1914-09-23 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph

(ESTABLISHED 1881.). Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.

2 p.m. 82

WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER

23.

1914.

GERMAN WIRELESS

· STATION IN AMERICA.

WEATHER FORECAST

*FINE. Haremster 30.10

September 23, 1913 Humidity

Temperature & a.m. 78 p. m. 78

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Température 6 am. '75,

September 23, 1914. Humidity

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LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

ALLIES MAKE APPRECIABLE PROGRESS,"

GERMAN CRUISER SINKS JAPANESE

TORPEDO BOAT.

The Casualties in the Pegasus Affair.

Mr. F. E. Smith Going to the Front,

[Renter's Service To "The Telegraph."]....."

Sopt. 21, 11.55 a.m. Mr. Winston Churchill, addressing an enthusiastic recruiting meeting at Livo.pool, announced that Mr. F. E. Smith was off to the war in a few days, and he wished him a safe return.

Fighting Less Violent; Alles Made Appreciable Progress.

Sept. 22, 2.50 a.m, An official andvancement from Paris, issued at 11 p.m., states that the fighting to-day has been leas violent. We have made appreciable programs, especially hetween Rheims and Argonne,

'Casualties on H.M.S. Pegasus.

dor Turner and Lieutenant Drake.

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Sept. 22, 4:15 a.m.

Officers Promoted After Mention in Despatches.

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MAN-POWER.

The Progress of the War at Sea.

Although we are allowed to hear very little of what is hap- pening at so, we know at least that the German naval campaign has failed, at any rate, in initial stages, says the Globe. The Gestroyer flotillas which were to have "Port Arthured "

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Decision of State Department.

It is reported from Washington that, after considering the status of the Garmon-owned wireless the corresponding station, to the tower at Sayvillo, Long Island,

battle squadrons as a sort of over ture to the war are still quiescent, and the attack upon British trade war,

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AMPLE STORES OF FOOD. per week. On that basis we have in sight twenty weeks' supply providing all afloat reached these shores as calculated.

The

PUBLIC.

CABINET STATEMENT TO THE foregoing takes no account of what millers, and second-hand dealers throughout the Kingdom may hold in the shape of stocks of wheat and flour."

No Justification for Panic Prices.

Ang. 5.

Daily

statement says:

The President of the Board of

German Relnforcements. In these notes recently detailed reference was made to the new warships approaching completion for the British Navy, and it will

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Meat:

"With reasonable economy and care the supply may be made to last six months.

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TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

CONDENSED,

his Staff to Mons...

It is rumoured at Antwerp that General Klook has transferred

has

age in the capital is equal to over 50lbs. for a carcase of mutton Liverpool has a capacity for over two millions, and Glasgow for 600,000. England's total cold storage capacity is equal to about ten million carcases. There is no actual scarcity, and

There are about 200 large ary fears which may have been ships which are engaged on the felt on the subject are groundless. regalar frozen meat routes of the

The situation with regard to world. Savoral large cargoes are Paris says: "The fighting to thy An official statement issued in

be of interest to supplement that meat is not less satisfactory. The already nearing port...

the Japanese have lost a second A Peking telegram reports that torpado-boat destroyer outside Kianchan. She was sank by a German cruiser.

NEWS.

Further notes 'on the crisis

Fruit and Vegetables. Our own vagetable orop is a good one, and will last for months.

Although the prices of vage-appear on page 4, bins showed a considerable in there is no fear of sterday crease in Covent Garden yesterday,

Oar

Yesterday's meeting of the

An important and reassuring position of the national food up. A large importer at Smithfield announcement on the actual tower at Nauen, Germany; the lies was made late last night State Departa.ont has come to through the Home Office by the expressed this opinion yesterday. closed during the European deal with the question. The the immensity of the cold storage ed Uommander Turner and Liou: the conclusion that it must be Cabinet Committee appointed to

Few people have any idea of The casualties of H. M. S.

