EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Page 13
A GERMAN NAVAL ORDER.
London, Nov. 11. The Admiralty has intercepted a German Naval, wireless message issued by the medium of the warship Strassburg to all warships, destroyers and submarines in the North Sea and the Baltia. It quotes the armistice terms and adds: The blockade instituted in defiance of International Law against the German people is to continue and would involve our destruction. It calls on the fleet to defend the country from the unheard of presumption Reports state that strong English forces are off Skaw and orders submarines in the Baltic to assemble in Safnitz Harbour.
THE LAST OF THE FIGHTING.
London, Nov. 11. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: When hostili- ties were suspended at eleven this morning we had reached the general line on the Franco-Belgian frontier, eastward of Mons, Chierres, Lessines, and Gražimont. Our squadrons on Nov. 10th dropped nineteen tons of bombs, destroyed sixteen German machines, drore down one and bombed two others standing in an aerodrome. Nine British are missing. Our night bombers dropped twenty tons of bombs on targets in- cluding railways at Louvain, Namur and Charlero.
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Paris, Nov. 12.
The French took Sison and Meziers. Extraordinary speed has marked of the Allied advance on the whole front The Belgians with the French and Americans swept across the right bank of the Scheldt above Ghent The French have compelled the enemy to abandon many guns and a vast quantity of material in the last few days. The last Germsa is being driven from French soil-Havas.
ITALIAN CAPTURES.
London, Nov. il
An Italian official message says:-Our captures so far counted between Oct. 24 to Nov. 4 are 10,655 officers, 41,616 men and 6,816 guns Operations were suspended at eleven in the morning,
CONTROL OF SHIPPING,
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London, Nov. IL
The Shipping Controller annonces that the Government control of merchant shipping will not continue after the war longer than is necessary to provide for the extraordinary conditions arising from the war." Privately owned ships wul be released as soon as the tonnage available is considered sufficient to provide the essential national shipping services.
THE SILVER MARKET.
Silver is quiet.
London, Nov. 2
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 1918.
KARLIER. TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to The " Telegraph."},
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION.
BAD MILK
THE WISDOK OF FOOLS. KAISER AND HIS PEOPLE.
LAST SCENE OF ALL.
Prosecutions at the Police Court,
By Lieut. C. Vinco.
Famer Japanese Envoy's
→ Impressions.
By Captain Lord Dunsany.
After John Calleron was hit he
Nauen, November 11.
The new People's Govezanicat. "Who is the defendant ?" was consists of the Majority sociabatsked by Mr. P. W. Goldring at ubert, Schiedemana and Landsberg | the Police, Court this afternoon,
Mr. Toraichi Sugimurs was the was in a kind of twilight of the last Japanese Ambassador to mind. Things grow dimmar and Germany which country he left
-A writer in the Garman paper Deutsche Politik ber ileacribed an odd and interesting little soene He went as he rather coa and the independent Soats before Mr. J. R. Wood, when he temptuously puts it into for Japan on leave thority before calmar; harsh outlines of events naase, Ditzmann, and Barth, which appeared to represent the owners corner of Germany where the the outbreak of hostilities. He became blurred; memoriasusme tu is constituting itself a Council of of the Kowloon Dairy Co., who political aims of the world are not has be staying at the ville at him; there was a singing in his care Commissioners. An active Commu-were summoned for selling bad to clearly enviassed as they are Sakswa, near Olawera, for the like far-off bells; things seemed
in the centres of ection". There benefit of his health. Interview: Lee, chosen from the representatives milk.
