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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

ITALIAN COMMUNIQUES.

AUSTRIANS FIRE ON THEIR OWN FORT.

May. 31, 2.10 a.m

A Rome communique says: In the Tyrol, on the Trentino frontier, we occupied an important position at Amaapezza near Storo. Our artillery in the Assiago plateau destroyed an armoured fort at

EXTRA

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915.

VOLUNTEER ORDERS,"

Ccrps Orders issued to-day by Lieut-Col. A. Chapman V. D. State:

Promotions.

H. E. the Governor has been pleased to promote 2nd Lieuten- acts L. E. Murphy and R. E. Lindsell to be Lieutenants, with effect from 25. 5. 15."

Appointment.

leased the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergeant

LET THE WORKMEN

¿KNOW,

EVERY MAN, A FIGHTER

WORKER FOR WAR.

By Austin Harrison.

sands of men; that as Spring comes and the flowers bloom in the fields, the flower of the human race will be best on slaughter and destruction; but so it will be, OR Already the Germans are calmly discussing the advisability of in- corporating Belgium as part of the German Empire.

Lord Kitchener's letter to M James Soxton is en questionably dreument of the highest State

We may dismies as binff the talk about German starvation. The theatres are playing in Berlin. The German newspapers show quite a good proportion of adver- tisements. There will be no economic collapse in Germany,

the Great Foem, the Great Orator, to make the circuit of England. A deep silence has fallen upon us. Writing largely to order, the Press does yeoman lip service, but optimism leads to slackcess: We have begun to clap too soon. I think we have made a great mistake not to take the working classes more into the national confidence.

HONGKONG, HEALTH RETURN,

Nine Cases of Plague.

During the week ending May 20, there were nine osses of plague Nothing would be simpler.. In reported, seven fatal, all Chinese. the Press, on the platform, the Since the beginning of the year war would be carefully explained, au cases of plague have been re- The working-classes should be ported out of which there werę told that this is no ordinary war 40 deaths. There were also ne

Luserna which hoisted the white flag. The Austrian fort of Bal-Major Honorory 2nd Lieutenant) significance. Couchbed in the Only brutal force will lead to the which a great battle or two will case of enteric fever, British, re-

■ modern work at Ci navezza” which was occupied by ourant, Engineer Company, with the English soldier, he states ter gecessary decisions, only a greater end, but a war of racial conquest porled and one ease of small porj

vedere thereupon bombarded Laserns. Our artillery also destroyed R. J. Stevenson to be 2nd L eaten. infantry, who advanced and captured the village of Vezena. We effect from 20, 5. 15. occupied the Paes of Trecoci and the town and valley of "Cortina Damlezzo in Cadore.

The Austriana along the Friali frontier have long been sirengthening, with numerous guns, the position on the left bank of the Isonzo, commanding the fords. Tasy also strongly hold several points on the right bank, covering the town of Garizia.

Heavy rains have transformed the rivera into torrents, but the Italians continue to advance most vigorously.

DEATH OF MR. J. E. GRESSON."

Killed in Action.

HARBOUR OFFENCES.

Before Commander C. W. Beck- with it.N., at the Manis Uoart We regret to aonounce that Mr. this morning, Acting Fulica ber John Edward Gresson, of Messrs. geant W. Pincott charged three Jardine Matheson and Co., Lieut. post-people with unlawfully using 3rd Cheshire Battalion, the Ches within the barbour limite nire Regiment, was killed in the purpose of fitung srucles activa in Flanders on May 25,

Mr. Gresson came to the Far East in 1903 in the employ of Mesars. Jardine. Matheson and

Transfer.

Corp. F. O. Coleman, from Centre Section MG.00. H.K.V.R., dated 29.5.15.

Belchers Section.

to

Officers, N.Q.O.. and men of this Section will return to ordin: ary duties with their own units, ipoluding guarda but excluding drills, on days they are not doing duty at Balebers, commencing ou lat. June.

Parades.

