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The Note protesting against the French Headquarters in Frantes sonds a preets of Monfalcone is the town now in Italian has been given out by the State Depart-ploitation of Belgium by the Germans.
aud British trestment of neutral mails an official report dealing with the ox
TJIPANAS this country is qualified to speak with possession closest to Trieste, the pripment. At first sight it seejus n' disquiet- authority on Ruian policy. He is the cipal objective of the Italian campaign in ing communication. It bristles with in- Military Governor of Belgium ordered lender of the Constitutional Democratic the south, Situated in the plain at the dictments of our illegal and arbitrary the registration, confiscation, and storage
From this report it appears that the TJBODAS party and the organiser of the Progres foot of the barren Carso, which here rises methods of forcing neutral ships into our of the 1816 crop. Corn and forage have sive bloc in which two-thirds of the mom-to a height of 200 feet, the Italian fireports so that the mails may be seized, and been confiscated, and the total requisi bers of the fuma are united and which line trenches are to-day not more than with complaints, sapported by chapter tions, which began in September 1916,
TJIKINI... plays a most important part in Russia at 600 yards beyond the town. Though car and verse, of their disastrous results to cannot be less than 18,000 tons of onts and the present moment..
tured more than six months ago, Mon American citizens by the loss of import7,000 tons of forage. Potatoes were simi-
• TJIMANOEK My first question was naturally with falcone remained for a long time ant and irreplaceable documents and by larly treated during the winter. regard to Constantinople and the Dar-olested, and has only recently come frequent delays, running sometimes into danelles/
under the intense fire of the Austrian months. batteries,
"We think that our supreme sim in this wer is to get possession of Constanti sopo Moreover, we have no longer any dotil that the problem of the Dardanelles is ready decided between the British and Russian Governments in the mense de- manded by Russia Russia's national ams will not be completely realised if we not possess Constantinople. At the resent moment, with Germany's Berlin Bagdad ambitions, it is not merely a question, as it was before the Turks stopped in, as to Constantinople remain- ing Turkish or Russian. We say that it must belong to Russia entirely and with
out may reserve."
THE STRAITS
"Would you claim also complete pos. Bassion of the Straits," asked T, or would consent to their international- isation
No, never shall we consent to inter- nationalisation." Russia must have the right to build up fortification and fothid the passage of warships at her discretion. The Straits might be neutralised for pur poss of trade, and with the progress of international legislation after war this eutralisation for commercial vessels might be extended also to apply even in times of war. Is this realisable? I think Look, for instance, at the Panama
RU.
consention of metals, even the Belgian State locomotives being stripped, and all In September, 1915, there was a general
copper and nickol money was withdrawn, zion coinage being substituted.
As regards cattle, Germany does not appear to importing these from. Bol- prosperous town we come everywhere countries respected the inviolability of mans keep up to date a communal regis In our long walk through the once that in previous wars we and most other mainly carried out on the spot. The Ger
After an elaborate argument to show gium, but the supply of the Army is
and the charred ruins of a group of the present war Germany has desisted mules, and donkeys likely to be useful upco signs of very recent destruction, neutral mails, the Note saya that even inter of all draught and saddle horses, houses, set on fire by incendiary shells, from the practice of interfering with such to the Army. The cash prices paid for is a visit to the trench lines nearest statement which is perhaps a little ex-by as much as one-third. ^______ are still smouldering. Our destination mails even on board belligerent steamers horses are below their value, sometimes. Trieste. We cross the main square of the tremo in view of the fate of the mails on town, lined with splendid old horse-board the Lusitania and other torpedoed chestnut trees in full bloom; then, pass ships. The Note ends with the statement ing through deeply burrowed communica that the United States cannot continue to tion treaches, we come to a broad stream, tolerate mich wrongs to her citizens, that
**This is the safest way," explains as he unties the painter of a character would open the door to repeated vur guide to submit to a lawless practice of this bulky steel barge. We stop into the boat violations of international law by belli and push off Sheltered by the high-em-giront Power on the ground of military bankment, we paddle slowly, very slowly, We are very close to enemy lines; over Seaward. As a boat ride it is unique. head, shells hurtle by in opposite direc tions, searing the sky with a hissing sound like that of a bot poker placed in a pan of water. Many of the enemy sholle ex-CHIEF CAUSE OF DIFFERENCE. trees which can be made use of for the plode with uncanny suddenness not thirty yards from the stream's edge.
