THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG
AMERICAN NOTE TO THE ALLIES VIGOROUSLY DENOUNCED IN U.S. SENATE.
THE "LADY IN THE CASE": MRS. CORNWALLIS WEST AND THE WAR OFFICE.
TWO ZÉPPELINS DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Branco-Belgian Front.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH FRONT. NEARLY 100 MILES AND ABOUT 2,000,000 TROOPS.
LONDON, January 4th.
British Router's Correspondent at Headquarters states:-The British front in the West now extends to nearly 100 miles, on which we have massed about 2,000,000 troops,
ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- poris. The enemy artillery, in the morn- ing, were very active in the neighbour hood of Boucher and in the southern half of the Ypres salient.
FRENCH FRONT. USUAL CANNONADE.
PARIS, January 4th.
A communiqué states.-There is no- thing to report, except the usual can- "nonade on difforent parts of the front. EARLIER CABLES.
FRENCH FRONT.
LIVELY ARTILLERY DUELS.
LONDON, January 3rd..
A French communiqué says:-There was a most lively artillory duel north and south of the Somme, in the regions of Rouvroy, Verdun, Armand Morte Homme, and Bezon Vaux.. The Balkans.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH KNUTER'S AGENOT.) HEAVY FIGHTING, GOOD WORK BY ROUMANIANS.
PETROGRAD, January 3rd.
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FRANCE AND ROUMANIA.
DAILY PRESS, FEIDAY, JANUARY 6TH, 1917.
THE GREEK CRISIS. ISLANDS FORSAKE CONSTANTINE
LONDON, January 2nd Reuter learns that the islands of Pasra and Imbros have thrown off their alleg ance to King Constantine. ·
THE KING IN A QUANDARY.
ATHENS, January 3rd. The situation is one of utmost uncer-
tainty.
The King is finding much difficulty in replying to the Allies' demands, owing to the attitude of the popplace.
AUSTRO-GERMAN MESSAGE;
LONDON, January 3rd.
THE LADY IN THE CASE" NOTORIOUS MONK'S DEATH."
MRS. CORNWALLIS WEST AND
DEFRAVED AND UNIVERSALLY EXECRATED.
ALLIES' PEACE REPLY. DEMAND FOR RENEWED FRIGHT FULNESS.
AMSTERDAM, January 2nd.
The National Liberal organs profess regret at the Entente's rejection of Ger
The Junker newspapers demand
PEACE DREAM OVER.”
January 3rd. "The peace dream is over for the present. This is the keynote of the German press comments on the Allies" reply.
THE WAR OFFICE,
LONDON, January 3rd.
LONDON, January 5th. The report of the Military Court
Rasputin's end smacks of medievalia. held on December 22nd, gives details of He exercised a most malign influence in the case of 2nd-Liont Patrick Bennett Russian society, and even in the Courtmany's peace offer. »f tho We TE kaca. 16 says that he was known to be a leading pre- when Barret was recommended for a com German. According to Reuter's corres-newed frightfulness. mission his claims were supported by pondent at Petrograd there were three Colonel Sir John Stevens Cowan and bullet wounds in his head and cheat,
He was killed at Petrograd House, the Mrs. Cornwallis West. The last-named took a more than ordinary interest in residence of one of the most aristocratic Barrett, who failed to respond. Even families in Russia. The body was after tually he wrote Mrs. Cornwallie Westwards conveyed to the mouth of the Neva a letter of remonstrance, which the latter in a motor car and dropped through the. whith Barrett was censured and transdeed aro generally known.
The whole of Russia breathes? morë In reply to a message from the King that the Archdake Joseph repulsed with to his Commander, as a result of ice. The names of the assistants in the of Roumania thanking France for sup-heavy losses strong attacks against Mount ferred to another Battalion. The report porting Reumanis, M. Poincaré says he Faltuan, and stormed several hills be characterises Mrs. Cornwallis West'a con- freely at the removal of a man of baneful
tween Susita Valley and Putna Valley. is convinced that 1917 will assure victory,
duct as highly discreditable, both in her Ho also repulsed Russo-Roumanian and the liberation and reparation of
behaviour towards Barrett before bis counter-attacks and occupied Barsgei and. Roumania.
letter and her vindictive attempts to Toperei after a battle.
injure him afterwards, and her untruth BODY FOUND ON NEVA'S BANK. General von Mackensen is further proful evidence before the Court. Mra gressing and has stormed three positions in the Focsany region. He pushed back the Russians in the Dobradja, despite
their stubborn resistance,
PARIS, January 3rd.
