Page
THURSDAY, DEC
TELEGRAMS.
Continued from Page 13
THE WESTERN FRONT.
THE CAMBRAI FRONT.
Losnes, Dec., 12. Reuter's Correspondent at Head, quarters, "telegfaphing to-day, say the compurative lull continues on the Cambrai frană. Favoured by dry. cold weather both sides are busy digging and wiring and generally improving, their respective positions.
18, 1817.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BRITISH ENTRY INTO.
JERUSALEM
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
||
GENERAL ALLENDY'S REPORT,
LONDON, Dec. 12.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George read u telegrara from General Allenby announcing that he entered derusalem on foot on the 11th instant Guards were placed round the Holy Pinces but the Mosque of Onur was placed under Mahommellan control.
GERMAN HYPOCRISY,
MR. ASQUITH ON OUR WAR AIMS.
attainment in itself of the safeguards of
LONDON, Dec. 12. Mr. Asquith, speaking at Birming ham, said:" History would ask: Was in worth Great Britain's while to enter the war, He answered undoubtingly and unhesitatingly "Yes, only provided the war ended in a peace securing the its own permanence." Such peace had become the worki's supreme need and there was greater enemy of humanity than anyone who, by word or act, made it more difficult to achieve. After affirming that he had nothing to take away from his recent speeches at Leads and Liverpool regarding Britain's war aims, and that President Wilson in bis recent. address to Congress had arrived by the same routs at practically the same conclusion, Mr. Asquith re- ferred to Lord Lansdowne's letter. He paid a tribute to Lord Lansdowners A "German semi-official statement patriotism, and declared that he had no dunits, that the evilcuation of mere knowledge, than any member of was involuntary, but the Government of the letter until it was published and he had no responsi declares that the reason why the Citybility whatever for its terms. He ex- fall was the Turco-Fernian desire to pressed the opinion that much of the prevent "ground sucred to all God-criticism of the letter arose from reading into it meanings and intentions which teuring peoples becoming the scene he did not understand it to convey. of bloody fighting.” It adds thus, THE REVERSAL OF FORTUNE AT the town is militarily worthless,
CAMBRAI,
A sound of heavy shelling comes from the vicinity of Bullecourt and Lagnicourt, the significance of which it is at present impossible to say.
Løypes, Dec. 12. Field-Mashal Sir Douglas Haig
IN
reports
We successfully mid last night the neighbourhood of Pontruct, north-west of St. Quentin. "We repulsed a local attack "worth
·ward of „Lá Vacquarie,
SEARCHING INQUIRY
«DEMANDEB.
WHY JERUSALEM FELL..
Jerusalem
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12.
If this is not hyperrisy it suggest that the Gemma co-operating with the Turks have more respect for the squetity of holy place than have the Germans in the French and Belgian theatres of
MEAT RESTRICTION AT HOME.
TO COVER THE FESTIVE SEASON
wir „Lespos, Dec. 12. The The ages a prompt and searching enquiry into the reversal- of fortune at Cambrai. To says Sie Douglas Baig possesses the un- dimisht coulence of the army antal mustion, but his position largely depends upon the choice of his sib cAlimates. FES Wenknows, if it hel wenkuses; is in the inveterate dero- tion of these serving him longest, sone perhaps too long.
BRUGES DOCKS AGAIN BOMBED.
Lexuos. Dec. 12. The Admiralty announces that -Naval airemit on Monday night dropped many tons of bombs on Costacker werodrome and Bruges Jocks. The results at the former ple were difficult to observe, but a fire was sturtea at the Bruges, Jocks
All our machines returned.
AEROPLANE LOSSES.
Borbós, Dec. 19. A German official announcement, received by wireless, states: The enemy kst in November 22 balloons and 205 seroplanes, 85 of which fell behind our lines.. We lost 60 nero- planes and two balloons.
RAW MATERIAL AFTER THE WAR.
A WARNING TO THE ENEMY.
LONDON, Dec. 12.
