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TURSDAY, JANUARY 8 1918.
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Page 1)
SUBMARINE FIRACY.
LOSSES OF MERCHANTMEN STEADILY DECREASED.
DESTRUCTION OF SUBMARINES NINE TIMES GREATER THAN.
LAST YEAR.
PARIS, Jan. 7.
The Ministry of Marine has pub lished diagrams showing how the losses of Allied merchantinen, owing to submarine warfare, have steadily decrensed since June last, .
The measures taken alter the seri ous crisis which culminated in April 1917, have so reduced the losses that the situation in December 1917 was better than in December 1916.
The uses of supply ships have „Dert reduced to 14 per cent...
especially owing to conroying.
The results of the destruction of onemy subinarines üre also encourag ing. The losses, based on certa
ties, have steadily increased since the end of September 1916, and wore,
in the last quarter of 1917 mine tirmesi greater tim during the corresponding period of 1916.
The decrease in losses by sub- wari warfare is due, not to reduction in the farting tonnage, but
to the new measures a
THE WESTERN FRONT.
LONDON, Jan. 7. - Fick-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:
There was excasional hostile artik lery activity to the south-east of Messineti
A VERY INTENSE ARTILLERY DUBC
Losnos, Jan. 7.
ORD
OF THE BRITISH'EMPIRE.
A LONG LIST OF HONOURS.
Loxtos, Jan. 7 Forty-six pages of the Guactic are taken up with the names of recipients of various grades of the Onder of the British Empire for war services.
THE CHINA
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. »
M TROTZHY GOES TO
"ERESTLITOVSK,
The Hat is header Queen Alexan
PETROGRAD, Jan. 6. tra, who is created Dome Grand night.
M. Trotzky starts for Brestitorak Crown. Other recipients aru na fol- Hy will be accompanied by the low:-
Russian Peace Delegation
GERMAN SOCIALIST REQUEST.
ANIGIT GRAND. Cosя Sir Arthur Lee; Director of Food
Production;
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 6 The German Reichstag Socialists the difficulties connected with the peace met in Berlin yesterday and discussed negotiations.)
WORLD'S RICE TRADE-
'INDIA'S SHARE
WHAT BURMA DOES.
HIGH PRICES OF BOOTH,
16A PAIR FOR SOLES AND HEELS,
Now that the price of footroar is so excesive people are naturally inclined to The current number of the Bullati sead old boots to be repaired rather than of the Imperial Instituts," insted lay a new pain. Valorbonately the cost London Joha" Murray contains an of repairing advances almost as swiftly tortiele of 70 pages on the prediction and the cost of new goods, and it is abuted es of rice. Practically all the zica-that in the West End of Lendou 14. 6. producing countries of the world are con- and is at charged for ading and heel- (sidered seperately, in respect "huth" nf, ing alone.
their rice srps and of their trade 'rice. Inquiries show "that at establishments | and an attempt is made to arrive at soze, wlière the charge for such work before the 'ides of the world's "production at this war was 6, 3d. the prisent price to the important foodstuff. It is calculated that customer is th, B., and it is argued that all countries except China, amounted to send conditions. The cost of the labour the output of cleaned rice ifi 1916-17, in the charge is not extravagant under pre-
(about 60,000,000 tons. Of this the British alone at a first-class bontinaker's, it" is Is is expected that the Conference Empire pred us 38,000,000 tons, statt, would be 4. B, while the pries will urgently request the German mostly in tudin, where the crop (includ- of the leather used has gone up from 2 Government to notify the Russiasite an allowance of a mulfios teus lárd, a ponad to 5 d. a pond and the Viscountess Northcliffe any tour Government thatthe Government of Ger Native States was no less than 35 000,000 utrcial is difficult to coinin even at that.
many will return to the original peace to Of the foreign production of figure, as the Dovernment are not releas proposals of ne annexations and no 24,000,000 tons, over 20,000,000 tons was har any bents above 10th, in weight. indemnities, as nobody in Euwis will'
grown is Are countries--Japan; Nether-) Toot repairs in the suburbs or in the accept the present terms.
and East India (chiefly Java), French towns around Loader do not cost so much Indo-China, Stam and Koren. Estimates as the dy but charge for solios and heel. of production in"Ekind are largely guessing have generally advanced from 34 del.. work, but the Imperial Institute, adopt to Bd. The higher Wear End chargi
Sir William Plender Wingate, the High Comissioner of Egypt and five others.
