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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WAR ITEMS,

Germany and Brussels.

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EXTRA

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1914.

foodstuff.. The Bill padeed through all its stages.

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German Allegations_Refuted.

eliminate the Hapsburg dynasty, bat he does not believe it will take place until the $10,000,000 is raised.

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the plaintiffs and the Hon. Mr. considerable speed on a course H.E. Pollook, K.C.," (instructed by orossing the Wing Sang's course, Mr. Rasciman said his reason

Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Haet-ahead of the Wing Song. Just for introducing the Bill was what

ingeand Hastings) defended. as the Jinsen Maru came into he termed the greed of thealthy The war started by Austris In the course of a lengthy sight she sounded three blasts, people who with a long line of will so impoverish the Hon-judgment, His Lordship pointed indicating that ber engines were automobiles had disgraced them-garious that they will have no out that the Jinsen Marn was going full speed astern. There London, August 24th, 12.35 solves by cornering the large stock alternative except revolt," he Japanese steamship owned by the apon the Wing Sang put her a.m.-Now that the Germans are of provisions and causing great said.

Nippon Yasen Kaisba, and was helm hard a-starboard and sound- in undisputed possession of Brus hardship among the poorer Canadians Ready.

manned by a crew of 55 banda, ed two short blasts, and her sels they seem to be showing classes,' He said he believed?

Quebec, Aug. 4 some consideration for the feeling the panic was now over, but the

She was on a voyage from Japan engines were put full speed The announcement that Gerto Hongkong, laden with Aahead in order to assist her helm of the inhabitants since they Government wished to be many and Great Britain were at general cargo. refrain from hoisting the German prepared in case of necessity.

The Wing Sang and also to minimise the effects war was received here with the was a British ship, of 2,337 tons of the collision. But the Jinsen flag on the Palace or Town Hall.

greatest enthusiasm, while Eng groes, owned by the Indo-China Mara coming on with no apparent The Belgian sathorities are H. B. M. Consul General, by fish, French and Irish paraded steam Navigation Company, slackening in her speed, strack, anxious to avoid any pretext for direction of H. M. Minister, sende together in a display of loyalty Ltd., and was manned by a crew with the port side of her stem, Gorman reprisals, even the boy the N. C. Daily News the follow and patriotiam sach sa has never of 72 hands. She was on a the Wing Bang's starboard side #coats have been stripped of their ing telegram from the Foreign before been witnessed in the uniforms-Router's "Special Ser-Ofos for publication.

Toyago from Honglong to just forward of amidships and ancient capital. The following has been receiv-

Beatow, carrying passengers and inflicted serious injury to the Before a great crowd, Alberta general cargo. London, August 24th, 12.25 ed from the Foreign Office, Sept. Sevigny, the brilliant young

Wing Bang,

Those on board the Wing Song a.m.-The German Commander 5.

Member of Parliament for Dor The plaintiffs' case was that in the city has posted Proclama- tions announcing that forced by publicly and officially that the French Canadians realized the for some time past had been foggy. neglecting to stop and anchor; H. M. Government declare chestar, made it plain that the the wind at the time was easterly blamed the Jinsen Mara for going and very slight, that the weather at an excessive speed with regard to the circumstances, and with circumstances to make levies, he statement made by the German seriousness of the present mensca bat varying from a dense to a requests the population to ac- General Staff to the effect that to the Empire in general and light fog. The prescribed fog or to reverse her engines, so as quiesce and not to adopt aa dumdan bullets have been found Canada in aggressive attitude, otherwisa on French and English prisoners were standing with their signale were regularly sounded, to take her way off, when she he will be compelled to take the is entirely untrue. Neither the fellow citizena. He recalled how the engines of the Jinson Mara, Again, when the Jinsen Maro and, the fog becoming more dense, heard the Wing Sang's whistle. severest measures. The German British nor the French Army bag France had gone down before the which Troops are in the outskirts, of in its possession or has issued arms of Germany in 1870. The slowly ahead, were stopped, astern, she neglected to reverse had been moving signalled that she was going Brassels and the adjoining any but the approved patterns of great question which French villages, but they are not quarter ride and revolver ammunition Canadians had tran asking with B view to her sachor with sufficient promptness. Far ed on the city itself.-Reuter's which do not infringe in any daring the past few days, he being let go in das course, Special Service.

respect the provisions of the said, had been Hague Convention.

Britain do ?". Germany Faced With Famine.

London, Sept. 5.

viac.

German Munitions of War Captured.

A Tientsin message of the 26th to the Asahi says:-

A correspondent of the Stan

particular, and

what will

Had France been left alone, her arms might not have met with success, but she would

and she proceeded slowly through the water, heading about N. W. Shortly after the engines of the Jinson Maru had been stopped, she heard the fog signal of an-

er, he move of reversing was an improper one.

