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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1.
TO-DAY'S WAR TELEGRAMS
December 1, 1913
1914.
十一月二殆央碰
OBITUARY.
SPY DANCER.
Mr. Rohn West,
Enemy Telephone Operator at Rosyth Dockyard..
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
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KING GEORGE GOES TO THE FRONT.
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FRANCE.
German Attacks Again End Fruitlessly.
DERVISHES BEATEN IN SOMALILAND,
[Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."]
King George in France,
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(Official Telegrams from British Foreign Office)
Another Canard Exposed.
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TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED,
We (N C. Daily News) regret to record the death of Mr. John It has been norrtained that one Weat, managing director of of the Germans arrested at Dua- Moners, Kelly & Walsh, Ld., which fermline yesterday was for a time
courred at the Victoris Narsing in charge of the telephone depart. The Allies have carried several Nov. 20, 12 30a.m. War loan of £350,000,000, by far the largest ever raised, has after a brief illness. Mr. West, the Globe of October 23,
Home, Shanghai, on November 22, ment at Roayth Dockyard, says points north and south of Ypres. been over subscribed. A remarkable feature is the large number who had reached his sixtieth year,
The Germans remain on the of small subscribers. This is a direct denial of the German Wolff had been unwell for some little telephone, and the manipulator cannonade is werk.
The works are connected by defensive in Belgium, and their Barasu statement to the effect that the Bank of England had taken time, but his condition only he of the switobboard had every over entire loan. The Bank of England now holda 85 1-2 millions came serious a few days ago, when "pportunity of listening to the Vosges by the Germans have gold, as compared with 20 millions at the beginning of the war, he was seized with paralysis, and conversations which took place been repulsed.
Servians Defeat Austrians.
The Servian Prees Burasu be issued a statement that fighting has been continuous during the last fortnight. Tae Austrians were Eoveral times repulsed with severe losses. On the 21st the Servian heavy artillery bombaried Austrian monitors off Somlin, forcing them to withdraw.
Montenegrin Success.
had to be removed to hospital, His death will be regroited by many, since he was widely known and much esteemed.
Mr. West вред
forty
between the varicu / departments
Three counter-attacks in the
of the works, now in an advanced His Majesty the King has gone
atate of construction.
to France on a visit to the British
The arrested man had previous. Headquarters.
ly owned a flashlight photograph. nearly
The latest Paria message saya
years of bis Life io business which commanded a there is nothing to report excapt in Shanghai, and for thirty view of the Forth Bridge. some fruitless German attioks years was active in the busiuose The manager of the Queen's north of Arras. of Mesers. Kelly and Walet, Id., Hotel, Farnborough, Haute, the Freign Office cables indicate beginning as a book-keeper and largest residential hotel in the that both the Servions and the rieing to the position of manager, district, and which is facing Sir Montenegrins have inflicted heavy An official statement from Oattinje says an Austrian foros of and sabsequently that of a direct Douglas Haig's residence, was losses on the Austrians, sight battalions has been repulsed by the Montenegrine in the re-or of the company. In the daily arrested as an alien enemy to-day. gion of Vishegrad, with considerable loss of men and material..
daye he was a keen sportsman, and may be remembered in partic ular for his successful ownership
(Havas Telegrams.)
French Troops Doing Well.
Paris, Nov. 20, 0.10 a.m. The German cannonading was more active yesterday, but we secured advant ges everywhere in Belgium.
We carried several points north and south of Ypres. Several The Press Burean announces that His Majesty the King travel-attacks and counter-attacks by the enemy failed, ed to france last night on a visit to the British Headquarters,
"Nothing to Report.”
Nov. 30, 9.10 p.m."
Dec. 1, 1.20 a..
An official statement isspod in Paris in the evening says:- There is nothing to report except some fruitless Garman attacks north of Arrag." -
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A Brush ia Somaliland.
Nov. 30, 8.5 p.m. The Press Barsau announces that the new Somaliland, Camel Corps, under Lient, Col. Cubitt, while patrolling on grazing grounds "of friendly tribes near Burao, oocountored Dorvishes,
Sharp engagements took place at Shimberberris from November 20 to 23. All the Dervish for:a were captured. The artillery in- ficted considerable losses on the Darvishes, who fled... The six feet walls of the fcris were demolished,
The Commissioner says he cannot over-st ste the excellent effect erested throughout the Protectorate,
Among the killed was Captain Simone, Yorkshire Light Infantry, while those wounded were Major Lawrence, London Yeomanry, and Captain Dewist, Dragoon Guarda,
Allies' Successes.
(Official Telegram from the French Government, via Peking.)