Pegasus included

among the kill- saya the New York

accommodation at Smithfield. is proving a pitiful failure. The correspondent of the

The idea of eating a piece of tenant Drake. British Navy may have done Cofonist. "The decision is based Agriculture has already stated that beef which has been in store for The Italian Cabinet has au- nothing" yet from the specie on the international agreement the supply of wheat at present in eix months may not appeal to authorised the export of 100,000 ular point of view; bus when it is sigued by Germany, the United the country, together with the epicurean tasta; but," the im tons of suger monthly to Eng realised that we have been at war States and other countries at The home orops now being harvested, porter explained," the other day a land. with the second naval Power for Hagae in 1907.

is sufficient for four months' piece of beef which had been in

Mr. Winston Churchill has ten days, and that our overged

Part of article three, chapter ordinary consumption. In this store 18 years was removed. It trade and food prices at home are one, of The Hague agreement statement no account is taken of was just about as hard as the announced that Mr. F. E. Smith, practically normal, the enormous saya that nations at war are wheat at this moment on the sea pavement, but it was quite fresh K.C., M.P., in a few days would value of the work which the Navy of this kind (wireless telegraphy) ments of wheat are now on the

be off to the war. forbidden to "ues any installation or to be shipped. Large consign- and palatable when thawed." bas silently accomplished will be

The total capacity of cold stor- President Wilson admitted. Of course, the end is established by them before the not yet.

The greatest war in war on the territory of a noutral to this country, and much of

callers at the White House tod it is, in fact, close to our shores. three million carcases-reckoning the ability of the United States European history has barely be Power for purely military pur-There are, therefore, no con-

to serve humanity is handicapped gun, and we should be foolish to poses, and which has not been ceivable circumstances in which

by inopportune peace angges- imagine that the Gorman Navy opened for public service."

a wheat famine could arise. High

tions, will remain in its porte to the

pricea can only be due either to end; but if the British Fleet-can

actual scarcity or to fears of a wait it can also fight, and, mira-

scarcity. cles apart, we need have no feare for the outcome.

One thing which is fairly evident is that we shall know little of the full and true history of the war, whether by sea or by by an account of the ships which normal killings of our home-i Both beef and mution showed a has been less violent. We made land, until the official accounts Germany has in a similar condi-grown etcek supply 60 per cent. big jump in price at Smithfield appreciable progress, especially are published by the Government. tion of approximate readiness for of our annual consumption. We yesterday, the increase varying

between Rheima and Argonne." These official records do not as a sea. The principal of these are are not necessarily dependent from 25 to 40 per cent. rule make any strong appeal to the battleships Konig, Grosser upon foreign imports for the the general public, because they Kurforst, and Markgraf, of the balance of our supplies, as in case arecompiled from the professional 1911 programme, all of which are of emergency the balance could and not from the popular point of ready for or else actually ander be provided by slaughtering a view. "History of the popular going their trials. They are larger proportion of our own stook. serial type will no doubt be issued larger than any complated British This contingency cannot, however, in abundance, and will not fail of battleships, displacing 26,575 arise in present circumstances. a market, but as serious con- to, but as regards armament. There is at this moment an the direction. At this time of Sanitary Board is reported in

the year London is not so depend- this issue. The casualties on H.MS Pegasus included: killed, Comman-tributions to historical literature they show very little improve exceptionally large supply of

they can only be ignored, eincement on our 20,000-ton Hercules foreign meat in cold storage, and ent upon the resources of French the censorship which applies to and Colossus of the 1909 pro-heavy consignments are on the

soit as at other seaso the daily Press will apply also to gramme. Their main armament way to our shores,

There is,

own vegetable erop is a good consists of ten 12-inch guns in therefore, no justification in the one, and it will last for months. what European armies cost appear them.

five centre-line turrets, which present position for any rise in

The staple artiole-the potato- are arranged like those of the price in bread or meat.

has been the beat crop for years, Orion, and they carry an addi- Arrangements have been made and is generally free from disease. torpedo battery of fourteen by the Board of Trade to obtain Therefore any idea of famine 5.0-inch and twelve 24-pounder at very frequent intervals infor prices having to be paid for that The German ship Frisis was gane, as well as four 14-poandera mation from a large number of vegetable may at once be dismiss condemned by the Prize Court active service ratinge voted for for use against aircraft. Their contres, bath urban and rural, as ed. Beane, peas, and cabbages this morning. the year is 151,000, and to these designed speed is 214 kaote, and, to changes in the retail prices of may show heavier advances, but must be added the further 67,000 according to report, they are food. The committes are ready these are not so indispensable as eunctioned by the House of Com-protected by a main belt of 14- to receive information from Bayill be able to economies supplies. was completed at the Police

the potato, and the householder mons, and who presumably will inch armour.

