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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
ENEMY COMPLETING PREPARA TIONS IN WEST
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS INTERRUPTED. HAUGHTY DEMEANOUR OF BOLSHEVIKS.
FRENCH TREASON TRIAL COMMENCED.
GERMAN STRIKES WANING.
Franco-Helgian bront.
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[THROUGE BLUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL RAID.
LONDON, February 5th. Field-Marshat Sir Dougins Haig re- ports -- We successfully raided last night Fleurbaix and the Ypres Staden Railway.
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FRENCH FRONT.
AIR BATTLES.
PAR16, February 6th.
TRE RUSSU-GERMAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. BOLSHEVIKS ATTITUDE OFFENDS GERMANY
AMSTERDAM, February 5th
A telegram from Berlin, apparently semi-official, speaks of the haughy at titude of the Bolsheviks at Brestlitovek as not being justifed by the situation on the Eastern Front.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. GENERAL NEWE............
AMSTERDAM, February 5th.
A telegram from Berlin states: The Poles have occupied Moghilef
The Russian General Headquarters have arrested General Krylenko and his entire
FHURSDAY, FEBRUARY TH, 1918.
CANADA AND THE WAR. SAVING COAL
Ongwi, February 5th. With the object of saving fuel the Government has ordered all manufac tufors, including munition makers, and excepting those producing food, to close down on three days best week The the also ordered theatres and other places of arausement to dose every Monday from Februany 16th to March 25th inclusive,
The Ukrainiany ppressed the Dol Government has shevik sing at Kieff.
M. Holubovitch, Chairman of the Ukrainian Peace Delegation, has been appointed Premier of Ukraine.
LABOUR DISTURBANCES IN HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, February 5th.
Both orders apply in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec east of Fort William - LIQUOR PRUKIBITION.
Mr. Riviere. Duloup announced that thelovernment has no intention, despite
AMERICA AND THE WAR. WAR FINANCE BILL
WASHLIGTON, February 5th. A War Finance Bil, giving the Government control of the financing of private undertakings in wartime, has been introduced in Congress.
WEEKLY WAR REVIEW
WASHINGTON, Februacy ath The Secretary of War, in his weekly review, officiully announces that Ameri cans occupy part of the actual battle front. The nation' is warned not to per- mit the industrial disturbances in Ger-
many to slacken war preparations. It is believed that the Allies have a prepon derance in men and guns on the Western
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY
ANNUAL METTING. The annual meeting of the Hongkong Benevolent Society was held at noon yesterday at the City Hall Mr T T Hough presided over an attendance which included Mrs. Tolosk, Mrs. Wolfe, Mra McKenny, Miss Wilkinson, Dr. Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Pattenden, Mrs. Chatham, and Mr. A. H. Harris, |___Mrs. McKenny the Hon. Secretary. presented the report of the ladies of the Committee for the past year. This stated that the Society was founded in 1889, and that the number of ens08 -
tered in the books has reached 1,478. There were twenty one now applications for assistance during the year, and help
Mounted and foot police frequently pressure, of rescinding the order prohibit Front, despite the reports of Germany in one form or another was given in
lig
charged with drawn words crowds of strikers in the streets of Amsterdam, while at The Hague a procession of strikers on passing the Palace, shouted bread !!!
wand
SUBMARINISM A FAILURE.
OPINION OF GERMANY
VICE ADMIRAL
nsportation of liquor
PUSAGEARLIER CABLES,
numerical superiority which have been spread by the enemy. The inter-Allied Council, at Versailles has attained com
every case. Numbers of people not on- tered in the looks were supplied with clothing. The Society is responsible for the maintenance of thirty orphan child- NEW ZEALAND AND WAR plete and close co-operation between the ren at various schools in the Colony, the
COUNCILS.
Supreme Commands of all forces engaged upkeep and education of whom have cost Several men were the Society $1,800. WELLINGTON, February 5th.. promises to show positive results, The Cabinet has decided that New The operations in which Americans helped to find work, and passages have been provided to different parts of the Zealand shall be represented at the forth.have so far participated have been of a
world Board and lodging were provid coming Imperial War Cabinet and War minor character. Hostile concentrationsed for men who were looking for work. Conference and that, subject to the ape continuing on the Western Front.