Ciroular 86 states:-On the 28th German canzonading became more active, but was curied out chiefly by 77-millimetre guns. Allies destroyed, in Aisne region" between Vailly and Berry-au-Bio, a machine gun group and also oupala for 50 millimetre gun. Allies" infantry carried, north and south of Ypres, several points d'appui. A Garman attack north of Arras, and made by at least three regi ments, failed;
Allies made perceptible progress in Fagrigion, between Chaulnes and the Somme, reaching the entanglements of the German defence,
Three German counter-attacks to ratake ground previously conquered by Frenchmen in Bau-de-Sipt, in the Vosges, were repulsed.
We progressed sensibly between Casulaes and the Somme, deatroying, in the Aisne distrio, a group of machines. We repulsed three counter-attacks in the Vosges,
[In the event of telegram3 arriving too late for Insertion on this
page they will be found on the Extra.]
BARLIER TELEGRAMS.
An Eventful Day.
Nov. 30, 5 pm. defensive in Belgium, and his cannonade is weak.
A Paris communique states: The enemy has remained on the
points around Fay which we recently occupied,
We have made progrees at some points. We hold firmly those
There has been an intermittent cannonade upon Soissors. We have repulsed several atinske upon Bagatelle, in Argonne, We think that fog prevails on the heights of the Mease. The enemy bombarded the forest of Apremont without resalt. There is nothing to report in the Vosges region.
Professor. Peterson Defends Eng'and's Course.
Dangerous Women,
of race ponies. He was promin- At a meeting of the Brantwood ent in Masonic circles, having Patriotic Committe, it Was held many offices in the District decided to urge that, the Home Grand Lodge of Northern China, Office order for rounding ap Warden, He was also a Past should be extended to include among them the cffice of Grand enemy aliens of military age Master of the Royal Sussex Lodge, enemy aliene of all ages and both and a Past President of the Ma-sexes.. 10dio Club.
It was stated that women were more dangerous spies than men, end that Germans had been... found in responsible positions in two factories overlooking or near
ENGINEERING TRADE IN INDIA.
The Bank of England now holds 85 1-2 millions in gold as compared with 26 millions at the beginning of the war.
NEWS.
Interesting war items are given to-day.
Further notes on the crisis appear on page 4.
Interesting stories from the front appear on page 3.
The St. Andrew's concert last. night was a great success,
to Warley Barracks, Brentwood, Farther Games of Hongkong Between eight and nine hun men accepted for service at the
dred Germans and Austriane, confront are
isting moally of waiters an- given to-day. hairdressers, arrested in variou offera to the Empire are given Full details of India's loyal parts of the kingdom, were recoise to-day.
ed at Fruh Hill compound.
"Our Cult mporaries" appeara
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Thestra 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.16 p.m.
TO-MORROW. Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.18
Saturday, December 5. Drawing of U.S.R.C. deben tures st.Clab House-6 p.m.
Sale of Teak and Blackwood Furniture, Curios to.-G. P. Lammert's Sales Room-2.30 p.m.
British Labour Party Backs
England.
The Times Engineering Sup- Two hundred, including many plement gives some interesting known apies arrested on the on-on page 2, commercial news on remarks and figures on the sub-break of war, were this week page 9 and log book on page 6. jact of the engineering industry removed to the Tale of Man and in Indis. This industry is wholly four hundred German soldiers an internal trade, it imports and were sent to Tipper ry. Thera- does not export, and the extent are now over eight thousand of the imports depends on the prisoners at Frith Bill compounds general prosperity at the time. A correspondent writes with For some yeara past the trade of reference to the War Office appeal the country has been distinctly for 1,000 motor drivers, pointing prosperous, and, sa regards the cut the need for the stricter in- present, the monsoon having been vestigation regarding applicants favourable, tho harvests should and suggesting a perfonal guar be good. In spite of the war, and antee from a citizen whose own to some extent because of it, food character is beyond reproach. products will be in demand in s great part of the world, but there
"The Globe's" Action. NOT A WAR OF KINGS. though it might be pertinent to posing of the produce. A lack of be certain difficulties in dis- may
The British Weekly anys: ask who it was that refused arbitration in connection with the and restrictions of credit and fin
shipping, war risk insurances,
The Times, Glasgow, Herald original quarral bétween Austria
ance facilities will be adverse in Globe, Daily Mail, Evening and Servia.
fluences; but, with England mis-News, and other papere have "My contribution to the distress of the seas, trade, will co-rendered patriotic service in one-ion will consist of only one tinue, and in addition there will demanding that stricter measures titement. Thie European war be an opportunity of capturing a shell be taken by the Government Providence, B. L., October 15 ore apt to think in America, an in the enemy's hands. Indis pos- alien enemies in our midat...
