FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
Continued from Page I.}
SUBMARINISM.
ANCHOR LINER
TORPEDOED.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
BRITISH OPERATIONS IN THE SOMME REGION.
Pants, Feb. 8.
A correspondent of the Liberté, describing the British operations on the Semme and their two latest
Loyoos, Feb. 8. The Anchor liner California, bound from New York to Glasgow, has bert torpedoed. One man was killed and 90 injured. The rest are being manded.
successes north of the Ancre, says that though they are of a locul character they have distinctly im. proved the position before. Bapaume. Simultaneously a fine attack north- east of Gaedecourt easily obtained its objectives in last, an hour with the smallest lossed, The Germans attempted to put up a stiff, fight but The California carried passengers were unable to withstand the torrent
and mails.
for a moment.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MORE GERMAN HUMBUG.
FULL AUTONOMY" FOR THE
FLEMISH PEOPLE.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 8. The German papers state that a Connell has been formed in Brussels for the purpose of considering the steps to be taken for the introduction of full autonomy for the Flemish people..
FRENCH GOVERNMENT TAKES.
WIDER POWERS..
Panis. Feb. 9. The Goverment has introduced in Eill empowering the Senate a State to take over buildings und any
enterprise The new fortress at Thinslog is threatened with aanhika tion: Renee the Germint counter.
Survivors state that 18 passengers and 29 of the crew are missing and #55% 4 persons were killed and 20 (attacks, which failed, completely. injured.
The cannonade along the whèle They state that two submarines British front is more intense and the attacked the ship.
fects of the activity of the British The survivors inflade one Ameri-ery will soon be epparent. can. It is Blieved that others were The American Consul is fully inquiring into the matter. !
LATER.
It is stated that the Americas Buiter was the only American an board.
A GERMAN REPORT.
A Gernur official announcement, sys: The British attacked north- cast of Bouchavesnes. Their initial The California was a ship of 9.000 success was equalised by Sur counter-
toma.
TATER.
The Second Officer states that the ship left New York on January 29th with 32 passengers and a crew of 173. The ship was tomerived on the menine of the 7th inst. There was a terrific shock. The bomber were lowered and the passengers behaved splenhale Members of the crew assert that there was a submarine on ragh side of the liner. Escape was impossible.
The Captain remained on the skin until she foundered: He was the sonuently picked upg..
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No warning was given before the. ship was torpedoed. She sunk in seven minutes. The survivors were rescued within an hour. They lost everything. The missing include, the Chief Engineer, the Third Offer and an engineer.
#HIPPING CONSTRUCTION.
LosDox. Feb. 8.
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Lattack.
FRENCH ACTIVITY.
Loxros. Feb. 8.
A French communiqué states that there has been lively grenade Äghting“ and artillery activity in the region of 10 364 and Avocourt Wood.
A French neropiane bombed mili- tary establishments at Tahr., in the frand Duchy of Baden, and French air squrulton borbed an aerodrome at Mariakörke.
ENEMY ATTACKS ON ITALIAN FRONT.
LONDON, Feb. 8.
GREAT GERMAN ANALINE
FACTORY BLOWN UP.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. S. Bayer & Company's great analize factory at Leverskrusen in Germany has been blown up. Two strasts were destroyed and many persons were killed.
"SCARCITY OF LABOUR IN
LANCASHIRE. "
Loynoy, Feb. 8 Owing to a warcity of labour due to enlistments the Lancashire carìrcomers have agreed to relax their rules in order to allow females and youths to work in the ant blowing rooms.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
GERMANS EVACUATE
GRANDCOURT..
RESULT OF BRITISH PRESSURE.
LONDON, Feb. 1.. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in communiqué, says :--
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As a result of our continuous pressure on both banks of the Ancre, the enemy was forced to evacuate Grandcourt, which is entirely in our possession, An Italian official report states together with defensive works adjoin- that enemy attacks on the right irg. Some prisoners were taken. The bank of the Brenta and Mount enemy during the last few days bas
suffered heavy losses. Freikofel failed."
