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THE WAR.
MONTENEGRO AND PEACE.
REPORT OF
SURRENDER
PREMATURE.?
KING NICHOLAS CHARGED
WITH TREACHERY.
NO INDUSTRIAL
CONSCRIPTION.
COST OF CANADA'S ARMY.
THE BALKANS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] MONTENEGRO AND PEACE.
NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF.
PARIS, January 18th.
A French official wireless essage say" the report of the surrender of the Montone. grins was premature.
It is now announced that the Austro Montenegrin negotiations are broken off, the conditions imposed being quite un- acceptable to Montenegro. ITALY ACCUSES KING NICHOLAS
OF TREACHERY.
RUBBIAN FRONT.
[HAVAS BERVICE]:
FIGHTING IN NORTHERN RUSSIAN THEATRE,
THB HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21ør, 1918.
PARIS, January 18th. Fighting is still proceeding in Riga and Dwinsk regions. The enemy is reported to have evacuated Pinsk
FRANCO-BELGIAN FROMT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S KQZNOT, 1
ALL QUIET.
PARIS, January 19th. A communiqué says there is nothing to report.
THE NEAR EAST,
{THROUGH EBUTER'S AGENCY.] MESOPOTAMIA OPERATIONS
[INROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY ]'
COMPULSORY SERVICE.
NAVY TO HAVE FIRST CALL ON
MENUR
NO INDUSTRIAL CONSCRIPTION.
Losnon, January 19th.
the House of Commons, the Labourites accepted a Government amend- ment to the Compulsion Bill, designed to provent industrial conscription.
The Government accepted an amendment providing that the Admiralty shall have the first call on the men secured under
the measure.
Dr. Macnamara pointed out that the Admiralty had power to raise 300,000 men and they needed 60,000 more by March zist. They had already got 50,000 of that number. It was not anticipated that shere would be any difficulty in getting the men required, but the amendment was in on- sonance with the spirit of the Bill, and would therefore be accepted.
[TH20UGS RECTER'S AGENOT.]
LATEST CASUALTY LIST.
LONDON, January 19th. casualties are
The following nounced
KILLED.
an-
Lieutenant G. D. A. Clarke (Artillery). 2nd Lieutenant H. J. Bowman (Mid-
dlesex).
2nd Lieutenant H. S, Lambert (York-
shires).
2nd Lieutenant N. M. Lowe
dontana).
WOUNDED,
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
PLOT AGAINST LIFE OF TUAN SHIH-KAI.
TREACHERY OF AGED SERVITOR.
PERING, January 20th.
A conspiracy has been discovered in the Palace to assassinate the Emperor-Elcet (Lon- by explosives and bombe. The chief con- spirator is an aged servitor, who was be-
Captain P Hutchinson (Welsh Regiment)lieved to be faithful. The plan was to Captain H. 8. Milno (R.A.M.C.)
out off the the electric light and explode Captain B, Oakes-Jones (Royal Fusi- bombs in the residence, Two hundred men
liera).
are implicated. There have been many arrests.
Captain J, M. Williams (Northumber-
land Fusiliers). Lieutenant H. Pickbourne (Leicesters). 2nd Lienterant D. M, Grieg (Suffolks). 2nd Lieutenant J. G. Henderson (Ride
Brigade),
2nd Lieutenant A V. Insole (Artillery)." 2nd Lieutenant J. H. Shaw (Scots Fusi
liora).
· NOW UNOFFICIALLY REPORTED KILLED. 2nd Lieutenant A. V. Hobbs (Flying
SIR GEORGE REID'S TRIBUTE TO Corps).
LORD KITCHENER.
The debate was notable for the maiden speech of Sir George Reid, who said the Australians thought ths, the only possible
hundreds of years ago, but what they were question now was not what our rights were
likely to be if we were licked. Incidental- iy, Sir George Reid repudiated the obser vations of Major-General Sir Ivor Herbert, whe had secased Earl Kitchener of being wrong throughout in the matter of recruiting. Sir George said the opinion of Australians was that Earl Kitchener, in raising the Citizen Armies had per formed one of the grandest duties that a any British soldier had ever performed. TWO AMENDMENTS THROWN OUT.
