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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 1917.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 7th at 10.50,-No rotams from | Japon or N.E. China. · Prosstra has decreased
| eligati·alng the east coast of Chine, and DTS Form: and the Philipp nes. It has increased slightly over Indo-China,
An intento anti-ayalone still covers China, It havspread southward slightly,
Strong monston will continue along the osst. coast of China and over the China Sea.
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, 018 inch Total einos ist
| January, 033 "inck, against an average of
0.18 ineb.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows me
DISTRIOT
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THE WAR.
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Western Front.
EARLIER CABLES..
(THROUGH RAUTER'S LOKNOT.]
GERMAN CLAIMS.
BRITISH BOMBARD TRENCHES.
LONDON, January 5th.
Italian Front.
EARLIER CABLES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
·AN ITALIAN SUCCESS.
London, January 5th. An Italian official report states:Wo repulsed violent night attacks between Adige and Lake Garda, compelling the onemy to retire in disorder with heary Klossen.
We advanced 200 metres by a sudde? and successful attack, establishing now positions in the Fuiti ares of Carso.
CONFERENCE ON THE GENERAL SITUATION
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KING. FERDINAND AND THE machinery must be set going at once, without an hour's delay, in the hope KAISER.
that the Allies, wasting time in polarer, will be behind their market as usual. AMSTERDAM, January 5th.
The Kriegant is created for the direc The King of Bulgaria had a longthy tion of all matters connected with the conference with the Kaiser at the Ger- conduct of wat
It is responsible for ann Headquarters on the 3rd inst. the provision of raw materials, arms, auitions, and drafts, with the allocation NEW YORK. MARKETS AND of labour to works, and with the feeding
PEACE FLUTTERINGS,
of workers, who are to enjoy special privileges.
NEW YORK, January 5th. The markets have weakened owing to report that President Wilson will make another move towards peace if the Entente declines to disclose its peces terma.
RESTRICTED.
RINDENBURG'S LETTER
General Sir Douglas Haig, in a report, BRITISH MINISTERS AT ROME. EXPORT OF COAL TO NORWAY The decisive factor, he thinks, is the states:-An enemy raiding party entered our lines southward of Loos. After heavy N.winda, strong;ghting the enemy was speedily driven
out, leaving a number of dead.
Some British are missing. We successfully exploded & mine qorth- ward of Givenchy,
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Fabrenheit,
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100.
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
Frym 8th to 14.1 January,
HIGH WATER.
Month
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PINKETTES
We bombarded trenches opposite Les Bœufs and Gueudecourt, westward of Gommecourt, and in the neighbourhood of Hill 60.
ENGLISH FOURTH LINE PENETRATED.
LONDON, January 5th. A German official report, received by wireless, says-We penetrated the fourth line eastward of Loos, inflicting sanguin- ary losses on the English,
FRENCH AERIAL BOMBING ACTIVITY.
PARIS, January 5th. A communiqué reporte lively artillery work in the Douaumont and Vaux sectors.
It also mentions that twenty French aeroplanes bombed aerodromes at Matig, ny, Harcourt, Flez and Bernes, and the railway stations of Ronilly, Athenes, and Villecourt and cantonments at Rose.
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The Balkans.
EARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]
HEAVY FIGHTING IN CARPATHIANS,
GERMANS CAPTURE BRAILA..
LONDON, January 5th.
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A wireless German official report states that the Germano-Bulgare aptured Braila, and further states that the Dobradja is now cleared of the enemy.
ENEMY REPORTS OF SUCCESSES.
LONDON, January 5th.
A German official report, received by wireless, states -Russian advances in the region of Dornavatra failed, with heavy losses.
The Austrians and Germans in the mountain fighting between the eastern frontiers of Transylvania and the low landa of the Screth gained important territory and several hundred prisoners. The Germans stormed and captured Slobizia Sutesti in the region of Rim mikul-Sarat
The Austrians and Germans pierced the Russian bridgchoad at Braila and captured Gurgenti, Romanul, where violent house-to-house fighting occurred. The prisoners taken mambored 1,400.
AUSTRIAN REPORT.
An Austrian official report, received by wireless, states: The enemy has been driven out from & few hill positions north-west of Odobesci. We have pro- gressed in the neighbourhoods of Beveja
and Harja."