While positive proof has been received proval of Parliament, the Hon Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward shall be the that the enemy has removed troops from Dominion representatives, A short the Eastern theatre and is stripping of Parliament, opening about other fronts for the coming struggle in
will be held to make the neces
AMSTERDAM, February 5th. The Gorman Vice Admiral Galster, writing in the Diétife, says that sub: marinisen has not yielded the results anticipated The Chicory as regards the frightening of Ceutral slipping and the April, Assumption of a speedy overthrow o England has proved extravagant.",
The telegram states that the Ukrain- ians defeated the Bolsheviks on the Kovel railway and at other places. Moreover, the troops of the Ukrainian Republic practically entirely support the Ruda. The Bolsheviks gained the upper hand A communique states-Taking advan-in Poltava, Kharkoff, Ekaterinosfat and tage of the fine weather, our chaser-planes Odessa, while Odessa and the Black Sea were successfully motive on the 3rd inst. Fleet are on their side. On the other Real air battles were fought against the hand, General Kaledin has thrown his IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCES THE TREATMENT OF IMPRISONED. German Equadrons well over the German army of 150,000 on the side of the Rada lines.
machines Eight eneniy brought down and five others fell seri ously hit, and were probably destroyed,
ENEMY COMPLETING PREPARA- TIONS.
were
Pants, February 5th." It is sm-oficially reported-Along the whole Western Front our encinies are for future completing preparations operations. Their General Staffs are endeavouring by means of ruids at numer ous points to gain information, and their artillery bring is becoming increasingly
active"
Italian Front.
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THIRTEEN ENEMY AEROPLANEN SHOT DOWN.
LONDON, February 5th. An Italian official report states-We shot down five enemy aeroplanes, and the English shot down eight,
Aerial Activities.
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ITALIAN HOSPITAL AND
CHURCHES BOMBED,
S_BOMBED
EARLIER CABLES:
SUDDEN INTERLUDE:
LONDON, February 4th.
Baron von Kuehlmann and Count
Czernin
returned have suddenly
ta Berlin from Brestlitovsk, ostensibly to participate in the deliberations regard ing political, economic and territorial questions affecting the Central Powers. -- The precise meaning of this sudden interlude is unknown, but it seems to point to a temporary breakdown of the mrgɔ̃tiations, and possibly foreshadows fnal ultimatum demanding the immediate Receptance of the German annexationist
terms.
GERMANY'S LABUUR REVOLT MOVEMENT ON THE WANE
LONDON, February 5th, Apparently the strikes in Germany are waning.
Reports from the provinces indicate that the movement, is ending or has ended. Krupps state that fewer than four hundred of their workers struck. Some of these were dismissed, and others were fined
Troops are guarding the entrance to building in the Moabit district of Berlin whers a court-martial is being
held in camera.
PADUA February 5th
It transpires that both the Majority Ten enemy acroplanes dropped 001 tombs on various localities in Albergo and Minority Socialists requested an im mediate convocation of the Reichstag, d'Italia and demolished a hospital, the Church di San Francisco, and the The President replied saying that leaders of all other parties are opposed to the ancient hospice Confraternia Dello Garita. The last-named was not damaged proposal, which was therefors refused,
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His Majesty the King visited the STRIKE REGARDED. AS ENDED, stricken arens and received an ovation.
AMSTERDAM, February 5th. A Berlin semi-oficial telegram states that the strike is now regarded as ended, many of the munition works in Berlin being in full operation, while 80 per cent. of the employes in other big factories are working.
Naval Activities.
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(THROUGH KEDER'S AGENCY.] ARMED STEAMER SUNK. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.
LONDON February 4th. The Admiralty reports-The armed boarding steamer Louvain has torpedoed and sunk in the eastern Mediterranean on January 21st.
Saven officers and 217 men were lost.
Generul
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[TREGUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.) SWISS MILITARY LEVY.
BERNE February 5th.
and
trade
A meeting of Socialiste and unionists protested against the fresh levy of troops for rainforcing the frontiers, but asked the workmen to keep calm and to refrain from wanton acts.
HERTLING REFUSES TO NEGO TIATE WITH STRIKERS
AMSTERDAM, February 5th Count Hertling has refused a request
um of the Socialist Deputies to allow the representatives of the strikers to discuss the situation, because they might resolve. upon unlawful actions. He also refusad to negotiate with the strikers, because it would be unconstitutional There was no guarantee that the discussion would be confined to the question of ending the
emphasised that the strikers
be comin presentatives,
tioned
ment with
inciting to high tre
that the strike: The Lololantager committees in Hamburg are in favour of resumption of work Half of the amp Yard works have already resumed.
