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THE WAR.

NAVAL

FIGHT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 1917.

BRITISH SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGE GERMAN

DESTROYERS.

PRESIDENT WILSON AND PEACE.

THE LONDON EXPLOSION.

Naval Activities.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH LEUTIR'B_AGINOY.) NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.

BRITISH SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGE ENEMY DESTROYERS.

LONDON, January 23rd.

Franco-Belgian Front.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTERʼN AORNICY.]

BRITISH FRONT.

A SERIES OF RAIDS,

LONDON, January 24th.

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a communique, says: We carried out a successful raid and made prisoners to the east of Neuville St, Vanet.

WAR HONOURS.

LONDON, January 24th. A Gazelle announces that the G.C.B. has been conferred upon Geners! Bir William Robertson and Surgeon-General Keagh, for wat ervices.

BAELIM QABLES,

LONDON: EXPLOSION. COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY.

LONDON, January 23rd, Sir Erley Blackwell, Major Cooper Key (Chief Inspector of Explosives) and. Sir Frederic Nathan have been appointed a committee to enquire into the Londo explosion and make recommendations

desirable.

OUR DEBT TO THE CHINESE.

THE BISHOP AND THE NEED OF MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE

The Bishop of Victoria devoted his Bermou at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday mainly to the work of the Church Missionary Society. After explaining that some of our common phrases needed to be revised and that the expresion ["foreign missions was misleading, because there was no one foreign to the Christian, he said:--

"Here in Hongkong we have a special opportunity and a special obligëtjon. The Gospel that benefits us and gives us power to live Christian lives suits the Chinese just as well as us, Medical science proves that the same thing that HONGKONG'S WAR CONTRI. suits the European suite the Oriental.

BUTION,

Vaccination, for example, is just as necessary and effective for Chinese as for Europeans. We owe a debt to the Chi- ncue. This Colony, of which we are so proud, and all its beauty testifies to the power of British industry, statesmanship and perseverance; but all would have

RECEIPT OF $5,000,000 ACKNOW.

LEDGED.

LONDON, January 24th.

boen of no avail without Chinese co-

Mr. Walter Long, Colonial Secretary, gratefully acknowledges a emtribution of 85,000,000 from Hongkong for War Fur poses, paid partly from revenue partly from the proceeds of a local Loan ficent buildings; they have carried and

We repulsed an enemy raid between | of 23,000,000. ̈ ̈ Armentieres and Ploegsteert. A second raid reached our trenches, but the raiders

ARTILLERY FIGHTING.

The Admiralty has made the following announcement. -Our light forces, when patrolling in the North Sea not far from the Dutch coast, on Monday night, met Ia division of enemy destroyers. After a short engagement one of the latter was sunk, and the rest scattered after were ejected, leaving a number of dead. being considerably punished. Darkness.

the full prevented the observation of results of the action.

Also, during the night, there was a sharp engagement between some enemy destroyers and ours the vicinity of Schaumen Bank One of our destroyers was torpedoed, the explosion killing Our ships three officers and 44 men. mubsequently sank the vessel which fired the torpedo. We had no other casualties.

YHUIDEN, January 23rd.

Particulars of the naval engagement indicato that German destroyers attempt- ed to leave Zeebrugge to avoid the ice, which was very thick. They were im mediately attacked by a large British squadron.

The action was opened at the shortest tange. Early in the fight the bridge of

LONDON, January 24th. A French communiqué states: --These has been a fairly lively cannonade in Champagne and Argonne.

AUSTRIAN LANDSLIDE.

MAIL TRÁIN BISECTED,

and

AMSTERDAM, January 24th.

A

A landslide bisected a mail train proceeding from Trieste to Vienna. rescue train collided with the debris Forty persons.were killed,

We carried out a coup de main i A GERMAN BRIBE TO RUSSIA. Lorraine, at Richecourt.

There has been artillery fighting in Alsace, in the direction of Largutzen.

EARLIER CABLES.

FRENCH FRONT.

