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The following Cables were received on Saturday evening and tamed in our Early Morning Extra yesterday.
THE BALKANS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:}
ALLIES RETIRE IN PERFECT
ORDER ON
FIGHTING ON THE BRITISH
FRONT CEASED.
Salonika, December 10th.. 3.28 p.m.
Fighting on the British Front ceased on Wednesday, and all is quiet. The British casualties since Monday are not considerable, whereas the Bulgarians must have lost heavily.
A general retirement of the Allied troops has commenced,
ATEINA, December 10th.
In Ministerial circles it is said that. the Allied troops are withdrawing in perfect order according to a pre-arranged plan and the Bulgarians will not be allowed to enter Greek territory.
* BULGARIANS RIPULSED
WITH HEAVY LOSS.
NEW POSITIONS TAKEN BY THE
ALLIES PARIS, December 11th.
1.50 a.m.
A communiqué states with regard to the Eastern Army, that when it was Tuanifest that junction with the right flank of the Serbian Armies was impossi ble, it was decided to ericuate the French advanced positions on the Cerna and in the direction of Krivolak. The succes sive retirement movements were effected methodically, without great difficulty, notwithstanding Bulgarian attacks,
Following violent actions on Wednes day, and Tharaday in which the Bal garians were repulsed and lost heavily, we occupied a new Frost on the Bojima river in conjunction with the British.
ALLIED ARMY IN SERBIA. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE CLOSE.
MORE ENERGETIC ATTITUDE
TOWARDS GREECE.
LONDON, December 11th. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail has been informed that the differ enos between France and Great Britain regarding the maintenance of the expedi ticn to the Balkans have ceased to exist, an agreement having been reached after the arrival of Sir Edward Grey and Lord Kitchener.
GENERAL.
A
"(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOR]
GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S
SPEECHES.L
GERMANY FIGHTING A
DEFENSIVE WAR!
(THROUGH RECYER'S AGENDY.] MR. H. SAMUEL RE-ELECTED.
LONDON, December 10th, In the Cleveland by-election, neces- sitated by the appointment of Mr. Her- bert Samuel to the Duchy of Lancaster, the result was:—
Samuel Knight
7,312 1,453
THE INCREASED INCOME-TAX, ENDEAVOUR TO SECURE REDRESS.
AMSTERDAM, December 10th. The German Chancellor, concluded two prolonged speeches in the Reichstag, by endeavouring again to emphasise the notion that Germany throughout has been fighting a defensive war and would not speak of peace conditions until she had
LONDON, December 11th. sean the enemies' conditions. He rofused
At a largo meeting in the City, at to go into details, he could not say, for instance, what guarantees Germany tonded by prominert representatives of would demand regarding Budgiem, but the Dominions and India, a resolution neither in the West nor in the East, must wats passed unantuuusly that the double their enemies have the means of invading and sometimes treble, income tax was Germany, whose economic development, unjust, inequitable, and contrary to Im also, must be safeguarded.
perial interests, would cause the with drawal of capital from the Dominions and Dependencies, and restrict invest ment there. A strong Committee was appointed to carry on the campaign, and a memorial will be circulated throughout the Empire. The belief was expressed that if the case was put strong- ly to the proper quarters redress would be secured.!
GERMANY'S SCARCITY OF
FOOD.
GIVING THE GAME AWAY:
LONDON, December 10th
DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY SUBMARINE. GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S. UN- WARRANTED CHARGE.
A remarkable article, considering the Gorman Press censorship, appears in the Morgenpost. It says that the discontent among the population on account of the scarcity of foodstuffs is increasing to such an extent that friends of the coun try cannot concral their deep anxiety. The article proceeds: Let the Minis- ter of the Treasury, who is so optimistic
LONDON, December 10th. in the Reichstag, walk the streets of
Dr. Bethmann-Hellweg (Imperial Berlin and see thousands of pror women Chancellor) in a second speech in the standing in long queues outside the shops Reichising, said that the pitch of the hate the in order to obtain a quarter of a pound against Germany was shown in of butter, and it will be an object-lesson Baralong case, in which a British war sufficient to convince him that everything ship murdered the helpless crew of a is not so well with us as it ought to have German submarine. been. Matters cannot continue so. Some people have been calling for a Dictator to solve the food problems. That is moot question, but we certainly do need men who have proved unequal to the task of organising the food supply." GERMANY'S PREDICAMENT.