Parades for Tuesday, 1st Juna, 5.00 p.m. No. 1 580. Art. Bauty, and Left Section M.G. Oo.-10 pdr. drill at fleadquarters. Sergt. McCubbin will attend.

6.30 p.m. No. 2 Sec. Art. Bitty, 10 pdr. drill at Headquarters, Murray Parade Ground will be available for 10 pdr. drill (inspec tion) from 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

5.10 p.m. Centre Section M. G. Co.-Section drill & Rifle exercises at Kowloon Docks, Launch leaves Statue Pier at 4,30 p.m.

from the bed of the bar tour on the 31st inst, and with unlawfully dieuging rubbish in the barbour without permission. The first Company, and until going Home delendunt was fined $10, while his time was divided between the others were dismissed. service at the Hongkong Office and the Shanghai Office. He Lance Sergeant A. J. Moody obtained his "per ro" in 1912 charged three coolies with unlawat and went on leave la March lastfully dredging rubbish in the bartour without permission on At the outbreak of the the 30th inst. Defendants were war, he was staying with his fined $5 each.

year,

measured tones characteristic of eely the situation, appealing to the patriotism of those working here for their comrades in the field.

a

intensity and application of vio- lence on the part of the Allies will expel the Hans from Bel- gium.

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Hitherto our wars have been sporting expeditions. Even the Boer War was merely a campaign compared with this war. Our tradition as an island people

which can only now terminate with racial destruction, Every man working in the shop, in the docks, in the factory or forge on the manufacture of war material is sesisting England and the Allied cause every bit as much as his fellow countryman at arms. Let us do away with the fife and

dram business and tell him Bo.

It is a letter that the country may be proud of. No bombast, No attempt at coercion. Merely few lines from our business of geniser of war asking the man to help him in the interart of Britain. prevent a car thinking singly He is quite as ralnable as the

Once or twice I have referred and so acting singly. Even to

day we rely on advertisements to man with the rifle, quite as in these columns to the necessary enrol soldiers; we trust to the indispensable. of a Business Government; to the

It is time we "chucked" the good sense of England; our

"international final" attitude as necessity, that is, of a single war Government still remains in the administration, organising and

the speciality of Britons. Bravery. energieing the whole, as the

is the stock quality of modern speediest and most efficient way

armies as the war has shown, of ending the war. After eight

The Germans, the French, the months of fighting we are nearing

It must be admitted that the Russians and Serviane; the Bel- spirit of Britain has responded giana are giving proof daily of the realisation of that condition. à considerable part of France. magnificently. But there are still courage, a spirit of national devo individualist and disintegrating tic and self-sacrifice unexampled Both Neuve Chapelle and the forces in the land, dimming the in history. But we cannot all winter battles in the Charopagna

clearness, naturally fight; nor are all the Germans,

fighting either. bave proved how firmly the Gernational

They know better. trolling direction. Optimism has man armies are ensconced in their enough in the absence of a con-

Their useful men they keep for entrenched. positions, what pro-

The Germans are still holding

background, both as recruiting sergeant and business organiter, We are asked, each of us, to do

our bit.

a

5.15 p.m. Civil Service Co. digious efforts still have to be obscured the truth. For years we the machine. The skilful engine-

Rilla exercises & Bayonet fighting

Hdqrs. 5.30 p.m. Right Section M. C. Co. Drill at Headquartere..

5.30 Scouts Udinpany (all N. U. Os. & men not oa duty si Kowloon on 31st May or 1st June)

Cipa at Headgrs.

made, on our part and on that of the French, if we are to dislodge them and drive them back, not only out of French territory, but out of Belgium.

What the issue will Tura on, ·

Chinese.

DRIVER SAVES TRAIN,

Wreckers Escape Alter Das--

tardly Act.

Arailway outrage was attempt- ed this morning on the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Kilmarnock joint line between Kilmarnock and Glasgow.