AUSTRIAN REPORT.
ALLIES EXPELLED FROM MIERA.
LONDON, January 3rd.
An Austrian official report states:- The Austro-Germans have expelled the enemy from Micra, north west of Milcov, and repulsed strong enemy attacks on the south-east of Harja, with heavy losses. They have also taken prisoner 130 Russians to the cast of Zloczow.
RUSSIAN RETREAT OVER.
ON THE EVE OF A BIG BATTLE.
Topox, January 5th. The long, stubborn Russian retreat to the Bereth line, stretching across the Lowlands on the threshold of Moldavia is
now virtually over,
As Falkenhayn's army is approaching Focsani and Fundeni Bridge-head posì- tions, the two main points in this fifty. mile line of fortifications it seems clear that the two armies are on the eve of a big battle which will have important consequences.
BARLIER CABLES.
MESOPOTAMIAN MOVEMENTS.
ALLIED PROGRESS ON THE TIGRIS.
LONDON, January 3rd.
An official report from Mesopotamia. states: --Despite heavy rains, we have. further progressed on the right bank of the Tigris, to the east and north-east of Kutel-Amars.
RUSSIAN EXPOSURE,
FALSE GERMAN CLAIMS.
A Russian official wireless message states.--The enemy in the Zaloge region entered a trench but was cjected. The enemy on the Moldavian frontier twice took the offensive from Kotumba to the Sulcha River valley, but they
LONDON, January 2nd. everywhere repulsed. We here regained
It is evident from a Russian commun a portion of the trenches on the height.
Roumaniana
conducting' qué that the German claim, that the The attacks northward of the Kazino River. Allies have been thrown back to the They drove back the enemy eastward of Braila bridgehead, is inaccurate. Bopchan and the Upper Suchiza River.
Cavalry pursued the enemy, who, rein- forced, pressed back the Roumanians to their former positions.
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The composite Danube Army, during the latter phases of the campaign, has lagged behind General Falkenhayn's Army, and the Russians have always been able to deal with it.
A Russian rifle regiment took by assault the village of Gulianka, to the The facts are that the Russians, in south west of the Rimnik River, taking order to preserve an even front with the retreating army further west, volun- 213 prisoners, along with five and eight machine-guns. They also cap tarily retired under cover of night to
tured the two adjacent villages.
cannon
THE GREEK CRISIS. ATTEMPTS TO EXCITE FEELING
AGAINST ENTENTE.
LONDON, January 3rd.
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strong positions at the bridgehead. This movement was effected without pressure
from the enemy.
in disorder. The enemy's lines are now about twelve miles from Braila.
The Germans also alleged that the bridgehead, which is from ten to twenty miles from the port itself, was being còn- A. Greek League of Reservists are tinually attacked, but they are silent on attempting to excite feeling against the the point to-day, because they havo met Entente by services of thanksgiving in with a reverse. They struck at the the principal towns of Old Greece for middle of the line, but were flung back the preservation of King Constantine from the bonbardment of the Allied Fleet. The Royalist papers in Athens are making most violent attacks upon the Entente, especially upon. Great Britain. An immediate declaration of war against the Entente Powers is even demanded,. bat the immense majority of Greeks are pro-Vecczelists and pro-Ententists.
GERMAN REPORT. MACIN AND JIZITA CAPTURED.
LONDON, January 3rd.
A wireless German message states that Macin and Jizita have been captured.
BULGARIA'S WORK: CLAIMED TO BE SUCCESSFULLY
CONCLUDED.
AMSTERDAM, January 2nd.
A telegram from Soffa states that the Premier, in the Sobrauje, declared that Bulgaria's work had been successfully concluded. He replied to criticisms of the Bulgarians' crossing the Danube, sod stated that all Austro Germans in Bul. garia were subject to the Bulgarian Chief
...of Command:
A wireless German official message saya
A YEAR'S AERIAL WARFARE, ALLIES' SPLENDID RECORD.
Paris, January 2nd. The Allies in 1916 carried out 750 neriád- bombardments, of which the French were responsible for 250 and the British for 180. From Salonika, 174 bombard ments were carried out.
The French brought down 430 sero planes and 10 balloons, while the British felled 250 aeroplanes and 27 balloons.
Naval Activities.
EARLIER CABLES.
