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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Poge 1.)-
THE FAMOUS HINDENBURG
TUNNEL.-
SPLENDID FIGHTING BY
ITALIANS.
FIERCE COUNTER-ATTACK - IN FACE OF A VIOLENT
BARRAGE. **
LONDON, Nov. 28. An Italian semi-official message
statestemte
•
A ROMANCE OF THE WAR.
"Lostos, Nov. 28. The renowned Austrian Third Renter's Correspondent at Head-Edelweiss Division, composed of quarters gives further particulars of troops of German extraction, and the fanious Hindenburg Tunnel. It other enemy forces, were severely a thirteen miles long and forty feet bouten at Colboretta They made deep. It was built by Russinua mass attack, after heavy drümfire, prisoners and sown with mines, and their crushingly superior fire and Way these failer to explode when numbers enabled the assailants to the electriciana" switched on the penetrate our advanced lines and to contact is our of the romances of each a mountain battery, but a the war and cannot be told. Suffes fierce counter-attack, in the face of it to say we had cut the wire leacis violent burrage, resalted, in the The tunnel was virtually "bonib-enemy being routed, and thus the proof. In contains nests of cham-attempted advance along Valsugana bers from which large quantities of was frustrated.
food, drink and tobaces are being
unearthed.
THE SUPREME WAR COUNCIL IN PARIS.
HEROIC DEFENCE OF THE
ITALIANS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
PROTEST AGAINST PRESS PUREATE CENSORSHIP.
modified.
NO EXPORT OF COAL EXCEPT UNDER LICENSE.
LONDON, Nov 28..
is
An Order-in-Council prohibits the export of coal from December 7th to all British destinasions except by license.
THE SILVER MARKET,,"
LONDON, Nov. 28.
The Silver market is quiet.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
GERMAN REPORT.
LECTURE ON LORD KELVIN.
THE STORY OF THE ATLANTIC
JAPANESE SHIPPING IN
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The following table shows the number cle and 40,598 tons loss were entorod
and toonage of steamers entered and cleared during 1916:
Forts.
Antung... Daire......... Nawchwang
LONDON, Nov. 28. The Liberal oxyMinistara bave communicated with the Government on the subject of the new peace Before the Hongkong University leaties regulation, protesting against Engineering Society and friends, Fro the Press Bureau censorship. They for A. G. Warren last night delivered intend to demand a day to debate a most interesting lecture on William the matter, unless the regulation Thomson, Lort Kalsin whom he de
scribed as the greatest figure 0 British scientists of the 19th century probably the greatest in Europa.
The story of the famous "scientist's connection with
the laying of the Atlantic cable was sold by the lecturer in the following terina:
By 1831 several short submarine
from Dover to Calais and the prospect cables had been laid, including that of an Atlantic cable was stiring the hopes of telograph engineers. The
No Tonnare aring of a cable two thousand miles long in water which was known to be 3
+599 * 309,754... miles deep in places pressated a mech
3441 3,555,017 L 799,134 nical problem of the first magnitude.
Chinwanruok 1,004 1,377,870 Nosingle ship existed of sufficient sise to
Tientsin. 1740- 1,918,441 bold the cable if it were male Engi
Cheloo 31 8414,919 neers using the Anglo-Dutch cables bad
The hold which Japanese ships bara noticed that the signals were sluggish. In November 1838 Thomson Submitted obtained in the trade of North China is shown by the proportions of the tonnage a paper to the Royal Society demons entered at the ports, Japan showing. ilm trating how the dificultion could be highest proportion at Cinawang tao, overcome by earthing the end of the Tientsin, Dairen, Newchwang and An- cable immediately after the application tang, while it is only Chefou that
only st of a transient rise of potential Con-British tonnage predominates.