ENEMY AEROPLANES BROUGHT DOWN.

LONDON, January 23rd,

A French communiqué says:-Thero a fairly lively cannonade between the Oiso and the Aisne,

was

Two enemy seroplanes were brought

down.

the German destroyer Fill was swept away by a direct hit, killing two offers and The Balkang,

the Commander of the flotilla, who was aboard. The F fired one torpedo, and was then hit by another British shell, which knocked a funnel flat on to the deck. Another shell made a hole in the front part of the vessel. The crew state that oven more German versels

sunk.

веть

The Feo is now lying off Ymuiden pier.

LATERL

A Dutch tugboat has brought in ten severely wounded German sailors who were taken on board at the request of a Commander of a German torpedo-boat destroyer. They can originally from the 69. It is believed that the English cut off another torpedo hunt, which was seen proceeding at full speed northward, The FW has now entered harbon?, with eight killed aboard. She was, appar. antly, hit three times, and, before or after the engagement, collided with another vessel.

The engagement happened at four in the morning, The German officers refuse to give any information.

ANSTEDD, January 9rd. According to the Tad, the German destroyers belonged to the sixth Division of the Home Fleet from Heligoland, and, apparently, intended to make a raid, but were discovered. The greater part was driven back to the Lass, while a portion: of the squadron was forced back against the Flemish coast,

It is reported that warships were sunk, "but particulars are lacking.

Some damaged German vesels have sought refuge at Zeebrugge,

Italian Front.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AUSTRIAN CLAIM.

EARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÓT.}

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, January 23rd. A German official wireless message says:--We took pisoner one hundred Putna mon between the Slanie and Valleys.

We repulsed strong advances south- wards of Cadínu, -

The Bulgarians crossed the southern, arm of the Danube rear Tulcea and keld the northern bank against the Iussians.

BULGARIAN PEACE TERMS.

COPENHAGEN, January 23rd. The President of the Bulgarian Sobranje stated at the Bulgarian peace demands were the whole of the Dobrudja to the Danube, parts of Macedonia, all the Morava river, and

Monastir,

General.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN INTRIGUBRS. EXEMPLARY SENTENCES.

SAN FRANDBOG, January 23rd. The German Consul-General, Vice- Consul, and a Lieutenar, who were charged with conspiracy in connection with the blowing up of munition factories and ships, have ben sentenced to two years imprisonment, and were also ined

$10,000.

PRESIDENT WILSON AND

PEACE.

DIPLOMATIC OPINION.

WASHINGTON, January 24th. Diplomats constrie the literal applica. tion of President Wilson's suggestions in.

LONDON, January 24th..

the outlet to the sea," phrase, as mean- wireless Austrian official messaging the neutralisation of the Parma, states:We captured a treach near Suez and Riel Canals, the Straits of Gorizia and took 137 prisoners.

Gibraltar and the Dardanelles.

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CONSTANTINOPLE FOR A SEPARATE PLACE,

PARIS, January 24th. M. Hanotaux, writing in the Figare says that Germany offered Constantinople to Russia in order to obtain a separate pence.

AUTHOR OF ATROCITIES,

AWARDED A GOLD MEDAL.

CAIRO, January 24th. Fakhry Pasha, the Turkish Commander at Medima, and author of the atrocities there, has been awarded a Turkish Gold War Medal.

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"A SCOTCH NICHT.”

If you chance to strike a gathering of

half-dozen friends, Where the drink is "Hislan' Whusky"

or some chosen Border blenda, And the room is full of "spierin 12 and

the "gruppin" of brown "han's," And the talk is all of tartans and of

plaidies and of clans, You can take things douce and easy

you man judge you're going right, For you've had the luck lo stumble on a

Draw Scotch Nicht

When you're pitchforked in among them

in a sweeping sort of way,

Tweed or from the Tay,

operation. It is the faithful Chinese

labourers who have built up our magni

fixed every stone. They make our lives 80 confortable, they make our Harbour what it is, and it is trade with them that makes our merchants so wealthy. You to whom I speak ove your wealth to the Chinese. I will say we owe a debt of reparation to the Chinese. European nations' relations with the Chinese in the past have certainly not always been in accordance with Christian principles. I have only to mention the one word "Opium." It is a fact that for decades in the past ve have been the promoters of a great trade which our Parliament declared morally indefencible and we have been able to live comparatively free from taxes because the Chinese used so much opium. We need to counteract the falso impressions given by those Euro peaus who are unly Christian in name. The Chiese look upon all English people

