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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILI PRESA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH, 1916.
RUSSIA'S READINESS.
TO MEET EXPECTED GRAND ENEMY
THE
OFFENSIVE.
BARALONG INCIDENT.
HOW SUBMARINE'S CREW WERE KILLED.
NAVAL MOVEMENTS IN ADRIATIC AND BLACK SEA.
NO ZEPPELIN REPRISALS.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
̈{THROUGH_REUTER'S AGENCY-] FRENCH BOMBARD A TRAIN.
PARIS, February 8th.
To-day's communique. saya-South of the Somme we bombarded a train, while in the Argonne we exploded four mines. INTENSE ARTILLERY DUEL IN ARTOIS.
GERMAN WORKS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
PARIS February 9th. The evening communiqué says There has been an intense artillery dupl in Artois, north-cast and south-east of Neu. ville.
[TaRocca RIOTHE'S AGENCY.]
HEAVY GUN-FIRING AT RIGA,
PETROGRAD, February 9th. A communiqué says that there has been heavy gus-firing in the Riga distries, There were skirmishes on the Stryps. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
V
(TENOEGE MACTER'S AGENCE.]
THE "LUSITANIA” AGREEMENT,
AMERICA ALMOST SATISFIED. WASHINGTON, February 8th, The announcement thas the Luritania affair in practically settled is based on authoritative statements that President. Wilson Ands in Count Bernstorff's tentativa document an admission of lability for the deaths of the Americans aboard the Lusitania, which is equivalent to admitting illegality. Therefore, he is disposed to accept Germany's analysis without quib- bling,
The Times, in a leader, refuses to believe that Preddent Wilson can have accepted the German empty formula, and recipes American despatches auccessively from the -Grat declaration, holding Germany to strict nocountability, to the latest insistence on Negality and the imperious necessity of upholding the principles of humanity.!
WASHINGTON, February 9th.
It is stated that the Lusitania draft agreement has been returned to Berlin for. minor alterations. It is expected that six days will elapse before it returns. GERMANY AND THE APPAM."
WASHINGTON, February 8th. Count Bernstorff he requested permis sion to allow the Appam to remain America indefinitely. CONSPIRACIES IN AMERICA, GERMAN CONSULAR OFFICIALS ARRESTED.
ÍTHROUGH REUTER'S SGHNUT.J NO REPRISALS FOR ZEPPELIN
ATTACKS
DIRECTION OF AVIATION. MINISTER TO BE APPOINTED.
LONDON, February 9th, The Standard says that the Government tends to appoint a Minister of Aviation to direct and co-ordinate the Army and Navy air services.
BRITISH SHIPPING PROBLEM. RESTRICTION OF IMPORTATION OF SUGAR
"THE" PATRIARCHAL EAST. THE SINGAPORE MUTINY.
WESTERN COMMENT ON CON REPLIES TO MR. GERSHOM
STITUTIONAL CHANGE. STEWART'S QUESTIONS.
China is to have an Emperor – agains LONDON, February 9th.
In the House of Commone on, January President Yuan Shih-kai, graciously a The Standard states that the Govern-th, in reply to Mr. Gershom Stewart, Mr. coding to the will of the people,"
Benar Law stated that he has no Informe consented to waive big personal reluctance ment has no intention to take reprisals for
tion that the Governor of the Straits Settle and to fill the vacancy left by the expul ments has admitted in a public speech that sion of the Manchu dynasty. It is not say the Zeppolu attack.
the authorities were aware some time be unexpected development, and. the Pres fore the mutiny in February last that there dent's coynes, will not be taken too se was a feeling of unrest among the men of ously by those who have followed the the 5th Light Infantry, The Governor course of evente. But on the other hand specifically denied that the authorities wern is highly probable that, whatever we may warned beforehand that trouble was brew think of the machinery employed to ing. It was true that the first shots wore body the alleged wishes of the Ching fired at three p.m., that the officer in charge people, the petition corresponds close ar of the German prisoner camp was not enough with their innermost wishes. Ho publicanisa is a Western plant to whic warned in time by telephone, and that the Oriental soil is not congenial. The civilians were killed in the Sepoy lines in votaries of that cult is China have shown Koppel Harbour district after four p.m. themselves quite devoid of practical capai On the other hand, it must be remembered city, and, as one of their staunchest sup that the military authorities were at porters remarks upen to-day's news. this time fully engaged in transmitting It is their own incompetence which has information and instructions by tele been their rival's greatest strength.***** phone.