The only other German armour- the retail price of food supplies different aspect. According to one

person as to substantial rises in

The fruit market presente a [Lieut-General Sir William Robert Robertson, K.O.V.O., C.B., he found without much difficulty. D.S.O., was in the ranks for oloven years. He received a commis- The whole of the reserves have od ship which could be completed experienced by him. Such sion as Lieut. in the 3rd Dragoon Guards in 1888. He obtained the also been embodied, and the and sent to sea iu a brief period information should be addressed of the largest importers, the Lon-

Intelligence Officer in the Chitral numbers of these authorised for is the battle cruiser Dorflinger, to the Commercial Department

don market ordinarily receives 8.0. whilst acting as Expedition in 1895, when he was severely wounded. He saw con- the year are as follows: Navat of 28,000 tons. She is the first of the Board of Trido, Gwydyr two-thirds of its supply from siderable service during the South African War. Last year he was Reserve, 21,367; Fleet Reserve, German ship of this class to carry House, Whitehall, London, S.W. France. The laet vessel of the ou page 2, Log Book on page 6, Volunteer Reserve, 12-inch guns, all the earlier ones The above official statement line supplying the market and Commercial News on page 9. knighted, whilst noting as Director of Military Training at the War 31,137;'

4,700; and Sick Barth Reserve, having 11-inch weapons. The may be supplemented by the from Cherbourg left laet. Office.

Lieut-General Sir C. F. N. Macready, K. C. B., has been Direo 1,400. Altogether, therefore, the Derliuger carries eight big guns, following more detailed parti-night, while from Havre and tor of Personal Services at the War Office since 1910. He became total authorised strength of our and so is armed similarly to our calare of the stores in the national (Honfleur there will be no steamers a Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders in 1881 and served in the naval pereonnet to-day is 276,000, Invincibles, which have been six larder:

During the Napoleonic wars years in service. She also has Egyption Expedition (battle of Tel-el-Kebir) and in the operations in Natal and the Transvaal, including the defence of Ladysmith. the man-strength of the Navy twelve 5.9-inch and an equall "Ample supplies of grain at He was in command of the 2nd Infantry Brigado prévions to going never attained anything like these pamber of 24-pounder guns, and present in this country. No

figures. In 1792-the year priore reputed to be designed for af occasion to pay panic prices." to the War Office.

The Council of the Incor. Brigadier-General the Hon. W. Lambton, C. M. G., M. V. O., to the opening of the war of the speed of 28 knots with turbines D. S. O., joined the Coldstream Guards in 1884. He served in Egypt French Revolution-the average of 80,000 horse-power.

porated Association of British and

No necessity for famine prices. Irish Millere met in London

Bacon has coly rison 1d this (Athara and Omdurman) and throughout the whole of the South numbers bores throughout the

So far as known no other war yesterday to consider the situation, week. In dry provisions eager African War (wounded, twice mentioned in despatches, Queen's year were 17,381; but the fleet medal with four, clasps, King's medal with two clasps and D. 8. O.) was rapidly expanded, and by ships in German shipyards are and endorsed the public state is expected to make the biggest He was military secretary to Lord Milner 1900-04 and in 1910 was 1801, the year before the con- near completion, though there is ment of the Minister of Agricul rise because of the closing down clusion of temporary peace, they some probability of the twelve ture that there are ample supplice of imports from Russia and appointed Groom-in-Waiting to H. M. the King.]

stood at 131,059. In 1802 and destroyers of the 1913 programme of grain at present in this country, France. The wholesale houses 1803 our naval, personnel stood being ready before the end of the The Board of Agriculture's are to be wall stooked in every a about half of this figure, and year. Germany builds these boats estimate that we have in this department, and there is a feeling then, with the renewal of the war, much more rapidly than our own country now a store of wheat that the increases will not for there came a further expansion. builders, for a reason not easy to sufficient for four months at the some months, at any rate, ap- In the year of Trafalgar 120,000 discover. The two small cruisers, normal rate of consumption is also proach anything like famine officers and men were voted, while Graudenz and Regensburg, are supported by "Dornbusch's List," prices. the average numbers borne were completing afloat, and the former the oldest daily grain trade journal 114,012; and the highest figure ray be ready within a few in the kingdom, which says: actually reached in the whole of months; but the Regensburg was "The following appears to be our history was in the year 1813, not launched until last April a fair statement of what is was returned on August 14 at an when the figure roso to 147,047. Germany will probably help prastically in eight as supply for inquest at Maghull Ormskirk con The strength of the German navy hereof to the Russian cruisers, the United Kingdom at the no-cerning the death of William in active service personnel is Muravieff, Amurski, and Admiral ment 79,080, an increase of over Nevelakoi, which are nearing

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Naval Personnel.