The driver of a train appro ching the viaduct at Stewarion noticed something wrong with the signal, and, drawing up the train, foond on farther investiga tion that two railway chairs had been placed upon the line, while two men were seen making a The police are pursuing in- basty disappearance. quiries, but no arrests have yet been made.

Chinese Commits Suicide.: Shortly after one o'clock thim

deen launch, on its return

have avoided facing unpleasant things, as we know from our stage or is kept at bome in the shop, and fotion, car unwillingness to rated as the equivalent to a first- afternoon when the Aber- rate colour-sergeant. They want welcome new ideas or innovation, the Peter Pan attitude generally. oolliera-they keep them. But And it is a source of weakness, those who remain behind are not jeared at for that reasen. The We dislike being told to do things. We much prefer to do them if German is not called a hero

Lance Sergeant W. I. Sutton Aiming drill & Hüsketry ex before known in cur history. Not we want to. Our natural peace. / because he goes to the front. He board. The launch was put about

brother-in-law, Mr. Gershom Stewart M.P., and he obtained a commission in the 3rd Cheshire charged four boas-people with an- Regiment The deccseed was lawfully failing" to keep the yalus about 35 years of age, a bachelor, of their boats out of the water or süd an old Obeltenham boy." rigged to as not to projet out. K. V. R.

Detall,

On daty at Headquartere

While in Hongkong, he was a bold, while lying alongeidetes.s. at Gun Club Hill, keen follower of racing, was both Yungus in the harbour of the 31st Kowloon, H. K. V. R. an owner and rider, and a very inst, Defendante were fined $10 At Kowloon (Detention Camp) teach, While two other boatmen who on duty to-night No. 2 & 3 enthusinatio polo player.

were charged with unlawfully Sections Sconte Company. Officer approaching within 150 yarde oon duty Lieat. Preston.

chief recreation was riding and polo. He was prominently con-

shall be fighting on a scale never In the coming struggle we

ful proclivities are, in short, a goea naturally when he is called, only will a million Englishmen bad nursery for war which upsets and not before.

Enlightening the People. be engaged in actual fighting, all out theories and institutions. but the whole economic forces in The Man in the Street thinks he

That is the system we need the country will be strained to has something to say. And it is

here. It is what conscription keep up munitions and apply for that reason we hate conscrip- have not the natural instinct for would give ue, "Our workmen the Expeditionary armies ; and: the issue will tura on our stamina

Fighter or Worker for War. Wer, ie., discipline, that the Ger and productive capacities.

man has. He realises that big The time, however, has come profita are being made. He reade

tion,

to Hongkong, was a little way out, Chinese on board, apparently suffering from some injury to his hand suddenly jumped over

and search made for the aafor- tuoste men, but without sacosas. The launch returned to Aberdeen and reported the occurrence to the nay to Honkgong. Puline, before resuming its jour

Tirpitz Strafe Eogland. Aprit 19. The Bftieth anni

meated with the first Hongkong Stonecutter s Island, on 3larinst., Oa ́day to morrow night Nosystem stande on its trial. The when the country has to make no his paper and learns that the versary of the day on which

Jog Show Mín which

he took a lively

contrary to regulatione, were fined

$5 each. interest,

:

He left Home for the front about|

P. C. McFall charged the the middle of March last and had seen some stiff fighting dur master of steam launch Hop On ing the few weeks he had been with anlawfully carrying 10 able to serve his King and passengers cn board his vessel, in excess of the number allowed by Country on active Service.

his licence, on the 20th inst. CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. Defendant was find $20. While two boatmen who were charged. Close of the May Devotions,"

with unlawfully using nets with Yesterday the close of the May in the harbour limite, for the Devotions was observed in all the parote of lifting articles from the Catholic churches of the Colony, bea of the hartour were fined

3&4 Sections Soonts Company, Officer on duty Lieut. Murphy.

السعيد

VOLUNTEER RESERVE

drill order.

Parade.