has not been altogether, as we rortion of the engineering trade in dealing with the thousands of In the University address tir of Emperors and Oxbinets, senses all the materials for ir n day, at the final academic exercises When one of the belligerente, and steel manufacture, she has it reema, by the journalistic cam- The British police, roused, as in commemoration of the 150th whom I proudly claim here to iron and coal, and as a mangan-paign which is meant to strength- Brown University, Dr. Will am say the fateful word-alter delay the foremost in the world. have carried out successful raide saniverary of the founding of represent, had most reluctantly to ese producing country she is now on the hands of the Home Office, Peterson, principal of McGling almost to the verge of
The Tafa and the Bengal Iron-in the last few days. University, in Montreal, asserted weakness in a matter where it works should therefore strain every Vienna, 14th Baptember. The war correspondent of the Morgen nations of peoples, and not of binding character of internation. The total importa into India in that the European war was one of was obvious all along that the nerve to exploit their productions. announces that the fight at Lemberg has been broken cff. Our Kings or Emperors. The address alontracts would come to be 1913-14 repressated a value of troops have been withdrawn, and assembled in a fortified region was delivered in the First Baptist concerned-It was not through £127,000,000. The imp rts of which offers very favourable conditions for the defence."
that German victory Would Our intention to defeat the Russian Army by a bold offensive hae
Meeting House.
mean the death of democracy not been defeated by either faulty generalship or the inferiority of arrived," Dr. Peterson said, for spoken; no, it was the represents 10,000,000, and were received and all the electrios plant of the labour members and leaders of "Perhaps the time has not yet Secretary, that the word was of these materials had a value of have German motors and gear, Europe." In the manifesto the our troops, but the heroism of our troops shattered itself against rendering a full and final jud.-rives of the people, assembled in from the United Kingdom, Ger- To's Iron-works is of German the labour movement declare that the enormous superiority in numbers of the enem It is certain ment. But one may safely say the Mother of Parliaments, that many, Belgium and the United manufacture. Under the bead they always hoped for peace, but that the Russian superiority amounts to many Divisions, and, be that no class of citizen is better ted a war credit with practical States. The value of the of railway, material, England hope was destroyed by the Kaiser. sides, the Russian Division is itself stronger than oure. Further, qualified than the members of our ananimity, and their action in the Russians are very far advanced in their mobilisation, which aniversities to arrive at at least a what was put to them as a matter imported in 1913 14 was over Germany has important con- violation of Belgiam a neutrality was begun long before the official commencement of the war, provisional verdict. An appeal of national duty and honour has five millione sterling, end of tributions in carriages and and recognises that Britain, after and millwork applies the greater part, but It condemns Germany's wanton Finally, we have very nearly the entire strength of the Russians has lately been addressed to them, received the heartiest possible railway plant and rolling stock wagcas, rails, chaire, and fish exhausting the resources of peace against us. In remembering that, one can rightly estimate the in the spirit of academic brother-endorsation, not only of their Eng-over nine millions. In the plates, locomotives and ten- fol diplomacy, was bound in performances of our troops. They have not only withstood the hood, by representatives of a Ger ligh constituents, but also of men matter of iron and steel Germany ders. In supplying the needs honour by treaty to resist Glex- emy in an almost continuous battle of three weeks' duration, but man naiversity who seem to hope of every kind of political perana supplied 200,000 tons. In textile of the past in these directions, msay's aggression: The manifesto have taken 60,000 prisoners and 300 guns. But this partial succem, that they can be brought to be sion throughout all the dominions machinery the United Kingdom Ladis bas played but a small part, says that unemployment is much rest as it was, could not bring about the desired result, as the lieve that Germany is the only of the British Empire. The notion gives Germany very little chance; no doubt because Great Britain lees orions in England, and Husalans were able to replace each defeated Division by a new one, one of the belligerents that did of the national executive in going Bat in the supply of light railway and other countries could supply quotes the German paper Tor Higher strategical considerations now require the assembly of nothing to ccossion the outbreak to war on behalf of Belgium was material for collieries Germany the goods cheaper and of better waerts saying that hundrede our troops in a position against which the Russian superiority must of the present wer that, on the as much a direct act of the British has the larger ausra and the break itself in vain. We can there quietly await an attack. I re contrary, she did everything in people as it could have been under Ualcutta market is flooded with gives her a certain amount of without work and dependent upon
quality War
War Lowever, now of thousands in Germany are kt once more our troops are not beaten and do not feel besten, her power to prevent it. I do not your republican constitution. As leap German electrical fings protection from foreign competit charity and that winter will The Austro-Hungarian Army occupies a position which is so propose to utilise this opportunity to the issue, may God defend the of all kinds. The four mills in tion, and she would be wise to increase oncrnously the numb trong that it can defy any foo
cao lại hay port of counter app a right
Calcutta, if electrically driven, take advantage of it.
and misery of the unemployedk
Austrian Admissions..
The following translation from an Austrian paper of September 14 has been handed to ne to-day from Military Headquartere
Wolff's Telegraph Bureau, Official.
Berlin, Sept. 14.
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her King, or even her Foreign iron and steel and manufactures
machinery
Washington, October 16. bassy to-day gave an abstract of Despatches to the British Em
a manifesto issued by leaders of the labour party declaring their sympathy with the action of the British Government in the present
war. The labour leaders urged
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