In a country like China the most essen Communications over the tele-
that t of any Government ོན phono lines with a number of indivi- tial virtue of duals could not as a rule be rapidly estab shall be strong. The first interess of her lished, so presumably it would have been hundreds of millions of toilers is the sidents in time. No information was avail and security for the fruits of their in- impossible to warn all the European regreatest attainable peace for their live if the central power is able to repress die able as to the time at which the Governor dustry. These benefits can be secured culy and the Inspector-General of police were order and to gure the confidence and the warned of the outbreak. The news reached respect of community Throughout the the police at half-past four o'clock and the East, authority is bound up with the Colonial Secretary, de a quarter to five ideals of personal government, and we
know well how closely the loyalty of ou Indian Empire is intertwined with the. sentiment of devotion to the King-Em- The Chinese will feel that law. peror. and all its blessings are more securely founded in a monarchy than in an abstract theory of Constitutional Government, and if they look round the world, they would not have far to go for corroboration of their own instinct. We can all remember the sanguine hopes which attended the Turkish Revolution, and we are able to realise how utterly worthless the promises of reform have turned out in reality. Te thrust the forms of Constitutional Govern ment upon people in the patriarchal stage of life and thought is merely to destroy the securities they have without giving them any real substitute-Pall Mall Gazette.
LONDON, February th Sugar Commission recommends the restriction of the Importation of sugar to assist in solving, the problem of shipping tonnage. The Commission urges the people to economise in sugar. Thus prices will not inpreise, while tonnage will be released to help make foodstuffs cheaper. It would see bave & favourable influence on the rates of exchange, as all stigar comes from abroad.
DEPRECIATION OF MARK. ANOTHER FALL IN DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, February 8th. Despite the transmission by Germany of 11,000,000 marke in gold to Denmark the pries of the mark has again fallen.
GERMAN CONSULAR OFFICIALS” REFUSAL
a'clock, w
FAMINE AT MONASTIR.
BULGARIAN REQUISITIONS,
The Times special correspondent at Salonika, says that since the Bulgarisms stopped the free: distribution of flour by the American Red Cross, distress
165 become - acute, The dearth that already prevailed has become a hideous famine. Thousands are without broad or the prospect of getting any. The worst sufferers are the Musulman poor among whom deaths from starvation occur daily.
It is to be feared that the hanger of the people of Monastir répresents but an infini tesimal fraction of the yet unrevealed sufferings from the same cause that must afflict the mass of the Serbian people, and
winter advances that must increase
ĮTAROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ENEMY DESTROYERS CHASED
LONDON, February sth. IN ADRIATIO.
WASHINGTON, February 9th. Reuter learns that the German Con. PARIS, February 8th.
The German Consu-General Cepp and xular officials in Holland are refusing It is officially announced that a British Vice-Consul von Shack of San Francisco payment of their fees in German paper or cruiser and a French destroyer, covering have been indicted for conspiracy, includ-silver-money insisting on payment either the evacuation of the Serbian Army, en ing plotting to blow up tunnels and rail-in gold or in Dutch currency at the pre-provisioned, until the arrival of the enemy,
wax exchange. Our fire dispersed troops near Lassigny countered four enemy destroyers in the road, in Canada, and to hamper the ship Adristic Sen on the evening of the 6th instments of wheat to the seaboard and to and north of Berry-au-Bac.-
England, We seriously damaged German works The latter fled toward, Cattare.
AUSTRIA CONFISCATES ALL north of Tryon,
LEATHER,
The enemy attacked the Allies off Durazzo Mine fighting in the Argonne continued on the 7th, and a submarine fired a torpedo in our favour.
at a cruiser, but missed.
MUTUAL SHELLING ON BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, February 8th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports there has been mutual shelling between Anere and the Somme, and north of the La Bassee Canal. There was also consider able artillery activity about Hooge. RUSSIAN FRONT
-"[111BOUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIA'S READINESS.
