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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, IRINGA
TELEGRAMS.
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THE SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.
BRITISH LABOUR WAR AIMS ACCEPTED.
LONDON, Feb. 23,"
kir. Arthur Elentiaraon, presiding at an inter Allied Socialist Conference luncheon, stated that the Conference, in substance, accepted the British Labour war aims memorandum, including the Indepenience of Belgium, Serbia, Rumania and Montenegro and basing ather territorial changes mainly on fastice and right.
Mr. Henderson, said their aima constituted the irreducible minimam He ridiculed the so called foolish talk
of British, Labour going to negotiate with an olive branch in its hands while the enemy was fully armed.
THE CHINESE LABOUR BATTALIONS.
A YM.C.A. APPEAL.
LONDON, Feb. 21. The YMCA. appealing for is £70,000 for the welfare of many thousands of Chinese labourers in France.
The China Association has contributed aver £10,000 towards the amount.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, Fab. 24.
-The Silver Market is steady.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE RUSSIAN PEACE.
GERMANY ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIFT OF PEACE OFFER.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 22. Germany admits receipt of the document confirming Russia's pesca offer signed by M. Lesia and M Trotzky.
It is semi-officially stated that Germany will not reply immediately as Dr. von Kuehlmanu is meanwhile other wise engaged in Bukharest.
GERMANY'S. PEACE TERMS,
LONDON,-Feb. 24-
A Russian wireless message says:- Replying to the Russian proposals of" February 19, Germany, on February 1, intimated bor readiness to conclude peace as follows:
1-Germany and Russia to declara the state of war ended.
The regions west of the line indiented at Brastlitovak to the Russian Delegation, formerly belonging to Russia, to be no longer under Russian territorisi protection; in the region of Dvinsk this lina must be advanced to the eastern frontier of Courland, and Germany and Austria-Hungary will define the further fate of these regions in agreement with their populations..
3-Livonia and Eathonia most be immediately cleared of Russian troope and Red "Guards and be occupied by German polica, till, security is guaranteed by their constitutions.
4-Russia will conclude peace with Ukraine and evacuate Ukraine and
Finland.
THE CHINA MAIL
An extraordinary session of the Soviet Parliament haa considered recent events.
M. Sverdloff, presiding, mid that now the mask was torn from Germany noth- ing remained but to sare the republic.
Parliament passed a resolation ape praving of the sets of the Executive and relying ripe the workmen, soldiers and peasants to support the Soviet authority.
GUERILLA WARFARE
CONTEMPLATED.
LONDON, Feb. 21. A wireless Russian message says General Krylanko bai ordered a revolutionary mobilisation to form guerilla warfare in enscy atrest, village
and town if the Germans refuse to conclude peace
OPERATIONS BY FLEET HOPELESS.
"LORDON, Feb. 92. The Russian naval authorities have given up bope of active operations by the Fleet, which is completely disorganised.
THE BESIEGED HELSINGFORS
STUDENTS.
STOCKHOLM, Fab 23. The besieged students in the Halaing for district number 5,000. They are stranded in the Pellinge archipelago.
The Swedish Minister of Marine has announced that a naval expedition is impossible owing to the ice
Representations are being made to Helsingfors
ENEMY PEACE BASED ON USURPATION.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 22. The Bolshevik Commissaries, in s further proclamation, declare that the to enemy peace ideas are based on usurpa: easterntion and violence. It denounces the
Russia to do her utmost secure the orderly return of the Austolian frontiers to Turkey.
6-Completa demobilization Russian Army.
the
7-The Rassisa Fleet, including Entente warships, must be kept in
Russian harboure till a general pence,
or must be disarmed.
& The Russo-German commercial treaty of 1904 comes into force, free export of ores must be guaranteed and деж commercial treaty must be
-Legal and political relations will be regulated in acordance with the first German-Russian conventions.
end all
1 LONDON, Feb. 91. Messrs. Samuel, Montagu and Com-negotiated. pany's Silver report states that the Market is dull and there has been af alight farther fall in price. The Shang- hai Exchange is disposed to be steady.