LONDON, Dec. 12.
It is offefully annguneel that Lord Rhondi, the Food Controller, has restricted the vgail sale of meat for the four weeks ending January 13th the extent of the sales for the our weeks prior to October 27th.
THE HALIFAX CALAMITY.
A GIFT OF £1,000,000,
In the words of President Wilson. the aim was to bring into effective existence that partnership, not merely of Governments, but of peoples, which must henceforth guarantee the world's
peace.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
AIR-RAID ON GERKAT!.
LONDON E 12.
and the interest of the offinta - With pach, recent, great disaster, there bave been millions of dollars spent on relief work, mostly contributed by foreigners great, plan for preventive "work" - kave": been made→→ɓas. with
the daoination of the
affected Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, by the distribution of relief came reporting an aviation, says
collateral diminution in the desire the undertaking of permanent
limbo of forgotten things, and officials preventive works Fians have been
haye lapsed into peaceful indifference of public questions antil suddenly aroused by some new assertion of prepotent nature's right to penalize the procrastina ting hunian....
The enemy's machine were parti Cambrai, repeatedly attacking our cularly active on Monday vetrard of artillery and machines.
Our machines dropped many bombi and red many machine gun mounds as villages, butments and trenches. Three of ours are missing.
Our machines in find weather this morning started for the purpee of bombing sertain factories in Germany, but found that their objectirs were checured by clouds. Seeing a car gap north-east they proceeded thither and further recognised a large railway june tion north eastward of "Fumaels and bombed it. All returned.
for
allowed so become dust-covered in the
of
the Chihli foods have come” again. But this fine with a difference. Where they bare merely affected the native and badly hit the foreigner, and because before, they have this time very boldly of this it is certain that the Government will be forced
take action where hitherto it has been able to ignore the claims of the common people. Because the Good waters have menaced Tientsi the great population in the valleys the untrammeled riters will have a chance at last, of permanent protection, the the time has come when the Govern mant" imate compelled by foreign, The Sherwood Foresters made a influence if rot by realization of the claims of the tax-paying people who successful raid in the afternen west-have been ruined to undertake an ward of Halluch, taking a number of effective scheme of conservancy, which prisoners. A hostile railing party, was will embrace all of the northern rivers at repulsed early in the morning buch-least. ward of Armentieres.
SUCCESSFUL RAID BY SHER- WOOD FORESTERS,
하
LATER.
COLLISION BETWEEN OPPOSING
FORCES.
Even now there was abundant The outlook is most emincai. evidence that the enemy peoples were The Maximalist organ Prurada kept in the dark regarding our real announces that the first collition be purposes, both for war and peace. Between the Maximalists and 1000 of would continue to do what he could to General Korniloff's followers her taken raise the veil and let, in, if possible, some place with machine guns near Belgorod rays of light--(Chrors),
No result is given."
It is stated that Black Ses naval detachments accompanied delegations sent to General Kaledin, who arrested one of the delegations. General Kaledin has issued a stern warning agst the Black Sea naval men interfering with the autonomy of Coannek territoriaa.
THE CAPTURE OF JEHUMLEM.
Square
Banc
The disaster, which has involved Tien- tsin, is dus solely to the deforestation of THE FRENCH FRONT. the regions forming the watershed of the four or five rivers concentrating near Tientsin to use the channel of the Hai-Ind LONDON, Dec 12.
river to tha ses, and the unscientific He thought that Lord Lansdowne's A French communiqué says:-There dyking of the country through which main argument was that the Allies, is moderata reciprocal artillery activity they dow. The main waterways con- while carrying on the war vigorously, on the greater part of the Frost cersed are the Feibe, the Hombo, the should endeavour to make it increasing: "
Tachinghn, the Haishaibo, and the Yuho, ly clear that our war aims were rational THE RUSSIAN SITUATION, Canal. The first four come from the uplandasi Province. Thence of western Chihli' Pro- and unselfish; that these were the aims
vince and for which we entered the war, and that
they tear down the steep gradients. by attaining them we were convinced
unrestrained
by any that we might look for a durable peace.
of tous of ing with them willions growth, bring: safeguarded by the conjoint authority
This they distribute and soil of an International Leagua.