2nd Lieutenant CE, Tudor-Jones (East
Lanes).
A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION.
PEKING, January, 20th.
A sum of $10,000,000 has been earmark ed as expenses of a punitive expedition against the rebels.
THE POSTPONED CHINESE MISSION:
PEEING, January 20th. The Chinese Government officially ex- The following casualties are reported preses its appreciation of the action of from the Balkans
the Japanese Government regarding the
N
MISSING.
2nd Lieutenant HB. Richards (Con. Proposed Mission to Japan.
naughts).
NOW WOUNDED AND FRISONER.
2nd Lieutenant
naughts).
قاصة
DJ, Cowan {Con-
NOW A PRISONER, 2nd Lieutenant A, A. Townsend (Munster
Fusiliers).
TRIBUTE FROM THE PROVINCES.
PEKING, January, 20th,
THE GERMANS IN CHINA.
QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
SHAMEEN. In the House of Commons on December 17th, Mr. Stewart asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the length of the Jense of the conces sion of Shameen from the Chinese Govern- ment to the British Government; whether the German Consul still flies his fog on the concession and exercises jurisdiction over German subjects; whether he can exercise his jurisdiction on our concession as long what is the length of lease which has been as he can rent premises on it; and, if so,
nccorded to the German Consul, and were
for approval.
the lease submitted to the Foreign Office
Sir E. Grey: His Majesty's Government hold the concession on a perpetual lease. I am not awore whether or not the German. flag is flown over the German Consulate at present, but the Consu] exercises jurisdic- tion over German subjcets by virtue of the authority vested in him by his Govern. ment, and not by virtue of residence at any particular spot. The lease of the Gor- man Consulate was made in 1833 for 99 years, with the authorisation of the Beare tary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Stewart: Do not the Germans in this concession occupy the position of lod gers, and if a person has an undesirable Todger in his house has he to refer to the ground landlord before he turns him out? Bir E Grey 1 cannot add to the answer I gave the other day.
On December 9th Colonel Yate asked the Foreign Secretary whether the Govern- ment would now arrest the German Con- sul, bank manager, postmester, and other Germans on the British concession at Shameen. Lord Robert Cecil grid he could add nothing to the answer given on this subject on 7th inst.
HONGKONG.
On December 14th, Mr. Sted-Maitland, answering Sir J. Walton. said: The ques tion of the desirability of removing to another place alien enemies inferned in Hongkong was receiving the most careful consideration of the Secretary for the Colonies. His right hon. friend was in
with telegraphic correspondence
the Governor of Hongkong on the subject.
Sir J Walton asked whether the hon.
A Mandate forbids the sending of tri buta from the Provinces to the Emperor, The following casualty is reported but tribute will continue to be paid to from the Mediterranean:
the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Mohamme-gentleman was aware that the large don Princes,
KILLED.
2nd Lieutenant K. Greenway -- (Austra
linn)
THE FLOODS IN HOLLAND.
Sir John Simon moved an amendment
AMSTERDAM, January 18th. Booking to invert the procedure under the Queen Wilhelmina has visited Mouniken and Birck, while Prince Bill-namely, requiring those dam, Voledam
gone to Marken, to condole affected to go before a tribunal and, if Hon they are not exempted, they should be with the victims of the recent floods. placed on a Special Registry. If the total
Military LONDON, January 19th,
In the House of Commons Mr. A. Cham
Rose, January 19th. The Italian Press, which has recently been strongly repudiating any suggestion that Italy has failed to support Montene "gro, now comments most bitterly on Mon tenegro's surrender. It alleges that King Nicholng secretly agreed with Austria in berlain said he had not yet received the Dotober last for the eventual conclusion of despatch concerning the battle of Ctesi. a separato prace Treaty, and that her sub-phon, and he had no information regarding aoquent resistance was merely a sham. It the co-operation of the British forces in Mesopotamia with the Russians in Perajn. maintains that the capitulation is
merely an episode, and says the Austrians will GENERAL.: meet very different resistance in Seutari and Albania,
ENEMY'S SORRY JUBILATION.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE BLOCKÄDE “FARCE."
