THE BATTLE OF YPRES, ONE OF THE GREATEST IN HISTORY.
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From the p-of-Mr. Will Lewin, a well known American journalist, the Daily Mail has published an account of the battle of pros, which it is considered will live in history as the finest record of a battle which up to that time was the greatest in history. apa writes:-A decisive action
Mr.
THE DECISIVE HOUR FOR ITALY.
NEED TO BE PREPARED.
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ROME, March 15.
“The Giornale d'Italia publishes a long and important article on the situation in Italy, to which a semi-official character is attributed. It anys.
GERMAN
PLOT IN PERSIA. TURKISH INVASION
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AN APPEAL TO INDIA.
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Documentary evidence has reached his Majesty's Government proving conclu- sively that German consular officers in Persia and the agents of the German firm of Wönckhaus have been engaged in intriguce with the object of famlitating the Turkish invasion of Persia and of
thus flagrantly violating Persian neu- trality. For example, not only, were the agents of Messes. Wönckhaus CHIYGEN Chinese str., 1,177, Rosa, th Ahwaz and Mohammerah found to be in
April-Shanghai 10th April, General, communication with Turkish
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11th April, Rice-Jardine, Matheson tive. Herr Wassmus, who was for merly German Consul at Bushire, and DAIGI MARU, Japanese str., 809, S. Tokushije, has recently been appointed German Con- 17th April Haiphong 15th April, sul as Shiraz (whore Germany has no com Getzel---Onka Shosen Kaisha.
The seven months of noutrality have not been wasted for Italy, as not only have her own interests not been compromised, but she has acquired greater political and military force. Since the beginning of the war Italy own interests were in question, though in- tending to exclude any renunciation or any tie, proclaiming her complete liberty of action,
This neutrality has been maintained in spite of foreign flatteries and nized Italy's right to have the fullest liberty internal agitations. All have slowly read of action against anyone, and thus foreign countries abandoned the strange idea that they would be able to enlist Italy is the name of sentiment, like a romantic knight errant, or in aid of Great Powers
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really decisive action of the war. when history runs a thread the confusions and obscurities of Aringed- elen, historians may call it the most vital Battle in the annals of the island people.. Not Creey or Blenheim Bor Waterloo gems now more important. defensive offensive operations of the Western Allies. It made impossible-short of an utter collapse of the Allied Armies-any further German move on Paris or any move to take the Franch in the rear. Most importantly to England it sealed the road to Calais, that vital, eritical port, within eyesight of the English coast. Further, more English troops were engaged here than in any previous battle of the Empire, more Germans than in the whole Franco-Prussian War-a bumired and twenty thousand English against six hundred thousand Clermus. It seems, in
ie the beginning of the second phase those brigades which won immortal glory in of the war, which will probably be decisive..
kl wars by holding a crucial point on a
Italy has a frontier problem which for 50 battle-line.
years has oppressed her like a yoke, due to The Germans had one more great assault the unfortunate war of 1866, which forced
Ypres is the old in their programme. historic capital of French Flanders; ond to accept a Tirait which for 60 years has been Italy, when she took the Venetian provinces, the British observers noted a curious fact threat. Now that the configuration of about the operations against. Ypres. How Europe, and perhaps of a great part of the ever Leavy the German bombardment, the world, is about to be decided, we must and famous old Cloth Hall, the most beautiful will obtain by every means a frontier which building of its kind in Flanders, went politically and from a military point of view Buscathed by shells. It was saver, we
is not absurd and a danger. This indepen know now, for a particular purpose. Kaiser Wilhelm himself was moving forward with dontly from the ideal patrimony which wo
special force to a special assault which must defend at any cost.
An anti-Italian policy in the Italian pro should finally and definitely break the vinces within her borders was Austria's fatal Allied line at Ypres. To do this was to
wistake, which cannot and must not can clear Flanders of the Allies; and then, as tinue. Those Italians must be saved from by custom he might be intended to annox destruction. Besides, a nation of 37 million Belgium in the Cloth Hall of Ypres. He inhabitants, alarost entirely on the sea, and came with his own Prussian Guard
it was that guard which, on the 15th, let another rent oxporter of men and constantly deve terrible massed attack. It was no less vigoroning in the agricultural, industrial, and commercial worlds, ucels expansion beyond ous than the attack of the 31st; but the Eng the seas, especially in the Mediteranean, fish, reinforced now by the French, met it Better. Again the dense masses poured in, The journal ads: again the very officers fired until their riflex grew too hot to hold, When, that night, the strength of the German attack was spent, the better part of the Prussian Cunel lay dead in wood-lay, in some places, in ranks eight dloop. The second and lesser climax was. passed. A fortnight mure, and the line from In Basser to the sen had been locked" as thoroughly as the line from Switzerland and to La Bassée. I had cost England 50,000 men out of 130,000 engaged-- a proportion of foss greater than any previous way ever knew. It had cost the French and Belginas 70,000 It probably cost the Liermans 375,000). That is file nillion in all. The American Civil War has been called the most. terrible in modern history. In this one long ble Europe lost as many men na the North lost in the whole Civil War. Yet the wal news the nows that the battle of Ypres was decisive, on the Western front, that it may rank with Waterloo and Blenheim for glory and for effect--that news is coming out only now, maths after the event In such strange times do we live!
