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February 9, 1918,
7874 十十月二十
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE LOSS OF THE TUSCANIA,
Splendid Behaviour of American Troops.
London, February 8.
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SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY
1918
天拜歳 戕九月二英港香
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE COMING GERMAN OFFENSIVE,
Has the Enemy Something Up his Sleeve}
London, Feruzzy 8.- Heater learns that the Toscania was torpedoed ten miles from Ratar'a correspondent at French Headquarters mates that the the coast. The discipline was magnificent. No other vessel in the military queétion overshadowing all others is where he Germans -convoy was hit. Survivors state that American soldiers lined up on the deck and sang their National Air. The crew responded with *** God Bars the King."
The work of lowering the boats was hampered by a tremendous list. A number of lives were lost by the capeising of one or two of "the first bosts and by a raft thrown on top of them. An American officer; interviewed, said :-" The Hons hava killad only a fraction of our fine fellows, but they have put iron into our souls which we will repeat when the obance offers."
́ ́-As au instance of the order prevailing, two typhoid and two pneumonis csses were landed safely. An engineer of the vessel, interviewed in Glasgow, save that he saw a raft picked up, on which five men were lashed. Only two were alive. He was in a leaky collapsible bast with thirty-six others and they were up to their waista in water before they were found.
The majority of the caensities were probably due to men leap. ing from the decks into the ees with lifabelts, and they were lost in the darkness.
America's Determination:
London, February 8. According to Beater's correspondent at Washington, Mr. Baker, Secretary for War, in a statement, says:-Lɔased like the Tuscania anite the country in a more determined parpose to press on. We muet and will win this war."
Effect of the Disaster.
London, February 8.- Beater's correspondent at New York states that the torpedoing of the Tasosuis bae evoked quiversal execration and promises to wake up the nation to the actuality of war se nothing bas yet doce, The newspapers generally hail the lost Americane as heroes who perished in a noble orase.
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The Boeing Sun voices the general sentiment by saying — The American people entered the war koowing from two years' watching what it means. Now that its dread obligations are brought home to them they don't blanch with fear. This misfortune will steel their courage and resolution to exnot just retzibution from enemy civilisation.".
The Skipper Saved.
London, February 8.
It is now unofficially estimated thai less than 150, people are missing from the Tasosnia. The skipper, Captain McLean, was sayed.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
Is the Grand Duke Nicholas Dead ?"
London, February 8: It was a German newspaper report frem Patrograd that contained the news that the ex Generalissimo, Grand Duke Nicholsa, in dead. The French aswspapears state that it was Nicholas Con- stantineovilob, cousin of the sx Generalissimo,
The New Cossack Army.
London, Februarý 8.. The Times" correspondent at Peirograd states that General Kaledin has relinquished the leadership of the Coesacks in favour of General Alexeieff, who has organised a separate army of 30,000 to march against the Bolshevike. There has been some disagreement between General Kaledin and General Alexeieff and the former has disappeared.
It is estimated that 40,000 of the younger Cossacks are now in favour of the Bolsheviks.
A Riot in Petrograd.
London, February 8,
There was an outburst of drunken savagery at Petrograd after
intend to strike on the Western Front. The enemy mit recognise the costliness and doubtfulness of an offensivs in the West, however great, but the reasons impelling him thereto seem ED outweigh counsels of prudence. If he cannot get pesos on his own terme, hë must get on with the war, and in six moutha the American Ariny will have restored the balance of strength in favour of the Allies. So we must expect at no distant date se beavy a blow se he Germans, with whatever assistance they can extort from their rectant Allies, can deal. Where will the blow fall? A decision cannot le reached in Italy; moreover, the German forces there were halved soon as the fighting became established in the mountsine. Tasceare probably not more than fire German Divisions in Italy now. Pa the other band, the enemy is undoubtedly assembling man sa material in France, bat if the prospects of a second Verdan ere joinviting, is the enemy likely to attempt it?
The correspondent proceeds to suggest that the enemy may have something up his sleeve-some new method, it some new weapon which be thinks may prove decisive.
PEACE WITH RUMANIA.
