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THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY APRIL 3RD, 1917.
ENEMY PEACE FEELERS.
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CENTRAL POWERS AND “HONOURABLE TERMS."
THE GREAT ADVANCE.
GERMANY'S
BLOCKADE”
RUSSIA'S RESOLUTION.
Branco-Belgian Front.
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH BEUTRE'S AGENCY.) FRENCH STILL ADVANCING, SYSTEMS OF TRENCHES AND STRONG POINTS CAPTURED.
LONDON, April 2nd.
A French communique saja:-On the Somme and the Oise there has been in- termitterit artillery Bre
GERMAN ADMISSIONS.
LONDON, April 1st. A German official wireless message states:-Strong English attacks between Arras and Leus failed.
The English pushed forward their lines two or three kilometres between the Portuge-Gauzeaucourt road to Omignon brook, but they lost heavily.
MORE FRENCH PROGRESS.
PARIB, April 1st.
Naval Activities.
Ian Front
HION EARLIER CABLER. [YHROUDS REUTH'S AGENCY.] AN ENEMY ATTACK.
LATEST CABLES
{TERAUGE BRUTES' ASENCE.]
SUBMARINE PIRACY
SOME
LONDON, April 1st. An Italien official message states:We Eurove back
sttack to the north of San Caterina in the Gorizin area,
ACHIEVEMENTS"
LONDON, April 2nd.. The Telegraph's naval expert points. out that while Germany's submarino piracy is designed to stop all British trade immediately, sticking at no inv humanity, the effect of this aim had been that British ports, during the block ade," bad been visited by 40,000 ships of [ all nationalities, excluding fishing vessels
and local traders.
· He challenges Germany to say how may submarines, costing a quarter of a million pounds each, have not returned.
NEW
EARLIER CABLES.
RAIDER
THESEE ADLER."
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 316 The raider (referred to in earlier tele
Generati
LATEST CABLES: LIHROUGE BEDTER'S AGENCY.] THE PEACE CHORUS.” TWO SIGNIFICANT STATEMENTS.
BERNE, April 2nd. Telegrams from Vienna emphasise that the Austrian Foreign Minister's state- ment with reference to peace, published on March 31st. is on all fours with Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's statement in the Reichstag Both were intended to show the complete unanimity of the Central Powers on all questions..
The Bavarian Press has now joined in; the peace chorus, declaring that Aus- Peria and Germany are. ready to enter into
A communiqué records au artillery grams) is probably a captured converted practicablo way leading to an hon-
duel of considerable violence on the Somme and the Oise, and perceptible
Between Aillette and Laon Road : we captured several systems of trenches and strong points east of Neuville-sur-Mar- gival The enemy, after a vigorous de- fence, was driven back to the outskirts Progress during the night north sad and has a wireless installation.
of Vauxillon and Taffaux, suffering heavily; 308 prisoners were taken and four machine-guns captured,
The artillery on both sides was most activo west of Maisons de Champagne.
A Belgian communiqué states that there has been continuous artillery fire on the whole front, especially in the region of Dixmade,
THE BRITISH ADVANCE, GERMAN METHODS AT ST. QUENTIN
LONDON, April gud, The British are now within sight of the spires of St. Quentin, where the Ger mans, after months of luxury and licence, had begun to loot the museums, picture gallerion, etc. A part of the towns already ruined by fires and explosions.
EARLIER CABLES.
THE GREAT ADVANCE. HINDENBURG LINE BEACHED.
south of the Ailette, particularly north east of Margival. ADDITIONAL POINTS OCCUPIED.
LONDON, April 1st.
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a communiqué, says --During March we minde 1,299 Germans prisoner, sixteen of whom were officers. We also captured three field guns, twenty-five trench mor tars and sixty machine-guns. The total number of prisoners taken in January and March,amounts to 4,600.
We occupied, this morning, Bavs, four miles to the west of St. Quentin, after considerable fighting, and inflicted heavy- casualties. In the afternoon we occupied Bavy Wood, one mile to the north of the village.
We captured Tendelles on Saturday night, and Erchy and Peziere this
morning.
We progressed north-west of Croisilles and raided during the night north of Reclincourt, north-east of Neuville St. Vaast and south-west of Givenchy, in PARIS, April 1st. commentator says: Weflioting many casualties,
There was considerable air-fighting on line. There will now be a pause in the Saturday, when we destroyed two Ger-
An expert have reached the celebrated Hindenburg
American barque. She is Jaden with minge,, armed with two guns and two quick firers,
commanded by Count Unker
She is
ourable pesce
INDIA AND COFFEE PROHIBITIONS.