The following tables, a
sahow the number cession having been obtained the
tonnage and percentage of the whole of the Atlantie Telegraph Company was the various flags entered and cleared at formed with Whitehouse an electrician the ports under review during the year and Thomson in the minor position of 1916 in the order of their importance one of the directors. Thomson spent montas in experimenting upon cables only to have his experience overridden British and the light cable was decided upon. Danish A Whitehouse bad prepared a large Detch number of instruments of elamey French....... construction and sluggish working Japanese 2807 2916,984
Norwegian.. to be used in con- Barsin which were nection with the cable The English Swedish Government furnished H.M.S. Agamem-Chinese. non and the United States Government the frigate Niagara Whitehouse refused
Fing to undertake the Toyage and Thomson British made the journey on the Agamemnon. American. After the Niagara had paid out 330 Danish LONDON, NOV. 3.
miles the eable parted in water of 2,000 Dutch An Italian official message says:--- After a furious bombardment of fatboms owing to carelessness on the LONDON, Nov, 28.
Coldella Berretta, cast of "the Brenta part of a brakesman. Thomson came An Italius official communiqué Valley, the enemy launched a whole back full of ideas for new instru infantry "Division. A fierce strugglements to be made while the lose cable In co-operation with our bombard- ensued. The barrage isolated the was being reconstructed. The result A Fresch conmuniqué states:rent tights, our imiteries concen- defenders, who, perhaps, had been cont was his mirror galvanometer. This is pelled to give ground, but Sicilians and too well known now to merit description It is confirmed that our attack on trated their fire on eserap troops Alpini traversed the death zone, charged In the early summer of 1855, all was Danish..... The 21st inst., scuth of Juvincount, massed and moving on Asiago the enemy, and forced him back with ready for the second attempt. The French cost the enemy very serious losses. Plateau and Primolano Basin, north-severe losses, leaving prisoners in our We took 476 prisoners and the ward of Col della Berretta and muter cepturul Includes 18 Middle Piave." machine-guns; three bomb-throwers,
A
PARIS, Nov. 28.
Rose. Nov. 28. The Austro-Germanя continue their gigantic and determined efforts. to break through to the Venetian Plains, constantly employing their best fresh troops and also heavier artillery and lachrynul "and rephy xiating gases. Each attack launched ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON FRENCHis fiereer than its predecessor. The
Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Balfour, Lord Milner, Admini Jellične, Lond Bedding, Sir Eric Geddes, Generali Sir William Robertson and M. Vezelo, hive arrived.
FRONT.
Losnos, Nova 28. A French communiqué states Then was fairly rigorous artillery -ectivity in the Juvincourt district
and on the Bois-le-Chune Front.
THE FRENCH ATTACK NEAR JUVINCOURT.
"Bostos, Nov. 28.
*bre trench martes, and 400 rifles.
AMERICAN WAR REVIEW.
DERMAX OBJECT DEFEATED,
WASHINGTON, Not, 28.!
Italians continue, to cover-themselves with glory in their heroic defence The uthed employed in the attack and the tenacity of the defence reculls Verdum.
ITALIAN BOMBARDMENTS.
ste tex
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RUSSIA.
THE ASCENDENCY OF THE BOLSHEVIKS.
The Secretary of War, in his re
PETROGRAD, Nov. 28.
view further states that it i
About half of the Petrograd voters the Constituent evident that the enemy undertook have polled ut the offensive in Italy in the hope of Assembly elections which close extricating himselt from his increas-to-day. Undoubtedly ingly difficult position in the West,whelming majority of the Petrograd by compelling the transfer of British garrison sides with the Bolsheviks. and French troops to Italy, thereby The latter have seized the Customs.
rendering their öffensive in the West impossible.
an over-
General Bulueff, commanding on the Western Front, has been super-
seded for refusing to negotiate in armistice...
General Trotsky has dismissed,
But this object has in no way heen achieved. The wastage of the enemy forces and the slow, relentless sap- The Bolsheviks aandunce the con- ping fan power by the continued trol of Tashkent after four days of "and sudden offensive thrusts must fighting.
eventually result in the softeriing of the enemy's line in the West, and without pensione,, two nssistant this is the ultimate objective of the foreign ministers and thirty officials series of intensive offensives, No HuC for refusing to submit to the cessfully pursued by the Allies during Bolshevik authority. the past six months, and is even more important than their gain in *terrain..
PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS IN GERMANY AND HUNGARY.
"A JUST AND DEMOCRATIC
PEACE WANTED. /
Laspos, Nov. 28. A Russian communiqué, sent by wireless, reports that M. Haritonoff; Secretary of the Bolsheviks, sent a proclamation to the Russian Com.
