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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
GERMAN COMMERCE-RAIDERS SAID
TO BE IN ATLANTIC.
CERMAN COMMERCE-RAIDERS,
NINE REPORTED BUILT.
BIG ENEMY CONCENTRATIONS IN THE WEST.
German Press. Indignant Over Zeppelin Incident-
SUCCESSFUL FRENCH AIR RAID IN BULGARIA.
[Reater's Service to The "Telegraph."}
THE CAMEROONS.
ENEMY FORCES INTERNED IN SPANISH GUINEA.
February 6, 120 p.m.. Renter'a correspondent. as Madrid saya that nine hindred Germans and fourteen thousand : ives have crossed into Spanish Guines from the Cameroons. They were disarmed and interned.
WHEAT PURCHASES,
THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.
February 6, 2.25 p.m.
TWO SAID TO BE IN THE ATLANTIC,
February 6, 2.25 pm According to a New York wire, the Germans boast that nine comTM merce-raiders have been built and that two are now on the Atlantic
"A TWENTY-FIVE KNOT BOAT.
February 6, 2.25 p.m.
According to a New York telegram, the Captain of the steamer Carbridge is quoted as saying that the raider which sank his ver38] was a twenty-five koot boat, that he saw the nams Panga on the chart house, and that she was built on the Baltic in 1914.
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FEARS' FOR CLAN,STEAMER'S OFFICERS,
February 8, 2.25 p.m. According to a New York telegram, there are fears that the officers of the steamer Clan McTavish have been shot because the gun they fired killed three Germans.
GERMAN MINE-LAYING,
MAKING TRADE ROUTES DANGEROUS.
February 6, 4.30 p.m.
It is stated that a German raider, specially fitted-for mine laying, bad strewn mines before raiding the trade routes. The reason that no wireless calls were received was because the raider's wireless invaziably jammed all distress signalt
NEW KRUPPS' BRANCH,
RUSSIANS AND FRENCH COMPELLED TO WORK. An official statement, in regard to the Government's wheat, operations says, that Great Britain took fifty thousand of the two
February 6, 7.00. p.m. hundred thousand tons of wheat bought by the Anglo-French Renter's correspondent at Petrograd says that the Germans Governments from Australia and that the total Argentine wheat have established a branch of Kruppe at Shavli and that the Russian which she purchases will not exceed a quarter of a million quarter inhabitants and a number of French prisoners have been compelled
The statement indicates that the example of France in requisito work there. tioning home crops a: a fixed prics will not be followed.
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT FIRE.
COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY APPOINTED.
February 6, 4.10 p.m. According to Renter's correspondent at Outswa, & Commission has been appointed to investigate the Parliament Building fire.
THE TURKISH CAPITAL.
REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILING.
February 6, 4.10 p.m.
Beater's correspondent at Athens says that the Young Turks have created a reign of terror in Constantinople.
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.
FRESH GERMAN CONCENTRATIONS.
February 6, 4.10 p.m. Beuter's correspondent at Amsterdam says that the Germans continue to collect enormous stores, ammunition and many guns behind the Western Front; engineers and pioneers have also arrived, but no new infantry.
BIG GERMAN LOSSES.
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February 6, 410 p.m. German soldiers declare that they lost over 1,200 during the attack in the Armentieres region, owing to the magnificent shooting| of the British, They complain that their officers are still using the massed formation method. They alan say that the British guns were terribly destructive around Ypres.
ALLIES' DESTRUCTIVE BOMBARDMENT,
February 6, 4.55 p.m. According to Renter's correspondent at Paris, a destructive bombardment of the German trenches in Champagne is a fos
of the communique.is
A” Franch, run-meroplane, to the south of Peronne falled- a Garman Dracha which was aflavon.,
FRENCH RAID IN BULGARIA.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.
February 6, 2.25 p.m. According to Renter's correspondent at Paris Le Tamp's cor respondent at Athens says that French seroplanes "hovered over Petritch for twenty minutes and dropped two hundred bomba.h
A Bulgarian communique says that four bandred men were killed in the Bulgarian campa and that the total casualties were about a thousand.
BULGARIAN DEPUTIES.
ACCUSED OF ACCEPTING BRIBES.
February 6,225 p.m. Beater's correspondent at Amsterdam saya that the Balgarian Government has demanded that the Sɔbranje shall permit the arrest of thirteen Deputies who are accused, of accapting bribes from French agent.
WAR HONOURS.
FURTHER DÉCORATIONS.
February 6, 2.25 pm. His Majesty the King, at Buckingham Palace, conferred the following honour
K. Č. B. Lieutenant General Sir Habert Gough The Order of British Indis (2nd Class), with the title of Bahadur, demadar Sada Singh (King George's Sappers).
