THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, – NOVEMBER 29TH, 1916.
THE CRISIS IN GREECE:
ROYALISTS THREATEN A MASSACRE — ADMIRAL
FOURNET AND THE KING.
AIR RAID ON NORTHERN COUNTIES:
WANDERED. AIR SHIPS.
ROUMANIANS' STOUT RESISTANCE
GUNS SAVED AT CRIAOVA.
Franco-Belgian Front,
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BRITISH FRONT.
ENEMY. INFANTRY DISPERSED.
LONDON, November 28th.
General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- unique says:Our artillery dispersed ency infantry to the west of Puisieux
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BRITISH ARTILLERY ACTIVE
LONDON, November 27th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, ways—Our artillery is netivo at La Bassee.
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FRENCH FRONT.
NOTHING IMPORTANT,
Pants, November 28th.
An official communiqué says:There are no eventɑ of importance to report.
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CANNONADE ON THE SOMME.
Piuis, November 17th.
THE EVACUATION OF
CRIAOVA. ROUMANIANS SAVE THEIR GUNE.
Losnos, November 27th. According to the Timex correspondent at Amsterdam, a German correspondent, telegraphing from General von Falken hayn's Headquarters, admits that the Roumanians succeeded in rescuing all their artillery from Crinova, including
heavy gone.
THE GERMAN ADVANCE.
BAD ROADS MAY CAUSE DELAY..
LONDON, November 27th.
Naval Activities.
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SUBMARINE PIRACY.
ITALIAN LINER'S ESCAPE.
Marseillai, November 29th.
A steamer arrived here reports that she picked up by wireless the Italian liner Ducă. Degli Abbruzzi, which had been attacked by a submarine in the middle of the night and had escaped in the darkness,
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SMUGGLING “FOOD FOR
BELGIUM,"
RAID BY BELGIAN CUSTOMS.
AMSTERDAM, November 27th. In consequence of frequent smuggling of food for Belgium, destined to Ger many, Belgian Custome offcors and civi- liang searched trains on the frontier, and confiscated cartloads of pigs and bacon.
The Germans on the other side of the entanglements stoned the Belgians.
German sentrics intervened, and one smuggler was killed and many Belgians wounded.
THE MESOPOTAMIA COMMISSION,
LONDON, November 27th.
SEQUEL TO A CYCLE ACCIDENT. HONGKONG JUNKMASTER FINED.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, Mr. Haseland heard evidence in a charge against the master of a Conservancy junk of having caused an obstruction in the roadway on the Praya East, opposite Lun Fat Street, in the early morning of the and inst., whereby Mr. John Carr, shift engineer, Hongkong Electric Company was thrown from his bicycle and sustain- ed bodily injury and damage to his
machine...
AN INTERESTING NAVÁL INCIDENT,
GERMAN PRIZE CREW CAPTURED.
The complainant stated that, on the date mentioned, he was riding along the LONDON, November 27th.
Mr. C. C. McLeod has been invited to Praya East, when he ran full tilt into The Admiralty quotes the following appear before the Mesopotamia Commis-plank which was projecting & feet from incident as being of interest and as slog.. showing what occurs when the Germans depart from the ordinary praction of sinking all ships encountered:A sub- marins placed a prize crew, on the 18th inst., aboard the Norwegian steamship Older, bound from Newport to Gibraltar, and proceeded with the usual piracy on other ships. The Older subsequently de- parted for Germany, but was recuptured by a British warship, and, despite at tempts to blow her up, she was brought into a British port. The prize crew were made prisoners. General.
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LONDON, November 27th. The Times understands that the Em peror Charles will shortly be crowned at Budapest as King of Hungary and of the New Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, which will be under the control of the Magyars, thus obviously aiming at forcibly conscription of the southern slave, as in the case of Poland.
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A TALK WITH THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.
