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THE WAR.
BIG GERMAN OFFENSIVE.
DESPERATE ATTACKS MEET WITH COMPLETE FAILURE.
WEAKENING ENEMY IN
TAN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 1016.
RÚSSIA.
IMPORTANT OPERATIONS IN
MESOPOTAMIA.
THE GALLIPOLI EVACUATION.
AN IMPERISHABLE PLACE IN NATIONAL HISTORY,”
PREMIER AND SIR IAN HAMILTON'S
DESPATCH.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REDINE'S AQESON. I ENEMY TRENCHES WRECKED). BIG GERMAN ATTACKS MEET WITH COMPLETE FAILURE.
PARIE, January 11th. 12,55 a.m.
ALIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] VIOLENT FIGHTING. - MONTENEGRINS INFLICT AND SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES,
PARIS, January 11th.
A Montenegrin communiqué states that
THE NEAR EAST
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
THE GALLIPOLI EVACUMMON
GRATITUDE OF KING AND COUNTRY
Losros, January 11th.
THROUGH REUTER AGENCY.1
ĮTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
LABOUR AND COMPULSION. AFFAIRS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF A MOTION FOR REJECTION,
COMMONS.
LONDON, January 11th.
LONDON, January 11th.. Mr, Anderson, the Labour member,
In the House of Commons Mr Char- will move the rejection of the Military berlain announced important operations Bill on the 12th.
in Mesopotamia for the relief of Kut. Thekha Liberal, Mr. Lees Blogerar Aylmer left Aligherbi on the Smith, w second the motion.
On the other hand, it is officially an nounced that the Labour Party have accepted the invitation of Mr. Asquith to discuss with him certain aspects of the Bli on the 11th. Meanwhile, the resig
in abeyance
[THROUGH ABUTTER'S AGEROY] BRITISH AIRMEN KILLED.
LONDON, January 11t Lieut. Gordon Duke, and Warrand Officer Fraser, while flying at Eastbourn, fell and were Filled." WELL-KNOWN FOOTBALLER KILLED IN ACTION,
LONDON, January 11th. Second Lieut. Cyril Bussy, of the South 6th, for Kub General Townshend re-Staffordshire Regt, the well-known foot ported on the 8th, that there a heavy haller, kas been killed in action, firing north-west of Kut, bus the enemy
MEETING OF PARSEES. did not attack. Then General Aylmer, why had a fifty miles march along the
LONDON, January 11th. Sir M. Bhownagre presided at a mees: Tigris to Kut, reported heavy fighting or
In the House of Commoan, Mr. Asquith announced that he deprecated any dis cussion at present of Sir Ian Hamilton's report, and he would not assent to an en- quiry into the Dardanelles operations.
He added that the retirement from Gallipoli deserved, and would receive the gratitude of the King and country, and nations of the Labour Ministers are left both banks of the Tigris on the night of ing of members of the Parses community in England at the Caxton Hal, at which the 7th General Campbell's column, on resolutions regresting the death of Sin the right bank, carried the enemy's posi-K B. Mchta, Sir D. M. Petit and Sir bion, taking two guns, and 700 prisoners. Bomnuji were passed,
Meanwhile, the main attack on the loft MINISTERIAL RESIGNATIONS. bank had been retarded by an enemy
LONDON, January 11th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquïáh flanking movement, and General Aytmer was opposed by three
announced that any acceptance of a reported that he Turkish divisions. He also reported that Ministerial resignation would be prompt on the night of the 8th, owing to the ly intimated to the House. fatigue of his troops; he was unable to proceed, but on the 9th. the enemy was retreating and he was pursuing them, al-
Sir Percy Lawrence, Commissioner for though hindered by the rain. The latest Indian Hospitals, reports that no serious LONDON, January 11th. Mr. F. N. Charrington announces that telegram state that, the Turks are still charge has been brought against any patient or convalescent in England or he will stand for Mile End as a Patriotic retreating, and that Orah has been France. Independent candidate in favour of the GENERAL NIXON RELINQUISHES Compulsion Bill,
would take an imperishable place in our national history. The King would be a vised that General Monroe, Admiral de Roebeck Rear Admiral' Wemyss Gonerul Birdwood, General Davice, and other officers should rescivo special recognition,
He expressed extreme gratification at the retirement from Cape Helles without the loss of a single life. Ten out of eleven guns were abandoned, but they were worn out fifteen panders which were rendered unfit for further service. All the stores and réservo ammunition which could not be removed were burned. These operations, combined with those at Suvla Bay, were without parallel in military or naval history, and were an achievement of which the commanders and officers and mon of both service may well be proud.
· A' FRENCH ACCOUNT.
