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SATURDAY, DECEMBER
19,
1914.
大洋盛 號九十月二拾英 *香
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THE HAMBURG WIRELESS THE FLIGHT OF BEYERS.
STORY
SGRAMS.
The Alleged British Chaplain
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Defeat and Capture of Rebel NEWS OR BUSY MEN.
Commandant.
GOOD PROGRESS IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE.
ALLIES CARRY LONG LINE OF TRENCHES.
The British Bombardment in the Gulf of Saros.
TERRIFIED TURKS FLEE INTO INTERIOR.
[Router's Service To "The Telegraph."}
Enemy's Trenches Carried.
Dec. 18, 530 p.m.
A Paris communiquo states: Yesterday afternoon was marked by our progress in Belgium, where all the enemy's counter-attacks failed.
A vigorous offensive in the Atras region made us masters of several tranches in front of Anoby, only one mile and a quarter south- west of La Bassee, and at Loos and St. Laurent-Blangy, both two miles eastward of Arras. At Blangy we carried nearly the whole
Loyal Moslems.
Cape Town, Oct. 29.-Colonel Loyal messages have been received from the Moslem population Chaplain at Homburg having been the Cape Province has been finally With reference to a British Brits reports that the invasion of of Trinidad and Tobago.
Servia Clear of Enemy Troops.
Between the Driva and the Save there are now no Austrian troops ia Servia. Since the beginning of the war the Servians have cap Lured 60,000 prisoners.
The East Coast Bombardment.
A
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CONDENSED.
The Allies ers making distinct
shot as a spy, for using wireless broken. He defeated the com- apparatos, several paragraphs bined rebel and German force set progress in France and "Belgiq have appeared in European news Bohuits Drift, on the Orange River. papers, differing widely with re-Colonel Brits is returning to the the Gulf of Baros terrified the
The British bombardment 820 s paragraph appeared in the transferred his command to Daily News to the following Colonel Royston, gard to facts. More than a month Transvaal, having temporarily Turke, who fled to the interior.
The Prees Bureau has no con- effect:
Colonel van der Venter reports sinking of two British destroyers. firmation concerting the alleged "A Danish subject is reported the farther capture of rebele in to have been shot as a spy at the Calvinia district. He has there were 82 killed and 250 Hamburg, together with an Eng. also taken, in the course of his wounded in the bombardment of The official return shows that lish clergyman who lived with operations, 340 horses and mules, Hartlepool.
The Admiralty makes the following announcement: This morn-him. It is alleged that he estab-220 rifles, 2 Maxims, and a large ing a German cruiser force made a demonstration upon the Yorkabire listed a wireless station on his quantity of ammunition. He bas Captured Germans from the coast, in the course of which they shelled Hartlepool, Scarborough roof and intercepted messages met no opposition. The rebels French front state that the Kaiser and Whitby. A number of their fastest ships were employed for from the German Fleet at Kiel are scattered in small numbers in hae ordered Waresw to be taken this purpose and remained about one hour off the coast. They were and Wilhelmshaven." engaged by patrol vessels on the spot and the British patrolling aquadron endeavoured to cut them off. The Germans at once madeject, whose letter appeared in
A fortnight later a Danish sub-capture them soon.
Namaqualand, but he hopes to at all costs, off at full speed, and, favoured by the mist, made good their escape. the NC Daily News cor
Surrenders.and Captures.
A Petrograd offcial message The Governor-General of the Friedrich Karl was sunk in the says that the German ortiser respondence columns, supplied Union of South Africa bas sent last cortie in the Baltic. Allies Progress,
the following translation the following telegram to the from the Nation altidende of Secretary of State for the (Official Telegram from the French Government, via Peking.)
August 29 relating to a similar Colonies:
There is indignation in Athena incident:--
at the condemnation to death in The
Union Government Constantinople of a Greek naval The Allies have strengthened their positions and conquered at served three years as an officer in the effect that on Tuesday, Octo-carried nearly the whole of the "The chaplain to the English announces that a report has been officer on a charge of espionage. St. Georges and Lombaertzyde, extending their left wing up to the the British Navy, had, in theber 27, be sent a patrol of 50 enemy's first line of trenches over
church at Hamburg,, who had received from Colonel Brits to North Sea. They carried at the point of the bayonet several Ger- church and on the tower, install men in the direction of Bohaits
At Blagny, the Allies hayo man trenches and took more than 100 prisoners. West of Gheta-ed wireless apparatus. During Drift, where they encountered 150 velt they parried 400 metres of Garman trenches, and gained the nights he intercepted the of Marita's men. The patrol von Hindenburg has been re-
front of more than a kilometre." ground in the Vermelles region, south of La Bussee. On the outskirts Berlin telegrams, and bad as an captured eight of Maritza men, inforced to the extent of nine of Tracy-le-Val they destroyed a German observatory and several assistant a Danish innkeeper.
