Page
THE WAR.
G
THE
THREATENED IMPENDING GERMAN
OFFENSIVE IN THE WEST.
The Gneben now sighted" in Kasa Bay and
monitors
Breslou continuing to engage the Lizard, which was prevented from closing to torpedo range by the enemy's accurate fire.
The destroyer figrees arrived, and both made an effort to cover the monitors by smoke screen, but both monitors were
BRITISH AIRCRAFT BOMB THE "GOEBEN.” [hit and sunk.
WHOLESALE DESERTIONS IN TURKISH ARMY.
LABOUR CONFEREENCE IN ENGLAND.
PROBABLE GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.
Helgian Fronti
LATEST CABLES.
TARDUOB BRUTER'S AGENCY.].'
BRITISH FRONT.
RAIDERS REPULSED.
LONDON, January 24th. Field-Marihal Sir Douglas Haig re ports:We dispersed a
small party making an effort to approach our posi
ions westward of Villers-Guislain."
Another party, which succeeded in entering our trenches north-westward of La Enssee, was elected, leaving prisoners in our hands;
The enemy also raided our sap wost ward of La Bassee.
FRENCH FRONT. NINETEEN ENEMY AEROPLANES
DESTROYED.
PARIS, January 24th.
A communique states. There was & cannonade in the sector of Nieuport when the enemy after penetrating the lines were immediately ojected.
tho
TRIDET, JANUARY 26th, 19183 -
AND
THE VORWAERTS
GERMAN GOVERNMENT
AUSTERDAM, January 23rd.
uppressed owing
to its putenaker mment upon the, Aus trieb Vitifăción
LATEST CABLES.
BRITISH LABOUR AND TEP
on.
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.
CENTRALITES REPLY TO ALLIES WAR AIMS, PORTHCOMING ADDRESS IN THE
¡REICHSTAG
LONDON, January 23rd.
tho
LONDON, January 23rd.
› The· long-deferred reply of Count Mr. Purdy, in his presidential address, --CAFSCATHING ARTICLE. A at the Labour Conference at Nottinganin, Herling to Mr Lloyd George and Pro- LONDON January 24th. said that peace by negotiation, while sident Wilson is expected to-morrow, and The article for which the Porteria Germany occupies foreign territories is awaited with the deepest interest. was suppressed emphasised the solidarity would mean a German victory. If der There is every symptom, latterly, that The destro ere then followed the saemy of the German proletariat with Austrian many will not accept President Wilson's, General von Hindenburg and the rege-
Mr. Lloyd George's and the Labour tionaries have triumphed over and an explosion was observed on
labour in the latest Berce struggle.
Party's pinimun terms, we must fight Moderates. hopes of democratising Brenau when six miles southward of It is self-evident that events
Russia havo faded, and the Franchiss Rephado, followed by three more exin Austria, must have a deep reaction in Mr. Purdy criticized the Government's Reform Bill has practically been shelved. "plosions."
Germany. As a fruit of the Pan-German non-recognition of the Russian régime. · However, Count Hertling, who is said propaganda we are menaced not merele Labour, nationally and internationally to enjoy the unabated confidence of the with the recking of peace negotiations must play a part in peace in order to Kaiser, will probably elucidate the secure a full and fair consideration of general situation when be addresses the
Reichstag its claims.
After Mr. Lloyd George's and President ranges Wilson's declaration, Germany could no self beside its Austrian ally. If longer claim to be fighting a defensive it nets otherwise, then Germany will be war. There was yet no sign of the enemy: excluded from the insting relations
ons of being willing to accept Mr. Lloyd George's friendship established between Austria and President Wilson's fabour prin- and Russia with the rosuit that we will ciples Would the German Democraty not gain a single friend by the peace but define its war-aims and face the Govern
ment as we faced our Government! The lace our last neighbeur and friend,”
She sank in ten minutes. The Goeben continued southwards, and four enemy destroyers were then sighted coming out of the Dardanelles, supported by an old Turkish cruiser. The Tigresz and Lizard immediately engaged the enemy destroyers, which retired up the Straite, one of which was repeatedly hit
and set on fire
Our aircraft forced the Goeben to make for the Dardanelles, and in turning she struck a mine and steemed slowly, escorted by enemy seaplanes and destroy-
Our aircraft repeatedly attacked her,
There was lively artillery duelling on ers. the right of the Meuse in the sector of Hill 344 and Chaume Wood, where an enemy raid was driven off.
Between the 1st and 10th instant nine- teen enemy aeroplanes were destroyed.
