THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7TH, 1916.
LATEST CABLES. The Balkans.
RUSSO-PERSIAN FRIENDSHIP.
PETROGRAD, December 6th.
The Grand Duke Boris has presented
THE POLITICAL CRISIS. the Shah with a silver vase from the Czar.
MR. ASQUITH AND MR. LLOYD GEORGE RESIGN.
PLIGHT OF ROUMANIA NS.
SHOCKING GREEK BRUTALITY.
General.
WAR AND BRITISH MEALS.
LATEST CABLEN. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.
SENSATIONAL NEWS.
LONDON, December 6th.
The resignation of Mr. Asquith, and the summoning of Mr. Bonar Law, bas caused a sensation in the Clubs, though there is little disposition to criticise from.
a partisan standpoint. It is generally
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RESIGNATION OF MR, LLOYD
GEORGE.
LONDON, December 5th. Mr. Lloyd George has resigned.
MR. ASQUITH RESIGNS.
LONDON, December 5th.
It is officially announced that Mr. Asquith has tendered his resignation.
LATER.
A Court Oirouler announces that tho
At a luncheon, the Shah and the Grand Duke exchanged assurances as to the con- solidation
of Russo Persian friendship. The Grand Duke was enthusiastically received by the inhabitants of Teheran,
FABLIER CABLES,
BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS.
SWITZERLAND'S ATTITUDE.
BERNE, December 5th.
The Federal Council has rejected r solutions passed by the Cantonal Councils. protesting against the Franco-Belgian deportations, because they would involve sa investigation which was not within Switzerland's province. The Council mentions that during the war the Central Powers had addressed 37, and the Extents 48 protests against violations of interna- tional law.
WHAT HOLLAND THINKS..
THE HAGUE, December 8th. The Foreign Minister, replying to ques
hoped that Mr. Bonar Low will be able King has accepted Mr. Asquith's rosigtions in the. Chamber regarding Belgian
to form a strong and united Government which will command the support of the majority in the House of Commons, 're- gardless of pro-war ties.
It is understood that the Unionist Ministers, after consulting with Mr. Bonar Law, Intimated to Mr. Asquith that the changes proposed in the War Council were not acceptable.
THE NEW CABINET, It is too early to discuss the probable personnel of the Cabinet, which will be consultations between Mr.
based on
nation.
MR. BONAR LAW.F
LONDON, December 5th. The King has summoned Mr. Bonar
Law.
PRESS PORTENTS AND PROPHECIES.
LONDON, December 5th. The Morning Post says that Mr. Mac kenna's departure from the Treasury is regarded as settled.
deportations, said the Government had written the German Government express- ing the view that the deportations were opposed to the principle and spirit of
The international law.
Government
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GREEK BRUTALITY.
VENEZELISTS BATTERED TO
DEATH.
LONDON, December 5th, Router fearns that a telegram from the British Legation at Athens states that two Greek Red Cross nurses, after tend ing a wounded Legation porter for a whole day, were subsequently arrested, dragged before the head of the police and ahut up for thirty hours without food and without water in a filthy latrine. There were also continuous attempts at raping, and their house was looted. They have now been released, and state that
the polise headquarters are filled with Venerelists, some of whom have been battered to death, while some have had their eyes gouged out. The late head of: the Secret Police was tied to a post and beaten on the head with a club by an Orthodox priest.
RARLIER CABLES,
ROUMANIANS STILL
RETIRING.
SUPERIOR ENEMY FORCES.
Toxos, Decomber 5th.
A Russian communiqué states: Rou manian attempts to check enemy attacks in coods leading to Pleesti and Bukharest have been unsuccessful. The Roumanians are retiring eastward from Titu toward Bukharess no to the west and south of Stolitza under incessant attacks by
would have refrained from taking steps in the matter but for the responsibility attaching to the Government with re- gard to those Belgians who originally took refuge in Holland and later The Daily Graphie says Mr. Lloyd returned to Belgium trusting to guaranauperior quemy forces. Goorge desires changes in the Foreign tees that they would not be deported to
We captured another range of heights Office, Woolsack, Treasury and Ad- Germany, expressly given by highest on the Moldavian frontier, but were com
Torsneshts, in the wooded Carpathians,
THE ROUMANIAN SITUATION.
not immediately. MANCHESTER LIBERALS SUPPORT 'MR.' ASQUITH.
A meeting of Manchester Liberals passed a Asquith,
FOOD REGULATIONS.
BOARD OF TRADE ORDER.
LONDON, December 5th.
MORE GERMAN CLAIMS.
LONDON, December 5th." A German official report states that General von Mackensen is pursuing and breaking the resistance of the enemy rearguard, and has crossed the railway line to Bukharest at Tarvogistes towards the cast. The number of prisoners taken on the 3rd of December has increased to 12,500, while 4,000 were taken elsewhere. SERBIANS REPULSE COUNTER- ATTACKS.
