THE
WAR.
THE DEPORTATION OF
BELGIANS:
PROTEST BY CARDINAL MERCIER.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH, 1916.
GERMANY IN STRAITS FOR MEN: ALL CIVILIANS TO BE CALLED UP.
THE GREATEST AIR OF THE WAR.
PROGRESS ON ALLIED FRONTS.'
Franco-Belgian Front.
(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.]
LATEST CABLES.
ANOTHER BRITISH
OFFENSIVE.
BRITISH CAPTURE 4,000 PRISONERS.
LONDON, November 14th.
{THROUGH SKUTER'S. AGENCY. } A QUIET DAY.
PARIS. November 13th. An official message says that the day. was relatively calm on the whole front.
BLAST FURNACES BOMBED.
PARIS. November 13th.
The Balkans.
"LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH EXUFER'S AGENCY.]
VICTORIOUS SERBIAN
ADVANCE.
SERBIANS IMPORTANT STRATEGIC GAIN.
LONDON, November 14th. Reuter's Correspondent at Serbian Headquarters states that the capture of Tehuke Hill permits the establishment of a strong bridge-head across the Cerna,
EARLIER CABLES.
IMPORTANT CAPTURES.
LONDON, November 13th.
A Serbian communique says:-We not only broke, counter-attacks made against Cake, but continued our victorious ad vance to the north, pursuing the beaten
enemy.
Polog is entirely in our hands. We have captured fifty-six guns, er- clusive of trench ordnance, since Sep- tember 14th.
A communiqué saya:-Nine bombard-
TO CRUSH ROUMANIA. General Bir Douglas Haig in a coming and seven escorting British naval
OBJECT OF CENTRAL POWERS. aeroplanes bombed blast furnaces at
LONDON, November 13th, Saint Ingbert, north-east of Saarebrueck.
Router's correspondent at Amsterdam All returned.
quotes apparently trustworthy informa Two German aeroplanes bombed Belion to the effect that the Central Powers are concentrating great forces against Roumania, whom they will do their utmost to crush before the end of the
muniqué states Wo stormed Beaumont- Hamel and have reached the outskirts of Beaucourt-sur-Ancro. We captured over 4,000 prisoners,
Fighting continues.
EARLIER CABLES,
BIG ADVANCE: VALUABLE TRENCHES TAKEN.
LONDON, November 13th. Reuter's correspondent at Headquar ters says:-We attacked early to-day, and already, by 2.20 o'clock in the after- noon, we have advanced the British line on both sides of the Ancre to a maximum depth of one mile, capturing the village of Beaumont Hamel, considered by the Germans as impregnable, and St. Pierre Divon, together with valuable trenches to the north of Barre,
All these positions form part of the heavily-fortified original German main line which they have occupied for up-
wards of two years.
Many prisoners have been taken, and already 2,000 have been collected in the advanced positions,
The fighting continues around Berre, which is the only place uncaptured in the first assault.
ADVANCE ON FRONT OF FIVE MILES.
LONDON, November 14th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in s com muniqué, says:—We are attacking astride the Ancre and have penetrated defences on a front of five miles.
fort.
Five civilians were injured. Naval Activities.
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SUBMARINE "PIRACY.
THREE BRITISH VICTIMS.
Loxbos, November 14th. The British steamers Moruzan, Cater ham, and Kapunda have been sunk.
The captain of the Morasan has been taken as a prisoner,
BARLIER CABLES.
NEW JAPANESE BATTLESHIP.
Torro, November 13th.
A battleship of 31,000 tons, with a speed of twenty-three knots, and carrying twelve 14-inch guns, bas been launched at Kobe.
RUSSIANS
ENEMY
SINK TORPEDO-BOATS,
PETROGRAD, November 13th,
A communiqué says:We sank the majority of enemy torpedo-boats which entered the Bay of Finland and bombard- ed the coast on Friday,
Italian Front.
EARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
ENEMY MOVE- MENTS.
We captured the strongly fortified "INTENSE” village of St. Pier Divion in an at- tack delivered before daylight in a thick mist. The enemy's losses were severe.
We have already counted 3,300 pri soners and more: are coming in. Fight- ing continues.
PADOVA BOMBED FROM THE AIR: MANY CASUALTIES.
Ross, November 13th.