VIOLENT HAND TO HAND
FIGHTING.
LONDON, January 23rd.
A wireless German official report anys; There was hostile artillery firing beWo heat back, in violent hand-to-band tween St. Quentin and the
harpe, and fighting, French attacks northward in the neighbourhoods of Messines and Zonnebeke,
AVIATION.
We dropped nearly 400 bombs on enemy billets at Routers and Menin, large ammunition dump at Courtrai and on other targets. ·
We also fired 1,000 rounds at enemy troops, transport, batteries, and machine. guns.
We brought down seven machines ail-ighting and two others uncontrol-
Table. We also set a balloon in flames. Two of our machines are missing.
PATROL ENCOUNTERS.
LONDON January 23rd. Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig in a port states:-There were encountors. between hostile raiders and patrols south- westward of St. Quentin. We drove off a fraid southward of La Bassee,
"BARLIER CABLES.
SUCCESSFUL PATROL
ENCOUNTERS.
LONDON, January Zard.
of
Sourin and north-eastward of Avocourt.
GERMANS GAIN A FOOTING.
„PARIS," January 23rd.
A communiqué states: An important
directly bitting her twice when off Chanak
ie Humia hut also with complete isolation from the political world. This danger.
if the Ger can only be
Government resolutel
man
GERMANY'S GRANDIOSE PRE-
WAR SCHEMES. HOPES THAT DID NOT FRUCTIFY The Geben was now so damaged that.
LONDON, January, 23rd. she steered for the shore and was beached
New York Correspondent at the end of Nagara Point, und
states that american newspapers publish our seaplanes made two more direct hits.xtracts of a Brochure, the author of
In fighting enemy seaplanes one of our which is said to be August Thyssen, a machines was lost.
relative of the well known German
man Government have suppressed the
AUSTRIAN LABOUR TROUBLES MEN WANT TEACE.
Later reperis show that the strikes in Austria, which are now reported to have ended, are even bigger than was carlier judicated.
The Vienna correspondent of the ache Zeitung states they commenced.
people and Government sincerely desired a just peace, but it must be a peace caving no germs for future wars. The Military Party in Germany to-day was in the ascendant.
open to Germany if the German in the Daimler motor works at Wiener
THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE
GERMAN PEOPLE -
Loxbos, January 23rd.
neustadt and spread like wildfre from factory to factory and from town to town. By Thursday the great munition works, foundries, and ironworks near Vienna were at a standstill and bundreds of thousands demonstrated,
There were no songs and no banners, only threats, grumbles and demands, Then the city tradespeople joined in.
the Social Democrat, but a small party of Maximaliste.
The Cape Helles batteries now opened and ironmaster The Ger. A Peace Agreement in the present con- The power behind the movement was not
ditions would mean fastening Militaris stronger on the people of Germany,
fre on the Tigress and Lizard, which had followed the Corber, but owing to Brochure, but a copy recently reached the people of the British Empire and the our aircraft activity they proceeded to
America,
wide world. Such a peace would only be rescue the Breslau survivors.
Thyszer, firms that before the war a During these operations a submarine's large number of German business and draw. We must have a clean peace, and if it was only obtainable by fighting periscope was sighted, and the resene commercial men were bribed to support then we must go on fighting to the end. raid, after an intense bombardment, work was interrupted while our destroyho
Hohenzollern War Policy For enabled the Germans to gain a footingers hunted the submarine.
example, he was promised a free grant (Loud applause). in the advanced element of our front- line east of Nieuport.
The Bredau survivors expressed theipf 20,000 acres in Australia and a three Mr. Arthur Henderson warned the Con- dislike of the Turks, and stated they r cent loan of £150,000 from the Deutsche Bank to develop his business in Naval Activities,
hoped to be sent back to Germany when Australia. The other firms were promised the Goeben returned to Congtantinople special trading facilities in India, which was to be conquered by Germany by the end of 1015.
LATEST CABLES.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT NEAR CANARY ISLANDS.
after the raid
Chir aircraft reported on Monday that the Gorlen bad not changed her position, and we are still bombing her.
BRITISH WAR VESSEL ENGAGES The Near East,
TWO U-BOATS.
LONDON, January 23rd. The Governor of the Canary Islands reports an engagement between a Bri- tish war vessel and two submarines on
the 17th instant off Ferro,
On the following day the Spanish gendarmes found two German sailors, who stated that they belonged to U-boats 204 and 205, but they refused to state
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigrethe fate of their submarines. ports-We captured two machine-guns
in successful patrol encounters last night THE DARDANELLES FIGHT. to the east of Ypres,
The enemy raided a post south of St. Quentin, and there was hostile artillery firing at Cambrai.