RUSSIAN REPORT.
LONDON, January. 5th. A Russian official report, received by wireless, states:We bayonetted many. Austrians and prisonered the remainder of a reconnoitring party northwards of Zolotin, and repulsed five strong enemy attacks on the heights southward of the Chebonioha River.
We repelled three attacks northward of the Oituz River.
CLAUSES REJ EQTED,
LONDON, January Sta. It is officially announced that Mr. Lloyd George (Primo Minister) and Lord Milner (a member of the War Cabinet), with official advisers have arrived in Rome to participate with the French and Italian Governments in an exchange of views on the goveral · situa- tion.
General.
EARLIER CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTRD'S AGENDY.]
BRITAIN'S NEW WAR LOAN.
LONDON, January 6th.
The forthcoming new Great War Loan is assured of a most favourable recep tion, not only by financiers, but by sac public generally,
but the prospectus is expected to be issued The terms have not yet been announced, within the next few days.
LONDON, January 5th. Reuter learns that the export of coal from the United Kingdom to Norway has been severely restricted owing to the export of fish and pyrites from Norway to Germany in contravention of agree
ments.
·CANADA'S CONTRIBUTION.
Orzawa, January 5th. Up to the present 395,955 men have enlisted in Canada.
FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.
BRISBANE, January 5th. the surrounding country is submerged.
The Flinders River has overflowed and
The Fitzroy River continues to rise and Rockhampton is endangered.
LANCASHIRE COTTON-
/
WEAVERS.
AN ADVANCE IN WACES.
LONDON, January 5th.
taut the Loan will be highly attractive, Sufficient is known to make it certain
In accordance with an agreement made affording a long-dated investment with a few months ago 200,000 Lancashire a rate of interest highly remunerative. cotton-weavers, mostly women, are receiv There is a general belief that there willing a 5 per cent. advance in wages, while also be other attractions of a minor but the 5 per cent, advance previously grant substantial character, Part of the Loaned as a war bonus has been converted into will be issued with dividends free of a regular advance. Income-Tax.
LATER.
It is officially announced that the New War Loan will be issued on Thursday.
THE ALLIES' PRISONERS.
JAPANESE-AUSTRALIAN TRADE.
SYDNEY, January 5th.
On this subject of the war-workers Marshal von Hindenburg has written two characteristic letters to the Chancellor. Ho declares that tremendous tasks face German munition indústries. if a success- ful result of the war is to be attained.
solution of the labour problem, not only as regards numbers, but especially as regards their rationing, so that workers Hin- may put forth their best efforts. denburg says that the local authorities do not recognize that the existence of the Empire is at stake, and he names regiona where the workers are insufficiently Fed The Marshal considers that the day e agriculture is to increase production and then to make it rapidly available for ron sumption, He says that experience shows that very little can be done by pressure from the State alone, and that a wide-embracing propaganda must be organized by the leaders of agriculturs in favour of the nourishment of muni- tion workers. There must, he says, ba compulsion, but all State regulation of consumption, thinks the Marshal, in doomed to failure if it is not supported by the volnatary and intelligent co- operation of all classes. He therefore asks the Chancellor to stir up the Federal Government and all local authorities, and to unite the leading men of all par- ties, as leaders of the Army at home behind the plough and the lathe, to work together and arouse the furor Teutonicus among the tillers of the soil as well as among the townspeople and munition workers.
Hindenburg's original letter, which was dated September 27th, was not ap- Parently intended for publication, buk it was circulated by the Chancellor to some heads of departments, and appeared first in an obscure paper, the Bergisch. Märkische Zeitung. Whether sent for publication in a spirit hostile to the Chancellor or not is no matter to us. What concerns us is to know what is a the back of the Marshal's mind, and we have now certainly no exeuse of not know- ing it. He is evidently more concerned about the internal situation than anything else, and most of all that the munition It in the task of the munition workers that weighs heaviest on his rind, and there no doubt that, while it is hoped that the German reserves may be exnanded by processes of substitution, the main object is to increase the output of munitions in order to meet, and if possible to surpass the splendid efforts of our own Mu tions Ministry.
It is officially announced that the trade between Australia and Japan for the first ten months of 1916 was valued at workers should be properly fed. Losnos, January 6th.
£8,313,303, which is a record.
