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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Page 1)
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S
SPEECH."
SENSATION CREATED IN
ENGLAND.
SOME STRONG PRESS
COMMENTS.
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on; and whether there would be an opportunity to discuss the proposed. arrangements and Mr. Lloyd George's statements in Paris, in con- nection therewith.
"PREMIER'S REPLY..
Mr. Lloyd George, replying, pro- ceeded to read the terme of the Frurico Italio - British agreement creating an Allied Supreme War Council.
THE CHINA MAIL.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS. – THE OPERATIONE IN PANASTINE,
THE NEW ALLIED WAR COUNCIL
STATEMENT BY THE FRENCH PREMIER.
INTER ALLIED ECONOMIC AGREEMENT.
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GENERAL ALLENBY'S REPORT.
Tanks successfully co-operated with the Scottisrand East Angliana in esp turing the Gaza first line "defences.
Two Turkish divmions repeatedly attempted to out off the Beershebe water supply. Our troops, including-Welsh and English county regiments behaved splendidly and best off the enemy, indicting enormous casualties.
All the troops Fave shown a decar mined fighting spirit The Staff work was good, whilst the co-operation of the Naval forces was of the greatest value.
The prisoners counted to Saturday
GERMAN AGENTS IN
CHINA
We take the following from the Peking Avenius Times of October 1st
The Governor of Beinkinug, Mr. Yang
The Government is quite alive to the ... danger of this seditious preaching by enemy subjects anong the Mohamme dans in the West of China: and the Mohammedan Prince" Malbeat, who is at Hamie has been instructed by the Cabinet to assist Mr. Tang to preserve pice and explain to the Mohammedana under his rule the, Farvical stories of the Germans and their agents. In addi tion to Germans and their Amer ican agents, there are also some Turks and not a few discontented, and impetuous young Chinese politicians of the Komintang Party who are preach- ing similar thagorous doctrines to the natives of north-west China in the hope that arising in Hizkiang and Kansu by the *Mohammedans who are chiefy related to the Turks by religion and rece will effectively barrass the Tran Cabinet sad do considerablá harm to the Allied cause in this Country.
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LONDON, NOY.. 14. gallantly until the arrival de infantry, front to work in the Allied lines of M. Painlere, the French Frime when the enemy was ropelled with great communications and munitions fac- Council shall be composed of the Minister, in a statement to both Cham-loss The Londoners, as dismounted tories. There alien enemies Prime Minister and a member of the bars covering the present situation, said Yeomanry, made a flashing attack on the fearful sales to the ignorant natives and Government, of each Great Power that how the Italian north-eastern front 31st ult. aur gained the whole of the say that unless they do something to Losnost Nov. 14. I whose rinies
hari been broken in was still obscure. frat lino, defences of Beersheba, the ment will shortly select Mohammedarıy protect themselves, the Feking Govern- Are #ghting tl1 M: Dloyd Chorge's speech in the Western Front.
British contingents at present are fighting lasting all day,
to proceed to Europe as labourers and The exten spreading beyond the Alps. He con
The Turks in the evening bald the that the best plan is to rise in a body -Paris has created a transendous sension of the Council's scope to firmed that there was no doubt that the trenches a mile to the eastward. The against Peking. The Germans way that nation. --The Elouse of Commons was other Fronts was served felis. United States would join the Suprem Fourth Australian Light Horse charged thes an easily get arms through Roasia taken by surprise and is disposed to cussion with the Great Tower coether fronts would be corxducted, with four feet wide, and galloped over them,sian and Indian revolutionaries who HIT War Council Negotiations as regards these, which were night feet deer and and India because there are many Rus- be critical. Is is interpreted in some [cerned. The second clause states Rassis and Japan. The purpose of the ending all resistance.