An official message states that intense The German line which we captured enemy movements are continuing in the Terragnolo Valley, but are hindered by was exceptionally strong,
our batteries. GREATEST AIR BATTLE OF THE WAR.
SEVENTY AEROPLANES ENGAGE.
LONDON, November 13th. Heater's correspondent at the British Headquarters, in another account detail- ing the greatest air battle in the war. mentioned in a recent communiqué, Bays it occurred in open country in the neigh- bourhood of Arras, The British squad- ron was thirty strong, consisting of bomb. earriers and an escorts Wel
At the outset a bombing expedition was carried out across the German lines. An enemy force of between thirty and forty machines offered battle with the higher layers of the British force, and descer ed to meet them. The Germans, in a "running fight, were gradually formed over their own ground the British meanwhile progresing steadily towards their objective. They accomplished their purpose.
women
A squadron of enemy aeroplanes on Saturday bombed Padova and destroyed a building, killing the majority of the and children taking refuge therein.
Already sixty deaths are reported. Russian Front.
EARLTEK CABLES, {THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.] ENEMY ATTACKS. REPULSED WITH GREAT LOSSES:
PerroGRAD, November 13th.
A communiqué says:Euemy attacks. in the wooded Carpathians have been repulsed with great losses. The enemy is persistently attacking south of Dornava
year.
HUNNISH BULGARIAN
METHODS.
BURNING AND PLUNDERING.
LONDON. November 18th.
News has been received that the Bul gariam are burning and plundering the towns evacuated by them in East Mace donia, carrying off the inhabitants. This has caused indignation against the Government in Athens, RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS.
Patia, November 13th.
A Petrograd telegram confirms the arrival of numerous Russian reinforce ments on the Transylvanion front, chiefly in the Predeal sector,
SEVERE FIGHTING. SUCCESSFUL ALLIED OFFENSIVE
PARIS, November 13th.
A communique says:Supported by intense fire the French artillery and Serbians, at the loop of the Cerna, after a sanguinary fight, compelled the Ger mans and Bulgarians to abandon the village of Iven and to fall bask two miles
to the north.
Five enemy counter-attacks were re- pulsed with disorder and considerable luss,
The Serbians, assisted by the French, also made further progress north of Veliselo. Up to the present more than a thousand prisoners have been counted, and sixteen more guns have been cap-:
(THROUGH PEUTER'S AGENCY.] ROUMANIANS REPULSE
A ATTACKS.
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HEAVY FIGHTING,
BUKHAREST, November 13th.
A Boumanian communique says:--We repulsed two enemy attacks north-west of Busteni.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOT.] THE BRITISH BUSINESS BLACK LIST. VISCOUNT GREY REPLIES TO AMERICAN NOTE
LONDON, November 14th.
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMANY IN STRAITS FOR MENT
ALL CIVILIANS TO BE CALLED UP,
LONDON, November 14th. It is reported that the German Govern- Replying to the American Note proteat-ment contemplate holding an `extra- ing against the British Black List as an ordinary sitting of the Reichstag with s arbitrary interference with neutral trade, view to legislation calling up all civilians, Viscount Grey reiterates that the pro-GERMANS AND BASRA. hibition from trading applies only to British subjects, and is indisputably within British rights. Replying to the fears expressed of a possible unwarranted expansion of the system he points out that Enemy pressure continues very strong every addition to the list restricts British in Jiul, Valley.
There, in fighting south-east of Orsove. The Near East.
In a battle which continued all day long in the region of Drago Slavelle we maintained our positions.
We repulsed all attacks on the left bank of the Alt river, but yielded ground in the region of Saracibste, on the right
bank,
EARLIER CABLES,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AERIAL WORK IN EGYPT.
ENEMY WORKS AND STORES DAMAGED.
LONDON, November 13th.
MUST BE RE-CAPTURED AT ALL COSTS.
AMSTERDAM, November 14th. The Hamburger Nachrichten urges that the Turco-Germans must re-capture Basra
EARLIER CABLES, RUSSIAN TREASURY BONDS,
PETROGRAD, November 13th. The isane abroad of Treasury Bonds totalling two thousand million roubles has been authorised.
AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
TROUBLES.
