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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1916.
THE
LATEST
WAR.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Maî.)
RUMANIA'S DESPERATE
. STRUGGLE.
RUMANIANS TAKE SEVERAL
HUNDRED PRISONERS.
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A Rumanian communiqué states: We are violently attacking along the whole front in the Dobrudja,
There is most violent fighting i south of Pitesti and also in the Glavacioc Valley and the Neajolov Valley as far na Komana.
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We have taken several hundred prisopers and captured ten machine guns and some war material.
Lively engagements are taking place of the whole front from the west frontier of Moldavia as far as Buzeu, Valley.
IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SUCCESS.
Lošnox, Dec. 1. A Russian, communiqué reports a successfit offensive along the whole Rumanian frontier south of Kirlibaba. where the Russians, clespite powerfal Artillerying and violent counter-attacks occupied the whole range of heights.
THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.
ODESSA, Dec. !
It is reported that the Russians are arrying on their offensive along the whole of the Carpathian front.
THE WESTERN FRONT,
PARIS, Dec. 1. A French communiqué states-Calm prevails along the whole front,
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Our aircraft bombed factories at Thionville, and bivouacs at Damvillers."
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THE SUBMARINE ATTACK ON
» BRIXHAM TRAWLERS,
LONDON, Dec. 1. The Provident, one of the Brixham trawlers sunk by a German submarine yesterday, was famous for the heroie rescue of the survivors" of the MS. Formidable in January, 1915.
The crews of the trawlars are em-
THE CHINA MAH.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.
Lospex, Nor. 30.
SINKING OF A DUTCH YESSEL.
GERMANY TO PAY COM PENSATION.
Macaytmay has no illusions as to the morals and manners of the Europea trafficker and mariner in the Far East.
It is not until the nineteenth century thas the Westerner, becomes obsessed
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1. In reply to Dutch representations re- It is officially stated that the garding the sinking of the Bloomersdak Russian Premier, M. Trepon, has off the American const, Germany has telegraphed to Mr. Asquith aaigreed to pay compensation for thể ship, expression of Russia's confidence, sad that portion of the cargo consigned with God's help and the co-operation to the Dutch Government, and refers to of the Allies, in a final triumph over Prize Court for decision on the remain-to the Chinese. It was cleanitely con the commer enemy and also trust der of the cargo. The reply also says that ing in the indissoluble friendship of the the Bloomeratyt because it
the two countries.
Mr. Asquith warmly reciprocating. expressed Great Britain's assurance of the continued close co-operation of
the two Governments which would
greatly contribute to the certain
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HEAVY ARTILLERY WORK ON BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, Dec F phatic that the submarine, which was General Sir Douglas Haig reports less than 400 yards distant, deliberately There has been reciprocal artillery work. The enemy's artillerying was particular- shelled the men in the boats. The gearly heavy between the Soutme and the wa dawa at the time of the attack and Ancre the trawlers were helpless.
AN ADMIRAL AS AIR LORD:
LONDON, Dec. 1.
Howesen.
Chamberlain said he understood that the gentlemen mentioned were natural born British subjecta.
PENSIONS' BILL AMENDED,
LONDON, Dec. 1. In the House of Commons, the Pensions Bill was amended so as to BRITISH ENTER GERMAN LINES. unify its administration, and passed.
through committee. LATER.
General Sir Douglas Baig roporta :-- The Daily Express states that the "We drove off an attempted raid north- Admiralty has decided to appoint an east of Neuve Chapelle, and entered the German lines at several places Admiral as Air Lord.
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THE ITALIAN FRONT.
AERIAL ACTIVITY.
LONDON, Dec.' }. An Italian official report states:- Our air squadrons dropped numerous DESTRUCTION OF GRAIN AND OIL bombs on railway stations at Volano and Reifenberg, causing damage and fres. Trains were also hit.
Router learns that energetic measures are being taken to destroy all Rumanian grain and oil which is in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy.
BOMBING AND MHINE-CUNNING
REFUGEES,
KIEFF, Dec. 1.
TRAIN. COLLISION IN AUSTRIA.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED.
