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FRIDKLĀJUNE 23, 1918.
THE
WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China-Mail.)
NEW REVOLT OF ISLAM.
Losrok, June 124 Discussing the New Hevolt of Islam," the Times remarks that the Arab national, nevement which bus now cone to a head is largely the outcome
of misgovernment and .oppression and has been entirely spontaneous. The present moment is probably chosen in consequence of the Russian successes in Armenia. The Arab leaders are exceedingly ahrewd. They perceive that Turkey is Joomed.
WATCHING THE MOVEMENTS OF AN ENEMY SUBMARINE..
CARTAGENA, June 22. A Girl Subraarine which had
THE FIGHTING ON THE
RUSSIAN FRONT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
THE FREEDOM OF THE SEA.
While this state of things is permit. ted to endure drastic changes in fater- national law may well do more hart 'INTERVIEW WITH MR. BALFOUR.] than good, for if the new rules should involve serious limitations of belligerent powers they would. be broken na MOJTE BLE it suited the interest of the agreeme; and his victim would be helpless. Nothing could be more dismatrons It is bad that
Ros, June 1. A comand states-Threu enemy night attacks south-west of Asiago wers repulsed with "heavy loss. We have The following interesting interview continued our difficult advance north of with Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of Franzela valley. Frequent enemy counthe Admiralty is published in the terattacks were repulsed; (--
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extension of freedom into all departments changing aspects of this tremendous war. to British and American ears. For the great problem, which lies behind all the of Hfe and over the whole world has When it is brought to an end, how is been one of the chief aspirations of the civilized mankind so to reorganize itself SORE FEET English-speaking toward that end bars, and efforts that similar catastrophies shall not be. part of their contribution to civilization permitted to recur LONDON, June 22.
freedom ings, and we shall do well it comes Viacount Milleton urged the early ing
consider in the Germans use it when publication of the Mesopstars they ask for it, not it safely may be
what meaning papers. He said that private resid--because
they freedom
"but ports from Mesopotamia appeared to because they hate Britain. world and free development show that there were still greas deficiencies. Not only an ently our sense, we are all agreed. England and Holland fought, for it in times goue From the 4th to the 17th institute, but an enquiry was desirable.by. To their success the United States General Brusilo's urnes have captured
may be said to owe its very existence. 172,484 prisoners 198 guns 550 machine-guns, 189 trench pieces and u huge quantity of material
HUGE RUSSIAN CAPTURES.
PETROGRAD, _June 2 A communique states: We have crossed the Sereth in pursuit of the enemie
The enemy took the offensive last night south of Smorgon and penetrated' trenches in one sector, hut a counter- attack expelled them. Other attacks in" this region were repulsest by fire or bayonet.
MASSED GERMAN ATTACKS, Abother soumouniqué fisscribes a series of furious engagements along the Stok hod, and states that north-westward and westward of Latzk there were massed been docked for repairs. left this hands repeatedly, and some finally German attacks. Certain villages chang morning, a Spanish cruiser and sorreranined in the hands of the Germans pedo-boat, accompanying her till she and others in the hands of the Russians, get outside territorial Waters.
It is stated that a fofills sorpedo-houts is watching the move ments of the subinarined
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DEAN WELLDON ON LORD
XITCHENER.
of
Tosnos June 22. Deng Welldor (who was the Bishop of Calcutta when Lord Kit
chener was in command of the troops in India), in a letter to the Tinen, » marribes the great fall, during Lord
Kituitoner's head-hip of the Army in India, in the missions to hospital of British soldiers suffering from social sepe, hurgely "to Lord Kit. Physical
;
In the House of Lords, Lord Islington said he hoped that the Mesopotamia papers would be issued early in July.
ALLIED NOTE FOR GREECE.
ATURES, June 22. The British and French Ministers presented an hed Note to the threek Government on the 21st inst..
GREEK CABINET REGIONS«
ATHENS, June
[
The Cabinet has resignes, and the King has summoned M. Zaimis trx form [nnuther Cabinet.....
