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having emed that all Goods are being landed" |
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and/or from the
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32. om 1st Goods not deared by 6.00 Nov, 1917, will be abject to rent justpor
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AND
THE
WAR.
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General
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LONDON, November 19th
THE CASUALTIES AND DESTRUCTION
LONDON, November 19th. The Daily Telegraphe: "Correspondent at Petrograd «reparts Fighting at Moscow began on the 10th instant. The Government forco consisted of 3,000 Mil
FRONT.
WOMEN AT THE DARING WAR CORRESPONDENTS ATHRILLING EXPERIENCE.
The up-to-date newspaper woman is as willing to take chances quite as sensa tional as her brothers of the Press
BRITISH CEMENT IN GERMANtary Cadets and students, with three obtaining first hand news of world-stir gubs, numerous rifles, and some Maxims-ring events in order that cager renders FORTIFICATIONS:
Fitten thousand of the 100,000 soldiers at home--who give no thought to the dan the garrison supported the Bolsheviks gers that has been braved may enjoy in the and the rest mninined in barracks mental thrill with their morning coffee
Ruth Hale, in the new York Tribune, tells The Military Revolutionary Committee of an occasion when a party of news were under fire dur cured 15 guns with which they continuing the
breezily
ing
Silk and Valuables and Tea and Cargo for
by the Steamer hibited pending enquiries.
peb of German nero
of the
of
GERMANY'S WOMEN
WORKERS.
AN OFFICIAL REPORT.
report recently published in Germany by the Association of Metal Workers sheds an interesting light on the conditions of female labour in the war factories of that country. The inquiry was conducted at 207 industrial centres, where 2,004 fac tories were visited. The number of women employed at these establishments before the war was 63,570, while at the time of the inquiry that number was more than trebled, amounting to 286330
Quations were put to the workers to
on the general health of the women. The
Presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise ment) will be conveyed Marreilles and Lord Robert Cecil nointed out the of the Assumption of Glory of Kremlin" of France, so lately taken back hours of employment, etc It was found
No Fire Insurance
In any case whatever le
In the House of Commons, Lord Robert THis Majesty & Maile, will be despatched Cecil stated that in view of the letter from this port as usual, taking Passengers tropia British officer in the Times, stating and Cargo for the above Porta Passenger, accommodation in the connecting vessel that he found in a "pill-box" a label show-ously bombarded the centre of the town plane, ___||
Hongkong
be casualties up till the 14th instant making fre is her story that it had been made of British
were 3,000, chiefly peaceful civilians, and which they passed and dangers throw ascertain if possible the effect of the work soured before departure from
Ways and on the stairs The Cathedral under the guidance of the French Mai regard to the physique of each worker, the Italy, France and London (under arrangement, the export of cement was pro- the corpses law for days in the day, We had set out to make a day of it, replies received were judged with due de In Press in the devastated hygienic conditions in the factory the proceeding via Bombay to
was destroyed by the bombardment Tho
from the Germans. We were five news that in 20.8 per cent of the cases investi London be affected by us
Parcels will be received at the Office until military enquiries so far had not con- church of St. Basil was set on fire.
instructed, given
veh our fill of those first cent of those in other establishments, Bills of Lading will be con
countersigned by
3 P.M. the day before miling, The contente firmed the use of British canutit in Ger DEATH OF GENERAL MAUDE / Papor women and we were to be improved, I gated in the war factories, and in 11.9 per. hand impressions of the trail of war that the work was too exhausting for female JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD,
we had been so stoutly clamouring for labour, Agenta.
Then we were to be returned to our pas- Here is a report of conditions at a Hongkong, 14th November, 1917. [1987
Cents, our husbands, or our newspapers, shell factory: At the machines pro
nocording to where guardianship of us
from the ground to the level of the was vested in the records of the gallant jectiles of 20 to 75 ths have to be raised French
officials Ant, above all, we were breast in order to be placed in the lathes to do the thing safely and eally ns after turning they have to be lowered ladies should, and have no shocks and no again to the ground. This work entails which our hosts would have intenso muscular effort. In order to earn nted to suproach themselves. We would three marks a day some women have to need to
shell at least 100 times. The women com-
Breat deal of internal
pains these heavy shells."