It is reported from Washington that the United States will furnish Mexico with £1,000,000 worth of gold before April in return for Mexice removing the restrictings on the expors of Silver. In this event supplies are Ekely to become more plentiful as the year advances..
The Indian silver bolding is the lowest since November 11,1973.
THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
LONDON, Fab. 21.
At the monthly conference of the cotton employers, operatives and the Lancashire Members of the House of Commons, it was reporter that the understanding to allow cotton imports efficient to supply sixty per cent. of the spindles bad, ac fat, been carried
10-Russia promises to propaganda against the Quadruplice.
11. Theconditions must be accepted within forty-eight hours and Russiag Plenipotentiaries must sign at Breath tovsk within three days the peace treaty, which must be actifed in a fortnight.
TROTZKY AND LENIN ACCEPT
PEACE TERMS.
LONDON, Feb. 24.
A wireless. Russian official message says that M. Lenin and M. Trotzky have. sents message to Berlin of Russia's acceptance of the German peace condi- tions and is sonding a delegation to
Brestlitovsk
THE ADVANCE INTO ESTHONIA.
LONDON, Feb. 24.
A German official message says:- We advanced by forced marches into Eathonia, the enemy resisting at some points.
We are approaching Reval We took 1,000 prisoners and liberated 600 Austrians and Germans at Walk.
We captured Ostrox.
We took 1,000 prisoners at Balbinove and have occupied Borrissor and Lin
Iskorost
German offensive as a raid of brigandage and accuses the bourgeoisie cf a sympa thetic attitude towards Germany "in order to overthrow the Revolution.
country.
RUMANIAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
PREMIERS MEETING AT BUCHAREST,
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 29. The Rumanian Premier, Generalissimo Averesen, has arrived at Bukharest to meet Dr. Rehlmann.
Count Czernin in 'expected.
FIREARMS PROHIBITION IN GALWAY AND TIPPERARY.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL FRENCH ENTERPRISE
LONDON, Feb. 24.
A French communiqué mys There was fairly gread artillery activity in the regions of Vaucaillon, Charignos, Futte-du-Mesnil and on the laft of the Meuse.
DISINTERRED BABYLON.
| FORGOTTEN - GLORIES OF CITY OF
NEBUCHADNEZZAR. -
[SY-KOMUND CANDLER IN THE
TIMES."]
By the Tigris and Euphrates mortalitý | is the most obvious thing that meets the sye as one riles abroad, but the deadent of dead things in phis Mesopotamian, waste. Our detachments in Upper Alence is Babylon. valiantly penetrated Font Daspach and Nineteen years ago, when I visited the the region north-west of Assch-lo-Basaite, the ground was lovely scratched by destroyed German organisations, set fire the professional excavator hhough the to several dugouts inflicted losses on robbers of bricks had been boy querying the enemy and brought back prisoners. there for centuries. The excarstions weru. LIVELY ARTILLERY ON FRENCH begin by the German archeologists in
FRONT.
LONDON, Feb. 12.
A French communiqué mays:— There were fairly lively artillery duels along the whole front, especially in the regions of the Forest of Pinon, Chevreux Californie, Butte-da-Masnil, Hartmannweiler and Ladoller. There were no infantry actions.
THE CAPTURE OF JERICHO.
ITS MILITARY" IMPORTANCE
LUNDON, Feb. 22.
4.