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. LONDON, January 19th. The British Press takes a sober view of
LONDON, January 19th, the capitulation. It points out that the
The Daily News and the Daily Chronicle enemy's jubilation is really a confession declare that the Morning Post's figures of of weakness, because it is a triumphing exports to neutrals are misleading, because over the submission of the remnants of a Holland and Scandinavia, are merely in pigmy Army of the smallest Kingdom inporting from America and Great Britain the world. This is the first of their ad-what they formerly received from Ger versaries to submit after eighteen months many.
so registered should be substantial, they would be automatically enlisted by..an Order-in-Council. The amendment Was defeated by 283 votes to 53.
Major-General Sir Ivor Herbert moved
an amendment including in the Bill, not
only those who were 18 years of age on August 15th 1915, but those who had subsequently become 18.
Mr. Walter Long said Earl Kitchener did not desire this, amendment, believing that the Bill as it stands will give the men required for victory,
The amendment was negatived. In the course of debate, Sir F. E. Smith mentioned that of the three million who had joined the colours there was not
of war, whereas Germany is weakening in GENERAL POSITION OF WAR.single case where the death sentence had apreading out, while the Allies are supreme on the sea and are preparing a shattering blow at her vitals.
MAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.į
GERMAN NAVAL LOSS.
TORPEDO-BOAT BROKEN UP,
COPENHAGEN, January 19th. The German auxiliary warship montion- ed yesterday as having foundered off Aero Island was the torpedo-boat Ander. Sho
is completely broken up.
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
LONDON, Jamary 19th.
LONDON, January 19th, Reuter's learns that the Allied War Council held to-day, considered the gene- ral war position. M. Briand, with other French Ministers, and also a number of naval and military offcers, attended,
been carried out.
SIR JOHN SIMON'S CONSTITUENTS.
INDIAN APPEALS,
from Lower Burma, two from Bombay, two from Oudh, and one from the Punjah, THE REBELLION IN CHINA.
AT THE FRONT.
wealthy German colony in Hongkong was possessed of enormous influenco, and did he, therefore, not think that any question as to internment or deportation of enemy MR. GERSHOM STEWART M.P. lions should not be left in the hands of the local authorities, but determined by the Imperial Government. Ftato is perfectly well aware of this con
The Secretary of sideration, and it is because he is aware of it that he is in telegraphic communication with the Governor of Hongkong on the subject.
Mr. Steel-Maitland:
The visit of a party of eight membo of Parliament to the Western Front wis made a few days ago. Mr. Gershaw Blewart, who was one of the party, has written some breezy notes on the tour för circulation among his friends. The lowing are extracts from the narrative!—
Sir J. Walton asked whether the hon. We proceeded to a heavy battery. They gentleman could say why German mercan- had been preparing to touch
antilo houses in Hongkong had been treated a German up LONDON, January 20th.
observation post, and had kindly waited by His Majesty's Government not as if for before firing
The guns were adhey were enemies, but as if they were The Judicial. Committee of the Privy mirably concealed as far as their length friends, to be quiety protected as far as Council résumed its sittings on the 18th permitted. The gune had been laid and a possible against the logical consequences sighting shot was fired; the observer was of the war, and whether they had been inst, It will hear 21 Indian appeals-six | two miles and more out in front, The allowed to make arrangements to carry on telephone racesage back was, "You are 25 business through Chinese or other friends, from Bengal, four from Madras, three yards short. The necessary adjustment so that after the war they might resuman from the North-West Provinces three having been made, the guns were fired mercantile and other activities with as
quickly, almost simultaneously.
in what little loss and disturbance as possible in and the French call
salvo. The telephone
our | competition with British traders. naval people
Mr Steel-Maitland: My right hon. report was e
Four direct hits on the friend does not know the grounds on which German observation station, so we went the statements made in the question are to tea in a contented frame of mind. I
based. Enemy firms in our Colonies are hope the report was true, and act like dealt with on similor principles to those the usual bull's-eye" accorded to & member of Parliament at a bazaar!
