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THE WAR.
BIG GERMAN PREPARATIONS.
HEAVY FIGHTING.
PORT SAID BOMBED.
AMERICA AND THE "CYMRIC.”
KAISER APPEALS FOR PEACE.
IRELAND AND MILITARY SERVICE.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
G RECTER'S AGENCY.].
STILL HAMMERING AT VERDUN.
{THROUGH REUTER'S 40ENCY.]
NICK AND WOUNDED IN MESOPOTAMIA.
Losnos, May 11th. The War Office states that General Lake reports that a further 433 pick and wounded from Kut have arrived at hend
The quarters, making the toral 1073. The German offensive continues at Verhospital ship has returned to Kut for dun. To-day's communiqué saya-The the last party,
GERMAN ATTACK FAILS AND FRENCH GAIN GROUND.
PARIB, May 9th.
4.25 p.m.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PREM, PRIDAY, MAY 12mm 1018,
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THBODOK REUTER'S AGNOY.]
CRUSHING TURKISH LOSSES.
STUBBORN ATTACKS.
PETROGRAD, May 11th.
(THROUGH REUTEL'S' AGENCY:]
RUSSIAN LEGISLATORS IN ENGLAND.
HIS MAJESTY'S. CORDIAL
WELCOME.
LONDON, May 9th. A communiqué status:-The Gernians continue to batter the skull bridge- H.M. King George cordially welcomeri head. The Turks have delivered sub-the Russian Duma party nk Fuckingham born attacks on the Russian positions at Erzindjian, all of which were stopped, the enemy suffering crushing losses. The Russians are steadily advancing in the direction of Diaébekar and Bagdad.
GENERAL.
(THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.]
MILITARY SERVICE,
IRELAND NOT TO BE INCLUDED.
LONDON, May 11th In the House of Commons, on the Com- Imittee-stage of the Military Service Bill,
Sir J. Lonsdale moved the inclusion of Ireland.
Palace and expressed his feartfelt desire that Great Britain and Russia shall ro main realy united, after victory, His Majesty paid a warm tribute to the mar
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vellous achievements of the Russians, and rejoiced that the gallant British sailors: bad been able to co-operate with their
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] KAISER APPEALS FOR PEACE.
PERSONAL LETTER TO PRESI
DENT WILSON.
LONDON, May 10th. The Daily Telegraph·losins that the Kaiser has personally written a letter to President Wilson, appealing to him to arge the Entente not to prolong inde finitely the useless efforts for revenge." CONSPIRATOES IN AMERICA IMPRISONED.
NEW YORK, May 10th.
The Cormins Fay. Scholz, and Terhe have been sentenced to eight, four, and two years in a pealtentiary respectively for conspiracy to destroy munition ships
Russian comrades. Also, "Britain would by bombs.
be ablo effectively to assist Russia in other ways. The visitors would as how whole- heartedly the British Empire had been performing her part. We were ready to make every mcrifice in the cause of the
Allies.
DAILY GROWING SENSE OF INTIMACY.
Mr. Asquith opposed the motion on the
The Government gare a banquet to the grounds of the urgency of the measure members of the Duma" now visiting the causing a country at Lancaster House. There wers and the undesirability of troversy in Ireland after a terrible ordeal on tables, each presided over by. in an aerial combat a British aero-which, he believed, would lead to greater Cabinet Minister. the night Hill 304, and then attacked at plane was forced down owing to a per-unity with loyal Irishmen and be for the
elock in the morning. The effort wasforated tanks, but succeeded in reaching
enemy violently bombarded throughout
completely repulsed.
progressed;
the British Times, MAVAL ACTIVITIES
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
French counter-attacks north-westward of Thiaumont Farm:
There was an intense bombardment of
ultimate good of Ireland and the Empire
Mr. Redmond pointed out that they were over 150,000 Irishmen in the arms He opposed conscription because le con
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Mr. Asquith, who was the Chairman, toasted the guests health. He paid a tribute to the exploits of the Russian Armies, and hoped to show the visitors what we had done in the Allied cause."
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RUBBER TYRES FOR ENGLAND.
