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WAR.
THE
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LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S LETTER TO THE PREMIER,
TRIBUTE TO PEOPLE OF BRITAIN.
General
THROUGH BELFER'S AGENCY }
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA. BRITISH AMBASSADOR CABLES WALL WELL.VO
LONDON, November 16th Reuter learns that the last official news from Hussia was a message from Sir George Buchanan, vio Haparanda, dated November 1st. The message wasAll "well"
The Russian Embassy in London has received no news for several days.
Telegraphie communication between Russia and Japan is cut off.
WHICH GOVERNMENT IS IN POWER!
LONDON, November 16th,
A Russia wireless official message says:-General Mouravieff, the Comman der of the Petrograd“ Revolutionary. Dis-
trict, has ordered the Kishiner Soviet
to liberate their comrades who were im- prisonedas Kishinov for revolting against the Provisionn] Government, which, General Mouravieff says, is now deposed.
DIRECT NEWS,
LONDON, November 16th: To-day's Russian wireless nesange, 'which is une frst direct news from Russia for several uays, is significant as showing that the anti-nei'ensky forces control the wireless station at Tsarskos Sole.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT
EXPECTED.
TOKYO, November 16th. The Russian situation hag erunted the gravest concern here
A Conned of Ministers meots on Friday. morning, and an important developnient. is generally expected;
STRIKE THROUGHOUT RUSSIA
KAILWAY TRAFFIC INTERRUPTED,
COPENHAGEN, November 16th,
An unconfirmed telegram from Hapa- randa states that the strike which began at Helsingfors on the 15th inst, has spread through the whole country:
The railway to Petrograd is inter- rupted, and
Socialists at Helsingfors, assisted by Russian soldiery, seized the telegraph, diesolved the Senate and Diet and order. ed the old Socialistis Diet to meet at the earliest moment and ordered a meeing of the Senate exclusive of the bourgeois.
DOMESTIC TRUCE AND PEACE.
· PETROGRAD, November 17th. On the 12th inst., the Railway Union initiated neg tiations with a view to the fortnation of a Government comprising all the Socialist parties, including the Maximalists
A three day domestic truce is suggested The key-note of the proclamation to all the Socialist parties is pence.
THE NEW FRENCH CABINET.
Pants, November 16th. M. Clemence has formed a Cabinet which includes the following
MClemenceat Premier and Minister
of Warsh Minister of Justice. Foreign Affairs. Interior
M. Pichon....
M. Nail
M. Pams
M
Klotz
*
Finance
George Laygnes.. Marine.
M. Clementel. Commerce,
"M. Loueleur Munitions.
M. Sitnon........... Colonies.
LONDON, November 16th,
THE RESTRICTION ON The Near East.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
LONDON, November 18th, A Bill has been introduced in the three years after the war the Govern- House of Commons which continues for
the object of
enabling the after the war, of impurta of enemy origin and also exports, except in the case of cortain specified classes of goods.
LONDON, November 18th. Lord Northcliffe has written a letter to Mr. Lloyd George declining an invitation. to take charge of the new Air Ministryment's present power of restricting im He says that, returning from the virile ports and est immediately atmosphere of the United States and Canada, he finds boldling office those who are dallying with must urgent questions like the unity of war control, the eradica tion of sculition, the mobilisation of man. power and compulsory rationing He finds the consorship being misused and that men in various positions of authori ty, who should have been punished, have been retained and some even elevated. On the other hand, he pays tribute to the splendid spirit of the people of Britain and says the Army is the most efficient in the world, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig being one of the greatest Generals
Lord Northcliffe mentions that his mission to the United States comprised five hundred officials with ten thousand assistants, whose work should be better known. Unless there is n swift improves ment our methods, the United States will take into his own bands the entire management of a great jurt of the war
THE SILVER MARKET.
on
LONDON, November täth. Silvor is quoted at 433d. per ounce The market is quiet.
