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THE WAR.
The following Cables were received on Saturday evening and seemed in our Early Morning Extra yesterday.
GENERAL
(THROUGH HEUTEK'S "AGENOT.]. THE CABINET CRISIS. "A FORMIDABLE DISASTER."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, APRIL 24th, 1916,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE PROBABLE GOVERNMENT
PROPOSALS.
LONDON, April 20th-
1188000H REUTER'S AGRNOY.] GERMAN CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA
EMBASSY OFFICIALS
IMPLICATED.
NEW YORK, April 20th. The arrest, on charges of being concern ed in the Welland Canal plot, of Herr Igel Beretary, and succensor to Captain von Papen at the German Embassy, has led to the seizure of papers incriminating the highest Gormans in the country, including
FRANCO-BELOJAN FRONT
{THROUGH REUTERʼN AGRIUV-)
A BRILLIANT COUNTER-
ATTACK.
SERIOUS GERMAN LOSSES,
[TERGEGH ERUTER'S AGENCY.]
A BRAVE CHAPLAIN. AWARDED THE V.C.
Losnon, April 21.
is generally agreed that the proposal adopted by the Cabinet was Mr. Hor- derun's, namely, that general compulsion should be adopted if a six weeks' voluntary coerusting campaign did not secure 15,000 met weekly, which number it is understood the military authorities declared it was neosary to maintain until the end of the year. Mr. Henderson meanwhilo je exert Mr. Asquith's phrase "formidable dising his acknowledged, infinance te secure ister" is the text of all the papers, which the adhesion of the Trades Union to con- Ribassy officials, in the plot to blow up north-west of Vaux, where we occupied to tend and resine the wounded,
ditonal compulsion.
There was beween M Hondor little difference canal, and in other dastardly con- portions of the German line, carried a
LONDON. April 20th.
are generally eophatic that such must be avorted
The Daily Telegraph says:-Mouth of blind mischief-making and deliberate wrecking are responsible for the situation, which encouraging the enemy on the very eve of the Allie, launching their sup- reme war effort and when a rupturs be tween the United States and Germany is imminent. It is something gained that the whole matter has been brought into the
open
The Daily Express:-No other Ministry is conceivable.
The Daily Graphic:-The divergent ele- Imenta in the Cabinet must meet on the common ground that Great Britain is the workshop of the Allies
The Darly Chronicle:-Disruption of the
s compromise and
Mr. Lloyd George's proposed Bill which, the Daily Telegraph says, was rejected by the Cabinet, but which will, according to the Daily Mail, be introduced next wack.
provides that compuleion shall be en- forced by resolution of Parliament when- er the yield of recruits falls below a crtain total,
The Daily Mail adds that the Govern ment contemplates the use of the guillotine is secure the speedy passage of the Bill,
According to some papers the Government proposals embrace compulsion for men of 18 years of age, the retention with the colours of time-expired men, the removal of the restrictions on Territorials, enabling them to be drafted to other units, the out of bachelors in reserved-oc- married men, an opportunity to be given to the unattested to volunteer, failing which ampulsion to be enforced and State pro vision for civil liabilities of married men.
Government is the sole aim of the the embodiment of the attested
patriotic depapers, which are regardless of the mischief done in our relations with the Allies
The Daily Now:-We drifted near Niagara but the warning was not too late.
The Times:We would cheerfully see the Whatever the Cabinet's decision may be, Cabinet shorn of half its menbors, co both sections of the Press are satisfied, matter which, df the remainder would one side congratulating the Coalition upon direct the war with unhampered determi-enching a settlement without a single re- Dation.
dignation, thus restoring the confidence of The Daily Mail:-If the Cabinet re-the Allies and preserving the British tra- means much longer squabbling and wobition of practical common sense, the bling this will be & disaster of the most other side scolaiming a victory for Mt. formidable kind. The country smile at the Lloyd George's porseverance and courage good opinion of themselves entertained by and expressing hope in the Ministers whom these ineffective politicians
he persuaded further to co-operate with him in other directions where vigour is needed to win the war.
The Morning Post-The Military Ser vice Ari was the first bite at the cherry The Government is now forced to take a wood bite although Mr. Asquith made everybody's flesh creep, The Government's AMERICA grimaces at the second bite may be dis GOUD fad
LORD MILNER'S RESOLUTION ADJOURNED.
Losos. April 20th, The debate on Lord. Milner' resolution. has been adjourord, Lord Lansdowne laid great stress upon the gravity attending the break-up of the Government at the present ....
A hundred Liberal members of the House of Commons, including Biz John Biman, have resolved to support Mr. Asquith of the Labour M
At a meeting of the Labour members of the House of Commons it was decided to ask for a secret, sitting of Parliament to discuss the recruiting.
A SETTLEMENT REACHED.