March, 28809," and from 200 to 250 work. mea were employed daily, winter and summer, until the war put an end to the work. The greater part of the city which the Germans have brought to light belongs
the comparatively modern period of Nebuchadnezzar (604-581 8.c.) ;; bus ;befo are in the cuius left by two dist Babylonian Kings (cires 2500 mc.), and successive strata reveal the streets and ho hails by succeeding dynastiwa of the Assering, Neg-Babylonian„ „Persian, and Greco-Parthian periods Also there afe velies that prove probisterie Babylon, but it is impossible to carry "davútions down to that depth owing to the rise în the water level
The capture of Jericho is of consider able military importance because it ensures to be a commanding position at the head of comparatively level ground parallel with the Jordan Valley, while it also constitutes another sevard blow for the Turks who, unless they are for more disorganised than there is ream to hope, will probably bring af formid, able reinforcements to oppose-odtstence. further advance.
A noteworthy fact is that the whole of the newly captured district was the the private property of the Sultan. GENERAL ALLENBY'S POSITION
The city walls of Nebuchadnezzar are a triple rampart. Two teams of four homes abreast could pose each other on the outer barrier. The whole circuit, according to the evidence of the excavations, was 114 miles, but Closing given four times, and Herodotus nearly Ave times, this circum.
The excavators have followed As the line of the Kass Roadway, a broad street which leads to the Ishtar Gate made Ex Nebuchadnezzar as a processional road temple of Engila is-leads. The walls of for the great God Mardok, to whose
the Ishtar Gate stand, 40ft. above the foundations, and' are convered with figures of hulla and dragons in brick rejjef. There is little else that is decorative to
WELL DEFINED.
LONDON, Feb. 23. Rattar is aathoritatively informed that much importance is attached to
T
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better ronda.
FRENCH AIRSHIP COLLIDES WITH A CLIFF.
cedarwood overlaid with copper.
to the Soviets to organise an army banks of the Jordan, which will greatly The silver and gold and precious stages The Commissaries renew their appeals the fact of the British being on the catch the uninitiated eye at Babylon. to expel barmful elements, to stint help in establishing touch with the with which Sardanbpatus filled the temple every nerve to improve supplies and to Arabs thereby greatly encouraging their of Fsagila are forgotten. The images exercise severe discipline throughout the allies, who have fought a long and tough have been removed, the double doors of
fight against overwhelming numbers.
General Allenby's position is now well It is hard to sell whether one is standing defined. On the right flank rests the on the roof or the floor at Babylon. The Dead Sea and on the left the Medi- roofs of one period becaine the lennda. terranean, hence x frontal attack alons tions of the next. But in a geners) way Is possible for the enemy. Fe control in spite the super-imposed strata of the Dead Sea and bave access to the rich the hungry generations that have trodden landi on the eastern-aidos aid menace
one another down, the identification ol the railway to Damascus.
Abend, we have an easier country and buried cities.
sites in Babylon is. easier than in most And this is due to the interiptions on the bricks and flagstones. For the kings of Babyloniu were pro videntially vain. They left their stump everywhere in no uncertain characters, PARIS, Feb. 22. Sardanapules invoked curses on the head The Temp says that a French dirigible of whosoever should destroy the records balloon scouting near Havre on Feb. 20 of his name. "Him ay Marduk, the accidentally collided with a cliff. The King, behold with wrath and bombs exploded, wounding a number of destroy his name and his seed in the civilians, and the commander and one of land." Nebuchadnezzar caused a legend the crew were killed and the dirigible to be inscribed on every brick, glorifying was destroyed
hin works. On the edge of each alab under the Ishtar Gute was an inscription which was destined to remain hidden and invisible until turned over by the curions orcavator after 25 pentures had gone. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, soh of. Nabopoliseury, King of Babylon, am I. The Babel Street I paved with blocks of Shadu-stone for the procession of the great. Lord Marduk. Marduk, Lord, gruct eternal life."
LONDON, Feb. 23.
An order by Major General Bir Bryan Mahon has been gazetted in Dublin prohibiting the carrying or keeping of firearms, munitions and explosives in the counties of Galway and Tipperary.
THE SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.
́ ́AGREEMENT APPROACHING,'
LONDON, Feb. 24.
