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MONDAY, MARON 11, 1918.
TELEGRAMS.
Continued from Pago -Z.).
A REFLEX OF BRITISH DETERMINATION.
SPLENDID SUCCESS OF, WAR
BOND CAMPAIGN, *
Losvos, Mar. 9.
THE AIR-RAID ON LONDON.
THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF VICTIMS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GERMAN MENACE IN THE EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
EAST.
A CLEVER SUBSTITUTE FOR BAGDAD RAILWAY,
LONDON, Mar. 10.
LONDON, Mar. 8.` Several of the bombs in yesterday evening's air-rail fell on residential quarters in London and the suburbs,
Lont Robert Cecil, in a conversi destinying five houses and a private |tion with a Router's ́ ́reprosentative i mursing bone.
There were
remarkable experi- ences, which include, for instance that of a domestic maid, who, wat blown to the top storey ami is suffer-
on the German mèniaco in the East, said he would welcome Japanese intervention in order to prevent the termunisation of Siberia. Germany was not so much after the food of Ukraine, as she was ambitious to Two women escaped uninjured by carry out a gigantic scheme of world placing a blown-oft door upon the
conquest, She had already taken bed and crawling under it us, the house collapsed number of vic-the Baltic provinces almost to Petro- tims were pinioned by the debris til rad, and, besides taking the Aaland
At the conclusion of the Tank * Week," Mr. Bour Law sent o mesing with only a sprained ankle.
sage to the Lord Mayor of Leulon, beartily congratulating him on the amount of the City's contribution to the War Boud campaign, and stating that although the total retans of
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY
MR. BONAR LAW.
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY IF ALLIES MAINTAIN COHESION.
enemy did not bald an inch of British tarritory, wherris Germiny had, kist svery Colony, We occupied Meso- potainiu and Palestino, and our war- mup was na indicative of success av Germany claimed their to be.
THE DANGER OF A GERMANISED FINLAND.
LONDON, Mar. 8. The Stockholm newspaper Nyadag. LONDON, March 7.ligt Allehanda publishes a telegrain Mr. Benar Low in the further from the Aaland Islands stating that course of his speech on the Vate of the disembarkation of German troops Credit said as regards epemy gun power, there was no cause for seriens alarm, because the power of artillery was limited nos merely by the num- ber of guns but by the supply of ammunition. The use of guns depended on the air service in which we had an overwhelming auperiority which greatly neutralised any
the whole country have not as yet this afternoon they were rescued Iskande, somehow induced the Finns possible superiority in gun-power.
been received it is certain that much more than a hundred millions, as asked for, has been subscribed.
this," he wrote, "is additional proof of the determination of our people to hold fuss till the aims for which they entered the war have been secured."
alive, some of whom were sustained by oxygen and other stimulants.
A man who fell from four storeys escaped without very serious injury, despite the fact that a piano crashed
CENTRAL POWERS AND RUMANIA. projecting wall and hung in midair, unconscious for two hours, when she was rescued by firemen
AN INDEMNITY TO BE IMPOSED
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 9. The Cologne Gazette says the Central Powers intend to impose An indemnity upon Rumania, which will take the form of writing of the Central Powers' requisitions during occupation.
These are valued at u millianl marks.
WILD GERMAN DREAMS.
POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF RUMANIAN PEACE.
AMSTERDAY, Mar. 8. The German newspapers anticipate that the peare with Rumania will shortly have its frets on Greece and
also Italy,
K
CONQUEST.
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 8. The Berlin Tageblatt ways the Quadrupler ennillers that the Bessambin question most be settled
Our superiority in the air was due to the superiority of our.men.
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was started on Wednesday morning and was preceding idly; Form able forces have already been landed. A telegram from Christiania says the Fresident of the Finnish Delega- 'tion addressing the Storthing com- plained of the coines of the recop tion accorded to the delegation, by Norway. The delegation suba quently departed, without obtaining NOTICE: an audience with the King, as pro- posed
...
