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MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1915
THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
WESTERN FRONT,
VISCOUNT FRENCH'S FAREWELL-
TO THE ARMY.
alanious ENDING NOT FAR
DISTANT."
TEUTONIC CONSPIRACIES IN
AMERICA.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT ARREST,
New Yeux, Dec. 10. A Bank deth named Schleindl who has been secretary to Roig head of the German secret service Lobos, Dec. 10, ia de Caited States, has been Viscount French, Field Marshal, arrested on a darge of the larceny In "his farewell message to the Army of documents.mut.cablegriti which in France, says he is firmly convinced are alleged to have been banded to that a glorious ending of their splene an tiovernment's repre- ald uit heroic efforts is not far discutatives.
Fant.
Detverives said Schleindi confessed to "obtaining information regarding rivate records of the Bank at which shipments" of tundus from the
The" was reployed,
He heartily thanked, them all. The message reads:"On relin quishing the command of the Frisi Army in France. I wish to express to the Officers. Soft-Commissioned Officers and inen with whom I have been so closely associated these list sixteen months, my heartfelt or row at parting from them Before the
·Campaign wherein we have been sei Long engages together has been brought to a Victorious conclusion, I have, however, the finnest convins tion that such a glorious ending to your splendid and 'héroïe efforts is, not far distant and I shall watch their progress, towards the finnt gend 1. with intense interest, but in the nost; confident hope. The sucess so far Estainel lus "been due to the indomitable spirit, the egged trus- Pity which knows no Hefent and Be
was found in his pocket regarding When he was arrested a telegan. the shipment of two million rifles to
the Allies.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
BALKAN CAMPAIGN.
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MASTERLY KETIREMENT OF THE FRENCH.
PRESIDENT WILSON WEDS.
Wasiinoroy, Dec. 19: President Wilson was married to Mrs. Sule yesterday. After the cars. """LONDON, Dec. 10,
many, which was of the simplest Reuter's Correspondent at the for the South, where the honeymoon sharacter, Dr. and Mrs. Wilson left Headquarters in the Balkans deis to bo spent. They will be away scribes the final phase of the French for a fortnight. rotrent as mastery,
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THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, Dec. 19. Mesars. Montagu and Co.'s report, on the Silver Market says the robust Ppearance of the market has been somewhat belied by the sales on account of China. Purchasee ure still being made fr home coinage, bus there is a full, which will prob ably be short, in the Continental demand. Meanwhile there is in- suficient competition to animate the market, aten though America is only
A now bridgehead was established at Gradetz, where there was severe fighting, and where there was un enormous accumulation of stores. Roling stock and heavy guns were sent to the rear before the retire ment of the troops had begun. The French lost three hundred yards of trench and the advance line wavered, bus the men died and held their ground further in the rear, while the bridgehead remained intact. When the troops were ordered to retire their Left, which was the most vu neruble, was strengthened, and the treat to Gavgehli was carried out without loss. The evacuation of the hospitals and stars at Gergheli. which has been a base, and also the fog delayed the retirement for 48 hours, but the movements were car
LONDON, Dec. 10. ried out, normally. All the attacks The change conditiona ut the were repulsed;"
Universities are attested by the fact led and woundal in the retinCraven Scholarships declined Altogether the French loss 2,000 that the examiners in Ireland for the to fawan them, but Rajavi P. Du has been honourably mentioned for his work in the examination..
ment.
GENERAL SARRAIL'S VIEWS.
respondent as having said:" Events
Satotra. Dec. 19, General Sarri, is quoted by a cor- will find us ready to resist any
Schleindl canitted that he was aüttacks. Meantins the Greek mobis Gertuan. reservist.
lisation continues, indicating that Koenig an Lyndecker "have been the Govermittent is alive to any con released on bail of £10,000 and tingency that may still-be-dragged 96,000 sterling respectively.
into tive conflict.
FORD'S ARK."
À QUARBEL IN, THE DOVECUTE...
Legnox, Dec. 19 Burk's peace ship has left Kirkwall for Chistiania.
CHRISTIANSAND, Beer B Ford's Peace
Pilgrims have -her-core abundantly disunived. There was no official "or plavol by Mink and file the other reception: andy Pressmen weat splendid Army which it will ever kon hourd. rezinhe pride and gldry of my life to have commanded for over six. teen months incessant fighting
The Rogular and Territorials of the Old Army and of the New Army have ever shown these magnificent qualities in equal degreR,
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Mr. For sail the British were
THE FORTIFICATION" OF SALONIKA.
CREECE PROTESTS,
PARIS, Dec. 19: The organisation of the entrenched cutup at Salonika continues.
Loxbos, Dec. 30. Reuter is informal that Greece has addressal to the Entente a formal protest against the fortification of Saloniza
A LULL
PARIS, Dec. 10.
most gracious to the party at Kirk- A communique states that there is wall, but none of the party were nothing noteworthy to report regard allowed to
|ing Macedonia or the Dardanelics. And there.
Mr. Ford
had the pression that the British wished, for peace, but he thought
this also dus the ease with the owier He said the besis of peace must be the status gue ante bellum. `.
