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TELEGRAMS.
[Beater's Service to The "Telegraph."]
THE IRISH CONVENTION,
Its Composition Announced.
London, Jaa II.
TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
{Reater's Servios tài The " Telegraph.”]
LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S MISSION.
Why He is Going to the United States.
London, Jane II.
In the House of Commons; Mr. Lloyd Georgeanncunced the com
In the House of Commons, replying to a question regarding position of the Irish Convention. He stated that the Government had Lord Northeliffe's Mission to America, Lard R.bert Orail stated thought to secure representatives of everyday life in Ireland,and had that in order to co-operate fully with the United States in the invited the County Councis sad the Borough Councils to send their conduct if the war, several Missions representing number of Chairmer. The Urban District Councils would be invited to select Government Departments bad bean for some time in America, and it two representatives, and the churches would be represented by four is necessary that someone should be at the head of those Miwione Oatholic Bishops, the Archbishop of Dablia sad D. John Irwin, to revise and co-ordinate this work. Lord Northoliff: had under. Moderator of the Presbyterisa Assembly. To sddition the Chairmen taken this work, which is not in say senes diplomatio, of the Chambers of Commerce of Dublin, Belfast and Cork would be invited and there would be five representatives of Irish labour intervals.
Lord Northcliffe Arrives,
Continuing, Mr. Lloyd George said Mr. Redmond and Lord Lonsdale would be asked to select fire representatives from their |
London, Jane 11. Renter's correspondent at New York says that Loed Northcliffe, parties, Mr. O'Brien two of his followers, the Irish Pears twe, and has arrived at an Atlantic port. the Unionists of South-Ireland fire, while fire places would be reserved for Sion Feirere. The Guvernment
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itrali would nominate from among leading Irishmen of all sections fifteen members of the Convention, the total number of which would be 101. The Government would prefer that the Convention should ncminste its own Chairman, but it was prepared to nominate ́s Chairman and submit his name to the King for approval.
After Mr. Devlin had asked the Premier, we a preliminary to the Convention, which he said all hoped would succeed, to sunounce the releses of the Sein Fein prisoner, Mr. Lloyd George expressed the deep sense of loss pervading the House at the death of Major Redmond, one of its best known, oldest and best-loved members. The Premier said he could not adequately express the sorrow they must feel at the fall of this lovable and chivalrous figare. Although above military age, M. jor Redmond volontarily sought perils and privstiona with a cheerful courage. They would never forget the appeal he made on his last appearance in the House of Commons. He participated in some of the most bloody battles of the war, and looked worn sad aged with privations that his yeare anfitted him to bear, and none could have challenged him if he had claimed that he had done his share.
THE ADVANCE IN THE WEST.
British Line Further Extended,
Londor, Jane 11.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reporte: There was considerable reciprocal artillery firing to the south of Ypres and to the east of Epeby, where we dispersed hostile assemblies.
We succesfully raided to the south-west of La Bassen, damaging trenches and mine galleries.
We also raided to the east of Vermslies and to the south of Armestieran,
We slightly advanced our line to the south of Messines.
More Artillery Activity,
· London, June 11.
A French communique states that there is considerable reciprocal artillery firing to the north of the Somme and in the region of Cerny.
Another Fush Coming?
London, Jane 11.
A German commanique states that intense British artillery Aring is spreading from Ypres.
Activity on Belgian Front.
London, June 11.
A message from Headquarters says the situation' slong the front of the first little bit of Belgium retrieved since 1914 remains one of most sotive artillery duelling. The enemy has brought up number of fresh guns and is re-greeping his heavy guns. We are doing the same, and now have the advantage.cf position.
It is estimated that the taking of Vimy Ridge cost five million shella and Messines six million.
The new pattern tanke were called upon to do little in the battle of the 7th inet, but they certainly manceuvred in more perfect co-ordination with the movement of troops than ever before.
AWARD TO YORKSHIRE TEXTILE WORKERS.
London, June 12.
Sir George Askwith has awarded advances varying from fifty per cent. to thirty per cent, above pre-war rates to 190,000 York- ahire textile workers. The operatives asked seventy per cent, but have accepted the awards. The application was a record în the wages movement of the textile trade.
THE DEADLOCK IN CHINA.
London, Jane 12,"
Beuter's correspondent at Peking says that General Chang Fan, whom the President summoned to Pokinį, bas arrived at Tientsin. He has sent a bodyguard of two thousand troops to Peking, and now says that he will come to Peking to mediate on ontain conditione, including the immediate dissolution of Parlis- ment, which the President has hitherto firmly refused.
