1915-06-16 — Page 11

THE WAR.

COUNTRIES ENGAGED.

Germany

Austria

Turkey

against

Britain.

Russia..

France.

Belgium. Italy

Japan

Servia

✓ Montenegro

ARMY TERMS EXPLAINED. Army corps is a complete army

on a small scale in itself. The strength varies from 35,000 to 45,000 men,

Division is a force of infantry, cavalry; and artillery, usually with a strength of from 15,000 to 20,000 men,

Brigade is a force of infantry or cavalry. The infantry brigade in from 4,000 to 7,000 strong, The cavalry brigade is from 1,000 to 2,000 strong. Regiment of infantry is from 2,000 to 1,000 strong... A cavalry régiment is from 500 to 1,000 men strong. Squadron of cavalry is from 166

to 200 men strong.. Battery of artillery in the British and French armies has 6 guns and about 200 men. In the German Army consists of 4 In the guns and 150 men. Russian Army it consists of 8 guns and 250 men.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

"Jüne 28-Archduke Francis Fer-

dinand assassinated.

July 23-Austria sende an ulti-

malum to Servia,

July 31-Russia orders general

mobilisation.

Aug. 1-Germans declares war on Russia. French Cabinet orders general mobilisation. Aug. 2. German forces enter

Luxemburg.

maay

Aug. 4-England sends ultima- tum, demanding observance of Belgian neutrality. Ger- rejects ultimatum, Aug. 5.-England at war. Ang...-Germans enter Liege. French invade aouthern Alsace. Aug. 15.-Austriage enter Servia. Japan sends altimatum to Germany.

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Aug. 17.-British land in France. Aug. 19-Beginning of battle of

Lorraine.

Aug. 20-Germans enter Brussels. Aag, 23-Germans enter Namur. Aug. 24-British begin retreat

from Mons.

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Alexandra Building.

HOTEL LIST.

Hongkong Hotel.

Anderson E Buring JH

Bell O DJ

Belilios, Mrs. ER Blacker GO Bouman GC

Bu'mer JH

Cassel Capt L

Cheetham H

Cornslinson Mra

.

Lasseca C Law HD Lloyd GT Longfield S Maloneve R Markham B Marriott Dr & Mrs Marshall Mre EG,

D

C&Mrs CE

Davis Mr& Mrs FE Mebin K.B

Denison OG

Duffy Mins MB

CK Ehrenfels H.E

Morecki J

Middleton 08

Mody Mr & Mrs JH

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Grand. Hotel.

Allen Mr & Mrs

'Lookey WH

Arntzan Mr & Mrs. Odnor T

Crow Mr & Mrs Dunrich A

Gibbs A Grant

W

James B Jobpion L Lour G W Leon B

Reynolds W

Rooze FG

Solm 19 Capt

Steen M G

Turner OH

Veda V D

Wright BH

'Kingsclere Hotel.

Fielder BE. Filkins Miss D Forbes Mr & Mrs Forbes A

Falder

BE

Hardman A

Hecgeworff

A

Rawlinson RJ

Robertson Mr &

Mrs J

Sachau

Mr G

Sheldon Mr & Mr

RD

'Shields A L

ord B

Mody Mra

1

Now burger G F

Singer Me Mr. E

Nixon F C

Ormiston J

Wilson M. J

Evensen E

French Capt & Mre Newman H

EM

Flawilliams D.GHL Pagg 7 H'H Fuller Donmid Plant W 11 Glaister Dr & Mrs Pisten Mies Gibb

Pitober AJ Gould

Mr & Mrs J Prica' Goulbourn V G.egory T M

Griffiths H L... Goodrich C.L Hall Capt TP Hanalbal Mr &

Hanson A Hatlewood CC

Halewood CH

Rony H

Misa F

Ray, B

Raymond JE

Randall Mrs J A Rowell-J P

MrsSaltdi

'Smith W II

Smith

Mrs & G

Taylor Mr & Mrs

Hewett Hon ME A Tatoer F Hooia O

Hollingsworth A H

Hodge WJ

Irving A Joseph Joseph SM

Jones MT

Joseph E

Kramer D S

Lambert EI

Carlton

Oct. 29-Turkish naval attacks on Jan. 8-French advance across Olena and in the Crimea. Aisne, north of Sissone Oct. 30-Ool. Moritz, rebel leader Jag. 13-Turks occupy Tabriz.

driven cut of Oape Colony.' Count Berchtold resigns. Alemberg E Nov. 1. German naval victory Jan. 19-German air fleet bom-Clarke Miss May

Cropley L off the coast of Chili.

bards Yarmou b.

Cropley N C Nov. 3-German squadron makes Jan. 21 General Falkenhayn, Copley CC

Fulcher

Wo German War Minister, Goodall Mr & Mrs re-igus.

