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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
BOLSHEVIK SAILORS BUTCHER OFFICERS.
FOUR ADMIRALS AND A GENERAL MURDERED.
THE RUSSO-GERMAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
TURKS VIOLATE ARMISTICE.
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT SUBMARINED.
GERMANY'S SUPREME OFFENSIVE.
THE CROWN PRINCE'S REVENGE,
Franco lielgtan bronti
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BRITISH FRONT.
ATTEMPTED RAID REPULSED. Field Marshal Sir Douglas llaig re- ports:-We repulsed an attempted raid eastward of Monchy:
Our acroplates on Saturday bombed the chemy's lillets, and butments, and fired several thousand rounds at the trenches,
Two of our machines are missing.
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PATROL ENCOUNTERS.
LONDON, January 13th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re porte night patrol encounters south-east ward of Arimentieres.
FRENCH FRONT,
ENEMY AEROPLANES DESTROYED.
PARIS, January 13th: communique states: Between the 1st and 10th instant we brought down 15 enemy aeroplanes. The destruction of 19 others is most probable, but cannot be
confirmed.
Naval Activities.
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THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE,] RUSSIAN TRANSPORT
SUBMARINED.
Petrograd, January 14th. A submarine ha sunk a Russian traus
port.
The Near East.
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THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) THE ARAB RAIDS.
LONDON, January 13th. Official confirmation has been obtained of the success of the Arab operations against the Hedine railway northwards of Mann during three days of the first week of January.
The Arabs took possession of an in portant portion of the line, wrecking and burning the rolling-stock and dan aging the bridges.
General
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BUTCHERY OF RUSSIAN NAVAL OFFICERS.
FOUR" ADMIRALS MURDERED.
LONDON, January 14th. The Times Correspondent at Odessa states that the Bolshevik sailors for two days butchered the naval officers at Sevastopol, killing 00, including four Admirals and one General.
In consequence of the outrages Admiral Hemetz, commanding the Black Sea fleet, resigned.
Adob, chiefly composed of soldiers,
loofed and burned the town of Kilia in
Bessarabia.
RUSSIA OUT OF THE WAR.
STATEMENT BY BRITISH
MINISTER.
LONDON, January Lith. The Daily Chronicle Correspondent at Stockholm reports that Sir George Buchanan has arrived there,
Interviewed, Sir George Buchanan did not believe there would be any immediate change in Russian politics, as no other party would be able to turn out the Bolsheviks.
He said that Trotzky's propaganda. among the German armies had had a cer
tain success,
The British Minister to Petrograd was of opinion that Russia's active participa tion in the war was finished.
EARTHQUAKE AT MILAN.
MILAN, January 14th.. Two earthquake shocks, the first for years, wero felt here on Sunday, but there
was no damage-
"THE SILVER MARKET,
LONDON, January 14th. The silver market is steady.
AUSTRALIAN
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PREMIER TO
VISIT ENGLAND,
Byosey, January 13th
The Sunday Timex announces, on the best authority, that Mr. Hughes, the Pro- mier, is to sail for England, probably
The uiders retired with prisoners and in March, to consult Mr. Lloyd George
booty. Italian Front.
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{THROUGH. BRUTPR'S AGENCY.} BRITISH BATTERIES OBTAIN
DIRECT HITS,
LONDON, January 13th Italian official report states |--- Our artillery was active on the Asiago Plateau castward of Piave-Yecchie.
The British batterice had many direct hits on hostile emplacements on the left. bank of the Piave
Africa.
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GERMAN TROOPS ESCAPE.
AMSTERDAM, January 13th.
A Berlin semi-official telegram states that, according to a wireless memage. 1,700 German and 9,500 native troops escaped to Portuguese territory from
German East Africa
and the representatives of the Dominions and Allied Governments on war pro lems and post-war matters.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY LONDON, January 13th.
A wireless Russian message states that the Central Executive of the Councils of Workmen and Soldiers and the Pen sants Deputies have decreed giving Incal Councils power to re-elect, and recall members of the Constituent Assembly in all cases where they do not express
the views of the labouring masses, The News Agency states that the Peas sants Congress of the Twelfth Army ha decided to recall three Social Revolution aries of the Right whom it elected.
A number of the Governments have un cided similarly.
TUESDAT JANUARY 15mm, 1918.
SINKING OF THE "REWA" CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, January 13th.. Reuter's Agency is officially Informed. that there were no mines where the Rewa Was sunk.
NEXT GERMAN OFFENSIVE,
CROWN PRINCE'S REVENGE
PARIS, January 13th
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THE PLAGUE,
CALLOUS CHINESE CONDUCT.
