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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
"SPAIN AND GERMANY.
TWO CONFLICTING REPORTS.
Rumoured Ultimatum and a Denial..
London, August 18.
A message from Madrid saya that sa regards the Spanish Note to Germany, announcing that Spain will confiscate German shipping in Spanish ports to sa amount corresponding to the German outrages on Spanish shipping, it is stated that the Note is really an ultimatum.
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The aitastion is believed to be graver than ever.
Note to Germany Dented.
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London, August 19
Reater's correspondent at San Sebastian, writing on August 18, athies:-As the Spanish newspapers have been publishing esneational statements regarding Spain's relations with Germany, Senhor Dato, Foreign Minister, has issued a declaration insisting on the intention of the Government, like its predecessore, to maintain neutrality under all circumstances. In denying the existence of any Note to Germany, he saya that it is not the practice of Govern- "ments to pablish instructions sent to diplomatic representatives abroad, and he concludes by denying having forwarded a Nota "regarding the alleged torpedoing of the steamer Serants whose loss was due to fire in her cargo of petroleum shipped from New York.
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ON THE WESTERN FRUNT,
French Capture 150 Prisoners.
London, August 19. "A French communique states:-The artillery doel continued to be very lively during the day, particularly in the region of Canny. sur-Matz and Beuvraigues. Local actions south of the Avre resulted Lin our capturing 150 prisoners. Eight enemy aeroplanes were
felled and three captive balloons were set on fire yesterday.
British Capture 400 Prisoners.
London, August 18.
Field Maraks Sir Douglas Haig reports We carried out a successful local operation on a front of over four miles between Vieax Barquin and Bailleal with slight loss. We advanced our line from a thousand to two thousand yards and captured the village of Outtereteens and several defended farma and houses. We took over 400 prisoners.
We also progressed couth-wast of Herville and between Chilly and Fransart, taking prisoners. We repulsed attacks against poste in the neighbourhood of Bawooourt, Serri and Paisieux, taking "prisoners.
We destroyed five aeroplanes. Three British machines `are missing. We also dropped thirteen tons of bombe.
Momentary Reversion to French-Wartaro,
London, August 19.
Renter's correspondent at the French Headquarters, writing on August 18, slates:The enemy apparently has decided to resist stiffly, the present lines in the Rye, Lassigny and the Oise sectora and the old trenches giving him'a solid defence; hence the battle bas momentarily reverted to trench-warfare.
Useful Work by the British.
· London, August 19.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We took a few prisoners in the Ayette sector and also south of the Scarpe, where patrola penetrated soms distenos into the enemy's positions. We repulsed raidere north of the Scarpe and made further progress in the Herville sector, taking forty or fifty prisoners. Our artillery -and mɛchine-gun fire completely broke up a csanier-attack on our
new positions between Oxitersteane and Meteren, "
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German Admissions.
London, August 18, A German wireless official message states --We drove back the enemy in attacks along the roads from Amiens and Moatdidier to Roye. Enemy attacks between Bauvreigner and Lavigny collapsed. The enemy gained a foothold in our foremost lines north of Antreohes. In the Vorges our poets which were advanced in the Fave region as far as Frapelle, yielded to “s, local" enemy thrust.
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SIR CHARLES ELIOT.
Appointed High Commissioner to Siberia.
London, August 19. Boater's correspondent at Peking stater Sir Charles Eliot has been appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary to Siberia st Vladivostok.
Bir Charles had had a considerable diplomatic career before joining the Sheffield University and subsequently coming to Hong- kong. In 1888 92 he was Third Secretary at the Embassy, St. Petersburg; Constantinople, 1893-98; Obarge d'Affaires, Morocco, 1802-93; Balguris, 1895; Berbis, 1897; Sacretary British Embasay, Washing-top, 1898; British High Commissioner, Samos, 1899; H. M'e Commisioner and Commander-in-Chief for the British East Africa Protectorate, Agent and Consul General at Zanzibar, 1900-4, He resigned from the Diplomatio Service in 1904, became Vice Chan oalior of University of Sheffield in 1905, and was a Member of the Royal Commission on Electoral Systeme in 1900 ]
.MORE BRITISH AERIAL ATTACKS.
