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THE WAR.
ANOTHER
VERDUN
BATTLE.
DESPERATE GERMAN ATTACKS.
SIGNS OF COMING COLLAPSE.
A RUSSIAN COUP.
ALLIES TRADÉ WAR AGAINST GERMANY.
MARRIED MEN TO BE CALLED
UP.
AMERICA AND ARMED, MERCHANTMEN: STRONG ACTION FORESHADOWED.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH STOTER'S AGENCY.). THE VERDUN BATTLE.
BECOND PHASE BEGINNING.
LONDON, Murci 6th.
A Paris semi-official review of the fight- ing at Verdun sags that the scend phase is beginning. The eremy have renewed attacks, which were everywhers, repulsed
with enormous losses.
The last few days of respite have been used to the utmost advantage by the French General Staff, and the issue is awaited with absolute confidence,
ENEMY INFANTRY RESUME OFFENSIVE.
ATTACK WITH REDOUBLED FEROCITY,
Panis, March ard: Today's communiqué says:-North of Verdun the German artillery was extreme. ly violent on both banks of the Meus Gurman infantry renewed their attacks with redoubled ferocity in the Douaumont region, and in the village north-west of the forty after a series of fruitless attempts, were able to make some advancs, Fighting continues across the single village street.
The village of Vaux, eastward of Donau- mont, was at the same time furiously attacked from the north-east All these assaults broke down, the Germans bastily retreating and leaving heap of corpses in the barbed-wire entanglements,
The Germans intensely bombarded Woevre throughout the night. A French curtain of fire prevented the attackers from debouching,
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ΠΟΥ FIGHTING NEAR DOUAUMONT.
HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS.
PARIS, March 4th. The evening communiqué says;-North, of Verdun there has been bot fighting near the village of Daunumont. We hold the upper part of a knoll on the northern slopes on which the village is situated. A sharp counter-attack enabled us to regain
round close to the village.
The bombardment continued most vio- lently west and cast of the Meese, and also
in Woovre.
Our artillery concentrated its fire on enemy gathering points, particularly near Beaumont, where a marching column was shattered,
In Upper Alsace we attacked east of Seppois, and captured several elements of trenches on the right bank of the Great Largus. An enemy counter-attack failed to dislodge is From the conquered ground.
We bombarded coemy cantonments in Belgium, and enemy works at Neurille, Berry-au-Bac, and in Argonne,
A strong German patroj attacked a post north of the Aisno and was repulsed.
SIGNS OF COMING GERMAN
COLLAPSE.
WHY THE GERMANS ARE BEING DRIVEN.
LONDON, March 5th. The whole of the French Press opines that the Kaiser is driving the German battalions to the assault not for victory, but, in order to induce the rich German and the bourgeois to drain their coffers, and to
German peac The communiqué adds:-The Gorman spread the idea of a attacks at Vaux were shattered by a our- throughout the world, The French, how- ever, are fighting to win. They see in -tain of fire and machine-guns.
German artillery was active at Malan- the fury of the German attacks signs of a court and Hancourt.
A weak enemy attack in Lorraine was easily scattered.
AN EPISODE IN A GIGANTIC BATTLE
FRENCH CONFIDENCE UNSHAKEN.
PARIS, March 4th..
A semi-official announcement says that apart from Verdun the enemy is manifest- Ling an intention to assume the defensive. The resutaption of fighting on Thursday. night and Friday was most violent in the Donaumont sector, where the village is still disputed. The Douaumont affair is only an episode in a gigantic battle which will be marked by the inevitable fluctua
coming collapse.
ENEMY CLAIMS.
AMSTERDAM, March 3rd.
A Berlin communiqué clsing that the Germans took 1,000 prisoners and six guo, in the fight for the villege of Douaumont, and that they have improved their lines southward and westward of the village.
BRANDENBURGERS AT DOUAUMONT,
PARIS, March 3rd.
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BRITISH BRAVERY.
AWARDS OF V.C'S.
LONDON, March 5th, The following awards of Victoria Crosses nye been made:-
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY. 1 AMERICA AND ARMED MERCHANTMEN.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S STRONG ATTITUDE.
