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RS AND BULGARIANS

BERBS

FACE TO FACE

DESPERATE FIGHTS IN THE MOUNTAINS.

[BY A SECTION OFFICER.]

to one another.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14rm

NAVAL NEEDS. MR BALFOUR'S APPEAL TO

LABOUR

THE DAWN OF DOUBT. GERMAN POPULAR OPINION

UNCLAIMEDE TELEGRAMS.

The following is a Ent of i tring is the Grant Northern Company's office as Hongkong *** Changing, 191, Chuwanial-

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ABOUT THE WAIL Herr Friedrich Naumana publishes in his weekly paper, Die Hülfe, an extra ordinary article on the weakening of Ger man popular opinion about the war end To Queens Road the need to counteract the present ten- Kamzisglun, Wing On Street Shanghal the admissions which it contains, illustrating German ideas of war pro- Tong Hong

but still more interesting for Denison......

Ehimencackl Алгор Herr Naumann writes thus: When the war began, everyohdy was lying in the hastern Extension, Austmainan aut the following is a list of unclaimed telegram convinced that now we must night; for Ohins Telegraph Company one at Hoog. to pieces 1 At that time everybody under- how could we let other peoples tear us kong p stood that this was a case of necessity. just as if we were threatened by a flood or a fire. But today there are people Hotel.... enough who no longer rightly know why Lord

Larson, Peter, Grand we are still fighting. There really are these people

ADDEMI

Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, who has recently been visiting the Clyde, addressed #weting of 300 Trade Union delegates at Glasgow re- When we received the order to advance presenting the Clyde industries deney. The article is interesting: 65 Kankleglun, 20, W ing On St. Shazırhai towards the old Berbo-Greek frontier the The Rt. Hon. gentleman said he had goldiers wife out for home," they said which the Olyde was making to the were delighted. feel as if soen how great was the contribution success of the war and the cause of the The magnificent valley

the Allied Powers, yo Moglenitza, a green plain surorunded by wooded hills on the west and east, and four; it is magnificent; and I am here It is splendid, continued Mr. Hal- high rocky mountains to the north, re- minded us of our native land. We occu- to tell you that, splendid and magnis pied this valley, while the Bulgarians ont though it be, we at the Admiralty held the comfannding positions in the call for more. We started the war more Moglena Mountains on the north. These powerful than any of our enemies in word what we had, to take, and thus dead, more powerful than all our enemies ensure the possession of our valley,

combined. Since the war broke out that Hardly had the Serbians taken possesFleet has not only increased absolutely sion of this line, and before they had time in number. in power, and in efficiency, to rest, than they had to defend these new but, to the best of my belief, as com- positions against the attacks of the Bul-pared with the capital ships of our garians Intely reinforced and sent to opponents, it has increased relatively regain the loss ground. It was specially also. (Cheers.) It we were strong in in forcing back the enemy in a stubborn capital ships at the beginning of the and bloody fight that the Serbian soldier war, we are yet stronger, and in regard has shown his old warlike qualities.

to cruisers and destroyers there is Seeing this time that he had his old absolutely no comparison between our energies the Serbs before him, the exstrength at that time and our strength 4perated Bulgarian, withdrawing pace now,

(Cheers.) So far as my know by pace in a hand-to-hand confict, cried

savage,

cartridge.

BULGARIAN SURPRISE ATTACK,

I was visited lately by a soldier who, late in the war, wast taken up in the Landsturm, and who now, as a grown the man, has passed through his time of training in barracks. I know him well, and I know that by very reason of his calling he understands the way of think- 108 of the simple people. He said to le quite simply and intelligibly way me: It must be explained to the peo- they are still fighting, because they do nut know. I answered that two years

irregularly, have little knowledge of goo- but as they read the newspapers only cal thought, they, even at the beginning, graphy, and have no training in histori grasped the general impression rather than the detailed events. Meanwhile, all that has for them returned to a state of flux and become obscure, and now they are mentally helpless in face of the sacri fices of the long war. Hence it becomes possible for the agitation of the Lieb Army

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out,"Are you still living, Serbian edge goes there is no part of our nav are surely enough to make it clear to the Oaseley: Anthem, 'Ünné long.nger TachickA beast!" or, impudently, like a Tartar strength in which we have not got at thickest head. He, however, replied: koay; hyma 929, A.B-Fmlm 75, versen We don't want you, we prefer this moment a greater supply, and in Two years ago all these people knew, 5, 6, 11 and 12 in unison; Paize: 76, vorne 1. your gipsy mothers and sisters at home!"sotne departmenta an One reply only was made that of a greater supply, than we had on the 4th incomparably of August 1914. (Cheers.)

