Page
"FRIDAY," JANUARY 12, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
THE WAR, LOAN.
GREAT SPEECH BY THE
PRIME MINISTER.
"IF VICTORY IS DIFFICULT DEFEAT IS IMPOSSIBLE."
ARMIES TO CLEAVE ROAD TO VICTORY IN 1917
THE WESTERN FRONT.
SERIOUS ENEMY LOSSES.
LONDON, Jun. 10.
A French communiqué announces that an encniy attack at Bois des Carrieres, on the right bank of the Mens, was repulsed with serious enemy bases.
BRITISH ATTACK NEAR YFRES.
GERMAN VERSION...
LONDON, Jan. 11.
THE CHINA MAIL.
'AUSTRÍA'S MILITARY (AND." ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES.
A SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCE.
LONDON, Jan. 11.
RECORD LITIGATION.
PREHISTORIC EVIDENCE.
London, December 6
SCOTTISH LETTER.
Front Dr Own Correspondent. )
Decemb
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In a reserved judgment, from which
"LOWLANDENS AT GALLIPOLI. The military and economic difficulties are extracted ong or two humorous pass Among the herois deeds of the war of Austria Hungary are indicated by aged below, Mr Justice Eve, sitting in that have yet to be adequately described significant conferences with the Emperor the. Chancery Division recently sain justice to the men who took part in Charles at the Austrian Headquarter. bis decision in un action distinguished them were those of the 3nd Lowland as the longest on record. The case pe On Tuesday the Emperor gas cupied 144 days-about three quarters Division in the Gallipo campaign. audiences to the Bulgarian Crown of a judge's working year his lordship Comparatively little detailed inform Prince, the Archdukes Kart Stefani, remarked, and having regard to the ation has been disclosed of their Karl Albrecht, and Czermon, the Gor- enormous amount of details which it atronuous fighting against the Turk. mas Military Plenipotentiary, the Milk was necessary to examine and discuss, In some measure this in due to tary Governor of Lublin, the War Mini-be did not think the time was exces-the restrictions imposed by the EFFICIENCY, ster and Count Tarnowski, the Ambassive. It will be remembered that quite censor. But in a periodical entitled
A German official report states: We repulsed an attack with heavysador to the United States icason north of Ypres and drove out the British who penetrated a narrow trout.
İqsnoy, Jan. 31, The Guildhall was crowded to Gear Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, spenk on the subject of near Beaumont. the War Loan. Mr. Lloyd George
had a great reception.
a speech.
Mr. Bonar Law, in warned the public that the future rate of interest for War money would be limited and be forecasted thas it would not be higher than the presi ment interest. Th the Tenn were to fail | -and it would not other methods could be applied and the rate would be 54 per cent.-(Laughter.) In conclusion he declared that the German military machine was visibly crumbling..
not
The enemy occupied a salient trench
POSSIBILITIES ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
WHAT GERMANY MAY DO.
pre
Archduke Onerman yesterday sided at an economic conference in Vienna, which lasted eight hours. All the Austrian and Hungarian Ministeer were present
GERMAN CONSULS CONVICTED
AMERICA.
CHARGES OF PLOTTING DESTRUCTION.
recently Commander Bellairs, M.P. put a question to Mr Asquith relating to this case, and was informed that the judge had cavated some part of the Long Vacation to it.
1
1
"The Ragiment issued in connection with a certain West Country corps, there appears an interesting sketch of
"How the bend Lowland Division-Made The case was the Amalgamated Pro Good." It is stated that within less perties of Rhodesia (1913) (Ltd.) . The Globe and Phenix Gold Mining Company than a mouth of their landing they icet (Ltd), The judgment was in favour of in killed and wounded alone about 70 defondants, with costs against the plain- IN is, except so far as they had been per cent of their officers and 50 per
tiffs, increased by an
An adjournment from July cent. of their mon.. The Lowlanders 13 to Aug. 21, occasioned by defendants were commarded by Major-General which must be paid by
aid by defendants. The
bill is an enormous one, estimated at in Graaville Egerton, an old Seaforth the aggregate at out £130,000. The ohr, &.C. brief of Mr Upjohn, :
officer. They included Territorial Force leading wounsel defondants, was marked with 1000 battalions of the Royal Scots, the guineas, and to that was attached a daily
refresher of 100 guineas. It will be Highland Light Infantry, the Scottish remembered that the latter part of the Rifles, and the Argyll and Sutherland trial was marked by some lively passages- Highlanders. They all came from good
between Hughes, K.C., plaintiffs leader, which Scottish homes-young bank clerks, led to explanations before the Benchers mechanics, shopmen, factory hands, of Lincoln's Tan
Inn, and subsequent public apologies and withdrawals in court. cashiers, and so onto whom the The issue was a simple one in terms Territorial Force appealed as a mild though it involved, complex and adventure and AS affording technical problems. By an agreement
SAN FRANCISO, Jan. 11. Losnox, Jam 10..
