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TUESDAY,

SEPTEMBER, 7,

1915.

TO-DAY'S

September 7 1915,

Temperature Humidity

8014 日八十月七年卯乙

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

September 7 1914,

WEATHER FORECAST

FINE

Barometer 29.66

2 pm.

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GERMAN-AMERICAN PLOTS.

MORE ASTOUNDING TALES OF TRICKERY AND TREACHERY.

British Progress in the Dardanelles.

AMERICA LOJES HER "LAST SHReds of belief in GERMANY'S WORD,"

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[Rentor's Service to the "Telegraph."]

THE RUSSIANS.

WORSE THAN MOSCOW IN 1812,"

September 6, 4.00 pm. A Datch correspondent, who entered Breet Litovsk with the Austrians, writes: "It could not have been worse in Moscow in 1812. He vividly pictures the invadere rashing through lanes of burning houses to find something to eat and driak, in perhaps, some forgot tea alley, but not a craat of bread was left. Every house was fired and not a 804) was visible out of the 63,000 inhabitants, except ono miserable family whose only possessions were a few chsits and a cradle.

GERMAN TRICKERY.

FURTHER INTERESTING REVELATION J.

THE DARDANELLES.

BRITISH MAKE FURTHER PROGRESS,

September 8, 12.16 p.m. According to a French official announcement the British in the "Anzio zono have made fresh progress since the end of August,

THE SINKING OF THE HESPERIAN.

THE SUBMARINE SEEN BY PASSENGERS.

September 6, 12.15 p.m.

A message says that a submarine was seen by several" passen. gera who were on the deck of the Hesperian. Before the torpado struck the starboard aide the quartermaster shouted, from the forward deck: "Submarine on starboard quarter." Then a sho:t stariling silencs was followed by an explosion.

A Miss Carberry sad another elderly lady, have died from shock and injuries.

9.000 SACKS OF MAILS SUNK.

September 6, 3.10 p.m. The Hesperian is stated to have had 3.000 Backe of maila on! board which went down with the liner.

ANOTHER STEAMER TORPEDOED.

SIX PERSONS KILLED AND SIX INJURED.

September u, pam

It is reported at Lloyda that the British steamer Cymbelins has boon saak, 31 of her crew have been landed. Six persons were killed and six injured.

[The Cymbeline was a steel sorow steamer of 4,505 tɔn re gister, builtin 1992 at Nowcastle by Messrs, Armstrong, Whitworth, Ltd., and was the property of the Bear Crook Oil and Shipping Co. Her port of register was Liverpool.]

AMERICAN OPINION.

September 6, 2,00 p.m.

Dask was gathering when the Hesperian was torpedoed. Par- sengers were sitting on the deck after dinner, and the ees was like glass, when, suddenly the quartermaster shouted: "Sabmarine on the starboard quarter." It was also seen by several pasisogern. The torpedo strook almost immediately, forward of the engine room, and the shook tilted the deck chaire. A vast column of water rose mast high and fell on the deck mingled with fragments of iron and drenching every one near.

Temperatura 6 am. 81-

70 Humidity

CAR MALAW BINGLE COPY 10 DENTS

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

FOR VALOUR.

COMMISSIONS GIVEN TO POPULAR V.C'S.

Septembər 6, 4.00 p.m. Sergeant O'Leary and Private Dwyer, who were recently awarded the Victoria Orose, have been given commissions in the Northumberland Fasiliere.

[In the event of telegrams arriving too late for Insertion on this page they will be found on the Extra.]

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE HESPERIAN.

PASSENGERS SAVED.

September 5, 105 p.m. The Allan Line bag issued a notice to-night that all

passengers were saved.

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NO AMERICANS LOST.

September 5, 8.55 p.m. Tas American Consul at Q 1000stowa reports that there

SINKING OF THE VESSEL.

September 8, 10.30 a.m.

The Hesperian sank at 8.47 in the morning.

THE CREW SAFE.