Mr. Goldring said that the in a shop he found talking togethed by a Kokumin representative more beautiful than they had a of all the troops in Greater Berlin, una placed itself as the disposition summons was made out in the or a few town men and pose HMr. Sagimars spoke to the while ago; to him it was for all of the Socialist Government for up- name of Mr. Ahwes, but he no ants, old people all of whom had following affect regarding the the world like evening after some uolding public safety, peace and or fortunately perished in the Race sons on the western front" Kaiser and Germans in general:quist sunset, when lawns and der. There have been isolated cases course catastrophe. He, Mr. found them talking over the fail-
The Kaiser is no doubt abrubs and woods and some old
tions are open as mual, and work for
less"
dead,
the
prosecution,
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of plundering which have been Goldring certainly objected to ure of their armis in the attack. great man but not a great man rigorously punished. Almost all this.
on the Marne, shaking their like Napoleon; he is just an spires look lovely in the late light,. platoes of business and public instilu- Mr. A. Gibeon, who appeared beads over it very sadly. That ordinary great man. If he was and one reflects on pass daya. esid attack bad been going to take really a super-man he would not Thus he carried on, accing things will be resumed at an early date a he · did
on their armise to Paris and bring have embarked on anoh a recklewe dimly. And what is sometimes all the factories French Wire-whom the summons, was served. back to them, waiting in Ger adventure as the present war, called "the roar of battle”, He presumed that Mr. Ahwee, was many, peace and plenty and thair which must prove disastrous to those aerial voices that Lyons, November il.
sons, Bat somehow it bad failed. him. The Kaiser's father was a spari and moan and whine and His Worship said that the The "townemen and passanta A message from Basel states that
great man and succeeded in so rage at soldiers, had grown received him, evidently, with violent fighting occurred on the summons should be straak ont
complishing a great task with the dimmer too. It all seemed further night of the sub inst. in the streets As Mr. Gibson and Mr. Goldring respect as a man coming from one sasistance of Moltke and Bie-away, and little, as far thingu aZE. of Berlin between revolutionaries bad no objection to this course, of the "centres of action". They marok. The Kaiser, however, He still heard the bullets: there asked him to give them a frank lacks the large mind of his father is something so violently and and monarchists, The fighting was the summone was struck out.
Shan Ying Nain, 121. Welling, aniwer to a question. He promised as well as his ability in leader-intensely sharp in the snap of particularly intense near the build- ings of the Court-Martial, which ad- ton Street, was next summoned them a frank answer and they put ship. He has always suffered passing bullets at short ranges joins the Imperial Palace. The for selling adulterated milk their question. The question from an exaggerated idea of his that you hear them in deepest Bghting" was severe in the Mr. A. Gibeon, proscoated and was: Please tell us your honest vicinity of the Friedriche-Strasse Mr. Leo d'Almada defended. railway station. The resistance of Sanitary Inspector Pearson that -វត the the monarchists weakened towards depored
date in question he went to the mid-day on Sunday.
shop and asked for three bottles of milk. He was given them and sent them to the Analyst.
Cross-examined by Mr. d'Atmads witness said that
also
Lyons, November 11
性
thought, and syan în dreams. power and importance. opinion must we give it up?'
"There is no question whatever, He heard them, searing by above To this be answered with however, as to the industrious all things else. The rest seemed another question. "How are we and thrifty nature of the Germans, fainter and dimmer, and smaller to give it up? Do you believe. For example, directors of most of and farther away. that it depends upon na ? Do you public companies in Germany He did not think he was very think that the enemy will give us come to ofics earlier and remain badly hit, but nothing seemed so any chance ?"
later than the other members of matter as it did a while ago. Tet, His anawer was received with the concerns and work very hard. he carried on... out contradiction (one would not Among the many things Germany
And then he opened his eyes contradict a man coming from has achieved in the line of indus one of the "
centres of action trial arta may be mentioned the back in London again iz 80 very wide, and found he was
uncertain silence."