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against the
red after that the steamer must be All claims again presented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th Dec., or they will not be recognized. All broken, ousted, and camaged Goods are
to be left in the Godown, where they will be
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LATER
The War Office announces that General Maude died in Mesopotamin last even ing, after a brief illness.
no like
4 dukrut,
Sugar
from
used as a storeyor the foundries women perform l
LONDON, November 19th In the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour stated that the situation in Russia was
fretors, now being mid- still obscure, although it appeared the Extremists completely controlled Petro
lives from a few miles to the left of us diing, which is absolutely inck breaking grad and Moscow. Telegraphic com
fired shell after shell at a maranding The strain is so severe thac in the pre
beads, vision of labour, allowance has to For mmunication with Bir George Buchanan confident that his mentory will be an "erman aeroplane directly over cur made for quite a third of the women,
and the remnants of burst shell
peppered the
earth around us and toyed around the always on the sick list. corners of the stacks of new munitions
lay been traumed
EARLIER CABLES.
GENERAL KALEDINE'S STRATEGIC CONTROL
STOCKHOLM, November 19th, Guneral" Kaledine's Cossacks are (qër cupying the Donetz coalfield and are thus able to starve and freeze Petrograd
General Kaledine, at Kharkaff, stopped
·200
Petron nnds of food destined for
A Military
HIS MAJESTY'S SYMPATHY The Press Bureau announces that His Majesty the King has dispatched up, an hour after we started, in a merci raise and lower a 26 kg (Alont 67 lbs)
officer called message to the Commander-in-Chief in fully spacious dug-out (which our he spoke English), in a wrecked Mesopotamia expressing the deepest re- gret at the death ander and and tragi circumstances of General Maude, who
for munitions, has rendered incalculable services to India, the Empire and to the Allies I incentive to the completion of the work in which he laboured and died.
ΤΑΡΑΝ AND THE WAR. REPRESENTATIVES AT PARIS
CONFERENCE.
TOKYO
November 19th,
It was an untimely end for Ladies Day at the front. Dear knows when there But if the thrill will be another one
was extemporaneous, it was none the less a good onored through burned and
We had
WAR NEWS:
THE WAR AND LITERATURE.
One Woll
pillaged towns, we had clinted to the Will the war ensunities add to the observators of Prince Eitel Friedrich. We ranks of our great writers had visited the rondside grave of the ders, beenuse physical disabilities have aviator McConnell, oddly decorated with so often turned a man's thoughts to
machine, Wo the fragments of hiring and had been never have been a novelist, and had. La hind literature. But for lameness Scott might Te Robert Lais Stuvchisof probably have prefered the sword
the gues
Dictatorship by General Paris Conference in view of the prob heard stirred by them though not to bed
Kaledin or General Kormiloft 3 expected. Petrograd flats that correspondent
The
states that at a
representative
the Railway Committees at
an
The Minister for Finance, speaking at to Europe was impossible Canka, said that a Japanese expedition It is understood that the Government attaches the greatest importance to the ability that quistions of Japanese miji
LATER. at try and will aris of Japan will
represented at the Paris Conferenco by the Ambassadors and Naval and Military Attaches at London and Paris
AMERICA AND THE WAR. WEEKLY WAR REVIEW.
delo Front Bate from stated that there were only three days supplies at the Front. The army would be compelled to abandon the Front, owing to the famine, unless the transport was improved.
and
WORKMEN'S MANIFESTO.
PETEOGRAD, November 18th.
WASILLNOTON, November 19th
the extent wo were letting on, nor any wo where near so much as we were trying to to the pen, And but, for an accident in be and we had said a little solemnly to the football field, when assistant master each other. Here we are in it-this is at a Welsh school, which left his bealth
the war, and there are the But the distant pursued the scholastie career he hand we have read uncertain, Mr. H. G. Wells might have about for the majestic, locked merince marked out for himself.
