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WAR TELEGRAMS,

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FRENCH COMMUNIQUE.

June 3, 1.45 a.m.

A Paris communique states -- The British stormed a obateau at Hooge, near Zonnebreke, with the bayonet,

The French repulsed a counter-nok south east of Neuville St. Vaast, afterwards advancing nud taking prisoners. The Freach divi- ion, which captured Carenoy, Ableis, and the Sanchez refinery took 3,100 prito iers, and buried 2,500 Germe between May U and June 1, itself losing 3,200 mostly slightly wounded.

SAFE CONDUCT FOR HERR DERNBERG.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1918.

GARMENTS FROM HONG- DAIRY FARM, NEWS.

KONG.

A Grateful Acknowledgment:

The following correspondence bas been forwarded to us by Lady May for publication:-

Friary Court,

St. James' Palace, S. W. 26th April, 1915.

last

"Dear Lady May,-Your Consignment from Hongkong bas jast arrived, and we are perfect- ly delighted with the eplendid contribution that you have sent us, and I hope you will convey to June 3, 1.45 a.m.

the ladies of Hongkong our very A New York message says that the Allies have granted lerr grateful thanke for the wonder. Dernberg safe conduct on his return to Germany. He sails viaful way in which they are help- Norway on the 12th inst., on the Norwegian steamer.

AMERICA AND MEXICO.

ing us. We get such pathetic ap- peals from the frenob, Belgian and Servian trcops, and never seem to have enough to meet the demand, so you can realies how welcome your ease ia.

We are now devoting all our

garments for Hospitals, and have closed the Women's and Child- ren's Department.

June 3, 1.45 am. Redler's correspondent at Washington ways that President Wilson, in a manifesto to the nation, declares that the United Stated cannot permit the ausrchical conditions in Mexico to contipus inde-energise to making bandages and finitely, and he calls upon the fection leaders in Mexico to unite and to organise a Government, otherwing the United States will intervene.

Juic 3, 12.15 p... According to Realer's correspondent at Rowe an efficial ac nonncordent states that the Italians have firmly occupied a ridge at Monto Ner, seven thousand feet bigh across the Isonzo six miles north west of Tolmico. This is the most importint Italian access up to the present, the first main Austrian barrier of the defence having been penetrated...

The enemy's repeated violent counter-stnoks were everywhere repulsed; but they indicate the Austrians serious view of the aituation.

BATTLE OF PRZEMYSL.

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

June 3, 1.00p

Op.m.

A Renter's message from Petrograd shows that the momentous ness of the battle of. Przemysl is shown in tc-day'a communique. The enemy's heavy guns, up to 10 inch, attacked the north front in the region of forte 10 and 11. Both were completely demolished by the Austrians before they surrendered P.zamysl,

We repulsed their attacks bat the enemy succeeded in taking several of our guns, which continued to bombard the enemy's. columas till they reached almost to the muzzle and until the last shell was spent.

&

We captured a further 200 prisonere in fort 7 and eight quickfiring guns. The stubbornness in the fighting is again developing between the Vistula and Przemyel. We gained some what important successes on the lower Sao, taking villages with the bayonet.

marab.

The enemy concentrated heavy guns and brought up reinforce- mente between Lysmenitze and Stryj. Their large maeces achieved some successes on the night of May 31. Fighting continued next morning. We took a part of the enemy's Iouition and made prisoners elsewhere on the front. There wore a series of minor Russian succ88608.

I am enclosing you. the last statement I sent to the Press, as it may interest you to see how we are getting on.

With very grateful thanks for your practical sympathy. I re- maio, Yours very truly.

ANNIE LAWLEY,

Hon. Secretary.

Q. M. N. G.

St. James Palace, S.W. Frinry Court,

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BUTTER & CHEESE.

Owing to the abnormal prices ruling at present in Australia for Butter, and the rise in the price of Canadian Stilton Cheese, we have been compelled to advance our retail prices to the following

DAISY BUTTER

'DAIRYMAID

BUTTERCUP

PASTRY

CHEESE

....$1.10, per. Ib.

1,00

..90

.80,

.70

These prices have been approved by the Food Committee and ame into force on 24th May, 1915,

CALL TO ARMS OF

GERMAN YOUTH.

Chastened Spirit of the

New Recruits.

SOLDIER'S WANDERINGS.

Escape from the Germans after Being Wounded at Mons.

