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WEATHER FORECAST
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Barometer 49 75
Temperature 5 sm.
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Temperature
74 3 p.m. 73.
June 7, 1918;
Humidity
97
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日九十月四
FRIDAY,
JUNE
1918.
June 7, 1917,
五拜禮 號七月大英港香
Humidity
PETROGRAD TO-DAY,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE FIGHTING IN FRANCE,
Our Aviators and Bombers Active.
London, June 5, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting on avis'iòn, saye that the weather is overcset. Enemy sireraft was insotire on Tuesday, We brought down one machine and drove down another. We dropped fourteen tons of bomba daring the day and night, There were no British Iceses.
DECLARATIONS OF PREMIERS.
Sympathy With Nationalistic Aspirations.
London, Jane 5;
The Press Bureau sunogacee that the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, France and Italy, at a meeting at Versailles, have agreed to the following declarations:-1, the creation of a united and independent Polish State, with a free access to the es constitutes one of the conditions of a solid and just peace and the rale of right in Europe; 2, they associate themselves with America in as
· expression of earnest sympathy for the nationalierio aspirations towards freedom of the Czecho Slovek and Yogo Sis▼ peoples.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS..
ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.
Confident of the Outcome.
London, June 5.
The Press Bureau states that the Supreme War Council has held its sixth session under circumstances of great gravity for the alliance of free peoples. The German Gov- ernment, relieved of all pressure on the East Front by Bussia's collapse, have concentrated to gain a decision in Europe before the United States can bring its fall strength effectively to bear. The advantage of its strategic position and superior railway facilities has enabled the enemy com- mand to gain some initial successes. It will undoubtedly renew its attacks and the Allied nations may still be eI- posed to critical days. After a review of the whole position the Council is convinced of the Allies bearing the trials of the forthcoming campaign with the same fortitude se they have ever exhibited in the defence of the right. They will baffie the enemy's purpose and in due course bring him to defeat. Everything possible is being done to austain and support the armies in the field. Arrangements for unity of command have greatly improved the position of the Allied armies and are, working smoothly, and success. fully. The Council has complete confidence in Generalissimo Foch. It regards with pride and admiration the valour of the Allied troops and thanks to President Wilson's prompt and cordial co-operation in the arregements for transports- tion, the brigading of the Americans will prevent the enemy from wearing out the Allied reserve before exhausting his own. The Council is confident of the ultimate result. The Allied peoples are resoluta not to sacrifice a single one of the free nations of the world to Berlin's despotism. Their armies are displaying the same steadfast courage. which has enabled them on many previous occasions to defeat a Ger man onset. They have only to endure with faith and patience to the end to make victory and freedom secure. The free peoples, by their magnificent soldiers, will save civilisation.
The Press Bureau announces that Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Balfour, Lord Milner, Sir W. Weir and General Sir Henry Wilson have returned from France after attending the Supreme War Council.
MAN POWER AFTER THE WAR..
The Emigration Question.
London, May 31st, (Delayed).
In the House of Commons, Mr. Hewins, moving the second reading of the Emigration Bill, based on the recom mendations of the Dominions Royal Commission and Empire Settlement Committee, said it established a central Emigra tion Authority of seventeen or eighteen members, including the High Commissioners for Canada, Australia, New Zea land and South Africa and a limited number of unofficial members, acine of whom were ladies. Advice and financial assistance would be given to emigrants. There would also be administrative control of passage brokers, passage brokers' agents and those engaged in selling passages to intending emigrants. Mr. Hewins predicted that the Bill would enable the Mother Country and the Dominions to co-operate for the best possible use of the man ̈power of the Empire after the war.
ROYAL SILVER WEDDING.
The What Their Majesties Désire.
London, May 31. (Delayed). Great interest is being taken in the forthcoming cele bration of the silver wedding of their Majesties, which is "the first such celebration in the case of the reigning Sover eign since King George the Third Their Majesties, desiring that money should not be diverted from war purposes, have decided to socept only one personal present, namely that from the citizens of London, bạt no ban is placed on celebrations which do not involve personal gifts. For example Newfoundland is giving 6,000 pairs of socks to the Queen to be sent to the troops or to be used otherwise at Her Majesty's discretion.
-FRENCH PREMIER'S NARROW ESCAPE,
London, May 21. (Delayed). The "Time" correspondent at Paris states that M. Cle menceau has just returned from the front where he had a narrow escape. He had just left a certain point where he had been murveying the positions with a General when s patrol of Uhlans dashed up. The General was killed and a number of the escort captured.
