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TELEGRAMS.
[Beuter's Service to The "Telegraph."]
THE SUBMARINE MENACE,
Problem Belleyed to be Solved.
London, May 7. According to Benter's correspondent at New York, the Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board sunounces that the anti-enbmarine experiments are most encouraging. It is believed that the problem is solved.
THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS, (3
Government Controls Both Houses,
London, May 7. Beater's correspondent at Melbourne says it is expected that the Nationaliste have twenty-one seats in the Federal Senate and the Labourites fifteen.
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It is certain that the Government will aɔntrol both Houses,
The majorities in Labour strongholds were enormously reduced. The sisations were everywhere quiet.
· Latest Returas.
London, May
Beater's correspondent at Melbourne states that although the election retards are incomplete, it seeme certain that Mr. Hughes will bara a majority in both House.
Generally, the majorities in the Labour strongholds have been greatly reduced, while several prominent Labourites have been
defeated.
Mr. Hughes was returned for Bendigo' with a mejority of 3,800.
Mr. Cook, formerly the Leader of the Liberal Party, and now member of the Hughes Ministry, speaking at Sydney, declared that the nation had risen grandly and had hung true to its traditions.
The Queensland Legislative Council
London, May 7, Bater's correspondent at Queensland says the latest figures in the Referendum on the question of the abolition of the Queensland Legislative Council are :-For, 115,367 ; against, 157,194.
THE RUSSIAN UNREST.
Appeal by American Labourites.
London, May 7. Beater's correspondent at New York at-ter that the American Federation of Labour bai telegraphed to the Executive of the Workmen's end Soldiers' Delegates at Patrograd urging them to support the Provisional Government against the pro-Germen propagandista,
No Surrender.
· London, May 7.
The Times correspondent at Petrograd eintes that Prince Alexieff, while in the ospital, denounced the propaganda “in Æsvour of no annexation and no indemnities” which the Army si the front interpret as an advocacy of surrender.
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
Comprehensive Plans for Co-operation.
London, May 7. Esater's correspondent at Ortama nistes that Sir George Foster, the Acting Premier, bss returned from Washington where he attended the Allied Conferencs. He emphasises Amarios's enthusiasm in the war, and states that arrangements have been advanced, to resist in shipbuilding, in solving the submarine problem, in producing, with Canada, food and munitions for the Allies, sad in military and Zival co-operation. A joint Americo Canadian regulation of food prices is probable. He farther stated that America's entry into the war would now salve Augic-America misuaderstandings and sid both in the war and in the nettling of the peace problems.
LONDON RAIDED...
Hostile Aeroplane's Visit.
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TELEGRAMS.
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THE STRUGGɑle in the WEST.
British Position Improved.
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London, May 7. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas' Haig, in a cɔmmunique,” saya jam We improved car position in the course of sharp fighting this morning on the Hindenburg Line, east of Ballecourt. progressed westwards in the direction of the village, taking prisoners.
We drove uff a night bomb attack to the south of Oppy'.
Huge French Captures.
London, May 7. - ▲ French communique statee:—Daring an attack, a German battalion was caught by our fire and retreated in disorder, leaving
■ great part of its effectives on the ground. Up to the present 6,100 prisoners have been counted. One Army Corps alone took 1,800 prisoners, sed, on a front of four kilometres, captured almost the whole of the Siegfried line.
"More Desperate Fighting.
London, May 7.
freeh Garman resetions in the region north-west of Soissons and" A French communique states:Last night was marked by at Chemin dee Dames, where we identified four new Divisions since yesterday...
Very violent counter-attacks, preceded by an intense bombard- ment, were launched against our positions at Froide Mont Farm, on the Ceray-Hartsbise front and on the heights of Orsonne and Vanclerc. Desperate fighting ended in our favour. Our troops (who victoriously resisted the most furious assualte maintained their positions everywhere. German masses, mown down by our artillery and machine-guns, sustained considerable losses.
Daring thee engagements we increased the number of our prisomers to over 8,200 making a total of 29,000 ainos April 18.
The Battle Spreading.
London, May 7:
A German wireless official message states:-Near Lens and, Arras artillery fighting increased with great violence in the evening, the battle spreading further to the osat, past Ballecourt,
We repaleed a strong advance in the afternoon between Fort de Malmaison and Braye.
Violent attacks developed in the evening and during the night to the north of Laffanx, between the Soissons-Loan road and Ailles. We maintained our positions in bitter fighting and inflicted heary losses..
Fierce French attacks between Ailles and Craonne failed. We recaptared the northern slope of Winterberg Height. We recaptured Chevreux, and brought down fourteen enemy aeroplanes.
ANOTHER FOOD SHIP SUNÉ.
Pointed Query by Sir Frederick Basbury.
London, May 7.
In the House of Commons, Sir Lo Chiozzs Money admitted that another food ship which had to leave the port on arcival owing to the lack of facilities for unloading was then torpedoed en route to another port.
