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THE WAR.
9тн, 1917.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY MARCH
Italian Front,
PROMOTION FOR GENERAL CHINESE TELEGRAMS. BALLOON TRIP BY NIGHT,
GERMAN FORCES ON WESTERN FRONT:
WHAT THE BRITISH HAVE TO FACE.
WEEK'S SAILINGS AND SINKINGS.
NATIONAL SERVICE VOLUNTEERS.
THE HUN INTRIGUE IN MEXICO: GERMANY PERTURBED.
0-Helgian Froni
Russian Front.
LATEST CABLES.
THROUGH REUTEE'S AGSHOY,]
SITUATION UNCHANGED.
AERIAL AND ARTILLERY WORK.
LONDON, March 7th.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- porte:-The situation is unchanged.
We silenced batteries that were shell ing Ypres, and bombarded trenches to the west of Mossines,
There has been much successful serial reconnaissance and photography, and artillery work,
WHAT THE BRITISH ARE FACING.
DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF -DIVISIONS.
LONDON, March 8th.
EARLIER QANZES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] //",
ENEMY LINES PENETRATED.
LONDON, March 7th
An Italian official, wireless meraga states: We repulsed with heavy losses, a night attack at Costa Bella, and penetrated lines a Moscfogh, on the
Asiago platesu.”
General.
LATEST CABLES.
{THROUGH PEUTER'S AGENUZ.] TRADES OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE.
MAUDE.
LONDON, March 7th. Major General Frederick Stanley Maade has been promoted Lieutenant General, for distinguished servios in Mesopotamia,
THE IRON HAND.
POPULATION THROWN INTO UNEMPLOYMENT.
AMSTERDAM, March 7th The Telegrant says e Germans have ordered a complete stoppage of Belgian industries, thus practically throwing into unemployment the whole population, alleging inadequacy of coal and trans-
port
NATIONAL SERVICE VOLUNTEERSAL
TO BE UTILIZED.
LONDON, March 7th. The Press Bureau reports that Mr. Neville Chamberlain has issued a list of trades of primary importance in which National Service Volunteers will be utilized. The list includes mining, metal, shipbuilding, agriculture, trans- port, engineering, aircraft, textile, chemi-
LATEST CABLES. [HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RUSSIAN SUCCESS.
FIGHTING THE FLEEING ENEMY
LONDON, March 7th,
A Russian communiqué says : —Wa took a possession of Asadabad summit and, pursued the Turks, who were retiring in the direction of Kangaver.
We are fighting the fleeing enemy near Sonne in the direction of Bidjar, and continuing the pursuit in the direction of Dovlatabad,
The Near East.
FARLIER CABLES,
ĮTEROUGH RSVTER'S AGENCY.]
IN MESOPOTAMIA,
LARGE CAPTURES,
LONDON, March 7th.
Bentor's correspondent at Headquar dere states that the British are now con
4 Mesopotamin official message says; fronted by double the number of German divisions compared with a year ago, în- Cavalry engaged Turkish rearguards on cluding, what remains of the flower of March 5th at Lajj, near Ctesiphon.. Enemy booty is strewn over eighty miles
the German Army..
Store houses at Hasselt; containing 20,000 kilogrammes of coffee, besides other Foodstuffs belonging to the Belgo Ameti- can Relief Commithes, have been de stroyed by trẻ,
UNSETTLED IRELAND.
MRT P. O'CONNOR'S APPEAL
LONDON, March 7th, In the House of Commons, Mr. T. P. O'Connor moved that, with a view to metal, Lud other trades.