LONDON, Dec. 12. with Flity over ters of thou-
sands of
miles at different times. Reater's Correspondent at Ferograd, The beaviar detritus, anch,as stones
And telegraphing last night, says the Military gravel, is deposited over the
erstwhile Revolutionary Committee has invited fertile regions at the base of the moun the people to demonstrate tomorrow taina, the sand is carried over longer dis with inflammatory watchwords. tances, and the silt is transferred in su- apension for thousands of miles to the sea, where the waters become stilled by dykes or obstructions, it is deposited on the land. This year in the Huminton the Lino River district of Mancharis the foods deposited ten feet of
and over great
villazes, and barying devastating wide stretches of fertile lands. The rivers concentrating on Tientsin have inundatert over fifteen thousand square miles, wiping out villages by the thousand and homes by the million, destroying crops estimated at a low figure to the total value of from $70,000,000 to $100,000,000, and barnes calculated at only $3-silver euch, to the caine of $30,000,000. This is an extemely it does not Conservative estimate, for, take into consideration personal effects or farm property or animals. These LONDON, DE 12.items, added to the foreign loss of pro- of Jerusalem included Te Deum at stupendous. Yet it is certain, that the To-day's celebrations of the capture perty and trade at Tientsin. must make the figures in the ultimate reckoning St Paul's Cathedral, which has never whole of the disaster could have been been so crowded at an unofficial service averted by intelligent processes, if since the war began.
for .. applied in recent years only. sum, totaling -
the
damage caused to the Chinese farmers alone.
How the harnessing of the recalcitrant is to be effected is being streams
by the engineers considered
concerned in the protection of Tientsia, but happily the task presented to those competent to deal with the nut savors very much of slamming the stable door after the horse has taken to bis heels. For some years now Hr Vander
to the Teen, Consulting Engineer Chinese National Conservancy Bureau, has been urging the Government to take in hand the problem of the Yuntingbo ("bo."
"being the Chinese for River) since that river's activities in flond-time mis-
of affects the procedure terially at Hanho and the Haine (on several others. the which Teutain is built) in partid and The Humbo has brought down silt from the mountain west of Peking in such great quantities that it has raised its own bed in places some 20 feet above the surrounding country, and when breaks occur in the dyke it also raises the areas which it floods, the whole.
aug. menting the seriousness of dyke breaks in the Yuntingho. To overcome the chief difficulties, and are the port of Tientsin from floods such as those now being experienced, Mr. Vander veen recommended the Government to work calculated to provide
Mr. Asquith recalled his declaration at the Guildhall in November, 1914, that we would not sheathe the sword antil the military domination of Prussis is wholly and finally destroyed. (Loud cheers). He emphasised our agreement with President Wilson's declaration that nobody threatened the existence, inde pendence and peaceful enterprise of Germany. None of the Allies sought to prescribe the internal constitution and arrangements of the future of Germany. What we were concerned with was the In the House of Commons, Mr. eriga authority, which held itself free in Bonar. Law announced that the parauit of its supposed interests to falsify, deride or supersede, according to Government had sent a csenge of the inxigencies of the hour, the most sympathy to Halifax and had a solemn pacts. This system must end. made & gift of £1,000,000 to the relief fund.
LoxDos, Dec. 12.
GREECE'S 300,000 MEN.
POWERFUL AID IN THE BALKANS
IS THE SPRING,
system which enthroned force as the sor
Germany must learn, as I believe she is learning, that as a matter of business, apart from sentiment and ethics, the system does not pay.-(Loud cheers).
+
A special service, was held & Liver- pool in the Central Synagoguead there was ringing of bells at the Boman Catholic Church at Taunton.
A GERMAN VIEW..