In the House of Commons at CANADIAN WAR APPROPRIATION. question time. Sir Chioan Money', replying on behalf of the Coptroller
OTTAWA, Feb. 8.
of Shipping. stated that arrange; The House of Commons har ments are being made to carry out passed a War Appropriation Bill for
a large new construction of standard-$500,000,000. ised merchantren, also, the construe)
Parliament bas adjourned till don, of such merchantren as are April 19 to enable Sir Robert Borden already being built. He assured the to attend the Imperial Conference. Houre, that no efforts would be spared to utilise the nation's ship- building capacity to the utmost, compatible with the needs of the Adminity.
THE KILLING OF AN AMERICAN NEGRO SEAMAN.
A THOROUGH INQUIRY ORDERED.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3: The Government has ordered a thorough inquiry to be made into the manner in which an American negro acaman named Wallace was killed by the winking of the Barestone.
INDIAN OFFICIALS AND THE WAR.
An attempted raid by the enemy in the night time at Gueudécourt broke dawn under our barrage.
We raided the enemy lines south-weat of La Bassed last night, killing a num- ber of Germans, destroying dug-outs. and taking prisoners
There have been many air-fights, in which three German aeroplanes were. driven down damaged Two of ours are missing.
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ARMENIAN HORRORS.
WHOLESALE MASSACRE AND OUTRAGE.
GERMAN CONFIRMATION OF LORD
BRYCE'S CHARGES.
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IF ENGLAND WON.
. A LURID GERMAN PICTURE.
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A lurid picture of what would happen in the Fatherland it England happened to win this war was recently painted by the Kolnische Zeitung," which, urged,
readers to strain every : Bervs
to prevent mich calamity The Blenish organ says:
The druments submitted to the Foreign Other by Lord Bryce in regard to the treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire havanow been published Ada Blue Book, and, in a more per manent form, for
"The majority of our people still havo- Hodder and Stoughton circulation by with a preface by Lord Bryce. In the words of the late no conception of the consequences which Foreign Minister, the book prescrits "
wenld follow if we were defeated, and torrible mass of
mass of evidence"
The instances defeated by much an enemy us England. of fiendishi
inhumanity which it describes It is a dangerous mistake to regani an inre Incredible the drowning in cold air boasting the specubes of English
blood of hundreds of Armeniana, men, women, and children, the burning alive Ministers and deputies, who, after our of children and adults,
and adults, the extermina- overthrow,
to destroy German
mutilations wholesale some of and to banish the Kaiser to St. Helena. sion of the staff of a college, torturing militariam, to blow up Krupp's works, the worst cases are founded upon inter. In the event of her victory England will cepted German, evidence and Lord Bryce has fortified bimself with the act quite differently. Sink, bura, and opinions of three well-known men of destroy' was always England's motto, judicial minds to the valus of the
which he has collected testimony
солеси Moorfield Storey, ex-president of
u
desira
For God's wake let us not drevive pumalves about England's, determination
the American Bar Association, declares to force Germany to her knees that that it "establishes without any question who must accept England's conditiona the essential facts" Professor Gilbert without resistance, and be wiped auð Murray
holds that it will bear any forever as a competitor in the world's scrutiny and
overpower any scepticism: markers. and Mr Herbert Fisher, the new Minister
All essas of the people are for Education, believes that it will noted in this salve, from the First Sen carry conviction wherever and whenever ford to the humblest dockabonze at it is studied by honest inquirers." Newenstie-on-Tyne. It can not be do firmly insisted that sneh a victory för JJ irreparable England would satastropha for the ferman Empire. Not only westld Pro German Empire he dissolved, but cor people itself would be most seriously threatened with extinction, especially in view of the Iussian torent
ring in from the East,
GERMAN TESTIMONY,
The instances themselves, many of them unspeakably horrible, may be read as large in the book. We quote only one of the documenta published an interceptal letter from four German
missionaries :—
Out of 2,000 to 3,000 peasant women from the Armenian platean who were brought here in good health, only forty or fifty skeletons are left The prettier ones are the victims of their lers' lust: the plain ones sac
solers eumb to blows, hunger, and thirst (they lie by the water's edzy, but are not allowed to quench then to distri vistory world
their thirst) middir, class, because unch an Fadish The Europeans ara
totally exclude the
Such an English victory would nót only mean the bankruptcy of our industry and our oversun trade, bas it would be the min of our while raiddle class. It would be felt especially by our trading
Bute break"
to the starving. Every posibility of our enemies being made to day more than a hundred corpses are pag der war-costs, so for generations carried out of Aleppo. All this hap pens under the eyes of high Turkish to come our own warburders would grow officials. There are forty or fifty em- enormonly. Among our workmen thefe aciated phantoms erowded into the weald be misery which would throw them compound opposito our school They hack eighty years back to the times are women out of their minds: they have forgotten how to eat: when one
when English machine-made yarns drove offers them bread they throw it aside o German hand-made yaran, and with indifference. They only groom taration fever carried away thousande, and wait for death.