as

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

BURGLARY,

Sentence of three months' hard labour was passed on a Chinese, known to the police, who broke into 299, Hollywood Hoad and stole a blank valued a

23.80.

THEFT OF SHOES.

Charged with the theft of three pairs of shoes from a shop stall in Shanghal Street Youmati, a Chinese wood-worker was fued 825, with the alternative one month's hard labour.

DANGEROUS BOY.

BERLIN TO BAGDAD. GERMANY'S REAL WAR AIMS,

At one time Belgium's coast line an peared to be the most serious question for Britain, an adverse solution of which would endanger the future But as the war has progressed broader issues have appeared, of which Germany's aim at establishing a huge land wedge under German control from the North Sea and the Baltic to the Indian Ocean seeius tu be the most ominous. Scores of large and small works dealing with the task the war. One of the most recent is "Dais have been published in Germany during grössere Mitteleuropa" ("Greater Cen tral Europe"), by

Ernst Jackh. Its author has been one of the

Professor

most prolific of German war writers and lectures Before the war he was well known as the author of "Der aufsteigende Halbmand," and as the founder and syndic of the deutscher Werkbund

Herr Jackh's book deals with what he calls the rent Central Europe as estab Austria- to-day "-Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey-whose people are to be welded together into uniform organism. He writes:

When a Chinese saw two small boys fighting in the street he at ones went up to them and pulled them apart. Nasled sooner had be done this than one of the boys stashed him on the leg with a small saw, inflicting a nasty wound.

This was bound to come, by all the laws of geography, and it realises The boy was ordered to receive twelw exactly what the German Emperor for stroke with the birch, and also to emulated politically when he said to his detained in gaol for 49 hours.

"LUCKY JOSS PAPER."

The excuse put forward by a Chines who was charged with the theft of three jackets from a house in Third Street was that he merely went to the hous to distribute "lucky joss paper," and the jackets were given him by another

man.

Ho was sentenced by Mr. Wood to three months' hard labour and four hours stocks.

BERI BERI.

WIS

It

A Chinese coolic of Stanley changed before Mr. Wood with removing a dead body without permission. was stated that the defendent lived with three other coalies, one of them died, and the body was taken away and * dumped" in front of a house 30 yaris away from where defendant lived. The body was subsequently divered by the police and conveyed to the mortuary, sud here it was discovered that the men had died from beri beri.

Defendant said that the deceased man, was taken suddenly ill, and his uncle, Christians and when they see un-

a medicine man, attended christian action they put it down to the who was Christian religion. They think that him. However, the uncle's administa there is more zeal shown for making tion proved of no avail, and, when dollars than for spreading the Gospel, and more zos! displayed in propagating cigarettes for example, than for pro pagating the Gospel. There is a danger lest the spread of the Gospel should be hindered by thoughtless Europeaze who shew a lack of respect for the religion and traditions of the Chinese. These people weaken the hands of the mission- aries, and while they are opening doors to trade they are closing hearts to Christianity.

