LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS;
Norwegian Steamer Attacked from the Air.
A Germon aeroplane showered about gian steamer Diana in the North Sea. The crew sheltered, and none were hurt.
March 20, 7.30 p.m
500 durts on the Norwe- Many strack the decks.
Naval Authorities Confer in the Mecklenburg Case.
London, March 26, 7.30 p.m.
At the Hague an official inquiry was opened into the case of the steamer Mecklenburg.
A Cabinet of the naval authorities are conferring on the whole
situation.
Dutch Protest,
March 28, 7.30 p.m. The Netherlands has protested against an aeroplane attacking Zevenbergen.
Germany has been asked to open an inquiry,
Dutch Press Indignant Over the Ship Sinking.
March 26, 5.10 p.m. Renter's Amsterdam correspondent states that the Dutch Press is most indignant over the sinking of the Medes.
The Telegraaf rays that the newa will cause deep emotion throughout the whole country, which will interpret this unfriendly not as a German reply to the Dutch request for an explanation of the seizure of the Batavier five Zaanstrom.
Datoh national sentiment claims satisfaction.
British Casualties,
March 26, 7.30. p.m. Killed-R. J. Croft, 2nd Lieut. R. Harker, North Stafford, Bhires; L. Pownall, L. N. Rimsey, R. C. S. Smith.
Died of wounds K. Gilroy, A. Robinson, East Lancashirea. Died in accident:-. S. Rich, Died from wounde:-J. Boothby, C. L. Boyd, J. W. Cannon, H. Hozledine, R. H. Parker, of the Lincolnshires; R. F. Wilkinson. Missing:-T. E. Davies, G. N. Humphreys, of the Flying Corps. Correction, wounded-H.W. R. Hamilton notS. W. S. Hamilton. Official Journal Says the Existence of Austria is Imperilled,
March 20, 9.35 p.m. Reuter's Rore correspondent wires that the Austrian official journal Fremdenblatt declares that "the whole of the people now know that a terrible struggle has been imposed on the Mon- aroby. The existence of the nation is imperilled, and victory is only 'possible through the greateat mecrifices.
Forcing the Dardanelles.
March 26, 5.10 p.m. A massage from Athens states that the naval officers participat ing in the operations consider that the Tarks mine defence of the Straits has already considerably weakened,
It is believed that the Dardanelles would have been forced last Thursday but for the floating mines.
The forte no longer are sufficient to bar the
passage. Reports from Constantinople state that the city is suffering from want of coal. The electric light and power stations have orned work.
The abandoned dwellinga since the allied forces entered the Dardanelles, bave been pillaged.
It is reported that the Tarks, aided by searchlights, fired upon the mine-sweepers operating during the night on the 24th.
In the Straits the watabips replied and silenced the batteries. Mide sweeping continued all night.
Eight warabips, including the Queen Elizabeth, Agamemnon, and Cornwall entered the Straits in the afternoon of the 25th..to protect mine-sweeping, which is achieving antisfactory results.
The Preservation of Rumania's Neutrality.
March 28, 9.35 p.m. The Rumanian Minister has returned to London after conferring with his Government.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1915.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
Japanese Officers at the Front.
March 27, 5.40 a.m.
A Paris telegram announces that the Japanese mission of ten officers has arrived, accompanied by a Russian officer.
They afterwards departed for the front.
Maritz Escapes into Central Africa.
March 26, 5.10 p.m.
At Swakopmund a captured German officer reports that the traitor, Maritz, escaped towards Central Africa, and added that the Germans longed to get hold of him,”
French Official Review of the War.
March 27, 3.50 a..
A Franch official review of the war states that the famónz 75. guns are as perfect to-day as on the first day of the war. Although their was exceeded all their calculations the consumption of projectiles was so enormous as caused an ammunition crisis, which however was completely overcome several weeks ago. We have provided an "We have ample supply of munitions however long the war lasts. been supplying projectiles to several of the Allies, including Serbians and Belgiene.
The heavy artillery was in process of reorganisation at the outbreak of war and was inferior to the enemy's but the enemy now admits our superiority in abundance, power, range and precision of the beavy guns. The review dwells on the accuracy of the gans. The transport service in quality and variety of the supplies proves the commercial prosperity of the country."
wers in time of peace. It was necessary to build new dooks..