co-operating with Germany fortbrowing quarters as betökening a desire on that the Council's mission is to watch Council was to shape the General War
of the Russian and the the Foments and becoming† Briting the part of the Premier to interfere over the general conduct of the war,Policy of the Allies, adapting plans to
free and independent peoples. the resources available in order to ensure with the military leaders: hence it to propure riconmendations for the most powerful resulta. A perman- is hoped that Mr. Lloyd George will[ Governnitat decision, to keep itself ent General Staff would be the Council's make an explanation" correcting this informed of their execution and toeatral intelligenes organ and technical impression. There, is mich interest report thorson to the respective Clav. advisor. Decisions of the Council would in Mr. Asquith's attitude, but the ernicents. The General Staff and embrace the folds of battle as a whole and be subject to ratification by the latter's friends declare that he is Military Commands of the annies of respective Governments. The scheme at presint, nos seeking the Premierouch Power would remain responsible was not necessarily the final step ship.
to their respective Governments. Critics were already demanding a single command He was of the opinion that "The Holly Telegraph refers to the The general' war plans drawn up by the creation of a War Council might lend „political atmosphere as one of ses competent military authorities are to picion, and dentiunces the attempt be submitted to the Supreme War which it alles is being tadi, to Council, which under the high bring down the Eloyd Gege wuthority of the fovernments ensures
THE WESTERN FRONT.NE ministration,
their concordance and submits any
GERMAN BOMBARDMENTS. · The Morning Fost says a study di necessary changes. Each Power the Speech confirms the worst feurs would end, is delegates to the France had just concluded a most im Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig shat Mr. Lloyd George really intends Supreme War Council, one perman-portant economic agreement aiming at reports increased enemy artillery ously considering means to prosent Ger Bis political connell to direet Alliédent military representative whose the fullest co-operation regards activity all day at
mans and their dupes from doing harm number of In ・West
the
fact it is harder to sha strategy, and
warns Mr. Lloyd whole and exclusive function is provisioning, the Allied countries, which points on the Ypres battle front, dow an American or Chinese than a Ger
in future would constitute a George that he taty lare a spill if technically to advise the Council country as regards food-stuffs and indispecially in the neighbourhood of man or Austrian, especially citizens of the United States whose country is also ke interferes with diznem! Robert. The military representatives will pentable imports. "Provided we disci- Reporting on aviation activities, Aghting with China and the Allies against sou and Sir Douglas Hnig.
revive from their Governments and pline ourselves and are ready to impose Sir Douglas Haig states: On Monday the commou enemy
upon ourselves sacrifices and restrictions our aeroplanes fired their machine guns
We note that owing to the temporary ThDaily Chronicle Ebbyist fun-the-resp-military-anticisimilar to those which the people of at many grocal targets and bombed reverses suffered by the Italians at the learns authoritatively that the sperities of their country, all proposals, Britain are going to impose on the various centres of bostile activity. The themselves of the opportunity to por Julien front, German agents are availing wus zot uetuated by hostility towards information and documents relatingselves, all fear of a sudden crisis will be enemy's deroplanes dropped a few
LINY German greatness and the future General Robertson and Siz Douglas to the conduct of the wat. The mili-verted beforehand. The country must bombs on our side of the line. We victory of Germany in this way for the be prepared for these farther restrictions brought down one and drove down consumption of the chinese who are Huig..
tary representatives will watch daily in order to release tonnage for the Ave machines. Two of ours have not asked to repent their mistake in declar- The Daily News in the strongest the situation of the topees and the transport of the Americans,”
returned.
Sing war upon the Central Powers. language dennanens the "unpural menn of every" sort of which the feled crime of encouraging the enemyAllied Enerly Armies dispose. The by depressig, ourselves, and the wie Council will nieet normally ut ahameful slur on the dead in the Versailles at least one month and travesty of the battle of the Home. might meet at other agreed pinces The journal declares that Mr. Lloyd according to ciremnstances. The George, having disposed of his poli-permanent inilitary representatives is the extension of the British front, A tion rivals, proposes to make him and their Staffs had been established self Military Dictator..
at Versailles.
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"The Daily News Lobbyist says it
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Me: Floyd George said: From
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to that a British and Italian Gov-aight numbered 5,894, of whom 286- ernments regarded the Council as an were officers. immense step forward, upon. ' which others may follow. The preliminary agreement just reached between the two Commanders-in-Chief for the extension of the British front would be carried out at an early date. Britain aud
BRITISH FRONT TU BE
LENGTHENED...
JJ
LATER.
Passchendaele.
...
A French communiqus states: The enemy vigorously opposed our guns and bombarded our lines in Champagne in the region of the baights and some points
FRENCH POLITICAL" CRISIS.
