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WEDNESDAY,

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.

GOOD NEWS ALL ALONG THE LINE,

BOLD BRITISH COUNTER-STROKE.

1,100 Dead Germans Found in One Trench.

FRENCH DRIVE ENEMY OVER THE FRONTIER

ON THE EAST,

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Volunteers from Malaysia.

Singapore, Oct. 27, 1,30 p.m. The Straits Times las cabled to Earl Kitchener offering a Malayan contingent of 100 men to serve in any capacity.

The Government of the Straits Settlements offers pisanges to men between the ages of nineteen and thirty-eight for the Home army. They will ealist at Home. The expenses of the wives and children of married men will not be paid. Recruiting has started.

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

"For Home Consumption."

Dot. 27, € 25 p.m. The German story of the battle of Warsaw is evidently intend- ed for home consumption and is totally disbelieved,

Greece and the Epirus.

Heuter is informed that Greece bas intimated to the Powera that she will roncoupy the Epirus, from which the Greek Army withdrew in March in parsuance of the Conference of Ambassadora. The action of Greece does not reverse the dosision of the Powers, but she has been invited by the population, even the Massalmans, to restore order and security, because since the retirement of the Greek troops anarchy and devastation have reigned. Troops are now being despatched.

Greece announces that Valona is outside her sphere of influen- ce, and she has given explicit assurances to Italy thereanent:

British Operations.

Oct, 27, 1 p.m. An eye-witness with the British Headquarters describes the operations leading to the great battle on the North coast. Hie atatement says the arrival of British reinforcements, enabled the Allies' line to be extended northward, and two minor engagements dislodged the enemy in the region of Mont-des-Osta, the enemy re- treating hastily in the darkness. The Germans also evacuated Bailleul.

The Enemy Dislodged,

The advance of our Left Wing endangered the whole of the enemy's positions; thas all the country on the left bank of the River Lys and Armentieres fell into our hands.

Our Right Wing, southward of the Lys, continued fiercely con tested encounters, the howitzers having to reduce houees to make way for the infantry. Villages were taken and retaken,

enemy back,

The French cavalry gave most welcome support, driving the We encountered the strongest opposition at La Bassee, and progress was slow against the enemy's machine-guns; but the counter-attacks were easily repulsed.

A British Counter-stroke.

The enemy made a general attack, which was unsuccessful, and a British Brigade replied with a couptor-stroke, 1,100 German dead being found in one trench alone,

Germans Driven Across the Frontier.

Oct. 27,7 p.m. A Paris communique states that in the region east of Nancy, between the forests of Bezance and Paroy, we have assumed the offensive and driven the enemy soross the frontier.

·Russian Advance,

OCTOBER

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

Allies' Left Wing Still Advancing.

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RAMAN'S DRIFT.

THE WOUNDED AT HOME.

Important Success of the S.A. Force.

Cheerful Spirits and Hearty.

Appetitos.

Oct. 26, 4.45 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Paris states that the Germans' cross ing the Yeer canal need not be taken too seriously, since advices to-day indicate a general advance of the Allies between Nieuport and Ypres, and also east of Arras.

Italian Troops Landed in Albania.

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It is reported from Rome that Italian warships have landed force at Valona, ostensibly to succour the inhabitants who are suffer ing from Epirote raide, Warships are patrolling the coast to pre- vent gun-running and other infringements of the autonomy of Valona is the best seaport in Albania, and standa on an eminence rear an inlet of the Adriatic, protzeled by the island of Sasseno; population 5,000.]

Albania...

More German "News."

Oct. 27, 4 55 a.m. German despatches stale that battles are raging under the walls of Warsaw, which Zeppelins and aeroplanes are bombarding. The inhabitants are fleeing.

French Liner Sunk in the Channel.

Oct. 27, 4.35 a.m.

A French liner en route from Boulogne to Havre struck a mine and Bank. 2,500 Belgian refugees who were aboard were rescued by a Channel packet and bought to Folkestone. A score were drown

Oct. 27, 7.20 a.m. With the exception of 150 Belgian soldiers, all the passengers on the French liner were refugees from Lille and Arras.

ed.

Cause of Disaster Unknown.

Cape Town, Sept. 15.

Graphic stories of the carnage

ITELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

CONDENSED.

The important strategio posi-at the front were told by some of Forther violent night attacks men who by the Germans have been re tion on Raman's Drift has been the 700 wounded occupied by a South African arrived at Southampton on Sep pulsed.

Force after a sharp ekirmish with tember 2 from the fighting line. Dutch papere state" that the

the German garrison.