D ANOTHER DEVILISH Then as we were leaving the wave of the aviator, someone looked up at the and and beautiful
boom, however
CONTRIVANCE.
singular clouds just there look very appears that anus bon, introd feed
It another of II's
queen over New York
They are almoir
Mr. Baker, Becretary for Wer, in the weekly war communiać, statesThe havy artillery Preparation in two sectors of the British and Fretch fronte presages
::
further
offensive, sh
It is estimated that half of the Turkish army in Palestine has been lost.
thore stemm
Those are burstin più a war hospital in India picked up
Our
into Mesopotamia, A soldier now lying however, probably, and they are shoot he started to try the point the inf
thing exploded and blew. off white circle around him,
of his right hand The device many miles away somebody fingers
fiendishly cunning to be attri
How
ing &
asked
seems too
A manifesto in huge type, occupying Che front page of the forth. Colitis demands the all political prisoners, the cessation of political ter rorism, the restoration of the freedom of the Pret, the inviolability the
of
of anth property,
and the disposal of the its murale is excellent
Army is making progress rapidly, and Ent the cient armed forces Municipality to preserve order, ple
Food
and forage are? being | THE COMMMAND hausted owing to the destruction of the and the general disorganisation. officials of the Ministry of Finance refuse to hand over to the Maximalists the funds in the Treasury
The Director and Vics Directors of the State Bank were arrested, but were sub- sequently releaseti.
Perionethe training of the American National 20 The gune are pretty for awaits the Turk and we all know that
THE AMERICAN COLONY,
The American Embassy requested.
Harbin
DESCRIPTION OF FIGHTING.
FORCES.
LONDON November 19th. The Daily Telegraph Correspondent
at Petrograd reports that the Bolshevik
OF THE ANGLO-FRENCH ARMIES.
force, which defeated Kerensky a 1,500 12 agreement on the sub-
Cossacks between Gatchina and Tsarske Balo, numbered 10,000.
There was desultory fighting at Kieff, which
changed hands several times.
the
W
though the front-line French in pre-war days our pencils were mado cnches just here are only eight miles in Germany. We take it for granted that
and the aeroplane is probably over officers and men in Mesopotamia have дож been warned about collecting bem perked up a a little at this
Our spinee
souvenirs-Englishviant
LEADING A CHARGE AT 50.
*** HECOND-LIFT TENANTS, M.C.
uid showed promise of little activa shivering later on. But we went back to our waiting motor cars, and rolled along pulses about at the normal and interest The Military Cross has been awarded to towards the wrecked sugar-factory with about at the academic,
hile the distant pealing of the big guns grew momentarily Temporary Second Lieutenant William less affrighting as we got used to them. Moleney, Royal Munster Fusiliers, who, We left our motors as the roadside and it is stated in the Timon Gazette, is over
LONDON November 10th. The Daily Telegraph, Military Corres pondent derides the idea that Mr. Lord George attempted last winter to place the British Arm
under the command of General
says that General Nivelle, in January, proposed an Anglo train to convey 200 American residents to French pool of reserves for a tremendous climbed a low slope of rubble to the gates 60 years of age. He insisted on going
blow at the German Centre, and profess
of the former sugar-factory...... Ou
Our soldier into action with his company and led ing his readiness to serve under a British guards and chauffeurs, four in number, his platoon throughout an attack under Generalissimo. The proposals, after waited near the cars, and our attending heavy shell fire. Not content with_reach- much waste of time, were partially officer of the General Staff led us up with it patrol and established an id- the final objective, he pushed forward cepted at the Calais Conference, but they
through the forbidding entrance, past the were never carried out. The problem of a single command of the Anglo-French three or four huge South of France vanced position which he held until the
soldiers who were patrolling
the Way and next wave of the attack passed through. armits is a most dif
difficult one but it must we stopped for a look at a a great pile of
of "A magnificent example of coolness, and the only way for shells
fourlessness, and determination,” says they securing
The booming of the guns had
droned
off official record. jeet 15 by free interchange of information to nothing. We werd full of computations and ideas by the military lead
leaders in 4 of the probable death and destruction de vaka supreme war council.
The Daily Chronicle for stored so compactly before us when 11 picce lands in the shell-stacks
thin the There is no describing the sound of a this dug-out is a goner, gritics who are pursuing disruptive seventy-five going off next door. One blithe comment taclicy will be disappointed by to-day's
went off at just that moment, and it was debate. Nothing sensational, and ecr
even the Roche avintor's He got behind tainly not a crisis, need be exppeted us if all the found in the world were But everybody's luck was good that day,
slambanging at our car, then crackling cloud finally, and the seventy-five although the Agreement as read by Mr. straight off overhead in a futile attempt abandoned its chase for him. The din of 20,000 Cossacks, are reported to be Lloyd George in the House of Commons, to reach heaven. The first report and t
does not mention the fact that there will rip-roar that follows separate themselves the shooting died away, we came out of be an Allied Naval Staff also sitting at in the effort to recall them, but then they ed from the fields, the patrol went
thedug-out our motor soldiers emerg Versailles and co-operating with the sound all-
and a whale of a chipperly back to their jobs, and the orily Military Staff.
