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GERMANY UNDER WAR CONDITIONS:

News Notes Compiled from Latest Available German

Newspapers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1914

FROM THE RUSSIAN PRESS.

ITALY."

Roumanian Contract, « The Roumanian Minister of

War has granted to an American firm a concession for the establish ment in Roumanis of a factory for the making of quick-firing guns, rifles and revolvers. Work will begiu as soon as the concession has been ratified by Parliament.

The newspaper Rumans has

Balkan Disclosures, {

Roumania Indicted.

German Food,

The German Way, Ban

WAR ITEMS.

Holland and the British Care.

The head of a Mintheater firm has received from a Datoh frie in Holland a letter accepting 50 copies of the memorandum of tis Manchester Chamber of Co- merse for distribution, and ad-

The British Government have

I

Governments.

I, though Dutch, am still English

The director of the gymnasium - A writer in the Frankfurten.

attacked an Italian position at and he must report himself daily at Alikiroh (Upper Alssee) writes Zeitung recalls a passage from

Monte, killingssten, men and to the police authorities. Any to the Neunkirchner Zeitung as the journal of Count d'Herisson,

woadding ton, and that the Italian breach of this rule is punishable an eye-witness of an examination a well-known cilver in the war of

Government had despatched by one year's imprisonment. held at the gymnasium while the 1870, who thus expressed himself GERMAN REPRISALS AGAINST reinforcements to Libvs, the Gor-Labourers who have been employ- town and the gymnasium itself concerning the doings of francs-

man paper declares that those ed by private persons from the were being bombarded by French tireurs:I state herawith-and

eventa cerve as a warning to the first month of this year mast artillery. He says: "At ten o'clock this is the opinion of all the

Italian Government against Italy's remain in their situations in ex there began at the gymnasium military men I know that if I Floating Mines in the Danube, dubious behaviour, an change for food and lodging until the emergency examination (Not were to enter Frassis as a gener-

Portuguese Colonies. December 1, and after that date Bakharest, Nov, 20. In an article on Colonial ques each man will pay his employer Max Nordau, the German pruefnog), which was to last tili al, I should do precisely what the

The following communique baitions the Koelnische Zeitung quotes afty pfennigs for hiafood." Com ding author, who has for years been 2.30. The building is situated Prussiane are doing, that is to

a height near the railway say, put to death all the irregulars been published in the Roumanian a telegram reporting that, in con- menting on this order, the Gazetteer avens since the outbreak of the station, and the fire from the that fell into my hands. Thereofficial journal Adveral: The sequence of the Portuguese mo- observes that Europe has never issued here six books on the his- living in Paris, and whose where-on about yere unknown, is safe in Franch artillery batteries above is no other way of conducting war Russian authorities recently an- bilieation order disturbances before seen a more cynical regulatory of the war and of the days nounced that near Baduevatz on have taken place in the Portugae tion, one which practically reducer before the war, but although an- Madrid. He wrote that he fled on Kersback, near Barhutte, against humanely."

the river Danube floating minen, se African colonies, and that some the Bassian labourers to a forma nouncements in the paperseny the 3rd of September from Paris, the German position at the rail- passed directly

laid by persons unknown, bad attempts have been made to "des of slavery. Not only will they these books can be had in all intending to go to Spain, but was way station,

The two German officers, Capt. been found. After careful introy railways and bridges. Ac have to work without wages from booksellers' shops for the saking arrested at Bordeaux and threaten over the gymnasium. A mie- od with a dire fate. The least directed German shrapnel found von Kummer, Bad Lieut. Scholler, vestigation one: German and two cording to this journal, the revo December 1, but they will have have, to my regret, not succeed- punishment held out to me was its way into the Untersakands who, as bearers of a flag of trace, Turkish sabjects have been arrest-lutionary movement in Portugal to find fifty pfennigs to pay their od in getting a single ones the same applies to the publications obs sent to a fort and prohibited and the physical laboratory, caus- asked for the surrender of the ed and have confessed to laying is spreading, and in the town of board and lodging.

