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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
(Continură, from Page 1)
A SIGNIFICANT PROCLAMATION.
GENERAL KALEDIN'S
OPERATIONS.
LONDON, Dec. 10.
A Russian message gives the details of a significant proclamation by @ the Bolshasik régime which contains admissions indicating the powerful counter forces now working,
The proclamution, after attempt. ing to excite class passions and accual ing the Cadets of lavishly financing the winter regolation, stutes that
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
FORMED.
MADRID, Dec. 9.
A message from Oporto states that the revolution has been successful und the Government has resigned.
Seubor Alfonso Costa has formed a Provisional Government, including Senhor Sidonio Puos, the ex-Minister to Berlin.
All is quist in Lisbon and Oporto. THREE DAYS' FIERCE FIGHTING-
rsnos, Dee. 9.
LOCAL FIGHTING.
LONDON, Dec. 9. Fiekl-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports
Thara was local fighting this after noon, eastward of Boarees, but on the remainder of the front there was no infantry action.
SPORTING
GRICERT
KOWLOON
The Kowloon C. C., "on" Saturday, played Royal Engineers at King's Fark. Hoult
J.T.
Sgt. McGregor, not out Sapr. Gordon, b Cobb Corp Adams b. Cobla.
A. M. 5. Rakes, b Cobb... Lieut. Wahl, b Cəbb There was hostile artillery firing on apr. Waller, b Cobb our positions in the neighbourhood of Lee Cpl Lucas e Horige, b Stalker the Flesquieres-Monchy-to-Preux-SS Cripwell b Stalker... Passchendaele sector.
Sapr. Millard, & Stalkor Lee. Cpl. Todd, e. Stalker, b Cobh Sapr. Townsend, e and b Stalker
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Total SOWLING AJALTOIM
One Geranio machine was brought down, and another landed intact bahird eur lines. Four of our machines, are | missing."
ENEMY AIR KAIDS.
Pestonji Cobb Stalker
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Puus Dec. 9 A communiqué staten that a big German raid on Beaumont completely. Wheeler, ran out o failed.
JStalker. McGregor, b Cripwell Sevan persons were killed and L. J. Blackburn, b Adana.... twenty injured in the air-raid on Calais. L. E. S. Hodge, b Adatos...
Lt. J. K. McConnell, b Qripwell P. H. Cobb, not out on the night of the 5th inst.
W. T.
Alter three days fierce fighting. between the troops faithful to thei Genéri Kaledinssisted by General Government and the revolution- Korniloff, has declared a state of waraes, unler Senhor Sidonic Paes. in the Fon region, hindering the the Government. in order to avoid supply of bread, at the Front, unl
disastrous dissensions in the pay, that General Kaledin is collecting forces and is percing Mosen and proposed a cessition of hostilities other towns; has arrested the mili and resigned. tary revolutionary connittee, und is endeavouring to cut off the supply ol brend from Siberia to the Front.
General Karapho is, attacking at two plates, in the Cauensus une Ukraine Pawing, troops to ple Ton region as hindering the distribu tion of the Bolshevik suppressive Juifitary fores
.
The parchalation sags the Revola tion is endangered and
named
resistance will be offer against the counter-resolutionaries,
It deerees all plaers where canter-revolution- nry detachments are livered shall be in a state of seige. Segotiations of my final tre forbidden by the people, and railwaymen assisting the
Lisbon is militarily controlled. The Parliament lacks a quorum, "Some of the infantry"regifnents, a
funvalry regiment and part of an artillery regiment are supporting the revolutionaries.
The Tocio railway station was langs hy hand grenades and the teamy services lais, been entirely suspended,
The Cruiser Tesco da thama and the
AERIAL ACTIVITY.
LONDON, Dec. 2 The Admiralty Announces that naval aircraft dropped many bombs on the Aertrycka narodrome this morning
J. P. Robinson
A. do Sousa... R. Pestonjl El Overy
The weather was cloudy, and the enemy scouts attacked the bombers. The latter drove down two machines
Cripwel.. "Reakes ... There were many patrol fights, in Townsend. apparently damaged. which we destroyed two maschines and Adams sbot down one.
All our machines returned.
torpedo boat (Furu Dimma,fired on the THE WITHDRAWAL AT CAMBRAI. town,
11
The revolutionaries were entrench. ed in King Edward VII. Park und repelled the Govertiment troops, with Ivy losses.