applied in the United Kingdom, Liquida- When we were walking up from the tors have been appointed by the Governor Canadian lines their men were dropping of Hongkong to wind up enemy firms in back in small parties to their trenches, that Colony. These firms in Hongkong are not continuing business, whether and, we could hear their remarks as the shells were going over. Their thoughts through their oži German principals or evidently turned homewards, for one under other controllers. They are as claimed the noise as like a Grand Trunk matter of fact, being liquidated and wound. train, while the next one would say it up. wag like a C.P.R. I was interested to vec One man of a party of four, on the sound of a shell becoming somewhat urgent, fling himself flat on the ground and press up against the kerb of the road, which was built of cobbles and about 6 in above the ground. I had always heard that was the proper thing to do, but it is the only tim, I have even seen it done.
SHANGHAI, January 20th.
fix thousand Imperial troops are gar- risoning Suifu (Szechuan). Troops are constantly moving southward to Hwei- liau. Slight skirmishing is reported on the Yunnan border. Troops from Kwei- chou are awaiting developments at Sunkan.
UNDER COMPULSION OF LAW CANTON BANK CASE DECISION.
The Chief Justice, at the conclusion of DISAPPROVE OF THIS ATTITUDE TO Mr. Alabaster's reply to Mr. Eldon
MILITARY BILL
The members of the Mission lunched with the French Ambassador, when Mr. Asquith and other British Ministers were present, while the French Ministers willed 7 to 1 in favour of demanding that Sir
the guests of Mr. Asquith to-night. CANADA'S ARMY.
be
DOMINION DEFRAYING THE
·COST.
OTTAWA, January 19th.
In the House of Commons, the Minister of Finance announced that Canada was
The British steamer Marere has been entirely defraying the cost of the Canadian
wunk. The crew were picked up.
THE PERSIA" OUTRAGE,
HAS THE SUBMARINE BEEN DESTROYED!
WASHINGTON, January 19th.
Expeditionary Force.
GREEK FOOD PRICES.
ATHENS, January 19th. Representatives of the Trade Unions. kavo petitioned King Constantine against the exorbitant prices of the recessaries of
The United States Ambassador in Berife and the unscrupulous speculation of
lin reports that no German submarine in traders.
the Mediterranean admits responsibility For the destruction of the P, and O. liner
Persia
IRON HAND IN. BELGIUM. BELGIAN MEN EXECUTED AND WOMEN IMPRISONED.
AMSTERDAM, January 18th.
DESTRUCTION OF “NATAL”
LONDON, January 19th. A Brussels telegram states that four A Court-Martial is being held at Chat Belgian men have been executed for war Lam for the trial of certain survivors of transon, while a number of women have
the emiser Natal. The proceedings are private.
been sentenced to terms of penal servitude varying from one year to fifteen years,
John Simon shall resign on account of his attitude on compulsion. NEW POSTMASTER-GENERAL.
LONDON, January 19th. It is understood that Mr. Joseph Pease, the new Postmaster General, will not have a seat in the Cabinet.
DATA ENEMY. INTRIGUES.
я
Sir Joseph Walton usked if the Govern ment could say whether the Chinese Government was contemplating the engage- ment of German reserve officers for the training of her army, and, if so, what steps it was proposed to take to prevent this, and the increasing intrignes of Ger many's Consular and Press agents in China, against the interests of the Allies, an stated by the Nove Fremya, AL
Lord Robert Cecil said, in reply to the. first part of the question, he had no in- formation on the subject, and as regarded the second part he could add nothing to a previous answer,
We visited the Headquarters of a Potter, gave judgment yesterday for the squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Bank of Canton in the action brought where we were met by Lord Hugh Cecil, LONDON, January 19th.