LONDON, April 2nd:
Survivors relate that the rander hüg been In the House of Commons, Sir J. D. re-used the Sec Adler, and is provisioned ↑ D.. Rees emphasised the seriousness to for eighteen months. They state that she India of the prohibition of the import hoisted the Norwegian flag on sighting the of cofice to the United Kingdom, and merchantmen, and then displayed the Gerbe urged the Imperial Government to man ensign when her prey came within allow the import of the Indian coffee
crop under licence, range of her guns,
Charles
There are 286 refugees aboard the Com bronne, and the sunken ships number vine including the sailing vessel Gounod. Another resisted, but obliged to surrender after her engineers had been wounded.
SURVIVOR'S STORY.
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LATER A survivor states: The Cambronne, on the morning of March 20th, when in Latitude 20.10 South and Longitude 25.05 West, sighted a sailing ship, which ap- proached rapidly. Her sails were sud denly lowered, and at 2,000 yards the German flag was displayed, accompanied by a canson shot. A German officer and arined seamen boarded the Cambronne, seized her papers and invited me aboard
the cruiser,"
ROUGHLY TREATED.
Mr. Chamberlain replied that he was communicating with the Board of Trade in connection with this matters
EXCHANGE IN PERSIA.
LONDON, April 2nd. In the House of Commons, in reply to Colonel Yute, Mr. Chamberlain said the Raj was considering the recommenda tions of the Committee regarding the granting of the same rate of exchange from rupees into krans to the troops in Persia as to Indo-Europeans and he had telegraphed the officers in Persis that decision would be reached as as possible
5000
MAKING MUNITIONS.
INDIAN EXPERIMENTS.
LONDON, April 2nd.
The Captain of the French sailing ship the House of Commons, in reply to
operations until our new positions have man machines and drove down three Duplez says that, though ill, he was Mr. Wardle, M.P., Mr. Chamberlain
been consolidated and the weather im-
proves.
In view of the British victory in Palestine, the Turks can no longer doubt that their Empire is threatened. With- out the help of the Germans, the Turks cannot dream of avenging their defents
in Asia, and it is unlikely that General von Hindenburg can at present spare troops to assist Turkey.
BRITISH STILL GOING AHEAD, LONDON, April 1st: Reuter's correspondent at the British. Headquarters, telegraphing on Saturday afternoon, says: We are still advanc ing.
The enemy opposition is weaker along the southern part of our new front; con."" sequently we made the biggest advance
others. One British machine is missing.
The Near East.
EARLIER CABLES. (THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENÓT.)
IN MESOPOTAMIA,
ENEMY IN FULL RETREAT.
LONDON, April 1st. An official message from Mesopotamia states':-The enemy's attempted converg ing movement from the Shattel Adhaim. and Deli Abbas on our Delipwa detach ment failed...
The enemy's movement from Deli Abbas has continued, and his troops are now in full, retreat,
We attacked on the Bhattel Adhaim ín force on Thursday, and, after severe fight.
AMERICA AND WAR. ON THE TIP-TOE OF EXPECTA TION
WASHINGTON, April 2nd.
THE GALLANT MIDDLESEX. INSPECTED AT SINGAPORE.
SINGAPORE, April let.
His Excellency the Governor inspected We are on the tip-toe of expectation in the 25th Battalion of the Middlesex regard to President Wilson message to Regiment, which is replacing the Shrop- Congress on Tuesday
shires.
His Excellency referred to the King's Messages from patriotic societies have been pouring in at the White House sup-message of admiration at their conduct on There have the occasion of the accident to the porting President Wilson. also been special traibe to Washington
war delegations
conveying
The pacifists are equally busy, advertise ing wholesale in favour of arbitration. SUPPLYING THE ARMY.
LONDON, April £ad
Tyndareus, whereby they upheld splendid tradition of the Birkenhead.
THE REICHSTAG, STORMYBCENES."
Losbos, April 1st.
tbe
A message from Amsterdam states that A new department of the War Office there were stormy scenes in the Reichstag has been created, to take over the func-on March 30th, Socialists, amid shouts of tions of the various departments relating Treason, declaring that a Republic to the commercial side of the business of in Germany was inevitable, and demand- supplying the army, except with muni- ing larger powers for the Reichstag, in tions;
rogird to foreign policy -
THE GERMAN WAY.
JASSY, April 2nd.
It transpires that the Germana havo. arrested, at Bukharest, the septuagenarian mother of the Premier, M. Bratiano, holding her us hostage.