(BY HAMILTON FITL)
“The Queen vill sou you between ten and eleven," wrote the Lady-in-Waiting,
at the Palace Hospital" Only the day before this the Palsco Hospital had been opened. All the ground floor, where into wards for wounded, into bath rooms, the state rooms are, had been turned bandaging
operating rooms. Under the entrance archway they were carrying in wounded on stretchers when | I arrived.
Here
FOOMS,
party, stitching hard at bed-shirts, dress- In the hall of the palace was a working
ing gowna, and so on. Nurses in white, Mr. Shenton, solicitor, appeared for with their head dress arranged like that which one seca in France, pasood fre the complainant, and Mr. Otto Kongquently through. After a few minutes Sing, solicitor, for the defondant. two of them como quickly towards me. One was the Lady-in-Waiting, whom E knew. The other was the Queen. She held her hand out.
How do
you do?" she said. "Lot us sit do here."
was a long table in the hall, littered with needle work, books for the The soldiers, packets of cigarettes. Queen drew a chair up so it. The Lady. in-Waiting retired. Sit down, please," said the Queen............“. You must excuse our being in rather a muddle. You see we have only just started work." from the other nurses, except that across There was nothing to distinguish her her forehead she wore an ermine bandeau, instead of lines. et Fithout that ever, I should have recognised her at once, for her portrait is to be seen in almost every house. It is customary to say of Queens that they are beautiful. But the beauty piece of King Edward, conocen hout of the Princess Marie of Edinburgh,
long before she was a Queen. Tair-haired, George, was admired and spoken with blue-grey eyes which suggest the image
of deep pools, now tranquil and smiling, now dimmed by passing oloads, now flashing and piercing like the shafts of vivid light; with clearly cut, slightly aquilina profle, tender in repose, she has been from her girlhood marked not only by these charms of fosture but by that subtler, far less common quality, disting And as her mind and soul have tion. developed, so that gift of distinction has At become there and more noticeable, forty she is still beautiful woman, and < more beautiful than ever ” mony say for the spirit that stunes through the flesh has been tried in the fires of pain and of joy, has sounded the depths of life and drawn from the knowledge and sympathy and strength
the edge of the seawall into the road AUSTRIA'S NEW EMPEROR. way. The end of the plank was about 18 inches above the ground. The plank HIS IMPERIAL DESIGNATION.
was used as a gangway to a Conservancy junk lying alongside the sen-wall. The defendant was the junkmaster. Witness fell off his bicycle on to the roadway and sustained injury to his right temple Thure were no precautions taken to red, aut no one standing by. There avoid acident; no lights shown or ropes wore one or two persons sitting about on board the junk. The lighting at the place was very bad, consisting of two gas lamps 30 or 40 feet apart. The bicycle was "' finished." When he got up he threw the plank into the sea and reported the matter to Bergt, Floyd. Witness frst saw the defendant when he camo ashore and handed his licence to the Sergeant.
THE RAMSGATE RAID.
DRIFTER'S NARROW ESCAPE.
A special correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung, on the Roumanian front, reports that any further advanes by the Germans beyond the Alt may be BRITISH POLICY IN GREECE. Ramsgate raid makes most thrilling read
delayed, owing to the condition of the roads.
SERBS REPULSE ATTACK.
HEAVY BULGARIAN LOSSES.
PAR18, November 27th. A__communiqué maye:—The Serbians repulsed a Bulgarian counter-attack on the Cerna front with sanguinary losses.
There is a violent reciprocal Artillery
A cumimukiqué says:-There is the usual cannonade on the Sonne and induel north of Monastir. the Douaumont-Vaux sector. Calm
reigns elsewhere,
The Italians continue to advance in the hilly region of Dihovo, on our left wing
A Frend aeroplane successfully bombed aerodromes at Guicancourt and A. ROUMANIAN RETIREMENT. Matigny, The Balkans.
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THE GREEK CRISIS.
ADMIRAL FOURNET AND THE
KING.
LONDON, November 28th. The Times Atheus correspondent states that Admiral Fournet has had an audi- ence with the King, in which he drew His Majesty's attention to the gravity of the
situation.
