopes of the Carpathians. For as the more than a partial account. The namely, a Roumanian union on both furnish yet one more splendid proof of mountains and plains of Bukovina, where the ghting quality of our men, who in Stephen the Great has slept for centuries! this case included units of several EngIn our moral energy and our Flour lie sh line regiments, with a small number the means of giving him back his birth- of Scottish troops at one point and some right of a great and free Roumania from Australians, who were by Mouquet Farm. the Theiss to the Black Sea, and to They must not be identified more closely, prosper in peace in accordance with our but all have borne themselves very well customs and our hopes and dronts. indeed,U MAN KAN

Fience TUGGLE, AT MOUQUET FARMY

Roumanians Animated by the holy duty imposed upon us and determined to

Forward, with the help of God.

On the left, at and about Mouquet bear manfully all the sacrifices Insepar Farn, where the Australians were and able from an arduous war, we will march where the enemy's positions were held by inte battle with the irresistible elan of a the Reserve Regiment of the Ist Prussian people firmly confident in its destiny

thing remains but a waste of pounded Guard, the fighting was of the fiercest The glorious fruits of character Of Manquet Farm itself, no our reward. v hory shall bo rubbish and a few shattered fragments of trees The enemy, however, had covered the whole area in and around the farm with trenches, isolated poste, and deep dug-outs, antil it was practically all one fortress.ked here in the early morning,

We attacked

before it was yet light, and in the dark ness the terrine spectacle of one of the whirlwind bombardments with which we precede our attacks was a thing quite beyond description. The enemy has learned such lessons from the out- deness of some of our recent attacks that he is now always on the sleat, and in this case it was barely a few minutes after our storm started that his artillery began to put a very heavy barrage all along our front line and on, the support lines behind f

CHASING THE ENEMY. Without any declaration of war from Bulgaria, Rumadian troops had already on August 28th, bombarded Rustchuk and other Bulgarian Danube towns. Owing to this provocation of Humanis, I com mand our bravo army to chase the enemy from the frontiers of my kingdom, to the unity of the Bulgarian people, which was achieved at the cost of so many In spite of this our men went on. The sacrifices, and to free our brothers in the entry had got machine guns out in shell Dobrudja from slavery holes and every french and corner of the We will fight hand in hand with the ruined farm was held in strength. But brave and victorious troops of our the Australians behaved magnificently mighty Allies, AA TThe only frst-hand accounts of what took I summon the Bulgarian nation to new place 80 far obtainable are from the glorious, deeds of heroism to crown the wounded--our own and German-who present work of liberation. May the have come down, but everything that Bulgarian soldier go on from victory to they say goes to indicate that the struggle, which went on in the dark and in the half light of dawn, was of the most stub börn and bloody description, 3, esowa * A large batch of prisoners came from one of two especially large and cavernous dug outs. Some of our men had pene trated into the dug-out and were making themselves at home when suddenly at an other entrance appeared a much larger number of Germans, who called on them to surrender, Surrender be d-dwas the reply, Surrender yourselves! And sarago bombing encounter began in the bowels of the earth, It was still going The Bolnische Zeitung regales its on when more of our men came up, and readers with an entertaining article on the Germans flung up their hands.

The English Manner of Expression." FORMIDABLE PORITION. In the opinion of the Rhenish journal this is a subject which has been far too long neglected, and those namerons Germans who have lived among us for 20 and 30 years are grossly culpable in that they have not warned their countrymen of our peculiarities. Much astonishment, much disappointment might have been prevent ed had the German nation been told in time. They would have learned that wo were just as much perfide Albion" now as we were in the days of Napoleon.

"THE REFINEMENT OF CUNNING **

GERMAN VIEW OF BRITISH

FRIENDLINESS.

F THE KING TO HIS ARMY, King Ferdinand addressed to the Army the following Order of the Day

SOLDIERS I have summoned you to carry your standards beyond the frontier, impatiently, with hearts filled with hopes. where our brothers aro waiting for you The memory of the great Toivodes Michael the Brave and Stephen the Great, whose remains lie in the earth which you are going to set free call you to victory, as men worthy of the victors of Razboeni, Capugarcent, and Tachna.

I have summoned you to fight side by side with the men of the Great Nations to which we are allied. A desperate struggle awaits you. We shall bear these hardships manfully, and with God's help victory ourselves worthy

Show of the glory

|

of your ancestors, In the centuries to come the whole race will bless you an sing your praises.

The names of Michael the Brave (1503- 1801) and of Stephen the Great (1457-1504), wirch King Ferdinand recails, are asso- ciated with the most glorious memories in Rumanina history,AZUMOASA

The genius of the former, whose election as Voivode in 1593 was in part procured from the Diyen through the influence of Edward Barton, the English Ambassador in Comebantinople, ginds Walachia for a time n place in untrorsal history, ' A series of trillione military successes confirmed him in the Principality and added to him those of Moldavia and Transytraning W

Not only did Michael sncceected in rolling back the tido of Turkish conquest, but for the first and last time in modern history. he united what once had been Trajan's Dacis, in its widest extent, and with it the whole Rameno race north of the Danuho, under a single sceptree

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Meanwhile the frontal attacks on the enemy's main front line both above and below the valley made by the curve of the Ancre served to distract attention from the forward thrust at this point, The German position here on the Ancre is, perhana, as strong as anywhere on the whole Western front, the two opposing fronts of the valley, rising on the right to the Thiepval plateau and on the left to the high ground in a crease of winch Beaumont Hamel, ties, making it natur ally very formidable. The Germans have right. The front of our attack reached in cooperation with the French on our Kings West African Frontier Force have

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The attacking en engagement. Without any hesitation spoken," aud he laughs or makes a depre- Sergeant Jelu assumed command and strong store when a stranger expresses with fine courage held out for several & view.

