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Extra Car at 19 midnight. SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA Buildinox* Dee Voux Road Central.
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Hongkong, April 11, 1912,
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MESOPOTAMIA.
CAVALRY ENGAGE TURKS
NEAR CTESIPHON.
EIGHTY MILES OF COUNTRY STREWN WITH BOOTY.
LONDON, March 7,
An official report from Mesopotamia
THE MACEDONIA POSITION.
“A TREMENDOUS TASK CONFRONTS THE EASTERN ARMY.”
Paris March 7. Deputy Chappe de laine, whą waż aent ou a mission to Salonika by the Foreign Affairs Committee, states that if General: Sarrail had had two more Cavalry engaged the Turkish rear divisions when Monasti fell be would panke oir the 5th ist, at Laff, reat have gone to Uskli, liberating Half Ctesiphon.
Serbia and threatening the high road to Constantinople. However, gigantic
States:--
Kuemy-booty-is-strewn over eighty. five miles of country. It is impossible work has been sccomplished and the yet to give an ageunite retura of the Army is now reinforced.
captures. Thirty-eight guns up to the j prosent have bees salvaged from the Otranto Channel should, be completed He urges that the blockade of the river.
GENERAL MAUDE PROMOTED.
LONDON, March 7. General Maude has been proincter to the rank of Lieutenant-General in recognition of his distinguished service in Mesopotamia.
EGPYTIAN FRONTIER.
STRONG TURKISH POSITION ABANDONED.
LONDON, March 7.
An official report from Egypt states The Turks have, ahsuricher the strang" position of Sheikharp, to the west of Shellat, on which they had spent two mouths in constructing defences
Yesterday our aircraft dropped a ton of high explosives en troops que railway
traian.
FRENCH FRONT.
LONDON, March 7.
A French communique stater: We carried out a coup-de-main at Quiennevieres, hetween Mise and the Aisne and brought back prisoners.
We blew, up a mine in the region of Four-de-Paris, Argonne, did occupied
the crater.
The enemy attempted a coup-de-main north-east of Flerey Buis Bouwot, north of St. Mibiel and the direction of Am- mertzwiller. Our barrage stopped him dend "and inflicted losses.. Two enemy aeroplanes were brought down.
GERMAN REPORT.,
A German official report states: We ropolsed French attacks on our new positions at Caurieres Wood. We shot down fifteen sero planes.
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Telephones in at rooms First-class Cuisine, Lounge, Smoking and Ladies Wheeldon.in her evidencall the Rooms Roof Garden."
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Telegraph add Peaceful"
P.O. PEUSTER,
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THE PLOT AGAINST MR LLOYD GEORGE.
LONDON, March 7. In the Old Bailey Conapimey Trial Secret Service Agan Gordon, told her he was a conscientious objector and had been helping Intarneds to escape. This naturally interested her, owing to her sympathies....with conscientious ob joctors. She bargained with Gordon that she should get him poison to lak dogs in the internment camps to en die
her son and two other, youths to flee the country to avoid conscription.
GERMANS COMPLETELY STOP BELGIAN INDUSTRIES.
UNEMPLOYING THE WHOLE POPULATION.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd, PATELL & CO. KING EDWARD HOTEL his friends to escape if he would help
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ANG, TUK Dantiær, coemsor to
he late BIEN TING, SIL DAGUILAR STRENE
TEKO VERY KODERATE
Consultation, fres
and the road to Santi Quarantę, towards Monastir, should be finished, thua en- abling troops and materials to be brought up more quickly. He co eludes with the remark that " tremendous task confront the Fastern Army."
THE SITUATION IN GREECE,
STATEMENT BY MR." BALFOUR.
LONDON, March 7.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Bal. four, Secretary of State for. Forelgu Affairs, stated that the evacuation "of Greek troops and artillery from the north of Greece was proceeding antia factorily, but certain demands are still not fulfilled. There are about 6,000 re- gulate and 3,000 gendarmaric still in the North of the Peloponesus. The Greek. Government has released the Venezclista · and has promised to abandoa. pro- ecedings against them."
i.
THE ITALIAN FRONT."
LONDON, March 7. An Italian official report, received by: wireless, states:..
We repulsed with heavy losser a night attack at Coste Bella and penetrated the enemy's lines Mosciagh on the Asiago plateau..
IRISH HOME RULE QUESTION.
MR. T. P. O'CONNER'S HOTION.
LONDON, March 7
In the House of Commons, Mr. T. P. O'Connor moved That with a view to strengthening the hands of the Allies in achieving the recognition of equal rights of small nations and the principle of nationality against the the opposite German principles of Militarism and government without consent of the governed, it is essential immediately to confer upon Ireland, the free institutions long promised to her.” to make a united and genuins effort to Mr. O'Conner appealed to the House settle the Irish Question. H
AUSTRALIA AND IRISH HOME RULE
MELBOURNE, March 7 The Senate passed a resolution on February 28th in favour of Home Rile
for Ireland
AMERICA AND THE AUSTRIAN NOTE
SCATHING COMMENTS.
New York, March 7 The newspapers comment seathingly on the Austrian Note on the Submarine policy.
AMSTERDAM, March 7, The Telegrauf states that the German have ordered a complete stoppage of The New York Times says the reason Belgina industries, praetically unemploying in it surpasses in Esrdihood the mee ing the whole population, alleging the daring exploits of the German mod asdequacy of coul and transport during the whole of the war FOOD STORES DESTROYED BY The Inuit says that Aust
FIRE bean given the oppo
Storeholder: NEMALAR 30,000 kilogrammes, of
other foods
destroyed
Containing
berde