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THE WAR.
IRISH
REBELS SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY.
FRENCH AERIAL SUPERIORI PY.
RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING;
FATE OF VON DER GOLTZ.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
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FRENCH AERIAL SUPERI- ORITY AT VERDEN.
THIRTY-ONE ENEMY MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN.
PASIS. May 2nd.
2.10 4.3.
cominaniqué reports mise fighting in Argonne, ie the region of Fille Mort
Qury
positions left of the Mouse, in the region of Verdun, have been violently bou barded
Artillery activity on the right bank of
the Mouse was concentrated on Pepper. Hill and Douaumont,
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THE FALL OF KUT
GENERAL TOWNSHEND RETAINS
HIS SWORD,
AMSTERDAM, May 16, According to a Berlin wireless message, the Turkish commander, Valil. Pasha, has allowed General Townshend to keep his sword. The message chime that nuong the prioners are four Generals, 240 Britisht and 270 Iddini officers
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
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BRITISH STEAMER SUNK:
LONDON, May lit.
The steamer City of Lucknow has been
During April, French battleplanes were particularly active in the region of Ver- -dun- and brought down thirty-one encinyunk.
aircraft. Six of our aircraft worsted n similar auber of enemy machines.
Perioti..
SEVEN AIR FIGHTS.
GUNNERS AND MINERS BUSY.
LONDON. May 2nd: General Sir Danglas Haig reports that the
night exploded a mine at enemy Jast Carency. danaging our front trenches, but the infantry did not attack.
We repulsed a bombing attack south of Loos and we blew up a countermine pear Roelineart against hostile
Our artillery seriously, danaged hostilo. works near Angres.
The artillery, is active in the Ypres re gion.
(The City of Lucknow, 3,669 tons, was built in 1898 for ears, G. Smith and Song]
MORE VESSELS SUNK.
LONDON, May 1st. The following vessels have been mank: British steamer Teal Norwegian steamer Mad. Swedish barque Viola. The Teal's crew has been picked up, COLLIER 7 SUBMARINE.
PIRATE SHIP BEATEN OFF.
LONDON, May 1st.
A disguised submarine attacked the collier Wandle in the North Sea without WATning. The Wardle was armed defen- sively and exchanged shot for shot till the
TEE BONGKONG DAILY PRESK THURSDAY, MAY 4rn 1916.
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IRISH REVOLT. WHOLESALE SURRENDERS
LONDON, MAY IM
It is officially announced that all the rebels in Dublin have surrendered. The city is reported to be quite safe. The rehe in the country districts are surrendering Lo mobile columns. There were a thousand prisoners in Dublin yesterday, of whom 488 were sent to England last night.
After a porley, the rebels at Enaiseerthy in the morning agreed to surrender uncon ditionally Last night they offered to sur render the leaders and arms provided the rank and Ble ware allowed to return to their
homes.
They were informed that they must sure render unconditionally A later report states that they are now surrendering on
táceo terms,
Wicklow Arklow, Dunlavin, Bugnals town, Wexford, New Cross and the Coun ties of Cork, Clare Limerick and Kerry are generally quick.
PRESS.
STOP
BRILLIANT FRENCH SUCCESS.
ENEMY POSITION NEAR DOUAU. "MONT CAPTURED.
WAR AND PEACE.
LORD BRYCE'S HUXLEY, LECTURE,
Viscount Bryge delivered the Huxley Lecturo at Birmingham University recent- by, reports the Manchester Guardian, taking this subject "War and Progres: An The French have been very successful inquiry from history of how for war and on the Summe in Champagne and Ar-peace have respectively contributed to the gonne, repulsing minor attacks
PARIS, May 2nd. 4.40 pm.
Today's communiqué says, that artillery activity continues around Deadınan Hill.
The French at dusk made a briliant, attack south-east of Dounumont and captured an enemy position of 500 metrs and numerous prisoners,
Fresh information of the French success at Deadman Hill on the 30th Apr 1 shows that we gained 1,000 metres of German trenches of a depth of 000 metros,
There has been some hurricane artillery firing in Woevre
GENERAL COMPULSION, IMPORTANT SPEECH BY THE
PREMIER
LONDON, May 2nd.