His Lordship, reviewing the evidence step by step, thought that, at 12.10 p.m. it was the daty of the Wing Sang, first to

One thousand cases containing dard who has been in Berlin and receive the happy news that the other steamship, apparently bear-etop har enginee, and then to

manitions of war in the possession other big German cities, of a German merchant have beau telegraphs from Copenhagen a seized by the Tientsin water remarkable story about the situa police. These were in the atore. tion in Germany. houses here of the Dairen Steam. ship Company until the 22nd, when they were taken out on the pretext that they would be trans ferred to the custody of Ameri-

бара.

They were being sent up the river Peiho on four native junka last night, their ostensible destination being the offices of the Governor-General of Shansi, when they were seized by the water police.

Three guns, with 83 cases of ammunition, were being sent to Tsingtao from Peking on the Tainpa Railway on the 24th, when they were confiscated at Gakliu Station.

The country, be saye, is faced with famine, commercial ruin and revolution.

Thousands of business firms are already rained and thousands of shops are closed.

Treatment of Japanese In

Germany,

of one minute, another fog p.m., en the master of the ing about W. by N., and twice navigate with caution until risk subsequently, at an interval of collision was over, At 12.16 signal was heard from about Wing Sang saw the Jinsen Mara the same direction, but slightly coming out of the fog at what he more westerly. On each occasion described as a high rate of speed,

England had arisen to the oces entente cordiale was no idle word.

Bion.

Whatever the results might be they would go into war with a united front, and he w38 sure that Providence would smile upon them in this straggle, su answering blast was sounded. he put his engines full" apsed About a minute after the third ahead and her helm bard a-star- and last signal, and while the board in the hope of getting the Jinsen Mara still bad forward ship far enough round to port to way, a steamship, which proved he parallel to the course of the ment of Japanese in-Germany: to be the Wing Sang, appearedJinsen Maru. Putting a question to the assessor on the point, the The correspondent says that The statement says that, as early about two and a half points on Germany has already lost 100,000 as August 8, the Germans began her port bow, apparently distant latter's reply was that, considering men killed, and that when the to watch all Japanese. The some two ship's lengths away, facts are known the Socialists Japanese Charge d'Affaires in approaching through the fog, may be expected to organize a structed his nationale to leave the heading in the direction of, or a revolution.

early every woman is in mourning.

Namur Partially Ruined.

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The Foreign Office has issued statement describing the treat

on

of

the

country and numbers them left, but expiration of the ultimatum the Germans arrested fifty, who were imprisoned, the German authori ties asserting that this was done

! London, Sept. 5, A message from Amsterdam says that the Namur correspond- "Getting His Own Back!" Under the above heading, Mr. draws a terrible picture of the for their protection."

ent of the Berliner Tugeblatt Bob Jones, a well-known reside at havoc which has been wrought of Yokohama, and formerly in the there. British Navy, writes:-

"Captain Trenob, Marines, lato prisozer in a Ger- man fortress, is on board H.M.8. Highflyer that sank the Kaiser

He says that many equares have Royal been devastated and that the Grands Placs, with its splendid Town Hall, exists no more,

The hotel opposite the railway station has been transformed into

Wilhelm der Grosse. God save

the King!"

Enlistment of Ulster Unionists.

military campa

how close these vessels were—at

the most three hundred yards-be

was of opinion that each action

little abaft, her foremast, The was an error of judgment on the. engines of the Jingen Mara were part of the master of the Wing at once put full speed. astern and Sang. He should have let go his three short blasts blown, but the engines full speed astern, with Wing Sang came on, apparently the helm hard a-port and should have let go his storboard anchor. at fall speed ahead, under a | atarboard « helm, two short Had this been done he was of on her opinion that no collision would The civil authorities gave th blasts being blown Charge d'Affaires permission to whistle; and she struck the stem have occurred. Here again be ses the imprisoned Japanare, but on the port side of the Jinsen concurred with the assessor and the military authorities refused Mara, with her starboard side found the Wing Sang to blame. the privilege. The names of the abaft the foremast, and did ber prisonera are not obtainable. The considerable damage. The com American Ambassador, who is re- plaint made against the Wing pressuting Japan, protested. The Sang was that she did not observe Japanese Charge-d'Affaires says,

the provisions of Articles 16, 19,

The city is without bread, and the attitude of the German 22, and 29 of the Regulations. London, Sept. 3.

the German troops are being fod by big supplies, taken from the captured fortressee.

There is great want also at Gembloux.

The Belfast Ulster Unionist Council has unanimously aproved of the arrangements made for the enlistment of an Ulster division for service abroad.

Official Anti-Beltish Press Campaign.