It is understood that Gǝneral machine guns. There was no infantry aotion on the Aisne and in Champagne, but the very powerful gan range of the French heavy not work well, and the chaplain engagement Maritz lost several
including two lieutenante. artillery was demonstrated, also in the Argonne and Vedua regions. and his assistant had to get on the killed and wounded, but no
One night the apparatus did "It is reported that in
Army Corps within the last the month. roof to repair the defect. This details as to these are at present ian losses published to date num action was detected by the Ger to hand. There were no losses on ber a million, and the Saxon and mans, who were suspicione; in our side.
Wurtemberg lists make a further vestigations were made, with the "Captain Benkes, Lieutenant 200,000, result that both the English Furter, and 58 men of the Active chaplain and his Denish assistant Citizen Force raised in Namaqua- were shot in the morning."- land, surrendered voluntarily to We (N. China Daily News,) are Commandant Studer and ware now inclined to believe that the brought in by him t› Springbok-to-day. above-mentioned stories are some yesterday,
"There is reason to believe appear on page 4.
[in the event of telegråms arriving too late for insertion on this "page they will be found on the Extra,]
BARLIER TELEGRAMS,
Casualties at Hartlepool: Official Statement,
of the many fictions that have
arisen since the beginning of the that this
detachment was,
The total Prussian and Bavar-
NEWS,
Intereating war items are given
Further notes on the crisis
Our Christmas Shoppera
present, war, We are informed to a great extent, dissociated Gaide" appeara ca page 9 to-day.
by one who, although a subject from the Maritz rebellion
of one of the belligerent nations, and got away from Kakamas
The latest donations to the
does not wish to do any injustice to as soon as possible, making their Prince of Wales' Fund are given. either side, that, about a year ago, way to Springbok under very today. an English chaplain, curate of a great difficulty." church in Hamburg, was chiefly
340 Prisoners Taken
Hongkong Twenty-five Years employed in ministering to Britiab Cape Town, Nov. 1.-Colonel "1889" on page 4 to-day.
Ago appears under the heading
of the enemy's first line of trenches, over a front of more than a wounded in the bombardment of Hartlepool; also five were killad / with regard to. the arrival of teen were killed and 30 wounded.
Dec. 18, 4:55 am seamen, and in order that he Alberts has defeated the rebels in N. C. Petrie has been convicted An official statement says that 82 persons were killed and 250/might readily obtain information the, Lichtenburg "district, Thirin the motor car case and fined
kilometre,
Oar heavy artillery in the district of Tracy-le-Val and in Cham-wounded, in the engagement off Hartlepool:
on the oruiser Patrol and ten on the destroyer Doon, with fifteen paratus installed upon the api pague gained a clear advantage,
vessels, had had a wireless of his church. The matter was
German Attempt Which Falled,
In Argonne the enemy blew up one of our trenches north of Le Four-de-Paris and tried to debouch therefrom with three battal- ions. This attack and another made at St. Hubert were repaleed. There is nothing to report sast of the Meuse and the Vorges.
An Unconfirmed Report,
A Berlin official statement says: Our ships were hit by the casst batteries but only slightly damaged.
[The Patrol ie a protected scout, sister ship to the Pathfinder, has a crew of 268. of 2,040 tons. She is srmed with 9 4-in. guns, does 25 knots and
The Doon is a destroyer of 800 tons with a speed of 25 knots and a crew numbering 72.)
German Cruiser Sunk in the Baltic,
Reater's correspondent at Petrograd says it is officially än-
Deo 18, 4.55 a.m. nounced that the German craiser Friedrich Karl was sank in the Jast sortie in the Baltic Ses. Two-thirds of the crew were drowned,
The Presa Bureau announces that it has no information of the less than 200 being saved.
Doo, 18, 5.30 p.m. alleged sinking of two British destroyera.