It was expectel that, the arms would be handed in in the city of Cork to-day,♬
Mr. Asquilh announced in this House of coluran of, soldiers and constabulary has Commons that the Government to-morrow captured seven prisoners in the neighbour-woukl jutroduce a ocasure dealing with the
hoor of Ferns,
The whole of Ulster is reported to be quiet. DHAMATIC SCENE AT SURRENDER. The song of the surrender at Dublin was most dramatic. The rebels wayed white flags, and, when the troops had ceased all firing, the rebel Jenders under a flay, of true, approached the officers and soldiers
in Sackville Street and an Armistics was arranged after which the rebel president Pearse signed en unconditional surrender, Copies of the surrender have been posted throughout Ireland:
CRIMINALITY OF FANATIOS: DENOUNCED:
MELBOURNE, May 1st The Commonwealth Government has
whole recruiting problem,
Mr. Asquith wad a brief speech, the most striking pasange of which was when he said that recruiting had been reduced in one of method. "That has brought us face to face with compulsion, with general and in mediate compulsion such as we are going to propose. This has the immense advant "ge of geting rid of piecemeal treatment.” (Choers.)
The speech is regarded as an importaat and direct challenge to Mr. Asquith', erities, and will probably have a vital effect in clearing up the situation. Many men. hers in the Lobby expreced the belief that it will atragthen the position of the Government. To morrow's Bill really general compulsim together with unor proposals recently withdraws con-
progress of mankind.
✅Lord Bryos-said, that those who studied the general principles that guided human condnet and the working out of those prin Ciplox as recorded in history had noted two main streams of tendency. One of these showed itself in the power of reason and of the finer, and more altruistic emotions, while the other tendency was cited with plusion and those sofregarding pu'ses which sought and obtained their ends in and by physical forec. Thus there had been two schools of philosophical thinkers and historin one school Inying stree on the former tendency and finding in it the chief source of human -progress, wlalo the other dwelt upon the power of selfishness and passion, deeming them to be elemicals in human action which could never be greatly reduced either by school or by sympathy. This school held that the social order wust always be maintained chiefly by force, and that right itself was only created by force It therefore natur- ally nocepted war as inevitable
Ten-
HOHENZOLLERNS' LAST. THROW.
VERDUN MAY SEAL FATE OF THE DYNASTY.
In the Gaze fe de Laurenne “M. M-"- shows why the Crown Prince's army was chosen for the big offensive on Verdun an:1 why the Kaser went to the Verdun
front.
The Hohenzo Forn dynasty. take
We are trid that the real protagonisis of German warfare, the illustrious leaders who hay won authentie Inurels this truggle-Hindenburg and Mackobsen, and the like-were opposed to the attack or Verdun. But their strategic reasons were unavailing in face of the dynastic intero t. The Crown Prines is in had reed of a victory, a halo, a baton,
I go w but saying that Wilhelin who went expressly to the spot to embrace his son after the victory, wial ad-
check only at the last extremity. Gott mins, exclaims the Emperor once more (in a telegram to the Prince of Saxo Heiningen). His mystic faith in victory still persiste at least in hay telo. grama Ah, yes! The German Emperor. will be the last but one to lose faith in German armis, the last will be his son. Germany, ta a nation would survive a war that did not realis hor aspirations. Wilhelm II, and the Crown Prince would, on the contrary, come out of it with their prestige so hattured that the catastrophic en quence might follow,
The function, of the Hohenzollerns in history of Prussia has been to reigu, but still more to conquer. When, about five years ago, the Crown Prince took con- sand of the war party in Germany-tho Jingoes cheered this remisstuce of the
The other school, with its faith in reason and sympathy, was more sanguine, thought that progress was chiefly achieved in and through peace, and believed in the post bility of 5 world which at last, would be. come pacific. Down to recent times it had seemed to hold the field in the real of thought, Latterly however the other school had sprung into conspicudus pm- minence particularly in Germany. cher had arisen who, not content with maintaining way to be a necessary factor in the relations of States, declined it to be. valuable in itself by no means a necessary ovil but rather ʼn positive good. The State, according to them, stood by power, power
Hohenzollerngi (the Hohenzollern
turn from the war a conqueror an arch rested on foros, force executed the laws Spirit). A Hohenzollern who does not re- State's limits there was no law and no conqueror, runs a risk, with the masses in state of feeling that are in morality, nothing but foret the bad at the worst misfortunes. Th
Crown Prince going forth to the was de- cared himself sure of victory. He pro- mind v ctry to the rash admirers that ho the other from history. Both lines of arguh mirrored a Greater Deutschland » verit drew in his train, In their dazzled eyes ment showed that all progress was achieved able Land of Cockaigne. What will the by strife. Among animals and plants il
within the State's limite. but outside the
This doctrine, which saw in war a con-
stant means of human progress, based itself on two lines of argument. One was drawn
from the realm of animated nature, and
was natural selection and the struggle for people say, what will the army any, if the life that evolved, higher forms from lower half-check at Verdun is repeated, and be Aitong men it was the same process of ances Ue general rule; if at the end of ending conflict that enabled the higher the deal in the adventure into which sho racey and stronger Slates to overcome or his precipitated the world? absorb the lower and loss advanced. This theory had now become a powerful factor in the relations of States to one another, and had been used to justify not merely way itself but methods of warfare till re centist unheard of methods which, an far
It is not merely Germany; is the mon archy; it is the dynasty that under the walls of Verdun is playing a desperate game, The Crown Prince is not far out in throwing his whole strength in the by would the Prussian throm he consoli dated..
