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Mr. Justice Bailhache, sitting as Com mercial Judge in the High Court or Justice, London, heard on the 10th ult. a case which raised an important question as to the status of that portion of to for many months Germany will have plaintiffs, who were a Japanese company peab large operation will, of course, not be Belgium in German occupation. The against her, or even does not go with her, the registered in Japan with a branch office nearly so easy. But it is worth while repeat- in London, claimed to recover for a loss, ing that so long as the Government has a under Lloyd's policy of insurance, printing press, it can make money un can dated August 5th, 1014, on timber at pay its way with it, so long as the German Antwerp subscribed by the defendant and people trust it, and wish it to continue the other underwriters,
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ALLAHABAD, December 26th. -The Pioneer suya the number of Mahom-tion Company is easily able to maintain medans in the Russiau Army is 150,000. its dividend and bonus aggregate of 15 There has been eager volunteering among per cent on its deferred stock for the the Caucasian and Central Asian regis past year. Of the two new ships of the ments, all of which are anxious to go on wport, the Karmala is already at work, "K" class mentioned in last year's The outbreak of the war with while the Kalyan is progressing satisfac their low had no influence in checking torily. Two sister ships of the same type, enthusiasm; for, like other Mahom the Kashmir and the Kashgar, will be at modans outside the Ottoman territories, work shortly. This completes a list of six they see that the war is a just one for the ships of this particular class, which con Allies.
stitutes a superior intermediate class of 9,000 tous registered and 9,000 horse The policy, which was a non-marine power. Two new vessels have also been policy, covered loss of of damage to completed for the Cape Australia service, timber ab Antwerp directly caused by making five ships of this class Two new tons and appropriate power, for the com August 4th, 1914, and ending with Novein steamers are being built, of about 15,000 during the period commanding * War military or usurped power
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“It will be their cumulative offoot which
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LONDON, December 24th. It was stated before the French Army been treated in hospitals between Sep- tember 15th and November 30th. Of these. 70 per cent. had returned to the ranks, and two and half per cent, had died. There were now 3,978 army hospitals in France, which number excorded the pro scut need.
GERMAN PLANS FOILED.
CALCUTTA, December 25th
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has decided to inaugurate a regular ateamer service between Japan and Europe, and has applied to tho Communications Office, Tokyo, for permission. The Osaka Asal Shimbun has the following to say re the proposed service →
it is not well to rely on this. In the finan Gmany may fail to obtain supplies of one or more absolutely essential imports. But cial and economic spheres the fundamental question is the psychology of the German nation and the measure of the sacrifices it There is everything is prepared to endure.
large
to show that that ricasure will be covered by the policy, the city of Antwerp and still more cenomis considerations will
On October 6th, 1914, during a period one or that, that measur
If the war is a prolonged one, financzal was seized and occupied by the German exert greater and grenter influence. But The Statesman's London correspondent
Army, and the plaintiffs said that they for some months to coms their influence will cables: The correspondent of The Morn ing Post telegraphs that Germany has
were thereby deprived by perils insured not be decisive or even sorious. The Al'ies, failed miserably to acomplish the prime
against of the timber and the possession it is true, have in the aggregate much thercof. The plaintiffs also said that by object of the invasion to Poland, namely
reason of the occupation it became illegal greater resources in wealth and population the destruction of the Russian strategic O. 8. K management, but it has been and impossible for them to have any Turkey
than have Germany, Austria-Hungary, and and invading Bilcsia. A decisive fight
of the timber and were not likely to fute preparedness. Her whole aim is and scheme of occupying Galicia, Cracow
dealings or transactions with inhabitants of Antwerp, and that they lost possession great advantage of concentration and abso on the cther hand, has the where the Grand Duke wills stato that German troops in Poland are drugged with ether before going into action, rendering them temporarily indifferent to danger.
Particulars of the proposed opening of a European line are kept secret by the
open the route with four vessels of 6,000 almost decided that the Company shall tons class, now on the American route, on
must still take place the completion next July of two vessels of recover possession within a reasonable must bo to deal her foos rapil blows so
Correspondents of the London papers
GERMANY'S STRENGTH.
