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"THE WESTERN FRONT.
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY.
Dispos, Dec. 1. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:--
There was unusual mutual aerial und artillery activity yesterday, particularly Southward of the Scarpe and northward of Lya,
We repulsed a muid to the east of Epeby aixi dispersed working parties
on the Cambrai Front, sveuring prisoners.
TAXTER
12, 1917.
THE CHINA MAIT.
THE CAPTURE OF
ANOTHER BRITISH VOTE OF CREDIT,
JERUSALEM.
ገነ
GENERAL SATISFACTION.”
41
Lomax, Deo. 11. Oficial: H.M. The King has sent amresage to General Allenby say. ing!
The
The occupation of Jerusalem will be received throughout the Empire with the greatest satisfaction. “
"I heartily congratulate you anl all rurks upon your success. dehievement is a fitting sequel to the hand marching and fighting of the troops and the organization by which the difficulties of supply, transport and water were overcome Imjoice that your skilful is positions preserved intact the body Pluges." Sir Douglas Haig reports:-
EXTER. The new of the fall of Jerusalem Scottish troops attacking 'expelled. the defendurs of a post to the east is received with mixed satisfac- of Boursies. Several Germans were
tion. The newspapers particularly killed or taken prisoner.
emphasis the passage in thy King's, The artillery was again' netivs to suge regarding the solicitude the south and south-east of Cambrai, shown for the holy places, contrast- labo feryasingly active to the ing this with the ruthless German ist, and north-sat of Ypres, particu, methods. The capture is reputed Jarly in the neighbourhood of Polygon as a hex blow to Germany's pro- Wood and Passchendaele.
jects in the Near East and as the epancipation of Moslems, Jews and Christians from the Turco-German yoke,
THE FRENCH FRONT..
Loxpox, Det. 1.
A French communiqué says:--- There has been great reciprocul artillery activity between the Aisne
The Times says it is understood
British, French and Italian forces that Jerusalem will be garrisoned by with and the Oise, in Champagne, Main-The British tag will y over Jerus a British Military Governor. de-Massiges, on the right of the salem, while French and Italian Ang Mense and in Upper Alsure
There was a slurp boaburdient
will fly over their respective proper-
MAKING A TOTAL OF 3,400
·MILLIONS,
LONDON, Dec. 1. Mr. Bonur Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduces to-morrow i vote of credit for £30,000,000 sterling: making a total of 2,450
millions.
THE COST OF WAR.
AN AMERICAN CALCULATION.
MOVING
TROOPS.
·RAIL" AND, SEA” METHODS.
New York, Oct. 31-The cost of the Anyone who has studied the arrange was to date has exceeded $100,000,000,000 gold and the daily expenditures are ment of track, particularly at the stations, now in the neighbourhood of $16000,00 of Continental nations, and contrasted for all the belligerents, compared with 800700,000, in the first five months of
it with the arrangement on British £be confic. These results have boon railways, must have been impressed, expenditures made by the Mochanies Engineering, with the diverence in obtained by a compilation of loans and and Metals Nations! Bank from data facilities for setraining and detraining obtained from varicus authoritative. sources. In a pamphlet Juss issued the. In the one case there are ample bank states that an estimate based on lines with few platforms; in the other AMERICA AND THE STEEL SUPPLY.current expenditures, including those of
the United States, indientes that, if the ually two lines, or at most four lines war goes through the fourth year, to
with a corresponding number of plat- August in 1018 the total military cost forms at a level suitable to enable will be $156,600,000, and the daily passengers to step practically on to the out calculation
will average $107,00x100.
carriage floor. While admirably suited pamphlet that there will have been the quinber of troops which can be
Skys means"
the for passengers, our arrangements Limit does not and befoeveloped vesh of any of time. It fellows that the traffic Inid out for military purposes, if the war entrained or detrained in a given period greater than the wealth of any single nation of the world, other than capacity of the line is greatly lessened the United States. It, means that for The time occupied in balta and in was there has already been expended any working train is sad out of the stations amount three times a large as the total limits the maximum normal.capacity of indebtedness of world, as that indebtedness stood in any double line of railway to six trains 1914; four times a large as all the per hour each way, and on a singla lina
to three trama per hour, if the crossing! deposits of the barks of the United States'; ten times as large as the value of places are suitably situated.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Mr. Willard, Chairman of the War Iiustries Board. has announced that after a conference lasting two hours with Mr. Gary. Mr. Schwab and other reading steelmen, the Government is assured all the steet necessary There will be no delay in turning out monitions for wintery
11
THE HALIFAX CALAMITY. LATEST CASUALTY LIST,
HALIFAX, Dec. 11: Twelve hundred people are known to be dead. 2,000 re missing and, 8,000 injured.