On one occasion, it was said, the Germans have sacked, Roulers

The place of origin of the Scots Greys charged through the and killed a thousand inhabitants. following telegram has been ranke of the enemy five times. obliterated by the Censorship:

One of the arrivals was an Naport has been violently "Learning that a German force artillery gunner, who is blind. bombarded by the Germans, but of considerable strength was ad- He estimated that his gun alone without any marked result. v.ncing on Raman's Drift with bad accounted for one thousand

The Straits Times has cablod Earl Kitchener cffering a Malay- the idea of entrenching them- Germans.

Some of the soldiers lauded at sian contingent of 100 men to eelves there and resisting our

The Straits Soulements Govern-

passage, General Lukin despatch hospitals at Bristol and Leicester.

Southampton ware taken to serve in any capacity

od Colonel Dawson, with hie

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Fourth South African Mounted About 120 wounded men arrived ment is offering passages to men Rifles, to surprise the garrison at Waterloo.

between 19 and 38 years for the "We get our wounded out of Home Army. already at the Drift, and occupy it,

Marching two nights and biding the trenches as quickly as we are The Russian recapture, of

by day, Colonel Dawson effected able," said a medical corps man, Lowicz has ensured to blusion of

complete surprise, and captured "but they have to lie there

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the blockhouse commanding the sometimes, and when a force has the country 80 miles westward Drift after a sharp skitmish, dar to retire they are sometimes left of Warsaw.

The Belgians, strengthened by ing which he lost one man killed. behind. If the German soldiers

them they are "killed- the Allies, have resumed touch The garrison of the blockhouse find

murdered. A sergeant-mejor of with the enemy at diferent pointa then surrendered.

"The Drift is nearly sixty miles the artillery has arrived who along the River Yser. from Steinkopp, and the march escaped death only by feigning The Belgian losses in nine. was therefore a very creditable death. He told me that himself. days' fighting totalled 10,000 performance. The ergagement Some of the stories told by our killed and wounded, the German is not an important one as far as men are terrible. A member of losses being heavier. numbers are concerned, but it my corps-a Red Cross man Italian warships have landed shows the mobility of the Union who went out with four others, is Force, and the Drift is of the the only survivor."" utmost importanca strategically since it is capable of being con- verted into a most formidable entrenched position.

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a force at Valona, ostensibly to the itbabitants allting from Epiro e raide.

Three hundred quickly recovering from their

To the east of Niney the wounds at the London Hospital. The atmosphere in the saalit French have assumed the cffen- "The name of the riffeman kill. wards is remarkably cheerful.sive and driven the enemy soroga Ajo E. A. Harley."-Reater.

Mingling with the strains of the frontier. "Havana" or "It's a long, long The Garman story of the battle Raman's Drift is on the Orange River, about midway way to Tipperary," one bears the of Warsaw ie evidently intended between Steinkopp, on the Fort strains of "For all eternity" for home consumption and is Nolloth Railway, and Warmbad, coming from a gramophone not totally disbelieved. lho southern terminus of the far away,

A healthy sign is the marvel- German South-West Africa Rail-

lous pretites of the soldiers, way system.]

Witbie ten minutes of the arrival

The Kisu-Kenu Road,

Nairobi, September 14-A of 200 on August 30 they were in sharp angagement took place on bed and enjoying tea and broad

A statement from the British

Headquarters deforibes the soc cessful advance of our troops in France.

A French liner from Boulogne

the Kisa Kenu road on Septem- and butter. They ate us cut of to Huvre, with Bilgian ang French ber 13 between 300 men of the butter and jam in ten minutes," refugees on beard, has buck in the 4th King'a African Rifles and said Lord Knutsford, presiding Bannel and the survivors have The liner was still efl at when the Channel boat left, the crew about 400 Germans, including at the quarterly Court of Gover been taken to Folkestone. sticking to their posts. It is not known whether the steamer struck 50 white men-Reuter. a mine or was torpedoed. The Inteet report is that her boiler ex ploded.

Loss of Life Due to Panic.

Oct. 27, 8 a.m.

Effective Skirmishing–In–

Rhodesia.

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NEWS.

Further notes on the origin jam, and sugar, and as many Cape Town, Sept. 14, cigarettes as you like to send appear on page 4, *

Interesting war items Telegrams from Livingstone them. We have allowed smoking state that a German force attack in the wards; and we have had given to-day......⠀ ed Abercorn, near Lake Tangan-many presente of pipes and "Our Contemporaries" appears The channel packet got alongside the liner after much manoen-yika, on the morning of September cigarettes." :

on page 2, commercial newe on The troops speak with coupage 9 and log bock on page 6. vring in a choppy sea, and rescued the whole of the refugees in 5. The enemy's skirmishers were forty minutes.

repulsed by maxim fire and snip-tempt and indignation of some of General. nows and an article The fatalities were due to panic, the refugees throwing their ing on September 6, but to the methods by which war is entitled "The Terror in Austria" children wildly across, while men and women, in trying to jump, organised attack took place. waged by the enemy. They all fell between the steamers and were killed.