GERMANY'S DOWNFALL
INEVITABLE.
PETROGRAD, February 8th.
RUSSIAN WARSHIPS ACTIVE
TURKISH POSITIONS BOMBARDED.
PETROGRAD, February 9th. Russian warships in the Black Bee successfully bombarded Turkish positions on the Anatolian coast. They were fruit- losy attacked by a Turkish submarine flotilla.
Russian hydroplanes attacked a vestl lying at Zunguldak,
THE "BARALONG” INCIDENT, AMERICAN CATTLEMEN KILL THE PIRATES.
LONDON, February 8th,
The War Minister, M. Pohvanoff, in an
A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, interview, admits the tragic lack of muni provides a gory detail of the Baraloag Hooe in 1915, but the crisis and ended incident. He relates how the American Immense and inflexible measures had re cattlemen aboard the Nicosian avenged volutionised Russia's national and indut themselves on the crew of the submarine, trial motivity. The development of muwho clambered aboard with bombs, Ä tions was prodigious. There was also fierce struggle ensued. The infuriated permanent reserve of 1,500,000 recrutcattiomen, armed with furnace bars, Every nign sent to the front had been per-attacked the Germans, all of whom were footly trained. "Germany may invent killed. The slaughter culminated in the machines, but her downfall is inevitable, throwing overboard of the Captain of the The Allies will constantly increase, das submarine, with fire-bars tied to his feet. behind them are the resources of the
THE BALKANS: universe and behind Germany exhaustion and shakiness.”'~-~
GRAND GERMAN OFFENSIVE EXPECTED.
AFTER MELTING OF SNOWS.
PETROGRAD, February 8th.
The General Staff expects a grand Austro-German offensive after the melting
of the snow. It will probably take the form of a wide enveloping movement on both flanks, with extensive Naval move- monts in the Baltic Sea and an advance through Rumania, which will be forced to take sides, RUSSIAN GIRL CORPORAL'S VALOUR.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.),
FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS:
LAND.
SALONIKA, February 8th, French reinforcements and artillery have landed here.
THE NEAR EAST,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDT.}
IN MESOPOTAMIA.
DELHI, February 8th,
SEVERE BLOW AT LUCRATIVE INDUSTRY.
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
EXTENDED. "NOT MORE THAN HALF WAY THROUGH THE WAR.”
OTTAWA, February 9th. la the House of Commong the Premier (Sir Robert L. Borden) moved a resolu tion that they petition the Imperial Gov- Aus-ernment to amend the constitution to ex-
ZURICH, February 8th Austria has confiscated all feather. This will have a disastrous effect on one of tria's most profitable industrics,
** RUSSO-JAPANESE LOAN. TO EASE EXCHANGE SITUATION.
tend, Parliament to the 7th October, 1917. The Fremier said he was of opinion we were not more than half way through the war.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, agreeing to
an
Compared with other provinces of Serbia, Monastir,, though victuals thers were scarce and dear in November, was well owing to ita proximity to Greece. But the rest of Serbia fet the pinch of hunger weeks earlier, and must therefore now be in a worse plight...
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RUSSIA AND RUMÁNIA. THE MEANING OF TROOPS MOVED. TO THE BUKOVINA,
[BY WACŁAW CZERNIEWSKI.] Reports that the Russian troops waiting on the Bumanian frontiers to attack Bul garia have been withdrawn and sent to the Bukovina should not give the impression of indicating abandonment of this Russian plan. During the whole of the present operations in the Balkans there has been preparation of Russian and Rumanian armies for joint action Events elsewhere. in the Balkan peninsula were swifter thee
THE IMPERIAL IDEA.
16 was a little old mas speaking clean, hard, wiry old man of more than sixty. Time had touched his bead and ohin with a frosty hand, and his unshaven, stubbly beard was white,
All round the noise, bustle and turmoi of the big London market eddied, rushed and roared. He drew his companion into the shelter of one of the stone pillars and a pile of fruit baskets to talk.
Far away. at the far side andey St. Paul's Church, came the sound of a re eruiting band playing a martin tune.