Here Mr. Berar Law broke down, The Morganblubet dwells on the
killed. thinking of his airman son who was danger to Scandinavia front a Ger
The Hote cheered sym-minised Finland. pathetically.
The Social Democrates's Helsing- fons correspondent says that a meet- SCEPTICAL ABOUT A GERMAN ing of the Socialist Ministers ex-
OFFENSIVE.
Leitedly discussed the German land- fing-
The President declared that he was convinced that the bulk of the Finns would join the Red Guards which should be a warning to the
Mr. Bonar Law quickly recovered
and proceeded to say that the whole of our forces in France had been most
ergetically and most skillfully German strengthening their defences. result was wonderful: For example: in the first two months of 1018 we had used more barbed wire than in the
The
to enable her to control their foreign policy and thereby acquired practic ally the whole of what were formerly the Russian shores of the Baltic This cut off Russia's access to the on top of him, owing to its being except at Archangel and the In the South Ger- enveloped in a carpet during the fall. Murman coast.
many was occupying Odessa and A girl on the top storey of a
insisting the retrocession to demolished house was caught by a
Turkey of ports on the cast of the Black Sea. Plainly Germany duas designed to substitute for the Bagdad railway a new route to the East via the Cauensha and north-western Persia. Both Great Britain and America were deeply interested in the fate of the Armenians, who had suffered nameless outrages, but by the German treaty, the Armenians were handed back to the Turks. A stall smilitary mission sent with the who had visited France, told him A member of the Government,
object of entering the Caucusms ria that while Headquarters expected an Baku was stopped by the Bolshe-attack, the commanders of units which were daily it contact with the "We have not heard of
enemy did not believe the Germans them," he said, "during the last would attack, so confidant of their three weeks owing to the destruction superiority were they. That dd of the Tiflis telegraph."
not mean that if an attack The talk of a Gensan moveinent
THE AIR-RAID ON PARIS..
Losoos, Mar. 10.1
A French official statement says that 11 were killed and 41 injured in Paris and the suburbs in the air
mid.
II
THE STRUGGLE WHICH WILL
SPELL VICTORY.
ELOQUENT SPEECH IN FRENCH CHAMBER.
viste.
towards Democracy was most BA- LONDON, Mar. 0. trustworthy. The military control In the Chamber, M. Clemences, of Germany was unshaken. The plying to interpellations on the talk of the progress of internal Bolo ufuir, made á stirring speech | Libuntisu is so much democratic and eloquently appealed for the camouflage. maintenanire of the 'splendid moraic
pence.
whole of 1017. The German offen-
a little sceptical concerning it. But sive ought to be coming, but he was
if the attempt were made and filled there could be nothing so decisive in
the war
were
„GERMAN · OCCUPATION OF THE
AALAND ISLANDS.
GERMAN FLAG HOISTED ÖVER CUSTOMS HOUSE.
www.
LONDON, Mar. 9. The latest news from the Aaland
barked besides troops, a large number Islands is that the Germans bara disam-
of horses The German flag flies over the Customs House at Eckeroe.
LONDON PRESS VIEW.
The Times, dwelling on the menace to Sweden, anys that Germany, in possession of the Islands, could cut sea communication between the northern and southern provinces; besides being to within a few hours' steam from
Stockholm
of
The Times recalls that 25,000 in- habitants of the Islands long ago voted for union with Swedez
made, there would be no losses territory. Ang side choosing concentrate sufficiently upon a - row front could carry it.. That might happen if an attack occurred, but if it did happen he was confident its true significance would be realised by This is an interesting sidelight on the the British people as well as the German idea of self-determination. soldiers, whose one desire would be to recover lost ground.
Mr. Bonar Law dwelt upon the éfectiveness of our air raids and emphasised the value of the Ameri- can factor, which depended in the
CONFIDENCE IN SUCCESS. After expressing disappointment at the results of our ship building, be
ALEXIEFF'S GREAT ARMY. ·
MORE LIGHT ON RUSSIAN- POLITICAL CHAOS..