FAMOUS
KENT CRICKETER KILLED
LONDON, November 16th. The famous Kent bowler Blythe is re- ported killed,
BOXING,
WORLD'S MIDDLEWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP,
NEW YORK, November 18th. Mike O'Dowd knocked out Al. McCoy CHAIRMAN OF AIR BOARD in the sixth round, thus winning the
RESIGNS.
world's middleweight championship.
Franco-Belgian Front.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT. ]
BRITISH FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL, AERIAL WORK.
LONDON, November 17th. Lord Cowdray has resigned the Chair- manship of the Air Board
THE AIR FORCE BILL.
LONDON November 16th. The House of Commons has passed the third reading of the Air Force Bill, which provides for the creation of Council over which one of the Secretaries of State will preside,
RECONSTRUCTION REPORT
ADOPTED
LONDON, November 16th." Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, speaking at Glasgow, announced that the Government had adopted the Reconstruc-
tion Report, published last June, as part of the Government policy after the war.
FIVE MILLION WOMEN- WORKERS!
LONDON November 16th. It g officially stated that there are now. over 4,750,000 women workers in Greitt Britain of whom over 1,250,000 are em-
Plosed by the Government, including
670,000 munition workers.
The women workers have increased by nearly 1,500,000 since the war began,
PACIFIST PROPAGANDA IN LONDON.
LONDON, November 18th, There have been seven police mids on pacifist propaganda centres in London during the last two days. Hage quanti
18 of literature were seized,
THE SITUATION IN IRELAND
WANING POWER OF SINN FEINERS.
LONDON November 16th. In the House of Lords, during a debate on the Irish question, Lord Wimborne said that they must not jump at alarmist conclusions. Ireland was not out of hand, but was prosperous and orderly,
excepting for rowdium in few to
Out of the million additional ner cultivated in the United Kingdom, seventy per cent. was Irish. The Cou vention
was
thr
M. Painleve, the late Premier, was a solution and overs, Tactor" in a
progress nud
rewarded its labours. The drilling which was proceding had not attained dan
{THEQUGH REUTERS. AGENOW...]
THE CAMPAIGN IN PALESTINE NINE THOUSAND PRISONERS THIS MONTH,
LONDON, November 10th... An official despatch from Egypt states—Festerday we reached a line Railch-Ludd to three miles southward of Jaffe
The New Zealand mounted troops drove back & Turkish attack by a bayonet charge, inflicting heavy losses. ⠀
The total prisoners taken since October 31st exceeds 8,000,
ENEMY'S LAST HOPE GONE.
LONDON, November 10th, Reuter Correspondent at Egyptian Headquarters states that the capture of the function of the Beersheba railway and the Jaffa Jerusalem line cuts off the enemy's railway communications with Jerusalem
“FLYING PIGS.”
We are witnessing the ordinary hum drum routine of french warfare We have chosen a suitable spot in the front line where we can observe the Geitaan trenches,
Suddenly there is a loud pup" from close behind, probably in the support line, followed by a rushing sound that soars upwards, and on raising our eyes we have he difficulty in perceiving around, black, ugly looking body with a straight, thick tail that swings vigorously from side to side, ascending in a great curve above No Man's Land towards the German tren- is so unch sign of endearment to the ches This is a football," and the name saldier's heart as it is a just description of the size and shape of this deadly instrument of warfare She follops her way across the sky, the rushing sound. diminishing is the top of the fight is reached, but increasing again in an awfal sued, as a climax to which there is a ter nanner as the downward course is pur- rifle explosive crack of a sharpness that almost inakes the eyes water, accompanied bed dense, plame-like cloud of smoke,
reyish-white in colour, flying from which are seen barbed-wire stakes and other aurivee dében. For the “football's' function is the cutting of wires
The enemy's last hope of holding us at Wadi Surar has gone. There may still be a certain amount of lighting and small bodies are likely to put up rearguard Some distance on our flank is now heard, fighting but any organiked Fraistaner on somewhat duller but more solid "pop," a large scale is not likely, which is apt to make him able to decide and the eye of the novice is niet by sighe Within a fortnight from the beginning whether what he is regarding is technical of the offensive, an army occupying an apparently impregnable Jine, strongly or venit. For now majestically and. fortified and abundantly provided with gracefully sending the heavens is a guns, ammunition, and supplies has been word and monstrous object with a tail driven hend-long from its defences and and fine, which sways und