AMERICAN'S EXPEDITING SHIPBUILDING. New York, May 31,. (Delayed). The zeal to expedite shipbuilding is illustrated by two Launchings at Port Newark which show a new departure in steel ship construction. The vessels are made entirely of plates of shapes hitherto used in the construction of buildings and bridges. A hundred and fifty ships of this type have been ordered, and as all the parts are standardised it is expected that 2 or 3 vessels weekly will be produced by this yard.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE,
The Disposal of the Reserves.
Paris, May 31. (Delayed),
The Havas special correspondent on the French battle front, writing on May 31, says that hitherto the Germans have encountered a defence in proportion of one to six to the attackers, but the enemy High Command is fully aware that wo we several millions of men forming intact, active armies o picked troops, animated by incomparable moral which will be thrown in against them somewhere"" "We are disposing our reserves in our own way, they will taterreno when and where we choose. Hitherto the Germans and the choice of ground, but, we will have the most important ahoice, namely that of the battle-field on which the Inte of Germany may be decided. Hence there is no-tanas for alarm. Our High Command won't act hastily, but according to a rigorous plan. The hour is grave and we must main."
A German Report.
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London, Juns
A wireless German official message says: The enemy captured small trench sectors south-westward of Merris. We captured in Bard fighting a few trenches northward of the Aisne, took the neights of Vauxbuin and westward of Chan dun stormed Pernant and Missy-au-Bois driving back the enemy on the Lesoetiier Dommiers line. Several batteries and a few thousand prisoners were captured French.counter attacks astride the Ourcq failed.
Enemy Making Desperate Efforts.
London, June 5. The fuctuating character of the battle was strikingly illustrated yesterday. There was every reason to hope the enemy was held, but he made another desperate effort be- tween the Aisne and Ourcq apparently endeavouring to outfack Villers Cotteret, which he failed to capture frontally. This area flanks the Soissons-Paris road and the enemy pres- sure here is supported by ferce attacks on the wings, especi- ally in the Campeigne area, the villages on either side of the Ourcq being scenes of the hardest fighting. The enemy has met with a measure of success, but at excessive post and experts consider the result of the fighting favourable to the French, the enemy failing to make any impression on Villers Cotteret or Retz Forest. The part played by the pericans shows that the reserve the enemy affected to despise is already effectively in action.
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Successful British Raids.
London, Juž
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We have so cessfully raided in the neighbourhood of Lens and southward of La Bassee Canal, prisonering a few. We repulsed sa attempted raid south-westward of Morlancourt, prisonering some. Hostile artillery was active during the nightcorth- ward of the Scarpe and Lys rivers, also in the Micris and Ypres-Comines canal sectors.
Splendid French Resistance.
London, Jupe 6.
A French communique reports: Local attacks continued on the evening of the 4th, and during the night, On the northern edge of Carlepont Woods our machine-guns stopped two attacks Other attempts in the region of Antriches, east of Dommiers and in the direction of Corcy also failed. Infantry action, supported by tanks, north of Corty enabled us to improve our line on the edge of the forest. The Ger mans south of the Ourcq directed violent attacks against Chezy and south-east thereof which we smashed, inflicting serious losses. Artillery activity continued most lively on the beak of the Aisne and in the region of Rheims.
Enemy Raid Checked.
London, June 5.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: As a result of an attempted enemy raid in the neighbourhood of Morlan- court we prisoncred 21
What the Enemy Claims.
London, June 5,
A wireless German official wëssage says: We threw back the enemy towards Amblenycatry and captured positions northwards of Dommiers.
Edemy's Activity Relaxes.
London, Jana &
Benter's correspondent at French Headquarters, tele- graphing at midnight on June 4, says: The enemy's activity has relazed for the first time since May 27, and the battle seems to have reached a similar stage as marked the Picardy offensive by March 9 when the enemy's march was defini- tively arrested. Now as then the enemy cannot hope to progress further until he has brought up artillery, but re- Dewed enemy attempts must then be expected to be more violent than before, but there are far greater odda.in our favour as the surprise stage has passed. The Americans have already been engaged and have borne themselves so well as to justify the most optimistic forecasts, The enemy must have noted their numbers and eficiency and is therefore likely to exert the utmost effort to reach a decision, before. Autumn, when the increased American numbers will have wiped out the enemy's present numerical superiority in Europe. Therefore we are likely to experience the bloodiest summer ever known.