The Admiral subsequently visited the Venezolist merchants, to whom he pro- mised protection.
ADDITIONAL BLUE JACKETS
ARRIVE.
VIOLENT ENGAGEMENT,
LONDON, November 27th, A Romanian communiqué says: We retired from the Alt and Topolos a little
to the eastward.
There are violent engagements in the direction of Smardicasa.
ALEXANDRIA TAKEN..
GERMAN CLAIN.
LONDON, November 27th.
A German official message says:-We have taken Alexandria, fifty miles south- west of Bukharest,
ROUMANIAN RESISTANCE
IN WEST WALLACHIA.
LONDON, November 27th. A Russian communiqué says:-Retir Two hundred additional blue-jackets ing Roumanian detachments are utilis
ing the natural features of the country and are resisting the enemy's advance in west Wallachia.
have arrived at Athons,
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ROYALISTS THREATEN A
MASSACHE.
ATHENS, November 27th. A Royalist friend has warned Reuter's correspondent that he had better remove to some unknown address till after Dec- ember 1st. Apparently the correspon- dent figures in the Royalists' list of undesirables. He does not seriously be lieve there will be trouble, but loyalist officers openly talk of a masincre if the Allies have recourse to force.
FRANCO-SERBIAN SUCCESS.
CAPTURE OF IMPORTANT STRATEGICAL POINT.
LONDON, November 27th.
A Berbian
French and cial message says:--Tho
the Serbians carried by Assault Hill 1050, which is a very im- portant strategical point. German elite troops were defending and were instruct-
After crossing the Danube at Zura nitza, the enemy occupied positions on the River Vide, hetween Valeni and Busendewade. Italian Front.
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ITALIANS PROGRESSING.
LONDON, November 27th. An Italian Macedonian communiqué says:-Our troops are breaking down the enemy's stubborn resistance and have captured two heights to the south-west of Nizopole.
VIOLENT
BOMBARDMENT BY ENEMY,
TORRENTIAL RAINS.
November 27th.
An Italian official message says: ed to hold it at all costs. Several the f'rentine there are torrential ra's. counter-attacks were launched by the The enemy in the Carniac heights enerny, irrespective of losses, but all were violently bombarding positious repulsed,
Deganɔ and în Chiaro Valley.
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WE WILL NEVER ABANDON
́VENEZELOR."
LONDON, November 27th. The experience of a drifter in the
ing.
According to correspondents, the drif ter saw a German destroyer loom up in the darkness, not two hundred yards away. The drifter was about to hail it, when a shot whizzed overhead. The little boat was no match for the destroyer, and
In cross-examination, witness said he could not swear the defendant, now in court, was the man who handed the licence to the Sergeant. He did not notice a light on board the junk. The tram cam had stopped running at the time the accident happened.
WHY SHE IS LOVED.
LONDON, November 27th, In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Ellis Griffith and others who alleged that the Government were giving insuffi- cient support to Venazelos and criticised British policy with respect to Greece, her only chance was to torn and makej yes bar Thal of Veeping own side or prophone once from thr
Lord Robert Cecil divelt on the necessity for studying the views of all the Allies in framing their policy, and declared that the Alliance had hitberto been carried on with unprecedented harmony and an amazing abance of friction. He denied that the Government were bolstering up King Constantine for private or personal
reasons, and declared: We will never
abandon Venezclos.”
AMERICA'S PROSPERITY
A REMARKABLE YEAR,
LONDON, November 28th.
You had the whale road to yourself
the road. There are poles along the side of the wa-wall
for hors who did, and was followed by a succession of six shots, all of which were directed too high. light on the mizzen afforded a target at the poles and the edge of the sea-wall 7-- Were you riding on the space between
which the German fire was aimed.
The
I am not a fool.
Mr. Sing-You taɛy be; I don't know. Mr. Hazeland-No remarks; swer the question. That's impertinent, let's
bavo no more of it.