"
LATER.
every nation in the
WHAT COST OF WAR KHANK
all our agricultoril prodbets in a given One way of overcoming this difficulty year, twelve times as large as the value and ensuring the highest train capacity of our sanaat foreign trade, one thou-was so to arrange the dispatch, of troops and times as large as the amount of the that as far as possible each traju would
American gold cutpat....
be made up to represent a complete unit of the fighting force. The size of It means that the war has already the train is determined by the number Terrific stores, snow and raid are tended the railroad milengo of the good working train may have 144 pairs required sum that would baye ex-of wheels, and experience shows that a greatly augmenting the sufferings of United States to several times the wheels, although it is possible to pull ble victims. The homeless are guar-have carried steamship lines to every abject to the curves and gradienta present length, and that, braides, would train of 160 pairs with two engines, tered in tents, barracks, private ren spent for organised destruction, being suitable. The passenger caches
the earth. Instead, the money residences and public buildings. Re- and for every month over which hostili have six or eight pairs, and the cattle
has been
rushed in. lief supplies of all kinds are being ties continue to progress 85,000, 0,000 and vehicle trucks have only four. Aa more are added to the cost. This means a rule the passenger compartment in a that there is required of the world
the world coach accommodates six officers or eight every recath an amount of money men, with their equipment, and there double that expended during the entire are five such compartments on an Russo-Japanese war, wi
which lasted eight-
A cattle truck teen months. It means that the Boereage to each coach. war is being concentrated
into
vory takes on an average sight horses, and a this war. It the vehicle truck wagon or a over again, its entire cost being is therefore suitable for half an infantry compressed each time into a space of battalion with its impedimenta. This three weeks. It means that our civil has been the arrangement adoptad,-and- war-hitherto the greatest contest in
OBITUARY.
LoxDox, Dec. 11" The death is announced of Dr.
en the Bois-dyCharme front, and ties. The future position of Jery-parque in the count on han france-Frasian war is being fought over with its limber. The accommodation
towards Calonne after, which the Gempos fanucksal two coap-dc- mains, which broke down.
BRITISH PRISONERS-OF-WAR.
salem will not be defined until the historian. end of the wILE..
}
The evening newspapers give pro minence to the historical associations
of Jerusalem. The capture of the city has aroused general satisfaction
PALESTINE'S IMPORTANCE..
FAILURE OF GERMANY'S FASTERN POLICY,
Loypos, Dec. IL in all quarters, irrespective of reli- Mr. Macpherson, Parliamentarygious belief. The Te Deum was Secretary of the War Office, in song in the Rotman Catholic Cathe-Zercher Zeitung, discussing the British statement says the British prisoners.dral at Westminster where the big of-war in Germany numbered. 1,863, bell was rang for the first time for
In Turkey three years. "
.officers and 41,836
the number was 340 officers and The occupation
1,950 men.
world history is being duplicated with and it has been found possible, even at such intensity that a counterpart of the the terminus for the embarkation of four-year struggle between the North troops, to deal with five trains per hour, and South is reproduced every fifty giving an interval of 12 minutes" for
each train.
day wink states that the sum af |
The
London, 9th November: The operations in Palestine and Mesopotamia, remarks that as the Turks are unable to to the British advance they must withdraw some dozen divisions from Europe. The British
operations in Asja Asia would then
direct influence on than 325,000,000,000. regarded us the situation on the European Frant
Bxert
-military correspondent.
"
In Bulgaria there were being of first-class political import-sche Zeitung derdent of the says, "is the largest of the nations, being the case had Britain been a military |
In Austria unce in addition to its considerable
42 officers and 586 men.
12 officers and 7 men. The cap-military significance. tures for best month are not included.
BRITISH NAYAL AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY.
GOOD WORK.
LONDON, Dec. 11. The Admiralty announces the -three naval aircraft on patrol duty -attacked and dreve buck five enemy couts and seven large seaplanes.
_____
LORD LANSDOWNE'S LETTER.
HIS ELDEST SON. DISAGREES WITH IT.
ing in een declares that the fight:
Thus in 12 days 86.500 officers and money expended since the riddle of 1914 has been greater than the combined me 33,693 horses and about, 8,000 money expanditure of all other wars in guns and vehicles were dealt with at the bistory of the world. The Napoleonic one port in the dispatch of troops across wars cost no more than $6,250,000,000. the Channel. One of the difficulties in The combined direct cost of the six giant the transit of troops throughout the est military struggles in the 125 years kingdom is that the different railway preceding the present war was no greater systems were not linked up to each Great Britain's outlay, the ramphlet other satisfactorily, as would have been 335,000,000 a day, and $39,003,0.0 when action, But, this has now been met, in the sidered.