FROM ROME TO LONDON,
A SKETCH OF MIN. ASQUITH.
(BY THE RIGHT HON, O. W. E ROSWELL.]
At last he came the great men in a great position, summoned from: Röme to govern England. In this sentence Lord Beaconsfield was describing Sir Robert Peel, who made that journey in November, 18. King William IV. had just dismissed-bis-Whig Ministers, and- had commanded Peel to form an. Ad- ministration. Bat Peel was ravelling in Italy, and arrived in hot haste, "After a most extraordinarily rapid journey of welve days only, travelling by night over precipice and snow, eight nights us of the twelve."
Mr. Asquith's journey has bron: pu- formed is a less exhausting fashion, and he returns not to begin, but to continue, the work of Premiership, yet there are circumstances in his career which inevit-" ably suggest comparison with Feel, to shong of all his predecessors, he bears the closest resemblance, Both sprang from the hardy north and both from the commercial class. Both had covered themselves with glory at school and at Oxford. Both were endowed by Nature with an inexhaustible faculty for hard work. Both bad exceptionally, strong constitutions, In both the distinguish- ing quality was hard common-sense, and both had very early contracted a habit of clear nad accurate speech, as far as possible removed from eloquence, bui business-like. admirably adapted to a assemblage. Both were conspicuously free froin sentiment aud romance both held strong but not fanatics! opinions, and both were ready to modify those. opinions and to change their courses the exigencies of public life seemed to require. In two words, both were con- INTER-mate politicians. But there were-
LONDON, May 9th In the House of Commons, Mr. Runci- man announced that rubber tyres and animal ivory cannot be included in the list of prohibited imports.
MEXICO PROHIBITS EXPORT OF.. SILVER
LONDON, May. 10th. Mexico has prohibited the export of silver.
INSURING PEACE.
LLOYD'S REFLECT
considerable differences between the lots of the two men, and those differences made themselves felt in both in their characters and in their actions.
Four lines from Douaument to Vaux, anů | AMERICA AND THE "CYMRIsidered it was the worst way of getting | The work of the Navy was nowhere be hold heavy war contracts, and who have Mr. Asquith has pushed his way to the
Also at Eix Chatillon.
The French gained brilliant minor se -teases in Argonne, capturing two German
posts and several 'craters.
GERMAN ATTACKS SHAT- TERED.
FRENCH FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSSES TO ENEMY.
PARTE, May 10th...
1.45 a.m. The evening communiqué says:-Dur artillery in Champague bombarded the Gorman trenches and batteries north of Ville-sur-Tourbe and the communication
roads at Somme pyi
"The bombardment was less intense on the left of the Meuse.
An attempt by the enemy to attack a french west of Hill 204 was stopped dead
INVESTIGATIONS BEING MADE.
LONDON, May 11th.
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ter known than in Russia. He dwelt on the cordial relations between England and Russia in regard to the East, and
men to Ireland. He becched the House to drop the amendment and urged to large and generous views so that out of America is investigating the sinking of the turmoil and tragedy a means could be said that M. Sazonoff and Sir Edward the Cymric, and has asked whether the found for ending the difficulties of form-Gray had reached accords of incalculable vessel was an auxiliary cruiser or mering an united Ireland, where the people i valus, blotting out all misunderstandings chantman. It is understood that the themselves would have both the respon- American Consul at Queenstown has re-sibility of power and of Government.
Mr. Churchill urged the importance of ported to the State Department that the Cymric was torpedoed without warning.securing fresh supplies of men from Ire
Three other submarine attacks are also attracting the attention of Washington
Losnos May 9th
The White Star linet Cymrit sank in the morning. All were saved
A Dutch steamer saved 107 of those en board the sessel The explosion of tàn torpedo killed five.
The Cymric, which was not armed, was niles from land when she was tor- pedoed in the engine-room. intermittent cannonade | SINKING OF THE "SUSSEX
by our curtain of fre."
There was ali
on the right bank of the Mouse and in GERMANY OFFERS REPARATION,
Woiwie...