*A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
PARIS, Nov. 14, The Chamber has passed a vote of
votes to 199
It is believed the Government is seri
LAND SETTLEMENT IN MALAYA
is diffult to ignore the reports which the foregoing, it is clear that the most brilliant of the war, places some confidence in the Government by 250 sent wholesale distribution of land to
has long been current of controver- Council will have no executive power sies between Mr. Lloyd George and and the final decisions on matters General Robertson and Sir Douglas of strategy and distribution in the Haig, and says there were rumours movemens of the various armies in gestenliy of resignations from the Army Council.
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Mr J. B. Harrop writes to the Editor of the "Malay Mail":
1 wonder if the gentlemen who run our legislative Bill factories realise what is happening in connection with the pre- small holders! Quite recently-and very. properly so our legislators were pre- vested by the Home Government from giving way State land to slims in twenty thousand acro blocks. Debarred in that direction, they are now, with a persistency worthy of a better cause, apparently determined to get rid of It in the shortest possible apexe of time.
In the district of Sitiawan alone, during the
of past year, thousands applications have been received for plots varying
ng in extent from three to fifty acres, and practically the whole of the accessible land suitable for the cultivation of rabber has already beam, alienated, or shortly will be, to stall holders. I presume that at the back of this scheme there some crazy ides of settling small bolders on three Dhobine
cabbage patch-minus the cow.
GROUND
PROCEEDS FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS IRRESPECTIVE OF
· KATIONALITY IN SCOTTISH HOSPITALS,
Painleve's reference to the extension of
The following is the text of Min Argonne." the British front: "Another military problem urgently demanding attention preliminary agreement just resched be tween the two Chief Commanders will be carried out at the earliest date, which it is inadvisable to specify. Moreover the victory of the Aisne, aud of the
divisions at our disposal, but in view of present military developments there
GOVERNMENT'S · REQUEST classes from the front. Germany is can be no question of removing fresh
REFUSED attempting a desperate effort with all
FARIS, Nov. 14. the field will rest with the Allied available forces to obtain a showy
The Chaziber's vote of confidente Governments. Therefore, there will victory, before the end of the year. The related to diplomatic and military policy, The papers publish a letter from be no Operations Department attach-ny's supreme effort must be mat but when the Government requested a Major Philip Sassoon, Sir Douglased to the Council. The object of the ing a scrap of our military strength."
with a supreme effort, without abandon-postponement of the interpellations on Haig's Private Secretary, to the Allies lus beer to establish a central
various scandals now before the Law Courts, the Chamber rejected the request Mayor of Folkstone, exhorting the body who would continuously survey
by 277 votes to 183. people of England to refuse to be the field operations as whole in the diverted from the steady and relentlight of information derived from a!! less progress of the British armies fronts and all Governments and- in Tanders which is the outstanding Staffs and co-ordinating plans pre- feature of the war, and declaring that pared by the different Generul Staffs "nothing that the enemy can do on and, if necesary, making its own pro-Headquarters, telegraphing, on the even other fronts in prevent his ultimate posals. for the better conduct of the fog of November 19th, states: 25 It is officially stated that Lord Read
The troops ocupying the regions of ing has completed his mission in Americs aightpence for fourpence to any Astic Balsamic Cough Linctus The Daily Mail describes the
Carmia and Codore succeeded in retiring and has arrived in England. The Government proposes to set with small losses, and rejoined the main speech as bold, and candid but says aside November 10th for the disarmy, whose new line runs from the sea there were many passages in it whichssion of this subject and also for to the slopes of the Alps. Thence,
defent.
War..
a Premier should have suppressed discussion because it is unwise to be represent
ing opinion and not fact.
. The Times says Mr. Lloyd George's object was absolutely sound but not hia review of past events, spécially his unfortunate suggestion that ull past efforts of the Allies had beet unwise or wasted.
FRENCH COMMENT, From the mass of comment by the French Press on Mr. Lloyd George's speech, which is mostly favourable to the speaker, emarges one definite note that unity of cornmand is what
mainly needful
MR. ASQUITH'S QUESTIONS.
STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
of bis (Mr. George's) speech in Paris.