PANAMA CANAL ZONE.
CLEARED OF THE ENEMY
A message from Amsterdam states We do not have and do not desire to that the Kolnische Volkreitung have any quarrel internecine and admits that the capture of Jerusalem is perpetual, with the German nation. We acknowledge the contribution they a great moral British victory. | have made, and we believe will continus to make, to the common stock of knowledge, research, invention and material and intellectual resources. By his courage, eloquence, and the Bas if there is ta be a resl proots he bad brought of King Constan- enduring part it must be something
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. tine's guilt, M. Venizelos had greatly
The Republic of Panama has declared improved his position, said Professor more than paper documents. Another Ronald M. Burrows, lecturing at King's misconception is that the Allies, especi war opon Austria-Hungary and the In the House of Commors, Mr.College or "Greece as an Ally." The ally Eritain, are aiming at destruation Austrians have been interned. The Bonar Law uttered a warning to our Greek Minister presided sall, the Serbian for their own political and Cazal zone is now cleared of Austrians
Minister was on the platform.
nomic chfects of what is vaguely and Germans. enemies that the longer the war Professor Burrows declared that mat lasted the less raw material there ters were improving in Greece. The called "the freedom of the seas In nation had joined the Allies without peace time the sens are open to the would be to go round, and us the bargaining, desiring to fulfil their obliga: marine of all nations. What stipulation Allies would help themselves first, tions to others. In the letter received would Britain propose in the peace terms recently it was stated that eight out of to curtail or fetter that immemorial the leas there would be for Germany. every ten possibles had been recruited, right? That formula can only be used to mazing up. a force of from 180,00%) to indicate a new limitation in war time
hoped the 120,0000 mes. It spring that Greece would have an army which happens to command the aes upon the belligerent rights of a Power
COMMENTS ON MR. ASQUITH'S
SPEECH.
Losos, Dec. 12.
many
THE FLOODS OF NORTH. CHINA.-
T
now to
•
[From "The Far Eastern Feriew."undertake oba with a separate outlet to
Vast areas in Chibli Provine and in the
LEADE
HOT
Tel
INGRAM'S
"Eclipse"
RUBBER
HAIX
WATER BOTTLES
BRITISH MADE BY BRITISH LABOUR.
FITTED WITH STOPPER GUARANTEED. NOT TO SLIP OR LEAK,
Queen's Dispensary
81, Queen's Road Central
· Gely one can be best!" and the best isn't
the "just as good! kind, is it?
The best Roofing in
“MALTHOID"
beasuma a “Makhoid" axperience of over a quarter of a century is found in every yard. -Ask our "exparts, who will instrast de sapers vie FREE. nd whoan experianos entitles them to your confidence! Use "Malthoid" ax they recommend then tell your frieride.
what you think of it a
WATERPROOŢI CHEANT: CLEAN 1 LIGHT! SAFEL
BNOWPROOFI
Agenta,
TEX VELT, EXCLUSIVE.
·INEZJEK TAMLOKA
DE TERGOLONT
"MALTHOID."
BRADLEY & Co. Etd.
HONGKONG.
Diss
Bros
4% FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 1917. PRICE OF ISSUE Frs. 68,80; Bearing interest from the 16th Dec, 1917, payable guari
FREE OF TAXES.
Not to be redeemed for 25 years.
Subscription List will be CLOSED on the 12th December, 1917.
Bills and Bonds of the. "National Defence bought kofore the 1st November, 1917, are accepted in payment.
Applications will be received, by
THE BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE, where fall, particulars may be obtained.
L BERINDOAQUE Manage
Eengkong, Nov. 10, 1917.