PROLONGED CABINET MEETING.
LONDON, January 10th There was a prolonged Cabinet meeting this afternoon. Mr. Henderson, Mr. Me. Kenna and Mr. Runcimen attended. It is understood that the chief topic was the labour position,
BYE-ELECTIONS.
A PATRIOTIC INDEPENDENT
CANDIDATE.
[Mile End has been roprosented in Par- liament by the Hon. H. L W. Lawson (1 son of the Inte: Lord Burnham, who
reached,
COMMAND.
LONDON, January 11th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Chank
INDIAN PATIENTS.
LONDON, January 11th.
MEDICAL RESEARCH IN WAR,
PARIS, January 1 succeeds to the Peerage At the lastberlain announced that General Nixon search to the needs of the war is shown in
A communique states:With referonce to the Gallipoli evacuation, all the French A communique states:-Artillery activi-there has been extremely violent fighting material has been removed except six ty has been general on the entire front,
at Lepenatz The positions captured naval gusa which were destroyed. Those There was a violent bombardment on tho were lost several times, and finally we are included in the seventeen mentioned. heights of the Meuse, where enemy remained masters of the ground, Our in the British communiqué. The Turki trenches were wrecked. There have been losses were appreciable, but the enemys only started firing as four on the morning stubborn and continued engagements in were considerable. After desperate fight of the 9th, when the embarkation was co- Champagne, which have enabled the
ing the enemy occupied Turiak and we pleted, French to occupy nearly all the lost withdrew to positions on the left of ground. The German operations, both Lesnitza. Violent Austrian attacks in the as regaads the numbers and means employ direction of Ipekrugovo were everywhere "ed; were far-roaching in character, and repulsed.. were intended to produce important re Faults, but ended in complete failure
An entire Brigade was hurled against a single point on a large front.
VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACKS. CHECKED WITH HEAVT LOSSES.
PARIS, January 11th. 6.10 p.. A communiqué states: The Germans developed, in Champagne, an attack under sover of a violent bombardment, poison' gas and shells. They attempted four con- centric notions day and night on a front
of eight kilometres, in the region of Butto de Mesnil. Everywhere our fire decimated
the enemy and checked his offensive. The
There has been a furious bombardment
GENERAL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH BRUTALITY."
➡
at Loveen, all the loss and mobile bat-THE LIE DIRECT TO GERMAN tories at Bocche di Cattaro as well as the
STATEMENTE, ANAZI cruisers participating.
LONDON, January 11th.
There has been continued desperate
FUND THAT WAS ESTABLISHED BY. HISTORICAL ACCIDENT.
The quick adaptation of medical re election, Mr. Lawson was returned by a majority of only two votes his opponent owing to ill-health, had relinquished his the first annual report of the Medical being Mr. B. S. Strauss.
sommand in Mesopotamia, and was re Research Committee, which has just been issued. When the National Health In- turning home. His successor was Sir surance Medical Research Committee- Percy Lake, Chief of the General Staff that war was inevitable they placed the who had some £55,000 to spend-realised in India.
whole of their resources at the disposal of the Army Medical Department. Most of the researches have börno. good fruit, as the present health of our armies wit nesses abundantly. We have all heard of the various kinds of injuries, both physical and mental, from which ouz soldiers have sufferal. The nerve-wounds, if they can be so called, have never boo
WEST NEWINGTON RESULT, The bye-election at West Newington, which was caused by the elevation to the Peerage of Captain C. W. Norton, re- multed as follows.
Mr. Gilbert (Liberal),
2,646 Mr, Terrett (Trade Unionist), 787.
Majority
1,850 Mr. Terrett, who was put forward by
ST. PAUL'S, SUFFERING FROM SENILE
DECAY."
the Trade Unionists, opposed the restric-senile decay" The building is in tions in any other war. Now, however,
tion in the sale of drink in London. ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE. Mr. Mackenzie Bell, The Liberal can didate, has withdrawn from the contest in St George's Hanover Square. Sin
LONDON, January 11th. St. Paul's Cathedral is suffering from
graver caudition than ever, according to Canon Alexander, the Church Treasurer, who renews bis appeal for funds to con- solidate the piers and buttresses. Two years ago £70,000 was asked for. The war interrupted the flow of subscriptions, and only half of this amount has been
INDIAN AND EGYPTIAN ARMIES.