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VIGOROUS BOMBARDMENTS ON FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS, Dec. 1.
THE SITUATION IN RUMANIA.
RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.
EAST AND WEST.
[BY HARRY SACHEE IN THE "MÅNCE ESTER GUARDIAN."]
civilised
China in couronne prosperity, cecnomic equipment, and administrative aucieney lapsed heavily backward. Meanwhile, and even more important, the indus- trial revolution was beginning to achieve a vast expansion of the wealth of the West. It is probably true that in the eighteenth century China was scor- omically in advance of Europe and the fanciful pictures of Oriental simplicity and bliss so popular with writers of that date Lad more of truth in them than we are accustomed to believe. From the turnpike roo and steam dates reversal of this relation, and ever since the gigantic power of applied science his widened the material gulf between. East and West. With this movement bas expanded the European sense of super- iority ¦ indeed, it is its main root.
the
One of the contributions to the history of civilisation which still remains to be de is a history of the antipathy.. of race and colour: That antipathy exista between European and Oriental bet-it has a form of its own. The European condemna intern
Chinese or a intermarringe with Japanese; but, if pressed, he would not. nssert too confidently that the
issuperiorin physique, in intellepean
„ör even,
in morals to the Chinese. To the Eno pean the Oriental may not be physically attractive, jas
just as the European is
is not to the Oriental, but it is worthy of note how quickly this sense of strangeness and remoteness indes, and a crowd of Chinese or Japanese becomes no more exotic or unpleasant than a crowd of The real source of the Europeans. European's belief in his superiority (at any rate where Chinese and Japanese aru concerned) is his greater command over the material resources of the world The anti-Asiatic legislation of the Dominions and the United States is economic place, and consequently with aimed against a people on a lower a lower standard of life.
Between Marco Polo and the average modern traveller in the East, there is An official message thates: South of more than six centuries of time. Thers the Somme there has been a vigorous of prides and contempts. The founda is a wide sumiering ocean of sentiments, reciprocal bombardment between tion of the thought of the modern Casaines Wood and.. Berny, near traveller is his own superiority. For Massige. In Champagne, trench-guns him there are two "worlds. East and
West blew up an enemy ammunition depot
barbarism (of various degrees, it north of Four de Paris. In Argonae ma he with diverse qualifications, but Admittedly the colour problem is one we exploded three camoufles which still barbarisui) and civilisation. The of the most difficult which faces the wrecked every mining works.
West is infinitely above the work, and it is urgent and oppressive barbarous Esty and the
Occidental, as chiefly as it relates to siatics. But if Sub.-Lieutenant Ungesser has brought the ambassador and bannertester of the taproot of the antipathy between AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1. down his eighteenth serophine.
civilisation our respondingly raised above the white and yellow races is economic express train from Vienna,
the Oriental bowed beneath the yoke then the whole problem becomes much of barbarism The Western traveller, less obstinate and manageable. Thore conveying many returning from the
whose sense of superiority is so in- is nothing eternal about econòmic Enemy aeroplanes are mercilessly Emperor, Francis-Joseph's funeral,
stinctive that it is hardly conscions, differences between races who are Lombing and turning machine guns on collided with a low train from Buda
Tooks into that stringe, remote, inferior potentially equal in physical and in- Eastern world not to appreciate, still tellectual force. The economic superiority the refugees on all ronda out of Bak pest. Several carriages were shattered
less to leam, but to sook for the quaint of Europe over China is hardly & harest to towns in West Rimania.and there were numerous killed, and
and the curious. His air is patronising hundred years old, and even a super- if not contemptuous, and a warm emotion ficial study of Japan shows that that of generosity pervades him when he advantage can be reduced materially in conceives himself, either in his own a generation. Manifestly the Japanese person or through his nation, a teacher have not yet secured anything lika Dinging light into the darkness of this as extensive a control over the forces lesser race of men. There are exceptions, of production as have the Europeans, of course, but such is the type not only but they have made notable advances. of the castal voyager, bat of the business and equality, it not yet in sight, is man or the diplomat or the missionary definitely, in contemplation. From this whom fortune casts for a more prolonged economic progress have sprung the mili sojourn in the East.
tary resources which have enabled Japsh to enter the ranks of the Great Powers, What is more
Japanese, "economic progress, are of the
THE RUSSO-RUMANIAH "RELIEF
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OFFENSIVE...