(THROUGH RÉOTER'A AGENCY,].......
SUBMARINE PIRACY, MORE SINKINGS,
LONDON, January 3rd. The following steamers Siavy, he sunk The Aeunengua (French), Goose- bridge (Swedish), Hollybranch (British), Erica (Norwegian).
General.
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH WETER'S AGENCY.]
MEXICAN CONSUL-GENERAL
ARRESTED.
NEW YORK, January 3rd. The Mexican Consul-General has been arrested and charged with being con cerned in a conspiracy to ship arms and ammunition to Vera Cruz, in violation
Cornwallis West's attempt to influence; the War Office is also mentioned in the
of Brigadier Owon Thomas. caise
THE AMERICAN NOTE.
VIGOROUSLY DENOUNCED IN THE SENATE,
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WASHINGTON, January 4th. A significant debate has taken place in A resolution endorsing the Senate, President Wilson's Note na lodged was vigorously opposed, and it was declared that Congress cannot be expected to respond to clamour for a peace which is not worth having. President Wilson's Note, it was said, had laid the United States open to the charge of partisan- ship. The debate was adjourned.
This debate indicates that the Bonato is likely to be anti-Wilson.
ALLIES REPLY STILL BEING DRAFTED.
influence and notorious depravity, who was universally execrated,
· EARLIER CABLES..
FETROGRAD, January 3rd.. The body of the notorious monk, Rasputin, has been found on the bank of the Nova,
A BLOCKADE OF BELGIUM,
LORD FRENCH'S VIEW.
January 2nd.
The papers complain of the Allies" "brutal rejection of Germany's efforts make blood- towards peace, and, then 1 curdling threats us to what will happen
in the spring.
The Lokal Anzeiger, the organ of the German Foreign Office, says that the shallowness, levity and mendacity of the Allies contrast so strongly with what must follow that it is difficult to explain how ten serious men were able to sign such a document so unblishingly rene tionary.
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The Taeglische Rundschau- ther, and says "Woo to the beads of the States who have to answer for useless bloodshed."
:
Lord French, interviewed by a corres- FIELD-MARSHAL HAIG'S
MESSAGE TO LABOUR. pondent of the Chicago Daily News, expressed the opinion that there was a danger of Germany's over running small It Was neutrals adjacent to her. estimated that the direct cost to the Allies
of feeding Belgium was £22,000,000, bat the indirect cost was für gronder, for Germany had robbed Bel- gium of £125,000,000.
He pointed out that the strictly mili- tary interests of the Allies would have been best served by a blockade of Bel- gium, which, moreover, the Hague Con- vention permitted.
ENEMY PEACE TERMS.
TO BE COMMUNICATED TO
PRESIDENT WILSON.
A.
THE CONDITIONS OF TRIUMPH,
LONDON, January 3rd. Fiold-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a letter to Mr. Ben Tillett, says: -“ Toli Labour that the best Christmas present it can make to its camirades in the field is that nothing in 1017 shall hinder a regular, constant and increasing output of munitions and material. If the muni tion workers and the troops in the trenches pull together, triumph is cor
tain."
A BERLIN CONFERENCE.
AMSTERDAM, January 3rd. AMSTERDAM, January 3rd.
The Presidents and Vice Presidents of The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Parliaments of energy countrica are ount Julius Andrassy has announced to hold a Conference in Berlin on the
Reuter has been informed that the Allics reply to President Wilson's Note.
still course of being drafted. Whereas the reply to Germany was purposely negative regarding terms, rehearsing only conditions of peace which were not acceptable, it is expected that the Answer to President Wilson will that the Central Powers'
peace terms indicate more precisely the only pre will be communicated to President Wil- liminaries on which the Allies are pre- 500. pared to negotiate
BRITISH FOOD SUPPLY. THE USE OF CEREALS TO FEED
GAME.
LONDON, January 5th.
A drastic Order is expected prohibiting of President Wilson's embargo Proclama the use of cereals to food game. This is
a heavy plow to gama preservation. tion of October, 1925,
GEN, MURRAY'S THANKS.
FOR BIG BROTHER" S
DUTCH FLEET.
NO INCREASE FOR SOME YEARS.
AMSTERDAM, January 4th.
Dutch papers, commenting on the Naval estimates, any that they show that no icercato of the Dutch fleet is possible for
some years,
GERMAN ACCUSATIONS. DUTCH RIDICULE.