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commercial opportunities, therefore it at all costa in order to complete and was in Britain's interest to confine the secure the Berlin Bagdad programme. list to the utmost; but it was notorious that many firms in rieutral countries had been active agents for German espionage. and propaganda, had supplied German cruisers and organised paid miscreants to des by ships and factories supplying the Allies, even in the United States, where the Government took no adequate action to suppress such criminal breaches of An official message from Egypt saya-neutrality. It had been suggested that the DELAYING HOSPITAL SUPPLIES. A ton of high explosives was dropped in military position was now such that
MELBOURNE, November 13th. two successful air raids at Maghdata and nothing happening in distant neutra! Hospital supplies and many additional- Biradba.
countries
could affect the result. He steamers are laid up in various ports in There were a number of direct hits, and (Viscount Grey) wished it were so, but consequence of the coal strike. much damage was done to enemy camps there was still a long, bitter struggle and store sheds at Maghdaba, white & ahead. The possible inconvenience to 100 lb. bomb directly hit an deiatik lear
neutrals was not for a moment to be ing the hangar at Biranha, damaging the compared to the suffering and loss occe
sioned to mankind by the prolongation of hangar. Much dainage was done to s
the war even by a wock. Britain was railway station and rolling stock,
fully entitled to refuse bunker coal to Two Fekkers were brought down and ships carrying the goods of black-listed damaged
به ایران
Our machines returned safely, ROUNDING UP EGYPTIAN REBELS.
AN EX-SULTAN KILLED,
Lowpos, November 19th. An official message from Egypt states that 300 men of the Egyptian Army were despatched to Elinsler in October for the purpose of rounding up a band of rebels in the Province of Darfur, headed by the |ex Sultan Ali Dinan. The force suddenly moved from Dibes and reached Kulmo on
the 3rd inst. It encountered a few tribesmen, met with little oppositing and captured 100 rifles and 300 camels
to
firms, especially in view of Germany's efforts to reduce the world's tonnage, rendering it necessary to reserve British coal for possible British trade. Between the 1st June and the 30th September enemy submarines had sunk 282 vessels, 68 of which belonged neutrals, Viscount Grey then quotes American Civil War precedents in justification of the British action, and trusts that the explanations given will remove the suspicions and erroneous views prevailing in the United States. CARDINAL MERCIER
PROTESTS.
AGAINST DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS,
AMSTERDAM, November 14th. Cardinal Mercier, the Primate of Belgium, has issued a spirited protest to. the civilised world against the compulsory
Our mounted troops pursued the main body, which had retired westward to- wards. Sugai, and caught them up and attacked them on the 6th inst. Alj Diner was killed, and we took 200 prisoners and captured 340 rifles, 2,50 rounds of am-deportation of Belgians to Germany. mudition, 6,000 cattle and other material, His declares that the Germans are daily
deporting thousands We had no casualties,
of inoffensive Belgians, who are herded in waggons like Aerial
gangs of slaver
Activities.
BABLIER CABLES. {TEROVON REUTER'S AGENOT.) AIR RAID ON OSTEND
HARBOUR.
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SYDNEY, November 13th. The Governor does not now insist on the resignations of the members of the Holman Ministry,
∙FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA,
· LONDON, November 13th. A Mesopotamia official stessage says:--| Two British aeroplanes successfully bon- bärded the headquarters of Turkish irregular troops at Alain, to the west of Nasiriych,
CHRISTMAS CHEER FROM
JAPAN.
LONDON, November 13th. The Asahi Shimbun appeals to Japané:
ese to snimcribe to the Overseas Christ- mas Fund for Britishers in the trenches.
PRICE OF THE "TIMES."
LONDON, - November 13th...
The Times confirms. increase in ita,
the price to three-halfpence, stating that the rise in cost of production has resulted in the loss of £1,000 weekly.
THE NEED OF MEN,
LONDON, November 13th. The Daily Mail says the Man-Power Board recommends the calling up of all men under twenty-six years of age, with
few exceptions, and all unskilled workers under thirty-ocE,
FRANCE
ECONOMISING,
PARIS, November 13th. The Cardinal ecouts the German
The Matin says the Government is declaration that the deportation measures forming a Council of National Econo
dictated solely by humanitarian mies to arrange for the husbanding of reasons, and draws a touching picture of food and other resources, the better: em- sons, husbands and fathers of families ployment of public funds, and the flux being torn from their homes by parties of coin abroad. The Chairmanship has LONDON, November 13th. of soldiers, who bar the doors with their been offered to ex-President Fallieres. The Allies have taken 6,000 prisoners The Admiralty announces that a sgand.bayonets, preventing the deported and and have captured seventy-two guns and fifty machine-gang since the offensive betizek on the harbour as Ostend on rus of naval aeroplanos carried out an
their womenkind from taking farewell of each other. gan on Septeraber 12th.
tured.