Router's correspondent at the French Headquarters reports that the Allies during 1915 made prisoner 582,420, exclusive of Egypt and East Africa. The French took 78,500, of whom 26,660, were captured at Verdun and 61,840 on the Somme. The British captured 40,500, the Kalisus 62,250, the Russians 400,000, and the Macedonian Army 11,178.
He estimates that the enemy's total casualties in France during the year 1916 totalled a million.
INDO-FRENCH TRADE.
LONDON, January 6th. Regarding the mission to France of Messrs. Chadwick and Black to investi- gate the possibilities of a development of Indo-French trade, the Times expresses gratification that Mr. Austen Chamber- lain and the Raj have taken the prelimin ary step in the direction of giving effect to the policy of promoting allied trade laid down at the Paris Confereneo. The Times points out that in some ways their task will be less complex than their investigations in Russin, since much data, already exists regarding Indo-Preneb
commerce.
RED CROSS SALE.
uved from me Rajons for the
LONDON, January stb. A number of beautiful presents bave
great Red Cross Sale to be held at Chris fio's at the end of March.
KITCHENER MEMORIAL FUND.
LONDON, January 6th. Fand now exceeds £400,000.
The Kitchener National Memorial
COUNCIL OF INDIA.
LONDON, January 6th. General Edmund Barrow has been ap pointed a member of the Council of India, succeeding General Sir Charles Comyn Egerton.
SCHOOL FOR ORIENTAL · STUDIES.
Lemos, January 8th His Majesty the Fing will open the School for Oriental Studies about the end of February.
THE GERMAN EFFORT.
MEN AND MUNITIONS.
NEW LEGISLATION,
[BY "THE TIMES" MILITARY CORRESPONDENT
We have enough experience of the Reichstag to know that it never refuses the Government anything that it demands for carrying on war, and that, even were
have its way. By voluntary effort ff
The creation of a new Briegsamt, or War Bureau, in Germany and the pre-it to do so, the Government would still sentation of an Auxiliary Service Bill to the Reichstag are matters which re-practicable, and, if not, by compulsion, quire our most earnest attention.
the Government will have to call upon In order to find more mea for her the manhood of the country, and as Hin. Armies and for Munition Works, Ger- denburg has already suggested that what many is compelled to send into the field he calls young female persons
shoul men hitherto regarded as indispensable also be set to work, wo cannot be suro for work in civil occupations, and to that the uprising of the German remanat replace them by a call upon the male will be limited to the male sex. We are population between the ages of 1 and getting down to the cats and the dogs 60. The age of liability for service in with whose furies, the German Imperial above to, already higher than in Eng-general conclusion we must take it that the Army is not at present to be raised Chancellor once threatened us, and as a land, and the call of the rest of the male no limit will be set upon the sacrifices pulun to the Munition Works is at which will be demanded of the German present to be voluntary. But it is pos- people, We may talk of panic legisla sible that the age limit may be raised tion, gird at Germany the Slave State, sooner or later, and though a sort of doubt whether all the spirits will come Derby. schemo proposed for the levée from the vasty deeps when they are call ea mase, this levy is sure become ed upon, and any other reflections that likely in presence of the biggest thing of to the bedrock of very elemental forces compulsory if the response of the country we please upon the projected measures, is not all that is desired. We are very but the fact remains that we are down the war, and whether the result comes which can no longer be answered by talk up to German expectations or not we Germany has set her talkers aside and must certainly assume that it will, in has placed men of action in control, -So,
obviously, must we order that we may be on the safe side.
The reasons which have compelled Ger- many to make these drastic changes in her war organization are tolerably well- known.. German losses continue to be severe, and as all the Armies of the Great Powers allied against Germany are not only intact, but constantly increasing in numbers and armament, it is clear that German losses will be heavier than ever before any definite results can be achier ed. Hence the need for an increased
supply of men; but,
QUE ANSWER,
The question now arises whether the British Government and the British Par- liament will rise to the level of the situa tion.
We allow almost any booby to side-track us if his inclinations tend that way. It is the Press almost alono that has fixed upon Man-Power as the vital problem of the hour, and in this, as in so many other primary interest
has displayed the
this must cause since the war beecraft
turo instincts of
Three Divisione, zupported by thirty batteries, attacked and pressed us back southward of the mouth of the Buzau.