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From here, again, the accounts are 68 1 swept through Guillemont at the first

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in north of the valley) swept throng both the first and second lines. The hours, controlling his men without any does not want to unveil himself. This tions of great strength at the southern Ginchy down to the farm, where stern He troops on the right were held up by posis raging all the way from the ruins of European help: whatever. Away in Northern Rhodesia amall British force trick, and solitical and business rela- after killing a great number of the enemy, place. At this point more troops of the veiling is a great English act. It is a angle of the valley. Those on the left, boring encounters have been taking was suddenly attacked A German patrol, and a British officer mortally on plays a very dangerous role. Its finding their right unprotected, and being Prussian Guard are situated. Higher wounded. A sergeant from Ngoniland object is to induce confidence, to get the attacked by overwhelming forces, pre-up, Guillemont and the neighbourning rushed to the spot where the officer lay stranger off his guard. The Britisher sumably from the underground warrens ground was held by troops of the 73rd, dying in the grass, and with splendid appears a simple, ingenuous person, but on the Beaumont Hamel side, withdrew ath, and 164th Regiments of Infantry- devotion mounted guard and defended it is not so. Ho is the refinement of from the trenches they had taken. They We know this because we have taken good hun until he died, and then got his body cunning, v

did this with relatively slight loss. I lumps of prisoners from each of these The war has taught Germany a lot brave this afternoon spoken with officers regiments, away. Another officer who star the in- cident truly remarked: I have heard those unscrupulous and selfish of the troops engaged, and, while they PAMPERED PRUSSIAN GUARDS. of men with dusky skins being pure white for the Germans to alter their attitude which they won, they are fully satisfied have taken are inclined to talk, and some Britishers, and after it is over it will be would rather have kept the trenches

The prisoners of the Guard whom we inside, and I have certainly had proof of that on more than one occasion on to the perfidious islanders. We will no that they inflicted on the enemy much of them talk interestingly One man this border "One of the finest instances locker be the victims of their wiles "The heavier losses than they suffered

deglares that recently the Kaiser issued. of negro courage occurred on the Dibombe Kölnische says it will be absolutely A curions incident which throws some a notification to the troops that there River in the Cameroons in an engagement necessary to be on one's guard, and to light on the German method of using his would not be another winter of fighting. with German troops. Two British officers mistrust every expression of English dug-outs occurred in the night, before the The action of Roumania, they claim, came under Piolent fire and were both friendliness

the past

our attack. A patrol of one officer and three does not discourage them, because they wounded, one of them mortally. Private diplomatists, journalists and traders were men the officer having only just arrived had expected it

along t Dagarti, seeing that one of the offerts, guilty of fateful mistakes in attaching a from England went out in the dark and Whatever the people of Germany may though seriously, was not dangerously wrong meaning to the English manner of crawled up to the enemy's line. The suffer, or however poorly other troops wounded, cleverly persuaded him to lie expression. The agile Englishman uses little party arrived at the trench and may be fed, the Guard seems to be not still where he had fallen, and then con- his smooth sud colourless language to found nobody there at that particular only adequately rationed but pampered. cealed himself in the vicinity. At the deceive the nations in every direction point, so they dropped into the trench A private declared that his breakfast this first opportune moment he rescued the His thoughts are never theirs, and the and, the young officer going ahead, pro morning included two egga

and quarter wounded officer and carried him back to secret depths of his soul are unfathom ceeded to investigate. They cams to a of a pound of butter. But no amount of safety. These are hat three incidents of able. He has a proverb about it. You dug out and went in the officer still lends good treatment could make them speak moble loyalty and courage shown by the never get to the bottom of an English- ing, and found three Germans inside with anything but horror of this Somme asloured Colonials of his Majesty's forces, man

who immediately jumped for their we fighting These Guardsmen had come pons; but the officer shot them sil in suchers from the Russian front, and they cassion with his revolver. All these dug sponk, regretfully of the comparatively large sumu for war victims and to show British flag, will result in modifying passages, and somewhere in the back they never experienced anything like the outs have hack doors and connecting easy time that they had there, where great pourage on tropical battlefields; considerably the future burden of taxa- ground the adventurous four D'Artag Brillery are to which they have been sub- they are now proposing to take up a tion, but it also raises political issues nan and his three musketeers beard a jected here. The situation at Verdun share of the permanent debt charges of exceptional importance, the chief being tumult of voices and the pattering of feet, they consider a deadlock, as if u in- Ceylon has offered to take $1,000,000, that of franchise Will it be politically. They scrambled out as quickly as they possible for Germany, to continue an Jamaica £2,000,000 Nigeria £8.000.000 Bermuda 251.750. These shares of B draw permanently from Crown Calonial behind them, got safely back to our troops which have taken place to this sound for the Imperial Government to could, and, while rifle shots rang out ofensive there after the withdrawals of ain's war debt are to be spread over revenues a share of the war debt without trenchesus mac front eriods varying from ten years in the granting in the near future some form Taces operations on the left took place, ane of Ceylon to 40 years in that of

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