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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 15μ¤, 1917.

GERMAN MAIL BOAT OUTRAGE:

700 SACKS OF MAIL THROWN INTO SEA

PROCLAMATION BY THE KAISER:

"HOLY WRATH."

RUSSIAN TROOPS' BRAVERY AT RIGA:

" AWE-INSPIRING SILENCE OF THE BAYONET.”

Franco-Belgian Front,

The Balkans.

LATEST CABLES.

{THROUGH PEUTER'S AGENCY.]

ENEMY ATTACK AT SERRE.

GET INTO A POST AND ARE DRIVEN OUT.

LONDON, January 14th.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.] FIGHTING IN ROUMANIA, A ROUMANIAN SUCCESS.

LONDON, January 13th,

A Russian oficial report, received by

THE NEW WAR LOAN,

APPLICATIONS POURING IN FROM ALL CLASSES,

HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA HONGKONG AND THE WAR.

WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.

COMMITTER.

The Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, The Hon.

LONDON, January 14th, Applications for the now War Loan are pouring in from all classes. There have. C. E. Anton, Messrs. C. Montague

heen many big applications from bank,, insurance companies and municipolīties, It is stated that the first £100,000,000

was reached at an early hour.

THE GERMAN NOTE.

A CAUSTIC REJOINDER.

LONDON, January 13th. Reuter Buthoritatively issues a state-

ment which may be regarded as express ing the views of the Allies on the German Note.

HONORARY AUDITORS.

VIEWS OF THE REV. J. K. MACONACHIE

Testeday morning, at tho Union Church, the Rov. J. K. Maconachio made a reference, in the course of his sermon, to the war and the attitude of Hongkong towards it.

Ede, G. T. Edking and N. J. Stabb. "HONORARY SECRETARIES AND TREASURERS.

The Union Insurance Society of Can- He said A year ago I had a letter ton, Ltd.

from a very saber-thoughted and well- informed friend in England, in' which Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews. he said he thought by another New Year the world would have "returned. to Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor-sanity." That was a common expecta poration.

tion, but here is another figure on the calendar and still the struggle goes on,

DANKERS.

RULES.

1. The name of the Association shall

to the Hongkong and South China War Savings Association,

-The object of the Association is to It again emphasises that it was Ger obtain subscriptions from residents in many who refused conference in the Hongkong and South China for the pur- critical days of July, 1014.

pose of investing them in securities bear With reference to Germany's allusioning interest at not less than 5 per cent, to Ireland and South Africa, it says that and issued or guaranteed by the Govern- whatever the past differences in connee

ment of the United Kingdom or of any British Colony or of the Federated Malay tion with these countries. Germany knows States for financing the war. Every sub- to her cost that they are now united with scriber to the funds of the Association

Association. The Association will also

and the only certain thing is that on our side we could not nhandon it at the

present stage without infidelity to the past and treachery to the future.

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

CUT OFF AN EAR.

A remand was granted in a case in which a Chinese is charged with doing grievous bodily harm to another Chinese, It is alleged that defendant attacked the other man, who is in hospital, with a knife, and, in addition to other injuries, severed his right ear.

USELESS BOOTY.

An apprentice Chinese shoemaker was sentenced by Mr. Wood to fourteen days' hard labour for the theft of a pair of shoes from a showcase outside a shop in Queen's Road, West. The shoes ware pro- duced in Court. They could have been of little or no value to defendant, as they were of different pattern, and one was black and the other brown,

OF A HORTICULTURAL BENT.

A basket containing a very fine collec

HONGKONG CRITICISE DEPRECATED. The enemy bag been putting out feelers after peace, but, much as some of us would do to put a stop to the strife and slaughter, we cannot bat acquiesce in the tion of wild ferns was a conspicuous ob unhesitating decision of the Allied Gov.ject for a short time in Mr. Wood's Court ernments to reject these peremptorily. In Saturday. It represented the fruit of the enterprise and industry of a always feel that we here in Hongkong ought not to make free with big and Chinese who was ignorant of, or had over-

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in wireless, Bays:-An enemy attack in dense the rest of the Empire in repelling Ger- shall thereby become a member of the brave words on this subject, because it looked, the fact that it is an offence in

a communiqué, says :--The enemy broke into one of our posts north-west of Serro and was immediately driven cut,

formation at Kilneem was beaten back;

An enemy aerial squadron bombed the station and town of Radzivilor:

Oar acroplanes machine-gunned, at a west of Vimy and successfully carried height of 5,560ft, a battery near Krakhov,

We drove off a raiding party to the

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minor enterprise westward of

out

Wytschetc.

twenty verets east of Zalotchev.