cessity, whernof the violator would be change in the present British and Franch the sole judge, and that "only a railical policy restoring to the United States her full rights as a neutral Power will satisfy this Government." Ab
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The Austrian observation balloon seems to follow us, like the menacing finger 10 one of those poster pictures which ever points toward the spectator no matter where he may stand. At a certain place we are compelled to row to the exposed side of the river in order to pass beyond
large industrial establishments for the The Germans are exploiting everal se orgy urges Bowlyn
use of the Army. Certain factories have Canòl."
full view of enemy snipors. we "But what will the Balkan people say There is a full in the bombardment No regain our proter ting embarkment;
been appropriated for the manufacture to the scheme?".
Farther on this principle is defined as of powder and ammunition. Much plant, sound is heard save the low, regular dip The Government of the United States tioned and sent to Germany. The Ger
follows:fy an of our oars. No scens could be more
machinery and stocks have been requisi- peaceful. The cherry, peach, and plum mail matter which includes stock, chemical factories, barbed wire factories, is inclined to the opinion that the elassans are making use of foundries, trees are clad in a raiment of flowers bonds, coupons, and similar securities is to quarries. coalmines, sawmills, cement From the hawthorn branches covered with regarded as of the same nature as white blossoms the first leaves are barst merchandise ing. The willows and poplars which line the same exercise of belligerent right, yardų
factories electrical works, motor-ear fac the bank are wearing their first veiling of Money orders, cheques, drafts, notes, and
and as subject to tories, railway shops, and shipbuilding pale green, which seems like a mist of other negotiable instruments which may colour rather than foliage. In front of placid, mirror-like, undisturbed by a diss. Correspondence including shipping us the broad expanse of the Adriatic Pass as the equivalent of money are, it is considered, also to be classed as merclian- single ripple, stretchits on until it meets documents, money order lists, and papers the horizon's edge to the gay p
of that character, even though relating to enemy supplies or exports, unless carried
Turkoy, which will be preserved in her ethnographical limits, will get the rights of most-favoured nations, as well as Rumunia and Bulgaria, and these are usually, under international law, accord- ed to all coastal States. As these rights equally apply to all, Roumania's fears will have no foundation. Having assured for ourselves the seaway through the Dar territorial outlet. I mean, we shall be danelles, we shall not need to seek any able to give sufficient guarantees da to the territorial integrity of the Balkan States.
What do you think about the future of Bulgaria ?
of
SHIPYARD "MUSEUM.” - The twitter of birds in the thickets, the humming of bees and insects awakened to life by the warm bun's rays, the new At this moment it is scarcely timidly green of the grass which carpets the ur wide to discuss this question in detail. meadows, all proclaim the old spring I may say one thing: With Constanti song of life. The dull thud of an un- nople once in Russian hands, the solution exploded shell as it buries ith nose in the of the problem of the smaller Balkan, soft soil recalls to mind that we are with States will not be a very difficult matter. In a fow yards of the enemy. Our pre- "What do you think of the future of sence has no doubt been signalled by the Poland ?"
observation balloon, for shells are begin My party and I believe that Poland ning to fall again. The pace of our rowers must remain united with Russia, but a is quickened. We land in a sheltered sputtion of the hardships complained of, an
the same ship as the property referred are, in the opinion of this Government. to be regarded as genuine correspondence What is said, abuul securities con- and entitled to unmolested passage." stitutes a considerable concession from the original American point of view, and, together with the remark about the simi larity of principles, leads people here to believe that, especially we have been lately doing a great deal towards mitiga-
DEATH OF GENERAL GALLIENK
THE MAN WHO FOILED VON KLUCK,
was Governor of Paris in the dark hours General Gallieni, who died recently, of September, 114, when the Prussians that he called on M. Millerand, the were approaching the city. It is recalled dister of War at the time, to take faul instructions before the Government: left für Bordeaux. ensued
The following dialogue General Gallieni: If the enemy caters Paris, what am I to dol
cuplete autonomy gives to her-prob-close to the Navy Yard of Monfalcone, should be avoided without undue by district, house by house.