Desperate Efforts by Central Powers:
London, February 8. Beater's correspondent at Amsterdam says th spparently the Central Powers are about to make reaperate to conclude peace with Romanis. The Locren Zeitung indicates that Berlin conferences have resulted in complete agreement #garding the peace $erms to be cffered to Ramsaia The Essen Allgemeine Zeitung emphasises that the Romanians maat renounce all claim to extension westward and can be compenfared for the Balgarian ansexation of the Dobradj, with the south-west corner of Baararabis, after which the Ukrainians and Ramaniace can come to terms provided both gaite against the Bɔl-heviks."
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In the Turkish Chamber, the Foreigo Minister, Halil Bey, declared that the Straits would remain open for international traffic in the fature on the same conditions as the past
U-BOATS TO BE_BBATEN BY AUGUST.
London, Februarf 8.
Admiral Sir John Jelliose, speaking at Hall; ed: We are in for a bad time during the next three months, but I believe that if we hold out the submarine menace will be killed by sbaut A agust.'
GERMAN SLAVERY ORDER.
London, Febrasty 8.- Renter's correspondent at Amstersdata says the Telegraaf un- derstands that a serman order has been issued on the Flemish at alling up all males between the ages of thirteen and sixty years for military labour.
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WOMEN'S PARTY IDEALS.
London, Febrasry 8.
The Women's Party has issued a manifesto sisting that their first act as electora is to grest the Allied Nations and pledge them- elves to use their votes to secure and liberate oppressed naticas, especially Belgium and Serbia. The signatures indlede some of the | chief suffragettes.
FURTHER FO ›D PROHIBITION,
London, February 8. The Food Obatroller has prohibited the use of oatmeal, ost flour the great religious demonstration, 500 armed hooligans looting wine and rolled fake osts for any purpose except for human food. cellare, a church and a house. The riot spread to the streets. Numerous jewellers' and other shops were plundered. The regular troops were brought up to quell the disorder. There was fighting "all night. It is estimated that 120 were killed."-
Troops for Bresilitovsk.
London, February 8. Reater's onrrespondent at Amsterdam states that, according to the Konieshe Zeitung, a deputation of¡Bussian troops from Bakovins 3 proceeding to Brolitovak.
MR. ROOSEVELT SERIOUSLY ILL.
London, February 8, Beater's correspondent at New York states that Mr. Roosevelt is suffering from abscesses in both ears. He has been operated on, and his condition is serious
THE WESTERN FRONT.
London, February 8,
A Franob communique states:—An enemy attack at daybreak on's email post north of Orsoane was repulsed. The GermaDE followed up the bombardments reported in the morning on the right bank of the Mense and in Alsace with three murprise attacks east of samogneur, on the northern eide of Fosses Wood and south of Hartmanne-Willerkopf. All were repulsed.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reporta:-There is hostile artillery activity at Fle quietes,
AUSTRIAN CABINET RESIGNS.
London, February 8.
Beater's correspondent at Amsterdam sașe it is reported, from Vienos that the Austrien O-binet has resigned, owing, it is believed. to the opposition to the two months' provisional Badget, whereby the majority for the Budget became doubtful./
GREEK MONARCH'S SPEECH.
London, February 8. According to Benter's correspondent at Athens, while en route from the Macedonian front the King addressed the troops at Lamia, He deplored the mutiny and urged the necessity of supporting the Government, enabling Greece to do her duty and aid the Allien, The speech was very enthusistically received.
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ITALIAN AERIAL SUCCESS.
London, February 8,
An Italian commanique states:-Aa mhip dropped a ton of bombs on sa enemy serodrome at Mottadili Venus with excellent results.
FRANCE AND RAW MATERIALS. -
London, February 8.
Reuter's correspondent at Paris states that in the Senate the Minister of Commerce emphasised the necessity of an agreement with the Allies regarding raw materiale. Ha declared ;--" We do not dream of creating an aggressive coonomio lesgas, bus, we desire to cur,rawingɔerials
resinin masters of our owa markets and
for ourselves, our Allies and friendly adore Secate passed a resolation arging the Government to seek means of deriving the atmost benefit from raw materials, which is a most important socnomic weapon aud particularly floured by the enem
FARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE RUSSO-GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS.