The first meeting of the Council will hest startled look was back toward shooting we could he was the cosy
intercoting Boom, boom probably be held next work.
the motors. BBW the archtype of the tance, being a chastened ** blue___ streak "—lour French soldiers We were by wa leaving the open roadside in search of lot when the motors took up their way cover in the field. We looked then farther We no longer wished for more when we into the sugar-factory and we were just edged up on the
the danger-zones. It was time to catch the stooping shoulders touching to
to seo with what a rosy glow & The railwaymen in the Cardiff district of the fourth and last patrol sa ho dived brush with a seventy fire? could cover have decided to strike pnicest their wages while, our desfening soixante-quinge And then to be taken down into tho his brothers Mean the more statistical al our inspection tour. Bre increased by 1 weekly within a week was not waiting, ever for our fleet pilns German first-line tronobes was an
It is reported that the Czech troops Are supporting the Government, who are
at Kieff
now masters, Edine's Cossacks control.
General
the Don region. They surrounded Kharkoff and Vorce and captured Viazma, south-west of Moscow, on which
Tancing
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A few drops only are necessary to give a delicious and appetizing flavour to the plainest dish.
A far larger quantity of a cheaper sauce fails to give the
same satisfaction.
Obzerve the signature
thus
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RAILWAYMEN'S THREATENED
STRIKE
LONDON, November 18th,
into a hole
LOYALTY OF WELSH MINERS to find holes. The shots came
LONDON, November 18th.
1. Clement Edwards, M.P., has writ
sus a
the
way.
"was somebody's
in the dis
experi
incessant ence not to be sneezed at. It is true that
us Vayur whicer looked at the Germans have been out of
he raid,
It may be
noreplane just
co April, and that the poppie But then, and our guns are after are growing over them.
Ворріеs, grow over the face of France probably frighten it Boches have been out of those scarred
to
ten to His Majesty the King, pointing out the but so shall comb these stored under the very heel of var. And if thở
that three-fifths of the South Wales miners, who voted in favour of combing out are. men and youths liable to service, so
that
away
"I regret deeply that this should earthen runway for three monthia they Ha secret ballot they voted in favour ve happened. And Bove you will were in them for nearly three years, and of Wemselves,
en she good enough to come with me, we shall
in This
dds, the most Join the patrols their cave adds, is
We joined the patrols. beautiful demonstration of patriotism
tried to make light of our danger
the mark of their occupation is nowhere
The near removed.
As we sauntered though then looking built and
that has yet come from any industrial Of course, it is wiser to come in, but built tidy German way they had been population
** there 18 almost no
the most
我
at the ingenious German way
faded
KTHEVÐISORDERSATZ ZURICH hrnce of a shell com ther had been used, we came upon mant
tural Vittle upright sticks with drub and fa
red razs tied to
ZURICH November 10th.
guttural
of theatroia replied There were veered roundtopt they?
three wounded- Here Festerday at five
when a
Six Persons were killed in Saturday'so he next round from the seventy-five grenades had fallen. The French have
A rat she came dow, a Janrked where the unexploded hand
cleaned up their recoverye land with
rioting
Several battalions of infantry and two had a more vicious sound than the others. squadrons of cavalry arrived on Sunday We remembered those three wounded amazing thoroughness, but they have not yet cleared the deserted trenches. It is to maintain order.
that a visitor goes near them-then Careful escort, And the
Tags as suff
A general strike is threatened,
OBITUARY
818 CHARLES HOLROYD
23- REUNION November 19th The death is announced of Sir Charles" Holroyd the famous artit
Then we perked up again,
But perhaps the aeroplane sin different position this afternoon. body said And Plonk of shelle answered, us, twenty yards of where we noses out of the dig. when the end would comes
Continued at foot of next columu
and
ugh
nothing but hespa the streets are clea
has been
211 come