THE WAR. WAR.
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AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT FEARS POSSIBLE UPHEAVAL. EMPEROR DESIRES GENERAL PIACE. HUNGARIAN PLACE PRINCIPLE.
POPULAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST FATHERLAND PARTY.
KAISER'S CIVIL CABINET CHIEF RESIGNS.
GERMAN AMBASSADORS DECLARATION.
neo-bielyiun Front,
EARLIER CABLES
THROUGH REUTER'& AGEXOY.}
BRITISH FRONT.
GENERAL REPORT
LONDON January 2nd.
GERMAN CIVIL CABINET CHIER RESIGNS.
AMSTERDAM, Jon
The resignation of Dr. von
Chief of the Kaiser's Civil
THURSDAY JANUARY
ANTI ATHERLAND GAM: PAIGN IN OERMANY
WORLD FAMINE OF
OBLEM
OR FOOD
AMSTERDAM,ELANTAIT922nd.
logne in the latest, city to join what
Tegular Popular cam- rded being only second in, im. paiga against the Fatherland Party:
viting there?
to the Chancellor in interne
politics is romrded as a distinct Pa
German - victory, owing to his alleged
Liberal viuwK
The successor to the post, von Berg
18 a staunch Conservative,
THE
GERMAN SOLDIER.
LONDON-January 2nd
Heuters Carremondent at British
Headquarters in East frie
EABLIER CABLES.
a captured letter from a Go now a war prisoner in Egypt,
LONDON, January 1st The resignation of Sir Edward Carson
Is expected.
LONDON, JEnuary 22nd: The Press Bureau announces that Sir Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig Edward Carson has resigned from the
War Cabinet.
portsThe enemy was active with his artillery westward of Lens,
Our aeroplanes bombed various targets: and machine gunned enemy trenches.
We brought down one cnemy machine.
None of ours are missing. ATTEMPTED RAIDS REPULSED.
LONDON, January 22nd,
SIR EDWARD CARSON RESIGNS of 300 Germans captured in East Af
and now interned in Egypt, sarthe [life is quit, bearable here. The food is good. and forty, per cent of our men are occupi ed in gardening, but they are not over.
worked. Mr opinion is that it does them good. Our men behave very badly they squabble, and fight, ate rowdy and do everything to be disagreeable. Sometimes REASONS FOR RESIGNATION one is quite ashamed to think what a bad Bir Eilward Carson wrote to the Pro- lot they are. They are not soldiers, but mier as follows. When I joince the only collected from the herd. They Government I had no considération always rowdy and justling the English except the prosecution of the war. I: Tommes, who behave 46 quietly and did not anticipate the question of Irish docently I should never have expected
Field-Marchini Sir Donglas Haig re- Government would be responed during the war. When the Convention was pro ports We repulsed attempted raida: laag
posed I thought it right to influence the eastward of Yptus
Ulsterites to participate, but owing to Italian Front.
iny dunt position as a member of the Government and Leader of the Uisterites I stood aloof from the Convention's pro ecedings It is apparent that the Con vention's proceedings may lead to a situa tion demanding a Government decision. upon grave matters of policy in Ireland.
BARLIER CA ELEN,
[THEOUGH LECTUR'S AGUJOY.):
USTRIAN LEADER
SUPERSEDED
SUPREME COMMAND OF AUSTRO Therefore, owing to the prominent part
GERMANS.
LONDON, January 22nd- Reuter's and Italian War Correspon- -dents at Headquarters state that General Borcevic, formerly Commander of the Third Army, has been appointed to the Supreme Command of the Austro-Cer mans on this front
The appointment
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I have taken in the Home Itulo co troversy, my pledges to Ulster and my desire not to be fettered in forming judgment on the new situation which may arise, I here determined to resign solely on these considerations.
Since
I joined the Government there he never been a matter of policy in connection. remarkable with the conduct of the war or its prin superseding ciples and aims in which I disagreed with General Conrad, who planned the you or my colleagues: last offensive, and because of the fact
chiefly because he is
Mr Lloyd George replied expressing
thas General Boroovie is a master of debis deepest regret, recognising Bir Ea fensive warfare, and that he prepared the Austrian positions on the Carso dur ing the Italian advance.
General.