"Now in Hongkong, as well as in other parts of the British Empire, the Govern

As another mou and brither from the When you're taken by the oxter andment has schools for the benefit of the

shovd into a chair. “

While someone slips a whusky in your

tumbler unaware,

Then the present seems less dismal and

the future fair and bright, For you've struck earth's grandest tres

sure in a guid. Scotch Nicht! When you hear a short name shouted

:

sad the same name houted back, Till you think in the confusion that

they've all been christened "Mac" When you see a red beard flashing in the And a part on the sofa who is six foot

corner by the fire,

thred or higher- Before you've guessed the colour and before you've gauged the height, You'll have jumped to the conclusion it's

a braw Scotch Nicht,

When the red man in the corner lift his

strong voice to the proof, As he gives the Hundred Pipers," and

the chorus lifts the mof, When a chiel sings "Annie Laurie, with it's tender, swat refrain,

Till the tears are on their eyelids su

thicken and the

a word

the drinks come round again, When they chant the stirring war-wage

that would make the coward fighty Then you're fairly in the middle of a

guid Scotch Nicht | '-

When the plot begins

band begins to play,

tein has When every tinpot chieftain

or two to 58, When they'd self a Queensland“ station

for a aprig of native heath i When there's one Mac on the table and

A couple underneath- When half of them are sleeping and the whole of them are--yes, tight !--- You will know that, though in Quecas land, it's a braw Sotch Nicht |

When the last big bottle's empty, and

the dawn creeps gry and When the last clan-tarian's folded and

the last untruth is told, When they totter down the bush track in

a brave, unbroken line To the terror of the cattle and the time

of Auld Lang Syno You can tell the folk st breakfast, as

they watch the fearsome sight Oh, they've only been assisting

wee Scotch Nicht!"

WILL OGILVIE (Queensland).

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the man died, the unclo aid it would bo unlucky to keep him in the house, and so they carried the body outsies. Defendant added that he was not aware of the fact that he should have reported the death to the police.

A fine of $95, or, in default, dx weeks hard labour was imposed.

suspending her missionary operations. We have had to close one missionary institution because of the war, but the Church of Rome has taken it up and is carrying it on. Within this very chuch yard so to speak, there is a fine building Chinese, but the British State, opparbeing erected and it is the Church of ently, decides that religious instruction is, generally speaking, not to be given in For myself I am Government schools. one of those who think that only good would come by the State giving at least optional regligious instruction. I think the State owes a debt to such a society as the C.M.S. which sends out some of the best men and women to show the

generals on New Year's night, 1908-9, in reference to Serbia's threat of war against Austria-Hungary: "Now Eng- land's encircling policy wishes to close Germany's last and only landway to the outer world!" The last and only land- way leading to the world: this short classical phrase crystallises the compell ing force for a Central Europe. And it was the will to solve this question which led the young Kaiser to Constantinoplo in the first year of his reign, inspired by the desire to realise the geographic. trinity Germany, Austria Hungary, Turkey,

It is noteworthy that during the same year in which the Kaiser visited Constantinople-a visit which laid the foundations of the Bagdad railway-- Germany obtained possession of Holigo-

land.

These two (Heligoland and Bagdad), although so far apart, aro united by a deep inward meaning. They are the pillars to support Germany's mighty arch-Central Europe. A similar parallel belongs to the year 1808, wheu Admiral von Tirpitz's naval programme took up the task of securing our safety on the oecn side, and the Bagdad rail way agreement continued the work of establishing our land communications Each is essentially the supplement of the other.

The meaning and aim of it all ja that in case the onemy can close the North Sea and the world to our shipping, then an ally must be able to open the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean for the Continent.

The landway across Central Europe thus across way overseas. That is the importance of "the last and only way"; we must tread it and secure it. It was not the fancy of a statesman which led us along it, but the iron compulsion of our geographical position. Yet, if necessity drives us to the south-east, it is no less true that the nects of Bulgaria and Turkey impol them towards the north-west. What caused Turkey's paradise in the Near East to sink into ruin and decay! The discovery of the sea route to India in 1498, But the Berlin-Bagdad railway will more than restore its ancient splendour.??!

