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THESDAY, APRIL 4 1918
THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
NEW
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
AMERICAN
SENSATIONS.
XRUPP'S AGENT ÄRRESTED.
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WAB NEWS ITEMSA
THE RIVAL FORCES.
SHIPPING ORISIS.
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AN INTERESTING COMPARIEDE. London, Fatrusty 83 --In an article, Lient-Culonal entitled Stocktaking."
How many persons realise that we Repington aimates the German Gold
cannot hope to win this war unless the armies 3,50,000 thestrian as 1.750,00. and the Turkish and Bulgar Present acute shipping situation is faced foron at 1,000,000. His procesde The before matters because worse, and Allica' numerical superiority a uot enough solution be found, satisfying at once our for a dedsize victory, and the superiority on aeds and those of our Allies, says is disccented by the uneconomical can of the Daily Telegraph."' .. forces it distinb theatres. The German
There is a widespread impression that roserves ara 2,000,000, and the Austrian BARLIER] TELEGRAMS, 1,260,000, while the Allies bara suportar rosettes. Great Britain bas nearly as many men at home as Abroad, apart from those who had enlisted un for the Durly scheme FURTHER ITALIAN SUCCESSES. Over 100,000 single men hava suli ted in
the Derby groups since the "middle of factor in national life must participateing uas inmens resources, is needed to Doceraber France his or sad 1916-17 Wyer the term won power is misunder busy work on, insisting that it i ROME, April 3.
classes, while Italy has two men at her stood. Sea power, as Mr. W: S. matter of national, political, military, A communique anys-Artillery dapats for every man at the front. and Abell, the chief surveyor to Lloyd's and economie urgency. In the meantime, sations continued at Staugans and Busais bas many traised reserves as
Direatly our Register, remarked in his brilliant James through the same authority, owners Rovereto. The Italiane, by a bold Germany bar available.
is a combination of a healthy commerce turning movement on the Upper Rienzies ar rondy wu ought farther to exploit Watt anniversary lecture the other day would be only too pleased to place fresh seized three block-houses and captured the natives of India and Africa.
and mercantile marins with the mastery. 31 prisoners,
navy, which ensures by, forço në urina such protection as will enable the unarmed vessels to.carry out their proper functions.
Lostos, April 3.. Captain Taucher, Krupp's agent în America, has been arrested in New Fork for conspicy to blew up the „Welland Qual
There is continued activity along the Isonzo and in Carso, where farther GERMAN STOWAWAY ON BRITISH trenches were captured.
SHIP.
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The German attempted to assume command by the aid of two revolvers Hosadmits that he was a German Spy and that he had been ordered to blow up the ship: but be refrained from doing so owing to the presence on boint of the Coppin's wils and daughter.
The Captain is convinced that the man was formerly in the German Navy.
An Austrian biplane was brought down at Aquelejs and two Aviators were captured INDIA UNDER THE NEW VICEROY.
LONDON, April 3.
AEDIAL WARFARE.
orders.
FREE TRADE KILLED BY THE WAR.
"WE SHAN'T BE CONTENT TO RENEW OUR OLD POLINY."
THE ENEMY'N ORGANISATION,
Loades, February 2nd.-The Daily Tegraph in an authoritative review of the German air service, points out that until the end of 1915 the British and French aro- planes had clear ascendancy over the Gerdana, thanks to the superiority of their pilots so the fact that their machines are hatter adapted to the stress of a protracted campaign. Since thee the Germans, by of the world, but, owing to various causes, the concentration of obtain fall economie, military, and the lavish one of the most powerful neither we nor the Allies are able to aeroplanes, and the dower of their air service in the political advantage from our mited out to fight.” West, cons
contrived to reconquer the highways of the air. No tawar than 651 German sehides were now no activa com mission, and there were eran mora in
surve.
It is no good this country and its Alies haring command of the sea unless they and we can take full advantage of that
**We see just coming to auf strength, condition-in short, enjoy the benefits of rapid sea transport at reasonable prices.and I look for certain and complete victory Wo control the maritime communications in the none future. But however long it takes to ensure victory, however mich it
The enemy's aviation vitallisk-
success.