LATEST VABLES. (TRBOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, } FOOD PROBLEM IN DUTCH EAST INDIES
AMSTERDAM, January 22nd-
ward Carson's special difficulties, paying e tribute to his services in the nation's councils, and accepting hit resignation PUBLIC NOT SURPRISED
LONDON, January 22nd.
In view of the critical state of the Irish Convention, Sir Edvard Carson's resignation has not caused surprise
The terms in the exchange of let ters with Mr. Lloyd George dispuse of any idea that the resignation is due to a divergence of opinion on the war but since hinta have been thrown out that th Convention is approaching the ort of of the ways," it has been felt that, a
leader of the Ulsterites, he was occupying
A Press telegrain from Batavia states that Great Britain in considering the proposals of Dutch shippers to meet the shortage of cargo space to and from Indin, on condition that the export of broker rice from Rangoon to the Dutch East Indies is reopened.
parting
a somewhat anomalous pention in the inner Cabinet, which ought ultimately
auch behaviour of English colding The have never been brutal, yet I know how often it happened on our side
GERMANY'S PARTNERS:
CONDITION
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S DESIREM
FOR PEACE:
Amsterdam, January 22nd,
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.
Mesara G. E. Kirby and W. A son of Lokohama, have left for Londo to join the army
Word has been received by Miss Roach thật hìr zon Liont R. B Roa
The Tank Corps, formerly of
Shang- rgo hat MC Electricity Department, hog
been cvorely wounded in the shopider. back-head, arm, fate and log, and now riously ill in a hospital, gonewhezo
The economic crisis will not reach its day a treat climdy until after the and of warr Then, hubbub ented any
urope ches, Tho Bocialista shopted Down with Tirpitze the whole cohfintür-will
Long Live Peace=""
of famingThat word is no Aroecting at Dortmund was also for the position will be one
lives of millions of peopl broken up.
At a meeting held in Berlin von Tirpita declared that Great Britain mult be forced to recognise, us as an equal
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. CIVIL WAR THE CRUCIBLE.
PernoGrip January 21st. – Morin introduced the Bolshevik dissolution decree in the Constituent Assembly. He declared that it «nus-im-" possible to transform Russia into a Socialité State except through civil war ASSASSINATION OF EX MINISTERS
MM. Shingarieff unti
LONDON, January 21st
Kohoshkin, former members of the Kerensky Cabinet, were both hot, the former receiving six and the latter two bullets-
creator of famine, as history The famine in Liglast in von
The
HF Middiolon Machine un Kate of The Finance Depart.. who recently ndministrative appointment Duties Branch of the War been attached to the
Vears of the sixteenth century which g tis our Poor Law, was the rising of Mary Queen of struggle nst Spain, the Freland, and other events which down the
te the closo tionary and Napóleonie ware brou this country
to Ince with terrible-mi conracter, A In short, war, which
large bodies of ch from
Involves suurtage of thinga.. This world. will prove no exception. The effects will be more widespread, because never before have there been so many million men under aring all of them not only unproductive, but themselves consumer of the limited resources of the world,
Towards the close of the last Great Warmed w in Europe in 1811-12 the harvests
food besides
The aasassins left the hospital un failed as they failed, partially during ~*~* molested,
NARROW ESCAPE OF ELECTION COMMISSIONER,
Matky, the Bolshevik Election Com. missioner, narrowly escaped assassination in the street, a bullet grazing his ear.
AMERICA AND THE WAR. PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO WAR
CABINET
WASHINGTON, January 22nd. A later message announces that Pre-
the past year, and as they will probably fail to an even greater extent next year. The French harvest of 1917 was 39, per
the
s
SOCIETY
St. George
Jardincy lent, for 815.30
(OCCASION)
p.m. sharp,
Eng men Bre de urged to be present for the pose of passing accounts electing oficere for the ensuing year, and considering ways, and means for suitably celebrating BE Georges Day and raising funds for War Charities.
shinen who have not yet joined the but who intend to do so at that meeting will be welcome, and in order to voto, their names should be sent to Bentley (o/o Messrs Thomas
Cock & Son) before Monday.