GERMAN ORDER TO KILL THE WOUNDED.
CONFESSIONS BY DESERTERS,
The above statement sunnnarizes the great problems that Italy must face, if necessary sacrificing blood and money, as the people must not cradle themselves in an idea that an easy understanding can he reached, nor in the illusion that a neutrality can be pri lenged indefinitely, nor in the possibility of peaceful Mephistopheloan or Machiavellina solutions, but must keep prepared for any event, since the hour that will make Italy greater, stronger, happies, is inevitably.ap proaching.
GERMAN, INTRIGUE DISCLOSED,
An attempt by Germany to scrub to Tripoli rites of French junke concealed in beer barrels, discovered in Venter, is causing general indignation here. The!
panied
Accom- Germans were scot
Consul), was the prime mover in this It is now known that he was at Cairo shortly before the war, and in Constan- tinople when war broke out,
by four other ren Berli
Indians who from Berlin to join him at Con-- stantinople, he made his way to the Persian frontier, and thenon to Shiraz. Among his effects was a box containing several thousand violently inflammatory pamphlets in the English, Urdu, Hindu, Punjabi, and Sikh languages, addressed to the Indian Army, calling on them to take the opportunity to throw off, the hated yoke and rise and kill their officers, A long appeal to Musulman soldiers in India was also found, urging them to join in chad This person is now at Shiraz awaiting instructions from the German Legation at Teheran
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pession between the German Legation and EUXAEUS, British str., 4,206, F. Bactins, THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD
Not less discreditablcis
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the Consul at Bushire. Some time ago. a large consignment of arms and ammu- nition arrived at that port, and was hur riedly and secretly conveyed up-country by the Swedish officers of gendarmeric. The following telegrams were changed:
18th April-Liverpool and Singo- pore 13th April, GeneralButter feld & Swire.
16th April Shanghai 10th April KJELD, Norwegian stri, 910, Hellesse,
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From German Consul to German LegaLABANG, British str., 9,225, Mooney, 16th
Weapons were folchord way some days age by Swedish officer. My promotion of this affair has remained inconspicuous Froughout.
ermanophils are doing their best to the rifles are intended for Arabs in Egypt soften the bad impression, declaring that and Tunis, to be used in a rising against Great Britain and France. This, however, Ims not succeeded in pleating the resent 10ent against what is considered ass affront on the part of a country which, sides professing to regard herself as allied to Italy, is at the present moment making strenuous efforts to induce Italy to maintain her neutrality--a neutrality which Germany lows on February 10th: herself is violating by attempts at contraband traffic. Such attempts are daily discovered, and can be teared to the Central Empires.
ject by the following facts.
Light is thrown upon the "secret ob
The Ger- man Coment had been in communication with the Persian Sheikh Rais Ali. of Dilwar, a coast town some miles to the south of Bushire, regarding a proposed. attack on the latter place which Hais. All was apparently anxious to begin at once. The German Legation telegraphed as fol.
been seized in Venice containing over 3 par
Mr. Percival Phillips, special correspondent | Thus only today 700 sacks of sulphur have of the London Daily. Erpress, writing from "On the Belgiau frontier on the 1stli ult-cent. of copper, and therefore suitable for the manufacture of explosives. These sacks were confiscated --Revier.
Admissions that the German troops in Flanders have been ordered, to kill English prisoners and wounded have been made by two deserters who have arrived in Holland, disheartened by the hardships in the field and the brutal treatment by their officers.
The first deserter, Ferdinand Kubler, a brewer, is a reservist in the Crown Prined of Bavaria's army, and he declares that the Prince's order to kill the English had been freely carried out during the there months fighting against the British at
Ypres. The second deserter, Riebard. Lorentz, Twenty one years old, a labourer, living st Brunswick, was called to the colours on August 8, and joined the 208th Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division, 2nd Corps, He described the Bavarians na "wine, an utherwise spoke of them with the greatest contempi.
Kuther deserted because he was ill-fed and unable to stand the hardships.
The damned English were always intere fering with our meals," he said, "When they were not rushing our tronches and trying to bayonet us, their artillery destroyed our held kitchens, and we were frequently un- gry for days at a time."
"KARLSRUHE” MYSTERY..
HOW THE LONELA KAIDER SANK.
The Rike Stiftstidende -a¶newspaper pub- Bished at Rilas in Jutland, publishes the following story, which it says it has received
from a sure source :----
The German cruiser Karlsruhe was auik at the end of 1914 on the beginning of 1015
ear the American coust.
of the crew.