I is here that our voluntary majority of people in Britain are te mind either to have a com Germans are always geting Admiral Von, Tirpitz joined the spt to opine that the Germans are paleory war system and adminia-whacked", he reasons accord. Garman navy is to be celebrated virinally beaten ; that, as we have tration or what amounts to a com-ingly. He does not know the in Germany on April 24, says the the money and the command of pulsory voluntary attitude, from irath because no one has told it Morning Post. Already postcards The 8a, therefore the crisis is which there can be no defectione. t bim. He is somewhat sur-exoit bave been printed bearing the over and the end, a certainty; and it would be dangerous to allowed-we are all to-day eur-excited, dates April 24, 1805, and April. ORDERS.

they think so because the Press any longer economia disputes Le sees no caute to "slave." If 24, 1915, and the words "Von has not been allowed to enlighten between Capital and Labour the "master" makes, why should Tirpitz strafe Englan!" and the Volunteer Reserve Order issued them as regarde the actual military because the successful conduct of not be ?

Admiral's portrait, to-day, by Major Wakeman Composition and the immense powere

the war depends upon unanimity It is our fault, not his. Had manding B. K. V. R. stale.

in all branches of the State and the Government devoted itself to and resources of the enemy.

The truth is that for us the war among all classes,

We shall be tried to the slages with half the organisation even conceived of. In the war the enlightenment of the working about producing on a scale Bever A, and B. Companies and Sec-is just beginning it may he said fion 2 of C. Company will parade to Lave begun with the battle of falleet stretch of our fighting and and zeal that it lavishes upon against the Hans, all class disins outside the Law Courts at 5.15

Within the productive capacities. Opposed them in times of a General Elec- tion, all oreed, yes, and al Neuve Chapelle, p.m. on Friday June 4. Drese next three months we and the to us is the most soichially tion, there would be no strikes vanish. Every man who sex

Recruits will perade undered effort to break through. There world has ever known. Every human side, it neglected, trusting patrol ship. The me

French will make a great combin- organised fighting maching the and shirking. Bat this the coal helps like every my vela

the building was crowded 10 of seam tannob Sui On, with ground at 5 15 p.m. on June 2adi,nprecedentedly fierce and costly soldier or producer. There is no and sce." The leaders of Labour affair of newspaper or social Conception in the afternoon, when P. C. Dyke charged the master Sergt. Majar Bond on the Cricket are certain to be struggles of an German forms as to its proverbial policy of "wall want medals. This overflowing. An outdoor proces- anlawfully carrying 13 passengers

kind, casually lets that may well waste of energy. Each man is broke down somehow at the out glory. We fight for our life's con. sion had been planned, but the in excess of the number allowed,

Elia Excel ency the Governor/appal na. We must expeor them, docketed a fighter or a useful set. Libour has run itsef over tinuity, for all at England idea had to be abandoned on ac in the harbour, on the 27th inst. has been pleased to appoint Pri-

Nor is it to be imagined that/maker of war material. We have since has lost the perspective of mesne, for all thit an English- sount of the rain. After the The case was adjourned until rate ER B. Hancock to be a

one big effort will cettle the to deal with some seven million the situation: And email wonder. man values. Rosary had been reoited there Friday.

German fighters, Behind them, To me it is astonishing that one The man whe war is terribly destructive and Germany fights as one economic of our eloquent Ministers has not right spirit. / Absurd to blame was a procession of guilds and

aupernumerary 2nd Lieutenant in matter. ln modern conditions confraternities round the oburob,

the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve, the choir meanwhile singing Davey R.N.R., charged two bost- Private R. Sutherland to B. the huge masses of mon employed, portant, in overy sense as hostile tanity presented to him to be that every ahker in the shop is a relatively indecisive. Owing to machine, in every way as 11 grasped the unequalled oppor him. Bat ic-ay he must know Posting. the Litany of Loretto and the men with being within the limits Ooy. Section 3. Magnificat. At the end of the of the danger laga off the Naval procession came Biel op Puzzini Yard Camber in the harbour on in company with the cowly ap- the 27th inet. The case was dis- pointed Bishop of Amoy who is missed with's caution, passing through Hongkong.