cent. below that of 1013; in every other country on the Continent the experience was much the same. Our position, owing
The Committee inviten suggestions for in large measures to the energetic policy the purposes of raising War Charity of the Board of Agriculture, and in Funds. large measures to the energetic policy of the Board of Agriculture and in larger measure to the free sea promises to be better than there was warrant to expect
Aber f one time. But the peoples across the North Son and the English Channel are rapidly approach an economic debacle
A telegram from Vienna states that asident Wilson is opposed to the formation Labour Delegation had a conference with of a pinct, on the ground that
Buch would take the personal direction arch as has never before been witnessede Everywhere the populations have been for the war out of his bands.
some time existing on reduced supplies and those supplies ara becoming still more restrictedNDAMIN
the Austrian Government, at which the Premier emphasised His Majesty's carnest desire for a speedy general peace He said that the Government had re
nounced conquesta, and supported, inter national disarmament, international arbitration courts, and promised conces sons with regard to food supplies, the abolition of military control of the
Workers in war industries, the democratik
zation of municipal suffrage and women's suffrage.
After the Conference the Laborites passed a resolution expressing their satis faction with the result of the conference, and circulated an appeal for the imme diato resumption of work
GOVERNMENT FEARS POSSIBLE UPHEAVAL
LONDON January 22nd, While the resignation of the Austrian. Premier is still unconfirmed, signs are not lking that the Government is ember- rassed by the labour situation, which has
taken a form unprecedented in Austria, where the Governments have hitherto been
fra-autocratie.
The marked anxiety of Ministers to placate the Labourites shows that Govern
ment roles meet fear t possibup heaval
Shipping circles at Amsterdam crez most gratified at the attempt being made to have to utter the final word on GERMANY'S HOLD OVER-
thus to solve the food problem in the Dutch East India.
SOLDIERS EMPLOYMENT IN THE COLONIES.
Irish question
PRESS COMMENT, The Daily News. Lobbyist makes an in- reating announcement in this connec tion. He says that President Wilson te LONDON Jandary 22nd
cently made urgent repro In the House of Commons, Mr. Mac the Cabinet on the desirability of on Pherson informed Mr. Houston that the Irish settlement
mployment in the Colonies of men from The Lobbyist adds that the general feed the fighting line 28 receiving must carefning in political circles is that the attention. Otherwise, every possible use Cabinet must enforce the terms of an is being made of their services in the equitable settlement of Home Rule Various war theatres,
The Times anounces that Sir Edward Carson-goos immediately to Belfast
RECRUITMENT OF BLACK LABOUR.
Mr. MacPherson informed Mr. Watt There as much speculation as to his suc that it was not true to say the War Officecessor in the War Cabinet had stopped the recruiting of black Labour in South Africa,
HOUSEHOLD TREASURER
RESIGNS.
LONDON, January 2nd.
Following Sir Edward Carson's resig nation, Sir James Craig has resigned hit poet of Treasurer of the Hauehold
The Daily Express Walter Long.
Mentions
COL REPINGTON RESIGNS
AUSTRIA
Reliable information confrma Gertourness of the labour and economic trouble
THE COAL RESTRICTIONS.
LATER The roul restrictions, cabled on the 18th inst. are operating satisfactorily FRENCH SOCIALIST LEADER'S SUGOPSTION,
ALLIED MINISTERIAL
CONFERENCE.
-
PARIE, January 22nd.
Is is announced that the Allied Pre miera and War Ministers will probably meet at Paris. shortly-
oceans for material needed for making for clothing, and for food. It will then new homes, for the machinery of industry, be realised that the only palliative for the ills which was has brought in its train is to be found n-ships,
Ever
FABE DE TORNAGE,
in Europe will tent of the do hich piracy has worked. Dg asteries decessary, to The First Lard of the sted the other day that our rercantiles, tonnage--ships had amounted to
We must not be led astray by exag rerated figures of the tonnage from which these deductions have been made. We are concerned only with ocean-going ships, whereas the statistics ususily quoted cover all vessels over 100 tons Ro
Admit het PLACE AND THE CRY FOR SHIPS, of ____ What will be the cffect of ponce! It la 2,300,000 tons since the beginning of the common knowledge that there is food to avant of tonnage ourselves, and we JOHON KAE, we have built a relatively small be had In New Zealand to day all the have purchased other tonnage, and 1917 produce of the sheep runs is in cold,500,000 tons is the not lose in big ships, PARIS, Januszy 22nd.