of the Russian and - Belgian fram reading newspapera and ing considerable destruction, but fortress of Bheime, now publish four minsa on the shores of the Braganza riots have taken place writing or receiving letters." fortunately injuring no one. The an account of the hardshipe they Danube at the place named, in and a bomb explosion occurred A Copenhagen message dated However, owing to the intercession examination went on quietly all had to undergo after their mission accordance with instructions re near the German Consulate. November 26 states that the Gov. I hope and I believe that the These events, the writer observes, ernor of the Province of Branden- Allies will in the long run bring of a colleague, he was released the same. Of three boys examin. was fulfilled. In spite of a certi-ceived. One of the mines has after three days, and allowed to ed, tire passed through the fire ficate from the French command been recovered by the Roumanian should warn Portugal of the dan-burg in Prussia had issued an off the honours of the day, which

gerous position in which she order limiting the use of white leave for Madrid, where he will of the hostile forces all the way to er, they were arrested, blindfold authorities

stande.

bread, the making of which must enough honestly to believe will probably remain until peace ie Mulhausen, a distance of seven-ed, and taken back to the fortress. toon kilometres; the third boy They were then driven, in an

now terminate at 12 o'clook each be for the best of Europe. The concluded.

Capt. von Esmaroh, son of the turned back, and I do not know open wagon, through several

Discussing the question of day. Bakernare permitted to use overwhelming majority of the towns along the Marne, and from

breaches of neutrality in Boc-state bread, meal, and potatoes Dutch people are of the same Princess Henrietto, of Schleswig what became of him."

time to time fettered. The ride

mania, the official journal Vio. in making new loaves, bat bread mind, and the influx of the Bel Holstein, and the famous surgeon,

German paper: speak of an en- lasted all night. The next day

torul says that the most im of this quality must be marked gian refugess has materially con

tributed to this."avima Prof. von Esmarch, was in chorga of a cavalry command at Louvain counter between outposts of French they again underwent, in a new

portant instances are the transport with a "K" (karioliel). that was fired upon by the inhabit dragoons and German hussars, in place, & searching scrutiny, and

through Roumania of German bullion and of wirelons As su example of the style in The following is an extract

O'Kelly's Luck. ants. He was severely wounded the course of which a well-known were threatened with the fate of

telegraphy apparatus from Gor which German official communi- from a letter from Private Pat and is now recovering at Kiel. daring rider, Lieut. von Falken spies. Their case was referred hausen, found himself face to face from one high officer to another;

many to Constantinople. This has ques are prepared for the public, O'Kelly dad da In a letter to the Kidler Zeitung with an even more famous horse- finally, General Joffre himself was published an article contributed happened in consequence of the the Russian General Staff on I had a very close shave on he thus describes that attack: "It was nine o'olook and perfect. man, his former rival in the field appealed to, and he decided that by the ex-Prime Minister, Take Roumanian Governmint having November 28 published the fol- Treadey. We were on outpost lydark, when I arrived. Suddenly ofsport, M. de Fournas. Lieut. roa they were to be treated as bearers Jonescu, in which he discloses been mialed by false declarations.lowing communique from the duty, and got surprised by about & skyrocket shot up, and at the Falkenhausen overcame his op of a flag of trace, but kept bsok several interesting diplomatic do They were told that the gold, German Staff: The Russian

ponent after a brief struggle and for three weeks, so as to prevent onments with regard to the treaty despatched to the Dentsobe Bank troops sast of the Mazur lakesy Germans, there being only

twenty of us, including officer same moment we were fired upon from every house in the vicinity. /made him a prisoner-an achieve them from making publio the of Bakharest, The writer shows in Constantinople in the name of have captured an old fortification, We ran for it, and got behind. The inhabitants shot through the ment which earned for him the result of their observationa. They that before the second Balkan the German Ambassador, was for which was not occupied by our some cover, and let them ava were accordingly taken to Orleans war between Bulgaria, Bervis, the payment of the salaries of the troops, and took some obsolete it strong and sharp. We killed drawn shatters, into which holes Iron Cross. must have been bored previously

about, thirty-five of them, and The Mayor of Neidenburg, in and kept in wretched confinement Roumanis and Greece, contrary staff and for commercial purposes. gans and ammunition.”

for three weeks. At the expira to the general opinion in Bul. Fifty-two cases which were open-

then the rest surrendered. in other words, the attack was East Prussia, writes to the Bertion of that time they were escort-garia, Russia was more favourable ed were found to contain wireless

The truth of this. story, says. When I was in the tranches back to give instractions to the the town, which is in acre needed to the frontier, near Belfort, to Bulgaria. than to the other telegraphy apparatus addressed the Russian General Staff, is that the other day shell took two of premeditated. I wanted to gallop liner Tageblatt, soliciting aid for

states. It is also shown that to a German firm. It had been on November 17 Russian troops my fingers off, but this is only infantry company I had left be- owing to a raid by the Russians, and left to their fate.