At this sad moment of parting, my asart goes out to those who have belligerent peoples. received life-long injury. I think with sorrow of the great and glorious host of 'beloved comrades who have made ... the greatest incrifice, laying down their
lives for their country.
In saying good-bye to the British Army in France, I sak them, once again, to accept this expression of my dospent gratitude" and heartfelt davo- tion, and my earnest gond wishes for a glarious future, which I feel is assured.
"THE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN
HEART OF THE COUNTRY
ABSOLUTELY NIGHT.”
Lord Derby, speaking on Sunday afternoon at a meeting in London, aaid he was convinced.tliat a state- mert of the results of the recruiting, would show that the heart of the country was absolutely right. Probi, ably the end of the war would come sooner than many expected.
METZ BOMBARDED BY FRENCH AIRMEN
"AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10. A German communique states that hostile airmen bombarded Metz on Saturday night, damaging aaro property."
PARIS. Dec. 19.
A communiqué states that French
aeroplanes bombed Sablons station
at Metz.
.** EXCELLENT RESULTS.""
"PARIS. Dec. 10.
Mr. Ford denied that there had been any disagreement abonni, bat said some members would leave the Expedition at Christianin, because they were sick
American journalists aboard cou- firmed the story of & quarrd due to some members refusing to sign a Protest against President Wilson's policy.
The party on arrival at Christianin proceeded quietly to the hotels.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS
(Reuter's Cerpice to the China Mall)
WESTERN FRONT.
ARTILLERY: ACTIVITY.
Pants, Dec. 18. There has beer an intense..bom-
bardment of the German trunckes in the region between the Somme and the Oise, and between Soissons and Rheints. The enemy's batteries in the latter district were silenced.
. LATER.
The day has been generally quiet. As it was misty it was unsuitable to the artillery, but the Anglo-French artillery has silenced the hostile gura north of Yoren.
GERMAN CRUISER AND TORPEDO-BOAT SUNK.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19.
A Berlin official announcement states that the small cruiser Bremes and a torpedo-boat, which was accom- Funying her, have been sunk by submarine in the eastern Baltic. A considerable portion of the crew were rescued. [The
Bremen " Was a craser of 3,200 tons displacement, designed for
A compiunique says: The bom speed of 28 knots. She was built in bardment of German works and 1004. She was armed with ten is. encampments in the Apremont sec-and 16 kaller guns.]
tor, south-eastward of St Alihiel, continued into the night, and yielded excellent resulta
NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK
GERMAN HYDROPLANE CAPTURED,
FRENCH CRUISER DESTROYS
FACTORY.
GERMAN MUNITIONS'
a small saller.
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON UNIVERSITIES.
"AN SUTRAGEOUS BREACH #F
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PRIVILEGE.**
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Li Yaen Hang has declined to accept the degnity of Prinse,
NEW MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
PERING, Dec. 20.
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
A mandate appoints San Po Kocas
IMPERIAL MANDATES.
PERING, Dec. 19. Mandates are issued to the following affect:-
Civil and Mary high officials and learned men who have been fellow- officers of the Emperor need not call themselves san ministers (gervants.)..
Cheung Ming-Ki, Civil Governor no, Canton, is urged to rerume his post st the expiration of his leave,
Chan Pik is appointed a State Councfier.
of Commons--Unionit, Liberal and and Tibetans is promised in the new Losnov, Dec. 19. A "favourable treatment clause" for Numerous metibers of the HouseManchus, Mongolians, Mahommedans
Labour alike-express resentment Constitution. that forty Anti-Compulsion Members
of the House had waited upon the AN APPOINTMENT TO SHANGHAL. Prime Minister for the purpose of putting their views.before him.
PIKINO, Doc. 19. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has deputed Lan Sik Fan to take charge of diplomatic affairs at Shanghai
They consider that it was an outrageous breach of privilege, especially after the Premier had given his word to the married men." Moderate fiberals thrm that nobody had any right to try to anticipate Mr. Asquith's statement, DEATH OF AN OLD SHANGHAI His pledge was seriously meant and will bodoumbly he carried out. Single men should entst at once.
·Conservatives and many Labor- [itės describe the deputation as a big mistake and do not believe that the Govement will give in to'slackers.
GERMAN CONSPIRACIES IN
AMERICA
RESIDENT.
Another of Shanghai's oldest residents - has passed away in the parson of Mr James Nelson Jameson, of the firm of Messrs Wiscer and Co. tex merchante, of
Kiukiang Road. Deceased has bees siling for sprscal weeks past and death, which took place in his room in the Astor House Hotal was not altogether unexpected. Though not suffering from any organic sickness, Mr Jameson had been confined ter his room for several weeks. bit Jameson, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS it will be remembered, lost his partner and
ARRESTED.
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the Head of the Gerrhan secret ser-Mr James HAMIS, Dec. 12. vive in the United States, and labs gap in the community-ul especially By bis passing away Me Jameson bas A French cruiser borbarded and Eichard Lyndecker have been arrest- in the American community-which it entirely, destroyed a German wared on a charge of conspiracy to blow material factory at Haifa (on the up the Welland Canal, Syrian coast).