WASHINGTON, March 5th. The Senate discussed a resolution by Mr. Gore warning Americana ngainst travelling unarmed merchantmen.
told
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TRADE WAR AGAINST GERMANY.
OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE
ALLIANCE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RAIDING SEAPLANE'S FATE
FALLS INTO SEA AFTER BOMBING ENGLISH COAST.
LONDON, March 3rd.
It is uficially announced that a German LONDON, March 5th.
Second Lieut. ALFRED SMITH, East
The Times says it is understood that seaplane was picked up at 10 am yes- Lancs: A grenade ho was about to throw
France took tho in'tative in advocating an|terday three miles north of Middiekerks ausparing commerciel war against Ger- Bank, The machine had come down at 9. slipped from his hand and fell to the bottom of the trench, close to the Officers Mr. Gone declared that the actuating many. Tho British Government only ad- o'clock on Wednesday night when return and men, whom Lieut Smith warned. He motive was a report that President bered to that proposal this week. Thering from England One of the observers the Democratic lenders attitude is now definite, and there is a was drowned and the other was picked up. then jumped clear, but seeing that they Wilson were unable to get cover Lieut. Smith at a conference at the White House that general willingness to enter into an offen- and taken prisoner.
war with Germany might not be au ovil; sive and defensive commercial allinnev, returned and flung himself on the grenade, being instantly killed by the it might result in advancing civilisation hy explosion. It was magnificent self-ending the European war by mid-summer. sacrifice, and the action undoubtedly The resolution was moved on the demand of Mr. Stone, the Chairman of the Foreign saved many lives.
Committeo,
Private HULL, 21st Lancers: Under close fire ho rescued Captain G. E. Learoyd; of the same regiment, whows horse was shot, by mounting him behind him and galloping to safety.
The date of the conference between the Allies, which will probably be he'd in Paris, has not yet baon Axed,
The Dominions have whole-heartedly responded to the appeal contained in tho resolution which was passed by the House of Commons on January 10th, regarding prohibition.
A section of the British Cabinet, urges the absolute prohibition of German trade for a specified period.
BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES.
LONDON, March 5th.
A
"RECRUITING AND THE COTTON MARKET.
A COMPROMISE EFFECTED.
LONDON, March 5th.. the military representative of Liverpool Tritual and a small commitice of the Cotton Association havo arranged s compromise whereby out of $72 of the men attested in the cotton market 584 shnil join as groups called 'up and 288 shall be trans
The Tribunal, re ferred to group 40. guguising the necessity of carrying on the market have endorsed the agreement.
I is expected that Mr. Bonar Law, MORE MARRIED MEN TO BE and possibly Mr. Runciman, will represent
Mr. Stone after Mr. Gare's statement, jumped up and denied it, adding that he did not intend to repest President Wilson's remarks at a private conference at the White Houto, bocause he regarded them as Private CHRISTIAN, Royal Lancasters:
sacred. Mr. Stone said that President He dug out three men from a crater, Wilson's attitude was that if a submarino unaided and under continual bombing,ank cechantmen he would hold Germany And then carried them to infety,
strictly necountable for the lawless net and would be disposed to sever relations if Ger- A BRITISH COMMENIQUE.
many persisted, and submit the matter to great Brital at the Allies' Trade Coufer- LONDON, March 3rd.
Congress, which was a wdr-making body.eare in Paris, A British communiqué states:-
Mr. Gore disagreed with President On Thursday evening we exploited five Wilson's attitude because he considered an mineg near the Hohenzollern Redoubt and occupied the craters, one of which contained merchantuan equivalent to a war- ed the enemy's main mining shaft. hostile bombing attack was repulsed. There was considorable artillery activity on both sides in this neighbourhood to-day. AUSTRALIANS ADMIRE. THE
FRENCH.
MELBOURNE, March 8th.
A
Crowds wait at the newspaper offices to read the Verdun communiqués. They express Intense admiration for the French bravery.
U88IAN FRUNT.·
ETHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIANS STORM BITLIS.
A GREAT COUP
PETROGRAD, March 3rd. The Russians atormed Bitlis (Turkish Armenia) on Thursday night, capturing six guns.