strong foreign infidence was declared to be electrical machine approached the village of Prehi-half your luck. I kept in the hind for reinforcement, and tried Henys "In the forenoon of

brought to bear to induce the ery for delivery to a circus, in kop, situated in a defile near the trenches with it just bandaged. to ride round the wagon train, Sunday, August 22, there rode

At last another German scientist King of Bulgaris to enter into Constantinople, and to prove this Mazur lakes, and the position It made me a bit sick, but it is past the square, as I could not through our town, which had In doing so, I was shot and fell several "equadrons of Oosgaoks. venerable astronomer, Dr. Fosra her allies. The writer concludes was brought forward for interroga Many attempts were made by the going on a gun raid on Sunday, force my way through the wagons. been entirely denuded of soldiers, has been found the first was the open hostilities against Servis and a repronte fore of furora" was taken by a Siberian regiment. all right again now, Weiss from my horse. I had been struck who fired through the winter who deplores the wholesale that the only course open to Bal-tion by the Roumanian authorities, Germans for several days after then the fur will li f. If we not by four balls, and grazed by dons into the houses, serious renunciation of British honours on garia if she wishes to regain (This gentleman was probably wards to recapture the position, over Sanda, we shall do another heavy gune and howitzers being raid on Monday. One nevar many more. Moreover, I was rao ly injuring a number of persons; Professor Max Verworn, director join Bussi in the present war. German Gold,

the part of German asvante. Adrianoplo and Dumotika is to the clown).

brought to bear upon it. A over by a wagon, whose horses later on, between 2 and 5 p.m., the

kurwa one's luck out here, bat It is reported that Savis has ber 14 published a telegram from to pass through a narrow defile, k

Tan Notoys Vremya of Novem-column of German infantry had

we enjoy i had shied. Both my shoulders defenceless town was bombarded of the Physiological Institute were sprained." When I got upon by the Russians, with about 300 at the University of Boon, informed Bulgaria that she is copenhagen stating that the Ger-scarcely, more than 100 yerde German Outrages in Belgium

опе time German ready to inske territorial ex my feet once more, I recogulsed grenades, and nearly all the houses and at that I owed my life to my servant; were set on fire. Over 200 were exchange professor in Amerio, changes with Bulgaria if the lat-man Minister of the Interior had wide between the Bavelno and luckily I was now near the burned to the ground, and nearly has written to the Berliner ter will at once conclude a new published an order prohibiting Vainoff lakes, south of lake Leven- the hoarding of gold and ordering tine, and great slaughter was company, to whom I could still half of the 5,000 inhabitants of ageblatt, firat, to exprese bis treaty of alliance with Greece, its immediate payment into the done to them, the defile being' German outrages There are give instructions.

our community are now without regret at having been unable Roumania and Servia.

banka in view of the coming long.filled with the bodies of dead and "Our soldiers fired upon all homes or bread. They have saved to prevent the collective action of

London, Nov, 29, Paper money will be given in wounded. After a desperate the houses and thus stopped the nothing. The Rassiane, in their his colleagues, and, secondly, to shooting. The inhabitants evid-blind fury, destroyed in the re-deplore the discussion in German In the House of Commons to exchange. Danish newspapers struggle lasting three days, the eatly had not noticed in the dark maining houses nearly every papere, to which that action has day, the Under-Secretary for also state that ao gold was minted German retreated. ness that the company had re- piece of furniture, every article of given rise. "Is it possible," he Foreign Affaire, replying to a in Germany during September mained behind, and were now clothing, and threw the fragments Baya,out to see and feel how question, stated that in view of and October, the only coms minted esized with fear. My meu dia into the gutter. The rabble that

the unsatisfactory result of re being half-mark and one mark trihated themselves among the had come across the frontier atole

presentations by the British and pieces and of these only a quarter French Ministers in the Republics the number minted in August. various buildings, battered in the the reat and carted it off, while

of Dolumbia and Ecuador con. The German newspapers have doors, and get fire to the houses the Russian troops lent them a by throwing burning pil. lamps helping hand. Moat of the in-

cerning the abuse of their expressed themselves very strong. The Remarkable Gold Accumul into the rooms or knocking off the babitanta possess nothing but the

neutrality by Germany, Greatly on the announcement that some gas cooks, and then igniting the clothes they wear:"

Britain and France have drawn of the American banks have des- the attention of the United States patched about 2,000,000 gold escaping gas, feeding the flames