Five hundred horses have been drowned on the North Biver owing to the sinking of a barge, which was possibly scuttled by German agents.
HELF FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
RENEWED ACTIVITY.IN RUSSIA.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 19. ·
A communique repone a series of Juinor reconnaissances and artillery. engagements on the German front, all being favourable to the Russians.
AMERICA AND AUSTRIA."
TERBAX, Dec. 10.
A contingens of Indian Ambulance men have left for Europe.
CANADA AND WAR ORDERS.
his
yeore of age, doccased had spent most of his life in the Far East, being his earlier days connected with the firm of Messrs Olyphant and Co. After terminating connection with that company, Mr Jameson returned to the States for a short period and then came back to join. Mr Seaman in- Wianer Co. One of the leading Americans in this country, Mr Jameson was a very. prominent member of the American Association, of which ba has acted · as President. He was also connected with many Shanghai companies being a director of the International Cotton Company, and formerly a director of the Astor House Hotel and the North Chios Insurance Co. Mr Jamesou took in active interest in cagineering, matters pertaining to the
Consultative Board of the Whangpoo Con servancy. He was unmarried and leaves no relatives in China, but the sympathy of. bis many friends in the Settlement will go out to his nephewi sad nieces who mourn his Ies in the homeland. - Shanghal Mercury.
SECOND NOTE BEING DRAFTED. EFFORT TO ESTABLISH CANADIAN of China and was chairman of the
Wasistas, Dec. 10. President Wilson is drafting a second Note to Austria, which, it is expected, will be despatched in a few days.
It is understood that the Note will ask for un imunediate reply and will clearly state the consequences if the reply is unsatisfactory.
RUSSIANS PURSUE THE ENEMY IN PERSIA.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 10.
A communique announces that south-west of Hamadan the Russian troops continue to press the enemy closely
SMUGGLING RUBBER INTO GERMANY.
EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS SEIZED IN POST.
Loxbox, Dec. 10. The Foreign Office announces that of 300 bags of parcel mails seized abcard the Swedish steamer Helli golay, 100 contained "nothing but. which was 8,000lbs. All these par rubber, the estimated weight of cels were consigned to a well-known enemy forwarding agent in Sweden.
..THE PREMIER'S PLEDGE.
LONDON, Dec..18. Lord Derby, speaking at Bolton, said that Mr., Asquith will keep his pledge both in the letter and in the spirit, with practically the whole of
the country behind him.
FLEA FOR DUTCH EDITOR'S ACQUITTAL.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 18.
Pania, Dec. 19. The Fublic Prosecutor has appeal. A Naval communique says that'ned for the acquitsal of Dr. Schroeder, torpedo-bost pursued two bydro- the Chief Editor of the Telegraaf, planes which were resting on the who is charged with endangering LONDON, Dec. 19.Water, near the Outentel Bank, of neutrality "by publishing an article
CREDIT.
TORONTO, Dec. 18." Mr. White, the Finance Minister, in the course of a speech, said. "The greatest financial problem which is facing Canads at the present time is the establishment of some form of Canadian credit, which will relieve Great Britain from the necessity of shipping gold for the payment of war supplies. The question whether Camda can give this assistance to the Empire will have a direct bearing apon the placing of farther war orders in Canada." He also declared thet Canada should partially ficance present and further war orders..
BELGIAN OFFICIAL COMMITS SUICIDE.
LONDON, Dec. 18... Mr. Charles Beatty, Deputy In spector of Police for Belgiam, commit ted suicide, at Cheltenham,
RECRUITING IN GREAT BRITAIN."
MEN CALLED UP.""...
;
LONDON, Dec. 18.
An important step was taken to-day Bills were posted calling out groups 2, under Lord Derby's, recruiting scheme. 3, 4 and 8 on January 2016
These are the unmarried men from ninëteen to twenty-two years of age.
OBITUARY.
EARL DE LA WAR.
LONDON, Dec. 13.....
The death is nonounced of Earl De la War, from rheumatic fever and pneumonia, at Messina,
MR. ARTHUR STANLEY, 3L.P.
The death is also announced of Mr. Arthur Baxley, the Labour M.P.
SIR JOHN RHYS.
The death is announced of the B Tho Norwegian steamer Nice has Nieuport. One of them escaped, but in which i was said that it was a Hon. Sir John Rhys, PC. who has sunk. Eleven survivors of the the other, which was hit, capsized group of conscienceless scoundrels been Profesor Ositic at Oxford
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(Continued on page, J.)
WHAT LORD DERBY MISSED.
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An interesting fact was recalled in the appointment of Earl Derby as Director of Recruiting.
Two of the men, moet in the públia oye |
at the present time, are the King of Greece and the Earl of Derby. In 186: the-them King of Greece (formerly Price Otto of Bavaris) was I need to abdicate his
akruce. In 1883 the then Earl of Derby (who was three times Prime Minister of England), the grandfather of the present Eszl, was offered, and refused, the Crown of Greece. Had he accepted the offer the present Earl of Derby would to-day bave been the King of Greece.
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