especially in. Silonia and Saxony,"
Lord Bryce himself is quite satisfied with the evidence, and he closes his pre face with a general observation which appears to be justified
110,000 WOMEN ON THE LAND.
GOVERNMENT'S NEW BADGE OF NOBLE SERVICE.
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"Every woman who helps in agricul
during the war in as truly serving
The record of the rulers of Turkey for the last two or three centuries. from the Sultan on his thranë down to the district Mutessarif, is, taken n a whole, an almost unbroken record of corruption, of injustice, of an oppres sion which often rises into hideouts cruelty
Young Turks, when they deposed Abdal-Hamid," came forward as the
of freedom, promising equal her country as the man who is fighting a poaties rigists and equal treatment to all Ottoman subjects. The facts her in the trenches or on the sca.
..Certificates bearing these words and emblazoned with the royal arms bare been issued by the Board Agrioliture to women working on the land, nearly 140,000 of whom have been registered. The certificates are signed by the Fro silents of the Board of Agriculture and
recorded shor how that promise was
kept. Can we still continue to hope that the eyila of such goverament are camble? Or does the avidence contained in this volume furnish the most terrible and convincing proof that it can no longer be permitted to rule over subjects of a different faith
"SUPER-HYPOCRISY.
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON FRENCH SOME: CRIMES OF MEN WHO NOW
FRONT.
INVOKE " HUMANITY,"
LONDON, Feb. 7.
A French communiqué aaye-There WORK FOR THE RETIRED AND the sectors of Morthomme, Louvemont bas been fairly lively artillery activity in
and Les Chambrettes.
THOSE ON LEAVE.
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LONDON, Feb. 7.
To January 1st, 1917, 910 Indian officials, retired or on leave, had offered their services for the war to
AMERICAN SENATE RÄTIFIES.
SEVERANCE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.
the Indian Office where a Bureau has The Senate has ratified the severance been established for the purpose of of the relations with Germany by 78 putting applicants in touch with votes to 5. Government Departments. One hundred and cight have received commissions in the Army and Navy,
BRITISH ADMIRALTY S
APPOINTMENT.
SECRETARY.
LONDON, Feb. 8.
212 are employed in the War Office, ADDITIONAL PARLIAMENTARY the Admiralty, Ministry of Muni-
ECONOMISING IN COAL'IN FRANCEtions, India Office and other depart-
1
ments. Most of the remainder are
THEATRES TO BE CLOSED FOUR doing valuable work in non-official The Admiralty announces that Lord
DAYS A WEEK.
敏
"FARIS, Feb. 8. The authorities are closing thestres and other places of entertainment four days a week, and curtailing tramway and railway services in order to econo mine coal
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organisations connected with the war. Lytton has been appointed additional
In addition, 183 officers on leave Parliamentary Secretary, representing obtained war work independently, the Admiralty in the House of Lorde 187 received commissions in the Army or enlisted. The aggregate of the appointniente was 818 out of 912 registered, while 300 cou-oficials, mostly connected with India, were registered and a fair pércentage found
RESTRICTIONS ON SUGAR TRIDE. employment.
- Lcxnon, Feb. 8. The Press Bureau announces that the Food Controller prohibits, with out petrits, dealings in sugar out- side, the United Kingdom, and re-
TEA FOR THE FORCES.
LONDON, Feb. 8.
"..
When the rulers of Germany in mak-
well to remember the following pots of g peace proposals claim to be movde by bumanity and their duty to God, it is
inhumanity, perpetrated cold-bloodedly. The Lusitania crime was exulted in by "Press and public, and a medal strack to
COME norate the horror. - .. Lusitania torpedoed and sunk without warning. Over 1,000 perish, includ ing many women and children. Marderons Zeppelin raids with the
avowed object of mere frightfulness. Armenian massacres, directed by Ger
man officers.