LONDON, December 24th. The Timer Military correspondent esti mates there are four million recruits still available in Germany who will make a great renewed effort in the Spring. The Allies must concert measures to meet the danger.
OPINION IN AMERICA.
LONDON, December 24th. American popular opinion is in creasingly supporting the Allies, inclyd ing the abandonment of neutrality owing. to the brutality of German methods and growing appreciation of the issue in volved
General Huringen told an America interviewer that the English troops were splendid soldiers, experienced and very tough, otherwise there was no credit in defeating them. He says the Germa is attacked their trenches after endeavour ing to shake their nerve by violent shell ing. Bootamen crawling from the trenches actually attempted to counter-charge.
THE ALLIES ADVANCE.
ALLAHABAD, December 24th. The Pioneer's London correspond i cables:In the advance made by the Allies
9,000 tons class now under construction,
in addition to two chartered steamers.
The proposed route will start from Osaka and terminate at Rotterdam, the intermediate ports of call being the same
had become a total and/or a constructive will he forced to make prace before any pro
time. The plaintiffs said that the timber violent and shattering in character that thes total loss, and that they gave notice of cess of economio exhaustion has begu. In abandonment to the defendants on Octo-thir it does not appear that she will succeed. ber 14th, 1014, ti
Evidence was given that a large propor- as on the N. V. K. European service. tion of the timber had been in stors for One round trip will take about 165 days, a considerable time, but that the plaintiffs and the service will be worked once every could not deal with it On November four weeks.
3rd, when the policy ran off, the timber was still sale, but there, was great risk for military purposes and give receipts that the Germans might seize the timber for it. The Board of Trade had informed the plaintiffs that as Belgium was in Ger- man occupation they ought not to remit any money to that country either directly or indirectly,
worked twice monthly by 11 vessels with Whilst the N. Y. K. European service is gross tonnage of about 100,000 and receives an annual subsidy of Y1,830,000, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha proposes to operate the service under the above-mentioned subsidy conjointly with the former by adding six more vessels of the Company to the route. A director of the latter Company is now at Tokyo and is exerting himself scheme endorsed by the proper authorities. strenuously to get the joint working
HIGH SHIPPING FREIGHTS.
· OWNERS' EXCEPTIONAL PEGFITS,
Times of the 10th ult., have continued to Shipping freights lately says the
rise, , and higher rates are now obtainable than during the boom period of 1912,
The extraordinary rate of Sis. per tou is being secured by British owners for the carriage of grain from Argentina to the United Kingdom, whereas before the war the rate was 131, and in normal times 259. would be considered a very high rate. Neutral owners can obtain as much as 55. per ton for the carriage of grain to
Italy, Holland, and
Mr. Leslie Scott, K.C, and Mr. W. N. Rachurn appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Leek, K.C., and Mr. R. A. Wright for the defendants
struggle will be decided in the next threa “But it may well be that the cue of the or six months, and, if it is, it will have been. decided, not by any economic or financial considerations, but by the fores of arms on sea and land. Therefore, though our task must be to weaken Germany economically and: folly on our part to look to such influences financially in every posible way, it would be to decide the war in our favour."
NEW REGIME IN EGYTT.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
PROCLAMATION.
Mr. Leslie Scott contended that the occupation of Belgium by a German force It is officially aurounced, says a London with the assumption of government over me sago of the 18thult, that Great it converted that country, so far as the Britain has informed Prince Hussein that atatus of its inhabitants was concerned ho was chosen as the Prince of the into an enemy country, so that any Mahomet Ali family most worthy to attempt by the plaintiffs to deal with this occupy the new position as Sultan of timber would be trading with the onemy Egypt 240; Scott's Cases, 655 The Ilapid, henceforth to conducted through Britain (see United States v. Rice, 4 Wheaton Foreign relations," it is stated, will Gerasimo, 11 Moore P.U., 88; 2 Roscoc's of the capitulation clauses has been post Cranch, 186 Scott's Cases, 557; The by a High Commissioner. The revision Prize Cases, 557 Small's Administrator pored until the end of the war, in order v. Lumpkin's Excentor, Scott's Coacs, 538; Exposito . Bowden, 7 El. and B1.