THE WAR IN PARLIAMENT
AVLATORS
LONDON, February 5th. Router confirms the report that Britain,
the West, nevertheless, the Allies are be lieved to still hold a very appreciable numerical superiority both in men and in guns,
The number of new cases applying for help during the past year was less that usual, and is attributed to the increased opportunities for men to find work on account of the war
The Secretary, or the Assistant Secre tary, attends at the City Hall on Mon- days and Thursday at 11 o'clock to in- Gifts, of terview applicants for help. clothing for men, women, and children, will be gratefully received at that tim as tho Society has very many calls for such during the year.
The thanks of the Committed aro due to ah the subscribers and donors to the Society, to Mr. H. C. Sundford for kindly auditing the accounts, to the Rev. W. I. Featherstone for his nanstance and ad- vice, and to the numbers of friends who have helped during
In conclusion, grateful, acknowledg
the year.
BOLO PASHA'S TRIAL.
PARIS, February 5th. At the trial of Bolo Pasha the Court through Holland, has informed Germany was crowded, and there was the most in that unless the captured, British airmen, tense expectation of further revelations. Captain Scholtz and Lieutenant Wookey, The sitting was devoted to the reading who have been sentenped to long impri- of a very longthy indictment describing cento distributing leaflets from Bolo's relations with the ex-Khedive and the air are immediately released and others, unravelling the tangled skeift of drdinary war prisoners, Great intrigue induencing opinion to France, will be rompelled to take repr. including the proposed purchase of the
The Chairman then sabutted; an ac- count of work done during the year, and sals of which a month's notice will be Figaro,
continued: From what I have just read Numerous witnesses have been sub-cut you will have noticed the reforing Kive cordance with the arrange ment reached by Lord Newton's recent poenaed, including Bolo's wives, M. Barthon (ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs), Mission to The
LONDON, February 6th. Router's Agency learns that in accord. ance with the general wish expressed last year and as a convenience to Dominions statesmen, and as their Parliaments will permit, a series of Imperial War Cabinets and Imperial War Conferences will be held in London this year in continuation of those beld last year, at which repre sentatives of the Dominions will attend to confer with British Ministers on the problems of the war. It is understood. that the Imperial Government is now trying to arrange a date which will far as possible suit the convenience of all, but nothing definite has yet been Great Britain does not admit the Go and Madame Caillanx. The latter who These matters occupied
treated
Mission to The Hague.
settled either regarding the date or recontention that the airmen com garding the statesmen who will come to mitted a breach of international law, and points out that Austro-German air England.
men have repeatedly dropped pamphlets,
A Reuter telegram from Wellington to-day gives the first oficial intimation that, subject to the approval of the Dominion Parliament, the Right Hon. W. F Massey and the Right Hon. Sir G. J. Ward will represent New Zealand
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BRITISH MAST AFRICA.
NECESSITY OF ORGANISING
RESOURCES.
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WAR PRISONERS IN ÅTTACKED OMA LOCALITIES.
Frecciand
In the House of Commons Mr. Mac Pherson stated that information hád ben dah showed without doubt that Authorities had placed die war prisoneri in localities especi allywabjeekdo nin Pride, A similar action mplated by England. (Load
cheer)
ment was made of the annual grant of $500 from the Colonial Government
to three cases of Chinese having marries European women with the deplorable e sult, all too frequent, of the wife had. ing herself stranded on arrival
attenti different times, and every credit is due to
the
is indisposed, is unable to attend. M. the Society at de Committee for Caillaux has also bren çited and will be tactful way in which the cams were brought from prison when called.
Bolo Pasha, who was yery calm, took a sent in the dock, and adjusting his
a
monocle, surveyed the seven judges withasure to defrance 85. T
much in
handled. Outside of this the detailed account of work done does not call for much comment I am informed that dur-
the ing
applications for relief past year
than usual, due, no doubt in wore fewer
derelicte riowadays
formerly being to
Turmng to the Hon. Treasurer's audit an insolent air. He waved his hand to ed accounts I see we brought forward from 1916851:35, which, when added the woman who is his latest wife,
to contributions from the sources THE HALIFAX DISASTER. FINDING OF COMMISSION,
HALIFAX, February 5th.
The Commission investigating the disaster of December 9th blames Pilot 12
McKay, of Halifax, and Capt. Lamotce, of the steamer Mouthlane,
The
t
the total receipts up to
forth, he princi. Tom on the die
86,723.33.
bursement side is $3,7 para in- dona
and relief of gases, tions and
other items
peak for themselves, and you will ob serve that we carry forward 22407-18, $2,000 of which is on axed deposit, the balance of $407.18 being at credit in cur- rent-account With these remarks I pro
the adoption of the report and a option of the
This was seconded by Mr. A. I. Har ris and carried unanimously.
Both have been arrested and charged The following officers were elected for with manslaughter.