Later reports show that the Gerinans en Monday night in the region of Hill 201 delivered three most violent attacks in great strength Que, mentioned in the afternoon communiqué, was against H: 287, the second north-east of Hit 301, and the third west of Hill 304. All were shattered by our fire, with heavy Ross to the enemy.
MASSES OF NEW ARTILLERY. BIG GERMAN PREPARATIONS.
Pania, May 11th. 9.15 p..
The Germans have brought up mI28898
land, but felt difficulty in pressing the question against Mr. Redasond's opinion Mr. McNeill moved that the Gevorg ment should omit the age limit with a view to ixing it from time to time by an
Order-in-Council
Sir Edward Carson urged the Govern ment to take power to raise the li above 41.
3 Walter Long declared that the Government should adhere to the limits
of 18 to 41 years, which the Army consider. ed would give them all the men required. The amendment to include Ireland in the Military Service Bill was negatived
division.
LONDON, May 11th- Germany to-day semi-ufficially admits | without a the torpeduing of the Sukser, and offers reperation to the United States.
BRITISH NAVAL POSITION.
MR. BALFOUR ON REASONS OF GERMAN DASH.-
LONDON, May 10th
DUBLIN CASUALTIES.
OVER 100 SOLDIERS KILLED.
LONDON, May 11th.
In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith announced that the casualties sustained by the Army at Dublin were 17 officers Of the other
of the past. There is daily growing a sense of intimacy and unity between the British and Bussian peoples. The clumsy and blundering attempts of Germany to separate the Allies were foredoomed to failure. Germany, like ourselves, knew that what conquer if we continued united. In this knowledge we stand together, however long and severe the test of endurance, until our enemies are beaten to the ground.
FOOD FOR KUT HEROES.
CONVEYED BY AEROPLANES. A
LONDON, May 11th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Ten nant stated that between April 11th and April 29th British aeroplanes dropped 18,800 lbs. of food, besides medical and other stores, at Kut. Throughout the operations only one aeroplane was lost.
·GATHERING THE MARRIED MEN.
LONDON, May 11th In the House of Commons Mr. Cavu said that the married eligibles abroad and we were usually resident in Great Bri- tain must return forthwith and report
A most reassuring statement of the British Naval position is contained in a killed and 46 wounded. letter from Mr. Balfour to the Mayors ranks 86 were killed and 311 wounded. for military duty
Among the Con: of Lowestoft at Yarmouth' After Nine are missing.
pointing out that the damage done by stabulary 15 men were killed and 28 wound
the German Naval coust-raids dors noted. The Navy had one killed and two
NATIONAL OUTLOOK. Many inquiries are now being received at Lloyd's for insurances to pay a total
TWO PREMIRAS. loss in the event of peace being declared Peel's father had accumulated great before a certain date. The interested parties are invariably large firms who wealth, and could bequeath to his son not only opulence but an assured position;. to give orders for material some time
front with no other aids than the thews ahead and at war rates.
sad sinews of a truly English brain. do not lock with favour at this class of trained by his father for the business. The majority of anderwriters, however, Peel, from his earliest days, had been insurance, and consequently the market af public life when Mr. Asquith went is considerably restricted, with the result that, with the amount of business offer himself to the Nonconformist ministry. np to Balliol he had, I believe, destined Peel was returned to Parliament for a ing, premiums are inclined to show an
was twenty- upward tendency,
It is generally admitted that the pocket borough when he
one: Mr. Asquith toiled strenuon dy members of Lloyd's, invariably take an
at tuition, journalism, and law till he intelligent and shrewd view of the inter-
Was thirty-three, Peel entered the nations situation, and that the ratesCabinet at 34: 3r. Asquith at 40, Peel offered for this class of insurance usually.
became Prime Minister at 46 Mr. reflect a considered view as to the out-Asquith at 50 but Pec quilted
he look for the conclusion of peace within office for ever when was. 58; certain dates.