AFFAIRS IN GREECE
KATENTE, AGREEMENT VIOLATED
ATHENS, November 13th. Fifteen hundred Royalist troops occu ́pying villages' to the north of Ekaterini are requisitioning the crops and terroris ing the population.
The Venizeliste attribute this violation of the Graeco-Entente agreement to over conciliatoriness on the part of the Entente.
ROYALISTS ATTITUDE.
BALONIKA, November 13th.
MANY BOMES DROPPED:
November 19th. Considerable bombs were dropped on the dielier de la Marine and on some mar vessels.
AIR RAID ON CAIRO.
SEVERAL CABUALTIES AND LITTLE DAMAGE.
CAIDO, November 14th. Hostile aircraft this forenoon bombed Cairo. There were several casualties, and apparently insignificant damage. General
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
An official announcement by the Veni-INDIAN TEA INDUSTRY, zelists says that the Royalists have occu- INCREASED STANDARD OF pied the village of Oustana, north of Grevena, where a detachment of the
in the region of Hollo and Toldesh. The enemy has pushed back the Ron- manians in the Oituz Valley, but the Boa Venizelists were stationed. It is not.
USUMAPROFITS,
LONDON November 14th. The Indian and Ceylon tea îndustry
The Cardinal concludes by charging the Germans with breach of pledges not to depart Belgians.
CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY. ENMITY TO NONE; FRIENDSHIP TO ALL
SHANGHAI, November 14th. Dr. Wa Ting-fan, the new Foreign "ABABIA?? SURVIVORS AT Minister, in the course of an interview, defined his policy as enmity to none and friendship to all
ROME.
PRAISE FOR THE COMMANDER..
ROKE, November 14th.
THE KAISER AND VON HINDENBURG,
A dozen survivors of the Arabia have arrived here. The rapidity with which, within fifteen minutes, five Allied the Kaiser gave & dinner at Main Head. According to a Berlin official clegraut, ships appeared on the horizon and came quarters in honour of Marsliat 好辣 at full speed to the help of the Arabia is Hindenburg's birthday. The military re considered remarkable.
presentatives of Germany's allies, the Every praise, Chief of the Admiralty Staff, and the they say, is due the Commander of the department chiefs of the General Staff Arabic, who, with Colonel Henry were invited. The Kaiser made the fol- Colgate, R.A.M.C., remained on board
My dear Field Marshal,-In the till they were sure all were saved, then name of the entire Army I sxpress to you jumped into a lifeboat, which was fall my heartinst congratulations. Plwoed af the head of the Ganers Staff by the of water and had to be baled-out to keep confidence of your supreme Wax Lord, afloat.
you have the confidence of the Germa
The British lost two bombing and two manians have occupied the heights north known yet whether there was any fight having applied for an increase to 12 per In addition to Col Colgate the people and, I may say, of all the allied
and south of Toidedoling.
pations.
sconting machines, while one observer
ing. The Provisional Government has cent. of the statutory pre-war standard of Altran, Colonel Green, Major and Mrs gigantic world way to a fast von the was killed and two pilots wounded. The
survivors here include Major-General The enemy la feroely attacking in the ordered that reinforcements are not to profits for calculation of Excess Profits A. A. 8. Hill, Wellingtons, Major freedom for which we are beting May God grant that you prosecute the Germans are known to have lost three
region of Kimpulung, and the battle is be sent, preferring to leave to the Athens duty, the Board of Referees, sfter hearing Macpherson, Indian Political Service, May God help you in all your decisions
which shall bring our Lifted nation machine, and they are believed to have host three more. One of the British pilots proceeding in the Jin Valley and at Goverment the full responsibility of the evidence, have raised the percentage to 8 Captain Hon L, Lowther, Lieutenant and preserve your health fell in "no-man's land," but was even-| Orsova. Our left slightly advanced sa non exention of the agreement with the per cent. for Companies and 9 per cent. Bird, R.A.M.C., Mr. and Mrs. Tonluineeney Field Marshal in ra, "I raise my glass with bare toali tually bravely rescued."
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for private firmm.
from India, all bound for England.