The Hongkong Telegraph
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February 4 1916,
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4,
1916
TO-DAY'S
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LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS: CONCERNING -
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THE APPAM."
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THE APPAM.
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LATEST WAR ELEGRAMS
THE APPAM.
ORDER FOR PASSENGER'S RELEASE CAPTAIN HARRISON'S STORY,
February 3, 440-23. February 2, 12.45 p.m.
According to Restor's corespondent at Washington, Router's correspondent at Norfolk atstem that the Appam is Count Bernstorff has formally claimed the Appam as a prime under still under the gums of the fortress, and all the passengers are the Prusso-American Trasty. The State Department bas ordered promenading the deck.
the release of the Appam's passengers. Immigration officials ro fuse admition to fourteen persona as indigent; they include several Germans from the' Cameroons.
BRITAIN AND GERMANY BOTH CLAIM THE VESSEL prepared. Suddenly the tramp fired, I hom to and simultaneously
The Zeppelin Baid; Graphic Stories of Visit:
GERMAN PEACE FEELERS: LATEST CONDITIONS,
[Beater's Service to The Telegraph.”]
DUTCH MAIL BOAT DAMAGED.
NO LIVES LOST.
February 2, 200 p.m. The Daich mail bost Princess Julians has been damaged and beached at Felixatowe. She has apparently bean mined.
Seventy-nine passengers and craw have been landed at Harwish, None are missing, and the mailá háve been saved,
SMACKS AND TRAWLER SUNK.
February 2, 2.00 p.m. Three smacks and a trawler have been sunk in the North Sex.
THEJALLIES IN THE WEST.
ENEMY SURPRISE ATTACK FAILS.
February 3, 12.10 pm:
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--THE APPAM'S BULLION.
Captain Harrison told an American pilot that all was bright and clear, and they were moving at a fair speed when they sighted & tramp steamer approaching. He did not fear anything and was un- the tram steamer's canvas on the forecastle dropped away revealing a
February 3, 145 p.m. battery of large guns.” We surrendered unresistingly and a prize crew boarded the Appam, and under the guns of the raider, The Bank of West Africa mays that the ballion on board the disarmed and imprisoned the crew in the cabins. They liberated Appam amounted to $30,000 starling. twenty of the German prisoners who assisted the prisa crew to head the ship towards America. A German was stationed at the wireless and received messages, but he did not send any, and be thus s certained the whereabouts of British cruisers, from which the German commander, Berg, steered.
GERMAN COMMANDER'S BOLD. STATEMENTS,
February 115 p.m. Benter's correspondent at New York states that on the Appam's arrival there was a tremendeous sensation, as this is the first instance of the pirates capturing a liner, while the question of status vill likely make a cause celebre in International Law. The Gouman commander has already circulated a story that the Appam captured two British ships crossing the Atlantis, with the object of proving she was need a cruiser, and thus ought to be interned. He admitt ed that the Appam did not resist, and says that she was captured four days after having sailed. He took her to Norfolk fearing to meet a British cruier if they went towards New York, When the Appam passed Virginia Capes he was asked by the Fortress to siste the name of the vessel and he replied that she was the German cruiser Buffalo....
It is stated that Sir Cécil Spring Rice and Count Bernstorff ara going to Norfolk,
DUTCH MINISTER RESIGNS.
February 2, 4.40 pam:
$96 PER ANU IME
TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED
Tard Chelmford has arriveĪ IE Eagland.
The Chicage:Tribunepablis some now German poscs ŝsalers. Three susern and -a- team? have been soak in the North Sea. Sir Edward M. and Lady More- wether and Mr. Fred: JamNE: SIS sxis aboanda the Appam.
During the Zeppelin raid on England, the Mayoress of one town was seriously injured,
The IL. 8. State Department has ordered the releass of the Appam's passengers.
Count Bernstorff has formally claimed the Appam as prise under the Praepo-American. Trosty:
It is believed, that it was 20. amed tramp, and not a sub marias, that captured the Appam.
It is reported that the Turkish Heia Apparent has committed suicide, but foul clar is suggested. The Bank of West Afrios ssys that the ballion on board the.
Beater's correspondent at the Hague says that the Minister of Appam amounted to : £30,000 Finance, Myhneer Treub, has resigned.
THE LUSITANIA.
HOPES OF FINAL SETTLEMENT:
February 2, 4:40 p.m.
According to Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam, the authorities in Berlin have telegraphed instructions to Count Bernstorff which it is hoped will lead to a final understanding re- garding the sinking of the Lusitania..
BRITISH INDUST ÈIES. PROTECTIVE MEASURES URGED.
February 2, 6.45 pm.
starting
The Japanese steamer Takkiz |Mara collided with the tank sisa- mer Silver Shell of Cape Race, and was abandoned.
At a Mission meeting in Staf- fordshire, the vicar's wife, another lady sud a gr yere killed on the spot by a Zeppelin bomb.
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En the Zeppelin raid Salonica, thirteen persons wan Lilled and sixteen injured, includ- ing three soldiers w
The Press Bersan annouRCES that the casualties during the recent Zeppelin raid were fifty nine killed and a. kuin ired and one injured.
