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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SECOND EXTRA

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

[Renter's Service to the" Telegraph,""]

AIR RAID ON EAST COAST.

THIRTEEN KILLED AND TWELVE WOUNDED,

August 10, 7.20 p.m.

The Admiralty announces that a squadron of hostile sirships visited the East Coast from 8.30 last night till 12.30 in the morning. Some fires, caused by incendiary bombe, were quickly extinguished a na predad ya da na mataniakideungļu" was done; but one man, eight women and four children were killed, and four men, six women and two children were wounded.”

SevOne Zeppelin was seriously damaged by gunfire from the land defences, and, when being towed to Ostend in the morning, was sub- jected to continus! attacks by aircraft from Dunkirk, which were delivered in face of heavy German gunfire. The Zeppelin's back was broken and the rear compartments damaged, and it finally exploded. The night was very dark, and thick fog in places rendered the fying of British aeroplanes most difficult.

Flight Sub-Lieutenant R. Lord and one of the pilots engaging the enemy were killed on landing.

GOOD NEWS FROM THE DARDANELLES.

BRITISH SCORE AN IMPORTANT SUCCESS.

August 10, 7.10 p.m. Sir Ian Hamilton reports an important, success in the "Anzao. zone" Anzac is an abbreviation for the Australian and New Zealand army corps' footing gained on the Chanak Bair portion of Sari Bair mountain. The crest has been occupied after fierce fighting and successful storming. We strongly held our positions, e

The enemy's losses were again considerable. Six hundred and" thirty Tarkish prisoners were taken, together with a Nordenfeldt gun, two mortars, nine machine guns and a large quantity of bombs, rifles, eto,

The British have made another successful landing on the coast.. The above is the second part of a telegram. The first had not arrived when we went to press]

A BERLIN CLAIM.

LOMZA SAID TO BE OCCUPIED,

August 10, 8.10 p.m.

According to Reuter's correspondent in Amsterdam, & Berlin telegramolaims that the troops of the army of General Scholz bave occupied Lomaza.

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WAR ANNIVERSARY IN the common weal. Already many

SHANGHAI.

British Consul's, Bloquent

Speech,

of us have known the loss of re- latives and friends, and few of u bat epprehend that before victory is attained we must pay the cost in bereavement and sorrow-bereave- The anniversary of the war was ment and sorrow sanctified and observed on an elaborate ecale in made honourable by the conscions. Bhanghai, Services were held in news that they who die in a great the various places of worship, and worthy cause yet live on in that at the Cathedral being of an grateful hearts sa martyrs for the official character and attended by cause of humanity (Loud ap The various Consular bodies and planse). Many of our younger by Volunteers, Police, Sconts, etc. men have made the great sacrifice, In the evening a mass meeting offering themselves without regret was held at the race olub at whieb in the service of their country, speeches were made by the Bel-They and we who, through age gian, British, French and Bussion or imperative duty, are debarred from active service, are alike com- Consula.

Sir Everard Fraser H. B. M., rades with all the men, aye, and Consul General in seconding & women too, of the Allies, who are resolution in favour of the war able to lend a hand in or near the put by the Belgian Consul, M. Aghting line, on sea or land, in the hospital or the factory-we Siffert, said

My friends, at this assembly on are all comrades when in our the date when a year ago the hearts there burna, the steady British Empire entered into war, flame of patriotism, of love of it is fitting that the representative country which, like all true forms of heroio Belgium should move of love, is instinct with desire for the resolution which links as in self-sacrifice the grand deter Shanghai with like mestings of mination not fo gratify self, bat var fellow countrymen through to spond one's power for the out the world (Applause). We benefitofothers, whatever the cost. welcome the presence of our I suppose there are few who fellow-residenta of the nations during the last twelve months fed with our own in the present have bad better opportunities than colossal struggle. Amidst all the I of seeing and appreciating how horrors of war we are cheered by wide and how keen is that love of the hope that the existing anion country among us here, also how In arms now cemented by b'osd-unobtrusive, how content to labour shed fa a common cause will in without reward or recognition. kime to come produce such a To-day we meet here to Vow union of hearts that national pre-publicly and in unison to do all judice and racial jealousy shall we can for our country. Such s disappear in the warm fellowship public avowal must stimulate ne of a new United States, united it to the utmost effort, whether it may be not by formal ties, but one may be that hitherto wa seem to in the pursuit of true culture and have exhausted all possible means of moral progress (Loud applause), in helping, or whether it may be We meet to-day in no spirit of we have yielded to the templation rincour. The gospel of ha'e we to go on se nepal and fo regard to our enemies (Hear, hear), the suffering and striving as: 100 mest under a solemn sense of remote to affect us. This resolu-

done, of burdens to be tion, not taken lightly faced, diffioni- mere matt of form, my hearts like tha

sober!