Goodall Misso Hollway HD Hoshai Dr J.. Kia.ulf R Macgregor D Almond Mr R

o raid on British const. ⠀ Nov. 4-Garman oraiser Yorck

strikes mine in Jade Bay. Nov. 5-England and France de

clare war on Turkey. Dr. davelles forts bombarded. Nov. 6-Tsingtau surrenders, Ang, 25 French evacuate Mal-Nov. 7 Russians enter Eust

heusen.

Aug. 28-Germana take Longwy. Aug. 27-Louvain burned by Germans, Japanese block- ade Taingtau. Aug. 28-Battle of Heligoland. Sept. 2-German advance reaches

Senlis. French Government moves to Bordeaux. Sept 3-Russians occupy Lem.

berg.

Sept. 5 Battle of the Marne

begine.

Sept. 7-Maubeuge taken by the

Germans.

Sept. 12-German retreat halts

on the Aisne.

Sept: 20 Germane bombard

Rheime..

Sept. 22-German

20

Prussia.

mude.

Nov. 10--The En len destroyed. Nov. 11-Germane capture Dix- Nov. 19 House of Commons votee a new army of 1,000,000

دا میشه

Jan, 24-British naval victory in North Sas: the Blucher sunk. Jan. 26-Germans loss beavi'y at

Givency and Cuinoby. Jan. 31-Germany inaugurates

submarine raids.

Feb. 3-Germinauxiliary bruiser

Bank of Patagonia.. Feb. 5-Turks attempt to 01088

Feb.

Suez Canal.

6-Allies resolve t quite financial resources, ́

J

Valia Dr&Mrell de

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Mr & Mrs A Webb Mr & Mrs B White F W While Mr & Mrs

H.L'H

Wood FG Wood Mrs RF

Hotel, Malcolm J Marshall J Meok Thomas Melver

Pannell WY

N

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Plumer Capt R

Tapsell E

Taylor W

Thom W

Whelley A R

Wilson DB

King Edward Hotel.

Bettison Mr & Mrs

WH Brown OW Budge W Boale MIN

Claxton AA

Cooke Mm FL Cooke Miss J F

IF Course &

Cooke Master G M&

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Logan W

Lurhrs J Hvan G JParcy Barn

Peak Hotel.

Armstrong Mr and

birs W Baxtor II R Bowdler Mrs Butler PR

Carmichael Mr and

Mrs HF Cartwright HA Casulli Mr & Mrs D

Cary, F W Compton A C Courland A Darling Col RE Billa E 8

Faichino Major. Hale Mr & Mrs B A

Hale Mr

Hind B A

Mind

Hall Col Gordon

Hardmin A"

Hazeland FA

Jones I.eo Kadoorie E Lambort Eng Lieut ard Mrs John Lambert Lifton A Mitchelmore Mr &

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Ralphs Mr & Mrs E

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CONTENTS.

1 3 St. John's Ambulance A's-

Bociation...... 42

their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Com Passenger Lists

Hotel Lists pany's Godowns at Kowlo in, where each consignment will be Correspondence. sorted out mark by mark and deliv-Commercial

Steamers

5

The Colony's Health.....42

8

7-10

Securities Lodged with

'the Clown

.........43 Executive Council..........43

"men" More than 1,100,000. Feb. 8-Total British eucalities Dulton Mr & Mr&Mr Optional Goods will be carried | Notes and Comments:.....24-28, British Chamber of Com

ery can be obtained as soon as The Courts.....12-16 Portuguese Lady's Death 43 the Goods are landed.

Leading Articles....1723 Mrs. Chapman.....

Nov. 23-Russians surr and Ger-

man corpa south of Lodz. Nov. 26-British battleship Bul wark destroyed by explosion in the Medway River.

Dec. 1-German Reichstag votes

new credit of five billion warks. King George visits Flanders. :

Jec. 2-Austrians occupy Bel. grade. Gen. De Wet captur ed.

aubmarine Deo. 3-Servians defiat Aus einke British cruisers Abou-

trians in three daya' battle. kir, Cressy, and Hogue,Dec. 6-Germans occupy Lodz. Sept. 26-Indian troops land at Deo. 8-British. naval victory off

Marseilles.

Falkland Islands,

Sept. 28-Germane begin siege of

Antwerp.

Oct, 2- Germana defeated at

Augustowo.

Oct. 6-Belgian Government re- moved from Antwerp to Ostend.

Oct. 7-Bombardment of Ant-

worp.

Oot. 9-Antwerp occupied by

the Germans.

Oct. 12-A Boer commando in the Cape Province matinies. Oct. 13 Belgian Government transferred from Ostend to Havre.