London, August 19. The Air Ministry reports:-On the night of the 17th and 18th inst., we attacked numerous serodromes, railway jusations, blast farnaces, trains and other ground targets and machine-guaned many targeta. Ons machine did not return....
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
LONDON BUS SERVICE STOPS,
Big Strike Following Women Goaductors": Demand.
Loodon, August 18.
Bus and tram drivers and conductors have strack, following the women conductora' demand for an additional five-shillings week, which advance was recently given the men. Practically the whole of the London bus services are suspended to-day. Ten thousand workers are idle. The workers' representative anticipates that the strike will spread to the provinces.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS:
THE BATTLE SITUATION.
German Defence Gradually Collapsing.
London, Aug. 13.
A French communique states: There was artillerying on the Avre; also between the Qise and the Aisuc. Enemy raids in Champagte completely failed Lt, Fonck brought down three aeroplanes on August 14 making his sixtieth
A Havas message says: Under the continued and` methodical pressure of the French and British forces be- " tween the Sommo and the Oise the enemy's defence of his vitally important battle Eine centres is gradually collapsing and the progress made yesterday is regarded as making it imperative that the Germans effect a quick retreat to escape disaster. Chaulces and Roye are out anked north and south while the Germans' last hopes of being able to cling to Lassigny have been shattered by the capture of Candy-sur-fatz and the further progress by General Hum- bert's troops on, the northern slopes of the all-important Lassig ridge. The success of the French troops in the Autriches region gives them views over a vast area south and east of Noych. More than 1,000 prisoners were taken by the Allied troops in fighting noril and south of the Avre in 24 hours."
Closing on Roye?
Londen, Aug. 18. « Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters, wiring on the 18th, says: Severe patrol fighting between Chaulnes and Roye occurred during the past twenty-four hours, The Allies are gradually closing in on Roye. The French are within a few hundred yards of the rail-station south of the town, The Germans have made no heavy counter-attacks since Thursday and their heavy artillerying has diminished suggesting the withdrawing of heavy guns. An enemy at tempt to drive the Canadians out from Damery was made by Ave battalions. Local guerilla fighting continues, north of the Anere. Our patrols are readily advancing in the region of Hazebrouck where the enemy is very vigilant with considerable artillery activity. It is at present uncertain if this is merely a diversion.
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M. Poincaré risited Sir Douglas Haig and conferred the military medial upon him,
The British this morning attacked the Fourth Saxon Division holding Oultersteen and captured the village and also the ridge.
IMPERIAL UNITY.
London, Aug. 15,
The Press Bureau states: During the past two and a half months the Imperial War Cabinet has been in continu- ous session Every aspect, of policy affecting the conduct of the war and the question of peace has been examined by the Prime Ministers of the Empire and other members representative of all its parts. These meetings have proved of such value that the Imperial War Cabinet thought it essential that certain modifications should be elected in the existing channels of communication, so as to make consultation between the various Governments of the Em- pire, regarding Imperial policy, as continuous and intimate. as possible. It was therefore decided that for the future the Prime Ministers of the Dominions as members of the Imperial War Cabinet hall have the right to communicate on matters of Cabinet importance direct with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom whenever they see fit. It was also decided that each Dominion shall have the right to nominate visiting or resident Minister in London to be a member of the Imperial War Cabinet at meetings, other than those attended by the Prime Minister, these meetings to be held at regular intervals and arrangements to be made for the repre- Bentation of India thereat.
JAPANESE RIOTS BECOME MOST SERIOUS,
London, Aug. 18, Beuter's correspondent at Osaka, wiring on August 14, says: The rice riots are developing into the most serious in the history of Japan, Troops have been called out in nearly every important city and at several places bare been compelled to fire on the mob.
A message from Tokio saya: Police are strongly guard- ing bridges and parka, also, the residences of the Ministers. It is considered that the high prices of rice are only a pretext for venting popular antipathy to war profiteers.
TRAFFIC TROUBLES AT HOME.
London, Aug. 18.,
A mass meeting of tram and bus strikers held in London this evening passed a resolution calling out all members of the Vehicle Workers' Union in both London and the provinces to-morrow.
AUSTRIA AND THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS,
Amsterdam, Aug. 18.