LONDON, April 20th.
the
It is officially announced that Cabinet has reached a settlement.
A SECRET SESSION.
AND
GERMANY,
MR. WILSON'S ADDRESS TO
CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April 28th: The first portion of President Wilson's address to Congress was given in the Daily Frees on Friday, He was then referring to the manner in which ships of every kind had been destroyed.
spiracies
"Count von Bernstorff in trying to secure Igel' release on the ground of immunity and is also frantically endeavouring to recover the seized papers,
COUNT VON BERNSTORFF'S
DILEMMA.
WASHINGTON, April 21st. Photographic copies of the correspond. ence arized at the time of Igel's arrest, have been forwarded to Washington in order to afford Count von Bernstorf an opportu nity to identify the property is that of the German Embassy. It is not expected that he will claim some of the documents, be- cause they would implicate his intimates.
DISTURBANCES IN DUTCH EAST INDIES. GERMANS SUSPECTED OF CONSPIRACY.
AMSTERDAM, April 21st, The Telegraaf states that the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies is to preside over an inquiry into the conduct of the Germmas Eglofstein and Kiel, for merly managers of the Straits of Sunda Syndicats, who are suspected of conspi- racies against the Government, and are said to have been largely responsible for recent disturbances in the Dutch East Indios.
THE NEAR EAST.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.] OPERATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA.. HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.
PARIS, April 20th. The French have made another brillant counter-attack at Verdun,
A communiqué engs:We strongly at tacired at dusk the German positions to the
fortified redoubt, inflicted serious desses on the enemy and took many prisoners, also machine guns, besides a quantity of war materia),
The French batteries delivered a con centrated fire on the enemy's commanies tions in Woevre.
There were mining operations in Argonse in our favour, while the Germans wort of the Menss bombarded our swood lines, de
ENEMY DRIVEN FROM TRENCHES.
VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT.
PARIS, April 21sk
2.05 am
A Paris communique says:-We shelled enemy communications and the Malancourt wood in Argonne,
There was great artillery activity on the sectors of Hill 304 and Avocourt,
West of the Mfense, we attacked in the region of Mort Homme and drove the enemy from the trenches occupied by him on the 10th,
There was a violent bombardment in the Douaumont and Vaux regions, ess of the Mouse, but there was quiet elsewhere.
FRENCH CAPTURE MORE PRISONERS.
STEADY PROGRESS REPORTED. PARIS, April 21st. 7.25 p.m.
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A communiqué Bays:-The French at tacks continued to progress in the Deadman Hill region, making many more prisoners, The Germans at dusk, after a violent bombardment, launched a powerful offen. aive on a front of two kilometres between LONDON, April 20th-
Tbs The War Office says the details of the Thiaumont Farm and Veux Pond. fighting on the right bank of the Tigris en enemy got a footing to the south of Douau- attacks, show that the Turts left between was completely driven out by night counter- the 10th just, prior to the Turkish courter-mont Fort and to the north of the pond, but two and shres hundred dead in the tap- attacks. We took machine-gun and some turel positions, and we took eight flersprisoners. and 180 men prisoners, and captured two of
field guns and five machine guns. Our As aeroplane reports that the Turkish 10 were comparatively small.
balances were busy all day removing the analties after the attacks.
Continuing, Mr. Wilson said:-Oro. the latest and most shocking instances is the destruction of the Sussed, which like the Luriante, is so singularly tragical and unjustifiable as to constitute a truly terrible example of the inhumanity of sub- marine warfare as conducted by the Ger- inans. Recent events tanke the conclusion
inevitable that the Sussen is only one instance of the spirit and the method of warfare which Germany had mistakenly adopted and which, from the first, has ex- posed her to reproach, thrusting nli neutral. Fights aride in pursuit of her immediate ubject.
LONDON, April 20th. The Press Bureau ansounces that tho.
The Government of the United States had Cabines at its meeting to day came to a been most patient and had hoped against agreement upon the proposals which it will wake to Parliament on the subject of rehtape that the Gormant would control the cruiting. The Government's proposals will acts of their naval commander in accord-
ance with the principles of humanity. be submitted as * secret sesion of 800 House of Parliament on Tuesday.
It
had been willing to wait till the signific- ance of the facts became absolutely unmis ALL SECTIONS SATISFIED. takeable and susceptible of but ang inter- pretation. That point is now unhappily LONDON, April 20th.
reached. The facts were susceptible of but The Press Barean announces that the one interpretation, 4.6., that the Imperial settlement reached by the Cabinet, while German Government were unable to put meeting the demands of the military situs any units or restraint upon warfare tion, has satisfied all section of opinion against freight and passenger ships; there- represented in the Government, The sole fore it was painfully evident that the reason for the secret session on Tuesday it position which the Government took at sbe to inform Parliament confidentially of the very cutset is inevitable, namely, that the main facts and figures apos which the use of submarines for the destruction of decision of the Cabinet is based and the uteret is incompatible with the prin- publication of which would be obviously ciples of humanity; the rights of neutrals undesirable,
and the sacred immunities of non-com
batant
enemy's counter-
Lownos, April 21st. The Turkish counter-attacks
on the
Tigrin on the 14th just cast the enemy over 3,000 dead, including German officers. The British total esnaftics were much less in number than the Turkish kifled;
Floods are stil hampering the relief of General Townshend.