"about the freedoms of
For if, three hundred years ago, the had been admitted, whatever else North maritime claims of Spain and Portugal America might have been, it would not have been English speaking. It neither would have employed the language, nor obeyed the laws, nor enjoyed the institu- tions which in the last analys are of British origin
who took 300 prisoners and captured 15 the Skaulorālis Cabinet will be incluuled rifles, wey by military means, on a fact that the growth of British laws,
full splaten may be beyond our powers
this stage of development. clear that if substantial progress of the But surely, even now, it is fairly made toward securing the peace of
its constituent nations, the United States of america and Great and Greater. Britain should explicitly recognize what all in- stinctively know that on
these great subjects they share a common ideal
"I am well aware that in even hissing these two countries I am treading on at the possibility of co-operation between delicate ground. The fact that American independence was wrested by force from Chreat Britain colours the whole view which some Americana take of the natural relations between the two communities Others are inpatient of But the freedom of the sea desired anything which they regard as a senti by the modern ferman is a very differ mental appeal to community of mee eat thing from the freedon, for which holding that in respect of important our forefathers fought in days of ald.sections of the American people this How, indeed, can it be otherwise 1 The west sinaple-minded must feel suspicious exity of race does not, in fast, when they and that these missionaries argument baxt on a similarity, of laws exist. Others, again, think that any of maritime freedom.are the very sano and institutions belittles the greatness of persons who prauch and who practice America's contribution to the politicnt
world. on land the extremest doctrines of development of the modern wer military absolutisni
Ever since the genius of Bismarck have to say is quite, independent of Rightly understood, however, what It is understood that D member of created the German Empire by Prussian individual views upon any of these sub
the German peuple into ajects. It is based on the unquestioned in the Zaimix Cabinet. The latter, is great reputed to be friendly towards the military basis, German ambitions have British forms of governinent, British Allies. He has been Premier on three been a cause of unrest to the entire world.literature and modes of thought, was occasions, and ably re-organised, the Commercial unei political denomination, the slow work of centuries that among affairs of the National Bank of Greece.cratically governed, has been, anvi is, the were the great men who founded the
depending upon a
co-heirs of
age-long
United States; and that the two branches THE 'ECONOMIC CONFERENCE..
of the English-speaking peoples after the political separation, developed along
extension. The power whether they rejoice in their agreements of Napoleon never extended beyond the for cultivate their differences, they can coast line of Europe. Farther progress no mare get rid of a certain fundamental Paris. June 22.
was barred by the British fleets, and by similarity of outlook than children born The newspapers conside: that the them alous. Germany is determined to of the same parents and brought up in resolutions passed at the Economiceulure no such limitations; and if she can the same horce Conference, if acted upon, will prove an not defeat l'er enemies at sea, at hust-h Whether, therefore, you study poli-
tical thought in Wyze their sea power. efective reply to the enemy's plus for
Great Britain or There is a characteristic symplicity America, in Canada or Australia, F00 an economic confederation in Central in the methods by which she sets about will find it presents the sharpest and Europe, M. Clementel emphasises that attaining this object. She poses as most irreconcilable contrast to political the Allies-nist-uut-be-surprised-in reformer of international lawhough thought in the Prussina Kingdoc, or in international law never has bound her that German Empire into which, with pace as they were by war.
for an hour. She objects to exonic no modification of aims or spirit th though she ses init to the brutal Holding therefore, as I do, that this war pressure when it is exercised by a Prussian Kingdom has
completeness with which economic press largely a struggle between these two sighs over the sufferings winch war that in the result concerned than the sure may be imposed by an army. She ideals of ancient growth, I cannot doubt of the grant struggle impose upon peaceful commerce, though America is so her own methods of dealing with peace- British Empire
machine-guna.
RUSSIAN OPERATIONS AGAINST
THE TURKS. ·
Penoskan, June 1
A umutitalgud statex ;--). in the Revandum region our young troops routed a large bangl of Kurds who lait a large number killed. In the direction of Bagdari a Cossack romp de in ousted the Tarks from the region of Kelayshakin.
HINDENBERG'S FORCES DEFEATED.
Paris, Jine 22.
It is reported here that General Hindenburg's forces were sanguinarily defeated south of Smorgon, and that the Russians are violently bombarding important sectors on Hindenburg's front, on the Drina.
THE FERDUN REGION.
ENEMY ASBAULTS SHATTERED.
PAKIS, June 2
EFFECTIVE REPLY TO ENEMY'S PLANS.
MEMORIAL TO LORD RITCHENER
TRIBE BY ME. ASQUITE.
Fospus, June 21..
German ideal
*11, then, Germany wants what she cally the freedom of the seas, it is solely
na micas
receive world.reby this ideal many parallel lines. So it has come about that
chener's insistence efficiency.
"AUSTRALIAN FLOUR FOR FRANCE.
In the Hoove of Commons, Mr.ful commerce would have wrung the MELBOURNE, June 22. "
Asquith, in moving that a memorial Mr. Pearce, Minister of Defence.
be erected to the memory of the late kas announced the saló to France-of
A comincinüjé states. Left uf the Lord Kitchener, paid a tribute to 200,000 tons of Australian whent Mense our fire completely stopped a his work, in association with Earl arranged in London, through Mr.German attack on the trenches wo cap Cruner, in the emancipation and tured on the 13th on the southern slopes regeneration of Egypt, his reorganisa- Hughes, the Prime Minister of the of Morthomme. The Germana on the ticn of the armies of India, and his right of the Meuse, after a bombardment sleepless energy, rare resources and Commonwealth.
with heavy guns all day in the region of masterful personality in the present Hill 320, Chapitre Wood and Famin-le-war. Chenois, attacked west and south of Mr. Bonar Law seconded, and Mr. Vaux Fort. Our artillery and machine-Wardle emphasised the mutual con- gun fire twice shattered the assalts of filencer which had existed between the enemy who lost heavily.