When the Foxen, da Gama, en
>did not bat.
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Brayshay Harley Redmond
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J. DL Wright, e Mann”bi Athorne - G. E. Harley, b Athorna................ F.A. Redmond, not out K. Brayabay, not gut
1-
RA. Ponsonby Fang, G. Hall, D. E,
16 Samy, Chesh Toon Lock, V. „Mistra,
6. and J. M. Jack did not bat..
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Athorno.... Bodcock.** Lt. Baker ij Armatys...
ANALYSIS.
障监
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3.0
UNIVERSITY XI, ». QUEEN'S
COLLEGE
In this match, played on the Univer sity ground, the visitors proved too stong for the University, and they se ¡cared the honours by Pizza. Besides five of their batsmen running up doable 37 figure poores, their Seiding was excep, 20tionally good. Adam Ismail batted well 21 for the University and Thivy bowind in good style, but the batting of the other O members of the team, with the excep 3tion of J. J. Basto, was bad and their felding was also very inferior, as com- pared with that of their opponentas
CIVIL SERVICE v. 8TH CO. B.O.A
This was a friendly match on the Civil Service Ground and resulted in an easy win for the visitors Scores
QJVIL BERPICE.
counter-evolutionaries are threaten-which the Ministers were installed, fcally the whole dmin of Angio French J. Eb Sharp
with the hat dire penalties. The leaders of the conspiracy are
declared outlaws.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
SHELLING ENEMY FORCES.
LošpoŃ, Dec. 9. An Italian official merge states: 43m-batteries, on - the -Asiago Plateau, heavily shelled the hostile forces.
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French patrol, between the Brenia and the Piaŝe, brought tick some prisoners.
fired on the city, Senbor Pues sent wireless message stating that if the bombardment did not ceuse the fexts would reply, whereupon the firing ceused.
2)
BRITISH PRESS COMMENT.
LONDON, Dec. 9.
W. Dixon, Hawley, b Lord The majority of the papers regard the D. M. Goodall, b. Attwood... set-back at Cambrai aa sorious.
RJC, Witchell, b Attwood ........ The Daily Chronicle says that practi-C. M. W. Boynolds, Sharp
reinforcements for Italy seems to have. Wo run out...
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas W. J. Woolley, b Attwood
Attwood... been on Haig's reserves, for Sir Douglas Haig F. Bacon, b Attwood had taken over a large piece of the RT Lamble b-Sharp. French Front, apparently to enable the F. Roylance, not out French also to send a large army to Italy. Comprehensive policies must be adopted to restore Sir Douglas Haig's superiority in men and guns.
The Times says that prompt decisions
T.
on the question of man-power are most Lord imperative. Great Britain must husband Attwood
Taylor and develop ber military resources to
Glead... the utmost and stand in the breach, so
Sharp... that ivilisation and freedom may be saved. We have reached that stage of the war when no man or woman is justified in remaining in occupations
TRANQUILITY RESTORED.
MADRID Deel 10. The Spanish Minister at Lison has sent message stating thus tranquillity has been restorejk;
The revolutionary committee. in a manifesto, affirms the determination to stand alongside Great Britain and the cther Allies and to fulmero optimistic.
that are not essential.
The Morning Fast and Daily Mail are
Our neroplanes effectively bori-Portugal's international obligations. Haig deliberately abandoned the alient The former say that Sir Douglas banded the lines of communication Senhor Machado will temporarily not because he could not have kept it, on the Asingo Plateau, machine retain President of the Republic, zuming troops,
but Senhor Pintado" Custro will
Cur airships dropped four tons of replace him after the 'revolutionary bombs on enemy acampments.
Cabinet has been formed,"
BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS IN POSITION.
Reuters. Correspondent 'nt Italian Headquarters, writing yester.
"
the
THE WAGES TROUBLE IN THE TEXTILE TRADE.
LONDON, Dec. 'D.
day, ays The British and French A conference of cotton employers troops have
now neeupied their and opentives, held at Manchester assigned positions on the front line..ut the suggestion of the Ministry of The Montello bills, which the British Labour, has agreed to reconiend strongly hold, extend for ten miles. the following settlement of the wages They are situated in a curve formed
question:Thay un advance of i by the Piave where it debouches from the mountains towards the per cent, shall be paid from the week ending December 15th, after which
LATEL,
plain. The Montello regio col there will be no change until the maris thirty miles of the valley of week ending June 10th, 1918. the Piave and overlooks two main road by which the eneray can invade
The Federation of Master Cotton the country on one side. The Piave Spinners and the Bolton Master coming from the Feltre hills form Cotton Lpinners Association have the last bulwark in the way of the approved of the recoininended settle Austro-German descent from the inent, and there is little doubt that the meetings of the operatives' or eastern side of Monte Grappa.
gunisations, tomorrow, will resolve "THE HALIFAX CALAMITY. in a similar manner.