Lloyd
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN KOBE.
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FOREIGN BUILDINGS. BADLY BURNT.
THE POSITION IN ITALY.
THE NEW LINE.
LONDON, NO. 13. Bouter's correspondent at Italian
THE GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.
LATER The Government has resigned..
LORD READING'S MISSION.
LONDON, Nov. 13,
FALSE JAPANESE WHO FREYED ON CANADIANS.
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the total length being fifty miles, against which the enemy is now directing four armies. The southernmost is command-the Nats York Herald, have arrested an at 20an acre, the native “sall-holders" ed by von Bulow. The next northwards Italian named César Wien, alias Jacques thus making a clear pront of 816 an sere is Bercevick's army. Krobatin is com-Yahiyama, who, posing as an officer in without doing a stroke of work to i manding in Cadöre, while Howzendorf ended Canadians on prove the valine of the land. Again, 1 is endeavouring to break through in furlough about Paris in order to swindle think it is an open secret that well to do Coolies to apply for Trentino. All depends on the amount them out of their money. Wien was and in adjacent plots on the under
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British davy and is wanted by the Another Instance worth recording is Italian military authorities as deserter that the rikshaw coolies of Singapore The Japanese Embassy is in receipt of hag applied for some six hundred acre the Lekir Bood, Sitiawan, the
fece, premium and first year's rent Hair Vita The police, says the Paris edition of Since then the land has been freely resold
matives aro
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OFFICIAL REPORTS,
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KINGS OF AVIATION:
epwaiting with interest the exodus from Singapore of these coolies, who strange to relate, do not seem to be in a hurry to eultime the land sirendy demarcated for them.
Konz Nov. 6, There was a fire in Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s building this morning which started in the firm's general office on the upper floor and is believed to have been due to the electric light. The Falica and An Italian official meuago states:-
We repulsed a strong attack - on Fire Brigade did effective work, but ow. ing to the accountable failure of the the Arage Plateau, after a desperate, water supply at critical time, the struggle inflicting serious lossen. We Eames spread along the roof, destroying captured an enemy detachment westward the ofices of the New South Wales of Asiago, releasing some of our men Government and the work rooms of the
If it is the intention of Guvernment to Indies Patriotic League, which are on The enemy is in contact with our lines
MJacques Mortada fi ar.article on the ground floor on the north side from the Breats to the lower Piave aviation in the Petit Parisiennes settle natives on the land with a view to The office of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha. The enemy by means of large boat claims as rois de la chasse Ball for the production of food stars the first of the precautionary measures, one on the ground floor, escaped damage by crossed the Piave, establishing a bridge England, Gurgemaer for France, mad
imagines, would be to make the land fire, but, anfferal farm water demage head at Zenson. We counter-attacked, che rite how that with the non transferable and liable to forectare Bery-eighths of Jardine,
specified crops Co.'s odces were damaged by fire and repulsing them towards the river back growing importance of the "vion de unless cultivated will spe LONDON, NOV, 14.
within a specified.
Bat to dre PLORE chilling water, and the Clifford Wilkinson Tan A German official message states: We Towing
chaars, the time for individual prowess In the House of Commons, Mr. san offices and residence bed a narrow have captured farther high position is giving place to group formations and Away and to the race Asquith, smid cheers, asked what escure and also affered water darooge southward of Sugann Valley!
gronip evolutions. Both the aviators, and eightpence for four pence, and then Jardine Mathews de Co.'s godowns
Ball and Fos/ke, before their deaths, wo allow the land, to be resold us so were the functions of the propesedes aped loss f on the Bre.ja
the fourpones has been peiri, is indeed, lame m
The French temperament, which does rare and refreshing finit to the native Inter-Allied Council, particularly iterum en in waler st adpoint the loss is not arious but from the point of view
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crationibus” hen obliged to lont them because of the good results obtained proposed that the Council shoulding it is moterims owing to the difficulty of ubtsining" other offices in have the power to interfere with and Kobe at the present time. to over-ride, the opinion of the Gen-The-fira a finale extinguished at available, for anles this week. This la eral Staff at Home and the Com-daybieak.-N. U. Thaily New minader-in-Chief on the Field, on
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