ta present a cleater, deânition of Great 763; The Hoop; 10. Hab., 196) Britain's position in Egypt, and to It was stated by Lord Justice Brett in accelerate progress towards self-govern- Kaltenbach Mackenzie (CPD 407)tions will be scrupulously respected.
ment. The Egyptians religious convic that a notice of abandonment was not required except in the case of contracts
In declaring Egypt free from any
the British nd Indian forces have made countries. the Scandinavian been argued that there could not be a Political power in Constantinople, the
progress against severe opposition. Our Charterers for cotton from the United bars are much helped by increased num States are paying about 60s, per ton (not
and additional gun power. Wo have. encoessfully replied to all the mechanism register) if vessels are loaded for the whith the Germans brought into the field. United Kingdom and about 80s. it All our units have been rested and redestined for Italy Coal shipments from fitted, and are in splendid form. The this country to the Mediterranean have attacke delivered by the Indian army been arranged at about 178. and to Port Corps have been powerful and instill Said at 21s, rate which are practically much respect in the enemy. The bom double the normal. bardment of the German right from the sen has been most effective, driving in the enomy and demoralising the heavy hat terics erected as a reply to the naval acti- vitics
Owners point out that as a ret off against the high rates serious delays in port are now common, which mean a marked diminution in the number of voyages. A fate weeks ago there was difficulty in obtaining crews, but this GERMAN WRITER AND THE seems now to have en overcome, partly
it is believed, owing to the large number INDIANS:
of fishermen who are signing on for service in the large ships. On the whole shipowners can be well pleased with tho seasons s owing to various reasons the supply of tonnage available since the war began, the demand has been in the market has been steadily reduces increasing
LONDON, December 27th.
A special correspondent of the Frank fuerter Zeitung, writing his impression of of the Allies' front praises the splendid equipment and warlike appearance of the Indians, who are well provided with winter clothing. He states the compara tively small number of prisoners in German hands is due to the fact that they are forbidden to surrender without the permission of the officers Hence when
NEW STANDARD OLL STEAMER
In December the ss. Hoffett, which is
of marine insurance, from which it had duty or obedience to any usurper's
insurance. But the principle was as was hostility towards the Caliphate, constructive total loss except in marino British Government is animated by no stated in Moss Smith (9 C.B., 94) and The past history of Egpt shows that. Shepherd v. Henderson (7 App: Cas., 49) the loyalty of the Egyptians and that in dealing with a commercial con- Mohammedans, towards the Caliphate is tract the commercial aspect of it must be independent of any political bonds regarded and where the owner was between Egypt and Constantinople. The deprived for an indefinite time of the use strengthening and progress of Mohum- amounted to a loss of the thing. In wherein the British Government takes the of the thing that, in a commercial sense, medan institutions in Erypt is a matter
there was held to be a constructive loss of such reforms as may be causidered Rodocunachi. Elliott (L.R., o C.P., 018) decpost interest, and in the carrying out of goods which were detained in Paris owing to the siege hy the Germans.
Mr. Wright said that the timber was The Government will confidently rely
necessary Prince Hussein may count upon. the Cavernment's sympathetic support, still safe, and even if the Germans took it for military purposes they would rive upon the loyalty, good sense, and self- receipts for it, which it must be assured restraint of its Egyptian subjects fo would be redeomed. This was not a loss facilitate the tasks of the commander of by resson of war, military or usurped the forces in maintaining order and pre power within the poliny, but a loss venting the rendering of aid to the because the plaintiffs had become alien enemy." enemies to Germany,
Mr. Justice Bailhacha-The temporary could not be construed as an irretrievable taking possession of goods by the enemy
deprivation of the owner of the goods so as to turn it into a total loss.
Mr. Lealis Scott replied. His lordship reserved his judgment.
"AMMUNITION SHORTAGE.
