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GENERAL NEWS.

Espionage Scare In Yokohama.

A 18 urt is Ourical that 8.S. Manchuria which" arrived at Yokohama the other day, had on board seven Germans suspected of espionage. The

Water-Police kob.ma

Station despached men in boat

to watch proceedings prior to the

louding of the passengers.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,

NOTICE

NEW SHIPMENT

VICTOR

detective, named Kubo, proceed- RECEIVED BY THE

ed on board the steamor with an

interpreter and, examined two or"

three foreigners, but to no par

pose. The suspected foreigners are being watched by policemen in plain of thos.

Military Secret Case,

A magazine entor, Mr. Field, an aviator named Fowler, and two other persons were arrested ar San Francisco and charged under the National Defence Act, with having dinolosed military secrets, Fowler How in an aeroplane over he Puma Capul forts. He saheequently wrote no article pointing out the inadequacy of the defences against att ok frem the air, and Field publisher the aricle in bin magazine. Thr Department of War ordered the arraste to be made. This is the firet prosecution of the kind over heard. The prints awaiting

whether decision are

peranna flying over a reservation can be held to have entered it; also whether the order of Colog-l Goetbal, Director of the Caunl Ze, prohibiting the photograph- ing of the forts, i- legal,

Bandits in Shantung.

The ales in Shantung are trying to take advantage of the oatbreak of hostilities in Tsingtau to start a rebellion. The Ministry

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The Japanese Advance.

Pekin, Aug. 20..

BRITISH NAVAL STRATEGY.

Opinion of à Naval Expert,

London, Aug. 29. Commenting on the naval}

Heligoland, a British naval expert remarks as follows.

The first line of Japanes0 pickets has reached the valleygagement twelves miles from Tsingtau. All bridges and buildinge in the v cinity have been destruped.

The first line of defence is at a

"The phrase 'a German cruiser has disappeared in the fog' occurring in the report isanéd by place eight miles from Tsingtau, the British Admiralty, explains

but it is not very strong.

The

of Communications has received a telegram from the Shaho Tele- graph Station to the effect that ibe bandits in that locality, are main line of defence is at a spot which British naval manwuvres the supposed circumstances in very rampant and have raided

three miles from Tsingtau, but in many commercial establishments

-xtende only a quarter of a mile, are carried out in ordinary times. The Government has ordered by This place is dominated hy the There can be little doubt that the telegraph the military force

guns of the Moltke, Bismarck and Commander-in-Chief of the British stationed near at hand to sup-lfie forta, Several big guns have Squadron, in order to elude the pr as the brigands at once.

been placed on the hills. The vigilance of the Ga man forts and A mishap of an extraordinary approach is defended with harbed the guard-ships, took advantage nature occurred on July 9 on the wire entanglements, which can be of the thick fog occurring at Trans-Alpine railway. through charged with electricity, and is dawn for the movement of his the overflow of a subterrageón

The locality between Weicheng lake, blocking the Simplon tunnel. Trains were derailed by and Tsingtau ie fall of Germans the ruab of water, and a hundred in uniform and it looks as if the under German yards of permanent way was place

Several exprema occupation.-Japan Chronicle, awept away.

Stranie Railway Mishap.

trains were held up, and the wealthier travellere abandoned them, and crossed the pass in

-motor care,

fally mined.

were

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"Germany has spent millions of pounds on Heligoland to make sion to her by Britain in 1890 it a strong defence since its cea- The Kaiser proudly said that Heligoland would made a grea! and strong bulwark against suy enemy that attempts an attack or Meihsien, Sept. 7.

