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THE WAR.
AMERICA A
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
BELLIGERENT.
GEORGE CONGRATULATES
UNITED STATES.
U.S. FIRST WAR BUDGET.
GERMANS DESTROY INTERNED GUNBOAT.
CUBA AND GERMANY AT WAR.
voo-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
Loxpox, April 7th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports: We progressed at a number of points between Selezey and Jeancourt and reached the outskirts of Fresny le-Petit:
Our seroplanes daring the 5th and 6th just, were continually harassing the enemy communications, seeking out his fighting machines to a considerable distance in the rear
FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS, April 7th.
A communiqué atutes: There WAS violent artillerying without any infantry action at Aallon, in the Grugies region, We further progressed north of Dindri-
court.
A Germon reconnaissanco was caught by
our fire north-east of Boissons and dis persed.
GERMAN AND RUSSIAN SOCIALISTS.
The Socialist Minister M. Kerenski
MONDAY, APRIL UTI,
THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION:
WASHINGTON, April 7th.
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| DELEGATES TO THE DUMA, PAUL DUFAULT'S CONCERTS. PETROGRAD, April 7th There was a greatly improved attend- The Delegates of the First Army at anco at the Theatre Royal on Saturday stated that if the German Socialists were. The proclamation probibits alien the Front, the Black Sea Fleet, and the evening on the occasion of the third con eert given by Mr. Paul Dufault. The hoping that he would colleague with Herrenemies possessing any form of firearms, Sevastopel Garrison were introduced to
audience, who in anmistakable man- Tchside and assist to conclude a explosives, aircraft, wireless apparatus, the Duma. They presented resolutions theatre was filled by an enthusiastio ner, showed its appreciation of the gifted separate peace, they would be rudely, dis-signalling device, cypher or invisible protesting against the interference of
tenor, Miss Bindley and Mr. Ernest appointed. On the contrary, if the Gerwritten document. It prolibits approach the Council of Workmen and soldiers
numbers Mr Dufault was generous in mans would dethrone their Emperor, if within half a mile of a naval or military with military affairs, causing thereby Empson. In addition to the advertised would facilitate the pourpuriers, because station munition factories; prohibits many misunderstandings of the allegianco responding to the frequent demands for Tex Appropriately; Mr. Dufaulte the publication of any attack or threat due to the Provisional Government rendered How many hired servants": the peoples could come to an understand- ing quicker than the Monarchs who were against the Government, Congress, Mili- Only great battles within 'n month's time by special request, Mother Mine,
ley The Pasange Bird's Farewell," and answerable for the crud carnage
tary, Naval or public official. The Pre-will decide whether Russia is to be free. The Trumpeter, and with Miss Bind- Officers and men must also, by special requcut, the duet from sident is empowered to designate pro- or crushed.
Carmen Mr. Dufault was heard to hibited residential areas; clso to remove
great advantage in all the numbers "Lorraine, Lorraine, alien enemies to another location, or
humed, and in Loree, his intrepretation was dramati deportation, Alien anemics are forbid
cal's perfect. Miss Bindley captivated the large audience and deservedly shared den to depart from or land in the United
in the hearty applause Mr. Ernest Empson rendered three piano solos, for States without a permit. Registration
which he was encored, and was again is provided for. Suspects are liable to
distinguished by his sympathetic accom Bummary arrest and
confinement in
panying of the solos and duets by Mr. Paul Dufault and Miss Bindley.. place of detention,
GERMAN SHIPS IN U.S. PORTS. WASHINGTON, April 7th.
Naval Activities.
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THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SAVED FROM THE SEA.
Yuurors, April rih. The steamer Borneo has arrived with seventeen of the crew of the Danish steamer Ester, which was torpedoed on the list. The men were four days and nights in the boats, and four of them hed their feet frozen,
RELIEF STEAMER SUNE,
COPENHAGEN, April 8th The Norwegian-stemmer Camilla, with
It is understood that the German wessels will be regarded as the property of the United States and be paid for
rfter the war,
units.
M. Rodzianko, replying, said that all must rally round the Provisional Govern ment to secure victory. Let the reverse warning to the on the Stokhod bo
There are enough citizens to work, dissensions, and the country is in danger.
PLACE NAMES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
LONDON, April 7th,
Sir Charles Lucas, in a lecture on Place Names of the Empire," before the members of the Colonial Institute,
HUNGER AND UNREST IN GERMANY.
PRUSSIAN PRECAUTIONS.