The situation is practically at a standstill. »
BRITAIN AND GREECE.
London, Jane 11.
In the House of Commoar, Lord Robert Cecil stated that steps “were being taken to secure the control of the Thessalian harvest. He hoped to be able to make a statement on the Government's paling to Greeds vary shortly,
(in the event of telegrams arri- ing too late for insertion on this page they lit be found on að Extra).
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
AMERICA AND RUSSIA.
Indon, June iu. President Wilson's message to Russia conclades :- We are fighting again for liberty and self government and the undictated development of all peoples and every feature of settlement that concludes this war must be conceived and executed for that purpose. Wrongs must first be righted and then adequate safeguards must be created to prevent their being again committed. We ought not to consider any remedies merely because they have a pleasing. sonorous, sound. Practical questions can only be settled by practical means. Phrases won't accomplish this result. Effectin madjust- ments will, and whatever readjustments are necessary must be made, but they must follow principle, and that principle is plain: that no people, must be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live, no territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing to those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty, no indemnities must be insisted upon except those that constitute payment for the manifest wrongs done, no readjustments" of power must be made except such as will tend to secure the future peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its peoples. And then the free peoples of the world must draw-to- gether, in a common covenant, some genuine practical co Operation that will in effect combine their forces to secure. peace and justice in the dealings of nations with one ab- other The Brotherhood of Mankind must no longer be a fair but empty phrase; it must be given the structure of force and reality. Nations must realise that in their com- mon life and effect a workable partnership to secure that' life against the aggressions of an autocratie and self-pleasing power.
For these things we can afford to poar out our. blood and treasure. For these things we have always professed a desire, and unless we pour out blood and treasure now and succeed we may never be able to unite or show a conquesing force again in the great cause of human liberty. The day has .come to conquer or to submit. the force uf Autocracy can divide they will overcome us; if we stand together victory is certain and the liberty which victory will secure. We can afford. then to be generous but we cannot afford then or sow to be weak or to omit any single guarantee of justice and security.
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USSIAN AFFAIRS.
Peasant Delegates Favour a Republic,
Petrograd, June 30.
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The Congress of Peasant Delegates of the whole of Russia passed a resolution in favour of a Federal Democratic Be- public. The Commission engaged in framing the lay relating to the Constituent Assembly has decided that roters aged eighteen should receive the franchise.
Great Public Meeting at Petrograd.
Petrograd, June 11.
A great public meeting to discuss the Allies and the war was presided over by M.. Rodzianko and attended by Sir George W. Buchanan (the British Ambassador), the French Minister M. Thomas, and Belgians and Italians.
Sir George Buchanan made an eloquent appeal for warlike action. Ho had, he said, always combated the forces of reaction in the old regime and had tried to impress upoa the ex-Tsar that an irresponsible autocracy was an anachron. iem which could not endure, Russia had won full libertice within a single week and must now consolidate her new- won freedom. If she would keep it the enemy, must be driven from the national territory. The French and British "democracies were holding and driving back the main Ger
man forces and ebedding their blood not only for the defence. of national patrimony but to safeguard the new-born Rus sisa liberties, the Germans had not transferred large numbers of troops.to the west it might have gone hard with free Rusa. We look to you now to help to relieve the Constant pressure on our front by taking-the-offensive to. bring the war to a speedy end. Sir George uttered a warning. against the Utopian fallacy of a peace attainable by fraternis. ing, which, be said, the Germana encouraged in order to demoralise the Russians. If we were fighting for capitalistic or imperialistic sims five millions of Britons would not bays volunteered for war, The free democracies forming the groat commonwealth of British nations were absolutely united in recognizing the justice of our cause and nothing in our polier was meongruous with the policy of "no zanexations, no
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THE WESTERN FRONT.
Further Details of the British Advance,
London, June 10, Reater's correspondent at Headquarters dissects the German communiques on the Messiner, fighting, containing an extraordinary number of misstatements, and belittling the brilliant British results. Referring to the assertion that the British losses exoeded the German the correspondent men- tions that ten thousand British failed to respond to the roll" call to the evening of June 8th, of whom, computing from past experience, sixty per cent, would be walking wounded and a large proportion of the remainder would be able to rejoin Inter. The fact remains that owing to the overwhelm---- ing effect of our artillery upon the enemy gunfire and the comparatively weak infantry resistance Messines ridge, was captured extraordinarily lightly. On the contrary, the extent of the enemy losses is exemplified by the fact that there were only three survivors of half a battalion from one of our explosions.
