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WAR ITEMS.

Reply to Aother German

Falsehood,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1914.

THREE YEARS: WAR.

French Expert's Forecast of

Duration.

Escaplog Germian Prisoners Shot. Van inquest has been held at Douglas, Isle of Man, on five aliene who were killed in an at- tempt to escape. There were two thousand prisoners in the camp, The Frun furter Zeitung is and it was stated that on the con

A high French military author quoted (say the Press Bureau) olusion of dinner, pa-e given ity bas given private expression, sa reporting that the treatment of signal, they attacked the guard Bays the Mau, to the following German pris nera of war in who fired into the air. This fail views as to the probable duration England is so bad that within cueing, the guard volleyed, killing of the rar, his estimate being week 40 out 700 prisoners died of four and wounding twelve. The based on the belief that the Ger pneumonia and typhoid. The remainder surrendered. One mans will

will commit no great tactical facts are that out of the whole prisoner olambered on the roof number interned five have died, with the intention of escaping und the causes being as follows: One, fell, fracturing his koll, The valvular disease of the hearts;quiry was adjourned. The jury two, adeuriem of the scria one, found that they were killed by fractured skull, the result of an justifiable measures forced on the accident; and one, dropay.

authorities by the riotous conduct of a large section of the interned

men, e

Dutch Allegations against ' Germans.

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error,

Ho divides the war into six periods two past, one present, and three to come.

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For many years past, Mr. known ham and bacon curer of George Farmer, of Ballarat, has The first period was the advance Eureka Street, Ballarat East, been a prominent priza-taker at followed up his previous numer the leading shows, of the Com- through Belgium into Fiat.co.

The second period was the ous and record breaking successes monwealth, and his list of suc Battle of the Marne and the Ger at former shows in Melbourne cesses is now a very lengthy and and Sydney by gaining first and meritorious one. At the Royal man.retreat to be Aisne.

The third pericd is that of the champion prizes for bacon and Show which was opened in Mel- fighting on the Aisne, continuing fret and champion prizes for bourne to-day he was "again to hama, thus pronouncing him the fore, securing first and and developing into the battle without doubt Champion of the champion prizes for bacon and for Calais.

Cominonwealth."

first and champion for hams." The fourth period will be a

IF YOU WANT TO GET THE BEST COME TO US. German retreat and a battle on the Rhine.

Every Man a Marksman. Melbourne, November 20-A movement was inaugur:ted to night for the extension of fl clubs for the purpose of the de- Amsterdam, November 12. fence of the Commonwealth. It The feeble demonti issued by the is proposed that men between the German Government in reply to ages of 20 and 60 should be eu- the accusation of the correspon- rolled, and that a partial training dent of De Tyd, who a short time should be given to a million men. ego declared that he had witness The sixth period will be the

Mr. Pearce, the Minister for ed ill-treatment of British march to. Berlin, Defence, "addressing a meeting, prisoners of war by German The Fight for Calais. emphasised the fact that Lord toldiers, bas provoked a strongly- : He ostimatee that the battle for Kitchener drew up the Australian worded acawer from the corres-Calais will not completely end be- defence scheme from the point of pondent, who auye: One fore the beginning of December. view of war, not peace. That month after the publication of He assigns a period of five Straight scheme would be adhered to. He my report about events at Landen months to the Battle of the Meuse "arged that every able-bodied the German Government thought the end of April or the beginn

Australian should learn to handle it necessary to publish a dementi ing of May, 1915.

a rifle, and stated that the Gavera after a sort of inquiry which The campaign on the Rhine ment did not require to make a cannot be called an inquiry. The should last nearly twice as long- special for volunteers for the Excommunique of the German that is to say, until February, peditionary Force, but that if an authorities does not say that the 1916. appeal were necessary thousands British wounded were questioned, The final march to Berlin and were ready to respond.

nor the two Dutchmen who were negotiations for peace should Many German Desertions, travelling by the same train, nor bring the war to an end with the Amsterdam, Nov. 16.-During a young lady from Amsterdam, final withdrawal of the Allied the last fortnight numerous casos nor mysel, nor inhabitants of armies of occupation in 1917. of desertion have occurred, in the Landen who witnessed the This estimate gives a total German Army, especially in the outrage." The German soldiera, period of rather less than three Correspondent declared, years to the war. It is presumed Eastern Provinces. Almost all the these deserters declare that belonged to the force of by the same high military a they acted under the influence of occupation at Landen. A young thority that the Russian advance drink, bat at the courta-meriial girl who witnessed the outrage will occupy a similar period, and little clemency is shown to the was questioned by a representative that only the steady combined culprite, who are severely punish of the Tyd, and confirmed the pressure of the Allies can bring ed. The consequence of this essential parts of the coreapon matters to a conclusion within the atate of affairs has been that the dent's report.

period suggested. sale of spirits is now strictly forbidden in the Eastern Pro- vinces,

Dearth in Germany.

German Professors Raided.