DAMES GRAND CROSS.
others...
KNIGHT COMMANDERS, Mr. William Goode, Hon. Secre
tury, National Committee of the Belgian Relief Fund':
Mr. Alexander Gracie, L.V.
Managing Director of Fairfiel Shipbuilding Company;
Mr. Joha. Lloyd, Director-General
of Recruiting:
|
The Forrents says that today's meeting was the most important held since August 1914. CONSIDERABLE MODIFICATION OF GERMANY'S ATTITUDE:
INDICATED.
are accounted for by the denfer workman- ship, the higher-priced leather used, and establishment expenses la proportion. however, the suburban bootmakers ont goings has risen even more sharply, timma thase of the West, End shops 16 impossible now to buy light-weight teaser
ing the view that the output in, China is not likely to be much inferior to the Indian emp and may exeved it, concludes The Rheinische Westfaelische Gazette,
that 40 per cent, or a little less, would Krupp's orgen, bears from Berlin that a fair allowance for India's proportion Mr. James McKechnie, Managgin a neutral capital.
the peace negotiations many he retewed of the world's annul production of ties,
Copenhagen, No less important is the position which | Director of Messrs. Vickers, Sons Christiania and The Hague are men-India stipias in the world's rice trade as the repairers no on what might and Maxim:
tioned.
as a source if supply for other, countries be called middle-class work at læs, than Mr. Roderick Jones, Magnetics of the German Government's it importance as a rice producer. Some the same quality could be bought at is. This indicates considerable modifica-This is not a necessary consequence of, to 4. a pound. Before the war Diretor of Reuter's Telegrant attitude.
of the counties of largest production The average weight of leather used Company, Ltd.:
China, Japan, Netherlands East Indies in unling and heeling a pair of men's boota do not grow enough to supply their own is about 100s. For addition nearly all the THE WESTERN FRONT,
needs, thigh in the ease of Japan the journeymen' operatives have obtained war large increase in tha, rice, crops in the last bases, and there is such a scarcity of AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
three years has changed a heavy, import men that there is hardly a repairer who *bulaney into an expirt halance, so far as has less than a fortnight's work before LONDON, Jan 7
the trade with "foreign countries (ie, him at any one time. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigexcluding Korea and Formosa) is con reporting on aviation says:—
Despite unfavourable weather yester Lady Lugard. Founder of the War
The world's, export trade in rice is day we dropped half a ton of explosives practically mater the control of three Tefugees Committee, and thrand fired 6,000 machine-gun rounds oestries: Inlia, French Indo-China and
troops and other targeta."
Mr. Charles Stewart, the Public
Truste Major-General Law Stach, C.M.C., Acting Sirdur, of the Soudan: atul sixty-one "others.
DAME COMMANDERS.
keen others."
COMMANDERS.
Miss Stevenson, Private Secretary
do Mr Eloyd: Georget There is also a long gull of offers
and members of the Order.
THE APPOINTMENTS FOR THE DOMINIONS.
--
A French communiqué-status-
In order to meet the convenience There we a very intense artillery of the Dominicus and the Colonies, duel, during the night, on the right in view of the present slowness of of the Meuse in the Bezentaux and communications, it has been arranged Les Chambrettes regions
to defer, until later date, probably Five
enemy neroplanes were March 3, the notification of the fists| brought down
of appointments to the Order of the British Empire in respect of services. in or for the Dyninions and thy
A SWISS TRAIN BOMBED..
AN INVISIBLE AVIATOR.
Base, Jan. 6. An invisible aviator of "unknown nationality bombed a Swiss railway train, near Lake Neuchatel"
The wore no sinalties, but windows and telegraph wires were | destroyed.
THE DAY OF INTERCESSION.
OBSERVANCE AT HOME.
Colonies.
THE LOYALTY OF QUEBEC.
THE KING'S ACKNOWLEDG
MENT.
cerned.