A SCOGESTED LIMEDY,
די
That is the fact which "confronts, us,
the
costs, we shall go on until we have achieved the objects for, which we act
With this renfident statement Mt.! Walter Long etcssed an interview which Mr. F. A. Wray, special correspondent of the New York Tribune," had with
England.
Asked whether women would be content,
to drift back to their former conditions, Mr. Long said
experience at Home and in Austraïïs, mont consists of 93 quadreta, onch of and a remedy uinust be found imunediste him on the effect of the war on life in seven seroplanes of which 79 are field. We cannot wait and sec." No tinker Army Corps Thare are eight fortressures, There is a shortage of ships and squadrons, one heing allotted to every ing will suffice; we must have bold mea undrens. Each Gorran tield arquadrona failure to make the best possible use of consists of three seropianes for observing sub tonnage as is available. The cure
My bellat is women in industry have artiliory are. These are unarmed, but are provided with wireless apparata. Thon for the trouble must be radicale
ecme to stay. I fully expect after the there was an albatross for och and two
1. Caity of control by strong com war there will be development of ighting machines amed but without wire
mittee exercising authority over
[indowtry in this country that will absorb
·less apparatus. These were mostly Fok
Whole, "British, morcantile, marine beir energies. Armed and kers. One was hesrüs
whereas at present there are ahint The lighter ocupations will probably armoured. Due machine wis held in
half-a-dozen authorities. and resultant remain their perpetually. I believe. for reserve. The ammunition carried varied from 800 to 1,000 rounds, while thereontusion. A Ministry of Shipping, in wireless apparatus weighed 43 Tas. The fact, must be established, as powerfulstasee, the male domestic will utterly"
We shal no longer sep an German organia zion included many train.
I disappear. as the Ministry of Monitions,
able-bodied foctmen, capable of man's ing centres meh. with an army completo.
-The fixing of maxime freight work, handing round teacups in a draw. and an aviation park, with stores, Oficial reports for 1915 placed the Austro
rales, bass, it may be, on the requisi. ' mvhine, spare parts, sad workshops.
ing-rootu. tioning rates bow in force. Germa losses at 210 aeroplanes, and 17 explire balloons, but the enemy's real tosses were much higher than this
New Yona, April 3. A sensation has been created by the discovery of a German stowNWAY on board the British steainer Motop ---
The Timer, is a leading article on po, which was proceeding in royage from New York to Vikeli-India ander the new Viceroy," says that Lord Chelmsford, who is now due Fastock.
at Bombay to take up the heavy burdon of the Viceroyalty, brings to his great task a knowledge of presant Indian conditions unusual in now Viceroys, and a mind ripened by administrative He will take over fram a Ficergy who has succeeded in winning to an unusual degree the steam of the peoples of Iedia. There has been zo,modern Viceroy whose departure is no quiere ally regretted by the Indian public an that of Lord Enedinge. Lord Chelms- ford has already shown that he has no intention of being bound by precedent in the discharge of his duties. In the ordinary course be would have gone straight to Simla. At the Viceroy's desire, however, the Government will remain at Delhi this wack in order that he may formally visit the new capital, Tao Viceroy proposes thereafter to go to Calcutta a wise and discreet stop as otherwise he would be out of touch with Bengal till the autumn. It is further announced that be will tour Burma, which has received less than its rightful share of the attention of the Raj. The variations in routine auggest that Lord Chelmsford is begio- ning to work in an exceedingly practi cal way. The Indian public, bowerer SHIP NOW UTTERLY USHLESS," while they will undoubtedly, and Lord Chelmsford a just and sympathetic LONDON, April 3.ruler, must not régard him as the herald of changes which are out of the question The first wireless inquiry from the while the present crisis last, Aurora" as:
"AURORA " ARRIVES AT PORT CHALMERS.
SUBMARINE PIRACY.
MORE STEAMERS SUNK.