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We know that four utterly exhausted Bavarian divisions had to be relieved on the 7th and we know that whole.ter- of dugouts were smothered under perfect little avalanches of churned earth, these being probably full of Germans sheltering from the shells which destroyed them in a still more horrible manner. Many dead machine gunners chained and strapped to their machines were discovered among the debris, bearing out a previously discredited state- ment. The Anzacs, Irishmen and Highlanders, the back- bone of the army, and the "good old English line regiments" did magnificently at Messines, but the palm of victory goes to the Royal Artillery. So perfectly to time table was the whole attack carried out that there was not an interval of ten seconds between the time the infantry was scheduled to follow the barrage into the enemy trenches and the sending up of rockets denoting that the objective had been attained.
Splendid Work of British Troops.
London, June 11-
Other correspondents at Headquarters state-Grim determination to reach the enemy was shown in many ways. A gummer and a subaltern went forward with the first in- fantry to establish new observation posts on the enemy's lines and were so anxious to pick a site that they arrived in the German trench ahead of the infantry; they dashed into the first dug-out, killed two of the occupants, stunned a third, then killed two more. Coming from the trench the subaltern was ready to serve the guns. Simultaneously the capture of the trench was completed. 'The keenness of the men baffles description. A northern battalion broke all records by digging a six-foot ditch to the top of Messines Ridge and beyond. The New Zealanders and Australians dag three lines of new trenches of a depth of eight feet within six hours of the capture of the ground.
Our firing men completely overwhelmed, the enemy in the air. One attacked an aerodrome from below the level of the sheds. When a machine gun opened on him he turn- ed on it like a hawk, scattered the crew and then returned to the aerodrome and finished it off. Another pilot saw four gun teams ahead, fired at and dispersed the drivers and then flew into a column of five hundred infantry whom he scattered in all directions. Having used up his ammunition be fired signalling rockets at them. One of the air squadron sent back signals resulting in the silencing of seventy-two batteries. One brigade turned in four hundred calls result. ing in one hundred and sixty direct hits,
Enemy Artillery Activ:.
London, June 10. Field Marebal Sir Douglas Haig says: There has been no further counter-attack to the south of Ypres but enemy artillery have been active bere and also in the neighbourhood of Fontaine-les-Croisilles. We carried out a successful raid to the south of Souchez River. We brought down six aerő- planes and drove down three others uncontrollable. Three of cur machines are missing.
Successful French Artillery Attack.
London, June 11.
A French communique states: A violent artillery attack in the sector of Nieuport-les-Bains in Belgium severely damaged the Geman trenches. Twenty-one enemy aero- planes were brought down and two captive balloons descend- ed in flames during the week ending June 7.
THE RAID ON OSTEND..
London, June 10. The Admiralty announces that the latest reconnaisance at Ostend shows the removal of all large shipping. The two destroyers which were reported as being towed to Zeebrugge were probably those damaged in the bombardment, The harbour appears deserted.
THE BRITISH PACIFIST”.
· The Seamen's Refusal.
Londen, June 10,
Among the delegates to the Russian Conference whom the seamen are refusing to convey are Mr. George Roberts, M.P., and Mrs. Pankhurst.
Attitude of the Ser men's Unior.
London, June 11.
At the meeting in Trafalgar Square, Mr. Joseph Have- lock Wilson, General President of the National Seamen's Union, said that the Seamen's Union is circularising the other unions with a view to obtaining their opinion rs- garding the sailors' action. There are three and a half million organised workers in Great Britain and if it was found that Mr. Ramsay Macdonald represented even half a milkan his Union would be satisfied and he would be per mitted to proceed. Otherwise the delegates would never be allowed to leave England. The London Press would be
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Tenuis Prizes,
Mr. S. E. Green, Hongkong tennis champion, has given a- handsome tennis racket at 6 tennis prize. Mr. Ng Srs-kwong
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TO-DAY: Bandman Opera: Co-"The Happy Day" Thestre Royal-at 9.15 pm.
Victoris Theatre-9.15 p.m. Bijon Theatre-9.15 p.m. Now Hongkong Uit ematogr -9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW. Bandman Opers Co." The Merry Widow;" Thestra Hyak
at 9.15.
Victoria Theatre 2.15 p Bijon Thesize 9.15 pm. New Hongkong "Cinemat graph.-9.15 pm
Thursday, Jane 14, Bandman Opera Co** ThO Girl in the Taxi," Theatre Rayúl
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