THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
EXTRA.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916.
TELEGRAMS.
[Beater's Service to The "Telegraph."]
THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
December 5, 11.15 p.m.
His Majesty the King has summoned Mr. Bonar Law.
ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
December 6, 12.30 p.m.
A Paris official announcement says:-Our machine-gun fire completely checked a small attack north of Vaux. There is the usual artillery firing elsewhere.
December 6, 1.35 a.m. General Sir Douglas Haig says:-There was considerable reciprocal artillery firing in the Loos and Ypres areas.
Our sircraft on Monday carried out many successful reconnais ances, bombing a railway station and the aerodrome of a naval air squadron. There were many combats and we drove down four machines out of control. We destroyed two machines and one of ours 18 missing.
RUMANIANS STILL RETIRING,
December 5, 6.20 p.m.
A Russian communique says:-Rumanian attempts to check enemy attacks on the roads to Ploesti and to Bakharest have been unano cessful. The Rumanians are retiring eastward from Titu to- wards Bukharest and to the west and south of Stolitza under the incess ant attacks of superior enemy forces.
We captured another range of heights on the Moldavian fron- tier, but were compelled to retire from the height south of Voro-
in the Wooded Carpathians.