The direct expense of the between different company systems. Britias succeed
Pales
United States 829,400,000 daily, and There still remain, however, the difficul tine, they
heavy $40,380,000 including loans. Germany's ties incidental to there being three kinds blow against Germany's Eastern policy outlay is 827,200,000, and that of France of brake arrangements, so that the stock and consequently against her world
$20,900,500 day: Including loans, the policy. The events in Palestine, there United States disbursed $6,500,000,000 of the different companies cannot always fore, deserve Germany's closcat attention from Aug. 1, 1914, to the same date this be made up in one train. Again, the They constitute an
an attack against one of year in
expenditures. ∙Greatwidth of rolling-stock and the interval Germany's wings, while the British Britain's gross expenditure in that offensive in Flanders is an attack against period was $25,8 0,000,00, that of Ger- vary, so that considerable caro had to between up and down tracks frequently the other wing."
many, 89%,100,000,00, and of France 317,40,000,000.
be exercised in the making up of the trains.
to Germany and is, and advances to allies are con- some cases, by the formation of junctions
Atrike
A
LONDON, Dec. 11. Earl Kerry, the eldest son of Lord Rentor's correspondent in Palestine Lansdowne, Member of Parliament says that a captured Turkish artillery for West Derbyshire, in a letter to alem on Tocaday, adding: "They were
officer told his captors that he left Jerus his constituents declares that his all waiting with open arms to receive war aims do not coincide with theory body is tired of Enver and
Germans."-Pioneer Cable.
We also destroyed two machines and views expressed in Lord Lansdowne's machine gunned trenches and unletter, but rather with the senti anti-aircraft battery. We mided ments expressed in President Wil Varssenuere aerodrome, making two son's admirable, speech. I think," direct hits.
All our paebines returned.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
ITALIAN AND AUSTRIAN REPORTS.
LONDON, Dec. 11. An Italian official communiqué
There is artillery activity along the whole front. It is intense Between
the" Brenta and the Plave.
PARIS SPY CASE.
war
COST OF WAE PER CAPITA In the following table the cost of the war per capita of population in each of the leading countries is shown... Daily
War Daily
4.
TRANSPORT OVERSEAS.
relves much forethought, not only in The dispatch of troops overseas in
the marshalling of trains to utilize to the maximum the sidings opposite to Cost. Inc. Annual Annual the transport qusy, but also to ensure ---(ctx.) (eta.). Cost Income that as far as possible each ship will, United States 28 106 $103.80 $385.00 like each train, take a complete unit. Great Britain 741 20 279.60 385.00 The ships vary in their capacity, some 180.00 187.00 of them having less hold room than 38.60 40.00 others for the accommodation of impedi 80.60 111.40
manta, although they have abundant 48 $100.50 8176.75 space, in their former passenger quarters, 44-8144.901es.00 for the accommodation of troops; others, again, ercel in their available accommoda- 8435 ton for the army equipment and guns.
Indeed, in practically no instance does
32
HUNGARIAN WHO HAD SERVED IN France 50 51
BRITISH ARMY.
Russia. ... 11 Italy
22
Entente Allies 27 German
...40 Austria-Hung-
ary
... 21
he says, "inore has been read into Lord Linsdowne's letter that was either in it, or intended, but there'
A Bungarian, who under a false same had been at the head of a big Parisien were sonte passages to which I cerfood supply store, was arrested recently tainly cannot agree to long as we are on charges of espionage and forgery.
Born in Budapest 38 years ago, he was
Foreign Leg be
but
Brumme!
75.50
He escaped from Aug. 1 last borrowed $80-00,00,000, the and fed to
to America, where
able to keep going, and this, I hope known in France as Alfred in the Central Allies 21 29 91.4.00 $140.50 the ordinary marchant ship afford ident we shall do, despite everything, until Some years
45 #103.00 $168.30 conditions for the sccommodation in oon had to be Total all victory is secured."
court-martialled for striking a superior In the process of financing the war the their due proportion of men, horses officer, and was sentenced to ten years several nations in the three years ended guns and vehicles for a military unit. penal servitude. Orleansville and
bank ways of which the Entente Illice This involves great care in the loading he worked on newspapers.
accounted for $62,000,000,000. This year of ships for far destinations. In all
Byear At
the end of July 1914 Brummel Great Britain, France Russia, Italy, sad cases care is exercised to ensure that went to England, and on the outbreak of the United States will disburse 8300, the supply unit will land in advance of war came to France, and actually are 000,00) interest on their national debts the troops if not with them, so that interpreter with the British Expedition- full year before the war ceeded in obtaining employment as an against $708,300,000 in 1913, the last when the division arrives at its destina
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THE REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL
THE CASUALTIES IN LIBBON.
Vran, Dec. 11
A measugs from Lisbon says it is estimated that 80 were killed and
enemy attacks.
GERMAN SUBMARINE. PIRACY.
INDIGNATION IN SPAIN.
LONDON, Déc. 137 There is indignation in Spain, owing to a German submarine shell. ing the Spanish steamer Claudia, fifty miles oft Finisterre, killing eight
President Machado has been seriously damaging the ship. removed!
The Spanish Government is pro Senhor Bracamps succeeds tem testing. porarily
AUSTRALIA AND THE WAR
MILITARY MEDALS.
LONDON Dec 11
In the House of Commons, Mr.
Parliamentary Becze-
NO EMPLOYMENT FOR ALLIED Macpherson SUBJECTS OF MILITARY AGE,tary to the War Office stated that the troops which had been engaged
large from $74 to 30 dana m
baby of a three-month-old ohteet seems laiminent than at the van in instances where the ships are out delay
Contact of the war, and ruin and national almost suitable for the transport of a
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