Maha Kuasa. apart from smaller vessels which have storage; grain, grown, this year in been sunk, Germany's gross losses have Thomas, the Socialist leader, sng Australia, and purchased by the British been about onial to our net losses: gests that the Entente should offer Pre-Government for £40,000,000-a, in the do not know to what extent that enems granaries still; Argentina has 4,000,000 | bas bien able to build. Austria-Hungary's sident Wilson's terms to Germany dipl tons of exportable produce; Canada, as loss has been proportionately as larges |matically.
well as the United States, bas a surplus Neutral nations are weaker to the extent for the fetching. Much the same position of about 2,000,000 tons. What do thoso existe in Egypt, in India and elsewhere statements imply? Quantities of food exist though for below the normal and as soon as the war closes there will be a wild scramble for it on the part of all the nations of Europe But between the peoples on this side of the world, and these resourers are the great oans, and the only means of dating ships, small passenger vesicle bridging them.will
Leships and even yachts, in fact everything that THE TREASON TRIALS IN Then again, when the troops lay fats above the minimum of 100 tons,
FRANCE
down their arms, the problem will have it is by counting all miscellaneous, ships to be faced of re-establishing Belgium, and useless in oversea trade that the total Servia, and Montenegro we shall have of 4000,000 tons for the world's mer- to grapple with the problem of Northern chant navies is obtained. It is an en- France; we shall hear the ory of Italy for tirely misleading, and indeer, perilous help in order to make good the ravages calculation, because it conveys an im fair land; Bassia's position will be deset and never has existed. as an illus committed by German soldiery, in that pression of maritime strength which drea perate, for she is worn out and her trans tration, when the war broke out, this port has broken down We shall also be country was reputed to pomness 8220 confronted with our own problems. vessels of 11,108, 187 tons net. In point Millions of our own men will be in the of fact, as Sir Norman Hill, the secretary various theatres of war, and there will of the Liverpool Steam Ship Owners by the troops from the Dominions All Association, showed in a paper prepared of them clamouring to return home. In in 2018, we had at our disposal 5,636 each and every case the demand will be vessels on any given day for our ocean for ships,
and foreign trades. Thred thousand ma trade home, parily home and foreign At the time when this ory is raised the hundred and seventy five ships in all. world will realise that the war has, in with an average tonnage of 731- tous Farge measure, hrought severe connet, was our maritime capital, In the case
friction on the jugular vein of Europe of some other countries, the Under normal conditions no nation in the of shipping useful for overseas voyages roportion Old World can exist in comfort for was less. So instead of long period except it is able to secure accepting statistics which supplies over the res from the New reality, we mitat assume that Worlds on the other side of the Atlantic going tonnage of the world and in the Pacife. It is not only food 0.000.000 tone when the war ope that is involved hut. vast quantities of that in the interval, mainly owing to the raw materials will be required for the piraticall
PARIS, January 21st, The Senate, sitting in the capacity of a High Court, has begun the trial of the ex-Minister Malvy on a charge of com municating to the enemy French military and diplomatic secreta
This trial is the beginning of a long series of trials, including that of M.
Vigned
THE MAN FOWER BILL
LONDON, January 21st
In the House of Commons, the Man Power Bill has passed the Committee
Ce
LONDON, January 2nd,
The War Office has requisitioned all stocks of raw goatsking in the United Kingdoza and subsequently to arrive
in Austro-Hungary, but vell GOVERNMENT REQUISITIONS informed opinion, scoute any idea they are likely to lead to a separation between Austria and Germany, owing to Ger many simraɛely. afrong military and political hold over Austri HUNGARY'S PEACE PRINCIPLE AMSTERDAM January 2lat
Is the Hungarian Diet Herr Wekerle stated that the Government, and also the King adhered to the prizeiple of peace without armerations and indemnitica S
GERMAN
AMBASSADORS
DECLARATION.
ATIONAL LABOUR
“INSTITUTE
LONDON, JEnuary 22nd..
recta
Labour Institute in of £500,000, bɔ, acequ library etc.
feconomic reconstruction of the group of
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GREAT LABOUR CONFERENCE, destitution than the Allies
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hat a termna.
Dentral State had declared that Germany 1 THR
And even suspend, many
LONDON, Jinnary Ed Colonel Hepington haa resigned hi position as Military Correspondent of Themarinism if Azerice
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