ARMY PROMOTION.
LONDON, June 22. It is antiouneed in the Gazette that Major-General C. W. Jacob has been promoted Tigutteneri,
HONGKONG'S SUBSIDIARY
COINAGE.
DEPRECIATION AND DEMONETISA TION.
"
are
The following observations axtracted from the Report on the Colonial Blite Book for 1915:---
The rate of discount on Hongkong subsidiary coin, as compared with note raried during 1915 between the follow ing liniita:
cent.
50-cent pieces 61 per cent, to 13 per
20-cent pieces 78 per veut. to 184
per cent,
܂
1
10cent picees 71 gent to 191 per
reut,
PARIS June 21.
A communiqué statos There has been considerable artillery activity on both sides of the Meuse.
Alter exploding two mines the Ger mans attacked Hill 102, north west of Rheims, but were repulsed:
THE BRITISH FRONT,
LONDON, June 22. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that the day has been most quiet, apart from intermittent shelling and mining activity.
THE EGYPTIAN OPERATIONS.
GENERAL MAXWELL'S DESPATCHES.
LONDON, June 22
pays a tribute to the ceasclean vigilance
of the Indian Expeditionary Force under
Lord Kitchener and the Lubour Member*.
The notion was adopted.
model.
is her
"Behind law there must be power. It
Now if this statement, which repre conscience of Captain Kidd. She de-sents the most unchanging element in pounces the maritime methods of the my political crest, has in it any element Allies, though in her efforts to defect of truth, how does it bear upon the nar them she is deterred neither by the rules ower issues upon which I dwelt in the of war, the appeal of humanity, nor the earlier portions of this interview 1 In other words, what are the practical con- rights of neutrals
1: will be adoitted, therefore, that it elusions to be drawn from it? is not the cause of Peace, of Progress, or My own conclusions are these: If, in of Liberty which
her preoccupies in the name of Freedom, she urger made towards insuring the permanent when, our time, any substantial effort is to ber fundamental changes in maritime prae- triumph of the Anglo-Saxo idea the tice. Her manifest object is to shatter great communities which accept it must on cbstacle which now stands in her work together. And in working together way, as more than a hundred years ago they must bear in mind that law is not genius who was her oppressor and is it stood in the way of the masterful enough.
"Not along this path are peace and liberty to be obtained. To paralyze naval power and leave military power un controlled is surely the worst injury which international Law could inflict upon mankind. this truth by the security of differences in some discuss their Let me confirm ling for a moment on an aspect of it the waller states should be fenced round which I think, is too often forgotten with peculiar care. But all the pre- It should be observed that, even if the cations are mere sera of paper unless LusDOS, June 22.
German proposal were carried out in Apparently a strong effort in being entirety, it would do nothing to
to relieve rule to attain unity in the Cabinet world from the burden of
are doing over the Trish question. 3. Bonar But Law, Mr. Balfour, Lord Hugh Cecil, change. They no longer would be used
their
value would suffer relative
And
will be needed as long as militarism is
is the machinery. for unconquered, Lord Curzon, Lord Lansdowne, Mr. to exercise pressure upon an enemy enforcing them; and the contrivance of Chamberlain, Euri Selborne and Mr. except in conjunction with au army such machinery will tax to the utmost
Therefore, the gainera by the change the statesmanably of 1
of the world. Walter Long conferred with Sir would be the nations
"I bave no contribution to make to the monarchies..
solution of
of the problem. Yet this mach
THE IRISH QUESTION.
STRONG EFFORT TO ATTAIN- UNITY.
the
good thus arbitration should be ot couraged. It is good that the accepted practices of warfare should become ever more humane. It is good that before peace is benken the would-be belligerents. should be compelled to
of the
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Fleets would still be
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In the House of Commons, Mr.ference with.
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Edward Carson at the Colonial Ofic». armies the mould be stopped, | scema clear: If there is to be any effect- Asquith asked for a postponement of but overgens invasion would be perire sanction behind the desire of the the qualities
The proposed change would English-speaking peoples to preserve the the question regarding Ireland. till not merely diminish the importance of world's peace and the free development The Gazelle contains General Max. text week, in view of the delicato sea power, but it would dininisa it most of the nations, that sanction must consist
A High Class in the case of non-military-states like largely in the potential use of ww power.. Scent pieces 6 per cent to 15tions in Egypt He mentions a large
well's despatches in regard to the opera-negotiations which are proceeding.
America and Britain."
For two generations and more after the Scotch per cent.
number of Indian soldiers, and especially
last great war Britain was without a rival on the sch During this period Copper coin par.