SHANGHAI, January 13th- Die. Wu. Lien-teh, Lewis, and Rekfelt, American citizens, and Jouselet, a French citizen, have wired to the North Le Matia públishes a statement by an China Daily Vera from Fengchen, eminent neutral who left Berlin on the Bliansi, the centre of the plague district, let instant, declaring that the Germans to the effect that they have been mobbed, will launch a supreme offensive at the local Magistrate morally support
This is intended to be the ing the crowd and soldiers, and inciting Crown Prince's revenge, with big diver the populace to further excesses. sions in Italy, and in the direction of Calais as soon as the weather permits.
THE ARGENTINE WHEAT CROP
Verdun.
Tho ximalist News Agency, ina statement, shows that the decree of the Executive of the Soldiers and Workmen's PURCHASED BY THE ALLIES, Council, mentioned in a wireless report,
BUENOS AIRES, January 12th is intended to bring about the recall or
An important agreement has been com re-election of all anti-Maximalist mempleted between the Argentine and repre-
bers of the Constituent Assembly.
The All-Ukraining Sea Congress has been summoned to Kieff on January 23rd to discuss the questions of the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly, reports from the Black Sea Navy to Ukraine, the you. organisation of the Navy on a voluntary basis, and the organisation of trade unions.
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LONDON, January 14th, The Times Correspondent at Odessa re ports that 20 Gennan commercial travel" lers have arrived at Kieff,
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THE RUSSO-GERMAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE ARMISTICE.
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AMSTERDAM, January 13th
Apparently the Doctors' messages have not been allowed to reach the foreign Legations at Peking.
CANTON-NEWS.
BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NOOI
SAN FO."]
CANTON, January 14th,
GENEKAL LING'S TROOPK.
A report has been received that the
sentatives of the British and French Governments regarding the Allied pur-Pas Hoi Police Station Ims been cap chase of the Argentine wheat crop,
The Argentine will grant Great Britain and France a credit of £40,000,000 to facilitate the purchase and to keep the rate of exchange normal.
BRITISH ARMY PAY INCREASES.
LONDON, January 13th. The War Cabinet has decided to in- crease subalterns pay during the way to a minimam of half-a-guinca daily from
October 1st, 1917, also consequential increases to captains and majors.
The War Cabinet also decided to make allowances for children of from two pounds each monthly to a maximum of
eight pounds for subalterns and captains, and half of the these amounts for majors. The age-himits are extended to Breetlitovsk telegram vid Berlin eighteen for boys and twenty-one for states that at the plenary sitting on an unmarried girls. Practically correspond aary 12h, von Hoffmann again protesting increases and allowances are general- ed against the Russian wireless prey made for all junior naval officers,
It is estimated that these concessions paganda, because it transgressed the terms of the Armistice and was intended will cost, initially, £7,500,000 annually. to carry revolution and civil war into the Central Empires
Trotzky replied to the Armistice in nowise restricted the expression of Bussian opinion.
SUMMARY COURT
CLAIM ON A HILL OF EXCHANGE.
Yesterday in the Summary Court be Baron Kuchlmann declared that
Tore the Chief Justice (Sir William Res non-interference with Russian affairs Davies) these came up for hearing the was a fixed principle of the German case in which the Chang Sing fre Government, which, however, demanded suing the Hop Lung Arm for the complete reciprocity.
M. Trotzky replied that the Russian Government would regard it as a step for ward if Germany freely and frankly expressed her views regarding the in
ternal conditions in Russia.
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TURKS BREAK ARMISTICE
PETROGRAD, January 14th. The Turks have broken the Armistice by landing 20,000 troops between Trebi
zond and Rize.
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GERMAN WAR-PRISONERS FROM ENGLAND:
AMSTERDAM, January 13th. Three Dutch ships with German, war
recovery of a sum of 8500, being balance of $1,000 due under a bill of exchange dated August 30th, 1017, and drawn by the Lang Fat firm, of Swatow, and accepted by the defendant, and made payable to the plaintiffs. The bill of exchange was duly presented, but dishonoured,
ve
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FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.
News has been received in Tientsin of the death in retion of Mr. David W Anderson, formerly of Honen, who was serving in the New Zealand Riffe Brigade.
Lieut. H. E. Middleton, Machine-Gun- Corps, Infe of the Finance Department, S. J. C., who was severely wounded in the left arm at Ypres on June 1st lust, has re- ceived an administrative appointment at the War Office, and commenced his dutica
there on September 16th
Telegraphic information has been ve ceived in Shanghal to the effect that Mr. WE Leveson, veretary to the Municipal Council, was awarded the Military Cross on New Year's Day. It has not yet trans- pired for what the Cross was given, but it is thought it is for work done at Salonika,
Ar. A. R. Bowdon, formerly sub- manager of Alesers. Shewan, Tomes & Co. in Shanghai, after experiencing diuculty in parsing the eyesight trat bas corived his commission in the 1st (Beserve) Uarrison Battalion Worcester-. shire Regiment. He is now on duty at 3- hone fort, but has been classed for garri son duty abroad.
