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THURSDAY,

1911. NOVEMBER 5,

四機伍十一拾处

TO-DAY'S

TURKEY DECLINES TO PASS CRUISEα.

PACIFIC MAIL CO.

Temparatura 6 a.m. 74 p. i. 76 .78 75

Coastal Business Vital to the Company.

SINGLE CUPY 10 GEN 18

$36 PER ANNUME

TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.

GERMAN RETREAT BEGUN.

SAID TO BE MAKING FOR BRUSSELS.

Enemy's Squadron Refuses to Fight.

ANGLO-F 22NCH FLEET BOMBARDS THE DARD \NELLES.

[Reuter's Service to "The Telegraph"]

French Successes.

Nov. 4, 3.16 .m.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

dernian Squadron Refuses to Fight.

Nov. 3, 12.20 nm.

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS

Germans Retreating.

Nov, 4, 6.30 o.m.

A telegram from Havra says a Belgian communique issued at 9 p.m. states: The enemy is retreating East of the Year, between Nieuport and Dixmude. We male prisoner.

Nov. 4, 6.45 a.m.'

The Daily Mail correspondent in the North of France reporte that a Belgian aerial reconnaissance observed a distinct movement of retreat towords Brussels.

It is stated at Rotterdam that the German Headquarters have been removed from Thielt to Gheat,

German Admission.

Nov. 4, 0.45 a.m. A despatch from the German Headquaters admits that the inundations south of Nieuport, preclude all operations in that direction. It says the whole country is destroyed and will tot recover for a long time.

Turks Detain British Consul.

Nov. 3, 8.15 p.m. The Official Press Bureau says that the British Consul at Basah (in Asiatic Turkey) and British merchants have been detained by the Turke.

Nov. 3, 8.40 p.m.

Angle-French Squadron Bombards Dardanelics.

· Nov. 4, 2,25 a.m. It is officially announced that an Anglo-French Squadron bombarded the Dardanelles at long range, at daybreak on Tuesday

The forts replies. No ships were hit. A large explosion, with volumes of emoke, occurrad at Holles Frt.

The Russians' Forward March,

Nov. 4, 0.50 a.m. An official statement from Petrograd says:-- The Germans on the East Prussian front are now everywhere acting on the defensive. The Russians. adraacod in some district, vaptured two guns and made some prisoners.,

Request to Send the U: S Warship Through the. Dardanelles Is Rejected.

CONDENSED.

"Life or death for the Pacific Mail Washington, September: 3.- Steamship Company, according to Turkey ha declined to grant the the General Manager, Mr. R. P. request of the United State for Schwerin, is involved in it permission to send the cruiser Application to the Interstate Com- North Carolina through the free Commission under thing from the Nieuport region, Dar tanelles to Constantinople to Panama Canal Act to continue in deliver $150,000 in gold deposit Francisco to Mexican parts reach- its coastal business from Sin ed here for the r linf of Americansed by the Southern Pao foing in Poland towards the terman in the Ottoman Empire.

The Czar hos left for the front. The Germans are now retreat-c.

apparently towards Brussels,

The Russians are still advanc-

The Grand Vizier has informed Railroad, owner of the steamship frontier.

On the East Prussian battle- the American Government that company.

The application was board by front the Germans are everywhere the waters of the Dardanelles have been mined, and that it Commissioner Henry C. Hall of on the defensive, would be gaanfe for a vessel as Denver, assisted by Special Ex-

An Anglo French squadran haa large as the North Carolina to aminer A. J. Gutheim. Uuless

commenced ilio bombardment of He the company can continue its the Dardanelles. go through the straite. declared also that it might estat business to the southern coast,

aaid Mr. Schwerin, it con not It is announced that the British, lish a precadent for the parage of other fore ga warships, and maintain itself as a transpacifio Consul and British merchanta at suggested that the American Crier and must pass out of Berah bave been detained by

the Turks, naval yacht Scorpion, oa duty existence.

The point at issue is the trafic. The Aga Khan bae east to the constantly in Turkish watere, along with other light vessels from San Francisco to the port of Moslems of India and the Domin- that serve foreign mia-ions, be Mazatlan, which the Southern ions a message denouncing Tark- Mr, Schwerlin's Statement. sent to sos to meet the North Pacife reaches through Nogales. ey.

President Poincare has confer- The company has no fear, asid red the Cross of the Legion Carolina,

Situation is Critical,

Mr. Schwerin, that the Panama of Honour on 119 British officers, This was the substance of a

NEWS.

Farthor notes on the crisis

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appear on page 4. Interesting wat given to day.

General news and war telegrams from Frsuch sources appear on page 3.

The annual meeting of the Hongkong Football Club is re- period in this issue.