*British Bombardment Terrifies Turks. Reuter's correspondent at Athens reports that the British bombardment in the Gulf of Saros terrified the Turks, who fled to the interior.
The bombardment-destroyed the barracks and seriously dem. aged the fortifications.
Graeco-Turkish Relations Strained,
Two hundred and forty were вр
$50, the maximum sám. reported to the city authorities Coetzee, Chief of Staff to Marits, ery in Ceylon sppear or page 3.
taken prisoners. apire
General news and some alleg The rebel leaders Major Banations concerning German tresoh- the chaplain for a breach of re-been captured in the Kenhardt and a summons was issued against and Captain R. de Villiers have gulations. When the charge was district.
satisfied with the good intentions beard, the magistrate was so well.
and reason for the erection of the The destination of this mission wireless apparatus that the Chap- is being kept a profound secret, lain was called upon to pay only as well as its object Its im- the nominal penalty of three portance is evident from its merke. three stories above mentioned both financial and legal matters. membership, and apparently the refer to one and the same incident, Lord Haldane and the Chief It seems quite possible that the business to be transacted concerns The Friedrich Karl was an armoured cruiser of 8,858 tons, considerably since the outbreak before bis elevation to the bench which has been enlarged upon Justice, who as Sir Rufus Isaace completed at Hamburg in 1904. She carried a crew of 504 and was of war. In justice to the Chaplain, was the keenert legal light at armed with four 8.2-in., ten 5.9-in., twelve 3,4 in., fourteen 1.4-in, as well as to the Hamburg Muni- the English Bar, rank as about four machine guns and four submerged torpedo tubes. Her speed oipal Authorities, and neutral the foremost authorities upon the was 20.5 knots.]
nation, we have pleasure in an law in the United Kingdom. The nouncing the latter version. most plausible report has it that the three have gone to Holland and possibly will extend their journey to the Scandinavian Countries to deal with the matter of the shipment of goods from neutral countries into Grmany.
If the statements of the Eng lish papers are correct, Holland and, the three - Scandinavian The total Prussian and Bavarian lossen published to date tured Germans from the French front state that the Kaiser has sent three of its highest officials from the United States and even
Dea. 17, 10 p.m.
The Times correspondent at Petrograd reports that osp
Dec. 18, 7.5 a.m.
nailons are conducting flourish amount to about 1,000,000. The Saxon and Wartemberg lists make ordered Warsaw to be taken at all costs. Our present task to the Continent on a most from England. The newsp The British Government has the transhipment of supp
ing trade with Germany through *furthar 200,000.
Poland; there will be time to settle the business in the west later, mysterious and important mis- of all those countries he said.
It is understood that General von Hindenburg, the comment of the New York Times. The own needs alone, while
sion, says the London correspond- their impor ations are for in-chief of the German army in the east, has been reinforced delegation consists of Mr. David papers iziet that they are receiv nine army cores within a month, three of these having been Lloyd George, the Chancellor of ing cousig
gliab
ments of
(Official Telegrams from the British Foreign Office.)
Hugo German Losses.
The Enemy Harassed,
There is indignation in Athens at the condemnation to death in
Dec. 18, 7,5 a.nd. Constantinople of a Greek naval officer, on a charge of espionage.
The pape s say that Graco Tarkish relations will be broken if the sentence is carried out,
The Kaiser's Latest Change of Plans,
The Eye-witness at Headquarters in France reports that the forward recently, a activity of the Allied artillery, coupled with the ingenuity of the Army corps have been sent into Hung. nipers and cappers, has much harassed the enemy, kd
remain in Poland, anc
A SECRET MISSION.
Cabinet Ministers on the Continent.
in
the Exchequer, Lord Haldane
twenty
the Lord Chancellor, and the Lond Uhlef J
Assert
on page 2, our share report on "Our Contemporaries" appears page 15 and log book on page 6.
DON'T FORGET.
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Bijou Theatre-9.15 Victoria Theatre-9.18
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
Tuesday, December 22. Curios-G. P. Lammert's Salen Bale of Antique China and Boom-2.30
p.m.
Wednesday, December 23. Sale of Antique China and Curion P. Lammert's Salem Boom-2.30 p.m.
and the Frog Prino Theatre Saturday, January 2. A.D.O. presents ** Snowwhita Royal.-9.15
p.m.1 Wednesday Jant A.DO. Matinee, Theatre Roya "Snowwhite and
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