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BRITAIN'S SHIPBUILDING.
Splendid Development of Speedy Construction. London, June & The Admiralty announces that 187;274 tons of merchant- men wore completed during May as compared with 111,538 tons in April Lord Pirie comments that the satisfactory output is a great credit to the whole industry, especially to the firms engaged in fitting out the vessels. Efforts to reduce the period between the launching and completion of mer chantmen have produced satisfactory results. The average time of fitting out is considerably reduced. For example a 5,000 ton steamer was completed nineteen days after she was launched The deceleration of fitting out has increased the output in May, but the output should be gauged over an extended period not on the results of tay one month.
'SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON'S APPOINTMENT.
Londary lane.
The Press Bureau statos fast as a tempo General Robertson has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of Great Britain..
SINGLE OOPT 10 CENTS.
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great risk in allowing strangers thing is that this Daimler frm, to see that you are carrying | along with Kruppandother money | cutsblow of any kind. If nothing magosion from the Bhineland, is a
worms happens, you are pretty inancial backbone of the “ Valers, The Empty Market Basket. sure to be eagerly questioned as landsparteles the advertisementă-
to where you managed to get them. of Daimler can be seen everywhere Women folk of all olsen tramp in the " Vaterlandapartei“ press. One afternoon early in March about most of the day with empty Daimler advertises: aeroplane, “ su aeroplane few over Petrograd bags, visiting market places, machine guns, and all Hnds of and made people rather perros, peeping into shop doors and other articles; which, however, lent it might be a German windows, in the hope of finding are never bought by the public, machine. In the evening a report something at prices not absalutely as their sala except to the military was circulated to the effect that prohibitive with which to stave authorities is prohibited. The bom be had been dropped, causing off the pange of hunger.
case of Daimler is not an isolated
the death of three persons and A further difficulty is that the one. On the contrary, it is only injuries to five others Next day banks, which now all belong to one of the exceptional mess, and this report was officially con- the Socialist Commanistic might never have been “mada. firmed.
Government, allow their àlients to public, had not a malicions During the last fear months, draw only a very small amount of competitor got hold of the figure writes & newspaper correspondent money once a week, so that we of the cost prices. jast after this incident, we have often bare no money for food been liable to be hit at any time when it can be obtained, or when war period have been the large Another set of profiteers of the of the day or night in the streets we have money there is no food. agricultural prodacers, and
or at home by stray ballets fired This dilemma is still further certain current events are begin by bad markamen or by drankes complicated by the fact that tra aid to show on what their rioters shooting at random. Ideemen are tolasing to accept profits were largely based, and bave a hole in my bedroom paper money notes issued by why they were and are in favour window pierced by a ballet that Kerensky's Government, on the of continued war. It is the was evidently not aimed either at ples that they have no change, treaty with Bassis which has the window or at me. In many while the Bolshevist Erobequer made the trouble. Today, houses there are dozens of continues to put them into circals the German agricultural prese holes and pieces of stucco tion.
is full of letters from the chipped out all round their win-
Things are indeed getting des- Jaskers landlords, protesting dow frames, whilst the glass is parata. It is not earprising that against the exchange of prisonere left intact. On the other hand, so many Petrograd Russians look prescribed by the peace treaty. there are streets which have forward to the coming of the They declare that the German suffered eo severely from rifle Germans as not altogether an evil. prisoners released by the Besians and machine gun fire and in which there is so much damaged glasa that Petrograd is called the
City of Broken Windowe." It costs too dear to repair wat the present extortionate prices, and in any case there are no glaziers to do the work. Con- sequently many holes, especially those in expensive plate glass, are plastered over with paper,
WAR PROFITS,
The Situation in Germany.