strengthening the hands of the Allies an THE INTRIGUE IN MEXICO,
achieving the recognition of equal rights HEART-SEARCHING IN GERMANY, istions, and the principle of
cal, leather, food, (home) miscellaneous
LONDON, March 8th,
The revelation of the German over tures to Mexico has occasioned consider able heart searching in Germany. In answer to numerous questions on the matter in the Reichstag Dr. Zimmerman said she despatch was sent in secret code, and he was unaware how the Americans obtained and deciphered it It was a misfortune that they did, but he was nut sorry that the overtures had become known to Japan through publication in
Amerion,
INDIAN COTTON
nationality against the opposite German principles of militarism and Government without the consent of the governed, it is essential to immediately confer on
Ireland the free institutions which have long been promised her. He appealed to the House to make a united and genuine effort to settle the Irish question,
HOME RULE FAVOURED BY AUSTRALIAN SENATE
a
LONDON, March 7th According to
message from Hel bourne, the Senate has passed a resolu tion by 98 votes to two in favour of Home
of country, and it is impossible to give THE QUESTION OF CULTIVATION. Bule for Ireland.
accurate figures of the captures Thirty-
BARLIFE CABLES. MUCH ACTIVITY ON FRENCH eight guns up to the present have been
FRONT
ENEMY LOSSES,
salvaged from the river.
A TREMENDOUS TASK AHEAD.
Panis, March 7th. WHAT THE ALLIES HAVE TO FACE.
PARIS, March 7th.
A communique says:We were success. ful in a coup de mais at Quennevières, between the Oise and the Aisne, and brought back prisoners,
We blew up a mine in the region of
A Deputy from Chappe de Laine, who was sent on a mission to Salonion by the Foreign Affairs Committee, states that if General Sarrail had had two more divi
LONDON, March 8th,
In the House of Commons Mr ChamSHANGHAIMAN'SEXPRIENCES
IN EAST AFRICA. borlain stated that the whole question of
DELIGHTS OF BUSH FIGHTING. the improvement of cotton cultivation in India was being considered.
SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, March 8th. Silver is quoted at 3-16tbs less. En quiry quiet,
EARLIER CABLES.
But times are easier than they were The days of trekking on any scale, I think, are past. So I hope are abort
BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGOL
BAN ĐÓ.
THE POLITICAL CRISIS,
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE
PRESIDENT
SHANGHAI, March 8th.. The Premior, Tan Chi Sul, and the Vice President visited President Li on Weduceday morning to explain previous misunderstanding of each other.
EXCITING FINISH OF VOYAGE TO WELSH COAST.
the
LBY AN AIR PILOT
(The adventures recorded article occurred to a party of aeronauts, who left just after dark, and travelling all night, says the Evening Standard, landed in the mamer described on the Welsh winst near Rhyl,)
Imagine a great, bare meadow land, The visit lasted from nine o'clock in the lonely, wind swept and dark, with inky morning till four o'clock in the afternoon, blackness, out of which there plunges an when the Premier returned to his resiccasional hurrying figure that misses one dence.
by inches and passes on with a muttered oath, In the background, tall and sinister, two large gasometers. In the centre of the field o vide tarpaulin, laid blong the ground, and edged by a virala of sandbags, from the midst at which there rives a great, round shepe like a mammoth tomato,
THE DIPLOMATIC QUESTION,
TO BE RE-CONSIDERED BY THE
CABINET
BHANGHAI, March 8th."
At to-day's Cabinet meeting the diplomatic question will be re-considered. LIANG CHI CHAO WANTED AT PEKING.
SHANGHAI, March 8th.
a
The Premier, Tan Chi Sur, has sen messenger to Tientsin to ask Liang Chi Chao to come up to Peking,
IN PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK. SHARONAI, March 8th. The diphatic question will be sub- mitted to Irliament this week.
THE ENVOY TO JAPAN..
DATE OF DEPARTURE-
SHANGHAI, March 8th. Mr. Wang Tak Sch. the Envoy who is to the Emperor to present the decoration of Japen, will leave Peking on the 11th instant,
It is the balloon not yet fully ingated, fed by two curling rubber tubes that dis appear in the direction of the gasworks. We are waiting, waiting patiently until she fille · Blackened, distorted shapes that stand round in ceris circle, and at the sudden, gruff command of a hoarse voice that bogs over and anon out of the voida of blackness seize cach a heavy sandbag, and slowly and clumsily lower it mesh by mesh m the netting that covers the balloon
OFF
At last she is filled, she ear is attached below, as rapidly and securely as the faint and Bickering light of a stable limp will allow. The crew tumble in and on ip of ono another.** She is let up only to be pullod down again with a nerve racking. bunip. The gruff voice, decides that sho is now ready to get off, there is a slight blackening of ropes, an almost imper- contible lift, the figures on the ground recede darkunes, and the lightes
ede rapidly grotesque shadows in tha
to dis appear one by
We rise to a ticklish situation, there are tall trees, factory chimneys, pro
one
CONSTITUTION CONFERENCE. trading roofs, all waiting coleily and
THE SENATE SYSTEM
SHANGRAY, March 8th. Yesterday's meeting of the Constitution Conference, which was devoted to die cussing the Senate system in the Legisla ture, was without result.