Our aeroplanes at night dropped over two hundred bombe on aerodronies at Courtrai and billets at Routers and Rum heke.
BRITISH AIRMEN VISIT GERMANY.
AIRCRAFT BOMBING
"GOEBEN."
LATEST CABLES.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,
TURKS DESERT GENERAL FALKENHAYN'S ARMY.
DURING JOURNEY FROM CON- STANTINOPLE TO PALESTINE,
Masses of strikers paraded the streets, calling, not for bread, but peace,
The Tagching"., Vienna correspondent states that the strikes spread beyond Lower Austria to Styria, Bohomia, and Moravia, and the trams and trains were stopped in Graz, Prague and Brans
ference to be prepared for a General ---- Election, which would be sprung on the b
country between the bay and corn havesti
Mr. Henderson passionately, appealed to Labour to organise The movement must be broadened to include men like Lord Beresford.
A Syndicate of twelve great fries with a capital of twenty millions sterling, half of which, was to be found by the Gurman Government, was formed exploit
to
Canada
THE RESOLUTION.
Mr. Henderson moved resolution welcoming Mr. Lloyd George's and
EARLIER CABLES. REPORTS, MISLEADING,
MSTERDAM, January-✨rd-
are drawing for
The strikes in Austria are a conclusion.~
All is quiet in Budapest. The Premier, Herr Wekerle, has per mised to give his immediate attention to suffrage reform and has threatened to us. solva
Parliament if Count Tisza obstructe
The Chief of the Austrian, General
These promises were definitely made President Wilson's war-aims statements by Dr. Bethmann Hollweg and con
so far as they harmonized with the aims firmed by the Kaiser, who addressed of Labour, and requesting the Allies to Staff in a soothing statement in e. Vien- large private gatherings of businessmen
formulate their aims at the earliest nese Labour newspaper, declared that at Berlin, Munich and Cassel in 1912
possible moment in order that they be neither the Government or the Ar
desired most Kalland, 1913. In the course of a
to obstract pence. No-one wished juxtappeed with a similar stalement.
for conqueste or annexations ~ io flowery speech at one of these meetings which the democracies of enemy countries
Ho strongly pleaded for patience, and con- thaison declared. We shall not
are requested to make,
tended that the evacuation of occúpiéð eoccupy India, we thall conquer
The resolution was practically un territory in the East was a difficult prob- and, the vast revenues that the British Re
animously carried. low to be taken by the Indian Princes.
lem in consequence of possibly lawless conquest flow in a golden PARTY'S MODERATE DEMOCRATICcation by Russian military desertere
entailing most disastrous effects. into the Fatherland. In all the bayn's reorganised army deserted in richest lands of the earth the German three days during the recent journey lag will ny over every other flag." What from Constantinople to Palestine, where upon General Falkenhayn abandoned the Palestine front and returned, disgusted, to Constantinople.
WASHINGTON, January 24th. Official despatches state that, 160,000, Turks belonging to General Falken-
The Admiralty states:Our aircraft made further day and night attacks on the Goeben and secured two hits with heavy bombe We also bombed the tug General. alongside. Heavy anti-aircraft- gunfire was encountered but all our machines
returned.
A GERMAN VERSION.
We also raided Germany and dropped The attacks are continuing. two tons of bombs on steel works ut Thionvills and on railway sidings et Bernsdorf and Arnaville Junétion
One of our machines is missing.
LATEST CABLESAJ
GERMANY'S NEXT OFFENSIVE
GĦASTLY HOSPITALITY
PREPARED.
LONDON, January, 23rd:
Reater's Correspondent, at British Headquarters, discaring the threatened ampending German offensive, says that at is taken for granted that the utmost
that the most violent omslanght against
A German' oficial report states the Queben, is only lightly grounded.
A TURKISH STATEMENT.
states-In
LONDON, January 23rd.
clover attack the Goeben and Bresma and destroyers destroyed two | monitors, a transport ship, a sima station and numerous munition depots
The Breslaus ruined and sunk
LATEST CABLES.
[TAROUGH REUIRE'E AGENCY. }
THE DAILY COST OF THE WAR
#lia'
Lonnor, January 23rd.