LONDON, March 9. Enlightenment regarding the internal political situation in Russia Las been afforded by Professor Eleceff, of the Moscow University. Interviewed on.
In the course of further observe THE BESSARABIAN QUESTION.
of the French soldiers and people.tions he said: "I see no reason why GERMAN TALK OF RUMANIAN The troops were superbly confident the Germans should not try to pene
trate Siberia. We have received that enemy offits would break dowy. It would be criminal not to desire unconfirmed information that a Prus-success of our operations at sea.
He asseverated Francu'stian General has been sent to Siberin intention to wage war notwithstand for the purpose of organising the ing the fact thit Hussin had betrayed German prisoners. We ought to between Russia and Rumenia whiet, and that Burnaia-wes; unforto fázek exailable. Japancasussistance and stress on the vita: Importance his arrival at Christianía, yesterday, be
nately, compelled to capitulate.to frustrate the German scheme of He was convinced that France Eastern conquest." would experience that last glowing| He concluded by paying a glowing quarter of an hour of struggle which tribute to the Japanese for services rendered in the Pacific, Mediter spelt victory?"
ranean and elsewhere.
'can leave its army, apart from the eight divisions which will be de-, molished, under arms until it has conquered Bessarabia and arranged its protection against Russia.
RUSSIAN EMBASSIES.
REFUSE TO RECOGNISE PEACE TRÊĄTY.
LONDON, Mar. 8. Following the end of the Embes-
He earnestly impressed upon the Socialist Deputies that their pre-wur ideals of universal disarmament had been cruelly given the lie by facta, and instanced the German action in reply to the request of Messrs. Lenin and Trotzky for the conclusion
sies at Faris and Rome, the Russian of a democratic peace. Embassy at Madrid has announced
› that it does not recognise the Brest- torsk Pince Treaty, because the Russian signatories were privite per- sans, with no defined powers.
THE KAISER'S PROPERTY IN
AMERICA.
THE DEATH-KNELL TO. GERMAN ENTERPRISE.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 9.
THE SPANISH CABINET CRISIS.
THE TASK OF THE PRIME MINISTER.
GREAT BRITAIN'S 'MAN-POWER.
THE ENGINEERS' DISPUTE,
LONDON, Mar. 9.
of shipbuilding and the destruction of stated that a representative conferenen submarines. From the point of view at Moscow had decided to organine a of staying power, be asked the House National Guard with the object of over. to remember that once the equili-throwing the Bolshevik régime brium was established every week General Alexief is organising a great would mean an improvement in our army in the Don district. Thousands favour and increased ability to bring are joining it, and the Cossacks are the resources of America to play their supporting the movement, which aims part in the war. Cooking at what hest the formation of a Coalition Govera believed were the facts, he did not ment; the introduction of a Republic; believe there was any doubt, if the and the repudiation of the Russo-German Allies held together, that, they would secure the results they set out to the war began.
achieve. when (Cbzers.)
We were fighting for Mr. G. N. Barnes, speaking in There would be no security in the
peace
London, said that a meeting between future if the war ended before that the Prime Minister himself and object was.i.ttained; before the Ger- representatives of the Engineersman people learned that war did not pay, before it was no longer possible Society would probably result in the for a single man or group of men to Society heartily co-operating with plunge the world into misery-then the Government.
peace would be a defeat for us. All the meticulous talk about what Count Hertling meint "was simply ridi culous. We must judge the inten- tions of the rulers of Germany by their nets, not words. What is the
OBITUARY.
LONDON, Mar. 10. The Rer. William Walter Merry is dead.
MADRID, Mar. 9. The newspapers unanimously con- sider that Spain is experiencing a very grave crisis in her history.