Sir Frederick Banbury:-Don't the Gɔverament consider the safe arrival of food euffi viently important to provide facilities in the nesrest port for all vessels arriving in England?
Sir Chiogas Money:-The whole subject is receiving most serious consideration.
IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
London, May 7.
Is the House of Commons, Mr. Hewins asked whether the question of Preferencs was being taken from the hands of the Imperial War Conference by the Imperial War Cabinet.
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Mr. Long replied that any impression that the Conference was not wholly satisfied with the treatment of the question would_be wholly incorrect. The resolution was debsted in the Imperial War Cabinet and the Dominion representatives - kooceded it their hearty support. It was moved in the Conference by the Prime Minister of New Zealand and carried anaimonsly, and the members of the Conference desired it to, be recorded. The reason why he did not speak lengthily on the resolution was because the question had already been fully dabated in the War Cabinet. Mr. Long added that any suggestion that the Imperial Way Cabinet could take the matter from the hands of the Conference would show
warmly resented by the Dominion representatives
The Press Bares announces:-Exrly this morning a hostile aeroplane dropped four bombs on the outskirts of north-san imperfect appreciation of the powers of the Conference and be
.London.
One man was killed and a man and a woman'injured. Blight damage was done to buildinge.
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Further Detalls.
London, May 7. The sir raid oconrred at 12.30 in the morning in bright moon- light, All the bombs fell in ose borough, three being close to- gether, one of which wrecked a bathroom. The others did little damage.
The casualties were due to the Isat bomb, which ́exploded in the top fit of a block of få sje, killing a man and seriously injuring his wils, besides shattering the watertank and flooding the lower
A LOSS TO GERMANY,
London, May 7.. According to Reuter's sorrespondent at Christianis, the nickel refining works at Christiansand," oopoorning which there bw ryomntly been considerable dison
to the whole
NAVAL CASUALTIES.
London, May 7, The following naval onenalties are announced :— Accidentally Killed.-Flight Sub. Lient, Ronald F. Collins, B. N. Naval Division.
Accidentally Injured.-Flight Låsat. Leslie O. Brown, RN.,
Killed. Sab, Lieat. Arthur S. Cooks.
Died of Wounds,Sab. Lieat. Nathan E. Benjamin. Henry A. J. Barr, Peroy G. M. Prman, Lionel G. Mitchelmore, Wounded-Sub, Liente. John L. Herring, Francis B. Smith,
William A. L. Nisall, Iso E. H. Dan, Edward H. Smith-all of the Volunteer. Reserve.
PUNISHMENT FOR FOOD WASTERS.
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GERMANY AND CHINA'S ENTRY.
SINGLE COBY 10 CERTE.
436 PER ANNUM"
VOTES FOR WOMEN,
Mr. Lloyd Gee?
London, March 28, 104 9 m2 Mr. Lloyd George made a declars= Hua Influence in the Far East Irrecoverably Lost."
tion in the House of Commons ko. day in favour of woman sufragm. London, May 7. The Premier said he watcomed According to Router's correspondent at Amsterdam the Dues the recommendation in favour of
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sahinge, which was mad saldorfer General-Aussiger endeavours to mine in the of the entry of China into the war and suggests that "Japan's in the programme for alectoral abandonment of its forcase objection to Omina a participation is dus reforms moved so-day by to Japan's desire to secure China's support against America. It Premier Arquith, an |concludes by saying that German infladnos in the Far East is The other reform mengures alac | irrecoverably loss, and predicts a struggle for the Pacião after the were approved by the Fremier,
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE BATTLES IN FRANCE.
Particularly Severe German Attack,
London, May 7. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states that later reports show that the German attacks on the Hindenburg line, east- ward of Bullecourt, were particularly severe, The enemy threw in heavy forces, which we repalsed after fighting. We repulsed two counter-attacks this morning endeavenzing to recover a section southward of the Souchez River which we captured yesterday night and drove off raids southward of Asheville, to the west of Hallach. We had no casualtija - We successfully raided to the south-east of Loss. There was reciprocal artillery firing aorthward of the Scarpe, Six British seroplanes encountered fifteen to twenty German machines, The enemy broke up our formation, but our machines continued to support each other and brought down five Germanmachines. The others retired. All ours returned much shot. The total German machines brenght down yesterday was eleven; two' British machines are missing.
Gaps Tora la Hladenburg Lino.
London, May
Renter's correspondent at French Headquarters-tele- graphing on May 5, says that Craonne and Leffaux ere respec- tively flanking points of the plateau from whence the Ger. mans have now been swept from powerful positions constitut ing the Laffaat salient, which is the cornerstone of the Hindenburg line. They are especially difficult of access as the valley containing the Soissons-Laon railway had to be crossed and the heights, crowned by Laffaux Mill had to be stormed. Yet these positions were taken át a blow, though the Germans were continuously reinforced by a tunnel connecting the trenches with quarries in the rear. The fighting everywhere is of the hardest. The correspon- dent watched a German counter-attack, accompanied by a most furious bombardment. The captured trenches were smoking in a rain of heavy shells as if afre; yet the French did not yield a foot.