The whole of the ports are crowded with shipping as they never
Everywhere the presence of the British army has caused intense activity.
Trade is abundant owing to the circulation of gold in northern France.
Christian Converts Hanged and Women Violated.
March 27, 5.40 p.m. In New York a cablegram has been received by the Presby tian Board on Foreign Mission that all the men in Gulpashsp vil- lage, near Urumiah, were shot by Kurde,
The women were violated.
65 refugees were taken from the French and American Missions and handed on gibbets erected in the mission yerd.
Home Markets.
March 26, 6.40 p.m. Copper 684, selected 701, braziere, 88), Speltor nominal, line seed Argentine 48/9 paid sellers, cotton aeed 16 3/9, wheats inactive, hemp 34 paid, sin 170, iron 60, linseed 52/9, value of export 298,000, oil 31/9 paid, shellao dull, spot 61 March unquoted May 62, rabber 2/31, copra 27.
Russians Take more Prisoners,
March 27, 3.30a.m. the west and middle Niemen encountered the enemy. There A Petrograd official message states that the Russian offensive were counter-attacks, and fighting continues. “A
in
The Russians continue to progress between Bartoneld and Usjok. prisoners and two guns. “
Although the enemy was reinforced we captured 1,700
on
Daring Avators Visit Metz and Strasburg,
*⠀⠀ March 27, 1.10 8.m.
the airship sheds at Frescaty Station, Metz, and caused a panic,
A Paris message states that six airmen dropped twelve bombs
They returned safely though violently cannonaded. Bombs were also dropped on the barracks in Ebat Strasburg.
Soldiers Killed, alway
London, March 27, 3.50 .. A German official telegram staten that three soldiers were killed Metz by the French bomb droppers.⠀⠀⠀⠀
Burning Liquid In Trench Takes No Effect.
London, March 27, 1 a.m. A Paris evening communique reports that there were artillery duels in the Nieuport region!
We carried and occupied further south a farm on the front of our lines north of St. George's..
The Germans in Alsace sprayed with barning liquid our trenches at Ruchackorkopf without result.
He emphasised that Romania was honestly falfilling ber duties at in ufe-guarding her interests as a neutral, and said that all the rumours, as to military supplies passing through Rumania towards Tarkoy were without foundation.
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No war material whatever had been allowed through.
Bishop in the Trenches.
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March 27, 5.40 a.m. The Bishop of London has gone to spend Easter in the tranches,
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HONGKONG CLOTHING® FOR THE TROOPS,
GERMANY'S ISOLATION.
Lady May bas kindly sent us Interesting Statement of Cables the letters which appear below,
for publication, and writes us as follows:-
These letters have "just been
Blocked.
received in answer to a box of The following statement with
WAR LOANS AND WORLD'S SAVINGS,
Two Remarkabe Estimates' by
From: 1,04
On the Paris Bourse, at the
275 garments (amongst which reference to the cable isolation of were 12 Chinese oilskin suits the German and the Austro-Hus- given by Mrs. Anstruther) made garian Empires has been given end of 1914-business having by thetwomen of Hongkong and out by the German Information then been resumed since Decem Pakhoi and sent to Queen Mary's Service:-
ber 7-the average price of fixed- Needlework Guild in December Germany has five cables end- revenue securities, as calculated
..
"A decline of 12 to 15 per
if the war were to continue seven
have
been
last; also a box containing sixty- ing at the Island of Borkum, in by the Economiste Francats, was five men's garments (amongst the North Sea, one going to Brest, 12 to 16 per cent. lower than at them being a fur rug and Jaeger in France; one to Vigo, in the the end of 5913. The Economiste tlanket rug) which was sent to north of Spain; one to Teneriffe, assumes this to mean a rise of at Dr. Davis in December last, on the Canary Islands at the north least & per cent. in the average
The letter from Mrs. Eden, of Africa, and two by way of the coat of capital. Bat it adds Jackanapes Work Society, also Azores to New York. All five shows how much the garments lead through the English Channel, cent. in prices does not seem are appreciated.
Bo that it was not difficult for anything enormous, if one con- First British Field Hospital for England to cut them. On the siders the huge emissions of Serbia.
other hand, it will be very difficult, home and foreign Government. February 25, 1915. even impossible, for Germany to securities which are under way, heard from my brother that we lasts.