2,000 KILLED, 5,000 INJURED AND 20,000 DESTITUTE.
There is general satisfaction throughout Lancashire that the wages question has been settled, "at least for six months.
LATER. The delegates of the card room workers and spinners have confirmed!
Losbos, Dec. 9. A telegrama fron Montreal states that the latest figures show a death list in Halifax" of over 2,000, and the provisional settlement and it is that 6,000 were injured. A blizzard anticipated that the weavers will
decide similarly on Monday.
is intensifying the sufferings.
Owing to lack of accommodation, the dead are being piled in the parks and open spaces, as the bodies are extricated from the ruins.
THE SILVER MARKET.
Loxtos, Dec. 9..
Sir R. I. Borden, who had been Mesam. Samuel, Montagu and speaking at Armherst, went to Hali-Company's Silver Report states that
relief.
£
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Total...
BOWLING ANALYBİS.
Q.
Ja
12
0 2 24 46
021 9
GA
83XD CO
Gr. Green, e Goodall, b Witchell Gr. Taylor, e Witchell, b'Dixon Gr. Page, b' Dixon,
Gr.Sharp, not out Me | Gr. J. Lord, b Dizon
Br. Giend, e Dixon, b Witchell Gr. Lord, b Witchell 4 Gr. Attwood, nut out...
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2TH MIDDLESEX V. NATY.
The 20th Middlesex II met the Navy U on Saturday, on the Nary ground. The Army team batted first, and started badly losing three wickets for only eleven runs. Tebbutt and
the ex- drets remedied this but with how ception of Miles and Purnell the scoring was poor. An exceptionally high total of brought the total score to 99.
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The Navy team however, was unable to reach their opponents' score and with the exception of anyen and Carey the scoring was poor and they lost the match | by 31 runs.
DANGEROUS GERMANS IN
AMERICA.:
TWO FORMER LONDON BANKERS ARRESTED.
New Tark, Gatober 17-Frizz Kubu, - to former London representative of the Deutsche Bank, and George van Beebeck, ske formerly connected with a German bank in London, were arrested on Tuer- day evening and sent to Ellis Toland for w.internment as dangerous enemy aliens.
...112
18
13
Kuhn and von Seebeck ded from Eng-
5 land to escape internment, and og arriving here secured employment with
a trust company, where von Seebeck he- 3 tame bend of one of the divisions of the forsign department. Over a year ago, however, both man... were
discharged,
..156
Total (for 6 wickets)... Gr. Hawley, Sgt. Townsend, and Gr. Winterton did not bat.
but because the salient was costly to hold. Our gains, were threefold. We bal broken the Hindenburg Line, inficted beavy leases on the enemy, and bad established ourselves on the Hinden- borg Line. If General Sir Julian Byug's operation is viewed in its proper per Dixon... spective as a raid on a great scale, it was Reynolds s brilliant success. The enemy had Witchel built a fortress and we occupy it.
The Daily Mail says there is no jatification for Hindenburg's boast of victory. He failed completely in his main enterprise of breaking and rolling. up our line and striking a blow like be
did in Italy....
SUCCESSES IN MESOPOTAMIA."
RUSSIANS CO-OPERATING.
LONDON, Dec. 8.
An official report from Mesopotamia states...
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
0. K.. "L.
4. 63 3 4017 0 103 32 3 ... 20 31-0
ORAIGENGOWER 1. CHINESE
Bacon ....
RECREATION CLUB.
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This match, played on Saturday) on the C.CC. ground, reanlted in victory for the home team, thanks to the fine bowling of Graham and the good batting of Abbas and Basa. Scores -
C.R.C.