"Our Contemporaries" appeara on page 2, commercial news on

6. page 9 and log book on page

A message by the Aga Klan, denouncing Turkey for making long cablegram received at the Canal Act can be construed to fix bravery

Sabmarine D5 has been sunk an unprovoked war at the bidding of Germany," which is to be White House and State Dapart include its steamship business to sent to the Moslems in In lia and the Dominions, was issued ment to-day from Ambassador the Mexican and Central American

Morgenthau, the first message ports farther south, which are during a skirmish in the North to-night.

which has hastily routed. [fte Aga Khan (Aca Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, from him in several days. He not. resched by the controlling Sen with a German squadron,

But, said the steamship" man, G.O.I.E., G.O.SI, KCIE), was born in 1875. He has many made no mention of any declara-railroad, millions of religious followers in East Africa, Central Asia and tions of war, but referred to the

his company cannot profitably. engage in the Mexican and An official statement issued in Paris'st 11 p.m. states:The India, and is the head of the emaili Mabommedens. Among his diplomatic situation as highly without the business of Mazatlan

numerous decorations he wears the 1st class Prussian Order of the critical...

Expects Turks to Fight. only information received this evening conseres the region north-Royal Crown Conferred, upon him by the Kaiser in 1901 He

The Ambassador reported that Central American business from Without this cast of Vailly, where we counter-attacked and recaptured a furm, attended the Ceranation in 1902, as the guest of the nation.]

all Americans who wished to San Francisco. Metz, and the region of Four-ic-Paris and St. Hubert, in Argonne,

leave bad done so and he thought southern ir de, he continued, the where a German attack was repulsed and we also gained ground,

funds abcari the North Carolina Oriental husfaees cannot be co- would be sufficient for immediate tinued. Either branch of the reeds,

company's business has at times In view of the delicate been unprofitable and has r situatio, the American Ambasa- quired the balance of the other. der suggested that the plan of 'The continuance of the Pacific sending the Scorpion to meet the Mail has been largely ser t- North Carolina outside the mental,' said Mr. Schwerin. "Toe straits be adopted. The incident company has not paid a dividend was discussed at the Navy and since 1898, but is withdrawa The Badget Bill was discussed Sate departments to-day and the menut the turning over the only at the Legislative Council most- North Carolina, now at Falmouth, considerable merchen meringing this afternoon. England, will start to-morrow business left under the American

the Mediterranean. She ag to foreign ships."

Double Significance. The Russiang are advancing beyond the Vistula, north-west of robbly will touch st Italian

roris and take aboard Assistant In his opening stat ment for the the Pilion, without any noteworthy engagements. They have occupi-Secret ry Brackenridge, reaching company, Atraey Fred H. Wood ed Sobadek, Lask and Rozprza. The enemy on the Ratom-Kielco the Dardanelles in a week ( ten gave the application a double front is retiring. The Austria as south-east of Kielce attempted an age.

significance. In the first place, obstinate resistance but were defeared with a loss of thras guar,

By the time of her arrival he said, it is for the Commision five mitrailleuees, and 1,500 rsoners,

oficials expect Turkey will have to determine if the Pan my Cansl declared war ca either Russia cr Act applies to auch traiga com- Great Britain. Id that event merce a tnt to Mexican and Central American ports. Then, they deem it more prudent to keep the cruiser away from the if such is tio decision, the com- cere of possible naval conflicte. Fanya ke to be permitted to The Turkish situation was dir-continue its barness on the cussed to-day by Count Bern-torff, ground tat withdrawal of its! the German Ambassador, and A. service will be an injury to the Rustem Bey, the Turkish Am- public interest.

Mr. Schwerin and a number If the President is of the tageader, and also occupied the opinion that the relations of this attention of the British end of San Francisco importers and exportera testified that a Ambasadors. From country with foreign nations tre French Washington, September 25-By or are likely to be endangered by Turkish cfficiale it was learned continuance of the Pacific Mail's order of President Wilson, es com-actions deemed by him inconsist that the first declaration of war southern service, as the only mander-in-chief of the army and nt with a dus neutrality, it is probably would be against Russia, regular one, is necessary to enable San Francisco merchante navy, the wireless station of the hit right and duty to protect such and that Turkey's delay in an- According to a telegram from Petrograd, the Czar has left for Marconi Company at Sinsconset, relatirns, and in doing so, in the nonncing her intentions was due to compete with the East and Mase., was closed tc-Jay because absence of any statutory restrio to her desire to complete military Europe in Central Amerios: It was asserted that, ro business it declined to recognise the right tions, he may act through such preparedness.

The Turkish Ambassador said goen from San Francisco by rail. of the Federal Government to ex-executive officer or department

as appears best adapted to effect the Turkish mobilization had been letters to the Commission from No opposition appeared, though ercise a consorship.

nate the desired end.

in progress for nearly a month, and Nov. 3, 8.15 p.m.

believed 500,000 or possibly minority stockholdera suggested To-day's communique issued in Paris says:-- The enemy appears to have completely abandoned the left

The navy department took no "The sot of such exeontive 1,000,000 men had been enrolled. that the Southern Pacifio dispose bank of the Year below Dixmude. The Allies re-occapied the pac-cognizance of the fact that the officer or department in each case He reiterated that the mobiliza-of its holdings of Pacific Mail sages of the Teer without great difficulty, and south of Dirmude, Merocni Company had filed in a is the act of the President: ation was not aimed at Greece cr towards Ghelavell, our advance was particularly noticeable.