In the House of Commons,... Mr
really happened, however, was that in December, 1918, Dr. Rethmann Hollwer
asked 78 German businessmen to guarana tee a subscription of £200,000,000 to the next War Loan.":
M. Thyssen we personally asked to guarentes a subscription of £200,000 but he declined. As a result he lost his War
truct and his business w Once contruct practically ronfiscated
M. Thyssen said that the German Foreign Trade Department last March Circularised exporting firmis, advising
EABLIER CABLES.
WAR AIME
JORDON, Jungary Zord
At a joint conference of the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party
LATEST CABLES. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. KRAINE APPEALS TO ARMY AND
PEASANTS:
PETROGRAD, Jannary gard. There is acute internal dissension in
Nottingham, Mr. Henderson moved the proposal, which was adopted, to establish a National Labour Institute in London. He said that between three- quarters of a million and a million hond. - Ukraine. fide members of British Labour organisa tion had joined the ranks during the war People has issued a manifesto accusing In the evening, M. Huysmans, Secre the Rada of strengthching the bourgo try to the Internationalist Secillist game by supporting General Ka Baru, expressed the opinion that it and appeals to the army and peasalte
The Ukrainian Becretariat of
the moderate democratio war aims of the to oppose the Rada.
PABIS, January 23rd.
A Petrograd telegrand states that the
Executive of the All-Russian Peasants"
ag
Council has issued a manifesto strongly condemping and shouting down the Pro
Constituents.
It says Autocracy under the gui of Socialism is devouring the liberty the Russians, Absp
them to employ agents abroad who could Labour Party were presented to the In- PRO CONSTITUENTS CONDEMNED. pass themselves off as French or British, ternational Labour Conference, when the Bonar Law said that the daily average of cute Germ agents and travellers Austro-German Labour Party would be national expenditure for the seven probably for some time after the compelled to declare its war sims, and if weeks which ended January 15th Wasar have difficulty in doing business, & general agreement transpired the fight Awireless turkish officiel message £7,500,000, exceeding the estimates by not only in enemy but in neutral coun- ing would be paralysed The recent fier
1,150,000 daily.
elaration the Entente and American
M. Thyssen-comments;
This means beads of Governments hind me a grester NOTABLE BISHOPRIC] that the Germans would be loathed and mpression on the German, peop than hated putside their own country! We their Press admitted. He declared that have been fooled into supporting the war the first question must be that of dis
we can hope to armament LONDON, Jannat 23rd. from which the utm The Confirmation of the 1stion ofgan is to emerge from the struggle with-
out national jankrupt Dean Heasley Henach as the Bishop Designate of Hereford passed off Misoit NEUTRAL TONNAGE SECURED incident
SPARLAY ALLIES.
ANGELESENEMY ALARMEÐ
EARLIER CABLES.
ACTION DESCRIBED.
LONDON, January 2nd, The Admiralty announce the following
auy part of our front can hope to attain 'details of the Queben and Breslau engage would be to push us back a little, Any ment,
hich show that our destroyer
prospect of breaking through in practical. Lizard, while patrolling north
ly negligible nnd scarcely worth discuss- of Imbre, sighted the Breilau
ing
We are meanwhile preparing a ghastly hospitality for the enemy if he attempts to attack
Gochen going north. The Lizard gave the alarm and opened fire, to which the shemies replied, at 11,000 yards with out hilting.
APPOINTMENT,
The appointment has given rise to
keen controversy among Churc
his supposed views dogmas, in the Bishop of ingly requested the Archbish bury to refuse, Consécration
The Bishop of London was absent from
the Con
but 33 out of 38 Bishope com lated Bishop Henson,
SABLIER CABLES JE BOLSHETIKS CAPTURE POLTAVA
LATEST DARLE).
PETROG WOMEN'S LABOUR LEAGUE
The Bolshevikk defested the Ukrainia FUSION WITH LABOUR PARTT
captured the towel
LONDON, January 2
RUBBIAN ATTR Henderson, addressing to the *** FENCE OF BO Women's Labour Leagus at Nottingham,
Litvinoff. with the Labour Party condnet of the
evm if peace” did Super cant female je Brestlitovsk negoti
recurves. Sermany and
(cheers) may come Invecliate, possibilities
SA AMSTERDAMA January 24th. The Frankfurter Zeitung iis alarmed at vis the prospecte" of the Entente weerring
org neutral tonnage and decla ach cargo space is in a certain
We factor the war.
teatens the neutrals, who are thus
the Enten12)
the Nav
Focasa" to:
January Zrd** rt: Our troopst at Poiteve and
DOR'S DE