Oct. 14-Allies occupy Ypres..

Battle begins on the Vistula. Oct. 16-Ostend occupied by

the Germans.

Oot, 16-British cruiser Hawke tsunk by German sabmarine, Oct. 24-Ten days battle be- fore Warsaw ends in German defeat.

Russians reoccupy Lods and Radom.

Oct. 21

Dec. 9-Gen. Byers, Boer leader,

to date 104,000.00,

A

Feb. 10 Germans execute the Elson WT

rebel Mariz.

Feb. 17-Canadian contingent

landa in France.

Feb. 20-27-Over 10,000 Ger-

mang surrender in France. Feb. 27.-Allied Fleet enters the

Dardanelles.

Gas Mr & Mri For Mrs A Fyle AA Friz O Hazlitt PK Hashimoto F 1

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Mrs R A

Richardson W Rigge Mr&Mrs HE Mra Sort B

vester Mrs &

on unless instructions are given Special Articles to the contrary before noon, to- Sport day.

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29-34 merce for Canton......43 35-26 Bank Notes in Circulation 43 Farowell to a Scout.........44

Goods not cleared by the 20th Proclamation

Prince of Wales' Fund...37 June, will be subject to rent.

..38-39, Another Big Opium Haul 4

AN Damaged packages must be left] Hongkong Men Killed ...39 in the Godowns for examination dir Frank Bowden....... 39 by the Consignee's and the Co.'s Additions to List of Con representatives at an appointed.

Mr& MJ Taylor F

Mr & Mrs Threlfell Mrs

Tourtello Mrs EL Tuda 8 Underwood Mr &

Mrs J H

Mar. 1-House of Commone votes Kalen TH supplementary credit of 37 Ksay WE

Lambert Mra millions and a fresh credit of 250 millions. March 8.British aeroplanes

attack Ostend. March 9.-Second Canadian con

tingent lands in England. March 3-10.-Four German sub-

marines accounted for. March 10.-British

capture Neuve Chapelle.

killed at the Vaal River. Deo. 13-British submarine sinka the Messudieh in Dardanelles. Dec. 15-Austrians ovacaste Bel-¦ March 14.-German losses at La

grade,

Bassee total 10,000 in three daya.

Dec. 16-German cruisera bom-

bard Scarborough and March 14.-The Dresden sunk Hartlepool,

off Juan Fernandez Island,

estimates German losses in La Bassee region to be 17,000. March 18.-British battleshipa

Dec. 18 -Egypt proclaimed a March 16.-Sir John French

British protectorate. Gen. Botha reports Boor rebellion. as at an end. Deo. 20-26-Severe fighting on

the line of the Bzura River. Deo. 23-French Chamber votes

war credit of £340,000,000. Deo. 25-British naval and serial

raid against Cüzbaven. Dec. 28 French occupy St. Georges, near Nieuport, Jan. 1, 1915-H.M.8. Formidable

sunk in the Channel," Jan. 3-French captureSteinbach, Jan. 3-4-Russiana win decisive victory over. Tarke in the Caucasus,

Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk by floating mines in Dardanelles. March 19-Russiansenter Memel. March 21-Futile Zeppelia raid

March 29.-Eussian Fleet bom- bards the Bosphorus. Ge- man submarine sinks West African liner Falaba.

امیه

March 31-Australia offers an

other contingent April 8.-Prinz Extel Friederich interned in Norfolk Navy Yard, U.S.A. April 9-Grmany asso es liabili ty for the sinking of the Americanship William Frye. Anti Austrian demonstra- tions at Genos,

to

hour on Tuesday & Friday, All traband Articles ... 39; claims must be presented From the Palpit.......... 40-42 within ten days of the steamer's The Australian Contingent 42 they cannot be recognised. No arrival hara, after which date claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 14th June, 1915.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, FROM CALOUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. THE Steamship

"ITOLA,"

April 10-German Note having arrived from the above United States complains that porte, consignees of cargo are the latter has accomplished will be delivered from alongside. hereby informed that their goods nothing by her diplomatic Cargo impeding the discharge correspondence with Allies of the vessel will be landed at Official statement as to ill. once, at consignees risk and ex- treatment of British prisoners pense. in Germany.

Cargo remaining on board at 11-German Socialiste issue noon, after the 17th instant, will pamphlets: Bishop of be landed at consignces risk and London visits entire Front.

April

on Paris, March 22.-Przemysl surrendera

to the Russians, March 24.-British airmen suc- cenatally attack German submarine workeat Boboken: March 26.-German. submarine April

U269 sank with ́all hands.

demands that Count Bern atorff should be given bis 13-Sir John French asks for passportsw

extra munitions...

expense, A. M

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