September 8, 12,00 noon.

the

were

A wireless message states that the crew was rescued before the Hesperian foundered.

MR. BALFOUR ON THE SITUATION.

September 6, 10.50 p.m.

$36 PER ANNUM

TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

CONDENSED.

The police believe that the fire I was caused by German Popagate

dinta.

Sir William O. Plowden and Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fal- ler have died.

The Hesperian bad 3,000 skoka of maile on board which went down with the liner.

The German authorities are making a return of men from 48 to 50 years of age.

"ÁBELO

The British in the sona have made fresh progrem since the end of August:"

The Now-York World says that the documents found on the Amotican correspondent fully im plicate the Embassies,

The British steamer Cymbeline has been sunk. 30 of the crew were landed. Six persons were killed and six wounded,

The torpedoing of the Hesperian has aroused maoh excitement and grave apprehension among the American public.

A Miss Carberry and anothe elderly lady, have died from shook and injuries, resultant on the torpedoing of the Hesperian.

Oas of the largest grain eleva. tors in America containing balf ■ million bushels of grain destined for Britain, has been destroyed by fire,

not Ratch, se resposdent, whe

1812.

Sergeant O'Leary and Private Dwyer, who were recently award- ed the Vic oria Cros, have been given commissions in the North- amberland Filiera,

A special cable from Shanghai eaya that President Yuan Bhih- k'ai saya that in his opinion the proposed change of Government

stances. is unsuitsble under the circum.

It is said that an American correspondent was detained at Falmouth, for carrying despatches from the Austro-German- Am- bassadors, at Washington, to their Governments.

President Wilson and Mr. TWO ENEMY TRANSPORTS SUNK.

Lansing have refused to comment The captain and crew were magnificent in their ocolness. The September, 6, 405 p.m.

Mr. A. J. Balfour, in an important and striking letter to a on the sinking of the Hesperian, Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd says that two Russian watertight doors were promptly closed and the boats quickly lower- destroyera armed only with four inobers, yesterday, attacked in the ed and filled with women and children, and afterwards with other

assisting to enforce liberty in Europe. Toe Garman statesmen relations are again endangered." The Vatican announces that Black sea, the cruiser Hamidish and two of Turkey's most modern passengers, but in two cases the falls iimmed, and the cocupants of correspondent, covering naval warfare, especially the submarine but the fooling in official circles deatroyers, which were escorting four large calliere going to Con- the boats were thrown into the water. It is believed that all were campaign, dwells on the historio position of the British fest in at Washington, is that friendly

In response to a wireless message three Government tage realised that the British navy was the most formidable obstacle to stantinople. Despite the odds, the Bassians fought fiercely for three saved but two ladies, who saccumbed to sbook. hours. The Hamidish was badly hit and one of her six inókers smashed. Then the Tarks fled, adandoning the transporta. The hastened to the corne, the first, arriving within an hour, picked up their eggressive projects and calculated that a powerful fle;, even Cardinal Gibbons was not the Bassiana pursued firing continuously till wear the Bosphorus, when the occupants of the boats. The bulk of the crew remained aboard numerically inferior, would render the latter impotent, sinos no bearer of any special message attempting to get the wounded liner into Queenstowa, till she sank. British Government would risk a conflict which might leave them from the Pope to President Wil- The outrage is regarded as destroying the last shreds of belief with naval forces inferior to those of some third Power. However, son. Cardinal Gibbins, however, they returned and sank the transporta.

in the good faith of German assurances to America, as there is no their designs have been quite unsuccessful The British fighting is acquainted with the Pontiffs Two Russian destroyers attack- question of the submarine commander not being aware of the fleet is relatively stronger than it was thirteen months ago. ideas and sime. ⠀⠀ ** regime, since according the Count Bern torff, the decision to warn Indeed, it was evident, after six months of hostilities, that Admiral Linere prior to sinking them had been adopted before August 10.