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Sept. 22, 4.15 am. The Gazette announces that Major-Generale Sir O. F. N.

The placing of the Navy on Marerdady, K.C.B., and Sir W. R. Robertson, K.O.V.O., C.B., D.B.O., war footing has necessitated a have been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General; and Col- very large increase in the person onet the Hon. W. Lambton, C.M.G., M.V.O., D.S.O., has been pro-nel of the Fleet. The number of moted to the rank of Brigadier-General.

All fores oficers were mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John French's despatch of the 9th September.

Major-General Robertapa is a ranker.

German General's Headquarters Moved.

Sept. 22, 4.16 a.m. It is ramoured in Antwerp that General Kluck has transferred

bis Staff to Mons.

"Inoportune Peace Suggestions,”

Sept. 22, 4.15 a.m.

It is stated from Washington that President Watson told callers at the White House that the ability of the United States to serve humanity Has been handicapped by inopportune peace suggestions.

Italian Cabinet Authorises Export of Sugar to England.

Sept. 22, 4:15 a.m. The Italian Ohbinet has authorised the export of one hundred thousand tone of sugar monthly to England.

·Japanese Låse Another Torpedo-boat.

Sept. 22, 5,30 am." It is announced from Peking that the Japanese have lost a second towpedo-boat outside Kiayohau, sunk by a German cruiser.

Russian Contributions."

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Cereal Food.

after to-morrow. If the prices become so exorbitant ne to pro- bibit French plums and pears in the modest household, there will be no hardship in this.

Provisions.

General news and an article on

en page 3 to-day.

The Naval Yard assault case Court yesterday afternoon.

"Our Contemporames" appeara

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

Bijon Theatre 9 p.m. Victoris Theatre 9.15 p.m. TO-MORROW.

Bijou Theatre 9p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15. v.. Saturday, September 25. Douglas Steamship Co-Ordin

general meeting-noon.

ary

Boud Night, Peak Olub-9.15

p.m.

Bale of Curios. P. Lammert's

Sales Rooms-2.30 p.m.

Shot by a Sentry.

Monday, September 28.

A verdict of justifiable homicide

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pin

Bale of Crown Land, P.W.D. -

The Peak-G. P. Lamu

Sale of household furniture, No.

59, Robert Dawaun, a tramping 2.45 p.m. Qre. podlar aged 62 who was shot dead Thursday, October 1.. 9,550,000 at midnight on Tuesday by the Opening of Hongkong Turkish 1,920,000 sentry guarding a bridge on the Bath and Toilet Jompany's

main road to Liverpool Private Turkish baths. 390,000 Brady, of the 3rd South Lan Saturday, October 3.' 750,000 cashire Regiment, who fired the Hongkong Hotel Co. Ltd., ex- shot, stated that Dawson was traordinary General Meeting- 12,010,000 challenged three times but made noon.

6,000 on the total for 1913. A completion at the Sobichau Yard, Within borders......... the compulsorily enlisted men Elbing. These are vossold of 4,500 Afloat direct serve for only three years, there tons and a designed speed of 27 Proportion of "for" is naturally a very numerous knots, carrying an armament of

ordere" DRA 200 lalaki reserve, its strength being about eight 5-in. guns and four 2.5-in.

Continent direct 110,000, but there is every reason The Vulcan Company is building for believing that, as regards for Greece the battleship Salamis, officicnay, the latter are not to be of 19,500 tons, designed to carry "The normal consumption of no reply. When "hands up" was

ompared with the reserves of eight 14-in. (Americon) guns the United Kingdom is at this callod lie abouted back a defiant. Amateur Boxing Tournamne

but this ship has not yet been time estimated at 920,000 qre reply. launched. the British Navy,

Baturday, October 10,

of City Hall.