"We was al[ Yus," said the old man, avin's drink, and someone was chippin Bill about joinin. Bill said
'e wasn't avin" any. His young bruvver and 'is bruvver-in-law 'ad both gone, as 'is other 0 whis reckoned e bryvver was goin'; goin' to stop at 'ome. Not arf. Wait while I tell you.
"A big Orsstralian in khaki comes aerost the bar and 'e says to him. I'va bin listenin' to what you're bin sayin'," o says. Now, I've come right acrost the world to fight for you,' 'e says. "'Yus, 70 says, to fight for you. Wot are ver Wok goin to do abaht it
Do abaht wot saye the 'ell! I never arst yer to come.'
"No,' says the Ortetralian; e was a
it, cos Bill was looking very 'ard at 'im.: No, e says, you never arst me to come,, Better men than you or me, old sport, arst me to come, and I came."
extension of a year, admitted that the these arrangements in the north-easteru big bloke, or I reckon 'e wouldn't 'ove anid aray out of her vast population, and to people were disinclined to an election, corner. Russia undertook to raise a tow considering that their energies should be farnish it with an omple supply of arms concentrated on the war. Canada's duty and munitions; Rumania has been doing the same, and the 1916 class of her army was to make every effort to assist. Eug-has been called up-but meanwhile, cin cumstances in Berbia and Macedonia have land in fighting on behalf of Europe and
entirely altered. The Serbian army hae retreated to Montenegro and Albanis, and the Franco-British troops have withdrawn from Serbia Macedonia to Greece
LONDON, February 8th. The Times says it is understood that the Japanese Loan of £6,000,000 to Russia is The issue will be an accomplished fact, made in Yokohama. It will ease the ex- change situation AUSTRALIA'S GREAT ARMY,hasity, MELBOURNE, February 8th,» The Hon. Mr. Pearce says it in passib e that Mr. Fisher's anticipation of 350,000 troops will be surpassed.
NICKEL TO BE REFINED IN CANADA.
- CAMEROONS CAMPAIGN. BELGIAN TROOPS REACH JAUNDE.
HAYRE, February. 9th..
SECRE-
TARY RESIGNS.
PARIS, February 9th, Bernard, the Secretary of Aviation, has, resigned,
* OBITUARY.
-The
salys the
So they wont on talkin', and presently, Bal says, 'Ow abaht my kids!
What abaht my kids?
Don't you reckon I've got Oreetralian. kids?"
What did Bill say then sɛid the old man's companion.
"Say? What could" 'e say? E says Blimey 1
A man with a pile of baskets on his head jostled by.
"Well, the finish of it was, 'o on the Orsetralian got quite chummy, an' now
'e 's joined, Yus, fact,
THE LOOMS.
J.M.O.C.
In the half light of his dwelling through the
SEASONS' CMA,
The Central Powers and Bulgaria have, before them a considerable difficulty. The Austro-German forces are not sufficient to It is officially sancanoed that the Bel carry on the campaign ou Greek soil, while gian troops reached Jaunde, in the Came Bulgarian participation would bring upon them the Greek army. Thus the Austro- rooms, on the 28th January where the Bri-German forces must be increased by their
"I saw im when he was goin' up to own new troops or the Turkish army must White'all, tish, French, and Belgian flags were
be invited to support. These events
I ain't goin to be told orf by hoisted.
necessitate a comparatively long period, and Orsetralians," "a said to me,” both Rumania and Russia can utilise this period in so arranging certain matters as very greatly to facilitate their joint eam- paign when the moment comes to launch it:
the Eastern Carpathians and Transylvanian Alps constitute a good de fence for the Rumanian Kingdom against attacks from the Central Powers. At the same time the Bukovina affords an envy passage from Galicia to Rumania. If the posal in Bessarabia, should reconquer the Russians, with a large army at their dis Bukovina Rumacians would be able to forti-As fy the River Prut from Kolomes to Czerno- witz, and their endeavours on other fronte, consequently, would be greatly facilitated. Of the stirring and the whirring of the
looms It is recorded that Kendeth Baldwin, The Prut is the only line which could be on the Harlem course at Chicago, recently successfully fortified between Rumania drove a ball nine yards beyond the green and Galicia, and once done would allow No hawthorn in the gardens of Landressy
Street in May, at a 400 yard hole. Driveg of 400 yards Rumanis to keep only comparatively. are not of every day occurreno, and some insignificant numbers of troops for the de- And a girl, lank-haired and dreary watches
many looms all day, of the famous hits which ers on record fence of the northern front. Apart from had favouring circumstances of ground the Bukovina there are important peli
these military reasons for Russia's action In a vast mechanic barracks with a hundred
of ber kind, and weather to aid them. Sloping ground and
and a following wind tical considerations also, Russia's offer of Though she lodges but a step from where are strong factors in the length obtained, Bessarabia is considered by the Rumanians the honeysuckle twined, and in connection with the 388 yards drive little more than a return of their own pro- And the hollyhocks were lined.