The two Americans who were aboard George Reid, the official Unionist enn- fighting on the Ipek front, where although the Nicasian at the time of the Baralongislate, is now the only candidate in the the enemy was repeatedly repulsed with affair give the lie direct to the statements
fld, Mr. Gibson Bowles having with obtained.
enormous loss, the Montenegrins were
drawn several days ago. that the British shot the Germans either obliged to evacuate Berano, The Aus
in the water or aboard the Nicosian, ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS EX- trian offensive failed at Bogorva and They are Corporal Carson and Driver
PLOSION IN AMERICA. Moikavatz, but after re-taking Touriak
Dempsey both of whom joined the British the Montenegrins were forced to retire Army out of a spirit of adventure. Both to the left bank of the river Lim. The were interviewed at Blackpool. Austrians made a furious attack for Carbon several days on Mount Levichen, covered actually
Was one of those who returned to the Nicosian
PHILADELPHIA, January 11th. There was a terrific explosion at the Dupont munition works at Carneys Point Many were killed and injured.
by warships and the fort at Cattaro. after the Baralong sank the sub-It is asserted that outside influences are They succeeded, with the aid of gas, marine, remaining aboard throughout
A PROMOTION ANOMALY,
LONDON, January 11th
fully studied before, because there have ngyer been such nerve-shattering condi a careful study of the psychological troubles of the soldiers is buing made and tabulated. The report says that this will lead to results of great scientific value. Slowly accumulated scientific facts have a habit of becoming hidden away from immediate medical practice but in the case of this special work of the research committes nothing of the kind is likely to happen. Indeed, the report states de. finitely that the new method of collection
of these scientific facts has allowed tha rapid supply of information to medical ufbcers overseas with regard to the after- history of cases of whose treatment thay are responsible in the initial stages."
enemy only gained a momentary footing in occupying Kuk and Rastatz Fight the night. Therefore he was in a posible. Details are locking as the boing eligible for promotion was still dical Research Committee, states that
at two points in our first line, but a 品 vigorous counter-attack drove him out and be now occupies only two small parts of our advanced trenches,
GENERAL ARTILLERY
ACTIVITY,
ing is proceeding.
THE BALKANS
[THROUGH, REUTER'S" AGENCY.]
ARRESTED CONSULS.
A NEW DEVELOPMENT.
*
LATER.
The cause is being investigated, RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN PERSIA.
TEHERAN, January 11th.
It is perhaps too early to expect fulb reports of the mental injuries, but cer tain bodily ones have already been deal! with in this manner, notably gunshot wounds of the chest, arterial injuries, In the House of Commons, Mr. Re-fractures of the femur, fractured joints, ginald Neville asked whether the rule and epidemic dropsy. Thus cach army surgeen can find out just what has hap that Subalterns and Captains in the In-pened to any patient he has sent home to England, and can vary his treatment, dian and Egyptian armies must
Serve if necessary, in any inture case of the nine years with those in the ranks before same kind. At the conclusion of the re port Lord Moulton, chairman of the Me
telegrams are interrupted.
"the existence of a National Medical being enforced, with the result that junior Research Fund, established by historical tion to know exactly what occurred there.
officers of the British Regular and Terri accident so shortly before the war, and He says no such words as take no pri Six-persons were killed in the explosion torial armies, many of whom wore ignor without possible to bring auxiliary any foreknowledge of it, has soners !!
were ever uttered by Captain
at the Dupont works.
ant of the native languages, were being agencies rapidly to the service of Govern McBride. He added:---“. I saw no shoot
ment departments, and especially to that promoted over the heads of the Indian of the Army Medical Department in ita ing of anyone. There were a few shots,
were their varied and vitally important activities." but I have the best reasong for knowing
and Egyptian officers who senior and were familiar with the native what these were because I myself was shooting wounded mules. This, I think,
languages, There has been a new development in is how the stories of the shooting of the Hois, Grenier St, Elo; and about Ypres, connection with the enemy Consuls arrest-Germans arose. I neither saw nor heard Hostile aircraft dropped bombs neared at Salonika. They have been trans any German shot in the water." Strazele, Hazebrouck and St. Omer. Aferred from a British ship to the anxi- liary cruiser Savoie, where they have been woman and child were killed, ANGLO-FRENCH CONFERENCE,
PARIS, January 11th, The monthly Anglo-French conference between the military and aviation authori ties is developing into an Allied confer
A Russian aviation mission has already arrived.
LONDON, January 11th.
General Sir Douglas Haig reporta artil- lery activity to-day near Fauquissart,
ence.
RUSSIAN FRONT,
(THROUGH REUTERS AGENCY:]
CALM ON THE FRONT, AN ENFEEBLED ENEMY
PETROGRĄ, January 11th. A communiqué states.-There is a calm in the West front. At Galicia and east ward of Czernovitz the enemy, suffer- ng from the heavy losses inflicted by our apid and violent blow, and disorganised
y their desperate and barron attempts"
interned.