The Federal Jury has convicted the The Daily News Correspondent,at German Coneul-General, the Vice Lausanne says that despite German Consul, & Lieutenant and two others, denials, the Swiss art preoccupied including a woman, for plotting to blow with the possibility of a German up munition works, railways, bridges, invasion in
a desperte effort to trains and munition ships. secure pears in three months by a sumashing blow on the West.
Mr. Lloyd George declared that į the Kaiser in order to drug those he
EGYPTIAN EGGS ON LONDON Three possibilities are discussed :
MARKET. could not dragoon, had told the by way of Italy from Austriú people that the Allies hud rejected through the St. Gothard: (2) from
LONDON, Jan. 11 Peace terms. We had not seen the tranny, via Porrentruy, threaten-
Seven million Egyptian eggs have Peace terms:. We all wanted pressing color:43) from frenany via reached London. They are reported to but it must be real face. Tar Allies Season, threatening the indus-ba seling at 1 cach. The supplies from America have been the largest for at the Bome Conference pose under trial heart of France.
Swiss Military Authorities consider months. o delasinn as to the magnitude of the task for doubtful of the result. simultaneous attack at the three
(Cheers.) The whole situation, was points most possible. probed, difficulties faced and arrange, ments made to deal with them? The Allies felt that if victory was difficult. defent was impossible. —- (Cheers.) There was grim resolu tion to rid the world everlastingly of the menace of the Prussian mili- ! tary caste and wave Europe from unspeakable despotism-(Cherry) Coritiza ures in Albania,
ITALIAN PROGRESS IN ALBANIA
LONDON, Jan. 11.
An Italian official report says — We have occupied the Grmeni
BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK.
The Ailies were more and more Inciter { ing to Britaing He was confident) that that trust was not misplaced. Our Navy would continue to strangle enemy commerce. despite piratical device—(Cheers)—while with proper H.M.S. CORNWALLIS TORPEDOED.
SHIPS SUNK,
+
LONDON, JAD. 10. The following vessels have been sunk: Baynak, Lyrfield and Andons (British), and Fernebo (Swedish).
TO SOLVE THE IRISH
PROBLEM.
New York, Jan. 10. The Chicago Herald states that Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, K.C.V.O, (President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.), is returning to Eng land in two months' time, having The Admiralty sccunces that the beer chosen to solve the Irish
I
LONDON, Jan, 11.
SEAPLANE CARRIER SUNK.
The Admiralty also announces that the seaplane carrier Ben-my-Chree was sunk by gunfire at Kastelorizo, Asia Minor, to-day, and that one officer arid four men are wounded.
ALLIES' REPLY TO THE WILSON, NOTE...
FORECASTS:
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
SPAIN AND SUBMARINE PIRACY.
at-arms
Mr Upjohn and Mr
and
in
AD
dated June 16 and 17, 1912, the defend- opportunity for spare time cutings and anta acquired a block of ten gold mining social amenities. But when the call claims in Rhodesia, known as the he came ther yielded up their lives with-
John claims, for £1,000 in cash-store or out stint and without weighing resulta. vendors, were to retķin
minerals which might be fou interest in any them when The tragedy was, of course, the same be found in the proceeds derived from the sale of such for all the troops in Gallipoli, but most assigned to the plaintiff company fed and the casualties they had to sufer minerals. In October, 1913,
are of these Territorials were mere boys, benefit of the greenment. The were extremely heavy. In the great
defendants of the plaintiffs brought the action to recover
the
the vendors
and
a sum of about £400,000, one-half the battle of June 28, one brigade alone
of minerals which they alleged the 155th. lost over 1300, and, proceeds of the defendants had found on the claims.