"

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He assumes that the German forces will withdraw steadily; and there will be no sudden collapse of their front,

for their country.

Beyers' Plot.

GERMAN TRIBUTE TO UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

OUR ARMY.

Answer to Emperor's

Contempt.

Amsterdam, Nov. 13.

Eastern Extension Australasia. & China Telegraph Co.

Bongmiu Miniero Compagnie, San Francisco, 1*.

Brandt, Dorothy Lyman, Hong- An editor of the Berliner Tage-kong Hotel, Shanghai..

Chibojo 78 Sionguanque, blatt, who is taking part in the battles in Flanders as an officer Manila.

of the reserve bas sent a letter to Collins, Passenger Oriental, bis paper in which he says that Batavia

Eriksen, Mrs. Peak Hotel, Bangkok, the British soldier is not to be under-rated. He writes:

Fernandes, Jose Corporal 1268 Gunboat Macao, Macao,

Our young soldiers show an

Heise, Hongkong Hotel, Manila. eager desire for the fight, and they are matching to the battle Madruge 1268.Gunboat Macao, fields with the intention of catching Macao.

Robinson American Consulate. British soldiers, as they say. Every one of them was firmly Kuala Selangor. Sigon. Saigon. convinced that God gave the Eng-Siddah Cangany. Nanjadung.

Yee Kee Chong, 97 Connaught liehen their long legs in order

Road, Thames. ' that they might the better run" away. One remembers the many sketches and cartoons of Tommy Atkins. A few of our men, and only a few, knew something more about the English.

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We discovered in a house two severely wounded British officers, and we seized their diaries, which contained very valuable notes. One hour later the first British prisoner "He looks like was brought in.

chauffeur," our men ssid." "Are they good shots?" they asked. He looks more like football or cricket."

W, B. ELWES, Superintendent. Hongkong, Dec. 17th, 1914.

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R. BLACK, Superintendent. Hongkong, Dec, 18th. 1914.

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Torpedoed in his Bath. The sinking of the Hermes was relieved by one comic touch, More Men From Australia. When the torpedo struck the ship Melbourne, Nov. 10.-Mr. Jan officer was in his bath. He. Pearce, Commonwealth Minister saw that the ship was doomed and ago (slates the Standard corres- of Defence, sunounces the forms-heard the order for the boats to be pondent, writing last month) tion of another infantry battalion lowered. He had no time to dress there were already 120 names at for overseas service.

and it occurred to him that if he the Hotel Dieu, representing rich went on deck as he was the men and poor and all classes of society, Amsterdam, Nov. 16.Muhl- might think that the order had and it is perhaps needless to add hausen, in Thuringia, is the first been given to take to the water, that women are conspicuous in" German town to fix a maximumSo he climbed through a porthole, the list of those who are offering

But after another hour the com! price for oil, the price being, 22 dropped into the sea, and swam their blood to replace that shed

rades of the captured Englishman pfonnige (about 3d.) per litre, round to one of the boats.

gave us their answer to the ques- Lord Cheylesmore and the There is a great scarcity of

The rebellion in South Africa tion whether they could shoot or Separation Allowance. matches prevailing in Germany, and all large match factories have "Anything," said Lord Cheyles- had an intereat beyond its innot. And they did its plainly because it that after the first encounters our redaced their output, as there is more, chairman of the Soldiers' trinsic importance no wood available, that material and Silore Help Society, "in seems to afford definite evidence battalion was reduced to half ite having been formerly imported the way of increase, is good.of a German plot against this number. We learnt that the clean- from Kussis. German manu- Oar soldiere and railors, deserve country long before the war. shaven gentlemen do not always

The Ministry of Justice has facturers will now try to utilise everything that the country can Beyers was at Berlin in or about use their long legs for flight but the wood of their own forests, but afford to give them. At the same last May, and he is said to have now and then for very severe issued an order (anya an Ex- the lack of other raw materials time I think that the separation seen the Emperor, which is pro-attacks. In a few hours we found change Copenhagen correspond essential to the match making allowance is very much overlone bable snough. We may be able that our enemy was not to be out) forbidding the export of industry will soon be a matter in many cases, particularly where to get to the bottom of this affair dealt with as a negligible quantity. cotton and cotton yarns. The The British infantry opposed to prohibition comes into force im- of grave concern to them. men are receiving assistance from when Beyers is caught and tried,

manicipal bodies, and my sug- and if it farns out to be what it as round Ypres can only be mediately

No Vice Versa. Melbourne, Nov. 16.The gestion is that the allowance to looks like at present, it will afford described as the beat of troops.