The torpedoing of the Hesperian has caused maah excitement on Tirpitz and the German Government perceived that a new ed in the Black Ses, the craiser

eacceed where Dreadnoughts and ornisers had failed. There wAS

were escorting four coal colliers." and grave apprehension among the American publis. President Policy must be devised. It was thought that submarines might Hamidich and two of: Turkey a Wilson and Mr. Lansing have refused to comment, but the feeling no doubt it was adopted on chance and with extreme reluctance. most modern destroyers, which in official circles in Washington is that friendly relations are again We cannot regard a Government that is responsible for the The Tarks fled and the Russians

Belgian atrocities as being scrupulous or hamsne, but even the ank the colliera. endangered. September 8, 4.05 p.m.

most reckless of Governments does not desire to perpetrate un- necessary orimoe. It cannot have been an agreeable reflection svon An interesting sequel to the recent revelations of German

for the Garman Navy League that the first notable performance of machinatione in the United States, has followed the recent detention

the German fleet should resemble piracy rather than privateering, at Falmouth, of an American correspondent en route to the Con-|

and it was safe to assume that nothing but hopes of a decisive success would have induced German Ministers to inflict this now tinent, on the grounds of his performing an un-neutral service in carrying despatches from the Austro-German Ambassadors at Was

etain on the honour of their country. Yet that decisive success was bington, to their Governments. The documents have been confiscated and the correspondent released.

not attained, and it does not seem to be in sight. The lossES inflicted on German submarines have been formidable. British mercantile tognage is greater now than at the beginning of the war. It is not only innocent men, women and children, but the criminals with them to destruction. Herein is an explanation of the amazing themselves also paid a heavy toll. They often dragged the orens change in the diplomatic attitude of Germany towards the United States: Hon ask themselves why the sinking of the Lusitanis was welcomed in Germany with a shout of triumph, and why the sinking of the Arabic was accepted in melancholy silence. Is it because the United States have become stronger, or Germany weaker, because the attitude of the President varied or the arguments of the Booretary of State have become more persuasive.-5.30 for because German opinion has at length revolted against the law- lese orgelty? No. The reason is that the authors of the submarine

(Continued on page 10.) policy have had time to measure its effects and that what were merely crimes in May are seen to be blunders in September,

BIG GRAIN FIRE IN AMERICA.

ATTRIBUTED TO GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS.

September 6, 4.00 p.m. A message from New York saya that one of the largest grain The New York World learns that the documente seized, fully implicate the Embassies. They include one in which the Austrian elevators in America, at Newport News, containing half a million Ambassador says: "We can disorganize the manufacture of mani- bushels of grain, destined for Great Britain, has been destroyed by tions at the Great Bethlehem Works and other centres for months." Gre. Two British steamers escaped undamaged. The polios He adds that in the opin'os of a German Military attache this is of believe that it was due to incendiariem by German propagandists, the greatest importance, and fully outweighs the expenditure of money involved.

CARDINAL GIBBONS AND PEACE.

NOT THE BEARER OF ANY SPECIAL MESSAGE.

FRENCH COMMUNIQUE.

OBRMANS STILL HARD UP FOR TROOPS,

September 6, 4.00 p.m.

A French communique saya that the Garman authorities are September 6, 4.05 p.m. Reater's correspondent at Rome esys that the Vatican has issued making a return of men from 40 to 59 years of age. This shows a statement that Cardinal Gibbons was not the bearer of any special that Germany is pre-occupied with the difficult question of message from the Pope to President Wilson, Cardioal Gibbons, effectives. After a year of war and of prodigality of human life,

who have volunteered. however, is thoroughly acquainted with the Pontiff's ideas and sime, she has no more men at her disposal then the 1917 class, loss thous

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY. Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.16 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Saturday September 11: Fourth Gymkhana Meeting. 3.30 p.m.

Monday, Septemper 13, Mooting R.H.K. Yeoht Club

pm.

Douglas Steamship Os, ment-

Friday, September 17. ing-neon.

Saturday, September 8,

H.K. Police Reservo-Promenade: Concert; Public Gardens 9. p.a

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