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THE
WAR
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 1228, 1918-
UCCESSFUL RAIDING ON
WESTERN FRONT.
MANY CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON ENEMY.
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. SELECTING NEUTRAL TOWN FOR POURPARLERS.
RUSSIA TO NATIONALISE PRODUCTION.
Branco-Belgian Pront.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BECTER'S AGENCY,]
THE BRITISH FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.
rial Activities.
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN AIRCRAFT
STATISTICS.
LONDON, January 10th
A German wireles, official report
LONDON, January 11th, Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig re
states:-The enemy's aircraft losses dur- ports-The London and Rifle Regimentsing December were nine balloons and 118. successfully raided at three points the aeroplanes, of which 47 were brought trenches south-eastward of Ypres, inflict- down in our lines. ing many casualties and capturing a few prisoners.
Hostile artillery were active in the Bullecourt, Lens and Ypres neighbour hoods.
Our scroplanes on Wednesday bombed ellemy's billets and hutments and machine- gunned encimy troops in trenches from a low altitude.
We lost 2 aeroplanes and two balloons. The Near East.
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LATE GENERAL MAUDE'S LAST DESPATCH,
LONDON, January 10th.
We brought down four and drove down
A despatch by the late General Mande, two enemy machines. Three of our C.B., dated October 15th, 1817, is pub machines are missing, two of which co-lished in the Gazette, and deals with the lided over the enemy's lines.
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HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
LONDON, January 10th
operations in April, ending in driving back two coemy Army. Corps into Jebel, Hamrin and
The Skrit
explains that it was the
abnormal heat and dust storms, that frus
N
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig retrated the capture of Bamaule. ports slight hostile artillery firing in the
neighbourhood of Gonnelien.
Naval Activities.
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[THROUGH SEVTEN'S AGENCY.1 THE TORPEDOED HOSPITAL
SHIP.
LONDON, January 10th
The deceased
General
describes
the final capture of Ramadie on April 29th, and says the health of the troops during the summer was uniformly satis factory, cholera, enteric or scurvy were either non-existent or negligible."
General
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The extinction of the light after the explosion on board the Rewa ham pered the work of rescue, and the CANADA AND THE WAR AIMS
discovery of a piece of candle in a sen Ian's locker proved invaluable.
-All on aboard were transferred to the bonts within fifty minutes. Solicitude for the wounded was remarkable, nurses, officers and wen giving their garments to cover them. The crew were without boots
The crew were and without socks, owing to the
alacrity with which they rushed to their posts, The cold was most bitter. Three detach ments of walking patients and the boats crews, finding the boats to which they were
OTTAWA, January 10th. The Duke of Devonshire has cabled Mr. Walter Long no follow re
My Ministers have read with much gratification the report of the speech in which Mr. Lloyd George recently de- fined in clear and unmistakable langu
GERMANY'S HONOUR,
LONDON, January1th. Mr. Balfour, at a meeting on war-aima at Edinburgh, unreservedly eulogised President Wilson's declaration that the United States had but recently taken their rightful placs in the political com- munity of the western nations, and for
THE ROUMANIAN PETROLEUM
WELLS.
ZURICH, January 10th, The leading German financial journal, Dacband, states that the Roumanien petro leum wells were so thoroughly destroyed by the Allies that there is no chance of the company now owning them paying the first time in their history bad entered | al dividend for many years. fully into the struggle against barbarism THE RUSSO-GERMAN PEACE Despite repeated neutral and Entents invitations, the Central Powers, systema tically had not declared their war nima, although their recent half-hearted hope for the avoidance of future wars had evidenced some improvement in their
moral tone
NEGOTATIONS.
PROCEEDING FAVOURABLY.
PETROGRAD, January 10th. It is officially announced that the dia cussions at Brostlitovel were resumed on January 5th They related to the selce
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
INQUEST ON THE BODY OF A
CHINESE CHILD.
An inquest was held by Mr J. B. Wood, yesterday, into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Chinese male child, aged five years, who was knocked. down by motorcar No 25, of the Dragon Cycle Co on the 91st ultimo,
Mr. Wood, addressing them, said that the After the jury had been empanelled,
child was knocked down near the Cause way Bay terminus of the Hongkong Tramway line while returning to town from Quarry Bay The child eventually expired in hospital. ~~-
Dr H. Macfarlane said there was a big bruise on the right side of the face. and head of the deceased. The cause of
Roferring to Belgium, Mr. Balfour Ition of a neutral town for the death was fracture of the skull. It ap]
awid that if the Germans left to perparlers, and they are proceeding.
favourably, morrow they would leave a derelict and starving population, and would consider it contrary to their honour to repair and better their wrongs,
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
NATIONALISATION OF PRODUCTION.