Germen papera point out that

to the attitude adopted, and have dollars to America, and say this "by throwing into them cartaine

and bed covers. As soon as the the stories of depredations on the

arged her to use her influence on has been done to prevent the the Governments of the two Es money being used for the purpose smoke became dense, the francs. part of French troops are being

publics to prevent any further of German an tiraara ran down the stairs with confirmed by the French them- rifles, revolvers, etc., still in their selves, as witness the following bands. They were throughout army order: "The commander- Barage-looking fellows, such as I in-chief of the First French Army had never seen before. As a has been informed by the munici matter of course, they were shot pality of Rambervillers that down by the soldiers, posted be- soldiers in that town have so for- low. But our brave fellows gotten themselves as to commit allowed all women and children acts of violence and pillage. to pass 'unharmed,

These deads are all the more re-

petty it is, and how degrading to the spirit of Gorman science, if, at a time when colossal events absorb all the thoughts, all the sentiments, and all the wishes of every German, our savants can take pleasure in a hested public discussion of such trifling, one is tempted to say such childish, questions? New York Evening Post,

In a Death-Trap. A letter from a 12th Lancer to friends in Manchester asye:—

without

Abuse of Neutrality,

breach of neutrality.

German Capturegel

Santiago, Nov. 29, It is stated by the Chilian authorities bere that for several days past German men-of-war have boon at anchor near the island of Juan Fernandez, coal-

SINEWS OF WAR.

با

Paris, Nov 23 The Press Bureau has issued the following official Belgian raport regarding

650 victims of German oruelty at Tamines, near Charleroi. The Germans, with a machine gan, mowed down a group of peasanta in front of the church and silenced, the groans of the wound- ed with bayonet thrusts. They burned and sacked 204 houses, Many women and children were O barat and suffocated in their own homes. Of the 1,400 houses in tions at London and Berlin./

Dinant only 200 remain, ManU. pada Sa factories were systematically de

stroyed, and over 700 of the When the Manchurian War inhabitants killed. Incendiar broke out, European statesmentam, pillage, and outrages are and economists referred to the also reported from Luxemburg, $375,000,000 gold to the Imperial where 1,000 men were shot. In Bank at St. Petersburg, no other town have there been so A carious statement concerning mainstay for the Russian position, many scenes of atrocity ar the position of the Great Powera says the New York Evening Fost, cruelty ag at Andenne, ten miles after the war, said to have, heen Germany took $30,000,000 gold from Namur, where three hund- made by the German Under-Sec from the French indemnity of red men were maggaored in the retory, for Foreign Affairs, von 1871, and looked it in Spandau presence of their wives and Zimmermann, has appeared in Castle, avowedly as a reserve children. There were also three several Danish newspapers: This against a coming war. It lay hundred houses burnt there. At

women were ordered

toexist independently. Notwith-ment, in the twelve months before blood from the streets and the standing this, Holland has receive last August. In the seven weeke houses. ed from Germany the most solemin between the destruction of the will be respected during the or, of our war with Spain, New York assurance that her independence Maine in 1898 and the outbreak

Holland's Assurance.

to

"We had a very bad time of ing and taking in fresh supplies official is reported to have declared there until this present war began, Seilles, nine miles from Namur,

"of provisions, and that they have that the time baserrived when only and nearly $30,000,000 more was the de Among the German subjects grettable and detestable because yesterday. The whole brigad pronounced guilty of treason by committed on French soil. The was in a proper death-trap, bat captured in neutral waters; two great organisations have a right pat there by the German Govern gather the bodies and wash the the military courts of Strassburg Twenty-first Corps will at once

commanding general of the managed to get ont again is the physician, Dr. Pierra Buchet, who has been known as begin an investigation into this losing many. I don't know yet the editor of the fetus Alsacienne affair, so that the instigators Isaw his horse blown from under what has happened to poor Ned. Illustres and the Gulier Alsacien the arimes may be brought before him by a sheil. I saw him get and who has in various ways pro- a court-martial.”

up and run under a big bank to pagated French idess throughout A notable and so far unanimous get covor, so I don't think he is Alence. As he has fled, his pos- symposium in German now in a day or two:

hart, and expect him to turn up Esusions have been confiscated by papers is now busy with the the authorities.

question, first raised by Max Rein

of

We orossed a river by a pon- A writer in the Frankfurter hardt, of the Berlin Deutsches toon bridge, and as soon as the Zeitung relates a characteristic Theater, whether German theatres brigado, got across they started to

von Wilsmo!

