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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
THE STRUGGLE IN THE WEST.
FRESH HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS.
RUSSIA
AND
PEACE.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE MOVEMENT.
BRITISH CAPTURES DURING NOVEMBER.
NEARLY 27,000 MEN AND OVER 200 GUNS..
Franco-Belgian Front.
LATEST CARLIN. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH FRONT. GERMANS MAKING SUPREME
EFFORT.
LONDON, December 3rd. Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters states:The activity men- tioned this morning in the region of La Vacquerie was apparently the signal for enemy artillery to blaze up along the whole front from Honnecourt to Moeuvres.
Our
gung thundered in reply with n
I
GREATEST ATTACK GERMANS- EVER LAUNCHED.
The recent attack was one of the greatest, if not actually the greatest, the Germans have ever launched on the West- tern Front, the only possible claimant to equal magnitude being the second Battle of Ypres
I compute that 20 Divisions were em played cgainst us, which, even at the diminished strength of the present Ger- man Divisions, would represent 200,000 infantry.
SUBSTANTIAL. STEP TO VICTORY
Our troops this morning are cheerful
INTENSE ARTILLERY ACTIONS.
LONDON, December 3rd.
An Italian official report states there wore intense prolonged artillery actions in the Pasubio and Melette regions, also northward of Monte Grappa:
The Near East.
BARLIER CABLES. THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.].
TOTAL CAPTURES IN PALESTINE.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5TH, 1917.
EARLIER CABLES.
THE THREAT AGAINST BRITISH
*SUBJECTS.
LONDON, December 3rd.
CANADA'S VICTORY LOAN. AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS,
OTTAWA, December 3rd. Canada's Victory Loan of One Hun
The Daily News Petrograd, Correspondred and Fifty Million Dollars has been dent, telegraphing on the 1st instant, more than doubly subscribed. states:-M Trotzky has appointed M.. Commenting on the Loan, Sir Thomas, Tchicherin, one of the Russians interned White, Minister of Finance, gnid - The in England, Russian Ambassador in Lon overwhelming success of the Victory Loan đón
is a great national triumph for the Canadian people. While it will be n・ week or more before the final retures are obtained, I would not be surprised if the
bag aggregate cash subscriptions amount to Three Hundred and Fifty Mallions from half a million subscribers. Canada has certainly gone over the top. On sh Average one in every three families in Canada has subscribed the Bonda
to
It was on account of M. Tchicherin and another that M, Trotzky ordered that no British subjects should be allowed to leave
CAIRO, December 3rd: By the evening of November 30th eleven | Russia. officers and 457 men had been captured during the last twenty-four hours
On the morning of December 1st tho Australians captured a further 200
The total number of prisoners taken
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
RESUSCITATED.
Petrograd, December 3rd. The late Provisional Government, of
since the commencement of the offensive which nothing had been heard since its Once again, the Canadian people have
is now 10,600, of which number 470 are. officers.
General
LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] BRITISH CAPTURES IN NOVEMBER, NEARLY 27,000 PRISONERS AND OVER 200 GUNS.
LONDON, December 3rd.
A British official message states-The captures during November in the Westera
of
overthrow, reappeared on the scene yes terday by issuing a Manifesto addressed to the population, stating that the Fro visional Government is the only legal authority in Russia, and that deorocz the Bolsheviks should be disobeyed, con demning the actions of the Bolsheviks in attempting to conclude a separate peace, and decreeing the convention of the Constituent Assembly at Petrograd as the only chance of salvation for Russia, The papers which printed the manifesto have been suppressed.
proclaimed to the world their essential unity of purpose and their determination to persever, until a final and conclusive victory is attained"
NORTHCLIFFELS
"VAGARIES,"
RULES FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE.