Nowa has just been received that Lieut W. O. Stayne, R.F.A. (of Mestra Dodwell & Co., Ltd.), wew badly gassed in October and is in hospital in France, his lungs and eyes being affected, says tho YOUR Daily News. He is reported to bo progressing favourably Hie many
tured by General Lung's troups. All arms, were seized and over 20 polleemen were killed. Another report from Lui Chow states that General Lung's troops have occupied all the Yamcns and Cus toms offices in the place. Money and documents were seized and everything is now under their control, LUNG BASSISTANCE TO FUKIEN.
The authorities are informed that Li Hoo-ki,
Tuchun of Fukien, on hearing that Canton troops had been dispatched matt to attack the Province, urgently request-
In a private letter received in Shanghai ed assistance from General Laing Chai- | from 1-HU. Aldridge, he says :— Tab kwong. It is stated that Lung has agreed to send troops and that the Peking Government has been requested to order the Northern Squadron in Amoy to con Vey them from King Chow.
BUSPICIONS ARDC650,
The Tuchun, Mok Wing-so, has sud denly ordered the destruction of the bridge which was
built from the Tochum'e yamén to the Civil Governor's vomen by General Lung Chakwong when he was Military Governor of Can
tom-
The people are rather us regarding the Tuchun's order, as the bridge was built, to provide easier com munications between the two yamens. THE PRESIDENT AND THE MEDIATOR..
Li Shun, the Tuchun of Kinngsu, who was the first Tuchun to mediate between the South West and the Peking Govern- ment, is now being attacked by the Pre dent and other Northern Tuchung. Li
Shun has therefore wired to the Pro-
es explaining that he is only desirous of peace. The authorities have received telegram from Li stating that he and the Tuchans of Hupch and Kiangsi have jointly sent a telegram to the President demanding: (1) That Northern troops shall be stopped from coming South; (2) that Tunn Chi-jui and Lung Chai-kwong shall be dismissed. Li also states that if these demands are rejected he and the other Tuchins will take the necessary steps to protect themselves.
EUMOUR DENIED AMA
We are informed that the reported re- moval of the Special Parliament to Nan- king is untrue, The Chairman of Farliament has also denied that he will
GERMAN ELECTRIC BOAT.
ends wirl be glad to hear that he has bean awarded the Military Cross and promoted to the rank of Captain.
terson, of Arnhold Brothers, and I went to poor old Sheldon's funeral this week and paid our last rospects to an old Light Horsinau. You have probably heard aiready that he died as the result of an operation for appendicitis. The old Enion Jack covered the remains and an officer of the Welsh Guards was sent to represent the Arin, which was a nice and Couching tribute to Sheldon."
TROTSKY AS JOURNALIST-
An interesting sidelight is thrown on the character of Trotsky (Braunstein). the man who overthrew the Kerenski Government, by an article in a recent number of the Des (Day), a paper which up to the revolution was inerely advanced Liberal in its politics, but has since be com Moderate Socialist
At the first meeting of the Democratic Council the Bolshevik leader attacked the Den and called it a bankers' sheet. To this the paper retorts: We must remind the ex-member of our strull. Trotsky, that he would not have left the Den if it had in reality been a hunkers' paper and had always been able to bad ita contributors punctually Trotsky did not leave the Den for reasons of prin-
ciple. He left it because his money was anger he promised to make things warm at paid him punctually, and in his for the Jen. That was before thie war Trotsky evidently became reconciled to and before the revolution, and since then the Den. No long before the revolution a well-known party worker opened nego tiations in his name as to Trotsky joining the staff of the Den, but the telegram ad dressed to him in Spain by the Uen did
negotiations were broken off, but it is not catch him there. In this way the
For us to complain of that. There was a Lime when Trotsky did not trouble as to the source of the money of the Den, bub simply demanded, very persistently and energetically, that this money should be paid to him in full
Trotsky's election to the presidency of the Petrograd Soviet coincided with the Formation of the last Kerenski Cabinet. The Bolshevik leader never for a moment disguised his intention to carry on a ruth...” less war against the bourgeois" Go- ernment. He assumed his presidency with there words: Allow me to recall the year 1905, and that sitting of the Council of Workmen's Deputies when it fell to my lot to open the proceedings after the arrest of Hroustaleff Nosar That was also a turning point in the development of the revolution, but it ca ed in defeat At the present moment, firmer than we did in 1905, but the mere list of the new Ministry constitutes challenge to democracy and shows that the The new presidency will have to be the leader of the Petrograd Soviet in the resuscitation of the Revolution. That was on October 8th-Daily Telegraph.
to participate in the discussion of the of the Blurcher, and the son of Admiral duty to which they would boen travel at a high rate of speed. They spite of alarms, we feel ourselves In
von
Tirpitz. There were also many Colony. It was contended that such a as a plenipotentiafy able to bind thefantry officers captured in South-West bill of exchange, could be properly electrically,The fore part carries a con: Revolution, has come to a turning point.