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thousand, advanced from Lung £10,000,000 on the forts and bar- at Kobe. On the 24th sustant the Kobe kow, but only succeeded in bour works of Heligoland. The Branch of the Yokohama Specie covering ten miles in two days, Bank instituted an action in the owing to the appalling condition guns on the forts are known to be Kobe Chibo Saibanebo against of the roads. They then reached of a superior quality, command Mr. W. J. Sobroth, of Kabe, a swollen river which their inga Jurge section of the waters claiming Yeo 16,000, with inter artillery could not crose. and they by which the German North Sea

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"In the face of this strong est thereon at 6 per cent. from are returning for the present to June 20th, 1911, until the ex- Lungkow. contion of judgment, costs to be "As a result of the heavy rains, defence, and risking the danger of floating mines, Admiral Beatty borne by defendant and provi- some of the Teingian forts and engaged the onomy with costly sional execution of judgment many bomb-proof shelters are vessels like the Queen Mary, allowed on deposit of security.inded, causing

Lion, Princess Royal, and New Zoland, The plaintiffs state in their inconvenience to the garrison.

The participation of The Governor is now granting Admiral Moore in the engage A party of patriotic Sydney

this class of Goods. Our Fruit & petition that they have in their drawn by defendant on Juna forta one day free in town in ment proves the fact that some ladies, presided over by Miss us all begin at once. Already Gingers are all fresh and of the first pick possession 8 promissory note every man after two days in the

the Mediterranoan Strickland, has begun to organise a considerable sum has been our Syrup is prepared from the beat order to preserve the health of ships of

8qg dron, or at least the lavin- for the purpose of raising money raised--(Signed) Joyce Allen quality of Sugar. We give our special cible, was among the British in the form of small donations, "Mericola," Eigesliff-road, Wool-attention to our business and sanitary ahips that took part in the on-the sum total of which will be lahra; Veronica M. Mort, 4 no

gement. If the whole of the added to the Lord Mayor's fund. Albert-street, Woollahra; Mollie Most of the reservists and Second Squadron of battle-cruisers The appeal, which in this instance Owen, "Dilbhar." Wellington-

participated in the Heligoland is made to the girls of New South street, Woollahra. are living Tien Tang and Unu Chen, two private residences. Shops and battle that explains the circam- Wales, reads as follows:-"To notorious anarchists,

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Chinese Anti-Government Magazine.

full of violent criticism

оп

the

has ordered the total prohibition

of its Fale in Chino-Kuo Min Hsin Pao.

Libel Action Against Col. Roosevelt.

William Barnes has instructed

his attorneys to institute sait for

consi-ferable

the troops

The spirits of the people in

Tsingtau are reviving, as

occurred

bombardment

landsturm

bas

Mined Fields.

connaissance by Seaplane.

in

Tokyo, Sept. 8. The Japanese made a eaccess-

I.

the

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to

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libel against Col. Theodore Roose reconnaissance over Tinglan cruisers, which recently sank a tralians are not going to be ba. Japanese motor fishing-boat in

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work of their men who have gone Inverclyde, encountering the fall "The squadron of light to the front, and surely we Aus- force of the typhoon, sighted s German aubmarine, also disbindhand. There will be urgent dietress. The boat was water- Detention of Prince Kung, inguished itself in the Heligo-Deed for money all over the lagged. Only three youths re- Prince Kang of China, who has land engagement as is shown by Empire, not only now for our mained aboard, the remainder of been taking refuge at Tsingtau, the destruction of the German soldiers, but later on to relieve a crew of forty having been since the outbreak of hostilities cruiser Mainz. The Laertes, the terrible destitution which drowned. The sans were running between Japan and Germany which doffered damage in this must inevitably follow a war. so high that it was impossible to wanted to gol to Dairon. The battle, is the destroyer that re- Will every girl, therefore, try and lower a boat, but Captain In his address in which he German authorities, however, not cently attacked and destroyed the give something, no matter how Mansfield decided to run his vessel called upen Bull, Monsors. tr join with the "regulars" in the fight wishing that the Prince should German mino-Inger Koenigia omall, if possible every week as close alongside the derelict as against Barnes, Murphy and Tam- come in contact with the Japanese, Luise,

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