The ersis was precipitated by the
[The Rev. William Walter Merry, The property owned in the United action of Senor Cierva, Minister for U.D. (Oxou), was public, orator in the States by the Kaiser, Dr. von War, writing to the Press, without University of Oxford from 1880 to 191 Bethmann Hollweg, the Junker the knowledge of his colleagues, and and Recice of Lincoln's College since class generally, and the German attacking Senor Sanchez Boca, ex-1661. He was life member of the Cot Government will be, firstly, sold President of the Seaste, who had cil of Cheltenham College. He was 82
years of age.] under authority granted to Mr. been criticising Senor
Cierva's Paliner, the Custodian of Alien methods. Property, to sell alien property in The Prime Minister Senor the United States.
Prieto, bus abandoned the task of Mr. Palmer, testifying before the forming a Cabinet ne Senor Clerva 'Appropriations Committee of the has refused to join the Liberal Senate, said the enemy should know Coulition.
that the connection which he was
The Government measures, which
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The foregoing sets have been suppressed hitherto in Petrograd.
RESIGNATION OF TROTZKY
PETROGRAD, March 2 M. Trotzky has resigned his post of Commissioner of Foreign Affairs
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CONSTITUTIONALASTS
·MILITARISTS.
The Intelligence Bureau at Canton communicates the following-
suppress the "democracy End the Con- «titutionalists in the South.
The recent unccess of Seatheru arri in Sreebean and Shensi and the apport coming gradually from the better informed, military commanders like General Feng Yu-hsiang and others, would enable the Constitutionalists to, carry out their aim, which is a unitel Chins and a democratie government in The Intelligence Bureau bears that which the people, and not militarismy saother approach is being made by the ruler. North towards the South for a coth promise to settle the present struggle, stating that international questions on hand and the situation in the Northern Provinces require internal peace and a united Central Government.
SZECHUAN,
A NORTHERN DEFEAT IN
LATER. The Provincial Assembly of Szechuan hus advised the Military Government of the complete defeat of Northern forces.thers and in asking Generaliniuso Sun Yat-sen for instruction.
General Hsiung Hei-yu, formerly Defense Commissioner. of Chunghing
The South, realising the necessity of a united China, is labouring towards this end. The Constitutionalists in the South-Western Provinces, however, do not believe in the sincerity of the has been appointed Military GovernOC Northern militarists who, as their acts of Szechana by the Military Government have repeatedly shown, have actually at Canton, and Yang Shi-jan, the Civil LONDON, March 9.
use of talking about Count Hertling the Romanian
The Manchester Guardian, referring to treated conditions which they believe Governor. Until the arrival of Gover that will find foreign support and sympathy or Yang at his post, General Frang. accepting President Wilson's prin- while Germany autos, inter alia, in in order to indirectly perpetuate their ang will officiate as Civil Govermez. ciples, when the Germans have taken getting neater India, her immediate selfsh ambition and extend their illegal THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT Livonia, Estonia, Courland and are intention is to measce our right flank
power and malicious influence. demanding that Rumenia should give in Mesopotamin
The Constitutionalists demand no
up nob only Dobrudjs but other parts
pesce, says
AND THE SALT REVENUE."
To
prevent
the execution, of a.
of Rumani as part of the peace GERMAN SCHEMES OF CONQUEST thing but what every impartial observer recent Peking decision to hand over
terms?***
It was true the country was war weary and wished to see the end of this terrible conflict, but to say we were faltering in purpose showed a complete ignorance of the feeling of
on vil remain the satis stration will
would believe reasonable and just, that, the surpits of the salt revenue MILITARY AND POLITICAL
the Provisional Constitution should be of Kwangtung and Kwang to VIEW.
respected and observed by all and that, Lang Chi kuang, the Military GoreTIV the National Assembly illegally dissolved ment has formally taken over the Salt LONDON, Mar. 9.