~ PORTIA S LOST CASE.
ONLY THIRTY BABRISTERS IN
HER FAVOUR..
one of these was against the proposal,
invisible in the night, to be crushed into and collided with. But all these obstacles we may mies if we have only sufficient preparatory lift, We are all silent and cowed, trying to make out each other's faces. There is a sudden searing sound, the craft lurches like a drunken man, and we are thrown struggling breath- less mass; into a corner. But the suspensa is only momentary, by a miracle of grace she frozs herself from the branches Of a tree and soare rapidly heavenwards, BE THE ETERNAL TOPIC={};
The conversation is turned by an eager and heated discussion between two yunger members of the party ns to the merits and demerits of their respective musical
Foar de Paris, in Argonne, and occupied sions when Monastir foll, he would haveTHE ATTEMPT ON MR. LLOYD ratione. For weeks it was a case of General, Sir F E. Smith, KC., M.P. argument grows heated, for simila
the crater.
gone to Uskub, liberating half of Serbia
The enemy attempted a coup de main and threatening the high road to Con- However, a gigantic work. north east of Flirey, at Boia Bouesot,stantinople. north of St. Mihiel, and in the direction had been accomplished, and the army was of Ammertz willer. Our barrage of fire now reinforced. He urges that the stopped him dead and inflicted losses. blockade of the Otranto Channel should Two enemy aeroplanes were brought be completed, and the road from Saint Quaranta to Monastir should be finished, down.
thus enabling troups and material to be brought up more quickly. He concludes: A tremendous task confronts the Eastern Army."
SOME GERMAN CLAIMS.
LONDON, March 7th. A German official wireless states:We repulsed French attacks on our new posi sions in Cenrieres wood.
We abot down fifteen soronlazes,
Naval Activities.
TATEST CABLES. ĮTHROUGH EEUTERʼN AGENCY.] SHIPPING AND SINKINGS REPORT.
LOSING HEART.
-TURKS ABANDONING STRONG POSITIONS.
LONDON, March 7th- An Egyptian oficial mesange says
GEORGE
A WOMAN'S STARTLING STORY
The general meeting of the Har on January 18th defented by an overwhelm- ing majority the proposal that the Bar comedy idols (female). The argument Concil should consider and report on grows in intensity hit we have neglect- in Fed to watch the altimeter. Out of the the advisability of " briefs for women,"
our species were made, and only spark and flame. It is a railway train
inky darkness th
there rushes a volcano of
night. The following extracts are from a letter The hulk of the barristers present had speeding through the dated November 9th, written by Mr. Sade their minds up beforehand, and soft, and we discover that we are mly wonder, unpleasantly, what Rayner, 25th Royal Fusiliers, formerly of followed the advice of the magistrate might have been
who said:⠀⠀⠀⠀ *Give your decision, bus
Ún and on through the night. Now we the Public School for Chinese, at present never give your reasobe. are getting tired, there are suggestione serving in British East Africa
It was an imposing meeting, says the that we should land, but they are over- Inuer Temple was filled with 200 or more catch sight of a Daily Express. The splendid back of the ruled. Coming down again to 800ft, we wide, glimmering sheet of the leading lights of the profession of water Maps are seized in - hasty The chair was occupied by the Attorney impulse to guess our whereabouts. The
Sir Frederick Smith, alluding briefly stretches of water there are alike
Essex, Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, and to the question in his opening speech, recalled the fact that, 1,300 members of
and for the matter of that, the that 122 have died on service. He asked Midlands, and likewise in every country
reland, in England, Scotland, members of the profession were away,
and more weary. It seems a life- ter to the Bar Council, which was with time since we Inst saw the pleasant and they could with propriety refer the mat out the views of the absent members undulated lines of the earth.