Zurich, April 10-The esti mates of the taxation authorities
will be only for industrial work or army service, not for agricul tural work, and they all demand that the release of Russian prison- ars should be postponed at least. antil next Səptember; that other. wise, a calsstrophe in Germen agriculture is inevitable.
how to strip you naked. Wine taxes; yet meanwhile the amount) however, since the war Now,
Other letters to the German agricultural papers point out the of Pressis for 1917 are not yet necessity of transporting to In all probability the majority completely published. The Germany the whole male popula of the victims in the two Be partial figures given indicate an tion of the coonpied territory in volutions and in the intervening increase of the income of the the esat daptared by the Central episodes were cocidentally strack wealthy classes to 10,200,000,000 Powers from Bassia, in order to down. In one of the hospitals, marks, which would mean an have cheap agricultural workman. in which my daughter was-help-increases of about 30 per cent. They claim especially that G ing with wounded soldiers, a since the beginning of the war.many's agriculture, even before washerwoman who bad the Of course, this increses of taxation the war could not carried on temerity to look out of a window power, though considerable, is not without “sesson workers" coming daring a fasillade in the street proportionate to the increase of the from the western part of Russia. below was immediately shot state debt. But the above figure Now, so they argue, when the dead by & spurt of machine does not tell the whole story western part of Russia is occupied gan bullets,
Thousands of of war profits in Germany. In by Germany, the working claw of bodies have been dragged Prussis, the number of persons these countries should be obliged cat of the causls and rivera From with an sanas! income of more to work for German agriculture, October last till only a week ago, than 3,000 marks decreased from | This particular discussion in when Petrograd began to "un 1914 to 1916 by 5 per cent. the agricultural press regarding {load,” its turbulent elements for
In the same period, however, | the, further use of prisoners in the purpose of outside defence, their total incomes increased from highly interesting, and may ex- not a day or a night passed with 7.700.000.000. marks to 8,400,- plain the reasons why German out fiting in the streets. The000,000 Number of persons with Junkers have become partisans of echoes of the shots amongst the an income of 900 to 3,000. márkasanneration in the Esat. One re- houses were so deceptive that you sleo diminished, bat only by 1 members that in peace times the might turn a corner and walk per cent. Their total incomes German Junkera did not desire unawares right into the firing remained stationary "with 182 any annexation, or even line. A slouching soldier or a milliards. In both categories, customs anion, with countries drunken hooligan coming in your one observes a decrease of the producing cheaper sgricultural direction might be meditating number of persons having to pry commodities than Germany, I
shops and cellars were broken of money earned by them rose. them the value of chesp. labouLE into every day. Domestic utensile The figures would seem to in without political rights in other were filled from the barrels with dieste great increase in the large words, of labourers" that _Bro red wius, and soldiers and others, moomes. What did it some from? prisoners and elaves-iha Junkera sa though maddened with thirst. It is a well-known fact that, dar have charged their mind. Now struggled one after another to ing the first three years of war, York Evening Post suck the precious liquor out of war profiteering was locked upon the spouts of dirty kettles and as a sort of, national virtue in teapots and so forth. When the Germany-favoured by ali suthor- crowd-beosme, very drank and ities. Now, however, the Badget dangerous Bad Guards"
Commission of th Garman Reich- appeared on the scene and shot stop has begun to examine some them down. Fins old bottled cases of sorbitants war profite, wines could be bought from and one of the first was the
The export of abell battoos soldiers st high prices. Some Daimler case.
from Kobe during April amant purchseers in this way were This leading firm in German to T514,793 showing on in193 deceived by getting wine bottles manufacture of motors for of T168,758 as compared with containing ordinary water. and aeroplanes is well known on the preceding month. The in« A number of English refugees the Stock Exchanges for its dresse is chiefly dus to the from the cotton mille at Narva prodigious war profits. When the removal of the embargo on the arrived here a few days ago, en war broke out, the firm had just import of shell buttons to Fag routs for the United Kingdom, made some sample motora of high land. The amount of import of The route via Finland is now efficiency. Of course, the pro- ebells to be used for making closed, and news from British duction of sample motors is not buttons in Y116,126 of which travellers by way of the Murman cheap. The military authorities valus of Y65'000 comes from the 7,000 coast is not encouraging. A large naked the firm the price of pro Datoh Esst Indies and Y.47, party of British subjects, with duction of these simple motora, from Australia. women and children, is held up and all the enormous orders-subs At Petrosavodsk in Lake Opoge] sequently execated since the without anything to eat and outbreak of the war were made at unable to proceed farther north: exactly these prices. Meanwhile,
The scarcity of food in also, all the increase in the costi Patrograd has now become a real of rew mstorials and wager has stiginsi famine. There are positively no been added to these provisions to be bad. Two-thirds prices, so that at the end of 1917 at least of the shops are shut up, tus firm received, far and the others are empty of goods, which cost them 15.000
or what little remains is kept out 15,000 mérke
They make 500 of thes of sight, for fear of bungry fieves and requisition. There in per week
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