plunges ensed across the country, and its losses through the air, glittering in the sun, in have been enormous
a manner that is horribly lifelike and suggestive of sinister and determined design. This is the flying pig," the British giant trench mortar shell, and, as if the great monster were actually cou- scious of its terrible mission, it suddenly cuits, in the net of commencing. Its down ward journey, a savage fot of black smoke Downward it plunges, nos frat, fate the soil, and there it disappears from VICW; One socond, two
BRILLIANT YEOMANRY CHARGE. LONDON, November 16th:
The feature of the fighting on Noven- Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ber 13th was a brilliant charge by the ports that the artillery, with serial South Midland Yeomanry. The enemy, observation, successfully engaged many supported by field gång and numerous targets on Thursday,
machine-guns, were tenaciously holding Aeroplanes carried out numbers of re-position beyond the Wadi Rubin The commaissances. Low flying machines on Yeomanry charged straight across the const machine-gunned several apland, despite a bunny fire, anden
ground targets.
The enemy, dropped fw bombs on ay side of the ling
We brought down six machines and
drove down one.
Four of our have not returned.
INTENSE ARTILLERY WORK
LONDON, November 16th, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re porta ---- There has been intense, artillery bring on both sides along the battle front, particularly in the neighbourhood of Passchendaele
Patrois brought in a few prisoners."
ENEMY EFFORT FAILS:
LONDON, November 16th Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a report, states We successfully raided last night north-east of Fampoux. We
Lines north of Pocicupelle. repulsed an enemy attempt to approach
FRENCH FRONT.“
Panis, November 16th. A communique states: There were active artillery struggles from Belgium to Champagne, also in the Mount Teton gion and are the right of the Meuse
LIVELY ARTILLERY DUEL
PARIS, November 10th. emmin unige statcs-A German at tack on a mant d'appui north of Veldock in Belgium, completely failed with ap preciable onomy Josses,
The artillery duel continued lively on the right bank of the Meuse.
German aeroplanes bombed in the re- gion south of Nancy, but there were an vietna
Italian Front.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ITALIANS DEVELOPING VIOLENT ATTACKS.
able Minister hit a notentity when con
LONDON, November 18th. fronting the Chamber.
M. Clemenceau has been I nicknamed gerous diuicnsions. Good judges believed the mountainous front from the Asiago -An Italian offeinl message stater:-On The Tiger
owing to the vehemence of that the Sion Feiners would not reject platean to the Piave, we have developed his disposition and the fury of his attacks any peaceful and practical recommendanud are continuing, despite intense fire, on his adversaries He becne marked on by the Convention for a reconcilia violent attacks. We resisted counter oat by public opinion for the Premier tion ship, since the present crisis was regarded Lord Curzon emphasised the waning ing all our positions.
N attacks taking some prisoners and retnin- as demanding a man of action and wide experience. f. Clemenceau has selected said that eighty per eent. were opposed the Piave,
power of the Sinn Fein extremiste and The artillery activity continues across number
ober of tried
men as hi colleagues, to violence. hat as Premier and Minister of War he bqt-as
MORE GERMAN REPORT overshadows all apart from his con- manding ability. Even section of the Bocialists appears disinclined immediate hostility to the new Cabinet in which the Socialists are not repre sented."
M2
VENIZBLOS WELCOMED
IN LONDON. SPEECHES AT THE MANSION HOUSE
THE RESULT OF SUBMARINISM
CREATED A NEW AND POWERFUL ENEMY
Zurich, November 10th. Addressing a great Socialist pence dousonstration, at Vienna Deputy Herr Ellenborgen said: We have vanquish ed Serbia and Roamania, beaten Russia and forced Italy to retrent, but England and Franco stand like an iron wall
He declared that submarinism had not only failed, but had resulted in powerful enemy merging.