AMSTERDAM, December 10th. The German Press appears to welcome warmly the Chancellor's speech in the Reichstag
The comments of the Press are summed
up in the soutenoo:-"! Germany would like peace the sooner the better-if it brings what we absolutely want."
NEW YORE, December 10th. The newspapers here see no chance of peace until the Allies have restored the freedom of nations. Dr. Bethmann Hollweg, if he had been frank, would have told the Germans that the war had been a failure but that Germany End created a situation in which she cannot discuss Pence till she is exhausted.
THE RECRUITING BOOM, HUNDREDS OF MEN ATTESTED IN BATCHES.
The first evidence of the unity of views is already apparent in the new and more
LONDON, December 10th. energetic attitude towards Greece.
Now that it has been decided to retain. There has been a remarkable eleventh- Salonika the Allies have resolved to dis-hour response to Lord Derby's recruiting sipate doubts regarding King Constan- tine's intentions, and probably a joint Note will be presented at Athens, de manding clear and immediate answers to the proposals already submitted. GERMANS ENTER GHEVGELI.
SALONIKA, December 10th.
It is reliably reported that two German Divisions, commanded by General ven Gallwitz, occupied Chevgeli this worn- ing
A later message from Salonika says that the reported occupation of Ghevgeli is untrue.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
(THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCY.} GERMANS THROWN BACK, TWO BATTERIES SILENCED.
PARI, December 11th..
A communiqué states that the Germans have been thrown back beyond a crest southward of Saint Souplet.
LATER.
A further communiqué says the French artillery is active, particularly in Artois, where two of the enemy's batteries have been silenced.. AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT,
(THROUGH RELFIE'S AGENCY.). VALONA HELD BY ITALIANS,
BOTHA'S DRIVE, ·
AND THE GERMAN COLLAPSE.
A member of General Botha's forces writing from Windhuk, gives the follow ing account of the advies and capture of Otavi and the final surrender of the Ger-
MANUFACTURING OFFICERS.
MINERVA AIDS MARS.
(BY: HDMUND GANDLER.]
Two thousand commissions since the wer bogan is a memorable record, but the
Artists Rifles have entered upon another lap of service. Hitherto the officers they
man foroos in South-West Africa:-
“After leaving Uzakes our brigade ha! have sent out have been men of their own corps, now orders have been passed to orders to march to Otari through Makfeld establish a school in the camp for the in- and Omaram. Two other brigades march-struction of officers under commission. The difference is that men come to them The work of the corps ed parallel to us. But, bless you, the Ger- already gazetted. mens had no fight in them. If they had and its sphere of usefulness are doubled. The original battalion, after training they were not wanting for opportunity as we had to pass through the most awful at Lord's, arrived at the front when the in, Without there b, org anyhow through vach en hutze (wait a country you ever say roads hacked out thin line of the 7th Division, hastaly.
man thrust on Calais. Hardly an officer bit thornbush, which grows from fift. toed by artillery, was holding back the Ger- 15ft. high, the roads (or rather track) of those old, seasoned battalion cer left, and the Artists were called upon to enkle deep in sand, and waterholes any thing between 20 gril, 50 miles apart. I find fifty leaders of men to fill in the gaps. Fifty were despatched and arrived took us 14 days to reach Otavi, and wo
on the scene hot-foot in privates' unica. were averaging about 25 miles in the 24
We were advancing so fast Their names are mostly inscribed on the hours. we fairly astounded the Germans who Roll of Honour. hadn't the time to do anything. Eke the damage to the line they would have dono had they dreamt that we were going to advance at such a mate with such a big force (20,000 fighting men in the three brigades). They thought the country a solutely impossible fer even half that for at half the rate we advanced at:
"When we got just within reach of Otavi (about 12 miles off it) our water gave out for men and horses. We got orders to take Otavi? (there was plenty of water there); there was no possibility of going hock; every mon knew that they would have all died of thire, as wo-wore 40 miles from the last water holes, which werd nearly exhausted.