Lance Bergeant A. J. Moody

The final fonction took place at $5 oach. the Dathedral of the Immaculeta

After an impressive sermon on

Assistant Harbour Master Lt.

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the Blessed Virgin by the Iter. charged five boat-people with

J. R. Martins of the Macao

to a close with Benediction.

unlawfully making fast-their

3rd & 7th. Dress drill order.

Appointment.

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OPIUM ON THE SS-BEN LOMOND.

A Further Haul,

not an

strikes has the

To best that organisation we have.

come the fighting spokesman of German bulet in the heart of an battles cannot be conducted to a definite conclusion. The contend-to prove ourselves the surcrior.

The workmen who strike have acuarce for a man with good thereby held up munitions of war, England. There never was such Englishma .. To strike, and ing f.rces hammer away at one another till txbanation sets in; naturally no knowledge of Ger-lange and a demagogie manner is to share the band of the bloods Every week Grey or Lloyd Hun. 7o impede our fighting there is no one positional move many; they know nothing about

In the face of these disabilities,

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Lt the workmen know this.

mert; theie is no que all-deter. / her enormous resources; but they George, Asquith, or Churohill output is to wear the Kaiser's | mining strategy; here and there renkon they have the right to form ought to go north and make unum. To cryoa cond

•Not content with their ten the Laitles rage, with ilactusting an opinion, because, as a nation, speech-report the progress, ex- to, so claim oneself a traitar.

successes; nor can armies "be we claim that right whether the plain the requirements, light the Beminary, the service was brought bats to the 8.9. Bajgon", Marn thousand dollar haul on Saturday followed up, as in the old dark aubject be war, economica, art, or beacons of warlike enthusiasm. When the war is wen the soldier

whilst under way in the barbour morning on the s.s. Ben Lomond, on the 28th inst; Defendants the energetio officers revisited the and annihilated. Aliterature. I do not blame them.It is positively monstrous that will clasp the hand of his mate

Authority is still cariously Ministers should be so remirs TYPHOON WARNING. pleaded guilty, and His Worship ship in the afternoon and worked due to artillery, trenches, the silent about the stupendous grav. as to their responsibilty that Loud worked for him at home

remarked that this is a serioue in keen search until night. Their

with an equal pride, and there' bab Consulate General Hongkong common in this harbour, and it ¦ ä find of 375lbs, valued at about/ mense numbers of men engaged, exception of a few splendid his shoulders, should be reque) they will have saved Europe from

We are indebted to, the Ameri-offence and becoming much too efforts were further rewarded by difficulties of supply, and the im. ity of the situation. With the Kitchener, who has enough o

will be one horou Together progress is slow. The offensive speeches by Ministers, the work tioned to write a solemn letter to

disguace and thraldom. Divided, bas become doubly costly. All ing man has been left to find out a Labour leader about "on canny"

for himself the reason and nature methods of obstruction.

wal ang from different points of offensive mobility and directness. the time stagnation threatens the of the war,

Every Shirker a German Bullet dov, end with them there woul view that 16, they may yet ge Where is John Burns ?

This is the point. Not only have we got to put up the go Belgium, France, and the ver the annals of of Liberty, heralding th greatest fight in the s all time, but, we have got to set all of Britain.

for the following Typhoon War is a dangerous practice both for $3,500. A barrel said to common log, the telegraph quoted below the ship and the toss themselves, eat meat was found to contain was received from the M nila a practice which must be stopped. opium, and six innocent looking observatory at 130a.m. May 31,The first defendent was fined $30, paint tins were found to boast 1915, Cyclone or typhoon Nthe second was sent to gaol for one much more costly contents than Er of Meiacerims, Moving N. N menth with hard labour, while colours they also contained the Eor N.E.

the others were fined: 840 ezoh,

drug

What the Summer will Being,

In vain one looke round for tis ineffably sad to think that this summer can only bring death John Burns. Where is he? What and horror to hundreds of thou, lis he doing? In vain one ansile