consolidate the liberty they have the defendant was carrying on a bat at the same time with "a production of synthetic silk whion Underground train. He knew it
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The Socialist leader, Herr Ebert, now definitely recognised as the Chancellor, issued a proclamation, announcing the formation of a popu- lar government, which will assure he had prosecuted the defen that peace to the German people and dant before. He knew
may be said to have more or less rained The Chancellor declares stuerant, and that he did not
It is clear that he was not estis sflected the Japanese industry. at once by the look of it. He had that the political transformation of rep a dairy The defendant had
made hundreds of journeys, long Some of the German factories Germany must not hinder the re- told him that he got the milk fied with this "ancertain silence,"
the Wing Fat Dairy. but went on to argue with them were closed to Japanese visitors go, by those train. He knew victualling of the people, and asks from all to maintain order and tranquili. He did act consider it his duty to for he says later that" he hopes he for fear that their industrist by the dark, outside, that it had find out where the Wing Fat convinced his friends that it was secrets might be stolen bus a not left London; but what was ty."French Wireless."
odder than that, if one stopped to Dairy was. He would not suggees the enemy's fault." Perhaps it certain large factory was wide think of it, we that he know Lyons, November 11.
open to Japaneas. The con- "Vorwaerts" announces that the that the defendant had mixed the was just their polite silence which King of Saxony has been deposed. milk with water. The bottle had made him think that they were dactors of the factory ware of the exactly where it was going. It cardboard cover on it, bas convinced, or perhaps they really opinion that the Japanese are into the country where he used to was the train that went away, out Lyons, November 11.
were convinced. For they were clever battery lesy and although Lives & boy. He was sure of The King of Wurtemberg has ab was sealed.
The defendant depored that he very simple people.
they might abwin industrial that without thinking.. was the manager of the restuarant
He describes what "simple secrets they would have no Evidently cession to put them into practice and he always received milk from people" they were. the Wing Fat Dairy. He kept the they were the sort of people on as it would mean a larger cost of bottles in an ice-chest. He did whom all the ingenuity of Laden production than in Germany, Bot open
the battles, and dorff's despatches and of the Germany would, they said, there could not BAY whether articles of the military critics, fore, continue to supply better the milk was adulterated.
was wasted. The ideas, he says, and cheaper goods to the world. In reply
Other people were willing I returned to Japan after a beside him on the same seat. to His Worship, which "the High Command is defendant said that he did not always so anxious to imprese on absence extending to thirty years They all seemed like people he adalterate the milk. Continuing, public opinion" are too subtle" and was greatly surprised at the remembered a very long time ago, defendant said that he had not for them. "They are only loosening of moral ideas among In the darkness opposite, beyond received any complaints from his gradually convinced, and they the people and the shame lesapead the windows of the train, he could cliente.
will only really believe when the of the Japanese. For example, i
see their reflections clearly,・・ He Hr. d'Almada said that the Germans agsin advance."
met at a social function men who looked at the reflections but could Wing Fat Dairy was known to You Bea at 0108 the were sentenced to terma of
not quite remember, The following players have the Sanitary Authorities, but sort of people they are, imprisonment in connection with
iser that they slow, dull minds which cannot the notorious naval scandal; left. She was quite young. Saa ▲ woman was sitting on his been picked to represent the despite the
defendant at once understand that the certain Peer, who had rsurëd
THE FOUNDATIONS OF Arenches dag to them. The wholedicated French Wireless."
PUSH.
(By Captain H.B.C. Pollard).
Lyons, November 11 The ex-King of Bavaris and the ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht have teft. Munich-"French" Wireless."
FOOTBALL.
H. K. F. C. v. Navy.
When he began to think how he came to be there he remember
the war as a very far of thing. the supposed he had been an- conscious a very long time. He was all right now.