* Let me see some of your military authorities have search the wife and family at home the clearest proof we are ever The great vigour with which the ed the houses of two German should be made op to the husband's likely to get of German duplicity British soldiers defended their black kid gloves," said a lady to University Professors, and have pay when he was at work. Now and treachery, for in May last the positions is admirable, and when a shop assistant. "These are not impounded their correspondence.she is receiving, in the case, at relations of the British and Ger they were repulsed they always the latest style, are they ?" she

A War Prophecy.

any rate, of municipal employees, man Governments were more tried, mostly during the night, to asked, when the gloves were pro do The London correspondent of half-wages and separation allow cordial than they had been for regain the lost ground. In these daced. Yes, madam," replied ado the Osaka Asahi quotes & war ance as well, which makes the many years, and the Germans attempts they are effectively assist the shopman," we have had them 1 do expert as saying that

great total a good deal more than when professed, to be delighted that it ed by their artillery, which is in stuck only two days.do ohange will come over the situs- the husband was at home." should be so,-Truth.

qual to the French and the Ger- didn't think they were, because do tion in Europe between the

1phia Football in War Time,

France Seriously Dissatisfied

man artillery. The English also the fashion paper says black kids 1 doOld Tom Gin Mr. Tennant, Under Secretary with the Censorship.

had heavy ship-guns in the bave tan stitches and vice veres; middle and the 1.tr part of December. After that the Germans for War, replying to a queation Paris, November 13-For some trenches around Ypres, and their I see the tan stitches, but not the bottle will find themselves in a more whether football should be played time past the manner in which grenades and shells cansed great vice veres." The shopman ex- 1 do disadvantageous position as each in time of war, enye: No ob- the censorship is exercised has bayoo among our infantry. When plained that vice veraa wa 2 do seriose dissatisfaction.

our advance brought the British French for seven buttons, so she 2 do day goes by, and their ultimate jection is taken by military cansed defeat will be inevitable. He authorities to occasional, recrea-The subject, which has now be troops into a more and more bought three paire The Royal, 2do surmises that the war will be tion. It is considered, however, come a burning question, was awkward fix the British infantry practically over by Jane next that professional football dope not discussed to-day by the deputies tried over and over again, especial-

Old Tom Gin come within that category, and for the Seine and M. Viviani, the ly in the neighbourhood of Be-depth, side cover against splinters 1 do Mine-Layers and Neutral Losses, that it can only be admitted on Premier. The deputy, M. Charlee celaere, to break through our

Harbin, Dec. 9.A telegram grounde of contract or employ- Benoit, pointed out that it was lines. During one of these at of shells, and breast work. They 1phia. Pomeranzan Bitters.

resistance. The greatest surprise 1 bottle Burgundy from Helsingfore states that the ment. It is much more desirable impossible to reconcile the cen- tempts we captured about 500 were all well prepared for a long

for us was the number of stasl 1 do Peppermint Swedish, freight steamers Lann, that professional football players sorship in its present form with Englishmen

D.U.M. Everilds and Nora Sverige struck should find employment in His the existing laws, Adducing Steel-Plated Trenches.

The main strength of the Brit-plates which were used for the 1 do mines off Bjorneborg Harbour and Majesty's forces than in their old typical examples, he showed that sank. The crew of the Lans and occupation. With regard to the it not only failed to achieve its ich infantry lies without doubt strengthening of the trenches. 2 do alich Old Fort the navigator of the Everilda question of breach of contract, it object but was liable to become in defence and the good use of The resting places were abundant-do-Perfection Whisky were saved. The fate of the crew is considered this is a time when positive danger. At the same their ground. Here the instinctly provisioned, and our men fourd of the Nara Sverige is not known. all should be prepared to make time it was made clear during the of the British hanting man is there great stores of preserved 2 do A Datch torpedo boat has sacrifices, se debate that the deputies were very useful to him, and of this provisione, including corned beef 1 do

and other tinned meats and veget-1 Phial infantryman bas none. detained in Netherlands torr New Blood for Wounded. unanimous in recognising the the average is itorial watera a trawler flying The military medical author- necessity for a military censorship. The British recruit is very quick bles. Many of cur men die the German flag which 18ities at Lyons lately issued the Defence of New Zealand. in learning, the use of his rifle, covered also a frech supply of 2 bottles suspected of laying mines. Large following appeal to the popular Auckland, Nov. 10, Mr. the utilisation of, the ground, and quantities of war trophies captar- tion: There are wounded who Massey, the Premier, in a speech, patrolling, The handiness of the The British soldier to an expert ed in the vicinity of Cracow have are so exhausted from loss of said that New Zealand should do British soldier, we could well in patrolling. 1 often followed atrived at Kieff. They inblade blood that the only chance of a great deal more in regard to obtuvo during the many battles with my field glasses a British do several cars containing large field-saving their lives is by a prompt naval defence. It would be in this neighbourhood. patrol, and I could see that their guns, and steam ploughs specially transfusion from the veins of a criminal to allow the present state The British trenches were so skil work was very clever; much bet- 1 do constracted for digging trenches, healthy, strong living man or of things to continue. He would fully arranged that they could not for then our mon could do. We 1 phial A war tax amounting to a 20 per women. Those who wish to offer tot quibble whether the Imperial be seen with the naked ore. When Germans must not under-rate the cent, increase of passengers their blood for such transfusions Government or New Zealand we occupied the first British British mercenaries, Ouradvance

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