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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916. '

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

WHERE THE BLOOD FALLS.

"THE BLOCKADE FAROE."

EXCITEMENT IN PRUSSIAN

DIET.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 18.

In the course of the Budget „" debate in the Prussian Diet remark

able and insistent demands were made for a reform of the Prussian franchise by Herr Hirsch, a Socialist. who further demanded the complete restoration of the independence of Belgium.

sary.

REMARKABLE AMERICAN

FIGURES..

LONDON, Jan. 18. The Morning Post, under the heading The Blockade Farca publishes a Washington telegram giving remarkable tigures of the exports from America. to neutral countries in the first ten months of 1915, and the corresponding figures for 1913 viz-

1013 1916 Wheat (bushels) 19,000,000 50,000,000 '13,750,000 28,950,000

THE CHINA MAIL.

(Wah Tew Yat Fo's Service.

REPORTED RISING IN XWEICHOW.

PESINO, Jan. 19: The China Preas of Shanghai states that Kweichow merchants hava received a talegram from Kweichow stating that "the province has satu- ally fecured its independence and shat Lung Eun Cheong, the Gover nor has left.

RFECIAL DEFENCE FORCES.

PINO, Jun. 19. The "Government will establish special defence forces in Honan, Szechuan and Kwangsi Provinces.

BARLIER TELEGRAMS,

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail

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MONTENEGRO UNCONDITIONALLY

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SURRENDERS TO AUSTRIA.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 19, Her Heydebrand (Conservative) | Maišs (-

A telegram from Budapest says declared it to be contrary to the Flour (bafrels) 1,117,000 5,100,000 that Couns Tisza announced in the interests of the country to sober the Bacor (pounds) 30,900,000 91,500,000harter of Deprues thur Monte franchise question now, because the Boots (pairs) 182,000 4,800,000 negro had requested the opening of end of the war was not yet apparet. Cotton (bales) 53,000 1,100,000 peace negotiators. He said:

replied Firm determination was still neces- Automobiles

demanding unconditional and parts

$ 1,300,000 $20,000,000 apiculation. Ihave just received the news that Montenegro has agreed The American exports to Germany

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surrender. Therefore when the capitulation is 1913

1915.

accomplished peste negotianons will 15,000 begin. Wheat (bushala) 12,000,000 Maize ( ) 6,000,000

15,000 nil Flour (barrola) 140,000 Bacon (pounds) 110,000 273,000 Boots (pair) 471,000 nil Cotton

1,700,000 194,000 Automobiles $775,000—89,800

Herr Heydebrand was constantly interrupted which he proceeded to lay on the Entente Powers the responsibility for the continuation of the war, Herr Liebknecht and other Sochlsts shouting "The blood falls on you who are keeping the truth from the people."

MONTENEGRO.

SURRENDER OR RUIN.

ROME, Jan. 19.

It stated that the terms of the Austro-Montenegrin arrangement are -that-fontenegro, ceder Forcen in exchange for un vidriatic port, and independence.

were:-

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NEW YORK, Jan. 18.

It is stated that President Wilson has received from London from. Dr.. Page, (the Ambassador) and Celösel House (the President's Special Euroy in Europe), information that a stringent blockade of Germany will, shortly be enforced.

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These reports have been received with King Nicholas has issued a pro-satisfaction by Americana as it is thought clamation in which he says it was that an effective blockade will end

dangerous controversy over neutral a case of surrender or ruin..

GERMAN AUXILIARY WARSHIP FOUNDERS.

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 18. Aamull German auxiliary warship has founder of Aero isiand. The

fate of the crew is unknown, but German uniforms and caps have been

washed ashore.

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ENEMY AEROPLANES BOMB "1 ANCONA.

Axcosa, Jun. 18. Five enemy aeroplanes bombed Ancona. Only one person was killed and the damage done was slight.

HEUTRAL PEACE CONFERENCE"

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COMPULSORY SERVICE BILL.

LONDON, Jan. 18

In the House of Commons, in the Commiten stage of the Military Service Bill, some of the Ulaterites moved an amendment to include Ireland in the provisions of the Bill Speeches of Ulaterites and Nationalists alike were very moderate.

CHINA'S NEUTRALITY.

SOME GERMAN COMPLAINTS

·AND THE 'ANSWERS TO THEM.

(Continued from yesterday's issue).

Mr. Bonar Low deprecated the amend 14 CARGO OF SRITIES AMMUNITION.