Commonwealth on a number of matters
Mr. E. Davidson appeared for the B. Find defendants, while Mr. W. represented the plaintiffs.
This
action was first adjourned sine die, pending the decision of a petition to the Government to have the document stamped, as the defendants had disputed go to Nanking. that it was stamped on presentation. The petition was unsuccessful. It was admitted that the bill of exchange in
NOT RUN BY WIRELESS.. question was executed out of the Colony and used within the Colony The British Admiralty has issued the within the meaning of section 7 of the following statement regarding the electri- cally controlled sea raiders which the prisoners and civilians have arrived at Stamp Ordinance of 1901. That wetion Germans have been operating off Belgium Rotterdam from England.
provides that all documents executed out and several of which have been destroyed
shall,
before being used," The electrically controlled motor Among the prisoners were von Mueller, of the Colony "
boats used on the Belgian coast are twin Mr. Hughes has been urgently invited Captain of the Emden, Wallis, captain be stamped according to the rate of petrol engine vessels, partly closed in, and luble if they had been excouted in the carry a drum with between thirty, and fifty miles of insulated single-core cable, economic side of the war, and be goes
through which the boat is controlled stamped after having been used within siderable charge of high explosives, prob.
ably from 300 to 300 pounds in weight: The Germans acknowledged the good the Colony, but it was held by his The method of operating is to start tone which marked the British conduct Lordship that the Court had no power the engine, after which the crew leave to authorise it to be stamped or to the boat. A seaplane, protected by a strong fighting patrol then accompanies towards themselves.
admit it as evidence unless it was stamp the vessel at a distance of from three cd before being used within the Colony, to five miles and signals the shore opera
for of the helm. These signals need only |___Mr. Hind said that this was the second be starboard," "port" or steady The part of the action on this bill of ex-boat is zig-zagged while being steered into hange. The plaintiff was emphatic na ship and the charge exploded auto his statement that there was a stamp, on 1 The davice is a very old one. A boat Post). - England now exhibits the same
document at the time it was signed similarly controlled was used in H-MB, spirit as that which sustained Washing Vera, a torpedo experimental ship, es ton and Lafayette. It is battling beroi- far back as 1885 The only new features cally for human rights. In spite of mis- in the German boat are the patrol engines fakes and difficulties in the administra and wireless signals, neither of which tion of it immense Empire, Great existed then. Britain stands for the essentials of self-
The announcement several weeks ago, government, home rale, and liberty. Its that the Germans were using a new subjects are free men, wherever they stand electric boat off the Belgian const caused upon the earth, No war lord mortgages, considerable speculation as to whether their lives from the cradle to the graves this meant there were controlled or drives them like cattle in the proseča from shore by wireless. The foregoing, tion of monstrous criminal ambitions Admiralty report shows that the wireless Their Empire, great as it is in extent, în plays an entirely subordinate part in greater because of the spirit of liberty their operation
"that guides and defends it,
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REPORT BASELESS.
MELBOURNE, Jannary 14th. Mr. Cook declares that the report that Mr. Hughes is going to England is bese-
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GERMANY'S POLITICAL
SAGACITY.
Africa
GERMANY'S SOUTH SEA COLONIES.
AMSTERDAM, January 13th, The Association of South Sea Traders has telegraphed Herr Golf, German Colonial Secretary, expressing joy at the appointment of a Governor of New Gaines as promising a vigorous colonial policy and holding firmly to our richly blessed South Sen colonies now in MAX the hands of our enemies.
AMSTERDAM January 13th.
Addressing the first meeting of the Polish Society at Berlin, Professor Hansdelbrueck urged Germany, to re- nounce territorial acquisitions east and
gomatically
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The plaintiffs for had already Jeff Saigon, but had not arrived here yet, and the plaintiffs had instructed him to apply for an adjournment.
Tho Chief Justice The cake has been hanging for a long time.
Mr. Hind submitted that the bill of west on grounds not pacifist, but Herr Bolf replied hoping that the exchange was stamped at the time when higher political sagacity, citing as an
TERVETUR AD was executed and presented.
The case was adjourned for a fort instance the failliant success of the German flag would soon again be dying a plaintiff to pay the day's costs
to the defendrat British policy in South Africa
over our fine Bouth Ber coloniere
THE ENGLAND OF TO-DAY
The England of to-day is not the Eng land whien, under a German King and a weak Ministry blundered into the fatal error of attempting to tyrannize over the
Americani colopies (hays the Washington