LONDON, November 10th. M Venizelos was enthusiastically weland comed in London on
At a meeting at the Mansion House, Mr Balfour, Lord Curzon and Mr. Churchill paid tributes to M. Venizelos and to Hi fight for the Allied cause of freedom
Replying, M. Venizelos szid that the great majority of Greeks disapproved of the treacherous policy of the ex King No British check would alter the faith of Grecce in ultimate victory.
THE SAND AND GRAVEL CONTROVERSY.
SITUATION UNMODIFIED.
AMSTERDAM, November 16th. The transit of German sand and gravel vid Holland has temporarily ceased but
FULLY BEATEN,
NEW YORK N November 16th. Mr. Arthur Pollen, the naval writer, interviewed, says Wednesday's submarine figures constitute the most momentous news since the United States declared war, compared with which Germany's successes in Russia and Italy are trivial, He declares that submariniem has been finally benten
FIRST LORD'S ADVICE,
right through the
runds of tensivt to the observer, then sabres right and left, and the enemy, with staggering suddenn: sa there occurs when they found themselves cut off, threw the most appalling spheaval of material. down their arms. The Yeomanry had the There is not much noise, but a sharp, glory of making one of the biggest bags heavy shock darts through the earth, cans by any single unit, namely, 1.000 prisoning the sandbags to fall from the side ers, two guns and fourteen machine-guns of the trench, although we may be many
NO MATCH FOR THE SCOTS. hundred yards away
a
There were several bouts of hand-to-
But the aftermath of this great spectacle hand fighting in an engagement with the is perhaps as awe-inspiring as the explo- Scottish Infantry at Barkah and a large sin itself. The smoke has just com- proportion of the Turks and also German menced to dene away in the wind, every- machine-gunners were killed by the thing is apparently ended, when there bayonet and the butt. It was a grim and begins a great and weird ont- desperate encounter but, both in physique tering hoise which grows louder and skill with the bayonet, the enemy were and louder until its o no niatch for the Sebts. Over 400 Turkish mighty but unsern Niagara in
Aviatora bombed two northbound makes is actually a mine crater, and dend were counted in on position.thing more vor s than an aerial mine in the literal sense, and the huge hole trains They wrecked the engine of oue and machine-gunned the other in a stund. | this henty pattering sound is due to the still
hundreds of thousands of falling particles that had been blasted upwards now strik- ing the earth.
Five German aeroplanes, three engines and a wireless set were destroyed.
FURTHER PROGRESS..
Caino. November 17th. Yesterday, despite heavy opposition, west countrymen and Indians captured the rail junction at. Wadi Surar.
The Scottish reached Mansura.
The Yeomanry captured Naaneh, north of Mansura, taking sixty prisoners...
Australians reached Kerazch and pro- Bressed towards Ramleh,
New Zealanders repulsed a strong counter-attack with the bayonet, inflicting heavy lossng
Aerial Activities.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.Ţ
NAVAL AIRCRAFT
The football" possesses instan taneous-percussion fuse, which produces the explosion at the exact moment of impact that is, upon the surface of the ground where the barbed wire exists; but the flying pig is designed so that the explosion does not occur until the projec into the earth, in order that the full res tile has been allowed to penetrate deoply may concentrated against a subter- rautan structure such as a Gennan dug-
Now this same differentiation that exists anong trench mortar shells is also devepoled, and perhaps to a greater de gree of fineness, in howitzer and high- velocity shells Instantaneous-percussion shells are those that produce the well- knowi cramp," and the essential con- ditions for the production of this sound are that the shell shall explode without penetrating the earth to any extent, which smothers the sound and takes off the sharp edges of the crump. Such a shell, independent of its size, does not make very large hole in the ground, LONDON, November 18th, but is useful for destroying wire or for The Admiralty announces:-Aircraft barrage purposes against troops advanc yesterday, but high winds prevented them burn underground to any extent, the attempted to bomb Uytsereke aerodrome | ing neros, the open, As the British do not ranching their objective
We thereupon bombed nerodrome sheds by the Germans for bombarding the instantaneous percussion shell is also used at Handzaemi.