An official message from Vienas repudiates the British re cognition of the Czecho-Slavoks and declares that despite it members of the Czecho-Slayok army will be regarded and treated as traitors
ITALIANS RESIST ENEMY EFFORT.
London, Aug 18,
An Italian official message says: A strong enemy encircl ing attack, attempting to relake the islet south-westward
of Grave-di-Papadopli, failed with heavy losses.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
AMERİCA AND DUTCH EAST INDIES,
The Hague, Aug. 18.
A telegram from Washington records an arrangement whereby trade between the United States and the Dutch Fast Indies will be fostered, particularly sugar, of which the American War Board will take two million tons of the 1918 crop. It is understood that forly. Dutch steamers, at present idle in Dutch East Indies ports, will be utilised to transport the mugar, also tobacco, rubber, copra, cofise, tin and quinine to America."
PRINCE RUPPRECHT ÎN MUNICH,
Amsterdam, Aug. 18.
The Berliner Tageblatt's" Munich correspondent states that Crown Prince Rupprecht has arrived in Munich from the front for a short stay. The foregoing announce- ment may be significant in view of the fact that Prince Rupprecht's command was recently at down when his armies on the Somme front were transferred to a new group commanded by General von Boehm, who is described in Paris an "an expert in retreat,"'"
A RUMOUR FROM FINLAND.
Paris, Aug. 14.
A message from. Stockholm states that it is rumoured in Finland thas the Germans have seized Kronstadt.
CAMOUFLAGING THE BIBLE.
A Remarkable Lecture.
Sir Arthar Qailler Couch, in are concerned. his remarkable lecture or the
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THE SILVER MARKET,
America Fixes Maximum Price.
London, August 16, Rauter's correspond ant st Washington says thatthe Treasury announces that it has virtually fixed the maximum price of silvSI at 101) centa. The Federal ReserVE® Board will only grant export licences for essential aivil and | military purposes and on condition. that maximum price is not exceeded by the purchaser...
Market Quiet.
Londes, August 19. The silver market is quiet.
"DAY BY DAY.
Hanglag from a Tree. It is reported by the Police that
a Chinese male named Wong 8si, aged 35 years, residing at Lower Butter Road, was found hanging from a tre at Blake Garden. The body hu been removed to the Pablia Mortuary.
sprinkle the result with italics and numerals, print it in double
Cruelty to Ducks. colamas, with a marginal gutter) ou either side, sach gutter pouring the Central Market was summon. The mister of a poultry stall is down an inky law of references ed this morning fet cruelty to end cross-reference. Then, and
dasks. Sargeant Pitt stated the not till then, is the outward
ducke were carried in two large disguise complete so far as you crates, one of which was lined with a mattress, while the other "It remains only than to ap was not, with the remit that the Bible, saya Public Opinion, ssid point it to be read in charches feet of the ducks protruded no zerious reason has been and oblige the child to get selected through the square holes at the given why we should not include partions of it by heart on Sundays. bottom, casing unnecessary pain, portions of the English Bible in Bas you are yet to imagine that Mr. J. R. Wood imposed a fine of our English Tripos if we choose." the authors themselve have taken 20. Another Chinese was charg "Then why don't we choose ? and hand in the game; that ed with a similar), ¿âlance, a fine asked Sir Arthar. To answer the later ones suppose all the of $20 being imposed. this, we must (I suggest) seek earlier ones have been somewhat further back. The predicting all the time in a Bible-that is to say, the body of cebulous way what they them.
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Female Trespasser.
A Chinese woman was charged.
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the old Hebrew Literature alothed selves have to tell, and indeed to this morning with unlawfully for us in English-comes to us have written mainly with that entering and staying in No. 25, in our childhood. But how does object, so that Mosalay and Balilice Terrace without it come? Let me, amplifying & Adam Smith, for example, permission of the owner, Mr. short passage from Dr. Houlton, constantly interrupt the thread F.. Elli: Defendat said that sak you to imagine a volume in- of their discourse to affirm that on the night in question she went olading the great body of our they tell us must be right be to the honse to remove some of own literature all bound together cause Walter Hap or the author her belongings from the servants.
of Piers Plowman foretold it ages for the work, she slept there. Mr. of the house, and, being kept lats in some such order as this:-
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before.'