London, abrary. 7.. The present position of the negotiations at Frostlitovak is most mysterious. The Bolshevik Headquarters at Petrograd has received no news from Breathitovak fog storał GETE. Assuming that the Russian delegates were prevented from communication with Petrograd, M. Lenin ordered the dia connection of the wire used by the Austro Geriun delegáter in Petrograd, Ch
Messages from Barlin tend to support the belief that the Central Powers will conclude a peace with Ukraine and break off negotiations with the Bolshevika They may pos sibly evan resume a state of war.
ABRIAL SUCCESSES IN ITALY,
Londom, Fah
An Italian official message states: Our airühips dropped a ton of explosives on an aviation ground south se
ward Vittorio. The Allies have brought down so man the past eleven" days.)
CONTINUED CHAOS ÎN RUSSIA,
Flalaed In Grip of Civil War N
Stokholm, February 7.
Humidity
The White Quards at Waxa report that civilwards in9 102 fall swing in. Finland. Twenty prominent. Helsingfors men have been murdered and properties and firms are daily? being burned and pillaged. Unarmed people, have been killed, especially in the southwest. The capture of Kemi and Teises give ŵ great advantage to the White-Guarda.---
hangi€ederal Alexeleff Rasppears..........
Petrograd, February 7, General Alexeieff, with shock troops is reported to be marching northwards and to have occupied a number of stat- tons in the direction of Kharkoff and Boronesh The Bolsha- rik Agency reports that the Red Guards captured Tammer fota in Finland after a ferce battle on Feb. 4, wherein 10,000 White Guards, commanded by General Mannerheim were defeated and forced to retire to the west coast of the Galf of Bothnia.
Germans Halled as " Brothers,""
Petrograd, February 8. The Soviet at Petrograd has issued a grandiloquent appeal to the workers of Berlin and Vienna, hailing them as brothers across the barbed-wire barrier, and announcing that the German Socialists, Herr Liebknecht And Herr Adler have been elected Honorary Presidents of the Petrograd Soviet
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What of Ukraine ?
London, February 7. Yesterday's Russian" wireless message regarding Ukraîne conflicts with reports from other sources."
German Methods Exposed.
Petrograd, February 7, The Bolshevik News Agency states that the Germans in Biga fraudulently collected 65,000 votes for the incorporation. of Riga into Germany and imprisoned 200 suspected Socia lists. Many prisoners, even women, were beaten in order to force them to betray their comrades. Women were im- prisoned with ten robbers and prostitutes. The economic situation is terrible and the workers are starving.
Terrible Conditions in the Capital.
London, February 7. The "Times" correspondent at Petrograd says: The Soviet Congress passed in a few minutes laws involving the most fundamental land changes and most complicated social reconstruction, The proceedings were punctuated by the ring- ing Internationale" and the "Marseillaise." Hunger riots. continus and life is extremely perve tacking. The Red Guards are more feared than the Taar's police and every- Dae dreads arrost. There have been searches, seizures and confiscations of money and jewellery and those conducting domiciliary arrests are often thieves in disguise. We cannot cash cheques. Amateur clerks muddle the bank accounts and the bank directors have either escaped to Bweden or been arrested. All financial business is at a standstill The latest decree limita deposits to 23,000 roubles and requires prook that the money was honestly earned. It is proposed to destroy all shares as rubbish. Poor English governesses are running about trying to persuade kind friends to take care of their small savings.
Death of Grand Duke Nicholas.
London, February 8,
A telegram from Petrograd reports the death at Tas- chkeno on Foo, 3 of the Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian ',, ex-Commander-in-Chief, under mysterious circumstances.
RUSSIA AND THE SOUTH CHINA REVOLT. London, February 7, The "Times" correspondent at Petrograd says the Peo- ples' Commissioners are discussing the proposal to support the autonomous movement of southern China against the Central Government. The Commissioners propose to send a Commissary to China for this purpose. The object is to will prodace Socialistic Revolutionary agitations which break down China's refusal to allow foodstuffs to come to Russia.
THE TUSCANIA TORPEDOED..
Over Two Hundred U.S. Troops Missing.
London, February 7, The Admiralty states that the Tuscanis was torpedoed on Tuesday night off Ireland while carrying American troops, of whom 2,011 soldiers, 141 crew, and 35, others were saved out of a total of 2,337 aboard. The missing number 210.