against that institution by a Chinese who is attached to the Corps. Who would ever have imagined 15 months ago the The Leyton Liberal Club's ballot show-widow pamed Lau Kau Shi, for 10,200, Lord Hugh Cocil would be doing this being principal and interest of money de work? He was a "Alver" of the highest order in a Parliamentary sense, but her posited with the Bank by plaintiff's hus he is doing the hard, practical work f
A SOLDIER'S VIEW. band, a rebel General in the Army of Chan flying" in the material world of war
I met Major, He is with General: Kwing-ming, who was s executed at Cantan. Hubert Gough, of Curragh fame. He told
Commenting on Mr. J. O. P. Bland's The claim was the sequel to a bogus action. me that Gough's bodyguard are the South remarks in the Morning Post & "Soldier' Irish Horse, and for preference he has writes:-1 only left Tientsin two or three His lordship said in this case one of two in Feiners and Fenians, and that they years ago after three years residence Truly there. The British Concession was then innocent parties must suffer through the are devoted to their general!
The main road mistakes or negligence of another. He Irishmen are a peculiar people, and Infested with Germany,
think fight at home to drive away the through the Concession, Victoria-road, Las quoted from a judgment hy a very learned | spectre of duiness and ennut.
about a dozen shops in it, all the Con- cession boasts of, but these are good: judge who said that "where one of two in-
class and can provide practically any nocent parties must suffer the Court has to
thing. The Teutonic names there give one apply the law, and apply it rigorously," THE WAR AS REFLECTED IN THE an idea of how the retail trade is mono- polised by the Germans, who, by the way. have no shops in their own Convession: L The annual report of the Prison Com can recollect only one Japanese and one missioners exhibits a remarkable dimma Russian shop there In the back and tion of crime since the outbreak of war side streets of the British Concession one and a curious change in the deines our may find German firms with their offices. of criminals who have managed to get godowns, etc. In fact, they have wormed inside, the prison walls: The decrease in their way into the trade and commerce that of males, they have dong in the trade and finance
UNLUCKY ZEPPELINS.
"IUV
AMSTERDAM, January 19th.
The Echo de Belge says that two Zeppe-In this case there was admittedly no evi- lins have been wrecked and a third severe dence that any notice of forgery reached the Bank in any way. There was no iy damaged in Belgium,
evidone that the Bank knew that the pro- ceedings were otherwise than bind-fide. He was clearly of opinion however anfor
EMIR OF BOKHARA HONOURED.
PETROGRAD, January 19th.
ed by the Taar Aide-de-Camp General. SHAH OF PERSIA'S GOOD- WILL GIFTS.
PETROGRAD, January 19th.
the number of
PRISONS.
lunato it might be for the plaintiff that nearly so conspian females is not of the British Concession there just as
in his lordship's judgment, it disposed of the whole question altogether, and he was not bound to consider the liability of the Bank to customers. The position of debtor or creditor did not arise.
the money was paid under compulsion of for the reason possibly that women have of Great Britain. And equally, with no the part of the British trader or mer The Emir of Bokhars has been appoint law, and the Court had no power to order not had the benefit of military oppor apparent remonstrance or resistance on
tunities. It is, however, most interesting payment to be made again. That being so, to note that since useful war work has chant Why the British municipality of been sahatituted for oakm-picking and Tientsin ever permitted this or permit other such valueless tasks idleness has Germans still to occupy their buildings flown every one seemed to feel he was and offices in the British Concession, 6 working because he was helping his was certainly the case a few months ago country, not because he was compelled to it is impossible to understand. All that work. If prisoners can roue then has been done, I believe, in to start some selves to practical patriotism, what more sort of Volunteer Corps out of the inspiring example can others neod - subjects. Nothing at al has been done towards-evicting the Germans from the Eritish Concession shops and all or to- wards clearing them out of their own Con long as the Tsingtas question was not asian and North China altogether. 50 settled one could understand this But now there can be no reason whatever,
A Teheran message says that the envoy of the Shah arrived at Kazvin and pre-
As plaintiff was in forme pauperis, no sented the Commander of the Bussing costs were ordered. --
Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. force with the Shah's portrait ach in R. C. Faithfully appeared for plaintiff, diamonds. He also bestowed decorations and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr.
A. M. Prestoy represented the Bank,
"on members of the Russian staff
days imprisonment, at Glasgow for sup- Robert Gibson was fined £25, or thirty lying a sentry at Prince Dock with quart of whisky mu