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the officers are disabled the Indians fight the most recent addition to the Standard till they are killed. Everything, be con- Oil feet, was launched. The vessel is the tinues, is done by the British to avoid exposing the Indians to the weather They only spond twenty-four hours in the trenches, and then have twenty-four hours rest. They are intelligent and:
good fighters. The correspondent was impressed with the number of hardened soldiers among the British. He says that the German officers described the British Buck, built for the Associated Cillage on the Aisne, which had been
The Temps states that an hotel-keeper recently found in a room in a small vil
THE BTEP COMMENDED.
proclamation of British suzerainty has The abolition of Turkish rule and the
not occasioned even the remotest hint of a disturbance, says a Cairo message. Tho proclamation was posted on Thursday night throughout Cairo. Friday's news papers, both Arabio, and European, pub lished the announcement in large head- lines, and commended the step in generally favourable terms Except for a number of British flags in the European quarter, the streets of Cairo presented a normal appearance,
latest of a number of oil tank steamshipa which have been built at the Union Iron Works, under contracts received in direct
THE PROCLAMATION CELEMONY. competition with the Eastern shipyards, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The
The newly-appointed Sultan was first of these vessels was the tanker Frank
received with a salute of twenty-one guns white crescent with three white stars on and the hoisting of the Egyptian flag- as an army of non-commissioned officers. Company and launched early in February hurriedly left by German artillery officers, a red ground, this being the Khedive's Their equipment and arms are splendid, of last year The Moffet is of the latest and their discipline excellent, as is type of construction, being built with a circular from the General Staff regard- house flag. The Sultan was proclaimed proved by their conduct in captivity, longitudinal frames. This form of con- ing the use of ammunition.
with elaborate cereraony. There was an He says the new British recruits quickly struction is designed to afford greater This circular said: Even under the imposing parade of English, Australasian, 9 p.m.-4. Garden Fête in the grounds of the become good reliable soldiers. Further, cargo capacity, and the loffatt when she utmost pressure the German industry will and native troops. The Aga Khan, who
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he praises the excellent sharp-shooting of goes into commission will have a carrying be unable to supply our army with am recently exhorted the Mohammedans in the French
capacity of 85,000 barrels of oil, exclusive munition indennitely consequently Russia not fo side with Germany, arrived of her own fuel tanks, Her dimensions several restrictions are put on its use. Do to assist in the acccasion ceremony. are Length over all, 435 feet; breadth, not ahell any places which it is not worth 54 feet; depth moulded, 31 feet 6 inches, while to do Concentrate the fire as much draft, 27 feet, and displacement, 14,975 as possible in order to produce the tons. The vessel's engines will develop an maximum moral and physical effeer indicated horse power of 3,000, and it is Do not shell during the night, when it predicted that her speed on her trial trip is impossible to ascertain the exact results will be better than sloven knots per hour. obtained. When defending choose the ne if there was a race, as if he was hired The launching of the huge craft caused right moment to commen shelling, as a to run for good pay. He did all sorts a great deal of interest in local shipping long cannonade is a waste of ammuni Co., Ltd., Mesting of Shareholders at the of nasty things, and now he wants to get circles and hundreds of shipping mention Offces of Mesers. Jardine, Matheson & Co., back to his wife, to drink coffee. He says gathered at the Union Iron Works to Since this circular came into effect, the firms are improving and
that it's cold here, and that it's hard to witness the event. Standard Oil Com- adds the Temps, the waste of munitions cght under such conditions. Well, pany oficials attended in body, and by the German artillery has ceased. The extending their works in anticipation of 12.15 pmHongkong Land Reclamation have we asked him to come? Did he among the invited guests were a number German authorities Lavo evidently an increased volume of trade. Already Co., Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders at the expect that we would propare warmed of Eastom officers of the company who realised that its industries will not be able many contracts hitherto given to Austria Offices of ears. Jardine, Matheson & Co. hats for him? Just stop running for a went to San Francisco especially for the to keep ta army supplied for an in- and Germany are being pleeed with
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What the Russians chiefly grumble about is the speed with which the Gormans are ruuning away. Warm ourselves properly? We have no time to wait for hot food," declared the soldiers. * Hu (meaning the German enemy) runs
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