It is her understanding of life, her disregard of the mere trappings and suits. of her great position, ber quick intellig ence and warm humanity that have won her to section of the RoumaniaRY
mame time, as she made me feel com "manner to me, a stranger (though at the
patriot), why she was loved. To begin with, she is entirely free from any stiff ness or self-consciousness, defects from which royalty too often suffers. She hee the happy kick of putting everyone ani- mediately at ease. She shows the read woman in herself, and draws out the reality from others.
We talked first shout the hospital. I wanted to give them the whole place."
-1 asked whether the
of Women ***** Bucharest had come forward readily to
Eplendidly,
One of the crow of this drifter exhibited splendid heroism. He seized a piece of sacking, with the intention of covering
she said, “but there would have been diffi- the lamp. He was on his way to carry
culties about carrying stretchers up the Sergt. Floyd deposed that the com- staircase, and then," out this intention when another shot
she added with a
in the ship's boat, tore a hole in the He went to the place and saw the fokis private rooms.” carried away the mizzen entirely, stove plainant reported the accident to him.little laugh, " suppose we must live somewhere. So we have kept our own cookhouse roof and finally exploded over the sea. When the light disappeared, who replaced the plank. He and come the cacny evidently believed they has plainant went to the polioo-station, and sunk the vessel,
after a conversation about compensation sent for the junkmastor, who came, and
be
was formally charged. The defendant had a conversation with the Inspector about the accident. He did not deny that the plank was there. In connection, with compensation complainant asked organisation, when you consider what a #100 and defendant offered $25,
and returned to port showing little sign The drifter was not molested further
her adventure.
As a proof that this has been a remark able year of prosperity for America itof is instanced that the income tax for the year amounts to £13,500,000 sterling com- pared with £8,000,000 last year,
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GERMAN AIR RAID,
BOMBS DROPPED ́ ́IN NORTHERN COUNTIES.
LONDON, November 28th.
The Press Bureau announces that hos-
tile airships crossed the north-eastern coast last night.
· Bombs are reported to have been drop- ped in several places in the - northern counties, but there are no reports of any casualties or damage.
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WANDERED AIRSHIPS.
LONDON, November 28th, The air raid occurred at midnight. Some of the air-ships apparently lost their bearings and wandered aimlessly.
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THE PENSIONS BILL.
LONDON, November 27th.
In the House Commons, following a general criticism of the Pensions Bill the Governmont accepted amendments tend ing to unify the administration. A new Bill will be introduced,
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SUBMARINE PIRACY. BRITISH AUTHORITIES DEALING WITH IT.
LONDON, November 27th. In the House of Commons, in reply to a-question, Mr Asquith assured the House that the renewed submarine war-
There was no evidence offered for the fare was engaging the unremitting atten- defence, Mr. Sing contending that he tion of the authorities, and all possible steps were being taken to deal with the had no case to meet. Nothing had been matter.
proved against his client
COLOGNE'S 3D. MEALS.
80,000 FED DAILY BY MUNICIPALITY.
Mr. Shenton-What I have proved is that he was master of the junk at the Lime of the accident and the following day admitted liability by offering com- pensation.
Mr. Carl W. Ackerman, Berlin cor- respondent of the United Press of Ame- rica, on his return from a visit to The Magistrate said he must be satis problem of the high coet of living in of the junk at the time of the socident. Cologne, saya: Cologne is solving thefied that the defendant was in charge manner never before attempted. The municipality is feeding 80,000 persons daily and providing better and cheaper food than would be possible for indivi- in answer to Mr. Sing, said he was dual working men's families.
master of the junk. He was on board "I watched the preparation of one of on the night of the socident and had 10 the regular municipal meals and ate it..