cabled to Mr Bonar Law its deep regering:youthy of 18 and time-expired men, from serving human progres, threatened to winning of a fielik÷marshal's baton. There
at the revolt in Ireland and its confidence that the great bulk of the Irish people disavow and deplore the rising, - Repro- sentatives of Irishmen, Catholic Bishops and all Irish-born people denspace and repudiate the criminality of the Dublin fanaties.
MAÇÃO NOTFS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,] ́
Macao, May 2nd.
carry us back into the ages of barbarism.
Some of the leading races and States had ne doubt established their position by war buy the rape which had been most engaged in fighting hach not here those that had advanced most. Prussia (of which Voltaire said nearly two centuries ago that 6ghting. was a trade) claimed to be an instance of All the schools in the Colony have ended success achieved by was chiefly but it their Easter holidays, and the Senado's was still too soon to say whether this claim could be supported. and d What then have been the causes to which next Saturday in the building of thirreng has been due Partly, no doubt, Senado. Invitations have been issued to the to competition, but chiefly to thought. public in general. By and by, I under. Thought, is not helped by war. It is the races that know how to think rather than stand, some of the teachers intend to follow for more numerous races that knew the example of the English teacher of the only how to fight that have led the world. Santa Rosa' Collega by holding the class Invention and cient fie inquiry have given
There were woven air fighis yesterday: pirate disappeared. One person on board PRINCE ALBERT'S HEALTH. schools are to have their prize distributions
two German nachines were brought down.
RUBBIAN FRONT.
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THE RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.
SUCCESSES AGAINST GERMANS
AND TURKS.
PETROGRAD, May 2nd. The feature of a communiqué: are that the Germans vainly attempted to debouch from their trenches south-west of Lake Narotch, in the face of our fire, and that on
front in the direction of Dier Bakir, the Cossacks vigorously drove the enemy westward. On the front in the direction of Bogdad, burled back an important force westward, capturing a portion of the artil lery and many ammunition waggons, THE MEAR EAST.
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SITUATION IN EGYPT,
LONDON, May 1st.
the Wandle was wounded,
THE COMMANDER OF THE
AEGUSA:"
LONDON, May
LONDON, May 1st,
WAR NEWS.
GHASTLY GEBMAN SAVAGERY.
One of the most ghastly instances of Ger- 101 Alvagery towards British troops that have yet come to light in related in *' Ger- man Atrocities," by Professor J. H. Mor gau, a voluine best described a post- script to the Bryce report, published at one shilling. It appears that at the battle of Loos, some forty British prisons were Placed by their captars in a circular spa verse de species of trench. The Germans
It is officially announced that H. R. H. Prince Albert, who has bom undergoing elong course of treatment for gastric dis. The King's Yacht Argus (which has order, has now completely recovered and been unk) was commanded by Captain will shortly resume active duty with the their own residences instead of at the improvements in the arts of life auf hand grenades, till all but one of their
T. P. Walker, retired Vice-Admiral,
GENERAL.
A
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BLOODLESS VICTORY.
ALL RUMANIAN FLOUR BOUGHT.
BUKHAREST, May 1st.
A British syndicate has bought all thes, Rumanian fitur available for export.
This is a most important success, as the Central Powers are most eager to purchase, and Turkey is nbsolutely without four.
FOOD FOR WAH PRISONERS IN RUSSIA.