The following information, says the Tinie, has been supplied to us by a neutral who left Germany at the end
There was great mutual artilleryung Belgian Relief grain, has been sunk with-ing the Secretary for Agriculture to quent use of Royal titles as names in the steps being taken by Prussia to ensure
north-east of Berryaubac,
Our seroplanes successfully bombed establishments at Dimvillers, Epincourt and elsewhere,
Seventeen hundred photographers were taken of-largo-tracts of the enemy's country maay miles in the rear, despite the repeated attempts to prevent our es operation with the artillery.
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TOLL OF THE AIR. Seventeen successful bomb raids were carried out en enemy aerodromes, am- munition depots and railways a long dis tance in the rear. Eight tons of bombs
RHEIMS CASUALTIES.
The German bombardment of Rheims killed tea civilians, including three
women:
Rusetan Front:
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GENERAL IVANOFF SWEARS FIDELITY,
PETROGRAD, April 7th. General Ivanoff has sworn fidelity to the Government, and has been released under surveillance,
COSSACK DAY.".
PETROGRAD, April 7th, On the so-called "Cossack Day," the ath inst., the two regiments of Den Cossacks, the former Imperial Body- guard, and other Cossack units with
were dropped during the whole time of intense fighting by large formations. Twenty eight of our machines are missing, many of them known to have been shot down. Filtecu hostile machines were: driven dowa and netually seen to crash to earth. Thirty-one were driven down damaged, the large majority of them undoubtedly destroyed. Two hostile balloons were brought down in flames.
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION.
LONDON, April 7th." Reuter's correspondent at British Hend- -quarters stales-Our gunfire last Wed-artillery were, on parade in the city, nesday near Arras caused one of the most They presented an address of loyalty wo terrific explosions experienced in the war.the Government, and laid wreaths on Behind the German line a sheet of flame the graves of the revolutionary victims. 300 feet high leaped up in the air; and
Afterwards they were reviewed by the ground qusked for miles around. Our
General Korniloff. They were halted out- machincs airmen report that the
side the British Embassy, where they Suengeti swooped like ships caught by a
cheered the Ambassador, Sir George tidal wave. It is believed that a great
Buchanan, who appeared on the balcony minenzerjer terve depot was touched off
of the Embassy, and His Excellency by our guns, as this was mitunted amidst a
received a deputation headed by their regular nest of German gun positions.
Colonel The damage must have been immense Another feature of the past week has been the success of our airmen
THE ARMY AND AMERICA'S ENTRY.
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The Army as a whole has not yet colossal significance of realised the America's participation, the mental vision of the fighting men being blurred by the smoke and the dis of battle, and has been largely restricted to beating the enemy. The Canadians, however, quickly grasped the glorious truth, and indulged in demonstrative enthusiasm.
Heater's Correspondent conveyed the first nowe to the South African contingent when being reviewed by General Smute, They agreed more or less musingly that it was jolly good news." One officer was enthusiastic, but he was obliged to acknowledge that he had won a bet. GERMANS REPORT FRENCHI
AERIAL LOSSES.
LONDON, April 7th.
TROOPS FOR THE FRONT,
Moscow, April 7th, There was a splendid send-off to the first troops starting for the Front since the revolution. Workmen distributed several thousand roubles amongst the soldiers. A band played the "Marseil laise." The troops carried red banners inscribed "For Free Russia," "For the "Down with Future Republic,"
and War to Victory." William Units formed of ex-policemen and gen- darmes are being sent to the front.
There were enthusiastic send-offs to the troops et Samara Hybinsk and the other
LOWEE
AMERICA'S ADVICE TO
RUSSIA.
WASHINGTON, April 7th. Mr. Lansing, in instructing the Ameri- can Ambassador at Petrograd to inform the Russian Government of America's
out warning. Nine survivors and two corpses have been landed. They were five days in an open boat. The Balkans.
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AERIAL ACTIVITY
HUDOVA,
AT
LONDON, April 7th: The British official Balonika communi- 2 states:-Our Naval and Military
zeroplanes on several occasions have bombed the aerodrome and ammunition dumps at Hudova from a height of 400 feet, causing fires and considerable damage.
We repulsed on the night of March 31st nu attempted trenchi raîd by the
enemy.
FRESH TROUBLES BREWING IN GREECE,
LONDON, April 7th.
FOOD SUPPLIES. The Senate have resolved upon direct submit suggestions for increasing the nation's food supplies,
Speakers d during the debate declared that the war may last years.
The opinion prevails that the United States can raise wo and a half tines the food aceded for itself,
FIRST WAR BUDGET.