"
Trus
With regard to the high priceü, of now boots, it is pointed on that glied kid,f which three year ago est 1s. 21. a foot, now costs 3. Bd. à fonty and 21. are used in making one pair of hents. We dropped half-n-ton of explosives Sian. It has been calculated that the heavy advance has been brought about last night on Ramegnieschrin erode,antity of in which corrod int inter by the stoppage of imports. The obtaining direct hits, also on stationsutional trade, as shown by the export standard boots which are to be manu and billets.
returns of direct countries, amounted † Inctured may bring down the cost of We dropped a ton of horahs on Con-in 1913 to about 4,400,000 tons, This men's boots to some extent, as makers flate station and dings, causing a large includes exputs from Europent countries will get the leather for this claus of goods explosion and a fire...
of rige which has been milled in those at a přice 20 per cent, below, that which We droppel halfa ton of explosives countries, which are originally from ties have recently been paying and it is on Courcelles station.
India, Siam or 'Indo-China, and which stipulated that they areto work on the unduly swells the total by being counted basis of a 5 per cent, profit. It là expect- twice over." "Even so, the original exportsed, however, that standard hoots. will (of rice hom ludia amonated to 4 per reach the, London shops before the begin-
cept, of the total, whie, those, from ning of next year.--Londo Es.
THE PREMIER'S SPEECH.
FRENCH PREMIER'S CONGRATU: LATIONS.
PARIS, Jan. 6.
M. Clemencesi, in a message to Mr. Lloyd George, conveyed the heartfest his admirable speech; in which the true congratulations of all Frenchmen on
facts were so happily assembled.
BRITISH PRESS COMMENT..
LONDON, Jan. 7,
Indo-Chins were 20 per cent. and those
from Siam 18 per cent.: in other words these three countries provided nearly four- Alths of the 'total. -
India's expert trade in rice is really dependent en Burma. Not only does exports as sice tron Tadid dark whole Burme pesvide about three-fourths of the
(2,805,000, tons out of 2,420,000: soni 1913-14), but Burma usually sends to other Provinces of Ladia more rice than those other Provinces export. Without Burma, India would not be self-support
ROTHSCHILDS FALL. ON THE
PALESTINE FRONTË
Two members of the famous Roths
Falestine Front. They are Captain Neil child family have met their death in the British military. operations on the
Primrose, son of Lorel Rosebery, and his ruin, F.velyn de Rothschild, can of the Leopold Rothschild when they volunteered, both of them had
#xpressed the wish to be assigned to the operations designed to free Palestine from Turkey and to make possible the founding in the Jewish people.the official Zionist the
Ladil Boly of a national home for The Maccabrean,
of these two hernes says;
The newspapers warmly receive Mr. Lloyd George's statement as a welcome, clear and final announcement of Great in rice do it is, India's exporta of rice in the year before the war were eal Britain's irreducible ralnimum.
Labour leaders, like Mr. Thomas and for the grows requirements of the rest of Mr. Snowden, in addition to Mr. the Empire, hongh actually only magazine, in commenting on the death Henderson, are unanimous in their per cent of the export went to British approval as bringing pence wonderfully countries, and $7.4 per cent to foreign nearer and clearing up misunderstand countries. ings They believe that hardly any The exports direct to the Doited King points are not capable of being settled dom were only between 6 and 7 per cent. at & conference.':
of the total. On the other and the Ly Jewish. As a young man he express
had married out of the faith when she Notwithstanding that his mother
became the wife of the Scottish Fari who became the Prime Minister of England, Captain Neil Primrose was alway intense-
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Lospos, Jan. 7. The King has replied to the mes sage sent by the Lieut-Governor of Quebec in which the latter expressed the continued loyalty of the people of the Province to the Crown.
His Majesty
THE FRENCH' CANALḤ... · expresses cordial
it is only necessary to remember that tad- lianks and says he does not doubt is at once a challenge and an inch United Kingdom imported confiderable ed himself earnestly in favour of Jewish
In a vision the subject f
The recent mention of cannis in the majority of our own canals, including all- In accordance with the Royal that he may count on the deter which must be answered or the nations many which had been first exported from Winifred Graham's novel "The Zionists recent accouts of the British advance those which serve the industrial centre of
his being made the hero of Proclamation, Sunday was observed mined participation of the people of vill draw an irresistible conclusion. Dr. India to those countries, and after being As
member o
Parliament be identified illustrates the importance of the water. England, can pass at one operation only $3 a Tay of Interession in the Québec in the wur
Elertling and Count Czernin do not He tervently speak out, because they dare cot disclos milled and polished there had been himself Churches of q deanimations, ons in their prayer that our their real intentions.
bim self always as one re-exported to the United Kingdom. affairs, spe The paper says that no pamage will
Rice-milling, at one time a flourishing he followed in
Losnox, Jan. 7.