That was the beginning of the new order of things. The Artists' Rifles became a training school for officers. The first official mention of the battalion as a training corpa Was in Sir John French's despatch of February 2nd, 1016,
The cadets," he wrote, "pass through a course which includes some thoroughly practical training, as all cadets do a tour of 48 hours in the trenches and afterwards write a report on what they see and notice. They also visit an beration post of a battery or group of batteries and spend some hours there.
The cadets are instructed in all branches of military training suitable for platoon
commanders,
Machine gun Lautics, a knowledge of which is so neces- "General Manie Botha, who was General sary for all junior officers, is a special The British Press Bureau to-night says that the circumstances of the destruction Botha's lieutenant in the lute Boer wa: feature of the course of instruction. was on our right with his brigade, so we When first started the school was able to of a German submarine and crew by H.M.S. Baralong in August last were at were the centre. and were to advance turn out officers at the rate of 75 a present the subject of communication straight on Obavi, while he and the bri-month. This bas since been increased to between the United States and the Brigade on our left were to get well round 100." tish Governments. Therefore it was not and out-flank and ous the German line of retreat. As Manie Botha was getting proposed to make a public statement at present, beyond repudiating the un-round, a portion of his brigade come int warranted charge preferred by the Im-action with the Germans, and when they tumbled to the out-anking movement they perial Chancellor,
were off like rabbits, but not before Mania The visitor to the camp will find that SPAIN'S NEW GOVERNMENT Botha, when he spotted them limbering the name of the battalion is no empty up their artillery, had the chanes to slidesignation Minerva and Mars, the into them, our advance guard and artillery supporting.
WILL ADHERE TO STRICTEST NEUTRALITY.
MADRID, December 10th, The resignation of the Conservative Premier. Dr. Dato, owing to Parliament ary difficulties, led to the formation of a Liberal Cabinet under Count Roma nones, who announces that he will adhere to the strictest neutrality toward all belligerents,
TIMELY RAINS IN AUSTRALIA.
SYDNEY, December 10th. Timely rains have saved the early
crops.
NEW SPANISH MINISTRY, MADRID, December 10th. A Liberal Cabinet has been formed appeal During the last two day, long queues of recruite, often four deep, have the Premier being Count Romanones and been waiting, despite the persistent rain. So great has been the rush in some places the Foreign Secretary, Sr. Villanueva. that hundreds have been attested in batches, the medical examination being deferred. Nevertheless, the recruiting authorities still emphasise the fact that every man is wanted.
GERMAN ATTACHES RECALLED FROM U.S.A,
WAR ECONOMY,
A NEW BRONZE AGE.
It is a traditional virtue of the British that they can do great things lightly (writes Mr. Perry Robinson in the Daily Mail). Our men, in the trenches are show WASHINGTON, Desember 10th. Count Bernstorf, the German Ambasing that the virtue is not dead, and we, sador, has informed Mr. Lansing that the all the people at home, now have our German Naval and Military Attachés, opportunity. Captain Boyed and Captain von Papen, have been recalled in accordance with the request of the American Government, and be asked, that safe conduct be obtained for them.
AMERICA AND AUSTRIA.
STRAINED RELATIONS.
WASHINGTON, December 10th. Diplomatic relations with Austria are in danger of being broken off by the United States unless the urgent demands for the disavowal of the sinking of the Ancona, and an assurance occurrence will not be repeated, are coin- plied with
that the
THE DUTCH EDITOR'S ARREST.
BELLIGERENTS NOT TO BE
INSULTED.
*
THE GREAT DERMAN SURRENDER,
FINISHING TOUCHES IN FRANCE,
In the present month the output of officers from the corps has reached two thousand.
badge of the corps, twin profiles of wisdom and strength, aptly symbolise the brain and sinews of the machine. Art in all its forms is represented, and the high physical standard has been maintained.
