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THE WAR.
The following Cables wire received on↑
Saturday night and sewed in our Early Morning "Extra yesterday.
Naval Activities.
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THE ATTACK ON THE SUFFOLK COAST.
BUGGESTED ACTIVITY OF A SUBMARINE,
EONDON, January 27th. The Times navel expert, commenting upon the doubt as to the identity of the ahip which bombarded the Suffolk coast, says, that submarines have twice shelled the English const and a repotition of! the futile prooccoding has evidently been mado, with the idea of keeping up the belief in Germany that the command of the North Sea is still in 'disputo.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
GERMAN PEOPLE. GERMANY'S DARING RAID. ·
LONDON, January 27th. A Berlin official message announcing the Suffolk raid says. Our light force penetrated the Englah cast water south of Lowestoft in order to attack bostile guardships but, despite the arch, they could not find the enemy, horsepon our torpedo boats fired upon the fortifed place of Southwold. Full hits were dheerved. Our forces returned sitoly "thout observing the enemy."
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THE ALTANTIC BAIDER. ́SAID TO BE CERMAN TRAINING
SHIP.
ROTTERDAM, January 27th. The Berliner Tageblatt states that the Atlantic raider is the training ship
Vinela.
EARLIER CABLES.
THE RECENT NAVAL FIGHT V68 STILL AT YMUIDEN.
VIOLENT GERMAN WATTACK.
HAND TO HEND FIGHTING.
LONDON, January 27th.
MONDAY, JANUARY
THE FOOD PROBLEM.
EFFORTS BO INCREASE
PRODUCTION,
1917:
THE KAISER'S BIRTHDAY. Africa.
IMPORTANT STATEMENT
EXPECTED,
LONDON, January 28th.. The news that. the Emperor Charles and Count Crerain have gone to the Ger man Headquarters for the Kaiser's birth- day tomorrow, and the sport that the Kaiser will then make an important statement, have led to various conjec tares.
A French Commúnidië Malé that froch
Eckboì, January 28th. reports show that the enemy's attack on
An official committed representative of the left of the Mouso yesterday was par agriculturalists has boon appointed to ticularly violent, Several German regi- tetas e foart of Agriculture in oon- menta participated and there, van band to hand ighting at some pointer. The nection with the problem of increasing the prolaction of food. A special de Franch counter-attacked, form morningarment of the Board will coordinate and retook the region of Hill 304 and the the work of the County committees and greater portion of the trade fatory is clearing-house for medcing the which the enemy had penetrated.
Thore was a fairly lively artillery farmers are making increased efforts in requests for labour, fertilisers, etc. The struggle on tho'right of the Means.
relation to the harvest of 1917 and plans para being prepared for incrassod produc-poses.
tion in 1918.
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GERMAN ATTACK BEFULSED. SEVEN ENEMY ZEROPIANES BROUGHT DOWN.
London, January 26th.
SEVERE WINTER IN
GERMANY.
NATIONAL CALAMITY,
HOTTERDAM, January 97th. A French communiqué says: The Ger-
The cold in Germany is becoming a mans last night attacked at four points calamity Navigation of the Rhine and from Avocourt wood to the eagh of mort other rivers, has coased, proventing the homme. Our fire drove theat back into transport of munitions. Enormous their troiches. Only some enemy parties antities of game in the mountains succeeded in penetrating the advanced trenches in the sector of 1 264, ave been frozen to death and there is
"Tho memy - Bined very heart loss and an increasing scarcity of food, left, numerous bodies hofors our lines,, "specially at "Avócourt wooÜ,
AMSTERDAM, January 26th. The Cologne Gazette says that the is enjoying the right of asylum at Ymui- deo, in accordance with the Dutch declaration of reutrality, whereby a die tressed warship may remain in harbour until soxworthy, provided that battle damage is not repaired,
THE "TIP AND RUN " TACTICS.
THREE MINUTE ATTACK ON BUFFOLK COAST.
LONDON, January 96th
Bevan enemy aeroplanes were brought down, including Lieutenant Guynemer's twenty-eighth, and Libaterizat Heurte
ux's nineteenth
overal railway stations, butments Bad Our air squadrons heavily bombarded
A great fire military establishments. was caused at the railway station of Brieulles
THE GERMAN VERSON.
LONDON, January 20th. 4. A German wireless' Themságo1 masts ?--/The Westphalian and Baden troopa stormed trencher on "Height '204, “along" a “thilớ front, on the west bank of the Mentos, inflicting sanguinary losses and taking five hundred prisoners
A French night counter-attack failede
The Balkans.
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BOUMANIAN SUCCESS. ELEVEN HOURS DESPERATE FIGHTING.
