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The Hongkong Telegraph

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November 29, 1916,

7526 日五月一十

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

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TELEGRAMS.

DON'T FORGET.

{Reuter's Service tɔ Thë. “ Telegraph.”]

THE LATEST SINKINGS. "

TELEGRAMS.

(Beatar's Servios to The “Telegraph."}"

THE AIR RAID.

YORKSHIRE, DURHAM AND LONDON BOMBED.

TWO GERMAN AIRSHIPS BROUGHT DOWN.

November 28, 12.20 p.m. An official announcement concerning last night's raid says: Bobe were dropped on Yorkshire and Datham,

An airship was brought "down in flames off the Durham coast. Another airship dropped bombe on the north-midland counties,

and was repeatedly attacked by asroplanes and guns. She appeared damaged but apparently succeeded in effecting repairg near the

TELEGRAMS.

[Beater's Service to The “Telegraph.

THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE..

News from the British Front,

November 28, 1865 pm: General Sir Douglas Haig reports:-There has beeh codlinous heavy enemy abelling to the north of Ypres, but our caaltjei heve been amall,

We exploded a mine to the south-east of Souches, and consol dated the crater, where we repaised three bomb sticks,

Enemy Night Attack Falls.

November 28, 420 p.m.

A Paris communique states:—A night attack on a small pout Norfolk coast, alte which she proceeded east ste high speed, but to the east of Maison de Champagne was easily repulsed. There was kitxaked nine miles oat at sea, at a height of 8,000 feet, by four was a calm elsewhere. naval seroplanes and an armed trawler, and brought down in A immen at 6.45 in the morning.

The raition and damage are believed to be slight.

The fient aeroplans was brought down at 11.45 p.m., and the second did not reach the coast before daybesak." She was going st a slow speed, which increased after pawing the gun fire of the land defences, which claim to have made a hit.

Damage in. Twenty-one Tewas,

November 28, 6.10 p.m. Another official message sayı:—In last night's air-raid the damage and cemalties wars very slight, although over one hundred bomba were dropped.

A woman died of shook, and five men, seven women and four children warn injured.

One town was seriously damaged and twenty slightly so. Elsewhere the damage is insignificant and not of military importamos.

London Bombed ́at Mid-day.

November 28, 4.30 p.m. An official sonodnosment saya :-- 1 hostile seroplane; at a great height above the hase, dropped six bɔm's on London at noon.

Four people were injured, one womin seriously, Tas damsge was alight,

IN THE BALKANS.

Renewed Fighting on Debrudje Front.

November 28, 1.00 p.m.

A Balgarian communique indicates that there in renewed fighting on the whole Dobradja front, and also that the Bulgarians kuva meds farther arpenings over the Danube.

Rumanian Confidence.

November 28, 2:25 pm. Bouter'a learns that the Ramanisna have unabated confidence, despite the German advanoe.

They are convinced that the effects of Russian co-operation, which have been already shown in the Dobradja, will manilow themselves north of the Danube, while the Ramanisa munition supply is daily improving owing to the unstinting efforts of the Allies.

British Take Prisoners.

November 28, 4.20 p.m.

POSSIBLE RESTRICTION OF RAILWAY TRAVEL.

November 28, 1.06:

The Board of Trade omphasise that the heavy and demands for the conveyance of vast quantities of war matag the railways reader delay in other trazio inevitable." Sar none should travel unless really 'serosmary, and bigta that, wi the Government may be cómpelled to restrict railway trayal

BRITANNIC AND BRAEMAR CASTLE.

Mined or Terpodera ?

November 28, 320 p.m Admiralty reports so far reosived do not prots #belber the Britannic and the Braemar Oestle were mined or torpedoed.

The Vice Admiral of the Ewtern Mediterranean reports that the behaviour of the Britannia's crew was exemplary. Captain” Bartleti, was the Isat to leave the ship, and was ninety minutes in the water before being picked up.

INDIAN SOLDIERS VISIT HOUSE of commons.

November 28, 1.50 azia.

A number of Indian officers and non-commissioned officers wAIG present at the sitting of the House of Commɔne, sonɔmpanied by Mr. Austen Chamberlin.

The men were subsequently drawn up in thị. Lbby sod inspected by Mr. A quith sud Mr. Lloyd George.

A GERMÁN NAVAL RAID.

Armed British Trawler Missing.

November 28, 5.20 p.m.

The Press Bureau issues a Barlin official message claiming that German naval forces carried out a raid in "proximity to the British oount, sank a British watching voel near Lowestoft, captured the crew, searched sentral steamers, and returned without coming into contact with the enemy.

The British Admiralty announces that the armed trawler Narwal is miming. This is presumably the vest mentioned. “

THE DESTROYER.

Fate of Gekonna. Her scting sub-lieutenant re- A British message from Balonios states:-We hombarded encosssfully and raided enemy trenches north-east of Macakovo IN THE INFERNO OF THE porte-"A salvo bit as forward, Many were killed and a number taken priøsner.

German Captures,

November 28, 4.30 p.m.

A German communiqussdyn:—We have captured Caresdeurges, the ancient capital of Walleobis, and Gurgevo, forty miles south of

Bucharest.