Ng Sze Kwong, b Graham........ H. Ching, Grimmett, b Graham G. Lee, & Graham ... .-. Un Hew Fan, c Grimmett, b:Abbus. Ng Sze Yuen, b Graham Ho Wing Kin, b Graham Yew
May Chou, c'Essa b Abbas We pursued the Turks as far as Wong Po Keang, Abbas Karstepah village, 2 miles northward Wai Kwok Kwong, b Graham of Deli Abbas, through which the enemy Wai Lee San, not out was driven on Wednesday. After a Kwok Ebiu Yan, b Grimmett sharp engagement the parsnit was carried out in difficult country,
The British troops, with the Russians on their right fank, showed great en- durance in overcoming all obstacles.
We captured between the 3rd and 5th inst. 227 prisoners and two field-guna.
(Karatepeh is about 60 miles north- east of Bagblad.].
THE SILYER 'MARKET.
LONDON, Dec. 9. Silver is quoted at 43d. It is dearer owing to the diffulty in satisfying mall order...
"(Continued on Page 2.)
AMERICAN NAYAL HELP.
ALL BRITISH ANTI-SUBMARINE. DEVICES REVEALED.
The co-operation of the British Admir
Graham.... Grimmett Abbas
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"Total" BOWLING ANALYSIS.
owing to their pro-German sympathies, and were afterwards employed by a firm of importers on the water front, where they were arrested.
The re
for the arrests cannot be ascertained. Von Seebeck is reputed to be a member of a famous family of Ger. man army officers. Kaha is stated to be a friend of Count Bernstorff-Router.
PERSONA
GERMANS AND THE SUBMARINE
POLICY...
"Vorwärts" states that Dr. Michelia's speech on the naval mutiny was beavily censored before publication, lest the full text should harm German interests in foreign countries. Herr Naumann, the Badical deputy whose name is j identified with the Central Europe ides, made revelation in the same debate. After
on
another expressing very considerable scepticism as to the access
he went on to say marine campaign
When the submarine was resolved we kept silence, although we regarded extraordinarily dangerous. We 15 regarded it as our
it as
... 10 that this weapon Petriotic duty to hope
112 30 7.1 95.
20
ita grave subsi- diary resalts, world exercise its mairi cffecte in our favour.
The German Government, with the aaid of the patriotic silence of Herz Naumann and his friends, bas hitherto
kept dark the fact that the submarine
4 policy was forced through against strong
2
although, and that the opponents,
silenced, were unconvinced.
Now they have recovered speech, and doubtless, as the fatal character of the submarine decision
tion becomes more and the more apparent
numbers who will denounce it and its authors will multiply.
78 sub
650 193
CRAIGENGÖRER B. Bass, cand b Un Hew Fan... 30
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Total
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Yew Man Taunt FI, Ching
Ng Sea Kwong Ho Wing Kin On Hew Fan.net
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has
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drawn the
And offered his resignation, Bat. his is not greater than that of
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Add to this that Germans are
the coal difficulty already, and that To the stock of child Beripturestorice be the result of a special Investigation populace will have to face the vigo SpectatorOne little boy told to
A telegram from Halifax states 100,000,000 ounces of silver for er. Me. Daniels, Secretary of the The match between the BG,A. and there is an acceptable addition in the ordered by the German Chancellor, the winter with very poor provision of war that 20,000 people are destitute delivery in 1918 be correct, this and the damage is estimated at would be equal to 50 per cent. of £6,000,000
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It is stated that the munition ahip note erchiation has fallen by 147 carried 4,000 tons of trinitrotoltol lakbe and the silver holding by 104 and the explosion caused o 40 foot lakhs, but the gold holding hos tidal wave which washed over the increased by 47 lakhs
Cars and 20 Ch
LONDON, Dec. 10.1 The Silver Market, & quiBES
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Gr. Ferkins, not This statement to the public was it. Baker, c&b Rochond prompted by prblished reports that British invention for combating sub Ge Boerek, e Hall, contrary Mr. Daniels: s375, - Azory marines had been withheld. On the 48. Boss, not put device employed by the British Navy has been fullvixplained
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write all he new of Elijah speaking yield of wheat is estimated to be 40 per clothes and footwear, and we may truly for himself, wrote +We'do not know much of this holy man, and added cent, lower than that of normal years, fully assured that their comm
But we know that he sat for crate and that of eye, oath, and berley 45 por man is not going to be a merry and with a widow
cent, lower. On this beans it in calentated that the total harvest of whead and rys amount to 7500,000 tons, se compared and with 13,000,000 in 1915. THE CHILDRENS COLDS:
15,000,000 in norms; yours, and that of ATCE the children's colds and cure barley and pets to 7,650,000 tong
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