The enemy pressed back detachments. from a height northwards of the Sloniki

GERMAN VERSION. BRITISH ATTACKS SANGUINARILY | River.

REPULSED.

LONDON, January 13th,

A German official report, received by wireless, says: Wo sanguinarily repulsed the majority of the British attacks

· against Sørre. The enemy occupied 'an' advanced post,

A QUIET DAY.

PARIS, January 14th. A communiqué says:--The day has been quiet on the whole front.

There has been intermittent cannonad in Belgium, south of the Somine, in Ler- raine and the Vosges.

Naval Activities,

LATEST CABLES.

{{THROUGH. REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

THE LATEST HUN OUTRAGE.

700 SACKS OF MAIL THROWN INTO THE SEA.

STOCKHOLM, January 14th.

The Swedish steamer Ingeborg from England, on arrival at Gothenburg, re- ported that she was stopped in the North- Sea by a German submarine, which order- od that 700 sacks of mail destined for Allied countries be thrown into the sca, otherwise threatening to take the Inge bory to Germany.

A GERMAN NAVAL LIE.

EXPOSED BY BRITISH ADMIRALTY.

LONDON, January 13th. A German wireless report states that a British cruiser of the Juno type has boen.destroyed by a direct hit,

The British Admiralty states that no British cruiser has been sunk, and that the report presumably refers to the loss of the sea-plane carrier Len-my-Chree at Kasteloritzo.

Russian Front.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

RUSSIAN RIGA FRONT.

GENERAL PRAISES HIS TROOPS.

and

The Roumanians attacked westward of

the Monestirka-Kachinul line, threw back

the enemy, and succeeded in occupying their trenches and capturing threo machine-guna.

GERMAN REPORT.

TURKS STORM MISALEA.

A German official.report, received by wireless, says: We further progressed northward of the Slanic Valley, taking prisoners.

Strong enemy attacks in the Mitoz Valley were fruitless. The enemy lost heavily,

The Turks stormed Misales, northward of Braila, taking prisoner 400 of the

garrison. The remainder were drowned in the Bereth.

General.

LATEST CABLES.

(THEÓVGH · REUTER'S AORNOY.]

PROCLAMATION BY THE

KAISER.

A CHARACTERISTIC OUTBURST.

AMSTERDAM, January 13th.

The Kaiser in a Proclamation to the German people says: Our enomics have dropped their mask after refusing, with acorn and hypocritical professions of love of humanity, our honest peace

offer.

States and have admitted their lust of which is conquest, the baseness of enhanced by their calumnies. They aim at crushing Germany and at the enslave-

many's aggression,

Replying to the German ussertion that our starvation policy is inhumune, the statement asks if Germany was of the same opinion in 1870 when she starred

Paria.

that

Regarding the attempted defence of her overrunning of Belgium, the statement reminds Germany that. Dr. Bethmann-final. The Committee shall have power comparatively speaking, scarcely know

Hollweg in the Reichstag' stated that the invasion was justified by military peces sity.

OBITUARY.

COL LORD BINNING.

LONDON, January 14th. The death is announced of Col. Lord Binning, C.B., M.V.O.

A BULKY WATCHMAN,

A ship's watchman appeared to the (guard to lock rather bulky when he ap- being challenged and asked to submit to peared on board. It is stated that on

a search the watchman became "nasty," and, in the course of a slight scuffle that ensted, a packet fell from his person to the deck. The packet was found to con- cist of 10 tins containing opium, to the value of $80. A remand was granted on tor, on behalf of Mr. Grist. the application of Mr. Gardiner, solici-

AN OPIUM DIVAN.

be prepared to receive applications for is not on us personally that it falls to the eyes of the law to appropriate wild British Government War-Saving Certi- make them good. I do not in the least ferna or plants from the hill-sides. Be ficates and to purebose such Certificates insinuate 10 aro a Colony of was fined, with the alternative of for applicants.