I look forward to the future in this The first day of the battle was on Mount respect, Mr. Balfour continued, without Kovil.

"The morning was clear and fear. The one reason of my confidence is sunny. Before dawn a Serbian company that you, co-operating with the Ad- that had spent the night at an outpost miralty, are quite resolved to see that situated on a hill of the same mountains the unique shipbuilding industries in At the same this country, whether they are directed withdrew in reserve. moment the company that had remained to ships of war or ships of peace, will in the trench to defend the hill was be able to defy the enemy, who will corknecht type to find its way into the very covered with fire from the Bulgarien tainly not be restrained by moral con artillery; shrapnel was falling like bail, siderations, and who are prepared- to the rifles were cracking, chipping pieces tear up the law of nations and trample men and women who, by constant contact,

THE REAL DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE." I then made further inquiries among off the rocky stones on all sides, few seconds the two hills where our (Cheers.) But for all their frightfulness of small people, and this is what I heard. In a the dictates of humanity under foot know something of the way of thinking trenches were situated were absolutely they will find themselves throttled and Two years are a long time for the memory on fire with the bursting of shrapnel and controlled partly by the efforts of our especially when people's sufferings and explosive shells,

The Serbian artillery had not yet arrived. The company start gallant seamen, partly by the efforts you experiences have been so manifold dur ed to withdraw slightly and looked for are making in the construction of shipsing this time. At the beginning people Home shelter whilst continuing to fuht of war, and also, to a material extent. had no real idea what war is, but theya. 15th October:-- Holy Communion 8. 8,m. | the Bulgariani..

by the efforts you are prepared to make wore ready to conduct war. Meanwhile, In vain the officers called upon their in filling up the natural wastage which in death in the field and privations at home Sunday School. Moraing Pinya and Bermon, men not to expose themselves too much evitably occurs to vast fleets like those have become greater than any power of 14 am Peaches, Rev. W. T. Fatherstone. The Serbians ran in among the Bul this country possesses. A war like the imagination had previously conceived. gariane, strangling them, They threw present requires many things for its Hence the impression easily arises that bombs, and when these failed, they threw successful conduct. Men are necessary, one has been pushed into something THE BURGLAR'S CHANOF! big stones, and at times the battle became shells and guns are necessary, but the which one did not really desire. The a hand-to-hand conflict. Heroically they fundamental necessity underlying all necessity of what is happening is ques- defended each step of ground, as they these, and without which the most ample tioned, and the longing that the abnor heard of the shooting of their comrades supply of all the other necessaries would mal state of things may cease. dims the sent to their help on the other side of the be absolutely empty and useless, in the eyes to the inevitable character of events mountain. Forward the second com necessity to maintain that practical com

this is then added the old and eternal shouted the 'pany.

Arrivals. new Don't be afraid, men of the third, ing ships and the British mercantile it is said Thoso, people at the top mand of the seas which the British fight mistrust of the small for the great, and Hold on till we arrive!" climbed up, out of breath, by the narrow marine, acting in collaboration and so faced the war, and that is why we have banglag in my house less

and abrupt pathway,

beads.

And they

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Service, 15th October, Alurring Sertion at UNION CHUBOR, Kennedy Bead, Sunday, 11 and Evening bary cast. Trnober, Rev. J. K. Macmache,

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secuting barglar, told the magistrate Not so long ago a gentleman, in pro- that he was the most unfortunato person in the world in the way he had had his I have bean unlucky enough to have s house broken inte. This is the third time within 18 months," he stated, "

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the beginning of the war takes shops in sated the police the reason why burglars And then what a marvellous picture of The magistrate looked sympathetic, but the brain! From the simple fact that flocked to the house like moths to N.B. the ultimatum to Serbia was dispatched candle, by Austria, and that the formal declare that it was not the least bit surprising. A detective quickly explained tons of war were dispatched by us to Russia and France, it is concluded that always warning him against leaving his "The fact is he declared, we are we produced the war. What everybody windows open and his front door knew at the beginning of August 1914 that the declarations of war were only

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operations and for so many glorious comrades who were fighting above their nations of our history, have been able to maintain. That is the funder And up above the baitle is sanguinary, mental thing, (Cheers.) It would be The fighting is done at a few yards disutterly vain for our Allies to show the tance Bombs are used almost entirely hercie bravery they have shown on the Private Branimir Vessowitch threw one plains of Galicia, in Italy, and by the on the chest of a Bulgarian with a long French along the whole of the frontier black beard who advanced at the head of all that sacrifice of life would be in vain a small detachment. The bomb exploded if there was not in the background that and killed four Bulgarians the resea power and that power of using sea consequence of the thrents and mobili mainder Bed. attacked by Eve of the enemy; he killed the mercantile marine and upon which