The main feature at the Craonne sector was the dos- perate attempts of the enemy to employ Prussian Guards to re-capture Craanne. Repeated waves of the assault were mown-down, and when the attacks were finally broken, the French hunted the survivors from the trenches and shelters where they had assembled for an attack. These were found packed with dead and 1,100 prisoners were taken here alone. As these were taken only as a last resort the enemy losses may be imagined. The result of the whole of the fighting is that gaps of several miles long have been torn in the Fin denburg line. This is the more notable as the enemy meant to make a stand at Craonne plateau if anywhere in France.
Fxtension of Conquered Ground... ... ... ·
London, May 7.
A French communiqué statos: North-west of Boissons we completed yesterday's successes and extended, the con- quered ground, capturing by local operations several impor tant strong points north of Laffaux and north of Braye-en- Laonnois There was a furious artillery duel over the whole region of Chemin-des-Damas, where the Germans again launched strong counter-attacks against our position at Froidmont Farm. On the Vauclerc plates and in the Craonne *sector wo: everywhere' maintained ́our gains and repulsed
the enemy, inflicting heavy losses.
* TROUBLE BREWING IN GERMANY,
Amsterdam, May T
A Berlin "telegram states that simultaneously with the deliberations of the Beichstag Committee amending the Constitution of the Empire there were debates in the Reichstag on the Army in which the War Minister and the Conservatives declared that's huge army would be neceRuszy after the war to protect the Throne, and, moreover, that international posce WEB ridiculocs. The Socialists denounced illegal the incorporation of Belgians in the Gennan, Army, voiced the. complaints of the soldiers regarding the brutality of the officers, and declared that the people refused to be brow- beaten by Herr Groener's terrorism of the workers."
The Committee amended the articles of the Constitution relative to the appointment of Army and Naval officers bý substituting the Chancellor, who will countersign the Kaiser's appointments, but the amendments are, the work of the " reactionary Centre and the National Liberals. "Vor- vaerts", denounces the Committee's" trifling, and demanda
· ita" dismissal, while the reactionary "Kreuz Zeitung" pro- tests against the alterations as anderszining the monarchical principle.
S. LOAN TO BRITAIN;
London, May AS United States has made a second lown, of 25,000,000
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who said that in the opinion of
the Government it would be u national waste if the results of | the conference at which the 200 forma were cutlined should be ibrown away. He: favoured a REDEFONSEX›Dosion of the electoral. franchiss by redùning to a trimes, ter the period for qualifying for voting, and by, amuming the qualification of every soldier and asilor.
Ex-Premier Asquith said in the Ebuse of Commons to-day that the House would not be unprepar ed to hear that he and other members no longer regarded the question of woman mii:age from the standpoint, they occupied before the war. Mr. Arquith made this statement in waiving tha adoption of a plan for electoral reform.
Mr. Arquith mïd his opposition, to woman suffrage, always had been based solely on considers- |tions of public expediency, Tas
women-bad now worked out th own salvation. The war could no be married on without them. - Whas moved, kim especially, he sgi was the problem of reconstruction | aftar_the_with_–– Es considered it to be neither link kit wepadliest to withhold from women the pować or the right to make their. vaidu heard directly.
The fact that for three yants- there had been no recaiz800s of
| the “detestable campaign which
had disfigured our pablic life,”- said Mr. Asquith, would make it impossible for any one to say that in changing their position in re- gard to suffrage he and his se sociates had yielded to force what they had refused to yield to argu- ment With the exception of the |actual bearing of arms in the Raid, there was hardly a service which | had "contributed' to the main-" tenance of the 'ciase of the Allise in which woman had not been as activa "and" ́eficient an Wherever one turned might be seen women, who without detri- ment to the prorogratives of their sex, were performing work which three resre ago would have been regarded as falling exclusively within the province of men. After the war questions would arise with regard to women's labour fanations and so,ivilies in which [the women must have a voice.
men.
Mr. Asquith also supported strongly the other proposals for electoral reform, and expressed the opinion, that the recommenda- tion that all elections should tak pisos on one day desit with of the greatest reforma. W could be intradaosd; He und stood that the life of the Pa ment would be extended farth antil the end of November, hoped that a new register on, lines of the ralorma enggakad would be ready, 'should nä alastion be necessary at that time,
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Chung Ling 800 at Royal; 9 15 p.
Victoria Theatre-9.15 Bijou Theatre---0,35 New Hongkong Ome -9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW. Indo-Chins Stem Mar. Meeting noon,"*"
Chang Ling 8x Royal'; Matines and formance.