Hostile Artillery Fire,

BATTLE OF JUTLAND.

By, Rudyard Kipling:

November 28, 3.45 p.m.

The latest sinkings reported are the steameraCity of B rmingham (British) and Nisbory (Nxwegian};

The 134tình vien mer Breaston, which waniker

ink, bar bren towed into Gravesend,

Ele the event of telegrams arriving too late for fam chip unge they'will be found on an Extra}}

BARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE GREEK CRISIS.

Admiral Fourpot's Warnings.

re porté

November: 26, 8,06-4.m.- "Times" correspondent at Athetis states that ·‚Á‚d· mical Fournet had an audience with the King, sind drew Ha Majesty's attention to the gravity of the situation.

Subsequently be visited the Veniselist morebants, whom be promised protection.

Two hundred additional bine jackets hars arrived at Athens.

Britain's Attitude Defined.

In the House of Comsoona'ruplyng

Geilith and others who urged thas fast as

was being given to M. Venizelos, writing the Brian policy with respect to Greece, Lord Robert Dedi jiwezi on the nocemity to study the views of all the Albàs in Ergeons the policy.

He declared that the alliason had hitung been carried on in unprecedented harmony and with amazing absengé of friction. He denied thất we were bolstering up King Con santine, either for private or personal reasons, and'declared we would never abaådon M Venizelos.

THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.

November 28,-1 15 a.m. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that the artillery dis- persed chemy infantry westward of Puisieur.

A Paris official message states that there have been no events of importance.

AMERICA'S REMARKABLE PROSPERITY,

November 28, 7,55 mm.

A remarkable year of prosperity in America is-instanced from the Income Tax returns for the year, namely, £13,500,000 starling, compared with £8,000,000 fast year. -

"ITALIAN LINER'S LUCKY ESCAPE.

November 28, 7.55 .m.

Reuter's correspondent at Marseilles telagraphs that a steamer, which has arrived, reports having picked up a wiza les message from the Italian liner "Duca Degli Abruzzi," which was attacked by a submarine in the middle of the night, but escaped in the darkness.

THE LATEST AIR RAID.

Nember 28, 7.55 a.m.

The air raid, (referred to in yesterday's telegrama) occurred "at midnight. “Some of the airships apparently lost their

bearings and wandered aimlessly.

The Rammer Rammed.

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What the Buder Bow,”

Saturday, Droom her 2. Viktoria Mooreation Club, Natal and Military – boxing

pontesta.

Saturday, December 9. Vitoria Eecreation: Club- Amateur bazing nontesis,

Eblls Home at Last. So aka "shaped course so the lesst' water and the Staða program towards land”

On the way back the wind shifted eight points without - warning—it was shis shift if you remember, that so ezibarramed · Cripple sod Paralytic

homeward cawl-und, what with: ops thing and another, Eblin was anable to make » port" till –the cona daloğanly Male bear of no ɔn on Jane 2, "Limonial ramninge having occurrad ́about 11, 40 a.m. on the 3ist May,”

Her.. recommandations, Kre * Compendium of Godly Deeds for the Use of Mariners." They cover pretty much anh thu của máy be expected to do. There was, an there always is, a Fust Liszternat who, while his Commander was |being extricated from the bridge wreckage, took obarge of affairs, and steered the ship; fent fecun the engine-room, or what rémáir- ed of it, and later from aft, and otherwise manœuvred surequisite, among darbtini balkheads, la his leisnes be "improvised menDS" |of signssling," and if share be act one joyous story behind that smooth sentence I am s-Gun!

Honourable Mention.

The surgeons probationer- performed an amputation single- handed, in the wreckage by the bridge, and by his "wonderful skill, resource, and noosssing

After all that Eblin picked her The Senior Service writes in elf ap, and discovered that she coriously lawyer-like fashior, but was still alive, with a dog's chance I opened fire with the after-gaps. there is no denying that they act of getting to port: But she did A shell then struck as in a steam gaits directly. "I, therefore, put not bank on it. That grand slam pipe, and I could see nothing but my helm hard aport, and she two had wrecked the bridge, pinning team. But both starboard tor-ship met and rammed each other, the commander under the wreck

· [SECOND ARTICLE} . pedo tubes were fired." Eblis; port bow to part bow." There age.

Secrets Overboard. When the German fleet ran for Gehenna's next astern, at once could have been no time to think, home on the sight of May 31, it fired a torpedo at the second ship and, for Eblis's commander" on By the time he had extricated care and devotion andoabl zeema to have scattered in the German lines four- the bridge, nons to gather in-himself he "considered it advis-saved the live of the many pori- Tast bi "atarred," I believe; is the word fanuelled cruiser-and hit her formation."

ab'e to throw overboard the steel onsly wounded men,' for the evolution-in a general] between the second fannel and -Ee bad observant subordinates, chest and dispatch bix of con- horror might be lacking, therm mauve qui peat, while the Devil, the mainmast, when he appear and he writes and I would bumb-fidential and secret books," Those was "a short circuit among the November 28, 5.20 p.m. A Ramenien communique merely mentions that there is hostile livslily represented by our deed to catch fire fore and aft ly suggest that the words be made are never allowed to fall into bridge wreckage for a conder stroyers, took the hindmost. Oni simultaneously, beeled right over the ship's motto for evermore-he strange hands, and their proper able time. The enrolilight and artillery fire, especially in the Prahova Valley.

flotillas were strung out far and to sterboard, and undoubtedly writer, "Those aft noted that the disposal is the last step but one in wireless ware tangled up together wide on this jɔb. One man com- usnk.”

enemy cruiser had certain marks the ritual of the burial service of and the electricly asked ięto pared it to honode hunting halfa Eblis loosed of a aroood on her funnel and cerisiq ar- his Majesty's ships at everything.