Reference telegram No.. 25. dated. Ten- aran, 1st instant, regarding undesirability of immediate action by Raïs Ali, and, the absolute Futility of independent action. Plenso hold him well, in hand, and assure him confidently of movement in the spring. If you really think him reliable and cousiler that circumstances aro ripe for notior there, would it be a good thing to make out a plan secretly with him which would be combined with an already ar ranged secret' action led from here, and would at the same time win over all Per- sia? As soon as possible I will let you know secretly further on this matter.
LINKING UP THE WORLD
BY TELEPHONE.
At a cost of £500,000 New York has been put into direct telephonic communication The crew were at
with San Francisco by the completion of tho tea one evening, when an explosion suddenly occurred, breaking the ship in two. One tunscontinental line, the length of which is over 3,000 miles. This is the longest part sank immediately, with a large number
overland line in the world, hut it aids only. an infinitesimal fraction to the total mileage of the telephone system of the United States, which contains within its borders more than 20,000,000 miles out of the world's total of Germany takes second 23,000,000 miles.. place a long way behind," with 4,207060 nies, and Great Britain comes third 2,400,000 miles.
"The other remained afloat for some time so that from 150 to 200 were saved by a supply ship accompanying the cruiser. The steamer succeeded in returning to a German port with the survivors, who were ordered, under pain of severe punishment, not to say a word about the disaster."
ith Lorentz spent the first eight weeks of the
The Exchange Copenhagen correspondent, Now that the Atlantic and Pacific coaste canyaign drilling in Brunswick and Berlin, and was sent to Melle, near Ghent. When telegraphing on the same subject, says:—- of the United States are telephonically con Antwerp fell his division participated in a
"I have tonight had a long distance teleuected, American electricians are turning three days forced march trying to overtake and eat off the British 7th Division on the
phone conversation with Mr. Willemoes, the their attention to the problem of similarly editor of the Ribe Stiftstidende and asked linking up Europe and America, and Pro- Y sor
They fought several actions en roafe, and him to explain to me how he got the informa fessor Pupin has overcome the financial diffi
by finally were held up at Beerst, north of Dixtion regarding the Kurthe, He gave me cultyinvolved in laying a special entle mude, which was practically the high-water perfectly acceptable reasons why it slimld be inventing a method which dispeners with, regarded as truc.. "Mr. Willemoes, who pre-
wires, and retinces the initial cost to a few mark of the invasion in that area. Lorentz fer end to speak to nie in confidence, also thoraand pounds-Pull Hall Cosette, declares that none of his regiment, which was composed largely of volutoas and some explained how it was his paper did not state exactly when the Karlsruhe went down. Landwehr men, was able-to-shoot prix and, though sent to attack, the trenches at Dixmude, they were unable to use the bayonet effectively. The inundations of Dismutte checked their offensive, and thereafter the troops were constantly harus sed by the British.
His explanation socmed to me to be trust
worthy."
NEWNHAM COLLEGE GIRLS
AND SMOKING.
The Telegraph's New York correspondent. quotes a story published there which states that the harisine is now lying high and dry, a total wreck, off Grenadines, of the
The Principal of Newnham has sent a Windward Islands. The story is told by a printed letter to parents of present under- He declares that the regimental officers sen captain, who declares that, he saw the graduates asking them to take part in a not they recalled from civilian life were markedly German raider ashore, aut upon close ex referendum. as to whether or incompetent, and the standard of the troops,nation convinced himself that the approve of conceding the request of sonie physically and. professionally, was so low. that stail oflicers sent to inspect them said, Karlsruhe was either flung ashore by a storm undergraduates that the college rule forbid ding smoking should be cancelled. On the "They are only good as cannon food" for blown to pieces by an explosion. He says side of those favouring the pro
proposal it tuny remark was freely circulated, and caused further that wreckage of the Karlsruhe is in
be urged that one of the fiercest enemies of great bitterness and resentmen in the annks. the possession of the Grenada authorities.
tobacco thought that if men were base enough to smoke, women might follow their example as a measure of self-defence.
a night attack
against the British
On one occasionth of Dixmuude
the orders were so mixed that the 20th Regiment found themselves under the
At a recent meeting of the Legislative
fire of the 200th from am. until day- Council of Ceylon, a very lively discus- break, despite repeated shouts from the tension took place on the second reading of of the 208th, who were lying in an exposed
"An Ordinance to provide for the regis
position. The great attack was never made.tration of dentists in Ceylon," certain of Lorentz adds:-
"On more than one occasion our regiment found itself under the fire of our artillery as walf as that of the enemy, while periods of so-called rest from the trenches have been devoted to drilling, frequently undershrapnel, which was supposed to stiffen our morale."...
the unofficial members strongly urging the inclusion of a schedule limiting the charges which dentists might make for The Hon. specific dental operations.
Dr. Ramanathan in particular waxed eloquent on the subject of the "rapacity" of some Ceylon dentists.
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