Dragomir Viditch was power that keep up connexion between zations pouring in upon us-passes out three; the two others fed, but he himself the whole fabric of the Allied cause remained wounded..

nitimately depends, This second company saved the third, which was almost completely encircled.ably do as much to secure the final You, gentlemen, every man, can prob- The two Bulgarian flanks were beaten triumph of the world's liberties and back towards their centre. Then the British freedom from menaces as any Berbian fire was directed almost exclu-other class of the community. It is a sively towards the centre) the Bulgarians privilege. You will forgive me adding, were falling in numbers, the geld was it is also a great responsibility. I an covered with stiffened unes," as the quite confident that the leaders of dead are called by the Serbian soldiers,

FICTION.

You see what seemed sheor bad luck was wholly the fault of the gentleman They persist in neglecting the warnings complained. Can't the same thing be Nature gives them. said of many sufferers from Indigestion! the most ordinary safeguards, they allow Then they whine about their hard fuck.

By inattention to this complaint to get them into its grip.

of sight, and only the formal course of events remains. To this is then added the unscrupulous campaign of agitation and if we had been the disturbers of the peace. of calumny by Germans of Germans, as

depended on our Government whether it One has seen fly-sheets which talk as if should will peace to-morrow or not. The in the morning tired, and are dull and

it

Of course you can't help but feel sorry

by the war is put upon the Government, are coated Food neither temple the for the victims of Indigestion. They rise

Assuredly this hateful perversion is really appetite, nor has rolish when it is osten. burden of the trouble and wont caused heavy throughout the day. Their tongues believed only by few. But some of it Most meals are succeeded by the distress The Bulgarians did not dare move outjopinion to whom I speak at this moment sticks-as though the German Government of stomach or bowel paina, Frequently of their trench. Our snipers were well will not prove themselves unworthy of were at bottom just as guilty as the Eng on the look-out, and picked out anyone that responsibility and will rise to the lish Government or the Russian Govern discomfort of fistulence, acidity, or who showed above the parapet.

sicknces followa. The height of the great occasion presented to ment and a dull feeling gets abroad

There may be the covered, the officers at the head. Captain I have seen and have heard on the Clyde to many sufferings by the mistakes and Serbians remained standing, chests un-them. I am firmly convinced of it. All that all the peoples have been condemned heartburn, Terzitch, officer of the reserve (a school-has convinced me that that is so, and it sins of those who rule them. master in private life), according to his is in that faith and that firm belief that own men, would never kneel down (the I commend to your favourable conside- trench was not very deep), and spoke can-ration the vital neocssity from every stantly to his soldiers. Aim well, don't national point of view, but most of all hesitate; the Bulgarians won't dare to from the point of view of the High Seas stand up. "Several of our soldiers had Fleet, the present necessity of not wast some out of the trench for a moment and ing labour, not recklessly squandering spproached the Bulgarians, throwing time, but of using your best efforts to bombs and shouting Srbi Smo" (Ser- further the aum which I know all of bians are here 1).

Next day the fighting commenced on the

yon have at heart. left wing The Bulgarians made the first it in all its aspects, if you see how your If you bear that in mind, and look at attempts to recapture the lost ground on daily work touches the Allied success in inevitable battles of defence. They have this side of the front. Before dawn, pro- every part of the world, you will feel tected by the darkness, the Bulgarians that you have an opportunity not given had approached our line and at dawn, the made their attack on the Hill to all our countrymen of which I am Katunetz with their usual

shouts, are you will take the fullest advantage. If Harrah! The silent Serbians allow you do, you may rest positively assured ed them to get almost up to their that you have done the greatest service Arenches. And when they were near at both to Britain and to Britain's Allies, band the Serbian fire began.

The Bul which it is in the power of men to garinas, taken aback by surprise and the confer. (Loud cheers.) big losses they had sustained in a few seconds, withdrew.

stomach, liver and bowels are allowed to Those are a few of the symptoms when

THE DEFENSIVE WAR

get, and continpe, out of order. Be sure Owing to the fact that we have been some keep a tight hand on this burglar of your And there is something still further makes the trouble more serious Why not of this, every day they are neglected only what vigorous in hailing and celebrating health by taking Mother Seigel's Syrup f our victories, many people who are weak Nearly half a century's success is made in arithraetic have lost all sense of the fact its merits as a digestive remedy a house- that there are still great Russian, Eag-hold word. lish, French and Italian forces in exist the very greatest efforts have still to be viso, on September 3rd, 1814, is a won- ence. When, therefore, after two years Bear's Road, East London, Cape Pro This letter from Mr. G. Pelzer, 16, De

rightly believe that the present battles are chance. He has proved the efficacy of of our bargain.. People can no longer with to enforce made, it is as though we had been cheated des fully fine illustration of the lemon we

Mother Seigel's Syrup, and now adwara rather the gloomy suspicion that a policy keeps it handy.