I.—THAT on Sept. 19, 1914, the British ment to the Bill. The Bill aimed st getting the men absolutely necessary in ship. Shohsing belonging to Batter a way that would cause the least friction,feld and Swire, took en board in Tiantain To press the amendment would weaken a cargo of English ammonition. In reply to the German Consul, the Commissioner the country in its struggle.

of Customs stated that according to the information giren bim by the British Consul General, the steamer was a trans: porship of the British Government and as such was not subject to the control of the Customs

Mr. John Redmond feared that the exclusion of Ireland would lead to cruel and unjust misrepresentation. Ireland bad done and was doing all that the military aathorities naked. To force the Bill on Ireland would mean playing into the bands of a small minority.

Sir Edward Carson said that in view of Bus. Law's declaration the amand- ment would not be pressed..

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OPIUM FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.

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LONDON, Jan. 17%. Router's Agency learns in connection with the decision of the R to allows the export of opium to Britain for medicinal purposes that the Imperial Institute is making researches in order to determine the varieties of Indian opium which are most valuable for bere purposes. The Institute is also invostigating the value of the Egyptian bonbane for the manufacture of atro pine. Much sttention is also being directed to the valus of oil seeds.

OBITUARY.

THE RIGHT HON. ARNOLD MORLEY.

LONDON, Jan. 18. The death is recorded of the Right Hon. Arooid Morisy, P.C., formerly Chief Liberal Whip and Poelmaster- BRITISH CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY General, and latterly Chairman of the|

Dominions Commission

MESSAGE BY ME. ASQUITE,

LONDON, Jan. 17.

A mouage from Mr. Asquith, pub- lished at Patrograd, Bays: I am confident that Iwit will witness the consummation of the hopes of the Allies in the final overthrow of the common, enemy.”

CORRESPONDENCE.

PIPES FOR MEN IN THE TRENCHES.

[It is unde stood that when the insident Bourred, the Central Government directed the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs ab Tientsin to investigate the matter, and he reported that the ammunition was being transported by the Shashing to Weihaiwel The eargo not havings hostile destination, the incident must Tay well be consi- dered as a violation of China's neutrality.]

AN INCIDENT AT AMOT XT. Tr the Commissioner of Customs Amoy, advised Chinesa at amor, theinchang ra Sepb, 1914, that no Ger man reservists or volunteers for Talagtaa should be taken on board.

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[Eb appears that there was a party of German missionaries intending to go to Shanghai and the Firitish and the done ouerstad de Chizese Government that they should be prevented from co doing. The Commissioner of Forsign instruction in which it was stated that the As Amoy then received a telegraphic

Gorman missionaries, not being in military uniform and carrying no arms, could ant be treated as combatants but that if they should be interfered with in their journey,commodation! it was down at the risk of the individual individuals concerned, the Chinese Gavarn ment not being responsible. The Commis vioner of Foreign Affairs, subsequently reported that the said Germans had all barked on their contemplated tr p.]

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ANOTHER WIRELESS" CASE. I-THAT when Tsingtao was being attacked, an Englishman from the Union Mission Chingehowly, established in the railway station or the Tainsofa-Kiaocho Railway & station for wirelese telegra hy.

The Chugchowfe was establish d

station of the Gain

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Mission ar sinca March, 1914, carrying experiments in electricity. The establish- ment of the wireless station was effected at time when there was not the slightest indication of a general European condit (To the Editor of the “China Man") Is could not be considered to have been ornered primarily for hostile use agair s' the Germans

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, in a messag÷ to Bussis on the occasion of the New DEAR SIR

Year, says: "I cannot look for pence before Germany is taught that there is a God other than her own

lust. We, your Allies, will never forget Russia's inflexible forrude and sacrifice."

BRITISH COMBINED ATTACK AT GIVENCHY.

HEAVY REQUISITIONING EXCELLENT RESULTS ACHIEVED

OF SHIPS.

LONDON, Jan. 18..

LONDON,, Jan. 17.

I desire to thank the following for contributing to the "Pipe Fund - -Starley Smith: G. Byers; F. D. Bisseker; Leslie Hallward; F. Maitland; Dorothy and Jayco Holyoak; G. Pan- trenth; A. Denison; Naval Yard Foot ball Match" and Concert. Lista Nos. 1 to 5 (already.

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List No. ¿ (acknowledged

above)

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AEROPLANES IN TRANHT, XIIK THAT from the midde February up to March 2005, 00 x osting seroplanes of French-origin were landed at Shang a7 and were trans- shipped to Vladivostock addressed. t General chuchin. The

shipment consisted

of 16 gig that hotweat February and

id Post

180473 March some sixty cacao atsiring parts of seroplace, wer from time to time declared

at the Shangbai Customs for trans-shipmen 206.51 to Vladivostock, but being cargo in transitu, the boxes wore not opened for examinalien.. It was therefore not ascertained how many fying machines there were in the different

Total amount collected... $1,011.56 A communique says that on Sun-Remitted on 13th Nov.. 7015 (at ex. 1/10-7/16) £56.1.10 ***........$600

·Remitted on 19th Jan,

1910 (ex 3/11) £39.4.8...