Mr Holford Knight, then moved his two heads are already resolution to refer the qucation to the there is a sudden chons of the Bar Council saying that he had some Instantly all are wide awake, There reason to believe that many of the 1,300 sure enough, are the frst few streaks of absent members would support him if grey creeping lowly across the eastern they were not away. He asked that time ky; without oven that it would be question should be considered in the obvious matter, by Fearon of that intemBO new light chat on it by the work of cold which in the air always precedes the women during the war
tramping after an elusive enemy who left practically nothing behind him. As our
lines of communication grew longer, so the Bar are in the fighting forces, aner in fact, all the Home Counties.
rations gre less and less.
allowance per man per day.
What they quietly whether, at a moment when 1,300 meat sabates, our eyes grow
LONDON, March 7th At the Old Bailey, in the Lloyd George Himately dwindled to, I don't know, but conspiracy trial, Mrs. Wheeldon (one of on the day I was sent back, three small higmits, gp brown beans (rejected by the the accused) gave evidence to the effect
Riggers as bing productive of pacus is the that a Secret Service agent, named) and a spoonful of tea was the Gordon, told her that he was a conscient tious objector and had been helping those who were interned to escape. This naturally interested her, owing to her sympathies with conscientious objectors, Sho bargained with Gordon that she would get him to poison and to kill the doge in the internment camps, to enable his friends to escape, if he would help her son and two other youths to fee the
AMERICA AND AUSTRIA. RELATIONS ALMOST SEVERED
The Turks have abandozed strong posi- | country to avoid conscription, tions at Sheikhnurp to the west of Shallal, upon which they had spent two months constructing defences. Yesterday our neroplanes dropped a ton of high explosives on troops and railways.
Balkans.
THE WEEK'S RECORD,
LONDON, March 7th, The Press Buress reports: The ar- zivals of vessels during the week in the 7he United Kingdom numbered 2598; sail ings, 2,477. The vessels sank of 1,800 ons and upwards numbered 14 under 1,600 tons, 9 Vessels unsuccessfully attacked numbered 12; ishing boata sunk, 3.
BARLIER CABLES.
DEAL WITH SUBMARINISM.
ITALY TO
EARLIER CABLES,
[THROUGH MEUTER/8 AGENCY.]
SITUATION IN GREECE,
STATEMENT BY MR, BALFOUR-
LONDON, March 7th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour stated that the evacuation of troops and rtillary from the North of Grecce was proceeding satisfactorily, but certain. demands were still unfulfilled, About A new Anti-Submarine Department, 6,000 regulars and 3,000 peunstinstie were "Duder an Admiral, has been created, still north of Pelponnese. The Grock Its functions include the arming of Government has released the Venizelists merchantmen and the rewarding of those and has promised to abandon proceedings sinking or Esabling submarines.
agarust them
ROME March 7th.
Løypos, March 7th, The New York papers comment earth ingly on the Austrian Note
Where we are, I am not allowed to state exactly, but we are south of the Central Railway the line running from Dar-es-Salarm to Lake Tanganyika-miles from anywhere. We are at a much lower altitude that when in British East Africa and find the weather more than comfort ably warm,
SURHOT & VAGS AND FASHIONS,
The one speech against the proposal was made by Mr. J. H Menzies, who enlisted in the Army at the beginning of the war, and was invalided out after a years service with the rank of captain in the Scottish Rifles. He spoke ** as one of the 1,300, and eloquently urged that to consider the admission of women to the Bar while ap many of the young men were away fghting would be an injus tice to the absent men
One or odding,
when dawo
hour of daybreak, and freezes up to the Tone.