3.The funds of the Association shall skulkers or shirkers or anything of that severn days' imprisonment, and the ferns be administered by Trustees, hereinafter kind. As far as one can judge, there wore confiscated, called the Committee." The Committee can be but very few men here whose shall consist of not less than three nor

But more than six members, whose decision duty really lies in the trenches. on all matters connected with these Rules the fact remains-and who can help being and the interpretation thereof shall be keenly conscious of it-that we here,

to all any vacancy in its number from the general body of members, and to there is a war at all. Some of us are make such by-laws as may be necessary past the age, or are otherwise ineligible for the convenient transaction of the affairs of the Association,

for military service, and I feel, for one, 4.The monthly subscription of mem- that it is hardly for us to say much bers shall be $5 or any multiple of about what "we"-meaning our country and may be increased or decreased above in the persons of its youth and strength or below auch multiple (so long as the amount subscribed is $8 or a multiple-are prepared to do in the way of de- thereof), at their converence. But, no termination and sacrifice. I hope and person chall cease to be a member, nor in believe that if the lot had fallen upon

A Chinese was charged with keeping an any way lose his rights in respect of the amount or amounts subscribed by him,

us we should have soepted it withoutópium divan at 21, Square Street, and [The deceased (George Baillie-Hamil by reason of the fact that in any month grudging; that if the war had broken

nine others were charged with frequent ton) was the eldest son of the eleventh or months he shall not have subscribed,

ing the place. Earl of Haddington, was Lord Lieuten- B.Subscriptions may be paid at any

out ten years earlier, and our duty had ant of the County of Berwick, Deputy time to the Honorary Treasurers; and

not lain in special service in this out Governor of the Bank of Scotland, and during the first week of each month the post of the Empire, wo should not have Deputy Lieutenant of the County of aggregate subscribed during the preced-held back from the risking of life, health, Haddington. He joined the Horse ing month shall be converted into Guards in 1880, served in the Egyptian sterling, and shall be invested by the fortune-all that is now being ventured campaign in 1882, was present at Kaasus Honorary Treasurers in accordance with by others at the call of need and honour sin and Telel-Kebir and the cantare of the object of the Association as set forth It was not ordered so, and here, there Cairo (medal and clasp); took part in in Balo the Nilo expedition, and Hazora cam-

fore, for the time, is our place of duty, -6.--The interent earned on the invest That is as it is; but for all that I feed Guards 1500-100 anded the Royal Horsements of the Association shall be invested that for the rest of my life I must take

retired in

in the same manner as provided by Rules second place--and a long second--after 5, and shall be credited to the accounts of every man who has put his own life in individual members as subscriptions by peril, borne the actual brunt of the battle them to the funds of the Association. But by land or ses (or at least offered to bear any member may, at the time of sending it), endured the dire hardships, faced his first subscription, give notice to the the frightful shock and the gruesome Honorary Treasurers that, wherever they horror near at hand of the desperate, receive interest, he desires to be paid fery trial which we only read of as a any share thereof to which he is entitled; contest at a far distance, whose outcome in which case he shall be paid his share we keep assuring ourselves will be in of such interest as soon as practicable

our favour, though not by our efforts after its receipt by the Honorary except in a very small and indirect de Treasurera,

gree If any should be eager to see an end of the struggle it should be we who scarcely share it.

[Telegrams received on Saturday and on Sunday morning and published in an Extra" on Sunday, will be found on page 6.]

BOY ORGANISTS, YOUTHFUL PLAYER WHO NEVER HAD A "REAL" LESSON.

Yarmouth.

•

An informer spoke to visiting the place and finding all the men were smok. ing. There was also the paraphernalia of a smoking: den.

Mr. E. J. Grist, who appeared for the first defendant, said these people were very poor, and although defendant un- old man, and there were very fow jobs doubtedly pleaded guilty, yet he was an for him to do. These people had very little money and could not afford to set themselves up with smoking utensils. It was therefore very convénient if they could drop in somewhere and have smoke. They might as well try to stop an European from dropping into an hotel for a whisky and soda. The two things were no different. They would find it a hardship if their whisky and soda were stopped.