Ellis said defendant had been warned previously and on the night in question she was found sleeping in the servanta' quarters. Mr. J.R. Wood imposed a fine of
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Amah Fined.
Descent of Mao,' *The Angio Nowa grown man has prob Saxon Chronicle, Walter Hap, ably found out that the word Mill on Liberty, Hooker'a 'Eosle prophét does not mean a man siastical Polity.' The Annual ho predicta. He has been in Register, Froissart, Adam Smith's love, belike; he has read the Wealth of Nations, Domesday Song of Solomon, and very much Book, the Morte d'Arthur, doubts if, on the evidence,
the kind of An amah employed by Mr. Campbell's 'Lives of the Lord Solomon was Chancellors, Boswell's Johnson, lover to have written it; King, Acting D.S.P., was charged Barbour's 'The Bruce,' Hakluyt's and he is quite certsia that when at the Police. Court to-day with Voyages, Clarendon, Macaulay: the lover sings "Thy neck is as a lesving her employment without The Playe of Shakespeare, tower of ivory? he is not, firat tendering her resignation.
Shelley's Promethese Unbound, as the chapter-heading aseerit, Defendant pleaded not guilty, The Faery Queens. Palgrave's describing the Church's graces and atsted that on August 2 she 'Golden Treasury," Bson's Bat he is lazy; too lazy even to ssked leave from her sater to Easaya, Swinborne's 'Poems and commend the Revised Version. In proceed to the country to tend Ballade, FitzGerald's "Omar fact, ba is not even quite sure that her father, who was lying ill. Oa Khayyam: Wordsworth Brown the Bible, looking like any other her return on August 9, she wa ing, Sartor Besartas. Barton's book, should be put in the hands informed by Mr. King's No. 1 awah that her service was no 'Anatomy ot Melancholy, of the young.
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Burke's Letters on a Regicide ***In all this," esid Sir Arthur, longer required. Mr. King stated Peace, 'Ossien, Piera Plowman, I think he is wrong. If you ask that defendant was engaged on Burke's Thoughts on the Present me how we should clothe the July 16 No. 2 smah. After Discontents, Quarles, Newman's Bible in a dress through which receiving her salary on August 1
defendant informed him that abe 'Apology," Donne's Sermone, its beauty might best shina, I Ruskia Blake, "The Deserted enewer, first begging you to bear received a message from the Village,' 'Monfred,' Blair'e in mind that
other formal country to the effect that her father, or some other relative, waS Grats, The Complaint of Dear, will be used for other purposes ill. Defendant asked for leave, Bailey's 'Festas, Thompson'e that we abould atart 'Hound of Heaven."
with the simplest alterations, which he granted, and gave her an extra week's leave, Defendant "Will you next imagine that
"1. The books should be te returned no more and the last ho in this volume most of the authors' arranged in their right order, 80 heard of her was that she was in names ars lost; that of the few far as this can be ascertained, the employ of a gentleman is that survive a number have found
"2 The prose would be printed Kowloon. A report was made to their way into wrong places; that Ruskin is credited withinuonely and the poetry in him by the No. 1 amah that sOME Sirtor Beesrta that Laus Terae lines, esok on a one-column of her jewellery was missing. A e with none but the necessary search warrant was issued "to Pago Veneris' and 'Dolores' are” a# notes and references, and there search defendant's, boxes, but cribed to Queen Elzsbeth; and
ea arranged that they do not nothing could be found. His that, as for the titles, they were distract the eye."
suspicion was aroused by the fact never invented by the authore, but by a committee.
"3. This arrangement should that defendant left a $14 employ. "Will you still go on to im hold whether the Authorised or ment for a $10 one. Mr. J. P. agine thatall the poetry is printed Revised Version be prescribed Wood imposed a fise of $14, or, gain default, 14 days' hard labour. as prose, while all the long for the Tripos. paragraphs of prose are broken. As much of the poetry in
DON'T FORGET. up into short verses, so that they the Bible, especially such as was resemble the little passages se meant for sansió, ús composed in out for paning or analysis in an stanzsio-form, or in strophs and examination, paperadij de antistrophe, with · prelude and Have we done 1. By no means, conclusion, or a choral refrain, wa Having ensoted all this, isi malahould print it in its proper form?
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