The enemy launched fierce attacks at
a further drain upon men employed in The Times states that General Barrow's essential war and national industries, a Tokorous, eastward of Braila. There was
We have two groat needs-one to in- a stubborn battle all day, in which the appointment is unusually interesting in levée en masse has to be resorted to increase the number of our feld divisions the present circumstances, and fittingly order to keep the industries going. The to the utmost limits of our capacity, and enemy suffered great losses; but in the
crowns a most distinguished career in Munition Works, in particular, require the other to maintain our lead in mani- evening the enemy compelled us to with.
the Indian Army. He had borne the more rather than less. It is a com- draw to the other bank of the Danube,
tions and in aircraft, whereby mainly brunt of much of the heavy additional pliment to our Munitions Ministry that British Armies have assorted their work cast upon the India Office by theit should be so, and it is true that on the superiority over the enemy in the field GREECE AND THE ALLIES employment of Indian troops in so many Somme and the Ancre, as well as at and have driven him to the adoption of
theatres of war.
Verdun, the superiority of the Allies measures verging on panie. We must NOTE.
over Germany in aircraft and munitions think coolly, and then act quickly, of all kinds has been a marked feature Owing to the increase of the German field of the recent battles. Germany feels strengths, it is necessary for all the Allies hor old predominance slipping away who possess untouched reserves of mea to from her, and will not accept the opnse. bring them forward now in time for the quence of inferiority without one more campaign of 1917, and to use their utmost tremendous bid for victory.
munitions, so that the advantage gained THE KRIEGBAKIT.
in the Weat may be maintained, and its The establishment of a Kriepsemt was benents extended to Allied States who the first indication of what was in the are less fortunte than England and wind. To this War Bureau there are to France in their capacity for production. be handed over the Works Office, the The Government must be armed with Field Ordnance Office, the Munitions full powers for answering the new Ger- Office, the War Raw Materials Depart main menace, even if toe ase of these ment, the Factory Department, the Sub powers may be reserved until they are. Mrs.stitution Servic_the
Branch, and the Export and Import to begin the conscription of labour, and
Food Supply plainly indispensable. We have no need Section. The Wurtemberg General, von especially of unskilled labour, until the Gröner, who has distinguished himself | want of it is ascertained in casential war in railway management, during the war, work, but we cannot afford to leave any is placed in charge of the Bureau, and bisat furnace or lathe unused, and what- will work through numerous agents all ever the Ministry of Munitions need for over the country: Gröner will have the the further and utmost expansion of exclusive direction of a multitude of services hitherto separate, and we dealing with the greatest administrative improvization that has ever been attempt ed by any nation in the middle of a great
The ex-Premiers who were consulted by the King unanimously decided that the Entente Note was unacceptable, inasmuch as its acceptance was equivalent to re eognition that Greece contemplated at- tacking General Surail's rear.
The students' class will begin on the 16th inst.
It is stated that the Government and King Constantine bave decided to reject THE “LADY IN THE CASE,' certain clauses of the Note and passively submit to the consequences,
The blockade has made the prices of necessaries exorbitant.
Naval Activities.
BAREIER CABLES, (TAROUGH KRUYER'S AGHNUT.]
SINKINGS.
LONDON, January 6th.
The steamers Leon (French), Odda (Norwegian), San Leandro (Spanish). Dimitrios Goulandros, Aristatelis, and Ciannoon (Greek) have been sunk."
LONDON, January 6th. The Daily Mail states that Cornwallis-West has decided to retire from public work of all kinds.
"PALL MALL GAZETTE” ·
LONDON, January 6th. The Liberal Member of Parliament, Sir Henry Dalziel, has bought the Pull Mull Gazelle.
OBITUARY.
DAVID ROBERT LYALL.
LONDON, January 6th. The death is announced of Mr. David Robert Lyall, 0.8.1.
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their priceless activities must be provid- ed without counting the cost. But it i not the case that his war in solely one of material.
rowner in the field of over 200 Cesme - divisions proves the contrary, and un
and our Allies can match this exp by a still great- is to produce an improved military posier expansion R our ride, wo risk stale tion in the spring by outdoing the Allies mate and a gre he compromise, then in the supply of men and munitions. In which no rester dünster could happen. order to exercise this influence the to the Allies and their cause.
war.
The object of this great, reorganization