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A wireless Roumanian official message says:Deipite snow we åtindenih naël re- pulsed the enemy to the path of the valleys of Cashin and Sushitzaufter eleven hours desperate-Eghting,.-
*GREECE APOLOGIES.
Atuawa, January 27th. "The Governinent have landed “thế" Entente Diplomats a written apology for the events on December lat and are taking steps to dissolve the Reservists" Lengves
· · · GEORGET'S "AND WATER An official notification says that a
SHADE CREPES POR DRESSES.emall, unidentified German vessel ap- The Near East.
proached the Suffolk coast last night and fired shelk.
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There were no casualties, and the CLOAKS of all Styles. INDIAN, damage was insignificant.
LONDON, January 26th. The German attack on the Suffolk PERSIAN AND SILK CARPETS. coast was made between 11 and 12 o'clock. Shells were fired, and the visit lasted An inspection is earnestly three minutes, solicited,
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LON,ON, January '25th, The following steamers have been sunk 38 & 40, QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL.-The Neugen (British) the Salland
and the Leta (Dutch),
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LONDON, January 28th. An East African official message says that Lieutenant-General A. B. Hoskina sudooots (lexeral Smuts se Commentor in Chief in East Africa,
North and south of the Lower Ruśji It is suggested that the memy rulers and in the dolta, the Germans are fall- may announce peace terna, or decide to ing back in the direction of Utete and pool d their resources for war pastebe Lake
Strong forces of the enemy are retiring. to the south from Mabongo, and Bahudje River.
TEA FOR THE TROOPS..
A GOVERNMENT SCHEME.
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1. We invested and compelled to sur- render an enemy detachment „at-lákuju. We took thirty-nine European and 1250 Askari prisoners, besides capturing a rfeld, gun.
OUTGREW HER STRENGTH.
LONDON, January 28th. The Times says it is understood that, with a view to the continued large re quirements for tea for the forces, scheme is proposed whereby the Govern ment will require the unsold crops ol A fine tall daughter, the pride of her sortain Indian tea gardens. It is aug parents, may have grown too fast. If, gested that prices current before the war with hot height she is calm, even tempor be paid, with a fair addition.
ed, rosy, with bright eyes and a springing The scheme is somewhat criticised by footstep, you have nothing to fear for your the ten trade, on the ground that the girl. kt (this rapid growth it acmo companies whose balance of crops is times gained at the expense of her Wayward temper, a constant acquired will fare less well than those strength. able to continue to secure the full market privés. ESULT OF PROMISE NOT TO that & method might be devised whereby There is an opinion in certain quarters the effect of the lower price payable to the Government could be spread over the whole trade.
GERMAN GENERAL
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DEPOHT BELGIAN).
THE HAGUE, January 27th. Generál Huone, Governor of: Antwerp,1' has been dismissed for promising, in 1914, not to 'deport "Belgian refugees. He has been replaced by Gineral Zwekl,; Governor of Maubeuge.
DELMAN "RAIDER UNDER
GENERALS FONOURED,
LONDON, January 25th. His Majesty the King has invented General Bir Torey Lake with the Knight Commandership of the Order of the Bath, and Brigadier Francis Maxwell › has been awarded a bar to His' Distio
guished Serviço, Order.
THE WAR LOAN.
DANISH FLAG. THE FATE OF THE "GERDA,”
COPENHAGEN, January
g7th. The crow of the torpedoed Danish Velkander Gefta testified in the Maritime, Court: that the Gerda, with a prize crew aboard, sank three steamers in two days in the Bay of Biscay: ander cover of the It is estimated that the sum of two Danish dag. When the water, gave out hundred millions sterling has been sub- the vessel put into the Bay of Finisterre ccribed to the new British War Load. with a biharibe. Sixty-two captured
seamen were landed, the Germans, re
·LONDON, January 25th.
volvers in hand, preventing them from BANK DEPOSITS IN FRANCE. taking their clothing and belongings,
The Gerda was then Iooted, towed out and torpedoed,
NEW-RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
IN LONDON.
· PETROGRAD, Fanuary 27th. The appointment of M, Sasonoff, as Ambassador in London has been officially unnonniced,
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ger for sweets, headaches, and a pain in the back, and side after e little healthy exertion me this fiffiend of entering stages, as he should, she is paying womanhood smoothly and without dis- already, the poialty of thin blood. Watch for moods. Look, fifter she has climbed Shall Or, FAP upstairs, for breathlessness, & colour that comes and goes, and a heart That bents fast and painfully. These mean anemia, and au anemic girl will never make a healthy, blooming woman She is bloodless. Let her have Dr. Wil- liams, pink pills for pale people-and see that they have the name Dr. Williams on the packag Soon & better appetite, bright eyes, tim temper and fresher colour in cheeks and eyes will tell you |that she is making new blood; and then
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LONDON, January 25th. The deposita in the Bank of France last year were over two hundred millions sterling
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Writing in the Berliner Tageblatt,beband to disifallowed to s Theodor Wolf says:--Neutralisation of the Dardanelles, under a general guarantee, would find many German supportera, who, of course, would desire that the Suez Canal and the Straits of Gibraltar should not be forgotten."