Dear Lady May, have just repair them as long as the war. In October it was estimated that, are indebted to you and the ladies. "Between Germany and Eag- months (which would have, fixed. of Hongkong for the parcels of land there exist six cable lines, its termination around the end of comforts which have arrived, partly German, partly English, February), the direct war ex- Would you please convey our which, of course, are not used penditure of all the belligerents best thanks to all those who have now. From Germany'a west combined would so kindly helped to make them. coast, therefore, no communica- 50,000,000,000 franca.
Madarne Gronilch has told me tion with the world is possibic. The outlook now is that the of the terrible sufferings of the "The telegraphio communios war will last four or months. wounded in Serbia owing to the tion via Holland, Jenmark, Nor- longer say to the end of June. absolute lack of clothes and dress way and Sweden dan only be kept It is undoubtedly impossible to ings, and I feel that the best up by cables that end in England make anything like ersot onl return you could receive for your and France, where, of course, culations in such matters. But kindness would be a knowledge of cablegrams are consored,
the direct losses of the war up to the great gratitude the Serbian The ways to the south via such a date, combined with the Boldier feels towards those who are Austria or Italy are also blocked, publia loans of belligerents and giving him a helping hand. I have as the cables that run from west neatrala arising from the war, had numerona instances of this in to esat in the Mediterranean be seem bound to reach at least Belgium where I have been work long to an English company, the 80,000,000 francs, and they may Eastern Telegraph Company, and approach a hundred thousand ing since August, and a from Serbia
who has just returned end in English territory. The millione.'!
describes the cables starting from Italy, and In 1907, when explaining soldiers as extremely brave and slab from Tarkey, go via Malta, the reason for the strain which pathetically grateful for the little Gibralter and Lisbon to the At then existed on all the world' that she and the two others who antic Ocean. With Africa no stock exchangers and money were working with her were able communication is possible with markets. M. Leroy-Beaulieu, in to do to alleviate their sufferings, out using the cabies of the East the Economiste Francais estimat With kind regards and many ern Telegraph Co., and tele-ed that new capital scorning in thanks. Believe m8,
Tours graphic land connections with the civilized world each year, sincerely.
China pass through Russis or available for investment in John Hastnell Beavis. British India." Therefore, with secarities was £480,000,000. Queen Mary's Needlework Guild, the exception of the wireless There had been, in 1907, he
24th February, 1915.
service, Germany can telegraph added, a demand for more; buf Dear Lady May, Another only to Austria-Hungary, Holland, the world has not got it there- beautiful consignment has arrived Switzerland, Italy and the Scan- fore, it can not provide it ! Yes from Hongkong, and I will be so Portugal are cut off, too."
dinavian countries. Spain and in this present season, since the grateful to you if you will convey
end of August, the Ger Her Majesty's thanks to all the
man Goverment has borrowed ladies who ao kindly contributed.
6220,000,000 on a war loan The things are all splendid, and
Sad the British Government exactly what we want. Her Ma
£350,000,000; so that in hardly jesty was specially pleased with
oalled by only two governments, half a year, more capital has been the oilskin suite, and these are being sent out to the Engineers,
than the French economist who have very diffioalt and dan official warning has been issued able sum of news capital in all gerous work to do about the trench in Berlin against the too hasty the world. Excha
nurse
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Striking German Warning la East Pussia,
Amsterdam, February 18.A
es, and have to be out all night, return of East Prussian refugees You can rest assured that all the to their homes. A new silustion, things you have sent will be very the warning saya, has been creat and Belgians as well as by our East Prussis, but this does not much appreciated by the French ed by the victorious battles in British soldiers at the Front. We warrant a general return to all are now also sending out to Serbia parts of the province, sa housing It may interest you to see how and food supplies are not yet
F
ostimate of a full years's avail
Proprietor, Dr. J. W. Noble, by
our things are being despatched, sufficiently guaranteed. All Printed and, Published for the lists to show you where the thinge urgently asked to return to their 11 Los House Street, in the City I enclose you one of our weekly municipal and State officials are George William Cade Burnett at are going. Believe me, Yours former residences, but without of Victoris, Hongkong, very truly,
their families,
Annie Lawley, Hon. Bec,
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