Lostos, April 3. „The British steamer Ashburton has been sunk Five of the crew were paved.
Լ.
The British stainer Perth as beer sunk. Six of the crew were lost and eight have been lansled.
THE "AURORA."
Is all well with the old country? We have had no news
for: seventeen months. Reply
giving lathst war, new,"
LONDON, April 3..
reserve
Swiss newspapers report that the German Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshofen, in Wurtemburg. on Lake Constanco, have. boca partially demolished by, a burricane.
THE GERMAN LOSSES.
FRAUDULENT OFFICIAL LISTS,
·
"But cecessarily so," answered Mr. A higher scheme to taxation of
Long. This war has done more than excess war profits. At presenthe
merely create new demanda for labour. Stute takes 50 per cent, of the exceTo a large exten: it has put new energy profits: in the conditions which "exist the equity of a higher impost can hardly be contented.
into this countr
-
I.
COLDENISH THROWS TO FOUR WINDS." Then there is another factor. oak as one who has been a Protectionist all my life, but I fully believe we simdi- not be content to renew our old laisser are policy towards trade and industry
after the war.
This country and the other nations associated with it are at war; they are fighting-net for a little thing, but for their very existence; they must have London, February 24th Mir Haire shis, and have them, cheaply, if they Bellos, the well-known writer hare ko win. At Cardiff this week M. Te
"Already we are proving yo са contributes to Land and Water" a well- reasoned saalysis of the German losses as the acting French Vice Capsulantfacture articles for the supply of visit to the best sources of declared that British time charterers, and which we were previously dependent or hformation in Farope and thorough not neutral shipowners were mainly other countries; we are already looking study of the facts, he says: "It is proven responsible for the high freights, and he forward to breatening the basis of our that the Germans killed to the end of 1915 exceeded 1,000,000. The total killed contended that it was criminal- that appearing in the corrected German excessive wealth should be made out of are inaccurator and incomplete."
After a
H
findustries and commerce.
"Although has only been done as a
-The Aurora has arrived at Policial lists is 651.788 but these lip the tears and bloed of France and Italy-war-time expedient, yer, during the past estimates that 180,000 dand are include / However that may be, the truth is that T few months, many Free Traders havO
The ship's crew hal, Ben Chalmers. All are well,
** skørt vimmons," consisting mainly
of seals and penguins. There was little fair, ten or-tobucco. The supplies just held out.
RUSSIA'S RESOLUTION.
THE DESTRUCTION OF PEUSBIANISH,
thrown Coblenism to the four winds.
Mr. Belloc's re-or may soon be-little beiter off in the lists of missing, inquiries showed that while private lists of than the people of France and Italy, who The war has sitered the point of view of dead did not differ materially from these suffering grievouilly, and unless a
all of us towards this subject official lists at the beginning of the war, remedy for the present state of affairs
Probably ster the war Fire Traders discrepancy appeared fator, and it became in found speedily, the cause for which we will find their opinions inve imperceptibly mors marked during 1915. The official lista show a decline, while the private lists are struggling may be imporilled. That Mr. Stenhouse, the Chief Officer;
do not decline in their fatality records. is a sober statement of fact, and it is changed, and will approach all these tnt that the Aurent was NO
London, February 23id-The well. The official lists quoted largely in Europe time, after eighteen months of war, inat problems with no open mind.
Above all, I doubt whether English. sod America ate immensely to the the Government realised it.......... inckled by the ais, weeks' pressure known author and journalist, Mr Barr advantage of the enemy, besides the real
No one can fail to be impressed in me will again consent to have home Begbie, has secured a special interview
industries smashed by German competi in. the ice that he was on the point with M. Suzanoff, the ossian Minister losses as shown in private lists compiled , of abandoning her and sending a for Forsigh Alte, which is published in from the most accurate source. Individus ordinary conversation, first, with the pride ion. For these reasons I believe the end
potices of deaths sent to families and Me which the people of this country take Tiles to the King to send a Relief the "Daily Chesnicle,"
31. Sazanoff said he thought the war Belloe's own investigations prove the the meresutile marine and ine admiration of the war may bring about a fresh Expedition, when she managed to might be followed, by some measure of falsity of the German Egures.