DEATH OF FIELD MARSHAL
IVON DER GOLTZ.
AMSTERDAL, April 22nd. An official telegram from Kerlin_an- nounces that Field Marzbal Von der Goltz died of spotted fever on the 19th inst, in the headquarters of his Turkish army.
PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIANS.
CAPTURES AT TREBIZOND.
PETROGRAD, April 21st.
A communiqué says: In the course of
the pursuit of the Turkish in the coast region of the Caucasus, a patrol ambushed and captured two hundred men belonging to a regiment recently from Constantinople commanded by a German.
The captures at Trebizond included some six-inch guns. The town was not damaged, The populusion soclaimed the Russians
A series of mountainous Turkish posi tions south of Bitlig was captured by the Russians, who are advancing in the direc tion of Sert..
THE OPINION OF THE COUNTRY.
President Wilson then announced bis LONDON. April 20th.. division to break off relations unless The Cabinet mat for two hours, until Germany abandoned her methods of wor- [2 o'clock, before it reached a settlement tare; and said:"I have arrived at this with which Mr. Lloyd George declared he decurion with the keerest regret, but we Wag #alised, it is therefore assumed that cannot forget, that we are the responsible no absciste surrender is required
pokesmen for the rights of hamn ity and either side. te Ministers nye now gone cannot remain silent while the rights awny for thS. WEEK-LDR...
wem in process of being swept utterly away ITALIAN FRONT, in the gefstrom of this terrible war. With The result of the election at Wimbledon t soluty and Braces I have which was declared at noun, way pensiblyke this stand, relying on your approval have contributed to the settlement,
and support. All sober-minded men mest
showing the opinion of the country wi arite to pening that Germany will recog- Tatrty equally divided with DIN 16 favour of the maintenance of the Coalition the justice of our demands and meet
nem ju the spirit in which they are wade." The decision to holds begreg weswinn la unprecedented in modern times and accordi with the suggestion of the Labour se
hers. y fament on Tuesday will
Apparently be able, for the first time; to coniuer ali the facts of the situation.
A
BELIEF IN FINANCIAL CIRCLES.
It is suggested that the terms of the
WASHINGTON, April 21st, Kezflement will involve general compulsion wich" a suspenary cause providing that Coung von Bernstorf is really perturbed general compulsion call not be applied and a song paten bag recommended long na voluntary secruiting is satsaso tory
Berlin to take speedy steps to avoid a
rapiare dy steps to avoid
ine Times New York correspondent states that in high financial circter it is predicted that a break with Germany will cune sau bug it 19 nus believed that war will follow
NO FURTHER DELAY,
GREAT RELIEF IN POLITICAL CIRCLES.
LONDON, April 20th. There is the greatest relief 10 poutuja circles that the Cabinet, has resent. E settlement. The terms of the mettlement
WASHINGTOS, April 21st, are food for the widest speculation." "I hat Coast von Bernstorff has conferred with'] is general satisfaction among all partie Mr Lansing, apparently weking further that the Government his at last admiste detaya. Iz secg that he was coldly the desirability of giving Partanien um received and was given to understand that actual facts L order to facilitate the America would not change her attitude Hant decision. RATES OF EXCHANGE AT BOMBAY of the Hours, who is takisunt gas reply to yesterday's hole arrived.
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AMSTERDAM, April 21st, The Assertern Ambasador presented the subizarine note wo Berlin on Thursday.
THE NATION'S HONOUR.
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BLOWING UP A MOUNTAIN. IMPORTANT ITALIAN SUCCESS.
Rove. April 20th
of
The Italian at Col-di-lans, after three months' preparation in digging a funnel eleven hundred yards long under Mount Sief, blow up a large portion of the moun- tain on the 18th inst. destroying most the position and occupying the remaining trenches and capturing four hundred prisoners Afterwards, says a communiqué, the Italians captured the western peak of Mount Ancora.
THE BALKANS.
MASSACRE OF GREEKS
CRE OF GH TURKS AND BULGARE CO-OPERATE IN THE MURDERS.
SALONIKA, April 20th... There were serious massacres of Greeks on the 11th insi, at Adrianople. Smyras The Turks and Buk and Constantinople, goriana wo-operated in the massacres at Adrianople.
BOMBS AND PAMPHLETS.