Defendants set that the original in the incredibly fierce and often
set up were not the vendors
Owners of the hand-to-hand fighting of July claims at the date of the agreement, but 12 and 13 the Division: lost about 3,600. were emerely the possessors of such ain-
ing rights thereof as were allowed by The proportion of losses to strength the law of Southern Rhodes
Rhodesia, and there-
er exceeded that of some of the epic for that
tiffsbild.
no rights in erals minerals, farther
work ander
the John Bull" claims. 2
that were found. They contests of military history. In the that if minerals were last battle they took all the tranches they were found in the
the Phonix covery reef, which they and opened they were ordered to take, and never before t the date s of f the agreement, and lost," one. Indeed they held there which extended under the "John Bull
tranches (though tragically diminished claims; and, farther, that by the law of Southern Rhodesia they were entitled to in strength) until the final withdrawal. Phoenix reef though it went The actual rearguard in the Peninsula during the evacuation in January was drawn from the Scottish Rifle Brigade of the 52nd howland Division. Another fact worth noting is that the Bisley King's Prizeman of 1913 was a meriber of the Division, and bagged a Turkish sniper on his very first day in the trenches.
mongst the witnesses were eminent geologists and mining engineers, and answered filling 4,500 pages of transcript. w polen, qucation were put and Before going into the details of the expert evidence his lordship made the following general and humorous corn. menta upon it:
JUDGE'S HUMOROUS COMMENTS,
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Except in so far as sermons are to be extracted from the stones, this, the pre- historic evidence, as oral, and has been
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intrusives and granophyric porzubrytes, Professor Wallace took part, and as one of hats and then an outbreak of and an enthusiastic desire to cultivate who had visited most of the important closer acquaintances, and the great British Colonies and Dominions, he laccolithshaped bathylith. (Laughter.) is well known in Singapore, Hongkong, PARIS, Jan. 10. neglvible diferencifcantad the Far East generally,-be ex
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"A SOLEKER "CRIED."
ENGAGEMENT..
Captain Stewart, Grenadier Guards, of Ardwell, Wigtonshire, only surviving son of Sir Mark M'Taggart Stewart, SCOTLAND AND THE BALKANS.. Bart. Southwick, and the late Lady Father Nicholas Velimirovic mys that: MTaggart Stewart of Ardwell, and is ideal for his native country of Servia Margaret, elder daughter of the Hon. is that it should be cultivated like Scot Gilbert and Mrs. Hastings of Glenlee, land, and be as prosperous. He make an Stewartry of Kirkcudbright,
before the Allies is whether this planet good hit as the ponderous Teutons when he says that the question shall be called Germany or the Earth. M J. Jovanovic the Serbian Ambassador, speaks of his country as the Scotland of the Balkans,
MARRIAGE
Artillery, acn of the late Mr. W. Danby Captain W. A. Danby, Royal Field" and Mrs. Danby, late of Hongkong, to Winifred Rose, youngest daughter of the late James Sturrock of Edinburgh
support Our gallant Armies would cleave the road to victory in 1917- (Lond cheers.) A successful loan Cornunilis (a battleship of 14,000 tons, problem. would shorten the war and save built in 1903 and carrying a comple-Sir Thomas Shaughnessy was born of lives. Fave
the British Empire,ment of 750) was sunk by a submarine Irish-parents of Milwaukee in 1953.] Europe and civilization.-(Cheers.) in the Mediterranean on Tuesday. The Prussian menace at present con- Thirteen men are missing. stituted a running, mortgage whic detracted from our national security. Let us a clear off that mortgage for over, and in future let the nations combine to punish the first pesce breaker(Continued Cheering) We made it, elent in the reply to Get- mary and still clearer in the reply
opinion that, though The correspondent of Le Temps at gists' evidence as were represented, for pressed the to the United States, that war is)
Madrid reports that Senor Alvarez, example, by a discrepancy of 100,000,000 Imperial Federation was not within preferable to peace at the Prussian
the head of the Reform Party, in
years,
ut of assumed physical conditions and data fundamentally
the practical sight, it was an object which price and emphasised that there was
referring to the torpedoing of Spanish
course of subsequent events.