trench system has to be placarded will names and notice boards, so thai girange troops can find the way by map directions alone. The notual front trenches have to be. fitted with trench ladders or foot- nalds for the troops to swarm out over the parapet easily. The first stages of a great Communication frenches have to offensive are the foundations be opened out so that stretchers upon which the whole success of oan pass, and the traffic routes the operations depend. The have to be carefully labelled "in" communique with its triumphant and "out" to prefent congestion, announcement that: "** Et dawa Shell-proof beadquarters and we attacked" on".a ten mile line dressing stations oave to be. between A and B, and have establianed, and the tunnelling penentrated the enemy positions companies have to driva so a depth of two or three miles" covered вар
out into No Hongkong Football Club in their once prosecuted "gives little idea of the weeks of Mana Land. When
the game with the Royal Navy on and failed, now again the farther a victorians army retreats from active life on account of his was more like someone that he Labour and careful planning assault goes
complicity in a criminal offence, over, the thin Saturday the 16th inst. at 4 p.m. prosecuted him. If the Sanitary the more victorious it is.
Then he tells as another interwas present at the Imperial the others were. He gazed at her, that preceded the blow.
roofs of these saga are knocked on the Navy Ground:G. Authorities wished to do any Let us take the work done by, and they serve as commaios. Garrard F. W. Black and J. good to the community "they esting thing about these "towns Coronation-at-Kyoto;-and-e-Eg did not turn- and stare si prosecute the Dairy people and peasants" in their members of the Diet, who were her but he quietly watched ha one Division preparatory to del-on trenches across the area the MoCabbin; W. Hamilton. A. N. should
not the defendent. corner.
They have not really sentenced to imprisonment reflection berore him in the dark. ivering an Black apon the enemy daunter barrage is likely to Other and J. D. Carriere; E. Ries; and
(Mr. d' Almads) forgotten that we were originally charges of corruption, were again Every detail of her dress, her J. Clark, D. Riechelmann, H. opposite trench zonë. Kirst, the descend.
McTavish and T. Jennings, thought it was more "persecution the party attacked, they would elected as people's regresentatives young face, her hat, the little Commander of the Division hae
In the same way the Engineers Reserve:-T.L. Kaight and J. then prosscution "Defendant repudiate with indignation the in the Dist." so be informed of the general plan working at night, carry buried
Rasinusest.
bought the milk from the Wing suggestion that Germany osused of amësult, the objectives and the cables as far out into No Man's
Fat Dairy thinking it was good. the war, and they have read often amount of stery and re Land as they osh, and special
There was never any meal on the enough that we offered peace and inforcements that will be at his arrangements have to be made for disposal. He then sets so work wireless and visual signalling mapping out a plan, of attack stations."
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The Allled Victory,
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To do this he must study the The Pioneers have to complete Hie Lordship Bishop Possoni ground over which the fighting forward dumps of essential store has ordered the Te Deum to be will take place, and all possible and material, and most prepe re eung after the last Mase in every information that has been colleor wrench bridges over which the Catholic Church in the Colony on ed about the enerny position field guns can be brought up to Sunday next, the 17th inetsut, From maps, scouts, reports and support the infantry,
and again in the Cathedral at the aeroplane photography, largescale At dumps must be collected Benediction at 5.30 p.m.
Be
bottle:
10
His Worship imposed a fins of $25.
V
Jubilation at Canton.
the enemy refused to jake it.”
War Wages for Convicts.
...
most deeply remembered than all
and tried to clear his mind.
ornaments EDO поте, Waze minately clear before him, look- ing out of the dark. So contented ahe locked you would say she was antongned by war.
And yet (and this is the
As he gased at the clear calm- extraordinary thing) "and yet behind all this there is a vague Under an executive order face, and the dress that seemed ides that if we were really to announced in Washington the neat though old and like all THE ALLIED VICTORY. declare onmelvas ready to President authorises the placing things, no far away, his mind renounce this war aim or that, if of war supply contracts with the clearer and clearer. Is we were willing, sa the simple heads of prisons and reformatories esemed to him certain is was the man says, “to give it up we could at prevailing prices and directe face of his own mother, but from have peace".