Submarine Reported Sunk,
Later,
The Tuscania was sunk it 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening. She was one of a convoy of troop and provision ships. Two torpedoes were fired, one missed, but the other hit amidship. - The Tuscanis listed heavily, to starboard, making the proper" lowering of the boste impracticable. Some men jumped into the sea and others were thrown into the sea when the boats wore' lowered. "The survivors were taken off or picked up by British destroyers, and landed. The Tuscania floated for tw hours after being torpedoed. The condition of some of the survivors was pitiable. They threw off their clothes and had been swimming for two hours before being rescued.. Three men died from exposure in a boat. An American officer survivor states that the escorting destroyer claims to have mank the attacking submarine. Only two women were aboard the. Tuscania and they were saved.
The Tus ania was a 14,000 ton Anchor liner and was built in 1914. An American officer narrated that after the vessel was struck megaphone calls were circulated that there was no danger of the ship sinking before all were taken off Bri- tish destroyers answered the 8.0.8. with remarkable celerity It is believed that a couple of lifeboats were smashed in' launching. The narrator decided to follow the sailors" advice to "stick, aboard and trust John Baire destroyers' instead of entering a lifeboat. A torpedo was fired at x rescuing destroyer but missed., de
BRITISH LABURITES TO VISIT FRANCE.
London, February 5 Times' states that preparations are being made British labourites, including Mr. Thomas, M.PF, Mr. ne, M.P., and Mr. Henderson, M.P., to visit Parit
to secure an Anglo-French Labour Socialist, Bgreement pro ory to an International Congress in London on Feb. 20, and pitimately another congress in Swittaris
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DUST-BIN WEALTH.
Trifles Savod Will Help to Win the Wär..
How to avoid waste is to be one of the lemons of the economy campaign, and at the Ministry of Food-plane sre being elaborated. In one department the visitor may
ee samples of c
Oile from fish"waste."- Potash from banana stalks. *Fata from slaughter-hous
Pou refuse.
Mest meal for poultry from
abattoire.
Dried house swill fie pig sad
poultry food.
Granulated pool ry food fram
condemned mest. Gasno fertiliser from condemn.
ed fab.
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Fish meat and grit for poultry
from Hasound fahl" Matala from old tins and scrape. -Disinfectant powder from flas
dust.
A provincial mayor has collect. jed a box of tinfoil, saved from s year's buttonholes, to be convert ed into tin...
Liverpool has plant for extracting poultry and pig foods, as well as fertilisers, from waste, Shefald and Nottingham specialise in gessing iron out of anconsidered trifles, and Notting. bam has also during the proveni year recovered : 400 saus msaare from refase. ....
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Chiasgow in aretomatically salvaging the by-product of waste. Other tagna are introdus. "digestors,” the type of Jing
mashina in which is dead NOENG. wan he tipped, 15 the rwalt that fats and osia are secured, in addition to dried and prepared | animal foods.” It is reckoned sant
the metal found in dustbin's total. one son per 1,000 of the popul iation per sonum and that ancasily 250,000 tons of paper ste wasted. Nearly everything throw a into the dustbin has a commercial, or ohemical value. Not a scrap of metsi should be cast aside, but all should be sola in ordinary trade channels of handed to any colleat- ing organisation, which may ba aperaung in a district."?
Dangerous Post Parcel.
At Hova, recently Mrs. Basirion Mille, wife of a lieutenant, wAS faed £5 and £5 costs for sending lé "live" German hand-granada by post from Hove to Nowosstle- on-Tyne. Her husband brought two bombe home with him when on leave, and-both were consider- ed "done." The defendant said a friend in her husband's bat: talion asked her husband to send a grenade to Newcastle, but as he had no time she did so in ignor suce that the grenade was” "live" ons.
DONT FORGET.
TO-DAY. Victoris Theatre; 9.15 p.m.. Bijou Theatre.... 4all gian New Hongkong Cintsakud -9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW': Vistoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
Bijou Theatre.LO New Hongkong graph.—9.15 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 11 Chinese New Year,
Monday, Feb, 25. Rice Meeting-lat Day.
Tuesday, Feb, 28. Race Meetingad Dora