should be looked forward to and worked uninching, unwavering, and no
earners, said Spain ought to adopt I have to
to consider
fox. To basten, the question, he said, mercial importance affecting interests faint-heartedness in the uniformity
energetic mensures.. ment ought to decree an embargo on now how they might turn, their pro Conferences, the members of which n embargo on of the men who are concerned only to they should have frequent Imperial "of purpose of the Rome Conference,
LONDON, Jan. Il.,
German vessels finding refuge in but only grima determination to Forecasts of the Allies' reply to
perty to profitable use, and who are Spanish ports and cut off the grants perfectly indifferent to the exact geologi- should not be tied band and foot on any achieve the high end for which we President Wilson's Note are publish enjoyed by thousands of strange sal era, epoch, or age in which their subject they considered.
particuler lode came into existence, so accepted the Prussian challenge, and ed. They describe it as differing whom Spain is generously sheltering long as they could satisfy the mining to rid Europe for ever of this menace. considerably from the Reply made to
commissioner that they were working I chanced this week to hear a soldier (Cheem.) Before we rebuild the Germany, it being conceived in the THE TURKISH SULTAN AND THE throughout on one and the same lode. home on short leave tried The
Indeed, except that
A BRIEF ISTERVIKW. *p- they exhibit PEACE EFFORTS. temple of peace we must see that frankest and most cordial spirit, and
ideal climatic con-beans were proclaimed by a venerable Burns for the destination to which the bendle from the steps of a suburban Ewe, Professor of Church History in Helen Sibbald Morrison or Miller, 39
The death of the Rer. A. R. Mac that the foundations are solid. The Bri-is addressed to the American people
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10. average gold-digger not frequente, parish church, and the only other witness New College, Edinburgh, recalls a story Park Circus, Glasgow, who left 266,131, tish Armies to-day in the matter of equally with President Wilson.
A message from Constantinople
consigns objects, training and equipment are more It emphasises that the principle states that the Sultan, in a proclams which aroues his temporary es per con was a policeman. The General Assembly of his student days. At Balliol College, has been bequeathed to form is fund for
displeasure, formidable than ever. 1 do not know of nationalities must be carried out tion to the troops, regrets that the templated those remote ages in which has legalised this arrangement for the Oxford, he came under the influence of the relief of Glasgow men the nation that dare touch us after if a. League to Enforce Peace is over Eumanitarian proposal for pease the sullon rock out of which he was how duration of the war, in the interest of the Episcopalian form of service, and the war. They had forgotten what to be practicable.
negotiations has been disdainfullying, or at least hoped be was bewing, rejected by the Entente, who are his fortune was a molten liquid as soldiers and sailors who wish to be for a time thought of entering the we were like in the old days, but
therefore responsible for the continu receptive of demoralising ingredienta as married, and who must retorn to the Church of England. Some ramour of this
are other liquids to-day (Laughter.) front before the next Sunday. BELGIAN NOTE TO AMERICA. it will take them a long time to for-
ance of bloodshed. Henceforth, I
mdat bave reached the ears of Dr.Jowett certainly do not believe get this lesson.--(Chcerz.)
progressive
Who was then Master of Balliol, for 000 with their Allies, the Turks must the practical and PARIS, Jan. 11
founder of Rhodesin, educationalist many, is pressing back the Russians M. Briand, the French Premier, when redouble their efforts to achieve though he was ever intended that
morning young MacEwen was summoned and Rumanians not because the handing to the American Ambassador
final victory.
