1915-08-21 — Page 9

WAR TELEGRAMS.

Continued from page 1.

BALKAN LEAGUE ESTABLISHMent likely,

August 19, 1.50 p.m. Reuter'a correspondent in Athens declares that the Balkana situation has become of absorbing interest, especially in view of the possibility of the re-establishment of the Balkan League on the side of the Enterte Powers,

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Considerable importance is attached to the fact that the British Minister to Greece had an audience with King Constantine to day. At a subsequent conference with M. Vanizslos, King Conatan tine expressed a desire to see the Ministers of the other Entents

Powers.

BRITISH MUNITIONS FACTORIES.

August 19, 3.35 p.m. Mr. Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, announces that there are now five hundred and thirty-five controlled munitions establish- ments in Britain in operation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUES.

ENEMY DISPLAYS FRESH VIGOUR,

August 20, 1.55 am. The Fetrograd communique says that the enemy has continued the town and, advancing beyond, established himself in the district vigorously to develop the success achieved at Kovno. He occupied

between the rivers Niemen and Vilna.

German attacks on Qisowiecs fortress on Tuesday night and on Wednesday were repulsed.

Fighting continues on the front from Ossowiecs to Brest Litovsk and farther south. It is most desperate in some sectors, especially where the enemy on Tuesday and Wednesday attacked our troopa on the lower Bobr, in the direction of Bielek, along the Teheremkha railway and near Vlodava.

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THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1915.

WAR TELEGRAMS

THE DARDANELLES.

'HEAVY, FIGHTING, REPORTED.

August 19, 3.55 p.m. General Sir Ian Hamilton reports that the recent operations on the southern and Auz10" lines, including a fresh landing in force the Gallipoli peninsula consisted of attacks on enemy positions along at Bavla Bay.

There is evidence from the statements of prisoners that the that our attack forestalled them by twenty-four hours. Conse Turks were considerably reinforced with a view to attacking us and quently, the fighting was most severe and on both sides the caenalties were very heavy.

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The landing at Suvia Bay was well planned and carried out by the Navy, but despite the fact that the Turks developed their greatest strength on the "Anzse" gone our troops at Saval Bay were unable to make very satisfactory progress, before the enemy was able to more up considerable forces from his reserves and bring our further advance here to a stand-still. "

All the points won have been consolidated and the spirit of the |troops is excellent.

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REICHSTAG OPENS; SPEECH BY PRESIDENT.

August 20.5.15 p.tn.

A telegram from Amsterdam reports the opening of the Reichstag. The President in his speech described the German encoesses as bordering on the fabulous.

The Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, said that Germany, relying on her glorioue troops, could regard the future prondly and fearlessly. He expressed heartfelt thanks to the Netherlands, which had twice given devoted assistance to the severely wounded returning from England, and bespecially thanked the Pope, who, he said, wre chiefly reaponsible for the realization of so many works of humanity during the war.

He denounced England for etrangling neutral commerce, and Russia for devastating Poland and removing Jews and Christians to languish, on the muddy roads,

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

CEO. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, SHARE & CENERAL BROKER

(By Order of the Mortgages)

PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned has received Auction on

instructions to sell by Public

the 23rd August, 1915, com- mencing at 12 o'clock noon at bis Sales Rooms, Duddell Streat. (For account of the Concerned) 60 Bhares of the Tue Tak

wy Co., Ltd

NA MONDAY,

Nos. 801-860)^{ Terms Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT;

Auctioneer.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

the 23rd August, 1915,commenc MONDAY,

ing at 5.30 p.m. at Ah King's Slipway. Wanchai,

The Motor Launch

**WHITE STAR' (built of teak wood) length $2" beam7

draft 3x 3

with a 30 H. P. 4 oylinder engine in good running order.

11-ralles.

Speed

Cu view Now. TormsCash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.i

By Order of the Mortgages,

Mr. Geo. P.” Lammert" bas

PUBLIC ACTION

that Germany, which sought only peaceful development after forty-

At some length he reviewed the pre-war conditions, denying received instructions to sell by four years, was responsible for the war.

COTTON AS CONTRABAND AT LAST.

August 10, 10.25 p.m.