EARLIER CABLES. AMERICA'S NEW POSSESSION.
WASHINGTON, April 1st.
BARROW STRIKERS.
A GRATE SITUATION,
LONDON, April Ist
The Press Bureau announces that the
Barrow strike now affects practically all the, engineering, shops in that area, but does not affect the shipyards.
The strikers have to-day, despite efforts towards a settlement by the Society of Engineers and the Minister for Labour, determined by a large majority to con-- tinue the strike.
Mr. Lansing has handed the Danish Minister in the United States a treasury wrrant for five millions sterling as pay- The production of munitions of vital ment for the Danish West-Indies, which national importance are being greatly will henceforth be known as the Virginia delayed, and the Government, which re- Islands,
gards the strike in the gravest light, is, Admiral Pollock commanding the warmmediately considering steps
to deal ship Hancock, has been ordered to receive with it, the Islands in the name of the United
States,
THE CHANCELLOR'S TRAP. RUSSIAN PAPER'S VIGOROUS RETORT.
!
PETROGRAD, April 1st. All the newspapers emphaise that Herr vort Bethmann Hellweg's references to Russis in the Reighatag were intended to entrap Liberal opinion in Russia in favour of peace.
THE PLIGHT OF POOR POILU. APPEAL FROM A HONGKONG LADY WITH THE FRENCH RED CROSS.
The Honorary Secretary of the War Charities Cominitte sends us the fol- lowing extract from a letter "received from Hongkong lady who is nursing the French wounded in France under the Red Cross:
You didn't say how much money yoɛɛ made for the Star and Garter Fund, I hope it was a lot and suppose it was, The Norse Freymn recalls that the
since. Hongkong is such a generous place Kaiser was always interfering in internal. I wish you would remember out there affairs in Russia and had officiale and even
that the Star and Garter Fund; the Prince Ministers appointed. The paper says of Wales' Fund, etc., are supported all We want a peace which a new crowned over the world, and that the French Red Germna fool could not disturb. The best Cross does not get a tithe is fact one means to realise this is for Germany to hundredth part-as much money as the
They ar take her destiny into her own hands,” English War Charities do.
HONOURABLE PEACE.
doing perfectly heroic wark. I can't tell AMSTERDAM; April 1st, you how economical they have to be of roughly treated by the Germans, who said that Mr. Wakefield, Director
overy sort of thing in the French bos- pillaged his ship for four hours. The General of Revenue at Hyderabad, had According to Reuter's correspondent at
pitals, how little the poor poilu gets of Germana told fantastic stories in order to called the attention of the Rai to the Amsterdam, Germany's hope that the the luxuries which are lavished on our depress the prisoners. For instance, they possibility of using certain material for Russian Revolution will result in peace Tammies, and how nearly nothing he can stated that France was about to
be over-the manufacture of munitions. Experi-is evidenced by an inspired Berlin tele-buy for himself out of his wretched pay whelped by six million Germana, "and meats showing the utility of the material gram, purporting to give the views held of five sous a day. Even his tobacco costs that Russia, had, been dismembered, had not yet established its superiority in political circles of Count Czarain's three times what it does for our men, and The See Adier is a vessel of 2,600 tons, over other materials, consequently, no interview. It says that Count Czernin's matches sont about as much for two hates
in France as for twenty in England, square rigged, with a speed of 12 knots final decision regarding its employment, frank utterances were greeted with joy.
At our hospital in Honßeur wo used and that they will doubtless help to She has concealed guns, and had two had yet been taken.
our bandagés and compresses over and over ramours that the our bandag gasoline launches in her hold till past the
destroy the enemy
ngainwashed, put in chloride of lime, Central Powers are willing to assist in sterilized until there was not a thread danger zone after leaving Germany.
the restoration of Russian reaction. It left. There are 220 beds there, and we adds:-" It now lies with Russia to reply have a record of fewer deaths than any to the clear and unmistakable utterances hospitals of its size in France taking we have of Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg and Count equally serious cases, and yet.
not one single wheeled chair in the place. Czernin. The latter's readiness to
When I went there there was not a single negotiate for peace, whenever our enemies flannel bed-jacket, to say nothing of abandon the unrealisable idea of crushing the poor chaps went back half cured to pyjamas no comforts of any sort. When us, agrees with the wishes of the German the trenches it was in their old clothes
washed and mended, it is true, but so people. We can hold our head erect and inadequate to keep out this terrible cold await an offer of the enemy who knows our have lowered vitality from illness
of France that eats into men's vitals
who
intentions. Since December 12th, we have been stronger than ever on all fronts, and we can endure till we secure an honourable peace worth our gigantic sacrifices.!!