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The heavy requisitioning of ships day night the enemy displayed some on Government account is keenly bomba at Givenchy. On Monday we

activity with trench-mortars discussed in Shipping circles.

made & combined attack with bombs. rifle grenades, and trench-merters at excellent the

place with

It appears, the Times says, that vossels are being requisitioned to load cargoes of coal for Italy and else

where They will then be released or condition that they load home ward" cargoes of grain.

It is understood that vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean have been released on condition that they load cargoes at Indian ports, including « stipulated proportion of manganese A neutral Peace Conference organ-ore, which is required for the manu-

Tux HAGUE, Jan. 18.

hed by Mr Ford is to sit perman ently ut Stockholm. It is styled "A Continuous Committee of Con- ciliation."

A CANADIAN ARMY OF HALF A MILLION.

OTTUWA, Jan. 18. In the House of Commone Sir Canada's Wilfrid Laurier affirmed 'spontaneous desire to do her duty to bring the war to a successful conclusion, and promised to support the raising of the Canadian, forces te half-a-million. He emphasised, however, that this must not preclude conscription...

facture of muniuons.

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FINES IMPOSED IN AMERICA.

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Our bombardment was effective at

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Frelinghien, Zwarteleen, and north I take this opportunity to express ing

I am,.Sir,

Yours truly.. ETHEL H. TARVEY. Hongkong, 19th January, 1918.

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EI CARE OF A- NEWSPAPER.

IV-THAT there was established in Shanghai in the French Concession Chinese newspaper known as the Ou-Chan Shih-Pue, which was edited by member-of the French Consulate. The Post vater of the Chinese Pont Office in Shanghai who was a Frenchman, gran ed the paper special. aber in order to facilitate its circulation.

(The Chipere Covernment have Do

THE QUESTION OF ZING.

of Ypres, where & large fire was sincere thanks to all who have kindly knowledge of the facts of this caro.] caused behind the enemy's lines.contributed to the "Pipe Fund"

Thanking you for the courtesy of the XY-THAT since Dec. 1914, the export Hostile artillery was active about

of zinc from Yunnan to Indo-China daily columns of your paper,

Ingressed, and tha: the material was further Ypres.

Boat to scamunition factories in Frnes. The Chemical Union of Indo-China made a onatract with a French firm in Yoon in for ery of 10,000 tons of zinc. the delivery of Beg szing

May 1915, there were daly about five carloads of sine carried from Taanan, to Haiphong. At the end of Match, 1913, the Chinese Government forbade the expert, of zine, but the pro- bibition was rumored in the middle part of

through the pressore of the Allies.

WORK OF THE FRENCH LONG-

RANGE GUNS.

PARIS, Jan. 18. The evening communiqus says:-: Our long-range guns inficted cor- siderable loss on an assemblage of enerny troops in Belgium, and dam aged enemy depots on the heights of the Meuse.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16,

Wo effectively shelled enemy Five Germans and a Rubber Com-trenches between the Somme and the pany have been fined sums ranging Aisne and damaged German works from £30 to £180 sterling for connorth-west of Berry-au-Buc. spiracy to ship rubber to Germany.

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IRELAND AND COMPULSION.

SPEECH BY MR. REDMOND.

LONDON," Jan. 18.

In the course of a speech in the Boute of Commons Mr. Redmond, pointed to the large proportions of men of, Irish blood in the Australian, South African and Canadian contingents.

The Premier replied dwelling cpt mistically on the immediat prospects. and paying a tribute to the Canadian people for having already wout 120,000 troops and having 220.000 under armA MORE VIGOROUS PROSECUTION He emphatically reported that the Government had no intention of intra- ducing conscription,

SOCIALISTS AND COMPULSION.

STIVONG-BUPPORT.

LONDON, Jan. 18., Those who are opposing compulsory of the service in the masses" are trenchantly denounced in a manifesto issued by the Socialist Defence Committee. It says the object on to Compulsion in the present clrcumstances is Lypocrisy. Direct

and indirect compulsion is the keyevna of the edifice of Trades Unioniam,"

It sulgatises as a humbug and poward any elegibis Trade Unionist now refusing to sailst

NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL

Дорвеи, Тар. 18. Mr. Asquita announced House of Commons that Mr. Joseph

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VIGOROUS ITALIAN COUNTER- OFFENSIVE.