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LONDON, Nov. 21... A'German official message states:- Strong English attacks between Bourlon and Fontaine failed. Bitter local engagements are progressing.
There is most violent artillery activity between. Houthulst Wood and Zamwoorde.
We repulset the French to the north of Prunny.
Fighting activity has increased bet- wean Samogacir and Beaumont, astride the Orie.
ITALIANS REPULSE FIERCE -
ATTACKS.
hands
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The enemy in Albania forced a pass age at Osum south-east of Serat, and attacked our Albanians. Our regulars drove him back with heary losses. SUPREME WAR COUNCIL MEETS,
LONDON, Nov. 37)
It is officially announced that members of the Government have gone to Paris to attend the Supreme War Council, Earl Reading accompanying them
ANOTHER AMERICAN STEAMER
TORPEDOED...
CORUNNA, NOW. 21. Twenty-one survivors of the American 5,000 ton steamer claron; have been Landed.
The steamer was torpedoed on Sun- day, and three boats with the remainder of the crew are missing, CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
A SUGGESTION BY COL ROOSEVELT.
Fing
DAINEN.
Ships, Tonnage. Per cent.
181
285,483
7.5
19 35,240
14. 42,816
1,2
4 16.424
0.4
83.1
3 4.871
24
98,548 06 42,708 1.5
399 170,001
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Ships Tonnage. Per cent
972 1,129,810 18.1
0.11
3
03
8.
$12
$10
BASE 708
2,050 01
58 77,392 30
TIKYYVIN..
Norwegian..
apanese
Russian...... Chinese..... 1,256 653,074 27.9
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93,404
.8 30745
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0.1
34.
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786 790,298
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NEWORWANG.
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there effect a splice and pay out in both Norwegian) boate era to proceed to mid-Atlantic Japanese... directions at once. Already the Board Russian had begun to lose faith in Whitehouse Chinesa Flas and Thomson was put in charge. He was the last man on board, carrying with him his precioda galranometer, When less British....
American French than two days out they encountered storm of exceptional violence which last-
Japanese... ed for eight days. A hundred miler of Norwegian. cable and all the coal broke loose and ten g of the crew were injured. After 15 days Chinese the boste met and the splice was made. The cable broke three times weather Flag. was bod, but after many mishaps both British ends of the cable were landed on Augist Dutch bth. The rejoicings on both sides of French the. Atlantic were unbounded. Mes Japanese318 sages were sent and received and Norwegian.
Rossau Thomson handed ever the cable to Whitohotise. The latter immediately substituted bis own instruments The success of the cable was shortlived. The cable was in a precarious state and Whitehouse's bungling soon rendered it useless. Still it bad a few weeks. eventfal life. Among other messages orders for two regiments to leare
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Chinese 112
0.2
4336 2211933 329,584 45.€.
8,836 1.2 10,496
1.5 112,802- 15.4
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41,81097.6
34 184
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The returns, although showing Canada to assist in the quelling of the are yet reassuring inasmuch, as the serious falling off due to war conditions Indian Mutiny were counterminded decrease of tonnage is not as great as
THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE O, the trouble between Whitehouse and might legitimately have been anticipated. REGS TO ANNOUNCE that they are prepared to received and forward the Board there is little need be said. Nor is the decrease in Having doomed the cable with his British tonnage, as compared with that to Fant, free of commission and, telegram charges, at the selling rate of T. T so large as to exose on Paris, APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE LOAN, which will shartly wretched induction coils Whitehouse of other nationalities, sol
membered under what grave disa buities The list of applications will be CLOSED IN PARIS ON DECEMBER 14th- found the whle would still respond uneasiness particularly when it is rebe opened to public subscription,
have with Thomson apparatus. He sub- the strps under the Red stituted it for his own and claimed that been running
dne to Taking the age PW
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ISSUE PRIO3: 68.60%
TORONTO, Nov. 27. Colonel Roosevelt, addressing meeting of ten thousand people in aid of Cansula's Victory Loan, onlogised Canada's part in the wat
Colonel Roosevelt said that he looked bo could still send in essages, though the Admiralty for de to the damaria of 1917, and those intending to subscribe are invited to supply without delay, for permanent peace between Candia cable had developed box faults. It war and the United States, and suggested only by accident that Thomson die that the United States and Casada covered that the signals were being the group to
number and tonnage, of
of vessels entered might settle any dispute by permanent received with his own instruments. The and cleared during the sourt consisting of three judges of the cable finally refused to work altogether that is probably due to the
>the great demand United States Supreme Court and three and second attempt was not man for Kailan coal Canadian judges, s seventh member to until 1865, Thomson and Varley Japanese coal and the dificultica be chosen by the six judger.