and died at 69: Mr. Asquith at 63 is For example, one underwriter in the still Prime Minister and has, as we all peace market confided to a press reprhope, a long spell of vigorous life before sentative that for an insurance to pay him. total loss in the event of peace being Just now, when for the second time a declared by the end of June, the rate he Prime Minister is summoned from would charge, would be twenty guineaa Roma lý govern England,” it is Interest- per cent, while for a similar policy, but ing to look back, and to see Mr. Asquith extending the time limit to the end of as his contemporaries w bim in the December next, the premium soared uperenties. remember hit, to seventy guineas,
of these, at the lectern in Balliol. This indicates clearly the belief, at all Chapel, reading the lessons with a events of the gentlemen undertaking strong, equable voice, strange at his age, this class of business, that there is every
and with curiously critical air. "danger" of their being called upon to
was remarked that he always seemed to. pay a total loss through hostilities con-
be arguing with the sacred writer, and Icluding by the end of the year.
to be conscious of getting the best of it. He had a lean and hungry lock, with n promise of that broad solidity which now confronts, the House of Commens. There was no eagerness his manner; he took everything with an air of confidence that often bordered on arroganÉE,
On the other hand-for-another policy with the time extended to January 1st, 1918, the premium is only twenty-five guineas per cent. Lloyd's evidently do
onths of war.
look forward to another twenty There are, of course, several indica- ons that the enemy is desirous of a settlement.
Dr., Dillon, in fact, declared in an article in the March Fortnightly, that moderate peace proposals have emanated from Berlin. He averred that one condi- tion insisted upon was a separate ar rangement between Germany and each of THE POSITION TO-DAY. The Evening Standard received infor- mation from an authoritative source giving the exact position al present.
the Allies
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says one
It
AT OXFORD. His academic career, as tested by ex- aminations was sufficiently distinguish- ed, but his most decisive superiority was attained at the Union. As an under- graduate he spoke very much as he speaks to day, in sentences so exactly construct
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of new and heavy quick-firing artillery excred greatly the cost of the destructive wounded, and the Volunteers five killed King Victor Emmanuel, made a probe specified, that certain German, towns 1873. Mr. Asquith moved a resolution at
for the battle west of the Meuse. They launched attacks by two Corps. Rheinish and Pomeranian, but gained nothinging risk in his dashes toward England. bat great losseS.
material used, the letter shows that the and three wounded. enemy runs a tremendous, and ever-grow-
COMPARATIVE QUIET ON BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, May 10th..
It is officially announced that inst night Bere was mining activity between Nou- ville Scintvalt and Souchez, and also to the north-onat, of Armentières and cast of Ypres, without producing any change in the situation. There was very tile, and unimportant, artillery activity.
THE NEAR EAST.
- {TEROUGH" BEOTEE'S AGENCY.)
PORT SAID BOMBED.
CIVILIANS WOUNDED.
LONDON, May 11th. Two hole seroplanes attacked Port
rickly driven off by anti Nine bombs were drop
Said but
aircraft-
Fed, wou
age was
re civilians. No dam-
No damage to an unfortified town could compensate them for the loss of a Dread- ught. It might be asked, why they made the recent raids. The answer is: Having duped the frish rebels to their destruction by a promise of a serious attack on Britain they had to make a show at fulfilling their engagement.
THE IRISH REBELS.
longed tour of the Italian fronts. Everywhere he was heartily cheered. The visit has given great satisfaction to the Italians.
that they might have been taken down verbatim and printed without correction. His period at Oxford coincided with a marked decline of Liberalism. The Ministry of All the Talents, which Glad- stone had constructed in 1888, was now, as Disraeli said, "a range of exhausted For some time past," stated its in-
volcanoes." All its great work was formant, it has been clear to those in a done. The Irish Church was disestab position to know that Germany has been fished; the Irish Land Act was law; putting out feelers of all sorts in the National Education was made, compul- direction of peace. Only recently a telesory Purchase-in-the-Anny was abolish- PRINCE OF WALES' TOUR,
gram was published quoting the official od. A series of blunders and Follies. German paper, the Forth Germa cumulative in effect, was now beginning ROME, May. 17th.. Gazette, with reference to important to destroy the popularity of Gladstone's
two days debate in the Reichstag..