The Germans had been wholly alien
PETROGRAD, January 10th. from a sense of honour before all the
A decres forbids the payment of divi- world.
They had actually announced deade by private companies and all share that the German dignity would be out transactions, pending a scheme for the raged if they were asked to give repara-nationalisation of production. tion. By their refusal to consider our
CLAIMS OF BOLSHEVIKS. The Bolshevik Agency, declares that the attempts to break the power of the Soviets are crumbling.
General Dutoff is beaten and is fleeing, Ocheraf Kaledin's troops are defeated and aro retreating, the Soviet at Bostoff has been liberated, and the Cossacks at the front are unanimously Kaledin, whose troops, which were sent Very to the Don, are returning,
terms the whole world had learned for what Gerinaay was warring,
Mr. Balfour showed how intimately our and heartbs war-aims concerned the homes of Great Britain and the Do minion. When a Power like Germany, with her methods, ambitions and morality, was running smok and shattering the fabrication of civilization to its founda tions, the present sacrifices called for were nothing compared to the evils that would befall our children and grand- children if the war ended in a German peace.
ELECTORAL REFORM BILL. PRINCIPLE OF WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ADOPTED.
LONDON, January 10th. In the House of Lords, on discussion of the Electoral Reform Bill, the prin ciple of woman a suffrage was adopted by 134 votes to 69.
AMERICA'S ARMY
WASHINGTON, January 11th.
The Secretary of War, Mr. Baker, an- Tounced that there were now nearly 1,600,000 American troops in the field or in training at home and abroad. No such army in the history of the world had been ever raised, equipped and trained so quickly.
The aviation section on January let consisted of 3,990 officers and 82,120 men, compared with 05 officers and 1,120 med on April 1st last year,
Independent lines of communication and supply were being constructed in
FRENCH SHIPPING.
LONDON, January 10th The French shipping returns show the. arrivals 657 and the departures 728.
Of the sinkings one was over and there were none under 1,600 tons. Four were unsuccessfully attacked.
SECRET DYE PROCESSES TROM, SWITZERLAND. at
peared to him that the child was knocked down on his right hand side, and from that he surmised that the motor car sti the child on the right side.
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.
Messrs Vernon & Smyth, in their Weekly share report dated January 11th, 1918, atate
Since our fast report of 4th January
NA our local market, with the exception of Indo-China Deferred, has been quiet but steady. The attention paid to the Indo- Chin market has had the effect of diminishing interest in other stocks, but
estimated Shanghai market has been wo look for a broadening market before lung, when dividends can be more closely. quiet and inclined to weaken. Singapore market for Rubber shares is steady and prices show no change. The following are our latest wired quotations —
Alor Gajahs- Aver Panas Glenealys
Kedabs
84.40 11.00
2.40
4.10
Kempas
8.00
Malaka Pindag
9.75
Malakoffs
4:40
4:05
4.60
21.00
New Serendahs Sandycroft
Tapang-a
Plantation Rubber in Londen is quot strucked at Sa 01. Bar, Bilver is quoted 451 Sterling TT is 3/01 Singapore T/T. 15 129. Nbangbai T.T, is nominal at 69 and the Bank's buying rate for a days bills is nominal at 683
A plan of the scene of the accident was shown to the jurors by the Coroner, who explained that, according to the report of the car driver, the bay was knocked down on his left side, while the police report said it was the right side.
The mother of the deceased said that on the 21st ultimo her junk was in Cause way Bay. The decoused went ashore at 11.30 am. She was away at the Courts at that time. Upon her return at noon she was told that her son had been knocked down by a motor-car and Filled. She went ashore and found the child lying in front of a shop. She picked him up and went first to the police station and
BANKS-Hongkong and Shanghais have come to business at 8090 and close with this to the ruminal quotation
MARINE INSURANCES. —Sales of Cantóus are reported at $290 and more shares could be placed of the rate. Unions have further buyers. North Chinas are wanted changed hands at $740 and there are
at Tis. 115. Yangiszes rentain at $205 with exchange 13 as a nominal quota-
tion.
FIRE INSURANCES.Hongkong Fires changed handy at 8310, which is the nominal quotation at the close China Firta ore wanted at $125,
SKIPPING--We have to report the cus tomary ups and downs in Indo China Deferred. Market has fluctunted between gi66 and 8171 cash and between $101 and
then to the Government Civil Hospital, 8180 for March. We close steady with
where the boy expired.
An Indian police sergeant said that, while he was about to enter a tram car at the tramway terminus at 19.15 pm. a gentleman reported to him that a -motor-car had knocked down a child. He went to the scene of the accident and put the child and the mother in the motor car and took them to the police station.