The Indian Order of Merit (2nd Class)-Subadar Dansing Lams (2nd Gurkhas).
Indian Distinguished Service Medal Rezaldır Udmiram (4th Cavalry)) and Subadar Sher Singh (24th Sikhs).
"IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN.
February 8 2.25 pm the King and Queen attended the Choral Requiem,” at the Albert Hall, in
fallen in the wa
THE LOST ZEPPELIN.
GERMANY'S COMPLAINT AGAINST HOLLAND..
February 6, 7.00 p.m.
Count Reventlow affirms that the Zeppelin L 19 was evidently crippled and should have obtained asylum in Holland instead of being sho: down. He contends that a crippled Garman warship |would have bean given protection in Dutch waters.
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GERMAN INDIGNATION.
February 6, 2.25 p.m.
The German Press howl with indignation over the crew of the trawler King Stephen refusing to rescue the men on the Zeppelin L 19 and eye that the man could have been disarmed.
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CONDENSED.
The Young Tarks have created sreign of terror at Constantinople.
A Commission has been ap- pointed to investigate the Cana dian Parliament fire.
German soldiers complain that masred formation method. their afficers are still using ther
The destructive bombardment of German trezohes în Champagna is a feature of a communique.
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The Germans boast that nine commerce-riders have been built and that two are now on the
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TELEGRAMS.
GERMANY AND AMERICA.
THE LUSITANIA AND THE LAW.
February 5, 4.25 p.m.
It is stated that a Germs".
laying, had strewn mines before raiding the trade routes.
The German Press howl with indignation over the crew of the trawler King Stephan refusing to rescue the men on the Zeppelin L19.
German soldiers declars that they lost over 1,200 during the attack in the Armentieres region owing to the magnificent shooting of the British.
Herr Zimmermann, the German Foreign Under Secretary, on 14,000 native have crossed into Nine hundred Germans and being interviewed, states that Germany positively declines to acquiesce in the American demand that she should scrnowledge the Spanish. Gaines from the Came sinking of the Lusitania as a violation of International Law. It is roon and bare be an disarmed
and interned. hoped, he says, that America will sccept the alternative formula which Count von Bernstorff has just presented, omitting any re- ference to illegality. Germany regards the situation as serious sad is willing to go far to accommodate the United States but refuses to deprive herself of her submarine wespons.
*GERMANY REGRETS!".
that the Zeppelin L 19 was evidently crippled and should. have obtained agylem in Holland instead of being shot down,
Count von Bersation afirms
The Germans have established a branch of Krappe" at Shavli, and the Russian inhabitants and
a number of French prisoners have been compelled to work there.
February 6, 7.20 a.m. According to a New York memage the Arcciated Prese, Washington, states there is a better out look for the settlement of the Lusitanis dispute. Though the word "illegal" to which Germany objecta, is not used in the communication which Count Tan Barnstorff has submitted to Mr. Lansing, it is believed to
A Balgarian communique says contain words to the effect that the killing of Americans on the that 400 men were killed in the Lusitania was without intent on the part of Germany, because the Balgarian camps at Petritch destruction of the liner was an act of reprisal and Germany agrees that the total casalties
during the French serial raid and that reprisals should not be applied to a neutral country. Garmaný therefore regrets that Americans were killed on the Lusitania and
about 1,000. offers reparation in the form of an indemnity.
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST-
NOTHING NEW.
February 5, 425 p.m.
A Paris communique states there is nothing to report.
ENEMY ACTIVITIES.
February 6, 12.35 alin.
A communique says: The enemy artillery has been active north and south of La Bassee Canal. Our artillery shelled enemy trenches between the Rivers Ingre and Somme. Hostile aircraft have been active about Ypres, and Elverdinghe has been re shelled.
FRENCH AIRMAN'S DARING FEAT.
February 6, 115 am.
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An official British statement, în regard to the Government's whent operations, indicates that the are ample of France in requisitioning home crops at a fixed price will not be fallowed.
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The Germans continue collect enormous stores, ammani- tion and many gras behind the Western Front; engineers and pioneers have also arrived, but no new infantry.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY?
Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Bjou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Thestra:9:15 p.zz. Baturday, February 12, Humphreya Estate and Finance Co., Ltd. Meetin
A Paris communique saya:-French artillery have effectively shelled enemy works between Soisona and Rheims, and also in Champagne and Laraine and between the Aisne and Argoms. Sergeant Pilot Guynemen attacked a German aeroplane in the Frise district and brought it down in flames. This makes the fifth shareholders, nood. machine felled by Grynemen.
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An announcement made in the Gazetts whereby the Chief of the Imperial General Staff will be responsible for issuing the boat Co orders of the Government regarding military operations is hailed holders-- with satisfaction, extending the powers and
olief, General Sir William Robertson:
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