WASHINGTON, April 7th. It is stated that the Government is prepared to spend six hundred and
war preperations in addition to lending eighty millions sterling for the initial
far vaster sums to the Allies.
Mr McAdoo has published the first War Budget, which includes 2580,000,000 for the raising and training of a million men within a year, £35,000,000 for in- creasing the effectives of the Navy, and
Naval £58,000,000 in exponditure for materials.The Income Tax will prob ably bu trebled, with possibly confisca tory surtaxes on incomes over £20,000. The industrial mobilisation of the coun
There are some indications that fresh try is already in an advanced stage, troubles are brewing in Greese.
General
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ĮTARDOCH ESUTKE'S AGENCY,}' U.S. AMBASSADOR DEMANDS PASSPORTS.
AMSTERDAM, April 7th.
The American Ambassador at Vienna has demanded his passports. ̈* KING GEORGE AND AMERICA.
LONDON, April 7th, His Majesty the King has telegraphed to President Wilson na follows:-
I desire, on behalf of the Empire, to offer heartfelt congratulations on the United States' entry into the war for the great ideals indicated in your The moral and speech in Congress. material results of the national declara
Thirty-two thousand companies have offered their factories to the Government, The Federation of Labóny will under take to supply trained workmen.
Sixty-five Germans, of whom some are ex-convicts, and the others are regarded as dangerous, have been arrested, includ ing all those identified with the con spiracie, to destroy the Welland Canal and outer works, of whom several hither to have been bailed out,
All the wireless installations in Ameri Co territory have been acized and will be utilized by the Government,
CUBA DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY.
HAVANA, April 8th. The Senate have declared unanimously that a state of war exists between Cuba
tion are ineslenishme me will and Germany..
owe much to the decision arrived at in the greatest crisis in the World's history. INTERNED GERMAN GUNBOAT BLOWN UP.
WASHINGTON, April 7th
The
German guaboat Cormoran which has been lying interned at Guam, refused to surrender and was blown up by her crew.
Two German warrant officers and five of the crew were killed by the explosion. Twenty officers, twelve warrant officers and 321 of the crew have been made
prisoner.
HALF A MILLION MORE SOLDIERS.
LONDON, April 7th. The Timer states that it is understood that the Government hopes to obtain at the most ball-a-million men required for the Army without fresh legislation. Young men are pressingly needed. It is not a ticipated that the age-lint will
be raised BRITONS IN AMERICA ELIGIBLE FOR ARMY.
WASHINGTON, April 7th, The entry of America into the war will enable British subjects in the United
British Empire for place names told the
of Germany, after the war, her own posi
ture is the light which it throws on the at the Caxton Hall, said, that the freof December. Its most remarkable fo
that, whatever may happen to the rest. tion shall not be impaired.
After: "describing the familar system whereby all food, except fish, is only to be obtained in exchange for tickets, thes noutral said.
whole world that our Empire was the product of the Monarchy and that the people of the Empire took pains to ad- vertise the fact. It could not be too much advertised that the Crown was a very good asset to the Empire, and the more widely spread an Empire the more important was it to personify the whole in one central figure. The King stood for the British race and the continuity of the Empire, and there was hardly subject of the King who know personally so much of the Empire as His Majesty bimself.
Ho, W. P. Schreiner, the High Com missioner of South Africa, who presided, emphasised the necessity for central Personality in the King This great war had clearly shown. how the existence of the King had attracted men from all parts of the Empire to cluster round and fight for his personality. There would be a great danger of the Empire splitting, aaunder without such a central personality, Within the borders of this little Island there could-not be found anything like the sentimental devotion and loyal admiration for the King which is to be found in the far-lying places of the Empire, and when the representatives were necting in the Imperial Cabinet they could not recognise this fact too clearly.
PROTEST BY IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.
I lost 15th, in weight in a month. Alle the time that I was in Germany I sawż no butter. The Biocharin used instead of sugar affects the gums and causes diarrhoea, as does also the artificial coffee, which is horrible bo drink.. People are living mainly on patatoes and fish. The latter comes from Holland and Sweden,, A- very small fish costs. s. Od.; in England as amond pastel, whill used goose is 8. 8d. per lb.; marzipan (known to be extremely cheap in Germany; is now The only thing fit to ent is chocolate. made of nuts and costs 4s, 104, per lb. Every one is showing the characteristic signs of jaundice, with a yellowish tings in the skin and the whites of the eyes.