MUNITIONS.
is
The only seaman detained as a prisoner Dutchma, who refused the paper money offered him for working in the raider's galley. Eleven ships have been sunk.
MOEWE
COMMANDER INTER VIEWED
AMSTERDAM, April 1st,
RUSSIA'S RESOLVE. -
PETROGRAD, April 2nd, M.Lroff, in receiving a number of pressinen posted the Government's de- termination to unswervingly fulfil Rus sia's treaty agreements with the Allies to prosecute the war to a victorious con- clusion; to free the Russians, who would Gaol bow before the invader, who was
in this sector, while from Beaumets to we ccupied the whole position. The commander of the Moewe, interetriving to humiliate them. A vie Arras, every gain was the result of hard everal enemy counter-attacks failed, the viewed in Berlin, stated that he convertertory over the Kaiser would be
fighting
enemy leaving 124 unwounded and many one of the captured vessels into an enxi wounded in our hands. He again retirediary cruiser and re-named her the Gever to the right bank of the Shatt el Adhain. She sank a number of vessels, but even
sually had to be sunk herself, owing to
ner useless engines.
We seized a bill which brings us within four miles of the Cambrai-St. Quentin Rosd, while further south
our advance reached a point barely four miles from Russian Front.
the centre of ☎t, Quentin;
In a triangle there has been greater resistance between Croisilles, Vrancourt
and Queant." Two more posts were cap,
after a force struggle, and in a
bombing post protecting these positions, every German was killed.
A company of infantry captured every man in a regular nest of outposts two miles from Croisilles,
miles
Counter-attacks were severely puniated by fire from a field bactéry, the pre of which was presumably unsuspected by The Germans
BARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
'GOOD AERIAL WORK.
LONDON, April 1st.
victory of democracy over the strongest bulwark of re-action in the world.
SUPPOSED INTRIGUE IN RUSSIA.
SOME ARRESTS.
THE OTAKI'S" PLUCKY FIGHT.
PETROGRAD, April 2nd. The interview furnished further parti-
The Government has ordered the removal culars of the British steamer Otaki, brave p
to Petrograd of all the personages de resistance, mentioned on. March 29th. The
tained with the ex-Tsar at Tsarkoe Belo. fight lasted for twenty minutes. The
The Grand Duchem Marie Pavlovna, Otaki wag bit by twenty-five shells, but
and a number of the suite of the Grand The Macwe both. vessels caught fire. developed a troublesome leak, and the fire Duke Boris have been arrested for sup was so serious that most of the crew posed connection with a plot to proclaim
TAN NAMNthe Grand Duke Nicholas as Tsar. suffered injury by darns, to which su Our seroplanes and gonfire burnt an under-officer and six men succumbed, Many of the crow of the Olaka, were badly firship in the Odobestchi region.
Twenty-two of our aeroplanes bombed |wounded before they discontinued the Brailoy, causing dock fires.
fight.
A Russian official wireless message states:Wo repulsed attacks in the Rirli- bala, Jaberi and Valepotan road re-
gions.
SILVER.
LONDON, April 1st. Silver is quoted at 383. There is very little offering, and the market is quiet.
NEW BRANCH OF MINISTRY FORMED.
LONDON, April 1st. A new branch of the Ministry of Muni- tions has been established, with Sir Lionel Phillips as Controller. It will deal with
I have begged and scraped in Eng. land and America, and people have done splendidly and given generously shirts) sheets, towels, bandages, swabs, games, all sorts of things, but it isn't much when you think of the need. Can't Hongkong help them↑ Do ask someone to start something for Hospital Auxillaire 112, Honfleur, and we should be so grateful. They our
such splendid allienes and such
!! The Canadian Red Cross sent us heaps. of drugs and dressings, in October, and the English Red Cross some more in December. We have some things bought from the proceeds of France. Day in London, but we need heaps more.
Two friends are giving me a moter car for the wounded, and I am hoping
the examination and development of to get enough money to buy them at least got them games last year, but most Of mineral properties in the United King-heeled chair, but I want more dom, with the exception of coal and iron them are now wora out, as the poor dears.
had only one chess board to amuse them- It is likely to be especially valuable for solves with and two dirty packs of cards in the whole establishment when I went purposes of war.
there. Any old
old games would be appre ciated, Money or flannel Shirts For
An Advisory Committee of nme mem hers will assist the Controller:
or games, or wicker everything could be used.”.
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