Inadequately expressed would it bỏ ta say that dawn in the air is a beautiful vision. We upy nothing, but look and marvel & world would be out of place in this sacred and awesome stillness. Suddenly we are aroused by a cry more
much
the
more-olarming than the Ins
DOWN WITH A LUSH
balloon at two thousand feet. Pious prayers and curses, intermingle. Down the sinks, with a great hole rent in her adde, down and down, freter and faster Over go the bags of Balinst one affor slackens speed, another. Now all has been
but only mar
Yet this is a blessing in some ways Few possess pants that have not been patched or stitched out of recognition
The sea. We are almon on top of it.. it some possess none at all! I'm afraid
in shimmering level surface, it stretcher you can hardly imagine a man mounting Mr. Menzies kept his most crushing on into obscurity. We are lost, we con-
without pants. Yet one did so the argument for the finish In accents of not avoid it, yet less can we land thereon egard Luther
no read, he reminded the K.Cs and other One of the trop lee his head. He equipment, and no comment potential judges that if women were snatches the thin red taps that hangs
admitted to the Bar they would have to down from the envelope. There is th No longer does raiment mark.(a be admitted to the Bench as well tearing, rending sound. He has ripped
Mr. Enbert Sweeney, who advocated. social position of a man that is shown by the nature of his * cigarette « papers. the women's cause, speks of the right Occasionally batches of old papers find of women to live," and suggested that their way along and after being passed wherever a man has a means of liveli
gund and round find a variety of uses, food, goman doald have it. There one of which is 26. 3 was laughter at this, and he retorted cigarette paper For the hot, burning native tobacco beilen, with and and then droed is the sub-a mixture preferable to tea leaves. The last man thermoked a real cigarette bought a 1d.
Pipes are packet for a rupes:] premium-ary old bit of wood with a bolo I would sell for five shillings. But as Jetype I said, things are gradually improving and the usual tebacco ration has just been Werved out to us to the dismay of the amateur manufacturers HOW WHAT IS CIVILIZATION
The Times mys that the reasoning therein surpasses in hardihood the most daring exploits of the German mind during the whole of the war,
The Herald says that Austria was given the opportunity o choose between
Prussianiem and decency; therefore re- lations must be immediately broken off,
THE IMPERIAL WAR --
CONFERENCE, A
LONDON, March 7th
substitute for
Let the tell you that the movement in beyond all your ridicule.
About thirty hands went up in favour when the resolution was put All the others were against
THE BANDMAN COMPANY AND MAN POWER
Down the goes again. The upward cur rent of air whistles unpleasant, through the rigging. In a last feverish effort boots Arenlaced and hurled overboard, together with ant every portable
free hand..
hit
the edge
of ย cliff
Intel We bounce back several feet into the air, the sink dowu again on to the beach below. AN ACTOR DRATEL
Another crash | Again, we are bundled and bounced about m the confired space An. Ipoh telegram to Kuala Lumpur of the car,The sand gets in our ears and on February 11th stated -------- Rats and vermin are worse enemies A body of a European found on the the end, a we begotten shape as flat as eyes and mouth. The balloon he along to us then the Huns Even though we are railway line at Johore Bahru last night a pancake. When we eventually sort near, a river it's impossible to get rid of is presumably that of Mr. J. Harper, a ourselves out we find Juckily that there is In the House of Commona, Sir C. Kin these pests. We see and hear plenty of member of the Bandman Opera Company, but one casualty, a broken wrist, sustain loch-Cooke, asked whether the Govern-
overn big game, but it doesn't worry us. We who was found to be missing from Led by the foolish idiot that ripped J ment intended to hold a series of War What is Civilization? Many of our | It appears that
seriously devised waighte ago train at daylight. Mr.
Harper.
who was to end the adventure stolid Cabinet meetings in the near future, rederal verdict was that it was some place account of wounds received in the Boer looking, note-book in band, spproache
men are from East London, and the exempted from military service on British policemen, ponderous, offein! plied that until the delegates arrived he intimately connected with beer and smok- War, was mentally affected by recent demands our names, and addresses, and
ing
Femember ms to those I knew in criticiensan Singapore regarding the demands our name and addresses and could not answer that point,
Shanghai Daily News
Bandran Company and man power." nake if we are of British nationality.
retribution