4% FRENCH LOAN (RENTE PERPETUELLE 4%).
of 305,000 men, which would form a ful contribution, especially when it was. No corresponding limitation is suggested other provinces have been in un'eted this the sea. At present it uses the sho remembered they stand the Balkan for a land war. Where existing consommer by the failure of river to carry which is incapable of carrying all the climate, and
and knew the Bulgarians.. ventions of the most solemn character their unusual burdens of rain water to
[ it, and which magt
up in The interest with which Mral Venizelos bad come into a position have been systematically violated by the sea and the failure can be stributor: good waters at the rivers Filt
course, of- tive, despite the
the dredging of
the Bai-bo Asquith's speech was awaited is
finance and foodstu Grocco was not reflected in the comments of the too well off, and it was important, if
whether something ought not to be done conservancy work by Chinese oficialdom work being carried on
very fact erection by villgers haphazard
that the of
oqrusk of detritas in times of newspapers which are relieved to only as a matter of policy, for this to secure freedom of the seas from the in the past. Ruthless deforestation, the Conservancy Board. by
country to soo to it that the alliance proscuation of a lawless and infamoas hundreds of thousands of miles of dyke heavy rains is overpowering. The find that he did not support Lord with her meant abundance and not submarine campaign with its ruthless without any scientific direction, the capacity of the Hai-ho is but one fifth of THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE begs Lansdowne, though some take excep- sarity had already produced 60,000 be worth the name which permits of the past to the teachings
sacrifice of innocent life. No peace will callous indifference of the Komentovantager of a new opening are obvious, announce that, to ensure the arrival of applications tion to his explanation of the latter's
men to fight for us, and had given the veiled war to be carried on by ether food lessons are solely responible for In the first place, as Mr. Vanderveen Paris before December 16th, they will telegraph a First List letter,
greatest and straightest statesman in methoda Be endorsed the words of the great toll in lives in progrty, and says in his report to the Governos of Subscriptions from here on the 11th instant. Europe to the Allies cause
in money which the water Are now 1916, which supplements previous President Wilson "to base peace on
taking.
The policy of previous generareport in 1915, the Haihe will be freed generosity and justice.”
tions of allowing posterity to take care from the enormous quantities of silt
The Times, which accuses Lord "Lansdowne of deliberately stabbing
the Government in the back, says it
Greece
The story of a Berlin Medical Board.
in exceedingly glad that Mr. Asquith which is told in the New Statesman”
is firm against all temptation to may not be strictly historical, but the margin of error must not be" ex- support it.
Aggerated
A recruit enters. President of the Board (to the recruit): "What the devil's the matter with you Aathma Cannot breathe ? Babbish Our Hin denburg is asthmatical. Passed fit!
The Daily Chronicle says: Nobody who appreciated the straightness and consistency of Mr. Asquith's states manship could have expected March 1 recantation of the principles he A second recruit defined when he held office. Y
The Daily News says Mr. Asquith
has given the most preciso considered
ANOTHER FRENCH SENSATION.
PROSECUTION OF A CAILLAUX UNDER CONSIDERATION.
PARIS, Dec 12 The Government has informed the President to Chamber that the Military Governor of
of early
that of the Fantingho itself, so the
Intending subscribers are therefore invited to apply with
of itself is prolifically bearing its fraits brought down at present, and the out delay.
PER bar at the entrance, at present such government can
-#1
be
of bitterness ---
No recent
A severe hindrance to shipping, will, ponsibility for the disaster by pleading if it does not gradually disappear, In the much smaller. lack of knowledge of conditions Pro- become phetic warnings have beewinds many second place the ontlet
times in the post decade made azihciently large to cope with the responsible foreign tagines by foreign volume of water brought down by the residents in, or travellers though, the Tuntingbo during freebets, and in addi- affected areas, and by writers through the low comaty known as the tion the new course, leading as it would nationality whose eyes have sein, whose intelligences have been awalmed, and French Marshes, or Tahetien, cuald be whose hearts have been moved by close stilized by systematic dyking to raise all who painful prosimy to the ruferings of the low lying area and so make Tu
|-|-188UE PRICE 68.60
All applications from Foreign Countries will be alloted in full. Further particulars on application to the
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,
CHATER ROam
second recruit. Why do you keep your left sim like that at Lift it up, you drawal of M. Caillaux's parliamentary ofertas Pot have been buried Let moanting shorestation in taken in hand en The swine-up! It's withered. You can't
of the people whose homes lod crops valuable agricultural land. If in the averting a disaster that it now has to
lift it. And so you think you're useless immunity,
deep in silt and sand in s night, as it the silt problem will, long before the
Kerensky will not have improved his
Now that Tientsin has been menacext standing in the love and favour of for the army Bosh! Absolute bosh! At the instance of the Military Gover were, and hundreds of shomads of new river bed has been raised too much, the engineers will combine rio doubt to pectabilities by his sudden dectarution of war aima yet made by Our Kaiser has a withered arm: Passed nor of Faris the Chamber is considering whom have been drowned or starved to have cessed to exist and the Yantingho and solution, and in course of time from his wife and his hands a
fit, March 1
In his concluding the Government which wil any European statesman.