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It is stated that the "inter Allied Socialist Conference is approaching an agreement on the War Aims Memora dam which has been endorsed practically unchanged. The League of Nations and economic relations proposals of the The more difficult subject of territorial adjustments has beau revised and the Sergeant Shawl, who let his eyesight in BRITISH SUBJECTS WARNED
Conference has strengthened the para- TO LEAVE.
graph relating to Alsace-Lorraine in the the second battle of Ypres. He is an iamsto of St, Dunstan's Hospital. direction. of claiming restitution of the LONDON, Feb. 23.
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Regent's Park, and at the end of the The Times Petrograd Correspondent The Italian Socis its attended yester. contest the mariners prosent collected as the most wonderful ibing about Babylon, NOTICE-Special Tram Cars will run before and after the Night Ferform o says that a British military order has been inaned to all Britishers of military day and submitted a memorandum,in for the hospital funds, age in Petrograd, who have been hitherto favour of the League of Nations, Ceciaz on six hours notice Other Britishers Hungary was indispensable to peace. High School at Foochow, has been able to go, especially women and child. THE FRENCH AMENDMENT TO appointed Bishop of Fukien in succession ren, are advised to leave Russia without
THE MEMORANDUM to Bishop Price, who has resigned.
NEW BISHOP OF FUKIEN..
LONDON, Feb. 21. The Rev. John Hind, the Headmaster
exalted like the wooded mountains. He was familiar, it seems, with the existence of mountains. And to my mind this is
that these Kings, with all the wealth and
have shoa, to live in their firepit by the resources they..could command," should
greatest sovereigns of the earth selected, for choice the climate of Hell.
The millions of stamped bricks and the thomands of inscribed ques have pre erved the the nator of the prest Klag us enduringly as he could have wished. But
of the Church Missionary Society's exempted to be'rinity to start homewards g that the breaking op of Austrija. sound and feeling. His opponent, had to Euphrates. For thousands of years the
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LONDON, Feb 23.
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The blind man played his game take his hand and care off the table immediately he had made his stroke, so that he should have every chance to follow the balls by sound and vibration The Froach amendment to the British he always had one hand on the table, EXPECTED RENEWAL OF
Memorandum, which the inter-AlliedThe positions of the balls ware also NEGOTIATIONS.
Socialist Conference has adopted, de described to him. The strangest thing he is forgotten by the people of the land, clares that as the German declaration was that, although he advanced his band All his bricks and memorials are in vain. AMSTERDAY, Feb. 22.
of war in 1914 deliberately broke the to locate the exact place of the balls, he Even the Lord. Marduk is as dead on his The Lokal Anseiger states that treaty of Frankfort it would be open to after a conference with Count Czernin the League of Nations to reconsider the two or three times actually touched Royal appliant and protector. With and Premier Averescu at Bucharest, whole question of Alsace-Lorraine: a ball. He said that he could Bonas the neither name, could one conjure up the Dr. vok Kuehlmann, who has gone to The Conference further declares that ball, just as anyone in a dark room could humblest local spitit or swaken a shadow Bucharest, aspects to renew negotiations the future of the German colonies in tell by the feel" on his face when he of reverse or Ive. Fersis, Parthia. with Bassin at Bresthitavsk if the the tropics should be left in the hands is elcse to a wall. He described it as Greece, and Rome have passed sinte, and Ruasions, undertake to accept the terms of the League of Nations, due regard feeling a coldne. He played poorly barely remembered.