He was a bright boy of fourteen with his head full of vagaries, He lived in Dublin County, Ireland, and his father," who was a barrister, wanted him to be a lawyer. But the boy was interested in his printing press and editing bis. school paper. He didn't want to be a lawyer. He said he was going to London Alfred Harmsworth in 1881. to become a newspaper man. That was
The largest newspaper and magazine and most powerful men in the British Lowner in the world, and one of the richest Empire this is Lord Northcliffe in 1917, who on his return from the United States as a representative of the British Govern» ment has been created a Viscount.⠀⠀
Here are some of the rules for success in lite as laid down by him in 1800:-
* Concentrate your energies, and work hard
Launch out in new experiments. Never be afraid to have the courage
of your opinionas
Fix the lines you want to travel along, and keep on them.........___
That's all
of the man of vagaries
A writer in The Arkansas Gazette saya
His name is—or was-Alfred Harms- worth, later Sir Alfred, and since 1905, Lord Northcliffe, First Baron, of the
** KINGDOM " FOR THE JEWS | Isle of Thanet. In cue year, from being
the most hated man in the Empire. Lord Northcliffe has become the most thanked; LONDON, December 3rd..
and the patriotic citizens who burned hig Jewish muss meetings passed a resolu.papers publicly on the floor of the Lon
don Stock Exchange are gratefully and tion of gratitude to the Government for enthusiastically following his lend the declaration in favour of the establish- ment of Palestine as a home for the Jewish people.
The meetings were further noteworthy as
As a man, no less when a boy, Alfred arsworth has been always rioted for his vagaries. Ho bas been always launch. : ing, some new senation, disturbing the. even tenour of business, wearing the ignorant public, and irritating the wise," No matter what part of the
"Harmsworth vagary was sure to be given wing.
burricane of fire, which has now lasted at the situation. They think, the results theatre were 11,551 prisoners and 138 NEWSPAPER OFFICES OCCUPIED the first great public expression of a world he happened to be in. some
some hours.
A new German Division from Flanders, has been brought to this front, also various fresh independent units are identified.
The Germans appear to be making supreme effort in this sector, but the Cor- respondent temperately observe that for miles behind our lines there is one great screen of extraordinary activity.
Dar men are fighting like tigers, and they have pied up a regular barrier of field grey corpses. We have recovered still more of the guns temporarily lost during the first onslaught on Friday. During Friday one battery of ten of our machine-gung fired 70,000 rounds at an average range of twelve hundred yards, with ghastly effect.
ENEMY RESUMES VIOLENT OFFENSIVE.
LONDON, December 4th. Field Marshal Sir Dougins Haig re. poris:- The caemy has resumed the offensive with great violence.:
To-day's fighting, has been exceptiona- ally severe.
From Gonnelica to Marcoing the enemy delivered attacks of great strength with large forces and was repulsed with heavy lasses
Our positions are maintained every where, except at La Vacquerie and east of Marcoing, where our line has been Blightly withdrawn. The enemy broke through at one point south of Marcoing, but an immediate counter-attack restored the situation.
of the great German offensive so far con Istituto a notable British succes
If the sum total of Germany's losses on the field will win the war for us, then
we have taken a substantial step in this direction during the prst four days.
GERMAN CLAIMS.
A German wireless official message states:We beat off yesterday strong English attacks to the north Paaschendaele.
Firing increased in violence in the evening and we repulsed an attack be tween Inchy and Bourlon.
prisoners and one hundred guns,
FRENCH FRONT.
ARTILLERY STRUGGLE.
guns.
In Palestine they were 10,464 prisoners and 30 guos.
LONDON, December 3rd. The Daily Chronicle's Correspondent at Retrograd reports that the Red Guards In East Africa they were 4,403 pri-occupied the offices of eight newspapers somers, of which 1,212 were Europeans, which printed the Manifesto, arrested and three guns.
saveral members of the staffs and con- fiscated the plant of the Norne Premya,
NO ANNEXATIONS AND NO INDEMNITIES.
In Mesopotamia they were 137 prisoners In Salonica they were 24 prisoners,
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. ARRANGEMENTS OF THE
ARMISTICE::
AMSTERDAM, December 3rd.