A third recrait enters. President to the prosecution of ex-Premier. Cailloux, death by resultant famine, zu
to who is accused of treason, dealings with tated regiones de NASA Covas: / will henceforth have no more vices than they will submit remand van het n hữu with his wife's relative in the
kpan Anak The paragraph, Mr. Vandervous - expremeci | resulta of their investigador & parimalis in the Winter Palse, The Daily Telegraph, says: The third recruit? “What's this, sergeant the enemy and pacifist 'propagands A Pinas at which it now: stands,great the opinion that only on the linca parkinces. In this way only "en the kind of thing is regarded a rommulia i
What's
ta bo jibboring for? Insane Use speech shows that the resolution of leas for the Army Ridiculous! God in committee will be appointed to decide disasters were little known to the outside suggested could the trouble of the rivers fivers be dealt with, and we hope
Other methode may give soon to be able to publish the sense
pointed out, but their
recommendations, and Also long run they will
Before the railway system.
of
the British people s utterly unmoved heaven? isn't our. Orown Prince whether he shall be tried by courtwork, and the area of anffering suld bej be averelio trove's failure report action on an adequate scale i
"Buccesses."
PORTUGAL'S PRESIDENT-
ARRESTED."
THE CHILDREN'S COLDS WATCH the children's colds and oure
is alleged he met the ex-Khedive of Egypt in a neutral country,
wont to
TEREJSKI MIRRIAGE
CURIOUS STORY.
Passoi fit! March! The Board martial r the Sonate Freched only with difficulty: Lassen
The Chamber is also considering the millions of the recent German military will adjourn for lunch,
prosecution of Deputy Lonstrlot, who is the inexorable law of nature
of be faced anew, after millions have been accused of dealings with the enemy. It to regulate poppattion le da alating and the same old problem will have to the Central Government.?;
plural wives and prolific childbirth, and spent in vain. Moreover the evil.might when the outside world Inot know of reach such proportions in the meantime Then Iva beoutads that no ramedy will existi the Almost annual toll
canka not
Ba world
itafn das doomed?
doomed, and will coas to conditions aros nabling the gray periodical Bood and famine
bile: there":
be differences of sinong colineers as to the steps
Varidereen, We briedy: rölalo: Edő ahow that ha a he Govern take some stent which I LA
LISBON Dec. 12 President of the Republic has bean arrested being to his refusal to
them before they weaken the vitality Use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy freely. It is perfectly safer. "It has been tested by, chemists, and pro nounced free frota injions substances and costa but a trife For sale by all, Chemista and Storekeepers,
THE GILYER MARKET A
Dec 12
per ounce
nd be realized by the Beroposit
weder for attention to cornerșition
ons, and thi Kia and papportion to the ui
is not
the secerally, approved kil“ perso
Kings and Emperor,
not specially brought up to E does so many things which, are not i exactly nice. Even 1, who hare watched his feverish progress with Lascinating found my belief in the man gered when I saw him attendok
by a military and Dot??), #10 stood bebind Tr
thi lon hon of the "Escence like the bodyguard.