A pang Norfolk soldier who Paris. On the first day of his was some time back officially arrival in Berlin Mr. Olaf D., a reported as "wounded and a Norwegian, who is recounting his prisoner," reached the head- impressions in the Tempe, quarters of his regiment, having heard the words, uttered in a escapel from the enemy and drawing 1oom: "Pablic feeling is reached England after a series of immensely (kolosral) depressed." excificg adventures in Belgium.

riobetrasse.

The troops no longer start for The story he tells is that at the front ainging "Die Wacht am Mons he was twice wounded in Rhein" and "Deutschland uber the foot by bullets and in the Sir. As Eon. Secretary of the

Alles." These national songs side by a piece of sbräpnel, 'A Q.M.N.G., I am commanded by

have passed from the repertoire German Red Cross man pulled Her Majesty the Queen, to ask of the soldiers to that of the off nearly all his clothing, and you to be ad kini as to let it be nocturnal jingoes in the Fried- left him after applying rough that though parcels will be rs- known throughout your paper,

bandagee. In that condition be "This does not mean," he re- lay on the ground all night. In Friary Court will be closed from rolled warriors have lost all faith till he came in touch with a bat- ceived as usual, the offices at marke, "that these newly en- the morning he struggled along in their victory; that is stillalion of Germane. With them the Let April to the 13th April.

The Q.M.N.G. has now had 7aanshaken, or at huet appears to was a doctor, who roughly pulled months of continual work, during be. Just think,' said one to me. off his boot to see the wounded which time over a million gar France baa already called up the foot. mente have been received, and 1916. class. In Germany the At length he found himself in distributed in 2,225 grants, young men of 1 have not yet a Belgian convent, where a doctor From varicus enquiries made it been called.'

extracted tho bullet from his foot as felt by Her Majesty the Queen

"There is no use in argaing and the piece of strapnel from The Russians in the village of Kalnikove alone captured 1200 that, with the approach of eum the question with them; and yet bis side with a knife. He re- prisoners with 22 officers, and eight quickfirers.

The situation is alationary from Przemysl to the great Daiestermer, the necessity for woollen it ie certain that in the first weeke mained for a month in the convent comforta Do longer exists, of enthusiasm over a million hospital, and the Le set out on nor "for clothing for women youths of that age enlisted volun- his travele.. and children, but owing to the tarily. The 1916 class in Ger A day and a night he spent in duration of the war and the many has already paid its tribute a church, while o2c8 be ok re- large number of casualties every to the war. Germany is still at fage in the house of a Belgian week, there is an increased de- this moment enrolling the un- civilian, whence he escaped just mand for all necesauries and trained Landsturm, that is to say, in time by using a hole in the ecmforts for our wounded and the healthy and able-bodied men peory will and concealing him- He was in the tub of 20 to 45 who have never served.self in a tub. convalescent soldiers in the many HONGKONG MEN KILLED. BOY'S CLAIM FOR WAGES hospitals at home and abroad. But what it is impossible to get when the house was raided by Several thousand more beds have at is how many of these men are Germans, and he heard them to be fully equipped. Her already at the front, how many threaten the householder with Majesty, therefore, invites all those are actually in the training death if any Englishmen were By this time Witnesses Reluctant to Appear. who have so generously helped campe, how many have not yet found there

rigged out in civilian the Q.M.N.G. in the past, to been called up. The reason is he had ben devute their energies in the future because, with a view to rendering clothes, a a t of friendliness on for hospital use:.. to making any of the following calculation impossible and to be part of a Belgian gentleman, bafla all investigation, the classes who recommended him to roll in Shirts,

of the Landstarm are called "op the mud wish them so as to mak Pyjamas Slippers, Towels, Bandages, Night shirts, haphazard by ages and by himself look at much like a work Dressing gowns, Sheets, Feather towns; thus the men of 30 will man as posible. "With some pillows, and Lint.