The Commission recommends the can. Hon. Treasurer tant Hom
NAIROBI, February 5th, A masz meeting enthusiastically and
SUPREME WAR COUNCIL'S FUNCTIONS, unanimously resolved upon requesting the Imperial Government to appoint ex
In the House of Commons, replying to Governor Girouard as Military Governor
Mr. Asquith, Mr. Benar Law stated that sed at the last meeting of the Suprem War of British East Africa for the period of the war with powers to organise the Colony's efforts in the direction of Council at Versailles, after careful con *** utilising such portion of its population sideration it was decided, in view of the us was not available militarily to develop important military considerations in its immense potential energies and revolved, that it was impossible at present, sources in the immediate production of
the enemy to publish further details or the movements of ships in harbour. commodities, which are urgently re
explanations regarding the enlargement CONFISCATION OF GERMAN quired!
of the functions of the Buprene War Council. Ha understood that the dit cussions at the Conference dealt almdet reinsively with the plan of campaign for 1918and, therefore, it was impossible for him to give any information
Mr. E. B. Grogan, Lord Delamere the others emphasised the urgent neces organising the entire
in order to provide the requirements of Mesopotamia and Palestine, thereby saving
me
ng
and subsequently contributing food and
other necessities,
They said there were millions of acres
The Chief Examining Officer was found wa
without giving valuable information to guilty of neglect of his duties regarding sex embers of this, as a tran
SHIPS
the ensuing year President, Mrs Fol lock; Vice President, Lady Rees Davies Wo Hori Ser retary, Mrs. McKenny cellation of Capt. Lamodee's licence and Secretary, Miss Wilkinson Commit Fletcher Miss Innes, Mre, Jordan, Mrs. censures the Pilotage Authorities for theMrs. Chatham, Mrs. Forsyth,
ton, Mrs.
Mrs Knight permitting Pilot McKay to pilot ships Kralt, Mrs Lang, Mrs. Montague Baia-
* Before since the disaster.
Baid: I the meeting
would like to mention the deep appreciation felt by the sterne
the the manner in which the istered by the ladies of the Committee. The work entailed at tintes must be very Arduous, and we consider qurselves for bunate in
in having it cheerfully end thelently performed, in which connection
remind my friends that the en subscriptions will shortly be due and nek them to make their donations de all know full munificent as possible. We well the heavy calls on our resources just. now and there is just a danger of sou The Judicial Committee of the Privy other of the various War Charities
being considered as of more importance. TOLL OF UNDERSEA AND AERIAL Council has allowed the Hamburg at the present juncture, but I hope and Amerika Line's appeal against the Frite feal confident that, on reflection, the community will not only keep their doma Court judgment confiscating the Aron tions to this Society up to the nvtanga prinzesna Cecile and Prince Adalbert, but increase them, whenever possible. which were seized at Falmouth on August 4, 1914
WARFARE
In the House of Commons, Mr. Boner
of the finest land in the world available Law stated that since the was 14,190 non- in East Africa to the Empire's war-word Soldiers.
NY.K. EUROPEAN LINE.
TOKIO February 5th.
The Nippon Yusen Kaishs have decided to re-open their service via the Mediter
ranean.
ARGENTINA WHEAT-
BUENOS Artes - February
The Government has rescinder decree prohibiting the export of wheat
combatant men, women and children had been killed by German submarines and
aircraft
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MUTINY IN GREEK ARMY
* CHAMBER CLOSED.
CM LONDON, February 4th.
Melegram from Athens clearly indicato the muting due to avilisa
fel decres orden thereon:
the reactionary
sere prepari
obstruction, and opposition
IMPORTANT PRIVY COUNCIL DECISION.
LONDON, February 5th.
The Court based its judgment on The. Hague Convention and held that the circumstances attending the seizure were such that the vessels concerned were only liable to detention during the war Costs were given agains, the Crown-
The effect of the judgment is to reserve all rights for ceision when the war concludes, and ntil the German Govern- men views arding the true construc. tion of the Chinvention is ascertainable,
would
enal
or
CANTON NEWS. SITUATIONTIN KWANGTUNG
UNDER CONTROL
The Canton Intelligence Bureau hon been informed Chat Yaochow City Hunan has been captured by the Skuta Western forces and that preparation, in being made to march on Wachang.
The effort of Lung Chi kwong, the agent of Tuan Chi-jui, to cause disturbane, in Kwangtang is being checked and the situation
finally comme Dow brol. Attack on Lung's headq Kingshow has been deaded upon bas every effort will be made civilian interests there.
under con
rters he