the irruerant prospector for goid should Night," writes a chaplain in France to his predince. Good morning Msc. A London paper asks y Willy Fort Germans are batter fighters, but the Allies Reply to President Wilson's
load himself note
bis pick and only with his shovel, but with a selection culled from took the form of a Scots concert held Ewan," said Dr. Jowett, who was stand-Newton, who has accepted the pastorate
of the City Temple, ever see the fol because they are better equipped. Note, also banded to the Ambassador &
encyclopedic volumes from which in a village school back from the line, ing by the fire, presenting his back mant of prophecy of the late De Joseph the Let us equip them and it will be Note from the Belgian Government
counsel have so liberally quoted, many which accommodated 150 men tightly to his visitor. Good Morning Parker 1 In the early part of bis Loudon of which, no doubt, owing to another story(Cheers.) I want to adhering to the Beply of the Allier and
monolytic proportions, have aator Vat packed. So the concert was twice Master" responded the stadent print prophesied find see your cheques hurtling through thanking the American Government for
reached the elevation of the bench, nightly, Mirabile dicta, we got & Remember, MacEwen, a zaad always I therefore pass away from pismo! And we had Scotland. Yeh does his best work in the Church in the air to the enemy entrenchments. ita generous services, towards the
prehistoric evidence well observation that if in that case The Macgregors Gathering, Bonnie Every well-directed cheque properly unfortunate Belgian people.
meta- primed is more formidable than the twelve-incher. It clears the path though barbed wire. Do not let us
Ger.
13
THE ROME CONFERENCE
squander money on luxuries and BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES.
indulgences Fut it here and help the soldiers. The more we go the shorter will be the war.-(Loud Cheers.)
LONDON, Jan. 10,
The Daily Mail states that Siz William Robertson (Chief of Staff), General Milne, Sir Francis Elliot and Earl Granville attended tha BRITISH COLONY LEAVE ATHENS, Conference at Rome
LONDON, Jan 11 The British Colony, at Athens ha at Frindisi, truite to England.
is as the most antisfactory Italien residents, remia at The Albed War
TATELY
It understood that the British delegates to the Rome Emiterence
advance towhne
GREECE ACCEPTS. ULTIMATUM,
ATHENS, Jan. 10.
Greece last evening replied accept ing the Entente's ultimatum...
AMERICA AND SWITZERLAND.
THANKS FROM PRESIDENT WILSON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. President Wilson, Has" personally thanked the wins Minister for Switzerland's offer to no opente in the peace note.
ALLIES BEPLY TO PRESIDENT WILBON.
#PARIST JE:17 MyBriand, the French Minister this afternoon handed the
nbassador the allies
dent Wilcon Peaco
the
to
and
the speaking,
that
ST. ANDREW'S NIGHT IN FRANCE. "Our observance of St Andrew's
and FILLS
The
AND REQUESTS. residue of the estate of Mra
who are
permanently incapacitated for wock through active service in the wa
Mr. John H. Webster, of Kinghornie fax spinner, Beryie, has left £162,386
'words, atten.
print-prophesied that, without ceasing fo be minister of the City Temple, he would Cathedral He was fanguine enough to at no distant date preach in 8 Pants which he was brought up. Good morn believe that within his lifetime
of Parliament which makes it illegal for
Act
there is to be a judici sacrinical Scotland, and Mary of Argyll (OF
must respectfully leave the course we ended with Auld Landing Good morning, Master," & Nonconformist minister to, ocrapy an wolves be selected from one of the Syne and Tires cheers for Scotland replied the future Moderator of the 'Anglican nulit!
HOSE TOPS.
victrans appellate tribunals (Laughter.)
United Free Church. A brief interview His lorship then copiously reviewed where we all come from Had we
Jedgment for I'defans, and gave
ho
been Scots at home the probability is but surely a significant one. With couts, as stated above,
that St. Andraw would not save found on the higher sal
A writer in a Highland contemporary Counsel were given three months in us at his shring. We might not have
organs which to decide whether to go to the know it was St. Andrew Night at asks what is wrong with House of Lords?
the name of the article now called hose tops. He says it.
used by
War congMigns have sent tive dollars' goidas ton
Slater Hi the
responsible
all Is funny, but it true."
BEATTY'S POPULARITY. There can be no dount ti
Beatty's promotion
the North O
after the
ridaly
the word
and
to caser
the
brovs
be Altered This in St.
nerer preschool age, and the Tootor ssor, Roy R. J. Ompbell he had th honour, but he
he had to co haing, a Dissenting minister first. Perhaps one of the side-intues of the war will be to Pit possible for the third minister of the City Temple to carry out in bigaself? the first midiator's wick
THING TO REMEMBERE
medicine sur phi