neutral ships and sank the French steamer Valentine about half a mile from Valparaiso, much excited by the nere, and The people of Valparaiso became the Governmant deepstoked to but it is quite natural to suppose imported $53,000,000 gold from that glish bank's ratio cf. the island under sealed orders, that when the war is over, re Europe, and it went at once into reserve liabilities, from the three Chilian torpedo boat desmembering her lenient treatment bank reserves. We considered 1456 per cent of Aug troyere

by Germany, Holland will prefer ourselves to be fortified by it, even subsequently risen only t 273, to enter the big German Custome from a military point of view, as against 50% a year ago. Nivers Federation in exchange for a This is what lends particular theless, these huge additiona to aggression on Datoh colonies. German guerantes against British interest to the current weekly re the gold reserves have made

ports of the Bank of England and possible emergency credit opoza the Imperial Bank of Germany, tions in both countries which

N.DL. Offices Destroyed

Rome, Nov. 27.9 deutscher Lloyd Steamship Co. The local offices of the Nord have been destroyed by to mob as protest against the sctivity of

Russian Workers in Germany,

iz

7 bag

The further course of events,

the ancial position by the two anta nically, most power watched with deepest.

Twenty years ago, he was com- apeare's playa, The Imperialwe had to all gallop back over the company's representatives in eisn Board of Trade, the Gazette the English, bank has added such new gold reserves, have been mander of a regiment in giden Chancellor and the painter, Max the bridge again a few at a time, supplying lobal newepapera with of Commerce, has reprinted an 2,102,000,000 60 165.201 reserve undertaken without recourse to burg, where

the correspond. Liebermann, answer, in one line and all the time they were shelling falde zon about the war, and in order by the German Government since the first week of igust, depreciated money. ent was editing a newspaper. He "Shakespeare belongs to the whole as for all they were worth. As distributing freely and for nothing relating to Busman workmen in and that it now holds 61 arranged on one occasion a liter-world. Professor bilities of the town were present. ahorately.Of course we ought narrow eaca pe myself. I was pass public opinion against the Triple are still about 200,000 this War. The German Bankr ary evening, at which all the pota-witz-Mollendorf says more elk, would have it, they never many pamphlets written with Germany. According to German 000 more than a year ago, and in this safeguarding of their fins

got too many of us. I hind a very the objesty of turning Italian statistics, notwithstanding per- 54,000,000 more than Colonel Hindenburg alone was to act Shakespeare. We ought to ing just along under a wall when Entente

mission given to leave, Germany, marigam of its history, prior absent. In reply to the invitation, pay tribute to him as one of the shell knocked the lot down. A he wrote that, since the days of great who belong to the whole bit of the shell out my rains in

Warning to Italy

Dog Russian agricultural labourers in raporta additions of $111,000,00 his cadetship, he had never had a world, and particularly to us; for two, and another bit went right womber 15, contained a telegram usual for the harvest, and should it now, balds, 362,000,000 more stra

The Vosaische Zeitung on No- the country. They came in as to ite gold reserve sinos July book on parely literary subjects Shakespeare is almost as close to through my rifle bucket. Myself stating that a German cruiser had leave the country again in De-than the maximum of its history in his hands, and that he would us as if a German himself. Yes, and the horse never got as much bombarded it and destroyed a cember, under the ordinary role, before that date, and 18145,000, to give his name to a cause of of an Englishman, a representa I thought my time had come, near Djibouti, and had also des. the gos consider it a piece of dishonesty et us perform his playa as those as a scratch. To tell you the truth, French and Italian cooling station' but now all labourers between 000 more than a year ago. which he knew nothing, and with tive of Old England, who would which he was not in sympathy, he ashamed of the pharicato Edg

The Germans are giving us at oyad part of the Italian light He added that he was busy day land of to-day. And, third

it of a fight now, but I think railway Commenting upon this and night studying books on ought to perform his plays in ord

got them under this

nowe, and alan afon an announce strategy, and had no time for any er to prove that we are too high-

very nice ment in the Corriere della Sera ountry, but give a Norwich. thing else,

ginded to be chauvinistios

that the Beđón in Cyrenica had

es of 17 and 45 will be | It is true that the Bank compelled to remain in Germany. Germeny has slso, since the The order expresely states that broke pat, increased sila ng

aver Russian labourer in here- culation: $628,000, by ordered to remain in the place the Bank of England where he may best present living,

dovement may

the ncial

To date,

with the

Shortly confliot of Eag 14343,372,000,

30 in 1804,

824,000 in 1805; bay