be called in Berlin, those of 25 at other Englishmen whom he met be orosed the frontier safely, and "The consequence is that for reached a port from whence be the stranger it is all an inextric-returned, bome. able medley, and this artifice at the same time ensb'es every German to believe that the force. of the country are inexhaustible, Argentina, Athens, British since there are certain young. - returned from Headquarters Mr. Mason informed his Lord- Columbia, British North Borneo, classes which are not yet on foot. with the official intimation that ship that he was still in the same Barbadoes, Bermuda, Batavia, So they declare that Germany will 100 was given up. Before lea-otion se last time and had her Buenos Aires, California, Cape never be conquered owing to the ving Bugkong with the con- urable to get his witnesses, who Colony, Orange Free State, Natal, vitality of the race. To argue tingent in December last, the were reluctant to appear in court. Rhodesia, Transvaal, Tembuland, the point with them is like trying deceased wins employed in the Mr. Dizon said he wanted his Chili, Corea, Canada, Ceylon, to grapple with a flaid."-D. N. Netherlands Trading Society. He judgment and it was accordingly Obri-tiania, Channel Islands, wae 28 years of age, an old boy granted to him, but on tlie sp-Demerara, Dominics, Egypt, of St. Joseph's College, a member plication of Mr. Mason the ques Federated Malay States, Fiji, of the Oatholic Union, and the tion of granting a new trial wae Geneva, Hongkong, India, Japan, Olab de Recreio, Kowloon. Be adjourned for two months for the Jamaica, Madagascar, Malacca, was a very fino swimmer and pos- purpose of enabling his olient to Mauritius, Malakand, Manchuris, saeeed more than ordinary ability contest the case when she returns Naples, New Zealand, New South With the cue.

from Calcutta.

Dice fi

fighting for King fnd Country.

This morning in the Summary A letter addressed to Pte. F. Court the case was.continuep Soares, of the 5th Middlesex before Mr. Justice Hazeland, in Itegiment, now at the front, has which Wai Leung sued Miss Sybil been returned to his family here Rothschild of No. 2, Old Bailey; marked "Killed in Action" and in to recover the tum of $21.30 those brief words the intimation alleged to be due for wages was made that this young Hong-money paid by the plaintiff on kong man had fallen.. A few dass her behalf.

men

In addition to these, socks for Stettin, those of 40 at Dresden. and

on will be wanted all through the summer,

Voluntary effort has indeed been splendid, and generous con- tributions have been received from:-

ngo, the family beard through Mr, Dixon, of Messrs. Wilkio another man at the front that son nud Griet, appeared for the Pte. Soares had been killed, but plaintiff and Mr. C. F. Mason, for it was not until this letter was the defence. :

The sympathy of the residents of Hongkong will go out to the family whose name is represented on the roll of honour of those who have fallen in the cause of justice. DEATH OF

TENNIS LEAGUE.

DEATH OF MR G. U.

ROBINS.

.

Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Nova Scotia, Oporto, Penang, Perak, Rio de Janeiro, Russia, Singapore, Shanghai, Siam, Stook. holm, Trinidad, Tasmania, Thurs- day Island, U.S.A., Zululand,— a truly marvellous proof of the sympathy with the cause of the Allies which is being felt in every corner of the civilised

and Leader,

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

MRS CHAPMAN.

Funeral passes the Monument at.5.30 p.m. to-day,

At the age of 18 yeare, we re- rel announes, Mrs. Chapman, wife of Mr. Robert Chapman, conuatat sad store keeper, in the Medical Department, Govern- ment Civil Hospital, diod at Victoria Hospital yesterday after-

The deceased lady, who had a large cirole of friends re- sided in the Colony for many years, and had, unfortunately, not been in good health for some time.

The funeral will pass the Monument, at 5.30 this afterco-n on the way to Happy Valley.

The deceased leaves no child.

June 1

2

Tons 295 313

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3

1.

322

Total to 3rd. inst.

930

Daily average 310.00

rea.

SIR ROBERT HO TUNG.

We are informed by a relative of Sir Robert Ho Tong that the

It was with feelings of very world. Her Majesty recognises deep regret that residents of in this generous response to her Shanghai learned that Mr. Geor appeal on behalf of cur sailora operating with the Society of St. latter was not shroff to the Fire ge Upton Robins, antil recently and soldiers, a determination on John of Jerusalem and the British insurance Department and that head of the branch in Shanghai the part of the women of the Em- Red Cross Society, and Her it was not on Mr. Whitehead's The following team will repre- of Brand Bros. & Co., had been pire to emulate the magnificent Majesty, feels confident it will not recommendation that Sir Robert sent the Wigwam Tennis Club in killed in action in Flanders. So example of loyalty which the ba made in vain. Yours faith was appointed Chairman of the their match against Kowloon far no further details are to hand manhood of greater Britain has folly, After Tang Wah Hospital, but that he

ANNIE LAWLEY, "B". C. Humphreys, O. D. Lam- beyond the telegram to this effect given to the world.

was elected to that position by Hon. Secretary the Chinese community, bert G. W. Sewell, L, le Breton, received by Messre. Brand Bros. In making this new appeal to B. Dreyer and A.J. Carter. on May 27.

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