DROPPED ON SOFIA
AMSTERDAM, April 22nd, An official despatch from Sofia states that au aeroplane from south-east dropped two bombs in the suburbs of Bohn on the 1st it, and also several pamphlets aUDOUING Ing the fall of Erreram and Trehind.
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BRITISH LINES AT YPRES ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK.
LONDON, April 21et.
1.10 am. A British communiqué states:-The
enemy last night, after a heavy bombard meat, attacked our lines as Ypres. At four points his infantry pondrated our lines, bus were everywhere ejected, except as St. Elai, where he captured two cratera, and on the Xpres-Langemarck road, where be retains one tranch
A hostile raid near Mazitz failed to reach our trenches, There has been mining activity in our favour to-day about the quarries south of Givenchy.
PARTY OF GERMANS DISPERSED.
LONDON, April 22nd.
12.55 .m.
To-day's communiqué statos:-There has been mining activity during the last twenty-four hours near Fricourt, Souchez, Hullach, and Givenchy,
We dispersed daring the nigh, a parte of Germans who had left their tronches near St. Bleen tr
410 330. The Victoria Cros has been awarded to the Rev, Edward Mellish, temporary chap- lain, for conspicuous bravery during heavy fighting on three consecutiva days, when he repeatedly went backwards and forwards under continuous heavy shell and machine gun fire, between our original trenches and
He brought in ten badly wounded nee hose captured from the sterny, in order on the fire day. Three were killed while. talion to which he was attached was relisred he was dressing their wounds. The hat on the second day, but Mr. Mellish return- ed and brought in twelvo more wounded" and took charge of a party of volunteers at night, On the third day he returned to the trenches to rescue the remaining wounded. His work was quite voluntary.
Mr. Mellish was acurate at Deptford before the war and served with Genero Baden Powell during the Boer War. He returned to England at the end of the vir but again went out to South Africa and occupied a position in a diamond mine,
The only other chaplain who was awarded the Victoria Cross served in the Afghan war in 1870.
NAVAL ACTIVITIEB
[FHROUGH REDZER'S AGENOT.] SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. MORE SHIPS SUNK.
LONDON, April 21st The British steamer Cairngowan and the barque Itavenhill have been sunk. The crews were saved,
LONDON, April 21st. The Dutch steamer Lodewyk van Nase. has been sunk. Five persons were drowned.
WIMBLEDON BYE-ELECTION.
LONDON, April 9th. The Wimbledon bye-election resulted wa follows:-
Sir Stuart Conts (Conservative)... 1970- Mr. Kennedy Jones (Indepen
7,159 dont)
Conservative Majority CANADA'S RESPONSE
1,811
OTTAWA, April 10th. Since the beginning of the year 102,500 men have bon rocruited in Canada for Overseas service, making a total of
309,800.
MOSLEM CEMETERY IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, April 22nd. Sir George Christopher Birdwood, in s letter to the Times, warmly commends the scheme for a Moslem cemetery and hopes as a true garden of God for the sanctified it will be planned not as a necropolis bab dead of Islam in England.
YUAN SHIH KAI READY TO RESIGN.
GUARANTEES WANTED FROM THE REBELS,
LONDON April 22nd. The Time correspondent at Peking states that the indirect negotiationg be tween the Government and its opponente are, it is understood. proving futile owing to the latter insisting upon the re sigaatios at Yuan Bhik Kai.
The stopping of the remittances from the Provinces will soon put the Government ja troops will be impossible. Thus the Pro- financing difficulties and payment of the There has been trench mortar fighting sident may have no chains but to retire. today south of Arras, and mutual artillery It is now believed he is prepared to resign bombardmente at various points in the in favour of the Vice-President provided region between Boucher and La Basses guarantee are given for the life and pro Canal; also in the neighbourhood of Ypres. party of himself and his supporters.
INTENSE ARTILLERY
ACTIVITY.
PARIS, April 2nd, 130
A communiqué says:-We occupied the northern hp of the crater caused by the explosion of a German mine at Hill 285 in Argonne,
There has been a violent bombardment
HONGKONG
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RUSSIAN TROOPS ARRIVE AT MARSEILLES.
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A picked Russian force arrived at Mar seilles to day. General Joffre, in an Onder of the Day, rejoices to welcome" our faithful and gatlant Allies," who will fight side by side with the French on the Western Front He says that the soldiers among the Russians are the bravest and are commanded by officers among the most re
owned ENTHUSIASM AROUSED THROUGH- OUT FRANCE.
MARSEILISE, April 21z The arrival of the Russians in Mar- seilies has aroused intense enthusiasm in France. It is not yet known on which sactor they will be used, but the Germane will certainly hear of their arrival with dismay. There were orations for the in- coming French cavalry and infantry The Bir warships bands played the National French Generale and officials welcomed Anthem
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