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THE WAR.
(Vantinued from Page 8.)
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN AFFAIRS
RESIGNATION OF DR, SOLF REPORTED.
LONDON, December 17th. Copenhagen reports that the Cational Assembly elections for Annult and Mecklen urg show narrow Socialist majorities over the non-Socialists.
A Berlin message reports that at the Soviet Congress, Herr Dittmann an- nounced that Dr. Solf had resigned. The Government and requested him to con-- tinue until a successor had been appoint-
ed
The Independent Socialists have now decided to support the elections of the National Assembly. This a great defeat for the Spartacus party.
Ja
ANOTHER EUROPEAN
REPUBLIC.
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LONDON, December 17th. There is a strong movement by the Greeks of the Black Sea district in favour of the establishment of the Republic of T'ontus, with Trebizond as the capital.
TURKS IN SMYRNA.
ALLIED FLEET BOMBARDS THE
TOWN.
PITIFUL SCENES IN RESCUED | labourer's rugged face; the third a tail
FRANCE
FOUR YEARS OF BONDAGE,
man with a abort black hard and high check-bones, and a queer light in his eyes. It was the man with the spade beard who [FROM PHILIP GIBBS.]
spoke first and instest. He took
FRANCE, Sunday.
hand and said: " You are English soldier. Amidst all this fighting, and beyond it, Come and see what the Germans have done to Bohain. Go round these streets and there is another drama of a most strange
Go to our Lowa and pitiful kind. It is the tragedy of speak to our women.
hall, which cost great sums of money, and those French civilians whom our men are
see how, before they left, they blow it up now meeting as they capture village after
Gut our village where these old people and young and burst it to the ground women and children are waiting in their factories, which were illed with the sa- cellars for deliverance, hearing the chinery by which our people earned their approach of battle, the louder noise of bread before the war, and you will sen our guns, the crash of shells above them, that they have left nothing, not one bar the deadly rattle of machine gun fire down of iron, not one little wheel unthing, Tell your soldiers and your their streets, and si last the cheers or the nothing.
devils. On the roadsides and people that the Germans tramp of our men.
T-11 in the villages just taken I meet theed bandits, brigands, pigs, and brutes people and talk with them, and the look of them, and the things they say, such tragic and passionate things, such simpla and frightful things, reveal a world of agony in human hearts divided from us for four years by the German lines, and gap in the red-brick houses, and said: now coming through to ne se that barrier" There are the graves of English soldiera is broken. Yesterday I met many of them who starved to death in Bohain "
then It was cold, and they had shawls
them how they made your prisoners suffer how they starved them so that they drop ped dead as they walked.”
MEDICAL STORES PILLAVED,
He pointed to a little field through a
He
:
women
on a far journey through those places pointed to a doorway close to us, and which our men have just captured, and said: "Outside that house I saw one of in one town-for Bohain is more than a your men drop down dead from hanger village where the enemy in still close out. The two other men spoke. They said the side the walla
same kind of things, but differently--the On one road, crowded with our, Ku broke now and then as his eyes filled with little old man in a quiet voice which and transport, with the noise of our bombardment through the early morning bearded man in a hoarse, weak voie.
like a child in misery: the black- tears,
And mist, met a group of women aud girls with that queer sad look in i
in bis eyes.
Oh, LONDON, November 17th.
with their children, standing as though According to a telegram from Constan waiting for Borue band of fate to help my dear sir," said the little old sean.
the suff
Buffering of
your English soldiers tinople the position in Smyrna is that the Turks, who have been supplied with on their heads, but shivered. Where are was very bad. They came in so strong arms by the Young Turks Committee, you from?" I asked; and they said "We sad big, and gradually we wat hed them The werken until they were too weak to stand. have fortified themselves outside the have just come out of Le Cateau.
grilled me bombarding enemy was still it the outskirts of Le and just living skeletons Our susten town. these fortifications.
Cateau, and there was a little hell up there. A girl pulled her shawl from her o arough themselves and were struck Ence, and said: "We have been in our and fined and put in prison for sparing HOTELS IN NEW ZEALAND cellars for four days without food. The little of their bread.
I spoke Women bombardment began, and some
some girls standing in were killed. The Germans wanted us to doorway, pretty girls, and very neat and get away, but we said, 'We will wait for clean, but with that dreadful waxes LONDON, December 17th. the English, though we die." The girl pallor which belonged to all the people They laughed and wept as From Wellington, New Zealand, comes thrust an arm through her shawl, and Bohain, news that the House of Representatives the emotion of all the things that she had they talked to me, and both their laughter came from weakness, decided by a majority of one to make six seen and suffered made her white face and their teare
"Ob, the dirty brutes!" the case they had had no food, not even o'clock the closing hour for hotels per-said, and then laughed with queer mirth, and little bit of bread for several days.
Bavile manently.
They are getting punishment that the Germans had shelled Bohain just They told 126 and said,
were starving still. Bow. It was very funny week
Wait a
a bib tboy said; and 1 said,
They won't get Cambrai, they because we are killing them in heaps but I said, Soon it will be your turn to ked me if I thought it was wise of them
hey became
is very dangerous, scared, and had a big
I enemy farther went away a hurry, and
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CELE-The English will never get to Le Cutenu, 'f before I canto in, and had killed one girt
and a man, and that the night before said: four people so that they had died.
they had fired gas stells and a
to
a Then a few day Highlity, and I said, "No, it is not wise;
in
1
until we drive the The girls and
AN ALLIED FLEET INVITED.