British trenches. Hence the word crump " is almost invariably associated with German shells,
OPERATIONS.
During offensive patrols we destroyed that could not be controlled. All our two enemy machines and drove down two
machines returned,
LONDON, November 16th. A German wireless official message AIR RAIDS AT GALLIPOLI, positions north-east of Gallio, on both States:We have captured several hill
xides of the Brents Valley,
We have captured Cismon. There is more intense Brtillery firing on the Lower Piave,
prisoners on the west bank, near the sea. The Hungarians took one thousand
Africa,
(THROUGH KROTER'S AGENCY.]
THE CAMPAIGN IN EAST
AFRICA
BRITISH CAPTURES.
GRÆCO-BRITISH OPERATIONS.
tory, owing to their surface explosion, "Crumps," however, are not satisfac against deep dug outs, with the result that the shells used by the British against the German trenches are mostly upon the delayed principle, similar to that em- ployed in the flying pig (save that there is a slight difference in mode of setion of the fuse). Delayed-action shells LONDON, November 10th. make big holes and do enormous damage The Press Bureau announces that dur- but owing to their penetration into ing recent air-raids at Gallipoli and Con the earth their sound is smothered assistance of a Greek naval unit. sions contrast markedly with the stantinople the Naval Air Service had the Although equally powerful, their explo- Gallipoli was bombed day and night material but making little sound, the crumps. Throwing up great masses of the objectives being warehousea and British shell as the bite while the cerodromes, a seaplane base at Nagarerump" has the bark: Hence a peculiar and a Turkish camp at Bulair. One and constant difference exists between an Greek machine wan Jost
We attacked the Goeben, causing a explosion and a fire. We hit submarines and destroyers We also hit a quarter in which the German headquarters are reported to be situated. We also twice hit the War Office.
MARENCE, November Loth The total numbers of the enemy billed or captured in East Africa for the fort night ending November 10th are Naval Activities. Whites, 438 Askaris 881 also 18 gune including the enemy's last two 4-inchere have been captured.
LONDON November 16th In the House of Commons, Sir Eric Geddes stated that the dimination in the number of ships that had been sink ought not to be regarded as indicating that the submarine menace was defeated The A GERMAN PROPHET. steady decli
The main force of the enemy is hard pressed and is now being driven towards Tsebiwate, which is 10deg 37m, south and deg. 7mm, east,
THROUGH REUTERS AANGT.
IRISH STEAMER SUNK.
LONDON, November 16th, The Irish steamer Ardmore has been
otherwise the situation is unmodified shows that has a since last April captured letter mentions that the torpedoed off the coast,
are persistently German Commander-in-Chief had in- submarine. chipbuilding at present and the
German shell-bursts are noisy while the artillery duel on the western front. Th British are spectacularize
GEORGE F. SLEGOS, B.Sc.
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISTS AND A REPUBLIC
Sat
The Nationalist Congress at Capetown, adopted the motion of General Herzog protesting and declaring that the efforts of Parliament and the South African party congress were designed to frighten people from advocating a republic, the same time endorsing the Federal Council's manifesto advising the absten- tion of propaganda at present in defer ence to the national
of Euge sensitiveness bad paking citizens owing to the war, but
there
The IBEtructed the Commander in the north that expresión. would be no less the
The engine-room staff were killed by the
The captain and eis others were picked Twenty-two of
of the crew were drowned.
The newspaper Tubin of the opinion, the that the British geological survey in regard to the pill boxes greatly strongth proposed rise show that we are counterthas Colony mast be held, at least until ened the allegations. Moreover, Holland acting the enemy's effort but rigid January 18th. Another letter reports a made an imprudent concession in De economy and increased output in ship statement by the Gartman Governor that up, after a terrible night, clinging to n mitting Germans to store winter stock
there would be peace this ye
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yards are necesary.
on the clear
ceases, the bongress reserving ite right anti-independence progaganda alo to give expression to its views and shape
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