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BERNH, Jamary 25th The delegates of the International Red THE NEUTRALITY OF SPAIN: Cross Committee have returned from” a
MADRID, January 25th. visit to a war prisoners' camp in Tur- key, and they emphasise the necessity of The Premier, Senor Romanones, in a an Anglo-Turkish agreement for the exspeech, said that Spain was obliged GRASSHOPPER change of seriously-wounded and invalid remain neutral at present, but, in view prisoners. They point out list the garof his great prestige, King Alfonso rison af Kut suffered wirely from the would certainly have the glory of mediat siege and from long desert marches after ing when the opportunity arose. surrender. The delay in the distribution of parcela, was easily explainable by the difficulty of communications,
LONDON, January 27th. 'An,olicial message from Mesopotamis says that by determined: assault, under cover of an intense bombardment, wo The Ottoman "Red Crécent ? Böciety, sized and consolidated 2,100 yards of which had most willingly assisted the first line trenches on the right bank of delegates, suggested that offers should the Tigris to the south-west of Kut-el-be allowed to receive two parcele a month Andare, and also a consifferable length of and the men one, as a maximums. the second line. Our losses were slight. The Turks to the west of the Hai river then commenced four furious counter- attacks. The first and third were broken up by artillery, infantry and machine gun Are. The second and fourth were momentarily successful,
We resumed the offensive and regained much of the ground from which we had been temporarily dislodged.
The Turkish losses during the day were extremely heavy. Seventy were taken prisoners; 580 corpses were buried in the loop to the east of Kub-el-Amara besides 500 buried by the enemy..
General.
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THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, January 28th.... Messrs. Montagu's report on the silver market says that the ceasstion of salgs from China and the paucity of supplica from America has imparted considerable steadiness to the market. The entry of Indian Bazaar buyers to covor bear Bales caused apprehension of a considerable rise in price, but competition eased off when 37-and-a-quarter was reached on January 2nd, which was & record sinos
1699,
LONDON, January 25th. A CHANGE OF COMMAND. In connection with the building of standardised cargo steamers not exceeding
PARIS, January 26th. 100,000 tons, now proceding at Chops tow, shipping circles urge the adoption General Gaurko has been appointed to Prof.a policy of building one ton for each the command of the Russo-Roumanian
tom destroyed. They assert that there is:front. a possiblity of building tre million tons
yeas, if urgently by dition that no great liners are built, 1 is noteworthy that six thouiming-to steamer was recently completed in thres and a half months.
LONDON January 27th. The Morning Post, commenting up the interview granted by Mr. Lloyd George to the London correspondent of the Australian United Cable Service upon the subject of the forthcoming Im perial War Council, says it opens a new epoch for the Empire. The convo tion of the Dominions is nothing less: than a formal admission to partnership. Sir Douglas Haig reports:-We carri-It is a precedent which cannot be revok ed out raids to the east of Loos' and to ed. Mr. Lloyd George has begun the north-east of Vermelles, taking well," the paper continues "we hore be prisoners. A number of dugouts ware destroyed. The enemy had many casual. ties.
LONDON, January With
will not be tempted to hurry the work. The Dominions have their own national sentiment which, if developeit and utilis We bombarded the enemy's positions to ed, is a great Imperial asset, but if the north of the Somme with good re- thwarted and curbed, might easily lead sults. Our aeroplanes successfully bomb to disaster. Wise statesmanship would ed a number of places behind the lines. Fark rather to federate on canal terms Five German machines were destroyed with modest machinery than risk a grat- and five diven down damaged. One of "dios scheme of an imposing Imperial our's is missing.
constitution.
THE IMPERIAL WAR CABINET.
LONDON, January 25th.
The Imperial Government has tele graphed to the Dominior Governments asking the earliest date at which their representatives can arrive in London to attend the Imperial War Cabinet.
At present it is most uncertain whether Mr. Hughes will be able to come. It is believed that Sir Robert Borden will be
able to attend.
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ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK."
LONDON, January 28th | A "Russian wireless official "message says: Between the Taral Swamp and the As River, we adopted the offensive and dislodged the enemy, taking some prisoners,
We withdrew under. German pressure. "We advanced 4 mile in the direction of Kalncem, but fell back before counter- attacks.
General Ivashkevitch led the first line, and, thongh wounded, remained at his
THE GERMAN VERBION,
Losnow, Janary 26th
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