LAND AGAINST WATER, The root idea of the Central European land wedge is to oppose land to water; to neutralise British naval supremacy by land domination. Or, as another German writer puts it, to counter the London blue-water school by land communica- tions, Herr, Jäckh concludes thus:

Historic destiny proclaims from this medley that the present war was inevit- able, but it insists, too, on the stability of the Central European organism when it is understood and developed organį-. Cally. In other words, this organism is capable not only of life and resistance, but also of attack. This stretch of land is an organic continent which can pro- inhabiting it. But it also possesses the duce everything necessary to the peoples strength and the functions of an arm which can knock ominously on the door of Egypt. It must not be the arm of Europe's sick man, but the entire strength of the powerful ally must operate through it.

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THE ACE OF ORGANISATION, This German author has something Sy on the subject of organisation. He anaintains that German organisation differs from all others in that it is organie, proceeding from within, fulfil ing the nature of things.

Rome who is erecting it. The price of the land was altogether beyond the Church of England, but the Church of Home can buy it and build on it own in war time. Let us realize, as they do, that we are trustees for the Gospel of Christ and that, after all, the only care for the war is by the Gospel of Christ. It is when the knowledge of the Lord shal cover the carth as the waters cover the sea that men will cepe to hurt and We want a vital organism within the destroy, and it is not until the whole greater organism of Central Europe. And only the German mind come organise world gives glory to God in the Highest this new entity and at the same time earth and organically develop it. Germany is the that there will be peace on

microcosm of Central Europe-through the exence and history of her porti culariam. She bus solved the same prob lem within her own frontiers and has now become a microcosm destined to solve

for Central Europe-

Christian attitude. We do not sek you to patronise the C.M.S., but to recognise your obligation to it. We are told by some people that owing to the war wo ought to close our missionary matitu- tions. It is quite true that it is the first goodwill to men. Let us then realise duty of the British Empire to win the

our trusteeship. The church missionary war, and she will only do that by association is a local institution for recognising her enormous responsibility, propagating the Gospel and to help the work amongst the Chinese In a short probably to a greater degree than many of us here have done so far.

But I

tims the committee will meet and vill would have you realise that those who allocate the money to different parts of are missionaries are not slack. Scores

the diocease. We shall have many ap pliations for grants for Native agents, eatechists, Bible women and School mas- ters We shall be asked to help the Chinese Church members in Canton to build a new Church worthy of the metropolis of South China, at any mate worthy of the Anglican Communip's

who would have come out a missionaries are now fighting for their country, and of our very alender staff of four doctors one has gone to serve his country and another has expressed his willingness to

go.

We had only two hospital nurses

and we sent one to the war,

Do you

the problem Morning Post.

FUTILE AND INSINCERE.

Zukunft that the Kaiser's peace

Maximilian Harden pointed out in the

tures were not only futile, but mani- festly insincere :---

Over-

The Allies will insist that the future

"What Germany must understand I before she enters on useless overtures for peace is that the Allies are not bluffing when they demand that Germany must como into line with the political system of Western Europe, and put an end to suppose it is the will of Christ that we representatives in South China. We had that bellicose fondalism which they re-

civilisation. & tired building but now the Church sard sex menace to we should suspend our proclamation of

Cantonese the Gospel because of the war? There there is in danger of being homeless and goverment of Germany must be ous in churchmen returu from which the people have a voice, and not are those who would have us do so, Canada, the Strait Settlements and

one in which only an autocracy counts. Australia and other plains to their own

They want guarantees, not that Germany and they point to the example of

city, and say where is our Church? We will be at all times ready for war, but the Church of Roms and ack RS have a fine site for the new Church. that she will keep the peace

When England demands the doom of The Chinese are themselves collecting half militarism she means that armament for the $25,000 required and we are asking offensive purposes must be subordinated the C.M.S. to give a substantial grant to the reasonable needs of defence, and, so that we may be represented more still further, be reduced under such a sys- adequately in that important city. Intern of honest loternational arbitration these ways I ask you to full your that Europe cannot again suddenly bo responsibility as trustees of the Gopel plunged in the horrors of a devastating of Christ

to look at the French and Italian Prieste Ali bonoar to them, who are laying down their lives for their country, but you make a great mistake if you think the Church of Home is (Continue as foot of next Column.)

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