TOULON, January 11th.
GREEK GOVERNMENT
PROTESTS
Dempsey confirms this statement, an
and adds: The story that the submarine Captain was shot is news to me, and I swear
that nothing of the sort happened." He concluded that the two Americans ATHENS, Jannery 11th. who made affidavits had a grudge against The Government have protested against the English members of the Nicosian's. the arrests at Mitylene, which have crew. olicited a fresh protest from the Central Powers,
FRIENDLY ALBANIANS,
LONDON, January 11th. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil said that the Albanian territory
under Essad Pasha, had been friendly to the Serbians, and Essad Pasha had ren dered them valgible assistance,
SERBIANS DEFEAT
BULGARIANS.
ROME, January 11th.
recapture lost positions, are completely It is announced that the Serbians de active beyond feeble and unsuccessful tempts to binder by artillery and hand feated the Bulgarians at El Basson, en- renades. Our troops are consolidating trenched themselves and captured posi eir gains.
tions.
[The Americans roferred to in the last paragraph were quoted in German memoradam as having sworn affidavits to the effect that those on board tho Baralong fired rifes and
at. guns the Germans when they were in the water, that orders were given to take us prisoners, and also that four Ger mans who were on board the Nicosian were killed.]
THE LATE LORD BURNHAM,
"G. O. M. OF JOURNALISM " - LONDON, January 11th. The newspapers pay warm tributes to the late Lord Burzham, whom they decribe as the Grand Old Man of journalism."
Their Majestics the King and Queen telegraphed their sympathy with the family in their bereavement,
ed two German officers,
SHAH RECEIVES RUSSIAN COMMANDER.
The Russians have scored another im portant success, defecting a large rebel force at Assadabad. The prisoners includ-propriate remedy for a disparity result-The moans of murdered men he heard,
ing from exceptional conditions due to His conscience; called him into line
The wails of outraged women stirred the war was not easy to devise. Sugges With comrades truc a cause divine tions made by the Raj had been examined He had espoused as out he stepped,
While gear unes of his own blood wept. by a Committee of the War Office and the India Office, and he awaited their recom- The Call of Duty he obeyed,
And promptly his decision made; All thoughts of home ties he eschewed When Freedom fair might be subdued. A holy war he went to ught That over Wrong might triumph Right, A godly ire his soul possessed
THE HERO.
Mr. Chamberlain replied that an ap- That roused his soul and bade him "Come!"
"Twas not the sound of fife or drum
TEHERAN, January 11th. The Shah received the General Com- manding the Russian forces in Persja mest graciously.
AEMY PROMOTIONS,
LONDON, January 11th. Prince Alexander of Teck has been promoted Brigadier General. Brevet Colonel and temporary Major General R. H. Butler bas been gazetted Deputy Chief of General Staff in succession to Colore), and temporary Major General Whigham.
DIED
OF WOUNDS. A HAI LONDON, January 11th. Rear-Admiral John Tuke has died wounds.
"RECRUITING.
of
Losnon, January 10th. The reopening of the Groups has al- reads met with a good response, many attesting throughout the country,
mendations.
NEW HOME SECRETARY.
LONDON, January 11th. Mr. Herbert Samuel has been appointed Home Secretary.
OBITUARIES,
LONDON, January 11th.
The death is announced of the Rt. Hon.
Sir Samuel James Way a former Chief Justice of South Australia.
[The deceased was appointed Arst Lieut. Governor of South Australia in 1891, and administered the Government of South Aus. tralia ten times. He also became the first representative of the Australian Colonies on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1897.]
CHAIRMAN OF GLEN LINE.
LONDON, January 11th. The death is announced of Mr. Allan McGregor, Chairman of the "Glen" lin:
"of steamery.
to see the weak so sore oppressed.
Fe
knew he might give of his bloud. In Freedom's Cause the work of God; That foreign clay might wrap him round, His headstone be a shovelled mound, The sacrifice he counted slight In helping by establish Right; His arm by strength divine was nerved, The King of Kings he proudly served. Twas in a glorious charge he fell Doing his duty nobly, well; He died as but the brave can die, Unheard to utter moan or sigh Knowing he died in God's own cause, Striking hard for Humanity's bake,.. Fighting 'gainst those who spurn His Laws. Making the Tyrant's strongholds shake.
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Oh seep not for so brave a soul, Hemcah no piere Death's bipter toll; Parents hereft, chl dry your eyes, That glorious, stipri sacrifice, From yonder bloody field has risen Accepted incense unto Heaven, Teaching like Christ, our lives to give That we may learn the way to live.
Harry L. Miller in the Weekly Scotsman.