Mr.Wood remanded the case.
probable buyers at $173 March The London market declined about £5. pre- sumably on the publication of the direc tors contradiction of the amalgamation rumours, but has since, steadily recovered, and Wednesday's price from London is wired as a buyers. Douglases hayo been done in fair quantities at 873, and cloze with buyers at $21. Steamboats ↑ are in roquest at $171.., Star Ferrica are
⠀⠀ -OILS.-Nothing is reported, Shalls are quoted at 112/, nominal. The London price is 118/- ex dividend of 2/¬ Langkats have buyers from the North as $14. Ura] Caspiane are on offer at the reduced rate of 23/..______________
BUSY DY FOR THE FIRE HEMERIES-Chins Bugars bare ensed somewhat during the week, and after sales at 1, they close with buyers at Malabour this rate for the Settlement
LONDON, January 10th The Daily Mail states that after two THREE years persistent effort a group of Bri- tish textilə traders have brought to Eng- land from Switzerland 257 secret Ger-
tann dye leoipés,
The Government allowed the group to borrow a chemist, who went to Switzer land and tested the recipes, which were in the possession of a Swiss chemist.
A British Consular officer watebed the tests, and the resines were safely brought to England. The agent of the group was dogged by Germans every time he went to Switzerland, His baggage was stolen, he was drugged and assaulted and thrown into the gutter. Once he was followed by two men to Havre, where they were captured.
BRIGADE. FIRES IN TWENTY-FOUR
HOURE
A fire broke out yesterday morning at the village of Aberdeen. It was the third fire that the Brigade was called upon to attend in twenty-four hours, the
other
two being at the Hongkong Hotel and at Cheung Chow The Fire float was requisitioned. By the time the Brigade arrived three houses, which were situated near the Paper Mill, were com pletely gutted. The flames were soon got under control. The origin of the out- break is not known..
The fire at Cheung Chow, which was briefly reported in our yesterday'a issue, was quite a serious affair. When the Fire Brigade reached the place long row of
are on offer at $36.
MINING-Baubs have been done ut 62.60 and buyers now offer $3.50. The Straits is buying but with current change rates their offers are scarcely up to our market prices, Tronohs have
been placed at 31/- Esitans have come to business at 38/, and there are fut
ther buyers.
DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWNS. —This has been a quiet market, with little busi-
passing Docks were done at #126,
which remains the nominal quotation,
Kowloon Wharves have changed hands at 07 and 5, and we close with buyers at $97) anghai Decks are wanted at Tis 10
LANDS HOTELS AND BUILDINGS Mar ket has been neglected and prices quito unchanged Hotels and Centrals are
Lands are wanted at 600 and Humphreys at 851.
$90, and West
18 report ale of Shanghai Cortons and chores are now offering
at Cis, le Yang
buildings was ablaze. Luckily for theos are an offor at Tls
age the war aims of Great Britain and France, and great plans had been formu The group does not intend to form a market building, which adjoined the 10, and noted Tis. 7:30, and Orie
Eer Alles in the great conflict now
lated for the production of new instru ments of war.
tazepoos are monopoly, but will offer the recipes to houses involved, the flames spread in the tals Tls 44 both nominal the British Government for use at estão-opponta direction. Within a short time done at 172, and close steady at the
pending. They are in cordial agree Baker announced that the Govern-lished worke.
ment with the principles cnanciated by the Prime Minister as being those best enlaulated to restore and maintain the blessings of security and pesoc, and re- afirm their determination to continue their whole hearted support of the cause
WOMEN'S AGE.
A SWEEPSTAKE DRAMA.
ment was planning the despatch of an additional 90,000,000 bushels of wheat to Des
relieve the Allied food shortage, and the American people would be asked to economise to make up the deficiency To relieve the tedium of a recent home Legislation was being drafted to make word voyage the moking-saloon habituer of liberty and democracy until the pur-wheatless days compulsory and prescriba Cope steamship invented a new
allotted had been blown to ntoms by the explosion, lined ap very calmly at the officers command and stood silently on the port side with the ship listing in that direction and sinking steadily, awaiting apparently certain death, was only near the end that room found for them in the other boata.
*After the explosion, the first attention was given to cot cases below the water- line. Here the water was rushing in and
WELLINGTON, January 11th. BOUR was two feet deep. There was a
The Finance Minister has announced race with death to get the patients out that nine months' revenue shown an in- There was no time to use the lifts, even crease of £170,000
puses for which the Empire is fighting shall have been accomplished
NEW ZEALAND'S REVENUE.
ing war-bread. The question of the ther the situation would affect the lüter Allied agreement for the transportation of American troops was left largely to the Allies,
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AMERICA AND THE WAR. FEDERAL WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
sweepstake
unirty two houses were destroyed
It is believed that the fire originated in.