And now, after fifteen months of war,
"After clearing out of Otavi the Germans
The original two companies raised in long thin, narrow-gauge railway. We 1859 were made up of painters and musi retreated to Tshumb, north-east of Otavi,
was added, and a fourth of students, seized Groot further on our right, which cians; the third company of architects single line about 70 miles long towards the mostly London University men. The full was a rail head, so they only had one desert north-east to play with. Colonel battalion was completed by two more com Francke, in charge of the Germans, from panies of painters, another of architects, Tshumeb sent in to discuss terms of sprand one of doctors. All men of good render with General Botha, who told him social standing are eligible, and to be an artist is not an essential qualification, unconditional were the only terms they though the roll of members contains many would get. He refused to surrender o distinguished names. such terms, so wo get round them in a wide semi-circle, leaving no retreat but th desert, where they had no rail to retreat along this time. They were also flanked by a hostile tribe of natives on the north east, who use poisoned arrows and have never been conquered. General Botha gave them 24 hours to reply to our terms. They asked for a postponement of four hours to 3.30 p.m., and then again to 7.30, and a further one to 2:30 a.m., in order to con ault all parties on their side. This was granted, but fenting hanky-panky tricks we got close into them daring the night. When in position we waited till dawn, and
these two thousand commissions and the corps long roll of honour bear witness to the rally of men who are artists in the wildest sense of the word, whether Mars or Minerva is predominant in their disposition.
Today's corporal of the guard is brother to the general commanding at
If he survives the war he will win distinction for his family in another craft. There is a story which has been published somewhere of a private of the corps grooming down his officer's horse to the tune of a march of his own composi-
as no signal was given by our guns wotion played on the regimental band. knew they had accepted our terus and had laid down their arms,
CORINTHIANS FROM BRAZIL
Cor-
The Artists came in at the first call literally from China and Peru. A team of the Corinthians was southward bound for a tour in the Argentine. Then board the news at Pernambuco,changed ships, came home, and joined the Artists Rifles to a man. Ralph Stock, the novelist, was his favourite wrecked somewhere lo
Pacife, a victim of too adventurous sea- manship in an immorally light craft The He managed to get himself picked up and
found his way home to the corps.
A sing song of a company of the Artists' Rifles is no ordinary entertain- "They kept coming in daily for thrsement. At a concert the other night you Future generations will speak of the days, 4,000 of them, not counting that might have heard a Rusian pianist play- period that is coming upon us as the Age reservists, and it was a sight to see the ing the accompaniment of a French bari- of Half Incomes: a sort of new Bronze artillery. They have more than we have tone who hailed from Mauritius, Age, when gold and silver will be scarce, in the whole Union, and their big gun poral Cormack O'Shane followed with a and copper, whether in coins or as raw ammunition was piled in tiers Bft high rousing song. In the sketch room lent by a neighbouring novelist, Mr. Arthur Mor- material for monitions, will assume un-
as it came in. When all was in, to give rison, you will find a well-known artist wonted importance. And it is our busi. you an idea of the quantity, it would take who has forsaken autumn tints for the ness to gre that those future generations half the pumpfield to hold it stacked as anatomy of a machine gun. In observa shall be able to tell how gaily their grand- it was, 8ft. high It was astonishing to tion and draughtsmanship the corps is fathers and great grandfathers faced us, when we realized this, that the Gor probably second to none. Naturally the hard life; even as we may love to to tell mans did not hold us up at Otavi or else architects of the battalion have put up with what gallant carelessness our ances where for any length of time. They say their own sheds and canteen. tors in their time sent their gold and now it was because they never thought we silver to the melting-pot for the King's were going to invade them in such force
and from three sides of their country sake
What is it, after all, rightly viewed, simultaneously. They admit General Botha but a great picnic! We must imagine is a great general, and they take off their that we are but roughing it" for fun, hata to him, living as we delight to live when we are
"The Damara natives helped us a lot off on pleasure; and then there will be enjoyment in it and health. For certain- They refused to fight for their masters, the ly we shall all be the better for it. We Germans, us they had treated them brutal shall only be doing what doctors have ly. It was a common thing to come across told us that we ought to do, and the young natives hanging rotting from the Things that Really Matter will have a trees. In some crees they buried them chance of coming by their own: things alive-this is an established fact, THE HAGUE, December 10th. like porridge and clothes which are old natives know where the roads were mined. In the Second Chamber, the Minister enough to be as comfortable as they are and told as one mine was 500 varde long of the loaders of men and leaders in the for the Interior, referring to the arrest cut of fashion; walking instead of taking a controlled mine leid in n zig-zag making. They are in a country that must of Herr Schroeder, editor of the Tele- taxis going to market with a basket on fashion down the road, filled with old iron graaf, said that everyone was free to your arm and housekeeping of the stern horseshoes, etc. When located it was ex-appeal alternately every minute of the express sympathy with the Allies or with old economical type; and suet pudding ploded by the engineers from's respectful day to the artist and soldier, an ideal nullahs and jungle, now in the glory- the Central Powers, but it was not with treacle... allowable to insult either. The Press is
We have too long denied ourselves distance. It could have blown a who training ground with its hills and plains,
brigade to smithereens..
of the red and gold of the falling leaf. free, but Justice upholds the law with enjoyment of the Things that Really Mat- ter. Now comes the time we can not only
Daily Mail. RUSSIANS CAPTURE A PASS out looking to the right or to the left.