SWISS NEUTRALITY, SWISS MINISTER'S
accompanied this expedition as consalt-DOOK with the pits of the Fushun ing experts. After laying 1,250 miles Colories. The largest decreaser both
Rnd
proportionate, as bem at the cable parted and the end sank in ewch was here the tonnage fell in
Newchwanke 2,100 fathoms of water. Thomson came back to Glasgow to arrange with White round numbers from 1.200,000 tons to
700,000, or
Joss of 500,000, foris, about instruments He had already Dairen lost 400,000 tons from 4,000,000, DECLARATION AMSTERDAM, Nov, 28.
become a power, as might be gathered while Chefoo lost 350,000 front: 300,00 LONDON, NOT. 26. Hundreds of Independent Social-mander-in-Chief, Ensign Krylenko,
In view of rumours that the enemy by the fact that the London mail had and Tientsin 370,000 tom from 3,000,000, 14 Excep of Newchwang, been about 3 per ists held a demonstration in Berlin, as follows:-
may possibly violate Swiss neutrality for constantly to be delayed until Thomson The lour has, therefore, with Sunday, and ondes toured to
matter when it is remembered under "The Boseheviks fraction of the the purpose of attacking, France and Italy should arrive with his instrumentation of New
Оті what severe conditions the trade han reach the centre of the City The All-Russian Extraordinary Congress on the Bank noteworthy speech has The following year, 1885, Thomsen cent of the total trade, anot very sendin
been made by the Swiss Minister of the started out with the new cable. police arrested nine of the demon of Peasants Delegates, numbering Interior, declaring that whoever violated September 3rd a metange was despatched been carried on
"As was to bu
Perpected, British tonn A 64, and five delegates of the other Swiss neutrality would have to encoun to his wife by the 1860 cable. Thomson fractions, send you congratulations ter the whole of the armed forces of had accomplished the apparently has decreased
impossible and raised the old one from other flags at all the ports with the ex- its bed, two miles down and completed itception of antung, where, however, the Sunday's prace demonstrations in on your resolute step towards the Switzerland to the last extreraity.
He came back to receive the honour of total trade is a small as to make very little difference. The toll British too- Berlin assumed considerable proper realisation of the wishes of the whole
knighthood. The Atlantic table conf
auge entered and cleaved Hers was 41,819 tions in the north of the City. The of Russia's workers for a general con-
LONDON, NOV 26pleted successfully, Sir William resumed tone, or 37.6 per cent of the whole, while crowd was very quiet and marched clusion of a just and democratic Suver is quoted 423. There is.au his quest into the propertion of matters in the year before it was only 136 through the streets cheering pro peace. We also send our congratula ausence of business, and the market is and for years we fnd um, working upon cent, Britials tonnage at the port him,
the vortex and other theorier og therefore, more than doubled, but
represent an increase of only about posals for peace and Dr. Liebknecht. tions to all Army Corps and other quiet
10,000 tom There was also amall Committees helping you in this great
COBLEIGH, increase in the proportionate tonnage of Britain at Cheloo amounting to 2.5 per and difficult task."
furts there Lisa bean a ani-
strators,
LATER
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 28
The Possische Zeitung reports that s monster Bocialist demonstration took place at Budapest on Sunday. There were lond cries of "Down with the war and We demand a general strike". A resolution wae passed urging the Monarchy to oppose Pan-Cot
Courland maniem and the annexation and Livonia, also favouring International Labour Conferenc Stockh
WERNER DEMIKI
TWO RUSE ANS, INTERNED IN GREAT BRITAIN.
A HINT OF RUSSIAN REPHISALS.
LONDON Nov. 28.
Correspon that General
Sir Geor
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