க

Mr. Melbourne inflicted a fine of $25 on the first defendant and fines of $2 cach on the remainder.

the

EUROPEAN CHARGED WITH FALSE PRETENCES. PEACE OUT OF THE QUESTION. · And yet, as I said, we are bound to

Frank Carlyle Castlemain was again approve the decision that the struggle before the Court, in connection with the must go on. Peace is out of the question charge of securing board and lodging. so long as such an enemy poses as the at the Seamen's Institute by false pre- restat co longer dare any nation with accured board and lodgings on conqueror. Not until it were able to tences. It is alloged that the man self-respect or any zegard for the future strength of his statement that he was of the world make terms, which at this still in the employ of the Asiatic stage would suit the brutal, bestial, Petroleum Company. heartless hörde which has outraged every vention of civilisation, counting nothing wrong which may sain it a point, and nothing right which stands in its way Such is the Touten humanity-the original crime of bringing on the war, outdistanced by the delibe

has been maintained.

crime

against

Two other charges were also preferred,

payment of 865 per month, on two dif- ferent dates, the security bearing the name of Mr. W. A. Butterfield, with intent to defraud.

Mr. C. F. Mason, who appeared to

to be fixed, and also asked for bail.

Inspector O'Sullivan naked for bail of $1,000.

ment of Europe and the seas under the difficult thing is the pointing' of the his share in the funds of the Association rately applied barbarism with which it defend, applied for a day for hearing

same yoke that Greece, with gnashing of teeth, is now enduring."

THE DUTY OF NEUTRAL NATIONS.

Boy organists, who have taken the places of their seniors called to the

7-So soon as practicable after the colours, are doing remarkably well, to close of the war but not before the year judge by facts supplied to the Darly 1820 the invested funds will be realised News as the result of the pablication of and shall be divided among the members a paragraph about an organist of 14 nt in the proportion which the amounts at the credit of their accounts respectively Another 14-year-old musician plays the bear to the sum available for distribution. Church, Maida-hill, N.W., and also helps accounts of all subscriptions paid, and large two-mannal organ at Emmanuel S.The Honorary Treasurem shall keep in the training of the choir. His name shall furnish each member, upon his is Benjamin Simmons, and when a Daily applying for the same, with a Pass Book, News representative met him after the in which shall be entered the amount, or They ETO now replying to the United Eton collar and looking particularly bor, and the equivalent thereof in sterling law of God and set at naught every con-of forging a certain security for the

morning service he was wearing a broad several amounts, subscribed by such mera rosy-cheeked and boyish..

into which such amount or amounts has "I started learning the piano when 1or have been converted. But no member was ten," he said, but have never had a proper lesson on the organ. Playing shall be entitled to require auch entries it comes quite naturally to me, though, in each month.

to be made at shorter intervals than once and I enjoy it immensely. The most

9.-Any member who desires to transfer Psalms

shall be entitled to a certificate from the Committee stating the total amount in sterling to the credit of his accounty It is high time the neutral nations Mr. Mason claimed that this was an which certificate shall be signed by two spoke their mind-if they have a mind-|exorbitant · sum. Defendant was BD signed by the General Manager, or other transmitting peace proposals--which, by strictions it was impossible for him to members of the Committee and counter on these matters. What is the use of European and under the present ro representative for the time being in the way, are no, proposals when all Society of Canton, Ltd. Such certificats cence of every sinful tyranny which dis Hongkong, of the Union Insurance mankind is threatened with a roorudes: get away. In the case of Chinese it shall be transferable by endorsement. in graced the worst ages of the world, and less and egress to and from the transferee, but no transfer shall be triumph? We cannot legislate for them, charge, and he could not take any less writing signed by both transferor and peace at this stage would mean its His worship said it was 4 serious

transfer has been registered in its oke recognised by the Association until such but we can and should ask our bail, and Castlemain was remanded.

what we are going to do in this New (N. This certificate will be negotiable far from victory. Our new Prime Minis Year, which finds the great cause still in the same way as a War Bond)

ter, praising our new Armies and ap- 10-In the event of the death of a pealing to our historic past, said the member a similar certificate shall be other day that our enemies had forgot Issued to his legal personal represents ten what we were like in the old days, but will never forget it after this war. 11-A fee of 5 shall be charged for His words were cheered, and we all felt the certificate referred to in Rules and a glow as we read them 10; and such fees shall form part of the

WHAT. HONGKONG DOZA. funds of the Association, to be invested

Well, what can we do here, in this and ultimately divided among the memsafe corner of the Empire? We do a bers as aforesaid,

little work-some more than a little the Honorary Treasurers when acknow-Hongkong, on the whole, is doing very 12. Each member shall be given a dis-We give a little money, possibly post tinctive number which shall be used by pone furlough. But they say that ledging the receipt of subscriptions well for utself because of the war-what through the Press, and which shall be with trade bonuses, percentages, and so

Young Simmons has won scholarships at Trinity College of Music, and looks forward to a musical career.