Franco-Belgian Front.
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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY CONSIDERABLE ARTILLERY
FIRING,
LONDON, December 8th.
THE NATIONAL MISSION. UNITED MEETING IN THE THEATRE ROYAL.
Last night a united meeting in connec tion with the National Mission of Re- pentance and Hope was held in the Theatro Boyal, which was well álled, The Rev. T. Robinson, Wesleyan Church, General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com-Hongkong, presided and conducted the unique, says-There has been con-opening devotional exercises, siderable reciprocal artillery fire in the based on the words:"I have loved you, Bishop Norris delivered an address Locs and Vprea areas.
saith the Lord," (Malachi i., 9), Hé said he had promised that his remarks would have a bearing on our personal responsibilities as English men and women or Britishers, if they liked the name better to their country. As a frame-work for his thoughts he gave a brief outline of the history leading up to the writing of the book of Malachi, up to the time when, in the year 444 B.C., they adopted, at the instigation of Ezra solemn League and Covenant, under four heads. The first had relation to the current prac tice at the time of the Jews intermarry- ing with wealthy foreigners; the second related to the keeping of the Sabbath; the third to the oppression of the poor, and the fourth to the freewill offerings for the cause and support of religion. The speaker took up each of those beads in turn and applied them to present day conditions.
Our aircraft on Monday carried out many successful reconnaissances, bombing a railway station and aerodrome. A naval air squadron, in many combata, drove down four machines out of con trol and destroyed two. One of our machines is missing.
TWENTY AEROPLANES.
FRENCH AERONAUTS
ACHIEVEMENT.
PARIS, December 5th. A communiqué atates-There is calm on the whole front in the west,
Second Lieut. Nugesser brought down two German aeroplanes, one on fire, in the Somme region, making his total
twenty.
FRENCH MACHINE-GUNS
ACTIVE,
PARIS, Decimber 6th. An official communiqué states :--Our machine-gun fire completely checked small attack north of Vaux. There has boon the usual artillery work elsewhere.
ENEMY
Before the war broke out they in Eng- land had something that corresponded to the Jewish marriages with foreigners and which was condemned by the propheta; they had come to disregard the Bunday the Sabbath-even as the Jews in their day desordfed their Sabboth; if they. were not oppressing the poor directly they were dealing out injustice or allowing injustice to go on without interference; and they were all he would not say robbing starving their religion. They were beginning to lose any idea of what real generosity meant, beginning to loss any idea of what was their real duty as to giving for the upkeep of their religion. There were exceptions like torches in s dark night; but what he had said was the general truth, and the exceptions only proved it.
RAID ON BRITISH
FRONT.
LONDON, December 5th...
General Sir Douglas Haig reports: An enemy raid, following a heavy bou
failed.
WAR NEWS. ILLUMINATING.
The Berliner Tageblatt, enumerating reasons for dismissing the Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg Hives BR the fourth ---
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As to marriage with foreigners he had no wish to invoigh against English men Lad women marrying those of another. nation. At the same time he was not
sure if it was usually tall happy thing for English men and women to marry a bride or husband bo
ho was sure it was a happy thing, as n rule, for people belonging to different communions to intermarry. If they did so it was a venture, and nothing but the grace of God would make it satisfactory and happy. Tec preservation of the family life was what this item in the League and Covenant was directed to, and anything that tended to weaken family life was condemned at Jerusalem and ought to be condemned by ua. Her family life was one of the glories of England and During the war Bethmann Hollweg he adjured them to maintain and profect has committed mistake after mistake it. He could dot think there was a man He spoke of the immeasurably dis- amongst us not married (like himself) who was proud of it, or thankful for it. regards the violation of the neutrality A man who was married had a finer so motive in times of crisis than the man of Belgium, a word so untrue, damaging to Germany, that it ought who was not, just as at the time of the only to have come from the mouth of a Boxer rebellion and they, were shut up lying enemy,"
in the British Legation at Poking, the man who had given him shelter had the DANISH-GERMAN FRONTIER
anxiety of a recently married wife and an unborn child, while he (the Bishop) had other people's wives to look after. At the Danish German frontier village There was no comparison between them. of Farris, to the auth of Vamdrup, re- If a man was going to marry lot him cently, German sentries shot a Russian marry at an age he ought to marry, and prisoner of war after he had escaped having married nothing should be allow- across the frontier and dragged the bodyed to interfere with their bringing up back, threatening with their rifles the boys and girls to be the honour and sup Danish farmors who protested. The affair port and glory and pride of this England hay caused considerable indignation in of ours in the years to come, The married life must be one of give and take; a lile the border districts.