SWEDEN TRANSPORTING ENORMOUS QUANTITIES.
STOCKHOLM, May let.
In response to an urgent appeal from the Russian Government, the Swedish an- thorities are allowing the transport of enor. mous quantities of food for the prisoners
Navy.
college. The children's parents will not be Very pleased at this Innovation during the TEWKESBURY BYE-ELECTION. | warm weather. Classes should surely be had in the school buildings and nowhere LONDON, May 1st.
Mr. William Hicles-Beach will be the Coalition candidate and Mr. Willigin
then proceeded to bomb the traverse with
that knowledre of nature which ha brought weath and comfort. Thinking victims had perished. It is this one who scaped. who tells the story, in an affidavit. has produced literature and art. Niw the Ho No 05, Sergi, D. M of D thought of a peop'e is mast not ve when it Co, 8th Highlanders. When the first is brought into contact with another, because toob was thrown saing them—the majority each lose its variety and freedom of play of the 40 being wounded and helpless ho when it has worked too long upon scous, shouted to the mea so jump out, if possible, fomed lines, Jeolat on retards progres,
but only one man and himself managed to It seems that the dredger is still have drink course quicker i Euch contact do so, I jumped into a shell hole- about combed. It has been Izid op a Barree and with the process of learning which fo'lows 16 yards from the traverse. It was almost Boosey the Independent candidate for the today steamed up to its pace of refuge pas far oftener in reses, and is in nese neck. The other man was shot heard therefrom may happen by war, but hap full of water in which I stood up to my
Towkesbury bye-election.
hng men have time and taste to profit, fully the Germans bombing this circular traverse continuously for about 15 minutes. At first, by it.
the men I left were crying out, but after about ten minutze this ceased. I was over an hour in the hell hole, and left it affor
FAMOUS POLO PLAYER MISSING.
LONDON, May 1st
It is officialy announced that the famous polo player, Captain Leslie Cheape, is mis- - sing.
MILITARY
APPOINTMENTS.
Dear Green Island. The tug-hant nro now heing used as guard-boats, near the Ribera Grande, and Lappa. The Goverantut have chartered two more private launches for the patrol service:
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A study of history will enable us to die miss with an cary.cons once the theory of Treitschls that war is a medicine which Prov denne must be expected constantly to dark, offer to the human race for its own good. And we may properly address ourselves at the sternal principle, of right against the spirit of militarism and aggression to A French soldier describes the retire the task of trying to help forward the pro- ment from Dracs, north-east of Verdun as gres of mankind not through the strifes
It is said that a cable has been received from Lisbon ordering Senor Lancaire da Veiga, our worthy Attorney-General, to proceed to Shanghai in order to make in quiry into the recons tog of the Portuguese Consul in that Settlement. Benor Veigs is the right man in the right place, tant and batrel, of the peoples, but rather by follows LONDON, May lat
Jesterday the Sinc-ki junk was attacked Captain Cheney, of the Penang Volun by a launch shortly after passing the teers, has been gazetted & Temporary Csult, the launch we sunk and now lies toar Malauchaw Customs Station and as a re- tain in the Royal Fusiliers. A
Lieutenant Pattick, of the Bombay To lunteer Rifles, has been garetted Tea parary Lieutenant of the West Kents. v.
NEW MASTER OF BALLIOL,
It is officially announced that the situs- tion in the Sollura district in Egypt is rapidly returning to normal. We have occupied Mogahara, and are making .con- #nual serial raids from Kharge on the of war in Germany. Bakhla. A mali body of the enemy is NIGERIA'S LOYAL NATIVES. Jweth Fellow, and Tutor and Dean of
till occupying Baharin, terrorising the natives, who are stricken with typhus and hunger.
VON DER GOLTZ SHOT.
TURKS TIRED OF THEIR MASTERS
Bucharest, May 191. Coneral von der Goltz was shot by an Anatolian officer named Ali Abdulish,
There is great Turkish discontent against the Germans.
There is a serious split in the Young Turk Party in Constantinople.
RULERS CONTRIBUTIONS.