A message from Washington states that the British Embassy The enemy is displaying increasing vigour in his attacks on announces that the Allies have agreed to regard cotton sa contra- the Novogeorgievak fortifications, on the right banks of the Vistula band of war.

and Narew rivers,"

The fighting has been of the bloodiest description and German corpses were heaped on our entanglements, but the German artillery, developing their maximum fire, silenced our guns and demolished the fortifications between the rivera Wkra and Narew.

Thereafter, the Russians, despite all their efforts, were forced

to retire to the right bank of the Wkra and this has enabled the

WAR ITEMS.

* Leave Us Our Beer 1".

Amsterdam, July 8. A tele-

TELEGRAME

OBITUARY.

CARDINAL VANNUTELLI

TUESDAY,

the 24th day of August, 1915 at three o'clock p.m. at his Sales Room Duddell Street.. Victoria Hongkong. The following Valuable Lensė– hold Property situate at Victoria,

Hongkong, vizi-KA

All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Viotorla afore- said and known (and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 160 together with the messu- ges erections and buildings thereon known as Nos. 122, 121 and 126 Queen's Road Central Victoria aforesaid, Term... 75 years created by a Crown Lease

ENTERTAINMENTS.

VICTORIA

TO

THEATRE.

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You will see it on Friday 20th When Pathe's Great Comedy

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In 2 parte..

SHERLOCK HOLMES

in 4. parts,

Pathe's Gazette.

Keystone Comics.

There is no Understanding What the Victoriafis doing: Why! Variety, Pleasure, and Pathos."

BIJOU

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SATURDAY 21st "August,

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also

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Germans to concentrate their efforts on the northern sector, oom-gram from Berlin states that the Renter's Berrice To The Telegraph dated 17th April 1844 Extended to SUBMIT TO US YOUR REQUIREMENTS AND WE prising the fortifications between the Wkra and Vistula rivers."

GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

ALL ROUND SUCCESS CLAIMED.

August 19, 8.10

p.m.

London, Received August 19.

dearth of barley has forced the

$99. years granted by an "Exten- [German browery associations to The death is sanonneed, of sion for 924 years dated 1st Fe-i reduce the output of beer to a Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli. bruary, 1854 Annual Crown minimum of 40 per cent. below Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli, who rent £11-11-74. Area 3192 the usual output. Beer thereby was of Italian nationality, was Square feet. becomes a luxury. This step, born in 1834 and created to the Conditions of sale apply to

For further particulars and which is approved by the Govern- [bigh office of Cardinal-Bishop in ment, has raised a considerable 1887. He was Bishop of Porto and volume of protest throughout Santa Rufius and Sub-Dean of Germany. The municipalities of the Sacred College, Great Peni- Berlin and Munich have sum- tentiary.

A Berlin communique, via Renter's correspondent at Amster-mcned extraordinary meetings of dam, claims that thirty officers and 3,000 men were captured at Kovno.

Under pressure of the capture of Kovno the Russians are evacuating their positions opposite Kalwarja and Sawalki.

The Germans claim to have reached the railway between Baily- stok and Brest Latoyak and to have atormed the two northern forts of Novogeorgievak, taking a thousand prisoners and 125 guns.

The Germans further declare that the armies of King Leopold of Bavaria and General von Mackensen are progressing. The Germans also advancing eastward to Włodawa, the Rossians here having have reached the advanced positions at Brest Litovek while they are

6yacuated the east bank of the Bug.

GERMANS CLAIM IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

August 20, 1.20 p.m.". Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that, according to a Berlin communique, Novogeorgievek has been captured with over twenty thousand prisoners, The Kaiser has arrived there.

LARGE GERMAN FLEET IN THE BALTIC.

August 20, 3.55 8.m.

official report.

Reuter's representative at Petrograd telegraphe the following Our warships guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Riga retired after a fight, owing to the great superiority of the enemy fleet.

GERMANY AND NORWEGIAN MAILS,

their councils to discuss messures which have necessitated a con- tinual increase of food prices.

Germany.

JOHNSON STOKES and

NAMASTER Prince's Buildings, Ice House Street, Hongkong, Bolicitors for the Mortgagees,

for to, MEMES GEO. P. LAMMERT, The Auctioneer.