PETROGRAD, March 5th. With the occupation of Bittia the whole of the Van region is in the hands of the Russians. Moreover, it thrusts a wedge between the Turkish forces operating in the Mush region and those in the region of Lake Urima. The Turkish reinforce ments from Mesopotamia will now ha oblig- ed to make a detour in order to join the third Turkish army.
THE NEAR EAST,
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENDE.] OFFICER CASUALTIES IN EGYPT.
MUCH ENEMY MATERIAL
CAPTURED,
Caino, March 5th. Our officer casualties on February 28th. included one South African killed and five wounded, and one Dorset Yeomanry officer killed and one wounded. The enemy's
ship.
Mr. Wilheims, & Tember of the Foreign Comm'ttes said that the time had come to ne owing to the constant nigging of the President by Congressmen who were seeking to support a German-American vate. He declared that if they porsisted they would find themselves opposed by every other element of the population.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
VICTORY.
PRO-GERMAN RESOLUTION
DEFEATED.
WASHINGTON, March 3rd.
JAPAN: TO DE REPRESENTED. LONDON, March 5th. The Tim: a caya tha, Japan, and probably Belgium and Servia, will be represented at the Allied Trade Conference in Paris. The British Government have ascertained tho views of the Dominious on the subject, and. their delegates will have, practically, an Imperial mandate.
A BRITISH COUP.
GERMAN OFFICIAL MENDACITY EXPOSED.
NRW YORK, March 3rd. German mandacity in official correspon- dence has been exposed. Count Bernstorf gave Mr. Lansing the affidavits of the crew It is expected that the vote today will of the US regarding the sinking of the defent the pro-German resolution, thus Arabie. Now comes the British disclosure showing that Parliament is behind Pro-that the U27 was sunk shortly after the aident Wilson in his fight for the freedom Arabic disappeared. All the crew of the The British possess of the seas.
LATER
The Senate, by 69 votes to 14, rejected the pro-German resolution. This is a big victory for President Wilson's policy.
FRENCH STEAMER SUNK.
MARSEILLES, March 6th. The French steamer Lakme has been mined,
There were six casualties,
BRITISH MINE-SWEEPER
TORPEDOED.
LONDON, March 5th.
submaring perished,
the submarine's gear.
KING OF CAMBODIA.
APPEALS TO HIS SUBJECTS TO ENLIST FOR FRANCE.
CALLED UP.
LONDON, March 5th
It is understood that further nina groups of married men enrolled' under Lord Derby's scheme will be called up at the end of April.
METAL EXCHANGE TO
RE-OPEN
LONDON, March 5th. The Metal Exchange re-openg on Monday. for business in all metals, under arrange ments made with the Ministry of Muni- tions, and also in Glasgow iron, CONFERENCE OF SCANDIN- AVIAN MINISTERS.
COPENHAGEN, March 3rd. The King has invited the Scandinavian Premiers and Foreign Ministers to meet at Copenhagen. This is the natural; con- tinuation of the recting of the Scandina vian Kings at Malmos in 1904.
COUNCIL OF INDIA. ·
LONDON, March 5th. Mr. William Didsbury Sheppard C.I.E., has been appointed a member of the Coun- cil of India in succession to Sir §. W. Fdgerley.
THE AGA KHAN.
LONDON. March 5th. Tho Aga Khan lunched with their Majestics the King and Queen at Bucking-
CABINET MEETING.
LONDON, March 5th. Mr. Asquith presided at yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet.
MARSEILLES, March 5th. The King of Cambodin, the French pro- tectorate in Indo-China has appealed to his subjects to enroj in the army, the ham Palace. arsensis and the workshops in order to strengthen the links of gratitude and affection uniting Cambodia and France, and to help in the organisation of victory. [The old Ring Sisowath of Cambodia iseved a solen proclamation to all his people, 'authoris- ing, with an unspeakable proudness," his subjents to enlist under the flag of the noble All the crew were saved except three, and gouorous France," in order to serve in the and were landed at.Port Enid.
ENEMY SHIPS IN GOA SEIZED.
An official announcement states that the. mine-sweeper Primula has been torpedoed in the eastern Mediterranean,
interned.