shall be reconvened without further Administration of Linngang order art Military and political writers the people. We had never paying great attention to the new interference from the militarists. The ing the pablic to pay their taxes in a war in modern times in which erman: schemes of conquest a Constitutionalisté cannot subscribe to through the Bank of China e cont the pacifist feeling was not far more"
aternational obligationsdeured on the Baltic and the Baltic provinces and also The Hongkong branch of the Yoko pronounced and more dreaded than ridenced by the Germanitation of the any terms of compromise or peace which The Military Government will fall all now. At bottom the British people by the fresh designs in the Near Exet, would accord special privilege to any able to maintain with American Serior. Cierva proposed to enforce by) kama Specie Bank is in receipt of knew what defent in this war would se revealed by the pesca treaty with individual person province. The fait revenue, and the organs of adminis
Provisional Constitution can be amended industry and commerce har heen royal decree, involved an increase of telegram from the yearly meeting of mean, in the listory of the nation, Rumania.
and the National Assembly dissolved broken not merely for the duration 200 million pesetas for Army Eati-effect that at the half-yearly meeting of the Empire and the world
AERIAL RAID ON PARIS.
only in accordance with law, but not of the war but permanently. mates, including a big increase in shareholders held at the head office of Mr. Bonar Law concluded by
through force and intrigue sa used by LONDON, March 9,* Ar. Palmer said that American the pay of officers, and large addi- the Bank at Yokohama on the 9th repeating that if it were possible to instant, it was resolved to pay bave an expression of the feeling of
A French official message states that the rebellious military governors who interests in Germany were negligible tions to the infantry and artillery
divideed of 12'), pa. for the ball year the country on the plain issue Are
you prepared that the war dould between ten and twelve squadrons are ill taking advantage of the military. anded the 31st December, 1917, to add proceed until the results we set out participated in the air raid on Faria, power and strength which they hare on to the reserve fund Yea 1,000,000 and to to achieve are attained, or not?" the and were hotly received by anti-aircraft hande to use the proceeds from the sale of TE STOCKS IN UNITED KINGDOM.ry forward the sum of You 2,720,000 result would astonish our enemies guns and sixty seroplanes.
and our Allies: (Cheers.) enemy property to buy Government bonds.
ONLY TWO MONTHS VISIBLE to the next account,
compared with the German interests
in the United States. He intended
TIN AND TUNGSTEN,
RESEARCH BOARD CREATED.
LONDON, Mar 10,
SUPPLY.
LONDON, Mar. 10.
The Tea Brokery states that, although nearly all the
DEATH OF MPS WIFE.
THE BRITISH WAR MAR.
Mr. McKenna, folk wing Mr. Boour Law, said he hoped that in now of the policy of a single-front, Londen, January 22 --Mr Guest, wife and the Italian numerical superiority of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. Con the Austrian Front, some Italian Guest, M.P., was found dead in her bedrooper would be transferred to parts Sir Lionel Phillips has been op eighty million pounds of tea, ex with a hulle in her head and of Belgium where the Allies were not pointed Chairman of the newly ported from Calcutta to
superior to the enemy. In the fut ngland feirer Tying near by formed Tin and Tungsten Besearch from November to January, have Lautenant-Colonel Guest is the second Board, with a view to increasing the arrived safely, there is only about ton of the first Jord Wimborne and was born in 1874 In 1911, he married the two montha supply in the United Hon. Frances Lyttelton,
daughter
Kingdom:
Visount Coblem.]
- recovery of the metal in the treat
ment of the bree
Nine inhabitants were killed and thirty-nine wounded
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A Goths was brought down in the members of the National Assembly, free Compiegne, with the crew of four aboard the representatives of the incinerated.
CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH
Chinese The match between Pola P people, have been allowed a free band in and E Guimaraes was played on Sat the direction the matter. Toe Feking day and won by El Gulfaarses, Government Has long agitated over the
Surgpe itch of troops to
so Far have I to act, as it has long been
PARIS, March
The Chamber haspaused a vote of con pointed out that Taan Chi jai han ther count of bis spech Blence in the Government by 100 votes
he said, responsibilities in the Bolo affair. McKenna invited attention to the to 75 after discussing the Government's we conclusive evidence that Great not be defeated whe
to bolp the fcie
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