Five hospital ships, clearly designated
as such, torpedoed and sunk. Refugee ship torpedoed in Channel, 30
drowned
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Poison gas introduced in warfare. Liquid fire.
C fired on in the field and used as cover for German guns. Unspeakable atrocitieson Belgian civilian population Men shot, women and girls outraged.
Belgian towns sacked and burned. Bir- toric monuments of civilisation wan- tonly destroyed. Ciril populations of Belgium, France,
Poland,
and Serbia deported to Ger- many to work as albyes. Nurse Cavell murdered. Captain Frystt murdered
the Board of Trade.
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TRIBUNAL CONTRASTS.
“MILLIONAIRE'S SON AND POST-
CARD DEALER.
Two decisions of London Tribunals recently presented a curious contrast.
rowshaw, barrister, 40 years of age. At the City Local Tribunal G. sought exemption on the ground that he was the only one who could manage his father's estate, which was worth The property was mainly
£4,500,000,
Corps Orders by Lieut.-Col. X. Chapman. V.D."
JOINED,
b.
The following having joined the Corps, are allotted Corps numbers and posted
PARADES.
Monday, 12th instant :----
5.10 p.m: Centre Section M.G. Co. diff st Kowloon Dock. Hongkong Resident proceed by linth from Statue, Whart ph 4.30 pm.
5.15 p.m. Artillery Battery and Bourb Company on Murray Farade Ground
ta Engineer Company:-No. 2054 Supper Left Section M.G. Ca, Civil Serrian. C. H. Arnott and No. 2056 Sapper C. A. Company, and Right Section M.G. Ca.
Headquarters. Recruits of all unite a Roberta.
Headquarters under Corp. Edgcumbe and Corpl. Orimos,
LEAVE.
Until further orders, leave of abrace to 10:50 p.m. Instructional play from the Colony, exceeding, even days No. 1 in electric light duties at. Beichardt duration, will not be granted to: Battery. Instructional alses No. Fin Volunteer Corps except officer or other member of the Hongolectric light duties at Kowloon Wrak
(a) On businces.
(E) Op urgent private affairs (c) On medical certificate.. (d) For purposes of health (eg, for a change after prolonged residence in the Far East)...
on the river and in the West-end, and applicant stater that he gave up his practice at the Bar to do the work.
Nine members of the family, he added, now in the the estate, and he was the weeks' leave from 15.2.17.
Army, were more or less in- terested in only one of
one of military sze left.
A final postponement of three months was given on condition' that applicant remained in the Volunteers, which he joined last July
POSTCARD DEALER RUINED.
Pie. E. A. Bennmost le granted, five Pie. J. N. Cunningham is granted 12 month leave from 22:17. |_
Pie. A. Keith is granted air months leave from 2.2.17.
Pte. H. L. Jones is granted leafs for
the duration of the "Wir from 1st March.. 1017.
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PROMOTION.
TRANSVIKSMO..
Battery.
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rendry, 13th instant.
7.40 4. Belchem 6 Section Belchers Battery."
3.15 pm Stretcher Bearer Section a Headquarters Mounted Section Jockey Club Stabine.
8 to 10.10 p.mx, Instructional claser No. 2 in slectric light duties ab Belchers. Pattery.
Wednesday, 14th instant
5.15 p.m. Enginent Company. (TKz0#
Section only) section drill at Ta Dorks.ALA,
6.00 p.m. Signalling Section A "B" classed as instructed. Instruction
clusses Fo. 1.2, and & in electric light duties for lecture. Time rod Place to j-be notified Jator. Mart
Thursday, 16th instant- 6:15 pm founted Section at Jockey Club Stables..
At Spring-gardent a photographer and traveller in picture postcards applied for Ptc. §. S. Moors is granted leave for exemption on the ground that he had the duration of the War from 9th Fob joined the Army early in the war, but bal been discharged after some time en 1917. medical grounds. Since then he had COTTON SPINNERS' WAGES.
