Peking, Nov. 3.
The following official telegram from the Foreign Office, London, has been handed to Reuter's Agent at Peking by the British Legation, dated November 3, 1914:—"It is officially announced at Tokio that the majority of the German forts at (Tsingtao have been silenced and only two are replying to the fire of the Allies A German gun-boat has sunk in the harbour.
In South Africa Colonel Alberts has defeated the rebels in the district of Lichtenberg, inflicting loss of thirteen killed, thirty wounded and 240 taken prisoner. Several of the rebel leaders were captured.
The registration of the 2nd Canadian Contingent is well. Troops from provinces are already assembling at Winnipeg for their final training.
According to official estimates, there is a shortage of two million tons of wheat and three million tons of barley in the German harvest for the present year."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.