Paris, July 10. The Matin Hong kong, 9th August, 1915. learns that the present drought

proposed.

By order of the Mortgagees,

Geo. P. Lammert has re-

ceive † instructions to sell by"

PUBLIC AUCTION

TUESDAY,

3 p.m. at his Sales Room Duddell Street. Victoria wdy Hongkong.

The following Valuable Lease- hold Property situate at Victoria, Hongkong, viz:-

Arabs Deserting Turkey, The Naples correspondent of is causing considerable anxiety the Echo de Paris telegraphs that at Berlin, and everybody is sug the Italian · Consuls from gesting a system to counteract Jerusalem, Beirut, and Aleppo, the bad effects of a protracted Mr. who have arrived at Naples, agree apell of dry weather. Some sug- coming rapidly worse. They lunteer sprinklers" is oven the 31st day of August, 1915, at that the Tarkish position is be gent now means of irrigating the

land, and an organisation of vo declare that the Arab element bas already to a very great ex tent deserted the cause of the Dinners. "Off" la Berila. Empire on becoming aware of Amsterdam, Jaly 9.-Berlin the large increases in the British hotel proprietors are not allowed. forces operating in the Dardast present to supply dinners con nelles.

aisting of several dishes. At restaurante where separate tables

All that plece, or parcel of Allegations Against German Red were provided the proprietors said and known and registered in ground situate at Victoria afore- Cross Sisters, But, Ald Paris, July 10. The Belgrade did not consider themselves the Land Office as Section D of onrrespondent of the Echo de bound by the regulation, and Inland Lot No 1 as the same is Faris states that at the instance produced dinners of several more particularly described on of the German Hinister at Berne dishes. The police have now the plan annexed to an Indenture Mdme. Puget, of Neuchatel, has warned them, and threatened of Assignment dated the 14th day been prosecuted before a military punishment for infraction of the of January, 1899 registered in the court for having in an articlo rule. acensed the Sisters of the German Red Cross with having inconlated

Land Office by Memorial No. 24991 and made between Young Fo Yan of the one part and thereon Coloured Red and Pink We

together with the buildings eract-

Advice to the King of Greece, Athens, July 11-According wounded French soldiers with to the Fatic the donors, attend virge instead of Bornm. The ing the King recommended, after accused was acquitted amid the consultation, that His Majesty ed thereon known as No.1 Tang should abstain from all political Tak Lane and No. 24 Cochrane applause of a crowded court. Dramatic Desertion of Recruits, pre-occupations likely to cause Street and together with a right Rome, July 9-The Tribuna him fatigue. The doctors, how of way over such portions of reports the following incident ever, will hold a further consulta. Tung Tak Lane se are shown on from the front; Daring & vigor- tion next Sunday, when they will the said plan and thereon colon ous attack against the Austrian orms to a definite decision.ed Yellow. Term 9-9 years from 8th, 65 soldiers of the hostile Area Chapelle it is reported that 1850 Annual Cmwn Tents 6.70. Seventeen Tratus of Wound d. the 5th October, 1849 created by positions on the Isonzo on the

Ameerdam, Jaly 11 From a Crown Lease dated 1st May, infantry recruits from Dalmatia, 20

in one day seventeen long trains For further partio lars and Ares 13617/12th Square feet. -1 who were in the first. Aneirian line fimultaneously separated

14.

with

tere orrived at conditions of sal apply to from the main force, threw down

four wreck. their rifles and rained their arms,

through Air

estern Iulia, Italia," The Austrians Bred on the deserter, ng 28, but the remaining 87 nes, (where they received

August 19, 705 pm. message from Renter's correspondent at Christianis quotes the Aftenpost, which says that the Norwegian people have re ceived with bot indignation and bitterness the news of the treatment, term of the Norwegian mail packet by a German submarine. The neWE, WEDŁ the Norwegian jaurnal, will be resented from North Cape to BAYS Lindesnas. The injury done to England by grabbing the Nor maila is immaterial compared with the damage done to our country The theft of neutral maila is not a part of decent warfare.

Beuter correspondent in Copenhagen telegraphs

Danial Postmaster General useita that no mor "ent via Norway to England. They will be de

ture

[consequence of men being. Ito the colou

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