British prisoners in typhus-stricken been called up and classed C1, but, owing
To be Corporal dated 9.2.17 Lo-Cpl. at Wittenberg and Gardelegen to his first service, he had lost his camps at abandoned to death, after deliberato business. He was now carefully build B. 8. Seba DEMAND FOR INCREASE.
neglect by their guards, ba
ing it up again, but if he were sent to
8 to 20.30 pm, Instructional clam British soldiers -treated and starred in the Army, he would probably het Pte. A. McDonald, is transferred from No. 1 in electric light duties at Belchers
dis- LONDON, Feb. 8.
prison campa
charged once more, as he had a diseased A conference of employers and cotton Undefended towns shelled from the sea heart, and he would once more find his Centre Section M.G. Co. &c. Scouts Co. Pottery. Instructions class No. 3 in electric light duties at Kowloon West Many civilians killed and wounded.
business ruined. spinners and Manchester yesterday.com-East African wells poisoned.
Mr Brinsley Harper remarked that sidered the spinners' demanda. for 's Natives of Cameroons and German the picture postcard trade was not The undermentioned Volunteers Ears Battery.
Friday, 10th instant- twenty per cent. advance in wagas. South West Africa murdered, tantilat purtant, and it would be well to abolish been selected for instruction in Electric
caused, people 'to
Pond Light Duties and will attend at Volun- 127.50 . L. Belchen O Section The employers offered an advance ofed, and tortured because of sympathy it as it only
British invaders.
LEODBY
tour. Headquarters on Betorday, 10th Belchers Battery.
5.1 pm Berita of all unj4 36 ten per cent but the operativos, repre-
The application was dismissed with instant, at-6.00 p.m. for further orders. direction that the man should not be Maiti may be worn Captain Bussel Headquarters. C.B.M, Witchell and senting fifty thousand workers, declined.
called up before January 1,
and the Mechaal Instructions will Corp, Grimes will attend It le-believed that the dispute will be
8 to 10. p. Instructional cin referred to the Committee of Produc
Carple A. J. W. Bomer, LM. Whyte, No. 2 in electrin light duties at Belcher
quires returns by brewers of stocks •The Times learns that the War Office of sugar and the warehousing of new and the Tea Trado have agreed, regardtion. arrivals of sugar.
Withdrawals of ing the supply of tes to the Forces, that sugar without permita are also all companies shall tander by the end of prohibited.
BREKD. TICKEN IN ATHENS...
this week at rates much below those ruling in London It is pointed out that lower rates for delivery at Calcutta are to some extent justifiable, since the
SALARIES OF NEW MINISTERS
-WORK AS" WAR TONIC,
-dated 9.2.17.
attend
A BL. Shenton, L. S. Greenhill, R.Battery,
In the Eill establishing the new Minis- tries of Labour, Food, and Shipping the
S.. Varretto, Ptes. F. W. 8. Every Syzs salaries of the new Ministers are fixed at
Temer, Findlay Smith, I. Grant £2,000. The Bill also fires the salary of the Minister of Blockade at the The change from dullness which had Smith W. A Comell, F. G. Smith, G. ey came over those German prisoners who B. Layton, A. H. & Jackson, M. Ministries had accepted work in agriculture and J. Saim, G. H. Piszy, J. that the
The
came
On daty 18th, 19th and 20th het.") Scouts, Comptary
On duty 21st inst.: Civil Service Co Do duty 22nd inst. Afallory Battery,
WORKING COLLIERS: AB JE/B.
figure providball cease to exist other cocuratione via remarkable, and Rodger, B. A. Wilkinson, W. R. Mans On Arty 23rd inst. Centre Section Thirty-six names have been added of Food and Government will pay rupees which will to the Commission of the Pesce for not later than a year after the concit Viscount Peel ready. Among the Veld, W. ManningA. HE Drew, LA G
Manoonthshire,
-Three of the new sion of the war. It is suspends the officers, who wern Mch swells that they magistrates are working colliers, four mits of the number of Parliamentary chuld not be employed in agriculture, Barton, 10. Woodhead, J. Triekace, D. are miners ants and misers lodes Under Secretaries of Hate, but the add the melancholy confinement austre 1. Broks, & Simmons, Bawinion, Secretaries, and one is signalman on tional onse shall not hold office beyond guler, Jesse well known to the doctor er, J.D. Diak, and T. C. N. the Great Western. Ballway.
six months after the war
(who visited the crops
be hamediately arillable for expendi Arwens, Feb. 9,tures and Companies also will not be
concerned withfreight difficulties
Bread tickets are being issued..
On dify 24 st Bolches S Orderly Officer from 18th to 20 Lient Hutchison