There were also three hundred separate foxen.

torpedo, and turned aide to re- rangements of derricks on each Geheuns, efire and sinking, out A Russian communique says:-There is no change in I take the adventures of several load, firing at the asme time to side, which, quite apart from the somewhere in the dark, was going men who saved the ship whose couple of destroyers who, on the distract the enemy's attention evidence she left behind her, through it on her own account. names must not be forgotten. |night of May 31, were posing from Gehenna, who was now betrayed her olas, Elbia and This is her soting sub-lientemen- They were Chief Engine-room along somewhere towards the blaze fore and aft, Gotenas's she met. Says Eblie: "I con-ant'e report:-"The confidential Art foer Lee, Stoker Petty Officer Schleswig Holstein, coset, ready soting enb-lientenzat (the only sider I most have omsiderably books were got up. The first tien Gardiner, and Stoker Eirina to shop any Bun-tuff coming reostive officer who survived) damaged this cruiser, a twenty tenant gave the order, Every When the funnel carried away is back to earth by that particula says that by the time the steam feet of her side plating, was left man aft, and the confidential was touch and go whether the books were thrown overboard, the foremost boiler would not ex- road: The leader of one line was from the broken pipe cleared he in my fo'c'sie."

Transylvania.

No Change.

November 28, 7.30 p.m.

There is nothing important on the Danube front.

INDIAN MILITARY HOSPITALS.

Groundless Allegations Refuted.

November 27, 6,05 p.m;

GeheDua, and the next two ships found Gahenus stopped, nearly New or old, the enemy had The ship then afterwards hosled plode. These thros !! pat ön re- astora of her were Eblis and averybody amidablps killed or done her best. She had completely over to starboard, and the bows spirators, and kept the fans going Shaitan, in the order given. There wounded, the cartridge boxes demolished Eblin's bridge and went under. The first lieutenant till all fumes, &c., were cleared In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. Hunt, Mr. Chamber were others, of course, but, with round the gun exploding onenfter searchlight platform, brought gave the order, 'Everybody for away." To osch man, you will- Isia stated that an anonymous report on the military hospitals in the exception of one Goblin, the the other as the fires took hold, and down the mast and the fore themselves. The ship sank in observe, his own partienter Hall, India had been received from an officer, who refused to allow his don't come violently into thithe enemy not to be seen. Three fannel, rained the whaler and the about a minute, the stern going which he entered of his own

particular juitiativa, ya e nume to be given. He (Mr. Chamberlain) had seked the Raj totale. There had been a good deal minutes or less did all that dam- dinghy, split the fo'o's'is open straight up into the air..

Lastly, there were - the two investigate the matter, he was informed that the officer was of promise car firing that even go. Eblin had nearly finished above water from the stem to Bat it was not written in the

quartermastau- and Lord ing, and actions were going on reloading when a shot strook the the galley, which is shaft the Book of Fate that stripped remaining thoroughly reliable, The Commander in Chief Willingdon had investigated, and had reported that the manage all round. Towards midnight car davit that was swinging her last bridge, and below water had and battered Eblis should die mesinous dogs, both of mone ment was altogether satisfactory. Clearly the allegations were destroyers were overtaken by torpedo into the tube, and wound- opened it up from the stem to the that night,as Gehenna died. After wounded in the right hand and the burial of the books it was found the other in the left, who took the groundless and unjust to a body of offers and men who were doing several thres and four funneled all hands concerned. Thers scoond balkhead.

German ship (cruisers, they |apon she dropped torpedo.work, What happened to the that the serocal fires on her, were wheel between them all the way their beat to make the sick as comfortable as possible.

thought) barrying home. At this fired at an enemy marok-light; cruiseza ?!?

manageable, that she “was not home, thus improviding onå In making their report, the Viceroy and the Commander-in stage of the game suybody might which winked and went out, and Ob, they went on, and I heard making water aft of the damage. Chief earnestly protested against the dissemination of such charges have been anybody pursuer of was closing in to halp Gehenga, 'em being attended to by some of which meant two-thirds of bacter by an anonymous authority (Cheers). Mr. Chamberlain maid he purned. The Germans took no when than found beef ander the our fellows. Tony didn't know ware, more or lear: in coman considered that he was entitled to ask, before he was required to chinas, bal switched on their investigate farther charges, that evidence of good faith should be arohlights and opened Sre on given by the papply of full details and by the perem himself coming Gehenas.

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