Since Friday we have taken 0,000 local armistice, mentioned earlier, began A Berlin official message says:The
at ten o'clock last night, and arrange ments have been made roferring to mutual intercourse and military activities. At least forty-eight hours must elapse before a recommencement of hostilities in the event of a denunciation of the truce.
ALLIED SUBJECTS TO LEAVE MOSCOW.
PARIS, December 3rd..
A communiqué štates the artillery strug- gle was fairly violent at night time he tween Miette and the Alme, cast of Rheims and on
the
right of the Meuse.
Italian Front.
EARLIER CABLES."
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ITALIAN FRONT.
AUSTROGERMANS PAUSE FOR
BREATH:
LONDON, December 3rd,
PETROGRAD, December 3rd. Allied subjects are hastening to leave Moscow.
rapproachment between the Arab Armenian and Jewish communities, and many Arab and Armenian notabilities swelled the Jowish audience.
Lord Rothschild, who presided at the principal meeting, read letters of sym-
da, 8th September, 1909, he sent forth a For instance: Out of Winnipeg, Cena
most alarming interview. The man actually declared that Great Britain's dear friend, Germany, was preparing for of people believed this preposterous stuff, nothing short of war against her. A lot pathy from prominent statesmen. Lord, coming though it did from the owner of scores of publications which had won Robert Cecil said that in supporting enormous circulation by infamously sensa
tional methods. Zionism" this country is merely carry ing out its traditional policy of uphold M. Trotzky, replying to Counting the supremacy of law and liberty. It Czernin' acceptance of the armistice was because the lawless invasion of Bel- offer, declared for the first time since the slum was felt by the true instincts of based on the principle of no annexations the principle of the law that they felt negotiations opened that they must be the British people to be an attack upon
and no indemnities.
then and now and until that outrage was explated, it would be impossible to even think of talking of terms of peace
PETROGRAD, December 3rd.
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS OBJECT OF ATTACK.
It je stated that the Military Revolu tionary Committee has sent a force com posed of reserves of the famous Guards. Régiments and several machine-gun detachments against the General Head- quarters.
RUSSIAN ARMISTICE
DEPUTATION
LONDON, December 3rd. A German wireless official message
GENERAL LUDENDORFFS
CONFIDENCE.
AMSTERDAM, December 3rd.. In the course of a conversation with a representative of a Vienna newspaper, General Ludendorff said that the war would not end in a draw, but in favour
of the Central Powers.
Regarding the Russian armistice, he said there must be security for the Gov-
Northcliffe cut the red tape that bound the British lion-John Bull cried Trea son!" and then changed the whole con- duct of the War
Then, again, he got the British people pelins in Germany. They could sur day all worked up over the building of Zop-
for the purpose of attacking England be used, he claimed-and the claim look- ed plausible to many of the ignorant
Government as a military precaution to from the air. He even wanted the waste millions in building a great air Beet of its ow
Lord Northcliffe was partially forgiven for these vagaries—along abort 1st July 1914. But later, when he began to attack the conduct of the War the wrath of the patriots burst upon him. While other papers were telling of Eng lian victories in France these nefarious, Northcliffe sheets were filled with gloom. They said that the Icsues in the British ranks had been frightful, and they dared to lay the blame apon the shortage of high explosive. They cried that all these pleasant tales of victory were not the truth, and hinted of actual incompetence in connection with some of the most sacred figureheads in the Government itself
states:Soveral Russian divisions have ernment that possesses the power to enforce they burned his papers to show what they
FRATERNISATION INCREASES. LONDON, December 3rd. The Russian Military Plenipotentiary with the British Armies reports that fraternisation has increased, especially on agreed to local artistices, and the Rue the Northern and Western fronts in consian army between Pripet and mouth of nection with the armistice.