they have for the enterprise and business industrial stimulus which will absorb.ail
the labour and energy available. bad home-disarmament. For 40 years the German Mr Belloc discovered that nearly 70 per get clear.
bad bean peop
for war. They eat at coat of the names in the French lists of ability of shipowners who have created Resparing coming, but the ship as utterly Russia's frontier with a stone in their prisoners, actually in French camps and it; and secondly, with the general feeling
"All our standards of life ace changing, from distinct regiments, were that shipowners ough, as patriotic men useless. He hoped to return with bosom," as the Bruneian proverb says, and taken
which they are to recognise that, at and must contique to change. The the same personnel to pick up the hare been waiting for an opportunity to omitted from the Gorman lia's
such a moment they are servants of a nation must go back to the simple life, landing parties.
State facing a grave crisis State, more to the loss luxurious method of our
ancestors.".
It wa E
M. Stenhouse said there were onough hawsers and anchors out to mocr a bostleship, but the blizzard snapped them like thread. As the whip drifted away they saw lights in the little hut occupied by the landing parties.
HOLLAND AND THE WAR.
GOVERNMENT MEASURES
*MERELY PRECAUTIONARY."
throw that stone.
"There is,” he said, no truth what ever in the statement that Rengia in dissatisfied with Britain's efforts. We trust you absolutely, We know that while England holds the sea Germany cannot win the war. It is my supreme politics: conviction that England's mastery of the
tho
greatest factor
of
"
BURNING GERMAN DEAD.
in
·Foxbox, March 17.-The Central News ever, which by its foresight in taking over correspondent at Amsterdam says that 80 per cent. of the risks of war, relieved although the reports of the burning of them from possibility of long. · German dead in blast furnaces is our
radicted he havobtained the evidence of an oye-witness, a Belgian resident at Berzing.
CONDITIONS OF CONFUSION.
E
BACK TO THE AMPLE LIFE.
I do not mean I want the poor to suffer in any way. The more wage the work.
ing man earns to the extent that be en
At present all is confusion. The procure for himself and his family better food, better clothes, better housing, we the war. Our purpose is to destroy who, despito arct orders to close the industry is undrganised. War has upnut bettre it will be for the entry. the greatest danger, that evar menaced doors and windows, obtained a clear view all the manual conditions. The Admiralty
We shall ight on, and of the proceedings A numbeż, of goods
the human KAGE,
But above this ininimum standard of
not. caco Eghting cotil that menace is brains from the front arrived at dusk, ends ships, so does the War Office, #3 destroyed War cannot rest with victory stopped before the farmacos, and anloaded does the Board of Trade, so does the comfort, every class will have to alter which permita merace is uplift its head corpus packed in four and bound with Sugar Commission, so does the Board of ways. We shall have to abolish all The victory must be absolute. We must be wire the outer clothing was romoved, Agriculture,
It is not rested, of reless xury we must dispenso with free to live without the contional fear of both the clothes and metal buttons being course, that there is no inter-communies.every form of extravagance
Class antagonism will be right out war. England, Face, and Russia are now precious, and then the ourpses, numbering responsible for the fatore of Europa-the approximately eight hundred, were throws tion, but the arrangements for co-ordina of favour after the war. We shall not see future of civilisation and the fate of the fato the furna Next moming the lion, as every shipping man knows, are world The destruction of Prusiariam ads cous small throughout the district defective. Every demand, from whatever the soldiers who bave shared the tobaero for that. After the way our rocosary will tions of hygiena are not the only reason for tended to drive freights up throughout to knock him.over, the head because ha Long time ; but we are prepared indicated what had happered. Considers Governmental quarter it has come, has pouch or the bally beat of an officer wand The papers ucite in urging the be quick and sound, and the longer the thin procedure. The men whose bodies the world. They are still rising, and as appens to be the son of a millionaire."-
war laste the more complete will be the burned are posted as missing to prezant necessity for keeping calm and fasadal rain of Germany. Russis feels the public furt learning the real aurabers they go up so the cost of everything affirm that the measures taken by with England, box ally, that she is fighting killed the Government are merely precau-winning fight for the eternal badest of
tionary.