The Daily Telegraph says the speech
quantities of rica from Holland and Ger
and
people. In
S
The crously with Jewish ways which are now playing sui vil cue bant of 25 or 80 tons, and our so-called. broughout the land; the hospitalsfrighteous cause will be crowned, excite a greater answer from Germany industry in the United Kingdom, had who throw the footsteps of his mother. tions. The Hindenburg line is inter by side or one bost of about fifty tons
nd training camps having special an early date, with a
rms of payer and thanksgiving. ahiding peace...
In several instances volunteers
fended the churches and military
Bds assisted the choirs. The pub lil houses voluntarily closed the
PIANO PLAYING HAND.
we day, and there were intercesVONDERFUL ARTIFICIAL LIMES.
sid services ut some of the sinemia pales and messages from the Frejer were screened at others.
PERATIONS NEAR ADEN."
Loscos, Jan. 7. ThWar Office states it is reported from Jen that a strong reconnais Annee the direction of Hatum and Jabir ulted in the destruction of the deles at Hatum.
The Enemy's
evere.
casualties
werty
41
01.
In this attitude continue to play-their part in the operibund pants two of these boats wido
remained an ecled by three parallel lines of water. When we add to this the fact, that the
per life
services regu-was. These three puutes are the Canal sirpply of boats in German bands a prac to the lost colonies, for fer tribal competition from the Dutch and German larly and associating herself in every du Nord, the Canal de St. Quentin, and tically unlimited the total trafie in azsemblies, whether in Africa or Austra-mills, with the result that not only was
possible manner with Jewish interests.
When the British War Office was the Canal de la Sumire a l'Oise. They Belgium a long ago as 1905 was over fasia, betray any desire to return beneath the British home market partly supplied recently considering plans for a Jewish are joined transversely by the Canal de 700,000,006 tom-miles per year- the way of the German taskmaster by foreign-mited rice, pur what was at regiment, specifically for service in the Summe (which divides the Cazal da Ford to see the immense dvs
The Morning Post says that we shall one time the considerable British export Boly Land under the command of Col. into two separate parts) and by ha com Germany has gained by the but only through strength. not achieve peace through weakness trade in fully-miled rice had been reduced Patterson of the redoubtable : Zion Maletinestion, the Crozat Canal,
the whole ressures of the Until
Corps which distinguished itself during Germany abandons ber spoils and makes the hotte and export trade in milled res Neil Primrose was among the very first southern salted section of the Canal du
in many directions: Since the war both the il-fated Gallipoli campaign, Capt. The French advance uncovered the Belgian waterways. Helping himself to a cigarette, taking reparation to France and Belgium there a match from a box and striking it, the can be no thoughts of peace. Germany have been largely recovered by the British to apply for a transfer to that regiment. Naid and our Allies progressed to the
When the fors Jewish Regiment Croat Canal and the Canal de gloved ex soldier asked me to throw big will never abate her lust and her distrust rice millers and is in hoped that this was postponed he fired Generalija The possession of the water the duster he banded me from the work of the British Empire until she is industry and trade may he retained after Allenby forces. bench rear by. He deftly caught it be defeated.
the war. The possibilities of the develop In this be was emulated by his rays connecting Belgium and their own tween the fingers.
Not bad for an
ment of the complete milling of nice in Palestine remarked to a friend that he fendous advantage Those who
cousia Evelyn, who before sailing for bonitry has given the Germans : an he said
India before esport are also a matter for was deeply stirred by the thought th Then, grasping a hammer, he drove a
consideration exchanging the hammer for a way, be lew nails into aboard, after which, aswed through the wood.
artificial
arm, is it
In the workshope of hobbs Inventions, Ltd. Balham, where this soldier's arm and a bundred or more which have been supplied to Roehampton patients are modo 1 was shown whit the war-per fected artificial arm can do.
THE HALIFAX BELIEF FUND.
HONGKONG'S GIFT ACKNOWLEDGED.