After reviewing the case for the Jinsen Mara, his Lordship re- marked that the suggestion was made that the Jinsen Maru was, guilty of unreasonable delay in He was of the going aatern, authorities towards Japaness The case for the Wing Sang opinion that the order to go was that she was proceeding south stern was given and obeyed leaves much to be desired..

with reasonable promptitude, The statement also says that of the Lam Tong Island on an

The weather and that there was no negligence the train in which the Japanese aately course. Ambirsador was leaving Vienna was fine and calm, the atmosphere under that head.

was clear in her neighbourhood Then the question arose--when was atsned, the windows being and in all directions except to the found herself in imminent Prince of Wries' Fund.

broken. This outrage was Among the subscriptions to the

London, Sept. 4, P result of unbridled abaes pab

wards the east and the south, donger of collision with the Wing Prince of Wales' fund are the fol-

A White Paper has been published in the Vienna papere.

where there was a fog bank; and Bang, did the Jinsen Mara take lowing: His Majesty the King, lished containing telegrams from

a light wind was blowing from the proper measures for avoiding £5,000 Her Majest the Queen Sir William Goschen, British shock to the public in Japas, Wing Sang heard on her starboard question to the agressor and his The above report came about E. 6. E. At 12.10 p.m. the the collision? He had put this 21,050; Prince of Wales £300; Ambasador at Berlin, to Sir Ed where Germans and Austriaus Queen Alexandro, Grenadier Guards, £18,000; Mr. Foreign Affairs, sent prior to the consideration and courtesy.

500ward Grey. Secretary of State for have been treated with every side a prolonged blast from a vessel reply was as follows: With the enveloped and invisible in the vessels in such close proximity, it George, Coats, £50,000; Lord war, reporting the establishment,

fog. It was clear for some distance would have been useless for the Ashton, £25,000; the Dake of under the control of the German Westminster, £15,000 Mesars. Government, of a powerful secret

in that direction, and the other Jinsen Maru to attempt to keep vessel was apparently too far ber course and speed. I am of Rothschild, "£10,000; Mr. Wil-association of manufacturere and

sway for there to be any present opinion that she did right to go liam Morrison, £10,000; Lord shipowners for the purpose of in-

JUDGMENT FAVOURS

danger of collison, but the Wing full speed astern. But she should, Balisbury, Lord Iveagh, Lord fuencing the foreign press, par

THE N, Y. K.

Sang sounded a prolonged blast I think, have done more than Northcliffe, Sir Ernest Cassel, Sir ticularly in South Americs and

The helm should · have The Wing Sang Mostly- in reply and slowed down, this. Arthur Lever and Sir William the Far East, in the interest of

to: Blame.

navigating with caution, and con- been put hard a-port when the Lever, each £5,000,

German export trade and to

tinned to sound a prolonged blast engines went Bottling up derman Commerce. spread German influence general-Gompertz, at the minutes. Hearing the whistle of board and away from let go the

The Acting Chief Justice, Mr. at intervals of not more than two to

cant her head to st The Nichi Nichi learns from a ly.. trustworthy source that prior to The Ambassador described the Supreme Court this morning, gave the other vessel getting nearer ship. To port and let go the the outbreak of war between movement as the preparation for judgment in the action in which and apparently more forward on starboard anchor would have Great Britain and Germany there a vast system of international theNippon Yaren Kaisha, as the starboard side, the other vessel been, in the circumstances, an were in Far Eastern waters some blackmail.

owners of the Jinsen Mara, sued being still hidden in the fog, the ordinary manoeuvre of good sea.. 100 German steamers. Of these,

the Indo-China Steam Navigation Wing Sang's engines were manship. 67 have up to the present been

Hungary's Unwilling Part in the War.

THE COLLISION CASE.

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Co., as owners of the Wing stopped. The fogbankapproached His Lordabip held that the captured by the British, French New York, Aug. Oth-One Bang, claiming $30,000 for the Wing Sang, borne by the Jinsen Marn was wholly blameless and Russian warships. The hundred thousand Hungarios in damage occasioned by a collis wind, and soon afterwards the up to the last minute, when he remainder are believed to be in Americs have pledged them-ton which took place in other vessel, which proved to found that she was, in effoot, in the neighbourhood of the selves to raise a fund of $10, the Tethong Channel, near Lom be the Jinson Mara, sudden guilty of an error of judgment. Samoa Islanda, while six or seven 000,000 to finance & revolution tong laland, during a fog, only came

into sight, ap He thought a fair order for the are in Kiaochow Bays

in Hungary, according to Mr. Louis Febuary 17. The Indo-China 8. proximately three lengths away apportionment of the blamewould Tareal, editor of the Hungarian N. Co. counterclaimed for dam- and bearing about three points be that the Wing Sing must bear Daily Elore. Mr. Tarasi says that ages arising out of the same on the Wing ʊ ge-star-four-fifths and the Jinson Mara such a revolution now is regarded collision.

board bow emergi from the one-fifth of the damage.

The Control of Food Supply,

Mr. Walter Runciman, Deore tary of Agriculture, has intro- duced a Bill giving the British as inevitable by many Han- Mr Eldon Potter (instructed fogbank, whigh appeared to be The question of costs was re- Government. power to soirs all gariane, who are determined to by Mr. F. J. Grist) appeared for very dense, and tray Winga sferred to chambers,