ly on the lines of frish Home Rule. This autonomy, however, must be granted by the Russian Legislative Chambers and
t by some Power outside them.” ⠀ Professor Milrakoff seemed to lay special stress on this way of settling the Polish question
"Some think," said, “that a plebis cite ought to be taken amongst the Foles as to their future, and the question de cited according to the results of such a plebiscita.
M Millerand Defend Paris district retreat to the left bank of the Seine !
General Gallieni: Suppose I have to
me
This shipyard is of peculiar interest to dilienity England in view of the fact that the Secondly, the harshness of the Note majority of the workmen here were Bri- does not reflect anything like a cer tish, who were caught at the outbreak responding amount of irritation on the
M. Millerand: Then you will blow up of the war and are now interned in Aus part of public opinion. Republicans,
the bridges. trian prison camps
when the strength of the Noto began
General Gallient: You can count on We enter the shipyard. The arst im-to be advertised, quite freely accused the pression is that one has entered a musum President of writing it for political conversation at the Chinarber af Deputies When the general Inter recounted this of prehistoric motha Here stand in motives In quartera last blinded by pre-it caused considerable comment, as it long row, without any visible supports, judice this theory is naturally not ad showed what a narrow escape the capital various types of huge craft, some half, raitted, but it is pointed out that the Pre-had from destruction. others nearly completed, all now battered,sident often has in the legitimate fulfil-
General Gallicui was sixty-seven rusty as though they belonged to another ment of his duty to champion compara had held the highest commands in the and think that is rather foolish. Beers. One, a great trans-Atlantic liner of tively restricted interests, and it is hoped French Army before the war. He will sides, how сад this plebiscita be over 20,000 tons displacement, was ready that England will realize this and will ever be gloriously remembered for the organised? You never can have an infor launching when the Italians entered not imagine that the American public are dependent opinion of the inhabitants us the war. In their hasty retreat the Aus- unable to take into consideration the way of the Marge and Ourcq in September, great part- which he played in the battle long as the Russion or the German armis trians set fire to the stocks, hoping that in which, as the very advertisements in
101, when Paris was saved. occupy their territory. But we are two the ship would fall to earth, but instead their Transatlantic. great Slavonic brothers, and there can be it merely soltled four yards deep into the show, the Germans try to abuse the first. vernacular Press but little doubt that we shall be able to sand, and its twin sorews now tower like class mails. find a solution satisfactory to both coun- the tail of some monster sea-serpent The -tring"
plates of the liner are bent and warped"
THE THREATENED LOSS OF TERRITORY,
**Do you in Russia take into considera. tion the possible loss of the eastern occu- pied territory, as indicated in the Chan- cellor's speech ??
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The Germans under von Kluck had reached a point only twenty miles from Paris, and were boating that they would ding there few days later. The French. Government had left for Bordeaux: out of all comblance of symmetry and the topic o
Gallieni was charged with its defence, bull is filled with gaping shell holes.point close to the railway which runs to under General Joffre's orders. On Sep- Alongside stand two half-finished armour-Trieste the opposing trench lines serm
tember 5th, when the glare of the ud oruisers which were building for the to be almost at right angles to each other villages burnt by the enemy was visible Chinose Government.
Everywhere the Austrians hold higher from Paris itself, he ordered Maunoury, With breathless speed, working night and more favourable ground, though from commanding the 6th French Army, to att Never! There cannot be any question these for their own use before the Italian visible that they are slowly being crowded part of his force to meet it, as the liritish
and day, the Austrians hoped to complete the contour of the trenches it is plainly
tack the enemy in the frank. of peace and in this we are absolutely attack, but in vain, and, scorched by the out, forced back by the Italian advance. Army was not able to hold him to his
Kluck parried the blow, marching back THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD mited with our Allies as long as such a tongue-flames which consumed their scalet every step forward means greater dif-ground sa had been intended.