LONDON, May 1st. It is officially announced that Mr. Bonar. Low has informed the Governor General of Nigeria that thy Imperial Government will gratefully accept the offer of the Nigerian Government to meet after the war the charges for interest and a sinking fund of one per cent, en aiz millicas of Imperial War Debt, provided that the Im- perial Government will allow of this. The Emirs of Kano and Katsina have offered to provide £10,000 and £7,000 sterling year. Is respectively towards the Nigerian con
[General von der Goltz was officially stated to have succumbed to spotted fever. ] || tributions
LONDON, May 3rd- Professor Arthur Lionel Smith, M-Ag Balliol College, has been elected Master of Ballio!.
THE RISE IN SILVER. CHECK ON EXPANSION OF CURRENCY WANTED.
the channel outrance to the river going to Kongmoon, Sac ki, etc. The junk returned to our port without suffering any casualty.
IN EAST AFRICA'S JUNGLES.
A South Africa trooper serving British East Africa writes the following interesting letter describing the scen s in the bush
their friendly co-operation in the healing and enlightening works of peace.
ALLEGED FALSE DOCUMENT.
CASE OF THE ABARIC"
A FRENCHMAN'S STORY.
We left our trenches slowly and in good order, prossed back through the village and skirmishing all the while, made our way to Mancourt. Then the artillery began to roar on both sides and, ours never stopped I have fought right through from the beginning, I was at Suippes and at Founin. They were nothing. It way so frightful that I who have seen my-- According to a wire to the New York comrades fall almost with indifference, Evening New 1 sorton charge has been budder when I look back. Battalions ad- zande against the German Goverment, vanced upon us in close rank, 20-men namely, that it had taken refuge in frand abreast. The shapnel from our in its official
with the and our heavy artillery rained on them, United States
It was blood curdling. You could we great The charge is supported by reference gape being unde. It was as if a man had to Couns von Bernstorff's letter to Mr. been passing through the German ranks Lausing, of October 5. 1915, which was sup- with a scythe steadily moving them down posed to state the particulars as to the de Kach time the shells exploded RTs and struction of Arace, as they had been given lega flew high in the air. We were 60 by the submarine Commander Schneider. near one another that odds and ends of The latter based the communications on amputated limbs fell almost, on top of us Written statement said to have been made In one small stolor of two sections mére by Commander Schneider and his men, who
Hardly a morning passes but we have the unique sight of droves of big game enreering between the different squadropa. They comprise chiefly wizlebeeste, olejů, hartebeeste, gembok, rooibok, grysbow and ́ ́ LONDON, May 3rd...pringbok Aso there abound a sorte Commenting on the continued demand for wild boasts-on leopards, wolves, hyenas, silver for coinage, which is the cause of the wild pigs, giraffes, and ostrichen. A mem. A recent rapid advance in price, the Time;ber of a squadron bagged the other day * offered to repeat them under oath, eggs, knocking, they fell by hundreds and hun-
suggests that a check on the persistent fite leopard 8ft. long from nose to the tip
Statements from British source, how dres, Free Finally we made our ever have been received to the effect that way back up towards Mancourt. Our expansion of currency in circulation is of the tail. The same man sighted a bon danas od bed fiones, and wounded the latter, bu'
neither Commander Schneider nag his men quick-firing guns posted only are yards.
apart, belobed forth and we were con It points out that while thrice as much els not few towing to spot could ever have made a stament to the fronted with the sight of corpses standing silver is coined by the British Mint as he trable bush. The other afternoon a fellow
the Arabic, way in which they fore the war, the issue of notes has also came running into camp with just a pair
not to speak of written statements to be upright in hancken From Haucourt I been increasing far beyond anything that of boots on, swearing that he had soon a
repeated
oath, for the simple rea- followed the line of supply back to Fleury, should have been needed, by the withdrawal. ion while bathing. It was a bit uncanny
which was under and there I took too train to Verdun, of gold. The journal believes the reason to hear the strange notes of the night Behneider's cominand was destroyed by Fort Donaumont and Damloup between is that people are now holding much more laughing hyenas, grunt ng pigs, and howl British patrol vessal shortly after the which we passed boomed resoolessly, re cash than formerly, partly owing to the ing jackets,
Archt had been sunk. Two morally in ntlessly. The blood posted from our convenience of notes, and that in anything
jured members of the crew of the U 97 adera under the shock of the pressure of like an organised campaign for economy
mitted before, their death thas it was their air. At last we were at Vordur. kis matter" would receive attention-
boat that sank the drabica
Only let the Germans, cone,
needed,
The writer added that the health of the brigade was extraordinarily good, and to far there had not been a single fever case,
had