Money will not buy food. The mil- Bonaire is as badly off in that respect as the poor aan. But the poor are under food from Belgium, presumably food the impression that ofhells are getting
A intended for relief of the Belgians.
ady at Düsseldorf who expressed the belief that, however much the people suffered, the Burgomaster bad enough to eat, received six months' imprisonment. Private enterprise in the matter of footh supply has been completely killed; the central food administration insists on getting its Dutch supplies direct from Holland, although it has to pay more for ther than it would if, it deat through German middlemen. The maximin priso of potatoes has been fixed too low, som that it does not pay people to grow them. As for clothes, I had to wait for tvO hours for permission to buy two pairs of socks, two shirts, and six handkerchiefs, Only silk materials can be bought without a permit. "Cotton" is composed. of some vegetable fibre which is also.. used for making cane trunks."
A very strong anti-Prussian and anti- Berlin feeling is growing, outside of Prussia. The Prussian authoritics are. already taking precautions for main- taining Prussia's position after the war. One of the objects of the National Ser- vice Law is to send to the front as many non-Prussian young men as possible, so as to be able to release and send home Prussians to keep Prussia's end up when the time comes. It is a remarkable fact that in the "free" city of Hamburg, which has always considered itself very superior to and independent of Berlin, the police. are now Prussian. They are, no doubt, more willing than the natives to pup- Press any serious riots
LONDON, April 7th. Reuter's Agency understands that the Executive Council of the Imperial Institute, of which Lord Islington is Chairman, is strongly protesting to Mr. Walter Long and the Imperial War Conference against recommendations
People say: Ye shaly have to give by the Dominions Royal Commission up Belgium, but we must keep Warsaw.
No one talks about the Emperor William that the Institute's galleries should be
and the Crown Prince, but only of handed over to the Colonia Institute; Hindenburg. The really important men, howover, are Ludendorff and General that the Dominions should concentrate Tappen, Mackensen's Chief of the upon the development of their own General Staff Austria is never mention- research institutions; and that theed. It is considered that England was research functions of the Imperial given far too much time to prepare her Institute should be limited to work for defences against Zeppeling. I under~ India, Crown Colonics and Protectorates, stand that German submarines now work The Comer considers that the recom- in threes. The Bremen is believed to mendations to entirely unjustified PRUSSIAN ELECTORAL LAW.
AMSTERDAM, April 7th.
A reform of the Prussian Electoral Law is expected to be introduced after
Easter
COUNT BERNSTORFF'S
TREATMENT.
AMSTERDAM, April 7th. Germany has protested against Count Bernstorff's treatment at Halifax on his homeward voyage.
bave been rammed and sunk soon after leaving port At Hamburg soldiers say that nothing will induce them return
to to the frontA
It is popularly believed that there in going to be an invasion of Holland and (or) Denmark for the sake of the food which they contain, and that Germany will attempt no further offensive on the French front. There are said to be a aumber of 420mm, guna held in readinera on the Dutch frontier near Maastricht. One sets no cavarly in Germany. I be lieve that they have mostly gone to Roumania,
Socialism is raising its head wherever it dares to do so, In one well-known district on the Rhine one is actually
A German wireless official report entry into the war, telle him to say to states:-We heavily repulsed & French the Foreign Minister that America re- TROUBLE FEARED IN RIO DE States to enlist in the British Army CHINESE TELEGRAM. made to take off one's gloves in the train
attempt to recapture their lost trenchesjoices as the new tie of amity created by near Sapigneul. Three French attacks on the Russian revolution and ardently Malancourtwood failed. Strong enemy aerial forces carrying out an aerial recon- naissance suffered 'severely, losing forty four machines yesterday. Five of our
irmen did not return
hopes that the Russian nation will realise the uced for internal concord, in view of vanquiabing forever the despotism which by violence and machination menaces the
Russian democracy.
JANEIRO.
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7th.
The police are guarding the Austro- German business house and Consulates as a precaution against attacks by the crowds.
A rupture is regarded as certain,
Hitherto they have been prevented from enlisting by the Neutrality laws.
EXPLOSION AT ESSEN.
AMSTERDAM, April 9th.
The Telegraaf states that through an explosion of shells at Essen, 38 workers were seriously injured-
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHEUNG NGOI SAN PO."]
CHINA AND GERMAN SERVANTS.
for to wear gloves is the mark of al non-Socialist.
Rich shirkers are sent to Holland as buyers for the Government or as spier.
Germany is feeling severely the lack of articial manures. The nitrates reade from the air are good only for raking SHANGHAI April 7th. nitric acid for munition purposes, and The Government contemplates issuing do not act properly when made ing for an order compulsorily resigning all Gertilisers for the soil, which is becoming mans in the Customs service:
exhausted