Federal Court an application for denial of the officer's authority is Bulgaria.

The Official Tross Bor you announces that submarine D 5 was sunk in e ak rmieb with a German quadron which was retreating

in the North Saa,

The presence of an enemy squadron having been reported by the gunboat Halayon, various naval movement took place. The enemy's squadron retreated rapidly and avoided action."

The rear-most oruiser dropped mines, one of which alruck the submarine. Two officers and two men of her craw were saved.

British Officers Decorated.

Nov. 3, 12.20 a.m. President Poincare has conferred the Cross of the Legion of Honour on 119 British officers, for bravery in action between the 21st and 30th August.

the front.

Czar Goes to the Front.

Germans Abandon Important Position.

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The Russiane continue to advance in the lower Enn region, and desperate battle continues in the Nizky region.

WIRELESS PLANT CLOSED.

Refusal to Recognise Censorship.

tection of its responsibilities and obligations as a sovereignty, his powers ers broad.

:

We have everywhere maintained our front in the region north an injunction to restrain the a denial of the President's Diplomats generally believe

of the Lye, despite the enemy's attacks.

Fresh German attacks against the suburbs of Arras, Lihons,

and Quesnoy all failed.

We further progressed eastward in the Forest of l'Aigle. Our troops, who had been holding the slopes eastward of Vailly, were drawn back to the valley, but we maintained our post tion above Bourg-at-Comin, on the right bank of the river.

There has been a violent cannonade between Rheims and the

Mouse and also on the heights of the Meuso.

Fresh efforts by the enemy in Argonna have been checked. We continued to programs north-west of Pont-à-Mousson. There have been some small actions on the Right Wing, which were favourable to our Armies, especially along the Seille.

[Bourg-et-Comin is in the department of Aisne, 14.1-2 miles Font--Mousson is in the dept. of Meurthe-et-Moselle, on the Biver Moselle, 17 miles NNW of Nancy.

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Daval officere from closing or power. wireless company Anally decided censoring the station. The

to offer no resistance and the station was closed at 1 p.m.

his opinion on the legality of the Attorney General Gregory, in

action, said:

Patriotic British people will be

stook.

Creditors,

Greece will immediately aliga Duke of Manchester Sought by herself with the allies against Torkey if the latter declaren war. New York, September 25.- The expectations also are grow-William Augue Dromo Montank, ing that Itily is preparing to side Dake of Manebestro marned with the 'alliee.

Helen, daughter of Eugene Zim mrman, a C'ncinnati 1anker, is being sought be oreditors who charge that the Duke's chrques which he has given at yerons

King's Approval.

DON'T FORGET,

TO-DAY.

Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-3.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW:

Bijou Theatre-3.15 p.m Victoria Theatry).15 p.m. Saturday, November 7 Bale of Curios etc.-O.P. Lam- marte Sales Roms2 30p.m.

Hongkong A.D.O. "Blue Bird" Gala night, Theatre Royal 9.15 p.m.

Tuesday, November 10. Sile of Furniture, GP. Lam- mert, at 3, Carnarvon Villas-11

$1,100.

Theatre Royal-9.15 p.m.

Hongkong A.D.O. "Blue Bird" Thursday, November 12. Bale of Household Property=

G.P. Lammert's Sales Rooms

3 pm

Saturday, November 14, Hongkong A.D.0. at Theatre Royal, "Blue Bird."

Saturday, November 21, B.E.Jockey Club, Extraordin

ary General Meeting.

For China Inland Mission."

Mr. John Haing: Biddle," of

"The President of the United glad to know that the valuable The Gazette announces that the times lave not been paid when Worthing, who died on Aug. 10, States is at the head of one of the drag sold under the German King has been pleased to approve offered to tanks aga nst which left £23,088,the event of three great co-ordinate deper trade name of Aspirin is now of Mr. Kahachi Abe as Consul of they wire drawn. Tas Duke bas leaving no leone a policy for ments of the Government. He being prescribed and supplied by Japan at Vazovaver; of Mr. Yang been in fixancial traits since the 61,000 was left to be divided is commander-in-chief of the chemists under the British trade Bon-Wen a Consul-General of failure of his International Educa between several missionary and army and navy. In the precer came of Helicon. Ita chemical China of O tawa; and of Mr. Lia tonal League, which was capital benevolent societies, amongit vation of the safety and integrity constitution is identical in every Shin Yman as Casal of Chins at ized at $10,000,000. He is said them being the Chine Inland of the United Stater and the particular.

to be in Canada or Philadelphia,

Vancouver

Mision.