AMSTERDAM, April 3.
may take a
B. We autot stop. Wa.cannot
M. Sazanoff expressed the deepest
SINGAPORE
FIGHTER."
SAVING IN COST OF SHELLS.
AN
advances, not only haze, but in allied and
MR. BONAR LAW'S IDEALS... neutral countries. The only remedy consists in unified control of shipping London, February 27th.While presid not nationalisation by some bodying at a lecture given in the Londo The Telegraaf suggests that the dmiration for the moral grandeur of Sir London, February 23rd-In the House representing not merely shipbuilders, but School of Economics, on the agricultural Government, boheving the Allied Edward Gray, and said Mr. Lloyd George of Commons last night, the Farliamentary commercial med generally. To that repurces of the Empire Me The Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions (Biz
domicions peopled by our own kindred offensive to be imminent, wishes to had become a here with the Russians,
Addison) said that reduction in the cost of authority all requisitions would go and Law wid we should all like to see the secure the frontier against retreating
maty classes of shells bad effected a saving would be mek, preference being given to but he, for one, wou'd be sorry to red the of £400,000 weekly. In many instances this demands of the war departments, beet and mente vigorous of our people leave Germars.
there had been a reduction on pre-war That committes would check ses to England's shores, evento people the
domitionsbed.. long-cherished neutrals, which are all being made; it' idea! by which futarcours hatween all would fix also maximumretas. It would parts of the Empire might be made outer endeavour to minimize the dueys at the and a standard of living approximating ports, due to shortage of labour or other to the best be obtained for the whole causes. Why, for instance, should not prisoners of war be imployed for this rose ne they are being employed for other purposes by the Germans
It may be argued that, wo eurot contra neutral shipping, and that, nuclr ownars rich harvest. world.continue to romp. That is really no obječtie
THE WATS OF THE WIGGED.
Burrs which something has cheen heard in the High Court recently. Brat came in vane abit 2 years
Up to the and of the 17th century Jadgar and sergeante at law alone had any dieloc Hive dros Ender Queen Anno the Quran's Counsel adopted the Chut dress lind k which made mourning of the
golog mod with the tall, Coltened if
Thereupon the uter Bit started wearing
“Mmats. (". T. F. and T. J. B. Waarne, of prices. Mewes Wenzoe Brothers, have generously anh-cribed $10,000 towards the son of a *** CIVIL SERVANTS OVERTIME, *Fighter" or place to be called, the Singapore Air A. E. Baddeley has
contabated 250 to the same, add Euro-London, February 27th. The Retrirch pesne in Bi gapore are being invited to ment Committee, recommends the intro pond to his most generous and quite duction of an eight hours lay for Civil puntations lead
Borrents, as there is too much overtime pay at present.
A PARENTS DUTY:
OUR boy is always gotting scratched
MENDACIOUS STATEMENTS.
OFFENDER EINT TO PEIRONAL- tiian umanly weris by all persons of postinm. arctor, bruised. Because thers London, Rebruary 27th. To the West-
wanna hate healed right is no gair Folles Court yesterday Bits Halle neural vaseler. It is to on. Ada medust short wig with strings of horn they alwave des bottle of Ghru Beni ecretary of the Women's Apti and to the advantage
plan Poln Esim and see that urety Courpion League, wie sentenced to siz much tonnage should be infere enred
haic fod up at the end in imitation of the
phin Eying the unck hair up into
pigtail. Some judges, we are told by a letal min get nothing,
historis found these las boxcambia
hear to plead in court,
moths pisment in the bond and to division owing to her tion layelfour ting orgaans Gracaining mendacions Vistencia
salonlated to pre odšel avarii
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