On September 8 the enemy agree in saying that the German Many jumped into the sea and were rescued by French des apparently withdrew to cover the rifle shooting is poor, but that the troyers.

advance of field gune, and on effects of their artillery are often Sa tember 9 the Germans opened disastrous. shell fire with a light field gun An infantryman related how without great effect. A maxim for three days he lay in the soda silenced the fire.

treaches shooting at Germana Oct. 27, 8.15 8.0. An official statement isened in Paris at eleven o'clock in the The Germans abandoned their who rever cea ed to come. evening says that Nieuport haa basn violently bombarded and the position during September 9, and Finally he rolled over, ill, not effort by the Germans has been continued on the front from were located at night 15 miles wounded, and was picked up in Nieuport to Dizmude, without apparently achieving any result. All east of Abercorn. Lieut. McCarthy the road. Ho is now recovering the front between La Bassee and the river Somme has also been the made a forced night march with from a touch of malaria. object of violent right attacks, all of which were repulsed. There 90 men and a maxim and drove is nothing noteworthy on the rest of the front. -

Nlouport-Bombarded.

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Big German and Belgian Losses.

The fall text of the Bill for winding up the affairs of alien enemies is given to-day.

The report of the Hongkong Cricket Club for the past season appears elsewhere,

'DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

Bijou Theatre 9.15.p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m.. TO-MORROW.

A member of a Manchester the enemy over the border. regiment said that the Germans The enemy's losses are un- killed one wounded British known, but are believed to be soldier by outting his throat. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m." considerable. We lost two men. "When they see R.A.M.O. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m -Reater.

men with stretchera," he added, Sale of Leasehold Property [Abercorn is situate at the "they bayonet them in the wrists G.P. Lammert's Sales Rooms south-eastern end of Lake Tan so that they cannot pick up the 3 p.m. A Belgian official communique issued at Havre says the ganyika, in the northern cor- wounded. situation on Sunday evening was better than on Saturday, when the ner of Rhodesia, quite near the Belgians lost their position on the river Yeer and were repulsed for frontier of German Eist Africa.] two miles and a half. The Belgians, strengthened by the Allies, have since resumed touch with the enemy at different points on the river.

Oct. 27, 7.20 a.m.

The Belgian losses during nine days' fighting have been 10,000 killed and wounded The German losses have been heavier.

Russians? Great Strategic Success in Poland.

Oct. 27, 8 a.m.

A message from Petrograd states, that the Russian recaptare of Lowicz has easuced them possession of the country for eighty miles westward of. Warsaw.

[Lowice, in the Government of Warsaw, is altuato 47 miles WSW. of the city of Warsaw.].

Oct. 27, 8 a.m. Datch papers state that the Germans have sucked the Belgian town of Roulers and the surrounding villages, and killed one thousand of the inhabitants.

Another soldier said that when the British troops captured a German colonel he said, Thank God, I shall not be hungry any longer!!!

Rodia's "Burghers of Calals,

Mr. Hamel's Death Presumed.

Mr. Registrar Hardy has made an order to presume the death of Mr. Gustav W. Hamel, the air- man. From the affidavit of Joseph Le Fratre, skipper of the Rodin's statuary group" Burg- fishing emack St. Helene, of hers of Calais," the gift of the Etaples, it appeared that on July National Art Collections Fund, 13 he saw a body floating on the has been placed in pontion in the water, from the pocket of which Victoria Tower Gardena, West be recovered an airman's map. minster. It stands on a pedestal The description of the clothing 171t, high, and with the mass of tallied with the description given the Victoria Tower as a back by a carpenter living at Hardelot, ground has a much more effective near Boulogne, who saw Mr. setting than the original at Calais. Hamel elart from Hardelot Beach The site was the choice of M

of May 23.lege) - London lest summer.

The Russians on the River San and to the south of Przemysl Roulers is 10 miles SSW of Bruges, and has a population of to fly to London on the morning Rodin himself after a tour through have increased their offannive

23,500. Here, in 1794, the French defeated the Austriane:]

Friday, October 30 Organ Repital, St. John's Cathedral, in aid of the Prince of Wales' Fund-9.15 p.m.

Saturday, October 31. Ministering Children's League bazaar--Government House Grounds.

HK. Jockey Club meeting

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Wednesday, November 4 Licensing Bessions, eye HKFC Annual Meeting, 5.80 p.m.

General

Thursday, November Hongkong and South Chinn Steam Fisheries Co. Ltd1oon:

Saturday, November 7.97 Hongkong A.D.C. "Blue Bird" Gala night Theatre Royal-*** 9:15 pm. 1911 Car

Tuesday, November 10, Hongkong A.D.O. Blas Bind Theatre Royal 0.15 pm.