OTTAWA, February 8th. At the request of the Government the International Nickel Company has under- FRENCH AVIATION taken to refine nickel in Cazade. This will secure to Britain and Canade all the finished nickel they require, Hitherto the Baited States has done the refining.
BRITISH STEAMER AFIRE, LONDON, February 8th, The British atramer Texas bound from New Orleans to Christiania, is on fire. She carries & cargo of cotton. THE KING AND OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, February 8th,
It is announced that His Majesty the King was quite prepared to open Parlia ment in person, but he yielded to his A communiqué states that General Town-medical adzisora, who urged that he should shend holds Kut owing to its strategical im- not undertake the ceremony in his present portance, and that General Aylmer's opera state of convalescence, tions are intended to support him:
DUMA MEETS IN FORTNIGHT No withdrawal is contemplated.
PETROGRAD, February 8th, The Duma is summoned to meet on the 22nd inst
GENERAL.
PETROGRAD, February 9th. A Rassian communiqué records a remark able story of the valour of a-Corporal named Gludiozsko, who turns out to be MORE BRITISH CONSCRIPTS DISTURBANCES IN PORTUGAL.
young girl. She volunteered to penetrate
the enemy's entanglements, and carried ont
ÍTHBOUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.”
CALLED UP..
LONDON, February 8th..
her mission. Despite a serious wound in A Proclamation calls up the British the leg she returned to her starting point. Conscripts to Groun 30 on the 17th March.
LISBON, February 8th. The National Workers' Union declares that it was not concerned in the recent d ́s turbances. The city is now all quiet.
Nice,, February 8th. The death has occurred of Commander George Jephon.
RECORD GOLF DRIVES.
With the golden gorae before him, did the
hand-loom weaver know. House and loom and art were rotting, stone
by stone, and thread by thread, Till the looms wer, scrapped and crumbled,
and their drowsy hum was dead, the smoke of fires they fed;. Countless toilers herd together in the
husky-raftered rooms
at North Berwick on in the oficial cerverty unjustly taken from them. If the Her heavy dreams unchoquered by the
tificate that the surface of the ground was hard and very favourable to long runs. and that the wind was strong and prae tically following the Players Handbook.
According to The the longest recorded and fully authenti cated drive was done by E. C. Bliss at Herne Bay in August 1913, the distance being 445 yards. The drop in this ground was measured and found to be from the tee to resting-place of the ball 57 feet.
Braid's biggest drive, according to his own recollection, was made at Walton Heath in 1005, when he hit a tee stroke & distance of 395 yards. On that occasion the course was frost-bound, and the wind was behind him when he played;
Russian army should clear the Bukovins of the Austrian troops and give this pro- vince to Rumania the gratitude of the Hymanian nation would be immense.
With all this said, however, let me add that Russian operations against, Bukovina do not imply that these must necessarily be accomplished before Russo-Rumanian action can begin in the Balkans,
wind through apple blooms
Or the flying and the sighing of the looms..
Beyond each phantom casement that the red
geraniums screen,
A phantom weaver hails you now from Reid
Street to the Green, And a sadness half symbole in the ghostly
creak and heave on
Of frameworks long dismembered, as they
cannot choose but grieve Time will not cease to weave At Bolton, Lord Derby has inspected 20 Human life sa drab and roucons where the ambulance cars, which are a portion of a
grave iron-steeple glooms gift to the nation by the Lancashire and Through the throbbing and the sobbing of Cheshire miners. Altogether the miners the looma have subscribed £30.000
-Glasgow Herald,
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