LOCAL MEN AND OFFICIAL:

"APPOINTMENTS.-

(To the Edilor of the CHISA MAN. As it is to he observed, is

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commercial commodity Sir-Your correspondent "Hongkong exclusively used for the manufacture of munions of war. The exportation of Kino was at or time prohibited because Boy," being perhap 100 young to remem.

this country. The ber the names of several local gentlemen the supply of the mineral was not equal to who have faithfully served the Crowa, and ita demand in ars pow either decorsed or actually enjoying pr hibition was meant to be temporary and one not removed through the pressure well-earned pensions, has overlooked a so re

of the Allies as suggested by the of rames of those who have occupied bigh Tageblatt.] positions in the Hongkong Civil Service, Royz, Jan. 18.

For instanics-Mr J."M. A da Silva. A communique Baya that the Italian bombardment of Fort Raibl on the frea-(deceased) in his time the dayen of the tier of the Treatino destroyed a portion Civil Service. He was the first to install the of a cupola and pat an enemy detach Goverment Telegraphic Service and on bis rotirement he held the port of first clerk best to fight

A vigorous Italian counter-offensive in successfully und Oalavis continues

in the Audit Office: Mr Fraccion Machado hat for many years until his retirement his British Postanataz in Jabrand Shape Mesars: José Machado and A. M. O. da Silrs were both in succession chief clerk of the General Post Office when they retired on pension; Meara, Felippe

▲ COMPLAINT ABOUT BOOTH.

XV-THAT the Shanghai Tannery Co., an Xuglish concern in Shanghai, undertook 00,000 ps of military boots, at 88 per to supply the Bussian Gorornment with pair. According to the Customs raport, on May 10th and 13th and on August 13th 17 600 pair of boots were shipped from

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DANNATOMIER CASE OF BOOTS.;

XVIE THAT in July, 1915, Russian OF "THE WAR.

PETROGRAD, Jan. 17.

Machado and Botelho (botir deceased) spent ordered from the Fisco-Chinese THE DISTILLERS COMPANY LTD. EDINBURGH.

Tannery, French concern and a RussiRT LONDON, Jan 18. A communique says that in the fight

were dil first shoemaker, Nigulowitz, in Tintain, Unionist and Liberal Committere at Kangarar we took prisoners. The and J. LB. Alves.

enemy left numerous dead. Car losses clerks at the Harbour Office when thng 150,000 pair of military boots. The bouts

ZARGO pledged to a more rigorous prosecution were insignificant South-east of Elama retired Mr J. G. Bocha (deceased) are not acceptat owing to their being

of poor materials. [The Chiness Government, it seem of the war now number respectively dan we drove back a Turco-German was chief accountant at the GP.0; 120 and 10, and both are growing.

detachment.

Mr.J. M. 8. Alves (deosseod) was first clerk received a protest from the German Mini- at the U.8.0.; Mr M. Gutierres (deos sed) ter on he subject. The Chinese authori ein Tiestalo were instrboted to make an Hoe in

reported this the superintendent of the Mercantile Marine manager of the Office; Mr F. X Bonza, first clerk at the was questioned and replied that his Com dealt aply in loathor and did not pany Palios Office; Mr Xavier, chief accountant tufacture boots and that they had at the Supreme Court, Mr. L. Almada a noyéz inado apy agreement with any TORDON, JAD. 18. H.R.Hthe Prince of Wales presided Castro (deceased) first clerk. Importa and Russian for the exportation of leather or

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(To be continus.)

CHINESE TELEGRAMS. Wah Tez Yat Po's Bercice.)

THE PORTUGUESE MINISTER APPOINTED AS ADVISER.

PERING, Jan. 19. The Chinese Government has engaged the "Portugueso Minister as adviser in regard to peremonial for a period of three years.

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at a meeting of the Royal Patriotic Food others that secaps my memory, besides at St James' Palace. He mid that his acmerous abordinate officers who are pow experiences at the Front would leave enfaging their pensiama imperishable memories of the dauntless courage and cheerful endurance of the British troops. His Royal Highness emphasized that the Fund must en deavour to prevent soldiers dreading lost their families should suffer hardships, and anuoticed that, the Fund would be or not mean that you have able to augment, pensions in exceptional coses and also to extend benefits to comption, or that you are going t: bava The Minister of Finance hay dependents hitherto unrecognised. Mr it, but it does mean that your lungs are the fe widy and take Chamberlain's Cough handed $200,000 to The Great Mekanna recommed led a grant of thrasteaed, and it is just as well zo be on Occasion Preparation Bureau fr 1,000,000 be placed at the Commit Remed halos it is too low als be

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