THE GERMAN COMMUNIQUE
LUNDON, Dec. 1.
A German confiranniqué states: The Russians, and, on our south wing the Rumanians, continue their relief offensive" on a. front of over 300 kilometres, between Jablonica Pass and the heights east of the Basin of Keydi- vasarhely.
The communiqué claimas "that fierce fighting with a high expenditure
of
injured.
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THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
SURRENDER OF AN ISOLATED GERMAN FORCE
LONDON, Dec. 1.
It is officially stated that following the division of the main German force. in East Africa, part of which was defeat-, ed at Lupembe, the remaining portion of 500, isolated at Ilembule mission station, surrendered on the 25th November. “
Between October 19th and Noveraber 23rd we buried 71 Germans and 370
LONDON, Dec. 1.
A Bulgarian communiqué claims the defeat of the Rumanians in bayonet fighting between Giurgevo and
Bukharest.
An Austrian communiqué speaks of great masses of Eussians constantly attacking between the Uz Valley and Tartar Pass for the rate of the harassed Rumanians." The communiqué also admits slight Russian successes,"
ACUTE POSITION IN GREECE.
ALLIES TO LAND FORCES.
ATHENA, Dec. 1
In reply to Admiral Fournet's threat to land troops failing compliance with his demands the Government tonight
Marco Polo knew his world, West'as by virtue significant. the Jann well as East. There never was & matapanese equality not only of
tate
blood and munitions brought the Rus natives. The remnants of the definitely refused to surrender arms and world, and assuredly not & West lordablicating, but it is not creditable.
sians caly a few advantages.
It adds: The Rumanian troops in Western Rumania who were cut off from their "Army are endeavouring, by striking out in farious directions, to escape,
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The enemy resisted our forces advancing from the Alt at various river 'sectors but were repulsed.
The enemy here also took the offensive but could not stay cur advance.
Our Danube army has crossed
the
Nealov Valley and is approaching the
force, efter losing half their strength, are moving eastwards towards Mahenge.
KING CONSTINTINE'S BROTHERS.
FRINCE GEORGE'S INTERVIEW WITH VISCOUNT"GKEY:
guna.
LOYALTY OF AFGHANISTAN.
FAILURE OF A GERMAN MISSION.
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LONDON, Dec. 1.
with be he Christian or Saracen or Tartar or bat of the individual Japanese with the the European State, heathen, who ever travelled over 20 individual European. This assertion of much of the world as did that noble and equality in the chief factor in producing illustrious citizen of the city of Venice. Marco, the son of Messet Nicolo Pulo." the dislike which is almost universal But for the illustrious citizen of Venice sea timent is natural, for few men'sujoy among Europeans for the Japanese The there were not an Eastern and a Western
Most people recognise the "material and paragon for the East in things of the mind and spirit as in thinga material progress of Japan without perceiving ita He measures the Great Khan with the larger implications. It is an undoubted same rod as Doge and Emperor and Pope. fact that the Indians are interesting "If you were to put together all the themselves more than they have ever Christians in the world with their em done before in the Japanese and sooking perors and their kings, the whole of inspiration from them. It is not because fundamental spiritual
the first Asiatic people to European, the
first to question and attack decisively
lower courge of Argeau in the direction visited London, recantly he was on a of that Mision, but some were captured the Chinese Emperor is the first this tipy or two old, of
and
these Christians-sye, and throw in there is any them but the Japazes the Saracens to boot-would not
not have affinity between them. such power or be able to do sax as, this Cablay,
Ho is the mars In the House of Commons, Mr. potent man as regards forces and lands proximate to economic and social
the equality According to a statement made its Chamberlain related the history of the and treasure that existeth from the world Reuter's
people representative by Captain German mission in Afghanistan, which or ever hath existed from the time Papangopoulos, Naval, A.D.C. to the the Amir dismissed in May last. He ours
the levend, caly a first Father dam until this day European
ofer the Orient Prince, there is no trouth in the report said he would not, in the public interest, Not only in wealth and in arms but in The