MISCELLANEOUS-Cements have DEER
rate Dairy Fa
Farms have jumped to at 830 and $31further shares are
18.35 and there
tertainable at $31. Trans
a shop where crackers were sold. The ora put ver
emount of the damage 18 not yet known business ut 15 ona have come
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANK DIVIDEND.
We are officially informed that, erb
The bright idea originated during-
ject to audit, the Directors of the Hong debate as to the age of one of the women kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation passengers Lets take all the wom will recommend at the forthcoming meet- in the pastenger list, suggested the
who thought of the sweeping sportsman of us guess their is Anal dividend for the year ending stake dividual ages add up the total and
hun his estimate to the purser The 31st December, 1917, of £2 38 per share, purser has exact information in the age and a bonus of £1 për aherë, subject to declarations of
every passenger Ho can add up the true
true aggregate, and the man deduction of Income Tex who comes nearest to it takes the pool
Add to the Silver Reserve Fund $1,000,000
So far from
to
are further
are buyers of China Borneos at
Chin Lights at 83), of China, Providents at $7 of Beers at 348 Ices have improved to a buying quotation of 8180, without, apparently, bringing out sellera, Steam Imandrys are better, with 84 offered. Powells are offering at 86
MED Next Settlement day 29th January,
lager the tab
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ON THE YANGTZE.
- 100 LIVES, SAID TO BE LOST.
A disaster, almost unparalleled in local Faritime history, says the W. Dang GIGE OLDER Sd on Jannáry 5th at 3.05 o'clock in the morning, when the stre
with the str both of the
1,000,000
32 lacs.
Go
if they had been working. Men were Large payments were to be made in the
WASHINGTON January 10th carried upstairs singly, clad only in final quarter, which will put the revenue
President Wilson has advised the Com, pyjamas, but blanket was wrapped total in a strong, healthy position.. mities of Congressmen to vote for Federal „round sach. The ward was cleared just A
THE AUSTRALIAN CABINET, woman's suffrage as an act of right and first of all the women saloon pansen- WELSH “TOMMY KEEPS THE Can be learned
PRACTICALLY NO CHANGES.
in time, at it was under water in twenty
minutes.
The wireless was wrecked by the explo-
sion, but the energency apparatus was in- Lact, and the operatore sent off "S.O.S." seven times before the current failed.
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The frst three rescuing ships arrived
justice
The swee paakt pea, carried out, but.
the tedium of a Write of Bant Premises voyage it made it worso, for it ended Carry forward about.......... a certain number of
tered men, a purser wrathful
a ship's company oluspicious and quarrelling women. gers could not understand, and much re round THE FLOUR QUESTIONted, men passengers
making with
The Food Administration has agreed thairing their hands
MELBOURNE, January 10th.
The new Hughes Cabinet has been
sworg in.
to take thirty per cent of the output of all mills in the United States for the Army and Navy and for the Allies.
There are practically no changea,
FRENCH PRAISE
Pasig, January, 10th. The Press ananimously praise Presi dent Wilson's speech.
LONDON January 11th.
The silver market is quiet.
GERMANSUESSING
The
The British Ton has always been - Officer
Heart
Merchant Loach
sung near Litung Sha with a raulting lots, it- undred liyea do far ás 27 are known to be degul
and
7000
Chief igo: staff
with perturbing mous for the brilliance of his powers of the ill-fated steamer, are among
dead. Among the
plezions
Then, when the sweep was drawn, the of romance, if asked questions he did not drowned or died can man was embittered who had secret-
the
who were
ou exposures were 15
Sy gone Found to most of the women pas want to answer by people who had no men, four women, three young girls and sengers and tried to elicit their ages, right to know. The test illustration is five men of the Chinese The mean mon
estimate was afforded by a repatriated soldier of Poocht,
Po
the
Mr. Tudor, lender of the Opposition, PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH To yours under the winner's faces The Welsh regiment de had been a prisoner after three hours. Meanwhile the has given noties of a motion of nou patients were suffering agonies from the confidence in the Government intense cold. Some of the boats were leaking badly. Only one patient was in- jured in removal sustaining a fractured
the man was also embit with in the camp of Gatrow, where the German of the Pooch to savive is Chi had gone round to wom ring. thero authorit
a view to securing skill sheer Scott ke Knox was rested br him their judgment a to other ed labou
anxious to learn the one of the giffebonts, but thed shortly jagesehe innoc
afterwards Decoin onloer Bung vnd the of the prisoners. But sure third engineC
believed mate wags,000 years above
efore were there such callings — to have been drowned stresole hender, a watchu
dent has not been milestone inspector. The faermans gara
THE SILVER MARKET.
And the purser was most embittered La Victoire describes it as a second 11 for hot one woman Marne for the Allice.
\speak to him the rest of the
scert
inves
ate injury cand