The Minister asked that the Govern- have them ourselves, but we can without The Germans here are brutal, hypo IN PERSIA.
ment's power to do something to end the affectation bid our neighbours to a share, critical swine. They have show our scouts war way very limited, as the belligerents with no shame if the food be but just and outposts whers any other nation with favourable weather conditions to Berlin ENEMY FLEE IN COMPLETE
were disposed to regard them with some enough for the party and of the simplest. distrust, they must, therefore, wait till But, She has said in the past, you a bit of sport in them would have taken ceived and sent messages direct to Berlin- the belligerents were convinced that peace really must not ask him to stay; there is them prisoners. Even now they tell us woThere are five ma n' poles (or rather frame- negotiations were better for them than nothing to cat and we, ashamedly, are only here for a while, sad that we works of steel) to support the wires, and
havs let him gohamedly the continuance of war.
don't know the strength, where every sol- everything is most elaborate-plant, Now we will say," Good If he is a dier is a clever tradesman, or expert at quarters for managers, operators, staff, et. BRITISH MINISTERS IN true man who is doing his duty by Eng- something, if were possible to make him They did not destroy the slation, they say,
FRANCE
land, when he goes home be too will have one, and every man is a trained soldier because it will be the rs again at the eni nothing to eat. So he may as well share These Germans recken that whatever of the war. When they have secured th munitions we may turn cut they can put seaboard of France (and Holland if neces PAR18 December 10th.cur nothingress,"
And having no false pride--that dread-out 10 times as much. They also say that cary) their submarines will play havoc M. Poincaré received Sir Edward Grey and Lord Kitchener, who inter ful guest who sits, so often at the table they can had is and France, also Italy, with our merchantmen. They don't lunched with him and the members of the and chills all merriment we will season until Russia is hopelessly beaten, and ther want to destroy our Fleet, when they can Cabinet. We pr
our fare, our soup of mysterious savoury turn all their attention to us. Altogether and will destroy our trade, etc. That's
PARIS, December 10th.
A telegram from Rome says that Valona is strongly held by the Italian Army.
THE NEAR EAST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
DISORDER."
PETRONID, December 10th. 2 240 p.m., Russian troops have occupied Sultan Bulak Pass, where gendarmes and Gor man mercenaries have boca fortifying themselves for a fortnight under German and Turkish officers. The road to Hama dan is now open. The enemy fed in com plete disorder, purmed by the Russians.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] CREW OF TORPEDOED SHIP LANDED.
LONDON, December 11th. The Captain and 23 men of the steamer Umea have been landed at Algiers.
BOMBAST AND BRUTALITY.
They are an enviable crew, these makers.
POLITICAL DIFFICULTY IN sedients and potatoes cooked in their they ere the most confident, rocky, bratat, the way they talk out here. We haven's
QUEENSLAND.
BRISBANE, December 10th.
The question of the Queensland Upper House has again reached a critical stage the Legislative Council voting by 26 to 3 against its own abolition,
with joy and a fellowship in the humourless crowd one could possibly meet destroyed a thing of theirs, their homes. pride that is not false but true, knowing. The wireless station from where I am shops, farms, stock, have suffered practi but not saying, that this is all for Engwriting this is one of the most modern and cally nothing. They are making money out laud's sake.
expansive in the world. It cost the Ger of us, charging us double prices for every mans over a million pounds to complete thing, and calling us fools, to our faces, They only used one transmitting station Surely we are fools What would our to Togoland to communicate direct with homes, shops, farms, etc., be like if the Berlin, and on some occasions unde tables were turned ?"
Is it Sir Thomas Browne who speaks of the meal of our distant forefathers as the "bit of the ancient Britons of the big
It was an honourable hit." We also can do ours
ness of a bean *** D TO ALL GESUCHE FADERTA