A Board of Trade Order limits meals in public places and boarding-houses to
astrous wrong" we had committed as vole of confidence in Mr. three courses in the evening and to two courses otherwise. Cheese is not reckoned without mest or fish.: Hors d'oeuvre, soup and dessert are each reckoned as a half course A further Order is foreshadowed instituting meatless days universally.
A LABOURIST VIEW.
Bonar Law and his Unionist colleagues, miralty. It is probable that Mr. Lloyd | German authority at Autwerp. The polled to retire from a height south of bardment, southwards of Loos, completely longing to another nation, any more than bat it is believed that Mr. Lloyd George George will leave the War Offco, where Dutch Government expressed the hope is willing to serve, and other Liberals are he has not found scope for his energies, that those deportees would be repatriat regarded as likely office holders.
but a Lloyd George Government is still ed THE NEW GOVERNMENT. regarded as impossible. There is a con- There were many conferences of Minis-consus of opinion in the papers that Mr. ters yesterday prior to the announcement Balfour will leave the Admiralty, though of the resignations.
Mr. Bonar Law conferred with his Unionist colleagues, and Lord Curzon acted as messenger to the conference be tween Mr. Asquith and the Liberal Minis tors, and stated the Unionists view of Mr. Lloyd George's resignation. They also
Mr. Thomas, M.P., speaking at Ken- told Mr. Asquith that they would resign unless the Government did so.
tish Town, declared that the Ministerial It is generally assumed that the new strikers ought to be stopped. The workers of the country would not tolerate a Government will prodominantly
be Unmist, though Mr, Bonar Law will dictatorship. A continuance of the pre attempt to keep the Coalition Government agitations would split the country, mont in existence. Mr. Herbert Samuel and the Labour Party would enter the and the Bon, Mr. 6. Monaigu are the conflict determined to see justice done to only Liberals mentioned as likely to join Mr. Asquith the new Government. The Daily News, indeed, declares that the new Govern- ment will contaia no Liberal except Mr. Lloyd George, though the Liberals will support it patriotically.
The papers agree that whoever is Pre mier will And it difficult to command the majority the House of Commons, not merely because of Mr. Asquith's hold on the latter, but also because of the acute antagonism of the labour members to Mr. Lloyd George.
TALK OF AN ELECTION. The Unionist papers are confident that in the event of an election the new National Government will secure a great victory, but the general feeling is that an election is unthinkable during war. Moreover, mest of the electorate is fight ing while the women are votoless.
REAL CAUSE OF THE CRISIS. A correspondent in the Star asserts that the real cause of the crisis is a con- flict between the Western and Eastern schools of strategy, Mr. Lloyd George favouring the latter's demand for an offensive from Saloniks.
OTHER VIEWS.
The Westminster Gazette announces
ADMIRAL JELLICOE.
LONDON, December 5th. The King has invested Admiral Jellicoe with the Order of Merit.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
LONDON, December 5th- In the House of Commons Mr. Austen
SANGUINARY ENEMY LOSSES. PARIS, December 5th. A communiqué states that the Serbians have repulsed all enemy counter-attacks n Staraving, with sanguinary losses, They also captured five guns, and three mortars
The Franco-Serbians advanced north
THE GREEK CRISIS. ORDER RE-ESTABLISHED IN ATHENS,
Chamberlain stated that he saw no suffi of Paralovo. cient reason for inviting the Raj to re- consider the pay of Divisional Com wanders appointed since the war began.
Mr. Steele-Maitland stated that the procedure adopted in the case of Singho,
LONDON, December 5th. In the House of Lords, Lord Crewe
INCIDENT.
Mr. Moos, one of the farmers present, in which each considered the other first. says in a letter to the Folding dois, that Above all elso let them keep the home the Government must protect the populife of this country good and pure and Iation if it does not provide them with strong arms. The Foreign Office will send a protest to Berlin as soon as the local authorities have reported on the incident, BRITISH PRISONERS FOUND AT
TABORA.
that Mr, Asquith definitely declined the Ceylon, would be adopted in any similar stated that a telegram from the British East Africa, shortly after the Belgian opportunities God gave him. If he did, proposal to form a War Council of which case which, in the Governor's opinion Minister indicated that a certain degren prisoners of war, most of whom had been was not meant to join with his fellow
ho would not be a member. The next required investigation. He saw no rea
move remains with Mr. Lloyd George.son to modify the opinion that une ap It is understood that Viscount Grey and pointment of a Commission from Britain most of the principal members of the to enquire into the Ceylon riots was un
necessary and undesirable. Cabinet support Mr. Asquith,
· OBITUARY.
PRESIDENT OF STANDARD OIL'
COMPANY.