ars demonstrating that when Prince Nicholas of Gredee state what had become of the members
reste not upon B the princes of his day; and his incate and eternal but on
first of the peoples of the
removed World by the Russians and British after leaving not only in numbers but in
orld, differences which can in the beauty are being removed. This achievement His Royal Highness left Athens in July Afghanistan. He paid a high tribute and the marvel of their achievements of the Japanese, as in a sense the pioneers „for Russie, and has been staying with his to the behaviour of the Amir in the There is no breath of an assumption of of the redemption of Asiatic Pride, may
mother, the Queen Dowager of Greece, in excagdingly dificult position in which superiority, neither the prejudice of a
them
a kind of moral hegemony THE MACEDONIAN FRONT. Petrograd. On his return home by the the intervention of Turkey placed him, sugerior ao nor the insistence on a throughout Middle and Eastern Asia I only practicable route; he visited his tion on behalf of the Government, the is no Suez eleaving the earth into two Brutal politicals "this" would be more
and acknowledged, with great satisfac superior religion nor the blazoning of a the.
superior culture. For Marco Polo there the Japanese were not such clamay and
Jasured to
to them than it Amir's loyalty to his pledge of neutrality, eternally divided-worlds. The world is
for the pre is, for The Grand Duchess George of Bussin' and his firmness in refusing the seduc-one, and the finor half is under the sent alienation between Cainese stu
is dao only Japensis is
to Japanese Hving in England for a considerable time, sake his Ally; and in using bis infance sister of the King of Greece, has been tive but unreliable inducements to far sceptre of the Great Khan.
aggression, and could be abolished by a Prince Andrew of Greece was recently to prevent disturbance on the frontier.
wiser policy. What, however, in certain in that Jzos's examples of ecmonic paying a visit to Windsor, and is now back in Greece, G
of Bukbarcat.
political mission.
The communiqué claims rich booty in Wallachia
PARIS, Dec. 1.
A French communiqué states: Two violent Germano-Balgar counter attacks on the new 'Serbisa positions -north-west of Granists were generally "repulsed with severe losses, though they regained a footing in their lost trenches
at some points.
Bad weather continuca to prevent important operations.,
ROWDIES IN ATHENS,
AruEss, Dec. 1) "4 crowd of rowdies fired thirty abots into the offices of a Venezclist paper, washing the window There were no Casualties..
INDIAN TOPICS.
relations in England.
chiefly in France, had an interview with
Prince George of Greece, who residen
month. Viscount Grey at the Foreign Office last
"All three Princes are sons of the late King and brothers of the present. Eing and are first cousins of King George V
and of the Tsar.
THE SIX FER CENT STOGEL
1,000 EXECUTIONS.
GERMAN TYRANNY IN COURLAND.
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In the closing years of the eighteenth progress will be followed by China. The contarg Lord Macartney was sent on a -bezinnings of an Industrial revolotion
and the ecmonic mission to Peking. Eneas Anderson, & can already bo detectad member of his suite, wrote a chronicle change is bound to revolutionise the of the journey. There are not the most. There is no retson why the aniritual relation between Exit and superlatives of Marco Polo, but a very Westerner should not accommodate him. ample appreciation and a notable self to that ng faturn, the coming of of condescension. Of Chinese justice he which wite men will welcome and says Í
it might in many cases with the best effects by the hostel But wurally if the Westerner refuses judicature of Great Britain Of British tovchanltand abatinately, punishments he tells as that they shocked elit i 1991el supriority the the Chinese and provoked the se'sa colvir toblem will take on, in thst tion Englishmon too much cruel to onomically transformal world,
Contemporary British avity which today we can hardly mueb justice in administration and apiri SETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIAN · might well have stond the con
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The people of China seara to be happy and conta fcenus uider it not to enjoy as mosh
Refugees state that during the past nine months the Germans have court martialled and executed 2,000 of the inhabitants of Courland for alleged treason and espionage.
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