Lipa and several of the General Com An enemy mine blew up the torpedo hauds have agreed to a truce whilst the
mgotiations are proceeding.
Reuter's Correspondent at Italian Headquarters, telegraphing on the 2nd instant, states: For the moment there seems to be a truce in the battle between | boat Bditelny. the Brenta and the Piave, the reason being that the Austro-Germans have been
We advanced our line slightly south-forced to pause for breath after many east of Polygon Wood and secured pri.day of unsuccessful costly attacks.
Boners,
Sunday's operation north of Passchen daele yielder 129 prisoners and a
few reachine gung,
EARLIER CABLES.
ATTACKS REPULSED.
LONDON, December 3rd- Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports: We repulsed attacks after sharp
the fighting in
neighbourhood of Mocu
London Regiments captured 19 machine- guns and a number of prisoners in the neighbourhood of Bourion.
This interlude of calm, however, must not deceive us. Heavier and still heavier enemy attacks must be pected.
The Germans and Austrians have pro- fited by the fine dry weather during the
last ten days to bring up reinforcements
of artillery, and constantly the Italian air-
AN EXPLANATION.
LONDON, December 3rd, In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil atated that no agreement had been made with France and Russia, whereby France was to receive a seaboard in Byria, Adana and Vilayet with a part in Lesser
Armonin, and Russia was to recite Erzerum, Trebizond, Bitlis, Van Vilayeta,
and Kurdistan, down to the Persian from
men are locating now enemy battery posier. Anglo-Franco-Russian understand. tions which come andor the fire of the gs with respect to Asia Minor did net Italian guns. Already, before the Bri- involve annexation. tish and French have fired a shot, the enemy advanco has been brought to a stand
The weather is already bitterly cold,
and the endurance of the troops fighting There was considerable reciprocal arti) in the mountains is being subjected to nevere test after the well-organised com fort of Francs. Even being in the war zone for a few days in Italy brings home
lery firing on the southern battle front.
GERMAN EFFORT SPENT.
LONDON, December 3rd.
SOME SIGNIFICANT ELECTION RETURNS, PETROGRAD, December ard Hitherto the election returns show a large aggregate in the provinces against the Maximaliste, while a minority of the army are supporting them
The following are some examples of the polling Is the Restoff-on-Don Province
Reuter's Correspondent at British to one what the Italians have had to the Cossacks and Cadets have together a Headquarters, telegraphing on 3rd in endure since they entered the war. Only 7,000 plurality over the Maximaliste la "stant, states:~It looks as if the German by the utmost economy can supplies of
the town of Elizabethgrad a Jewish effort round Cambrai hes temporarily fuel be made to fill the passing day's Coalition has 8,000 votos, the Socialists
4.600, the Cadetk 3,700, and the Harima spent itself, although they were showing needs in winter. Food is sufficient, but ists 1,800. At Nijni Novgorod the Cadete aggressive activity this morning round careful husbandry is necessary. "Never have 3,500 votes the Socialists 1,000 and the Marimaliste 400 At Penza the the region of Lavacquerie.
theless, neither the cold, nor the rationing, Cadets have 1,300 votes, the Socialists The salient about Masnieres, from nor the military misfortune has availed 2,000, and the Maximalists 2,700.
Bevastopol the Maximaliste have on which we have withdrawn, is untenable to damp the resolution of the Italian twenty per cent. of the whole At Samara for the enemy except for the deep cata people. They fun with entire calm the supposed to be a Socialist stronghold
plurality overto Socialists and Cade there is only a one thousand Maxinal
combined.
combs with which it is believed to be military and economis problems of the honeycombed.
coming yeBE.