government, and everyone talked, not The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Information has reached this country without reason, about a Conservative through reliable channels, which cannot Reaction." In the Autumn Term of are now placarded with appeals to the the Union to the effect. That this House public to continue economising in food neither believes in nor desires the Con in order that their troops may have servative Reaction." The same contem- enough to eat in this their last offenporary whom I quoted above says: "I sive.
can Ree and hear him, without the Several tentative peace proposals smallest trace of boyish rhetoric år epi- rather not so much proposals as sugges-cut periods of dispassionate argument. have, of course, already been made, or gran, hammering out his theme in clear-
tions, which have not committed the It was an extraordinary performance for people who made them, but have un-
But before four a youth of twenty-one." doubtedly been pat out at the instance months were over Gladstone and his of the German Government for the colleagues had been swept out of power, purpose of finding out how the land lies and the Conservative Reaction " was 5 **The most recent of these suggestions dismal reality. In 1874 Asquith took his was made to Belgium, and contained a degree and vanished from Oxford. The proposal for a separate peace, leaving remorseless deep of professional life Belgium intact but securing to Germany Closed o'er the head of Balliol's Lycidas, certain rights over the port of Antwern and people who remembered him at Ox
Pand and the ownership of the Belgian rail- ford used to say: What an extraor ways. This offer was turned down.
place the Bar is! There are “So was ez earlier offer, or rather suggestion, conveyed to the
their five thousand a year-and be given up in return for a free-hand in doing quis colostahly-but one never Alsace and portions of Lorraine would even young Pendennis and Percy Pojoy Belgium. to the Russians, to give them compen
A YOUNG MAN CALLED. PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY. «ation at the expense of Austria in So stood the case at the end of 1885, return for a Polish kingdom under a Then came the Home Rule Kite, the sud NEW YORK, May 17th. German prince England has not so far den conversions, the defeated Bill, and been honoured with any specific proposal the dissolution of 1888 Mr. J. Boyd There is general satisfaction at Presi-ddressed to her, though suggestions have Kinnear, an excellent Liberal, who, since dent Wilson's reply.
been put forward in America and an the previous November, had eat for East attempt was recently made to involve Fife, declined to change his views about Colonel House as a kind of unofficial Ireland, and voted against the Home To-between. England at the present Rule Bill. The wire-pullers determin- moment is stronger than at any period of ed, if possible, to turn him out, and, the war, and our strength is increasing, having heard of a young man called just as the German capacity to go on is Asquith, who spoke well and was willing decreasing. By early autumn it is not to vote for Home Rule, they sought him, inconceivable that the Germans may have caught him, and sent him down to Fife different terms to suggest.”
with what recult we know,"
LONDON, May 11th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith BELGIAN SUCCESS IN AFRICA. said he had reason to believe that there.
Havn May 11th. would be no further necessity for ex-
A communique states that the Belgians treme measures to be taken in regard to
Fave advanced to Lake Mohasi, in Ger: the Irish rebels, but he would not give
man East Africa, and the enemy with an undertaking on the subject.
drew SIXTY GERMAN ARROPLANES DESTROYED.
COPENHAGEN, May 11th.
GREEK POLITICS.
M-VENIZELOS RE-ENTERS
PARLIAMENT.
Arness, May 10th The re-entry of M. Venizelos into poli
Mr. Balfour proceeds to explain that the earlier stages of war strategy re- quired the Battle Fleet's presence in more Northern waters, but the maritime position had now improved. - Sub- marines, and monitors were available in growing numbers, but, what was still more important, owing to the increase ties is a magnificent triumph He was of the Grand Fleet-it-had-been-posible returned for Mitylene by 1,200 rotes to bring important forces to the south against 110 blanks. without imperilling naval preponder ance elsewhere.
The return of the Yenezelist candidate -at-Drama is assured.
This is most significant in view of the fact that the local and important Turkish
Mr. Balfour said he was convinced that another raid would be far more perilous for the aggressor than the past, and there was little likelihood of such a raid, population was hitherto hostile to the it the Germans were wise.
Venerelista
A fire has destroyed a factory and sixty aeroplanes at Altona.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL.
Lospes, May 11th It is understood that Mr. Winston Churchill will resume his Parliamentary dution
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