Yet another boy-organist ia Ronald of the organ during war time at Hare Chamberlain, aged 15, who is in charge

court Church, Canonbury, N.W Walter Kimpton, the choirmaster, on

His executive ability," writes Mr. splendid instrument of three manuals music lovers in North London to visit the is simply astounding, and I recommend

of what a youth can do towards helping church in St. Paul's Road to get as idea on the musical portion of the services."

Still another who has not yet reached his teens is Arthur Hunt, son of Mr. W. H. Hunt, of Chelston, Torquay. He plays at Cockington Parish Church. Mr. Howard Moss, organist and choirmaster, of Gravesend Parish Church, was ap pointed at the early age of eleven..

The Proclamation goes on to declare that "our glorious victories and the iron will with which the Germans have borne hardships and distress in this unscrupul ous economic war guarantee that the beloved Fatherland has nothing to fear. Burning indignation and holy wrath will redouble every German's strength, and

PETROGRAD, January 14th.

God will give full victory over the General Dmitriff, in an Order issued to enemy's rage for destruction." the troops who participated in tho

-PARLIAMENTARY Buccessful offensive on the Riga front,

REORGANISATION. saysShow, frost impassable marches did not check your ardour. MASTER OF BALLIOL'S FORECAST After long hand-to-hand fighting you pierced enemy fortifications which he had boen constructing for 15 months. Despite Historical Association, said he under-held in the Helena May Institute on A series of religious lectures is being the fire of hundreds of machineguns you stood that a proposal would soon be Tuesday afternoons at 5.30.

The Bishop of Victoris will give his silence of the bayonet, thus economising Parliament to an Imperial House of Bible on the 16th inst thousands of shells. I sainte you.

Lords, including nominated Indians, humbly thank you for a fine New Year's and for a new House of Commons includ gift to Russia,

General Dmitrieff then recapitulates ng elected Britons and representatives the booty captured, including 30 guns, of the Dominions, in addition to a special 30,000 uniforms, 15,000 rifles, 20 kitchens, British Parliament or several British and. 10,000 bottles of brandy.

Parliaments.

LONDON, January 13th. The Master of Balliol, addressing the

RELIGIOUS LECTURES AT THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.

tive.

was a different thing, as they had free

Colony,

an

money arranging races and prize fights, gravely deliberate on the magnitude of and betting on them heavily, and women

the stakes permissible at the card games which occupy time which should be given to war work. It seems strange to observer, and not the best of taste-to say the least of it when our boya are People see bleeding in the trenches! things so differently and feel them differently, I do not judge those who from me, but you will allow nie may see things at quite a different angle

opinion and the expression of it, and it is this:that many are taking things just now in a way they will be sorry

doared a passage with the awe-inspiring made public for developing the present second lecture on How we got our inserted in any Pass Book issued to a forth They say, also, that as a whole for in time to come, if they retain mueb

lecture as follows: February 6th, "The shall be compiled as on the 31s: December forte.

The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie will member

13. The accounts of the Association luxuries, let alone impinging on its com suffering and restriction in the Home our Colony has scarcely restricted its science. Another year is on us, and Biblical View of Creation.

it is going to be one of privation and Is that sof You know better land. What is it going to he to us? February 13th, The Biblical Concep-in each year, and shall be certified by the than I Certainly, on the surface of Surely a year of work and sacrifice. tion of God."

Honorary Auditors and published in the things, there are not many signs of Surely it is inspiration we shall draw Press for the information of members.

seriously restricted expenditure though from our dead and not reproach, as we 14-No deduction whatever shall be the surface is not always a true index. think on the graves in France and made from the funds of the Association The Empire is at stake, civilisation in Flanders, and Macedonia, in Africa. in respect of working expenat.

peril, and yet men can spend time and Mesopotamia, the Dardanelios, 15th January, 1917.

Continued of foot of next Oolumn.) under the deep seat

The Rev. H. E. Anderson will lecture B follows:-March 13th, "The present times in the light of prophecy."

March 20th, God's Inspired Word.” These meetings are open to all women.

and