LONDON, December 17th. From Melbourne comes the report that officers the Peaor Celebrations in the Commonway
waved hands as they passed, and said, other women then told me how the ther wealth will include three public holidays. IL'S
The Imperial Government is being time to go, my fine devils, chimans had blown up the town hall, which saw in ruins, just as the first English the komandantur rushed off with have arrived in perfect condition asked to arrange that s fleet consisting their papers, and I laughed to see them. patrol was on the edge of the railway, of British, Allied and captured warships And then the sergeant major went and the and how the night before they had sacked the medical stores, licking dut the tin ohal visit Australia to participate in the sorgenglish were after them, and in our for sick babies and mothers, and senash
and the signal men, and 1
I knew
of condensed milk which had been kep cellars, when the shelling began, we waiting ed and listened, and said, The devils
The devils, all the medicine bottles. One girl
Lold me we shall be free have gone, and
When the again. The girl and the women round ber
were drawing near to Bohain. said, "all the German soldiers began to laugh and shout. Some of them called The English will soon bu here. They are already at Bravo, the war will soon be
Frémont
also
TOM SMITH'S
CRACKERS,
celebrations.
AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. PROPORTIONAL RÉPRESENTA-
TION.
broke into passionate words, their breath the strangest thing-
was a flame of hatred for the enemy in whose hands they had been for four years, then they wopt a little at the remem brance of that misery.
LONDON, December 17th. Sydney reports that a Proportional Rear presentation Bill for the next State
Legislature.
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LONDON, December 17th. Lisbon reports that the Cabinet has resigned. The country remains quiet.
BUN BRUTALITY AT HOBALN.
and
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over.'
"They
had only one thought, monsieur It was
to get taken prisoner by the English so that they should have good food, for they are starving, and never get enough to eat, and they want the war to be over quickly and do not mind how."
and
I went later in the day to Bohain, still on the edge of our fighting lines, and there in that town, an ugly manufactur I could write many narratives of the ing town hardly touched by fire, though things I heard in Fohain and in elvigny the onemy had just begun to shell
other villages, stories such na Guy gee it, I saw what war means to non de Maupassant wrote about the war of Dombatante in enemy hands, what it means 1870, but more grim. There is no spaco to wear and quite starved for four for this, and what I have told is typical. four years in Caudry it was the same. There were days, what it means to all tlás-vass 300 factories round that town, employing population of French the other side of theeople who are of workpoople before the war, making German lincs. The and tulle and SERBIA.
was sinister. There and two and a
cloth, as at Bohain, was a loud noise of gunfire close behind sont down a commission to report upon approach to Bahain
a half
years ago the anemy "COALITION " MINISTRY.
a thick curtain of mist. Many horses lay along the road, with dead them, and after that all the machine LONDON, December 17th.
guns and
and the red and much of it was broken, gua Tumbers. There were new
industry of A message from Belgrade says the first shell-pits on each side of the road, and ed. A few days ago there were heartrend. people was ruin Ministry of Slovenes, Croats, and Berthe Germans had blown up deep craters ing soonce when 5,000 nen between the bians, representing all parties, has been in the highway. It had been an immense ages of 14 and 80 were at away further formed ander the Premiership of M.Gorman junction for detraining troops in to the German lines. Pashitch.
They were as- and stores, and I passed over six broubled in the chief square where they car gauge lines and vast sidings. They had ried fittle parcels and hdbags, and from had ordnance stores here and ammunition their wives and mothe s and children dumps, but had cleared away most of thero rose loud walling and all the men their material and had blown up what wept as ombrace those who wero they could not t, so that there was a dear to them, and ther: was an agony of
FIRST
BRITISH METAL TRADE. VARIOUS RESTRICTIONS
CANCELLED.
December 17th.
The Minister of Inition, mus sustond ed the various orders prohibiting deal ings in, and the use in manufacture of, copper, spelter, lead, tin, and chrome
oro.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, Doonmbor 21st. The Silver market is still quiet..
LONDON, Dember 20th. The Silver market is steady.
nave,
wild litter of twisted iron and wreckage human hearts.
straggled past mean houses into
me
of sheds and trains. Tho long street Why write any more? There reachca of the town, where there were factories surrendertending now, that Germany has and factory chimneys and big warehouses hardly believe it, because after all these and a tall rod-brick church. It was in scars of war the in.agination calc the long etreat that I met the first group adapt itself to the belief of such a sudden. of civilians, though 1 had seen women and ending, thoro will be no need, thank God, children Gir doorways, and was henceforth thors will be, the joy of record- cottage window and to write any more of these horrors, but standing in startled their starving
Die
startled by waxen pallor of their facg look and the ing the gradual healing, of the heart of world and the getting back to lifa Three then came and spoke to me, one aftor all this death and the memorial nf handsome middle o man with all that heroic youth which has fallen in spado board and a distinguished way of the gaining of thin victory by which speech; the socond a littlo old gnome, liberty comes to us again and justice is like a man of seventy or so, with a done.-Daily Telegraph.
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