AMSTERDAM, January 4th.: Dutch papers
scout
the German accusations of British mine-laying, and point out that no same person would believe that Britain would lay mines on British sea routes, where cuemy ships are.
non-existent.
REPATRIATION OF CIVILIANS. ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT,
LONDON, January 4th.
CONGRATULATIONS.”.
INDIAN LAW'S DELAYS.
SUGGESTED SCHEME OF
PREVENTION.
January 2nd.
19th just.
ITALY'S FINE: RECORD,
CAPTURES IN TERRITORY AND IN MEN.
ROME, January 3rd.
italy notifies that she has conquered In connection with the protraction of Indian litigation, the Times strongly 1,900 square miles of enemy territory, endorses the suggestion of a correspon- and has shortened her front by 15 miles. She has taken 85,000 Austrians. pri- dent that the Indian High Courts should
be given "in delay" powers similar to soner, and has 469,000 munition makers those of the English and Dominion at work, of which 73,000 are women. Courts, to constrain the appellant to
presccute his appeal diligently, and also THE MEXICAN TROUBLE. to prescribe a reasonable period in which
A MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. the record must be transmitted, to Eng
CAIRO, January 5th. Replying to a telegram of congratula | land. tion from Field Marshal Bir Douglas Haig on the success of the El Arish operations, Coneral Murray days:--* Wo are most grateful for our big brother's, congratulations."
COPPER FOR MUNITIONS!
UNCONTRACTED STOCKS TAKEN
OVER.
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LONDON, January 5th. The Minister of Munitions is taking over, on current quotations, all pi wrought copper not get contracted for. MARKET PRICE OF TEAS.
It is anderstood that the Indian Tea An Anglo-German agreement for the Association is issuing a freights state- repatriation of all interned civilians over meat, and the Times points out that 45 years of age, except twenty on each Indian merchants have at present side, is now completed. It applies to the advantage over Ceylon merchants owing whole Empire. Germany has agreed to to a fired shipping rate agreement of five the inclusion of retired naval and years' duration, which expires in Septem- military men not receiving pay, even ber next. The present Indian freight is equivalent to a halfpenny per pound, Ceylon ruling at 2d. While the market price of the teas is approximately the same now, it is suggested that Indian merchants should agree to a freights increase of 50/-, ton measurement. There appears to be general appioral of the principle of some advance.
though in receipt of pensions, TWO ZEPPELINS DESTROYED-
BY FIRE IN A SHED.
COPENHAGEN, January 4th. Two Zeppelins have been destroyed by fire, in a shed at Tondern, Schleswig, due to short circuit of electric current,
CONDITIONS IN GERMANY, SCARCITY OF FOOD, DISTURB- ANCES AND DISCONTENT,
AMSTERDAM, January 3rd. The Telegraaf has interviewed a neu tral who has long been a resident of Kiel. He says there is great scarcity of foodstuffs, there are frequent distur- bances, dissatisfied workmen are being sent to the front, and the submarine
losses are enormous.
HOME PRODUCTION OF FOOD. GOVERNMENT MEASURES.
LONDON, January 3rd. · Mr. R. E. Prothero, the President of the Board of Agriculture, has appointed an Advisory Committee of ten farmers and agricultural experts to assist in the scheme for increasing the home produc- tion of food. Agricultural War Com mittees have been established in English counties, and a joint conference will shortly be bold in London.
A NEW IMPERIAL ORDER.
LONDON, January 3rd. The Daily Express foreshadows the institution of a new Imperial Order in the next honours.
WASHINGTON, January 3rd.
The difficulties between Americs and Mexico appear to be smoothening them- selves out.
Mr. Fletcher is, leaving Washington to assume bas Ambassadorship in Mexico City.
FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.
DISASTROUS RESULTS.
BRISBANE, January 3rd. Record floods have occurred in Northern and Central Queensland. One hundred people were drowned at Clermont.
The disaster occurred on December 27th, when there were fiteen inches of rain.
WRECK
A JAPANESE STEAMER.
GALLANT RESCUE OFF CHEFOO SHANGHAI, January 3rd. Details are to hand of the wreck of the Japanese steamer Hankala Maru, of Chefoo, on Christmas Day, in a blizzard. Owing to the terrible seas, rescue was impossible for three days. Then Captain Stampe, of the Netherland Harbour Works, with some Chiness, in a tug, most gallantly saved fifty out of four hundred.