"Suppo, for example, that Germany, Belgium became state, Greece seeprod for Connoisseurs. Compared however with the Mexics
in her desire to appropriate some Ger
Brigadier Bingley, in guarding a hund. MeKenna announced the reduction the Monroe Doctrine. The United States were established the Monroe Doctrine into confict with the United States over achieved, the South American republics red miles of the Canal front throughout from to-day of the duty on cocoa from bound by the doctrine of the freedom.ro are it seeras that the
into being
to bo lesson to November 23, 1915, a squadron of duty more fairly proportionate with enemy until she herself hul tree inve the summer. He also mentions that on six perice to 441 thus rendering the of the as could afno blow at her drawn from history by those who love peace, freedom and security put that Mysore Lancers routed a Turkish force the duty on tea...
and beccare, for the time Britain and America should be deprived, large arsy and killed the Bedouin leader who had
being, a military community. Her sea been responsible for most of the raids
power would be useless, or nearly so, or should deprive therrsalves, of the on the Canal. After this the raids
AMERICAN CAYALRY IN ACTION
maritime powers they now possess; but Har land power would not exist entirely ceased General Maxwell also
that, if possible, those powers should be But more than this might happen ganized in the interests of an ideal IN MEXICO.
Let us suppose that the desired change common to the two States an ideal had been effected. Let us suppose that on whose progressive realization the EL PASO, June 22. the maritime nations, accepting the new It is reported that American cavalry situation, thought themselves relieved happiness and tranquillity of the world clashed with the Carranmists at Carriza sca-borne commerce, and arranged their
necessity of protecting from all
must largely depend their and that both sustained beary casualtica programmes of naval shipbuilding
cordingly. For some time it probably JAPANESE 8QUADRON WELCOMED would proceed our legal lines Commerce,
IN AUSTRALLY KENNE even hostile commerce, would be un
hampered. But a chamelance might might happen Some unforeseen make the German General Staff think it A Japanese Squadron which has to be to the interest of its nation to
cust arrived was warmly welcomed. En to the winds the freedom of the sena
Tot Ha-Ya- Pag the leading: tertainments for the Officers and men and in defiance of the new law, to
the trade of its enemies
monarchist organ in Peking makes a have been arranged
anybody suggest,
after
Our semi-inspired suggestion that the Go in this war after reading vinment should grant a liberal perision Cermirs Histories and German theories to the family of the late President, of politics, that Germany would be pre- because he has left his family in penury vented from taking such a step by the and his people are at a loss to know how tion declares that it is able to supply mere fact that it was a breach of info obtain their meats of livelihood practically unlimited quantities of alternational treaties to which she was The suggestion that Yaan Sukat has Delagos Bay and Cape Town for a party? She would never besitats died penniless insa absolute fabrication bunkering and export purposes and the only result of the cession by the A conservative estimate fixe his fortune paciffe Powers of their raritimg, nights at twenty milion dollars. If that amount would be that the military Powers world of money is not sufficient for His mal new system of air omtrs, which seize the weapon for that.own purpose titudinous family we anggent that be applied by the Interoceam Sub-and targit against those who had doctor disgorge whates
"Mesars Liang Shinyi and Lor sho sting Cernpany (U.S.AL Coned it too hastily
SALUTUL WOEzre forced to the sorri ring it within the realm 1
that an athero will recognition of the weakness of bring up the
of the
THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
BELGIANS HOLDING A LINE
2 per cent. to 8 per cent.
and resolution of the 15th. Sikha on the The total issue of these coins, less western frontier of operations, and the those demonetized, snow. amounts to assistance given by the Navy under #26,292,370 nominal value, and they Vice Admiral Pierse were up to "the year. 1900 readily. 17 absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China, During 1918 ten-cent pieces of the face value of $5,100,000 were shipped to England for purposes of demonetization. The
LONDON, June 12. discount which has prevailed since. Genoral Smuts reports that he 1903 may be stributed to the immenso occupied Handeni, south of Wilhelmstal quantity of similar coin which has The enemy are continuing to retreat to latterly been minted at Canton as well ward the central milway. General A to the amount of Hongkong coin Northey ha cocupied Aloangeuburg on f minted fargely in excess of the needs of Lake Nyazen, and the enemy have the Colony by itself. In 1903 the retired north-westward The Belgians Hangkong Government ceased to issue now hold the line between the head Any subsidiary coin and in 1906 it of Lake Tanganyika and the south began a policy of demodetising all its western extremity of Lake Victoria subsidiary (coln receiyod sa revenue This policy has been continuousty FAMOUS GERMAN AIRMAN KILLED followed since except, during a“; brief period is 1911 Coin to the face valpe of 817,707 459 has thus been redeemed the total exus by the Hongk
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AMSTERDAM, June 22 The German
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