A
A gen
Treason cried the patriots, and
the results of the negotiations.
would like to do to their proprietor. eral Armistice would be difficult, as the dously. But the death-lists grew, and the Their circulation, too, fell off tremen-
submarine activity would have to be in circulation began to come back; then an pitiless publicity went on. Soon the
torrupted, so that the Entente could in Minister of Munitions and the whole awakened people made Lloyd George
prove their position while no supphes conduct of the War changed. In 1917 The Russian deputation to arrange for reached the Central Powers,
the guns of England, equipped with an a general armistice has arrived at the
The ample supply of high explosives, began
to cutrange the gups of Germany. Prince Leopold of Bavaria's Command.
RUSSIA'S REPRESENTATIVES
ABROAD
LONDON, December 3rd. All the representatives of the Russian Government in Great Britain have re fused to recognise the Maximalists, but are carrying on the work until a duly elected Russing Government is formed.
LATEST CABLES.
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
AMERICA'S CONFIDENCE.
armistice must, therefore, be short, other wise the military situation would suffer.
"Modera warfare is a war of peoples, not armies. Wer now terminates with the defeat of the enemy people.
Lord Northeliffe is the personal embodi ment of nervous energy. Of medium height and rather heavy build, with blue eyes and florid face, he appears twenty years short of his actual fifty-two. His Thore aroucles are hard as iron, his health is 100 per cent the year around, he takes no decisive battles now, a formerly care of himself like an athlete in train They merely have an indirect influence on the whole system, which decays and
collapses.
WAR NEWS.
THE MASTER OF BALLIOL ON THE CHURCH.
ing, and he never forgets to sleep. He
and gets up at exactly six After that be keeps moving. Not a minute in the day cut and if in the course of the hours, there should happen to be a second or two in which he has nothing to do he is as restless as racehorse waiting for the race to start.
goes to bed regularly at nine every night
COMFURTS FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN
Even a bad system worked by wise WASHINGTON, December 3rd. and good men produces infinitely better Congres opened with a pronounced
results than a perfect system worked by The Dowager Lady Dinsdale appeals air of confidence. The determination torch could not do with her prezent cretonne ditty bags for our merchant incompetents. There is nothing the for-woollen comforts, “huesifi” and system if she had the right kind of per-writes, for clothes and comform. Second Apoy be Apeed seamen, "There is a constant demand," she sons to do it. The solemn nonsense talk and clothing is also needed for the ed at times about the Church's lack of crews of torpedoed vessels. Twelve thou freedom is really an attempt to cat 05 sand torpedoed seamen from 463 hips to somebody else's shoulders the blame for passed through our hands in the first six clorical folly and failure," says the
Mas months of this year. ter of Balliol, in the Modern Churchman,
prosecute the war unsparing of resources we noticeable in the Treasury's estimates to provide 13,500,000,000 dollars, of which 11,000,000,000 is for war purposer.
BIR HUBERT GOUGH ON A SOL DIER'S NEED OF A FAITH
Gifle of money will be most acceptable for supplying Christmas puddings, cakes (42,000 were sent last year), fresh fruit and vegetables.
Ladies are invited to join the Ladies Guild," which has branches throughout.
BARLIER CABLES... LORD LANSDOWNE'S LETTER
LONDON, December 3rd. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar, The God of Battles, General Sir Hubert In a book published recently entitled Laws refused a secret serion to discuss Gough, who contributes & preface says: the world working for the merchant se Lord Lansdowne's letter.
**- As a soldier,” I am convinced that no
men. But for the Ladies' Guild, I do man can hear the terrific strain he is not know what we should have done," After several questions, some frivolous in his own will and strength.
called to stand in way if he trusts entirely writes a local Superintendent, who ima received thousands of men from torpedo. mast regarding the letter and its relation to have a faith. He must be able to feel ed vessels Knitting booklets, containing
that
t after he has done his best, made all fall instructions, can be supplied on the recent Regulations regarding peace has plans, made all arrangements, the receipt of three stamps. All gifts should,
phlets had been formally answered, eeult is in Higher, and Greater Handsbe sent to the Dowager Lady Dimada 15 That knowledge supports men and leaves President Ladies Guild, The Bailora jest was dropped.
them calm and fearices.
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