LONDON, March 3rd,
·Lloyd's ngent at Bombay reports that all-] the German steamers interned at Mar magao (Portuguese Gos) havo hoisted tho casualties were heavy. Thirty-three thoa-Portuguese flags, and the crews have been sand rounds of ammunition, fifty camels and large quantities of dates were cap tured, along with 28 prisoners, including five Chiefs Sidi Barrani was re-occupied after being three months in the hands of the enemy, FRENCH AEROPLANES BOMB SMYRNA.
ATHENS, March 5th, Seven French aeroplanes from Salonika It is stated that 500 Brandenburgers at bombed Smyrna and returned safely. Douaamont, who were practically sur They travelled 375 miles in twenty-four rounded, have been obtaining supplies by hours. & path through a coppice.
tions, but nothing has accurred to shake FAMOUS FRENCH AVIATOR'S our confidence in its victorious issue
FRENCH CASUALTIES.
LONDON, March 5th. Tho Times Paris correspondent states that the French casualties in the first shock at Verdun totalled 30,000,
SIXTH VICTORY.
PARIS, March 4th. The evening communiqué sayı:—Ad jutant Navarre brought down his sixth German aeroplane near Douaumont, The ener
were wounded and cap tured.
#AVAL ACTIVITIES,
(THROUGE REUZKK'S AGETCY.) ITALIAN STEAMER
TORPEDOED.
ATHENS, March 5th. Firty-four of the rescued crew of the Italian steuner Java, which was torpedoed by an Austrian steamer, havo been brought here,
NAVAL PRIZE FUND.
LONDON, March 5th, The Naval Prize fund amounts to £6,000,000 sterling. It will be distributed among the Navy at the end of the war,
NAVAL ESIMATES.
ADMIRALTY'S FREE HAND,
LONDON, March 5th.
The Naval Estimates provide for a
personnel of 350,000. All the votes aro dummies, as was the case last year; thus the Admiralty are asking for a free hand.
GENERAL
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] CANADA'S HUGE OVERSEA'S ARMY,
OTTAWA, March 3rd, Genera Bir Sam Hughes announced in the House of Commons that 275,000 men had been enrolled for service overscan,
armies, arsenals and workshops of the metropolis, Two battalions of goldiers will be formed. Be. sides these two battalions, volunteers will be able to enlist.).
SWISS COLONELS' INTRIGUE.
BERNE, Merch 5th. The two Swiss Colonels who were ac- quitted of charges of communicating re- ports and documents to German military attaches, and were subsequently reported to the military authorities for disciplinary action,, have been sentenced to twenty days elese arrest. They will also be placed on the unemployed list.
MORE INCENDIARISM IN AMERICA.
PROVIDENCE, March 5th. Considerable damage has been caused by a fire and an explosion at the premises of an anti-German newspaper. The journs and the police attribute the fire to ince disrism,
PARLIAMENTARY MATTERS NEW LIBERAL MEMBER
LONDON, March 5th. Mr. Bliss, a Liberal condidate, has been returned unopposed for Cockermonth.
Mr. Francis Neilso, M.P., at present in America, has resigned his seat in the House, Mr. Neilson represented the Hyde Divion of Cheskire as a Liberal.
OBITUARY.
A FRENCH TRAGEDIAN,
LONDON, March 5th. The death is announced of the French tragedian, M. Mounetsully."
[Telegrams received on Saturday, and published in an "Extra" on Sunday, will be found on page 6.3·
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE NEW LIQUOR DUTIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."
SIB, I fear that "A Tinto Drinker," whose letter I read in your issue of the 4th inst, has failed to understand the purpose of the liquor taxes. It should be evident to all that the object of these taxes is to foster the consumption of the wholesome raw spirits, and to discourage that of the highly poisonous table wines,
Considering, therefore, that some people, like "A Tinto Drinker,” have not yet realised the beneficent purpose of the Government's liquor taxes, I respectfully" submit a hint for a revision of the tarif which, if carried uai, will effectively driva out of the Colony dangerous beverage, liko Vinho Tinto:--
Water Tinto
Brandy
$3.00 Whisky · 20:10
2.60 Absinthe 0.05
0.13 Opium and Cocaine
free,
Trusting you will be good enough to give the above the privilegs of your columns. I am, Yonry faithfully,
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