The late evening papers are filled with conflicting rumours. Some Bandanes simultaneously Mr. Lloyd George's re The Daily Chronicle states that should signation and Mr. Asquith's refusal to Mr. Boner Law decline to form a Govern- stand outside the War Council, indicat- ment, the King might summon Mr. Lloyd
ing that the first is a sequel to the second. George, who would doubtless endeavour Others hope that resignations will to form a composite Government, and at ultimately be avoided. Mr. Asquith is tempt to secure Nationalist support labouring to retain Mr. Lloyd George, Should neither succeed, the King will and the situation is therefore liable to Italian Front. probably invite Mr. Asquith to recon-modification. stitute the Coalition Government.
The MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S DEMANDS.
same paper says that there were specula The Westminster Gazette states that tions yesterday that the King might call | Mr. Lloyd George demands a smaller the party leader, and invite them to ad- War Council with practically unlimited just their differences.
powers, the Premier to be excluded and
The Daily Telegraph states that it only have the right to veto decisions. engnises that much will depend on the Mr. Asquith approved of a smaller War attitude of Mr. Asquith, but that it is Council, but held that the Premier must convinced that, with his high sense of duty, he will not refuas a subordinate position in the new Government.
of order had been re-established in Athens. Immediate danger to British life and property was not apprehended. He re-affirmed that the Government regarded, the situation as grave and were deter mined to fix the responsibility and secure that there would be no repetition of the outragea.
SERBIAN SUCCESSES,
LONDON, December 6th.
NEG YORK, December 5th. The death is announced of Mr. J. D. Archbold, President of the Standard Oil developed successe, north of Grunista and A Serbian official report states:-We
Company.
Budimirci, and carried new fortified positions.
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ITALIANS FOIL SURPRISE ATTACK.
Ross, December 8th.
An Italian official report states that
he Chairman thereof. He would rather 30 attempted surprise attack by the resign than subrait to any other arrange enemy on our positions northward of ment. Mr. Asquith's decision is final. St. Caterina broke down nader our fire.
Naval Activities.
·EARLIER QABLES.
THROUGH BEUTER'S ACHAMUX-}·
SUBMARINE PIRACY. NORWAY'S HEAVY LOSSES.
CHRISTIANIA, December 5th.
A total of 242 Norwegian ships has been sank since the beginning of the war, mcluding to during the last three months,
As to kooping the Sabbath day. Be- cause there was strong feeling and diver gence of lealing on this subject was no reason why he should not speak on it.. Bome said they could not keep Bunday because they had to go to play golf that day. If a man took up that position well Tho Dispatch says that when the and good. All he would say to him was British foros entered Tabora, German that he was not making the most of the as a Christian man, honestly think be Occupation they found over 100 British
Christians in the worship of God on Sun- interned for two years.
Among then, was Archdeacon Wood-day, he would lat him go his way and ward, who has boon associated with the play his golf without saying very nuk East African missionary movement sincs to him except to point out to him that be was doing an injury to the 1875. He was seriously ill and was of
people who did go to charch, because the point of sailing for England when he he and others who did not attend was taken prisoner. Nothing had been
detracted from the cheerfulncas and bear- heard of him for two years. There were tiness of the service. He noticed that several women among the prisoners. The in Hongkong they had a golfers service conditions of the camp were appalling. European men and women were herded in the Cathedra! for half-an-hour every alternate Sunday. He was very glad together with natives and the sanitary their Chaplain said he could give it to wrangements were unspeakable. Boveral them when they naked it, and glad that prisoners died-Reuter
they asked it; but he would be very much surprised if they thought that was good enough for long; half-an-hour every other Baaday of a shortened Mating in- stead of Holy Communion, a feest which The appointment of Mr. Felix Cassel, our Lord himself ordained to commmer- K.C., a Judge Advocate-General of the ate the death by which we were redeemed Kritish Army, was announced recently. A He had been consulted again and again by Home paper asserts that the matter will be raised in the House of Commons. The objection to the appointment, it is under slood, is due to Mr. Cassel's German birth.
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NATURALISED GERMAN AND THE ARMY.
people who asked if they could do this, that and the other thing on Sunday, and he had one answer for them; that was: Are you quite clear what your duty on He was naturalised on October 18th, Bunday a? He had a clear idea of his 100% when he was twenty-three years of position, and his first duty be considered was to go to church and join with other age, his full names being given a Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel. Gor-people in the worship of their common many was given as his place of origin. Father, ja Through his mother he is a nephew of The Bishop afterwards dealt with the Right Hon. Bir Ernest Camel, a question of the starvation o erelit native of Cologne, who was naoralised on and said that he knew that in F Beptember 3rd, 1878
they did not starve the Caling When the war broke out he joined the clergy connected with t army though well on in the forties, sad has done his turn in the treaches, beside taking an important part in raising and training a battalion.
notorious that in England that could not he said. It was a shame, not to those who were starved, but to those who ought to seo that they were not starved.