It is samoansed that thes
The former has already interviewed Mr. Lansing who mys inante that the Appam be
A Board of Trade Sub-Committee recommends measures to that Sir Cecil Spring Rice returned to her owners in accordance with the constant British con- safeguard, after the war, those British industries which are most tention that belligerents are not entitled to bring a prize into open to German competition, including larger fands provided for Panama Canal will be closed ull's nental port, which contention Germany upheld at the Hague Con- research, training, uniformity of the Patent Law throughout the permanent chanel is guaransa- Empire, trade marks distinguishing foreign goods, grester finsacialed, which will probably be two- The American stiitude on the question has hitherto been non-ssistance to British industries, the formation of a Ministry of Com-months. committal, the only parallel war case being th of the British ship merce, the re-organisation of the Commlar Service and tarif pro- Farn which was taken into San Juan with a German prize crow stection where necessary. The Committee says, regarding trade mittes recommends measures to year ago. Mr. Bryan ruled that the Farn was a German auciliary marks, that the Raj should be urged to re-consider the question of safeguard, after the war, thom and ordered her internment.
the establishment of a trade mark registration in India.
vention
GERMAN COMMANDER'S STORY.
February 2, 2,00 pan. Reuter's correspondent at Norfolk says the German commander Berg states they captured the Appam sixty miles north of Madeira on January 16. The Commander of the Mosweon January 17 engaged the Clan Mactavish and sank her after an exciting combat. Filteen. of the crew of the Clan Mactavish were killed, and the Appam re tuned and picked four of them out of the water. The Commander of the Moews then ordered Commander Berg towards America.
A British communique states that last nigts one of our patrols,
The Commander of the Moews sank on January 10 the Farringford, after shooting the sentry, throw hand grenades into a hostile trench established in the northern end of Frise. In the morning the enemy and placed a priza crew on the coaler Corbridge. His sank on January attempted a surprise attack on our tranches on the Ypres Pilken 13 the Dramonby, and another trader on January 15, bound for Bond, but it was not preceded by an artillery bombardment and Aridaze with a cargo of wheat. was easily repulsed by our fire.
FRENCH BATteries actIVE.
February 2, 4.55 pm:
A Paris communique states that the French batteries are active wrecking conroya, and blowing up an ammunition dapož.......-
EFFECTIVE BOMBARDMENTS.
February 3, 1.50 am.
A Paris communique esya that there has been mining activity in Artois.
The French artillery has made most effective bombardmente in Artois, Champagne, Woevre and Lorrie.
BLOW TO AUSTRALIAN FRUIT-GROWERS.
QUARTER MILLION CASES FOR EXPORT.
February 2, 200 pun. According to Reuter's correspondent at Melbourne, the Com- monwealth bas informed the Imperial Government that arrangements have already been made to ship one and a quarter million cases of fruit, and that the entire stoppage of export will ruin the small growers.
"DISTINGUISHED PASSSENGERS SAFE. -
Febuary 2, 4.40 p.m. Sir Edward M. and Lady Merewether and Mr. Fred James are safe on board the Appam.
THE APPAM'S CAPTOR.
February 2, 422 pm. Banter's Washington correspondent says it is believed that it was an zimed tramp, and not a submarine, that captured the Appam. The German commander says the Appam offered no resistance.
JOYOUS SCENES.
Febuary 2, 710 pm.
It is announced that the Appam had bullion worth nes-ly half
a million on board.
TURKISH HEIR APPARENT
COMMITS SUICIDE,
February 2, 440 pm. ⠀ Beater's Amsterdam correspondent states that a Constantinople telegram says that the Heir Apparent, Youssouf Izzadin, has com- mitted suicide owing to illness.
FOUL PLAY SUGGESTED..
February 3.1.45 pm. The newspapers doubt the statement that Youssef Inzed Din committed suicide and hint at foal play. He was an Anglophile and had advocated peace with the Entente.
The following telegrams appeared in our special edition of yesterday:-]
THE CAMEROONS.
February 1, 7.15 p.. Colonel Dobell telegraphs that the coast-line of the Cameroons Over seven hundred Germans are now on is clear of the enemy. the Spanish frontier, while many deserters are surrendering to the Anglo-French authorities.
THE RUSSIANS.
February 1, 8.40 p.m. There were joyous scenes at the shipping offices, when the re-
Banter's correspondent at Petrograd saya that Russian scouts latives of passengers were told that the passengers were safe.
A report reached shipping circise a fortnight ago that a Ger- have blown up the part of the Baranovitchi-Vilna zailway, which the man ship had escaped from a neutral port. This becomes significant Germans had recently repaired. în view of the marauding Moewe, That the Moewe escaped from the Kiel Canal is regarded as being most unlikely.
THE RIVAL VIEWPOINTS.
February 2, 11.45 pm.
The Germans are using Dow small aeroplanes on the southern front.
THE ZEPPELIN RAID,
February 1, 7.15 p.m.net The Press Barean has issued a statement saying that the According to Beuter's correspondent at Washington, Biz Cecil Spring Rice has applied to Mr. Lansing for the release of the Appam Zeppelins last evening, apparently, attempted an extensive reid, but and her return to her owner, in scordance with the Hague Con-were hampared by a thick mist. vention, which it, is argued, superseded the Prusso-American Treaty
AUSTRALIAN WAR LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED.
of 1898 February 2, 2.00 pm. Eeater's correspondent st Ibourne states that the War Lo of ten millions sterling has been, oraz zuber
The German Embassy maintains that the Treaty is applicable and permite of the internment as a Naval Anciliary and har anb quent zeturn to Germany.
A Board of Erade Sab Cam
British industries which are mI NÍ open to German competition.
The German Embassy main- tains that the Prusso-American Treaty permits of the internment of the Appam as a navalanziliary and her subsequent return to Ger mady.
The authorities at Berlin hare telegraphed instructions to Count Barnstorff which it S
lead to a final anderâzawaing m2 garding the sinking of the Lusitania
The Press Baresu ya the utterly inaccurate Berlin official report of the raid further proves zba: Zeppelins are unable ascertain their position or shape course with any degree of cartain-
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