being paid to the wishes of the people first making some dilumqui hut when he HONGKONG POLICE RESARYE... laid down. A
GERMANS MAY CAPTURE of the neighbouring British common settled to his game he generally made one
spore. His highest hrank was nine FOOD HOARDERS PIMED. RUSSIA'S ICE-BOUND FLEET. Ordem Berned by Mr. F::C. Feskin,
Bo was allowed to sit on the table-hemma SLAT FETROGRAD, Feb. 29 BELGIAN DELEGATE CONDEMNS
could not use a rest and he played London, Janušly 3-The magistrates. BOLSHEVIKS. The Russian Float, including a number
veveral shots behind his back. He had, arn fuing heavily all foodboarders. Lady of modern dosadnoughts, is ice-bound at M. Vandervalde, the Belgian delegate, of coures, been a player before he loss his Gore Langton, had to pay a fiue of £60 All ranks, including those on duty po Hoval and Helsingfors and it is feared presiding at the inter-Allied Socialist right. He had cfl to be told, which was for having bought sufficient to a for shat day, will be inspected by His Ex-that, unless the reuela are destroyed, Conference, said they could not ignore the red ball, but his sense of location was year's consumption ins Mario Corralli was ined £70. She protested that the ellency the Governor on the Fold they may fall into the Kanda of the want the blational socialism, and so good that bo once indicated to his as a patriot and denied the charge Ground at 4 pm, on Sunday, March 3rd. Germans as the crews will not fight.. discredit international
No exemptions, except by the Surgeon
Democracy. They had made an irretriev°pponent that the latter was about to play of food scarding. She exclained
police are overstepping your duty and Superintendents will be granted.
able mistake in laying down their arms the wrong ball.
upsetting the country, the members of with cood, the gate was the general publisapplaud the prosecu before Imperialism was defeated. Everyone who wi
much impressed by the extraordinary tion of society foodbearduckingga FLYING FROM LONDON TO ROME. faternity of the blind man a senses and his Kappées troca the avidence that disk remarkable skill. Sergeant Shawl is Marin Correlli purchased 83 pounds of. Torkalarscan, who lived for a long time. Some of the goods were purchased locally sugar, and 33 pounds of fos in month. Loudon, bus enlisted in Capads in the soms in London Mi Correli Princess Palcicia's Regiment, and it was; pleaded that she made 470, the, of jam. re sait, in the trench known is Laices Ladydore Langton had Is Jbs. of tea,
ter Square (Leicester Square, Londay.
of coffee and many other articles some of which wery concealed on the top is the of the world's centres of billiards) floor of her house. The Beach con
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INFECTION...
Uniforms with helmets Tramcars will leave Queen's Statuo Square at 3 p.m. sharp. Men will ssemble at this point under the Second in command.
GERMAN PRESS TRUCULENT.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 23. The German Fress is most trumlat regards the negotiations with Rumania. It expresses the opinion, that owing to the hopelessness of her military situation Eumanis will not expect too British chaser plane, which left Mounted Police will patrol until 2.45 much, while the Hungarian Premier, London yesterday, has arrived.
The journey was completed in pm. keeping the public beyond the replying to sa interpellation in the boards which limit the Polo Ground Lower Honas, has forocoated the military stages,
Trammars will leave Causeway Bay 00 and economic subjugation of Rumania.
Fall in on the Polo Ground at the Shaukiwan nerd, but facing Jockey Club Stables, at 3.15 p.m.
the return journey at about 5.15 p.m. BOGALMAN, DISCIPLINARY BOARD
A Disciplinary Board will eit regular-
ly on blondays (except Holidays) at Headquarters Club at 5.15 pm.
Inspecters of the various commanda may tend in rotation as members thereof
The first regular Board will it on Monday, March 416
By Order,
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THE MASK TOEN FROM - -GERMANIA
ROME, Feb. 22.
DON'T COUSEL
T7 is absurd to allow a cough to hang PETROGRAD, Fab. 23.
on and sap your vitality when The Commissaries of the People have Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will curs appointed special General Staff for you. You don't know where a persistent allow your throat and lungs to become the district of Petrograd and martial cough will land you. You can't afford to
kw has bean established under which fessed when it in such a simple thing counter-revolutionary elements will be to step into a chemist's shey, and get extirpated without difficulty, and the bottle of Chamberlain Cough Remed whole popolation has been mobilised for For, lo by all Chemists" and Store defence work.
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