He leaves nothing to

at conquest, over and above what is neces- sary, is being pursued. And here a posi- my digestive system generally has been During the past 15 years," he writes, tively disastrous effect is produced by in a healthy and active condition certain documents in which great leagues promoted and private persons express the lust of Seigel's Syrup. Previous to this, I was craquest. Only general ideas of their for some years a great and almost con- by periodical use of Mother contents reach the great mass of the peo staat suffer from indigestion and its plo; but, to the best of my belief, their attendant ille, the bouts sometimes lasting existence is well known in every barracks, for weeks together. The pain and misery literature is the disappearance of simple loss of appetite, failure to digest what inn. The consequences of this conquest described, but the worst symptoms were in every workshop, and in every villege I experienced can better be imagined than faith in the defensive war,

nauseous winds, bu and stomach, and the accumulation of little food I did eat, pains in the chest

failure, I had become so treatments, but sa each one proved

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induced to give Mother Seigel's Syrup & cessful in affording me relief I needed no trial, and the first bottle proved zo suc inducement to continue. Four bottles not strength and curry to such an extent only erected a cure, but had renewed my that I felt quilo rejuvenated.”

It has, indeed, been somewhat difficult

pat of their trenches and started to follow Berb The enemy came to within 15 The Serbians came shouting "Hurrah Surrender, Brother them up and took the greater part of the yards of our trench. Fire!" came the Bulgarians prisoners. It was the 14th word of comhand, and nothing could be Company of the 4th battalion of the 29th heard but volley after volley, the explo all along to make plain to the average Bulgarian regiment, commanded not by sion of the bombs, and the crackle of the citizen, with little education in history an officer, but by a sergeant.

During their fight the Bulgarians who us, and we could see the raass of Bul- of defence. He takes the existing land machine-guns. The sun went up behind and geography what is the real nature were escaping threw everything away garians advancing unflinchingly to gain frontiers as though they were an eternel trow them in order to get away more the ground covered by the corpses of those law, and even though his wish is to be aickly The Serbian soldiers were par already fallen. icularly anxious to know what kind of

Before the word could very Radical, he pins himself to the most read the Bulgariau soldiers were eating, the parapet, and then a melee took place dental frontiers. He utterly fails to be given the whole company jumped upon Conservative maintenance of these acci- And they found that the Bread had a horrible taste. Kaiser's Not a shot more was fired, our machine grasp that, on this side or that side of Bulgarian haversacks they found the now the shouts and swearing of the fighters thing that one can describe as natural In the guns wore silent, and one could only hear these historical frontiers, there is some round bombs, like an apple, similar to It is a bayonet charge, man to man, some frontier or military frontier. Conse he English ones and closed with a screw times only strangling one another. The quently one must give special erplana ike the Serbian ones,

Bulgarians run, The Bulgarians kept quiet all day and garians were surrounded by our soldiers war of conquest only if alien territory, At one place on the front about 20 Bulaggerations. A war can be described as tions merely because of the harmful ex- he fillowing night, but the day after they and they were ready to surrender and territory which is not necessary for nade a supreme effort to recapture the Surrender, we are Serbians shouted frontier defence, is demanded. ost positions. Towards 3 o'clock in the our soldiers. When they learnt this they morning they started to cover with artil van and tried to escape; till then they dry not only Katunetz. but all behind thought we were French.

far he the village of Strupino. The Serbian quietly awaited the attack. There torn to shreds and their boote in The uniforms of the Bulgarian soldiers Bulgarians advanced, and they could be holes. They go barefooted like cattle,

aly observed in the morning mist say our soldiers. Exchange Telegraph (Continued as foot of neat Column.) Company.

HAND TO HAND,

Herr Nauzan then advises that the people should be taught that the present

leo that it is absolutely necessary, be in a great blessing for the Germans, and German occupation of enemy country

cause the enemy occupies German colonies, Asiatic Turkey, Eastern Galicis, (Continued at foot of next Column)

They

should also be told that the war has to and also a bit of the Vosges. go on because the enemy still desires to to all educated people to help in this work of "education," and anya:— attack and crush Germany. He appeals

of

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main absolutely firm! They are still firm, but more attention must be paid to them than has been the cass hitherio.

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