LONDON, Jan.7.
plan
BONES AND DRIPEING,
£900,000 A YEAR FROM ARMY RATIONS,
CASEMENT'S CONSPIRACY
GERMAN PLANS BEVEALED FOR THE IRISH LANDING,
Switzerland,
be was to the permitted to march with aware of the tracapart work which bas The second part of the article deals the British Lorces into lerusslein, and be carried on the French waterways The Zurich Volkerecht," the leading with the uses of rice, both as an article spoke at length of his great hope that dunng the war can form some idea of the Sceist organ of Eastern
this event would eashin the Holy City activity which must have been going publishes a number of important German fot food and freindustrial, purposes the to renew its ancient glory as the capital Sehind the Germans, les The Germans official documenta relating to the
value of rice meal as a feeding stuff or of Judes." live-stock is also discussed. The milling
hady the following great advantages: ment conspiracy The first letter The High Commissioner for Canada processes are described, and the differenti
They could supply the coast by the Leteo from the Berlin Foreign
ander date of December 28 has received from the Crown Agents for grades of rice and the by-producte which
brogge and ita atsedent canals; the addressed to fasement by the the Colonies Hongkong's contribution of are obtained are shown in dingromantis
Lille Total Cabea district by the Lys, Secretary of State for. Foreign Aire CAN DO EVERYTHING BUT FALL £30,000 to the Halifax Relief Fund form. Numerous composition tables are "I can do everything with it but feel."
the Scheldt, and the Dandro; the region. Herr Zimmermann. The High Commissioner, on behalf of given, and comparisons are afforded in
Ilstates that the Imp nid one of the men as he explained the the Government of Canada, has expres this respect between rice and its by-pro simple yet extremely clever mechanisma sed the warmest appreciation of the ducts and piber food buffs
At the beginning of the war says & Longels and Answerp by the Charlemonly is the base of Trink, Fationality which allows him to carry out actions action of the Hongkong Government, LONDON, Jan. 7.
varying from swinging a huge aledge-
In connection with this subject it maydon paper broken, meat and other table Canal and with the lense mid the thing under the conditions contatos in the Germanhas recognised the Fin hammer to writing his came. The move of which he notified Sir EL Birden be pointed out that the Indian Comites refole in camp and harmcks was geder by way of Namur and Lingo. Further contract stredy concluded between, nish Repue
ments of fingers, wrist, elbow, and by cable, n
of the Imperial Institute is now conduct cookhouse and sold as will for pigs at by the lease and its extension, the Cat in certain circumstances the rid ally thrown into the tube outside the down the Line the Verdun district is served Casement and the German Govern
The conditions peuvided that swiser system
de Fat and the Aubry, district both by Frigode should. sent in Ireland, well - prodters of the ration à « became a vast the Mosella by way of
with stores and business Glycometobeained fit Thite 3Eazy
Trish For Canal by munitions at the rate of 120 tons a year
uzu freedom to Ireland The mains 384 to the price in however, in the Nor
GERMY RECOGNISES THE REBLIC OF FINLAND.
whole arm 16 governed by thongs attached to webbing bands about the
ALLIED EMIERS TO CONFER, chest, so arranged that straightening.
the back
is another,
oye sort of pull,
in tilting up
expanding the PARIS, Jan. T the shoulder another patients
Ony
of the most amazing
in officer, who, having lost the Angars of
State for Inde, an enquiry into the prevails "sud "the posibility of incressing the une
THE TRALIAN ARMY.
4,320,000 IN THE FIELD
PAHIR, Jan
jing, let they request of the Secretary a very low priception of the by:
Yaw materials
Empire. The
an investi
The Echo Paria, states that the Allied Prezni will shortly confer at his right hand, Las, been re-equipped in pablishes an interview with Paris
with artificial gays, with which he can the italian Finance Minister, in which hold his violin tow, He is now being the latter states that 4,320,000 Italiane, P fitted with another hand with which be hopes to he is bis to play the piano. The loving for the reduction, through the | special - piano-playing hand can be re- losses, are still in the field.
moved and replaced by the ordinsty atility hand or by a special craftsman's hand in two seconda
FURTHER ARTHQUAKES AT
THE SILVER MIRKETË
food-aftal
the
st ile back of the present advance by accepted Cerents pirposal for the Sambre, which itself is connected with formation of an Irish Brigade to fight
At the the first
They
route
etz and the.
were the
the ovent
There have untemala
Biver