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vehicles and sent them with five men We skeleton of a giant ichthyosaur. Piles of still more costly affort to hold, this is the piece to the 6th Army Euch zah made must completely alter the German psycho-steal girders and armour plate stacked up problem which fuces the Italian forces in four or five journeys, and thus over
BRASS AND IRON FOUNDERS, CONSTRUCTIONAL, it logy, the German fram of mind. We ready for us stand everywhere, while in this sector. Beyond the Austrian lines, 20,000 fresh troops were rapidly brought
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. are going to fight to the finish. That is the basin, emerging deck-high from the some three miles distant, on a bold clift up. The reinforcements turned the scal
WELDING AND CUTTING OF METALS BY OXY-ACETYLENE the firm resolution of all classes of society, surface of the water, are several smaller jutting out on the sea front rises the town and compelled Kluck to retreat.
AND ELECTRIC SYSTEMS and of all political parties which have craft, sunk by the Austrians. Within the of Daino. In the background, on the
Estimates given for quick construction and repair of Ships, Engines, joined the Progressive blor. We firmly shops the devastation is even greater horizon's cage, lies Trieste. Trieste is. believe that if Germany is not crushed All the machinery bears the name of Bri only afteen miles distant from where wo
Boilers, Railway Rolling Stock, Bridges, and all Classes the peace of Europe will never be guar tish makers; great lathes and forges, are standing, and on clear days is dis anteed. Germany will work incessantly seamingly rory new, have been upturned tinctly visible. To-day Duino is being
of Engineering Iron and Wood Work. to recover her place in the sun, and this by shell are, and the tabe of a gigantic shelled by the Italian batteries, and a fine would mean the oppression of others. We hydraulic press has been cut in two by hit has just been scored, burrowing a
GRAVING DOOK-787' by 88' by 14' 6" have not lost our sons, we have not given a shellung oF TRIESTE of our best, to have an inconclusive peace.
large hole in the tile roof and carrying
Pumps Empty Dock in 2-3/4 hours. To fight to the finish is our duty because We make our way back through the long which is believed to be an Austrian ob away part of the tower of the old castello of our dear dead. We in Russia, at any
We make ones witich line the sands, servation posts are bonded here on Schleswig-Holstein at the Lord Derby, presiding at a meeting at rate the majority of us, look optimistical and, crawling onen again by a circuitous
tended by Princess Christian and Prin Come and you shall sec Ly into the future. And we can afford to route in order to avoid the lynx-eyed ob nearest to Trieste, the keen-eyed officer Young Men's Christian Association, Tot do so. Our army has never since the beservation: balloon, we finally cross the who is in command of these batteries ex tenham Court-road,Loddon recently, ginning of the war been so strong, 30 stream Another walk, and there just-in-claims- we applaud the fine marksman road a message from the King..con enthusiastic, and so well-equipped as front of us are the Austrian advance ship of his men. He leads the way. A gratulating the YMCA on its war
lines. From the top of the bleak, barren gun, still smoking from its recent firing,Work ridge of the Carso the enemy line zigzags stands sturdily in the middle. The men The association has done everything down into the flat land, which is over seem perfectly confident that the enemy conducive to the comfort and well-being grown with shrubs and trees
fire will not find them outy If they do of the Armies," said his Majesty, supply
We are fatalista, you know," the officering the special and peculiar needs of men Tejoins, with a shrug of his shoulders drawn from countries so different and so
Besides, we are fighting for Trieste,
Tow"
"But how long do you think it will take to achieve these aims? You do not supporn that we shall have a Thirty Years War!”
That I cannot say. Let me quote to you the words of Lincolu, to whom Mr. Lloyd George once referred. If we he lieve," he said, that. the aims for which we are fighting are worthy, we are surely going to fight as long as it will be nece anry to realiss these aima,
LURE OF
In its whole course it is closely pressed by the first line of the Italian trenches. Where the Austrian trenches form salient they are nearly surround ed by Italian lipes, while where the Italian line forms a salient the Aus trian line tends to cave in. At a certain (Continued on next Column )
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