The defendant was then called, and,
It cost only 3d. and was better than would fokis under him. He did not know who have been prepared by a family in Berput the plank out He did not give lin for five times that amount. I believe that this Socialistic movement is the most orders to put it out, but he saw it put important development în Germany's out. present food situation. Cologne is pre-
whaur,
to
street
Cross-examined by Mr. Shenton,de
help in Red Cross work, the Queen answerel
how hard the work is,
"They don't mind
Here in the palace she went on, “I have no difficulties about getting any- body or anything I want. You can understand that. But it isn't so in all hospitals.
And our needs will increase:
fully good medical service and Red Cross. as time slipa by. We hate got a wonder
little country this is only eight million people But we do want to bo guar- anteed against any shortage in the trained nurses, and we want all kinds future. We want surgeons, we want of hospital stores. Do you think The Daily Mail we help us to got them 101 course, I know the needs of England lier- self are very heavy. Still, there mbe some chance of finding helpers for us, too. And then America. They are so generous there, so ready to do all they can to relieve suffering. I am sure they would ceino to the assistance of our brave wounded if they were told how great the need is !!
PEROTICAL WAR VIEW). The process of becoming thoroughly Boumanian" cannot have been altoge ther pleasant for the young Princesa
What sustained her all through the Chiefly her years of stom and stress? abundant vitality. Let her answer for herself. We were speaking of the feld hospitals at the front. "I want so much to go and see them," she said I think they would like it. But I know that for the present at all events visitors are feel that perhaps I might be able to not wanted. Later on, I hope, for 1
stimulate them, as I did the workers in the chelena camp a few years ago. You paring to continue the system after the fendant admitted that since the accident £200 Inn always in good spirits, and that Major Walral, at the bead of the the plank had been an arranged that it it to the result of having such good helps me to chear people up. I dare say department, expressed the opinion that projected only 2 foot beyond the sea wall health. I wasn't in the least afraid of even if the war should last two years. It was not the case that they now labod cholera. I rover an afraid of anything more and the food situation should the shore end of the plank to the vote in that way. I suppoes I must be à become worse everywhere, the people of phone standards, and he was not sware fatalist, ”? */ Cologne would be satisfactorily nourish that the police had found it so deranged ed. It is stated that the municipality two days after the accident, 260 wary and Roumania's has two years' supplies of sugar and Mr. Sing, in addressing the Magis dried meats and vegetables upon which trans, said the defendant was in the ployment of the Conservancy contrac WAR PRISONERS IN
Schmidt, has a plan place and load or unload.
n for the municipality or who was suthorised to go to this tion, as they must every woman with to make money by selling by-products, a SWITZERLAND.
movement jokingly called The Cologne. Garbage Can the British Fleer LONDON, November 27th. Before this municipal feeding was in In the House of Commons, Mr. Hope augurated it was discovered by examina announced that he understood that Ger- of bread sad a very large percentage of
tion of the city garbage that 10 per cent
meat and vegetables, had been wasted demand for the prepared meals is now gress that it is estimated that Cologne will be feeding 200,000 persons daily during the winter,"
The Magistrate-But not to pat ap an obstruction.
Mr. Sing---Yes, it is absolutely im possible for him to do his work without doing sON M
Mr. Shenton-It is now being worked with only 4 feet, projecting.
She is practical in her view of the abare influ Bloodshed and the hideous maiming of mod, the teams of women, and the cIY of orphaned babes prove her to detests
woman's heart.
she sees that is no road to posco save the one which the Allied nations are paraning now have been told that since Roumanis came into line the Queen has seemed relieved. of a burden. One can easily understand this King Ferdinand is a Hohenzollern. She was an English Princ Rach of
dlania's good, never shadow of anta manian," and thinking only of Rou
gonimo came between them. But one can. imagine the strain which ench had to
many had accepted the British proposal through careless preparation. The Mr. Shenton, in reply to the . I them has become "thoroughly...- Rou-
to repatriate Anglo German war pri sonors in Switzerland if they were totally anfit for military service,
trate, maid be was taking action for com- pensation.
A fine of $10, with the siternative of one month's imprisonment, mas imposed. endure.
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