that prisoners engaged on such shirty years ago, our of aid. memories and one piesare. Ho models at the ground to be attack-rifle ammaninon,, boenbe, rifle
The writer fears that such controls shall receive wage felt sure that it was his mother as nd are prepared, and every detail grenades, filled Levis-gun ma
Our Canton correspondent beliefs SIB proof of the corresponding with those paid she had been when he was very of strong pointe, machine-gun gazines and machine-gun belts,
#finadequacy of the Govern- for similar work in the vicinity: small, and yet after thirty years emplacements, switch-trenches, seroplane flare and special sigmal the barrage the assault wave goes All the official Departments ment propaganda. Perhaps it Extensive plans are being worked how could be know? He posled v gili-bazes and wire is reprodnosu rockets,~ Bokes and trench over the top, followed at some fifty were decorated on 13th inst, in hes been inadequate, or out for making use of the man
in miniature, the whole being mortar projectiles and digging to seventy yards distance by the celebration of the victory of the perhaps, like the Kept up to date from any new wools. In addition sach battalion stronger second wave, this in turn Allies, gurgeons celebration of the High Command, it has and other penal institutions how she can to be there, looking idesa power of Federal penitentiaries to 157 and be quite sure, Bat ass & epare size of one thousand being supported by the third was observed on the Shameen. It been meraly too subtle." It during the war. Congrem already The ground is that split mpsing of bully best arad ̧ biscuit | wave" which advances in small began on the 11th inst, and con- has told, “the pesuania" and has provided for industrial plant uemories, he did not think af sẽ.
information reposted.
writes as follows:---
like that, ous of those oldest
ali. *.
He seemed to be hugely tired by many things and did not want to think, Yote he was very
into smaller motors and allotted rations, and an equally important columns of platoons. ---
tinued to the Lath inst. The townspeople” that the war was at some of the prisons. to the brigades, who` in' turn depor of one thousand tins of As the depth of the fighting in- Union Jack was flown on the forced upon Germany. It has allot frontages to the different drinking water.
inaresans the troops engaged get building of the German Consulate, told them that Germany offered battalions.
Cages have to be erected for beyond the trench areas, and the A lantern procesion took place pesce, and that the enemy refused The artillery barrage chart is prisomers, and social tracks action changes from trenan war on the evening of the 13th smid it. It has told them these things pagands is to set itself to combat. happy more happy even she most carefully worked out and placarded with direction boarda fare to open fighting, when the scenes of mach enthusiasm, and they have, believed them: Bat will it succeed in convincing site men just come all new to time tables prepared. In addition to lead walking wounded to the anccessive slope of the operations A nation has been issued by the But at the same time it has told the simple people that it is all comfort. to the creeping barrage special advanced dressing sistions. Ar are dictated to a great extent by British Domeal on the Shameen to thera of what German victories "the enemy's fealt" or will they do gaxed and gazed at the face shoots have to be arranged for angements have also to be made chance conditions. Nevertheless the effect that one of the serme have taken from Belgium, and still persist in their vague idee in the dark. And then we fell the purpose of wire cutting, And for the provision of police poets it is the first day's action in the made by the Allied powers is from France and from Rusis and that Germany Issa "things to give quite sure all unit Commandere have to be to control traffe
wiginal trench sons that lays the better than those made by the from Rumanis, and of what some up" conquesta, ambitions, TAIN familar with the artililety -pro- gramme so far as it concerns their has been completed, the assault success. If this first attack u not Germans and their movable pro- Legland. And so in the minds have perce? It is an interesting When every detail of the plan foundation of all subsequent Uhinese Republic. It is that all day they will take from wicked conocile, false ideas before she can troops and she tanks come up effective, and enemy
and at attacks sacooed in restoring the Partice most leave the Shameen of these the trench garrisons in the appointed sero hor the position, the chance attack is launched. Without new boom Lost and
formations.
A great deal of work has to be under cover of darker
dons
within a month:
letter from the
to the Civil
simple people there question
remsized
that: if.
He was about to speak.
watching him, he wond she looking at him? W
glanced for the first own reflection In that cin