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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1918

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mak)

ENEMY DRIVEN OUT OF GREECE. |

BALONIKA, March 27,

THE GREAT WAR COUNCIL...

LONDON, March 27. Më Lloyd Gorge, Sir Edward Gray boon driven out of Greece by the and Lord Kitchener accompany Mr

All Germans and Bulgarians have.

Franch

BULGARIAN AMMUNITION DEPOT.

DENTROYED.

Asquith to Pari

PARIS, March 27.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE BRITISH SEAPLANE RAID.

"GERJIAN" "ANNOUNCEMENTS. -

SCOTTISH LETTER.

(Frans Our Deen Correspundeni)".

EDINBURGH, February 18. AFIRITSE AND VANILLA,

Hort

atory is Donald Macleod's lifein short. After many greatly useful years in Park Parish Church he could say, in the mki-t of

doubting an! pomimitia generation, When I leake back upon my life I do not think ang man ever had a happier one or one more blessed.”

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addition to listening to at least two, of pot enjoy reading surmona on Sunday, in loss than at heat exch, in the cor eo of measure if under two hours. couple of services that were deemed short

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In certain old controversien as yot LONDON, March 27.

forgotten, the pub and the patent alilla worn A German wireless relating to the mach in evidence as clase antagonists. The British seaplane attack on the airship pot still-which makes the rost Highland sheds in Schleswig-Holstein ways that whisky, considered iter a anti-aircraft pana brought down threestors and looked dowo upon the British seaplanes on and east of the islands of Sylt. The occuparte, four patut still as a tonelone, aggressive, valgae British ocars and one non-commis to the county families of long standing, the Sewcomer. The one elonged, so to speak oned officer, were captured,

Humour never filed the Macleods, the The Germans admit that bomba 1 millionaires. And now comes one of the grace that saves froat egokiran. One of the

other is "of the class of cowly matte.

stories he was fond of telling illustratom, wera dropped in the neighbourhood of levelling consequences of war the patent this side of his character. His brother, Hoyerschlause.

Atill is taker into the sarvice of the Government as a weapon of victory, the pot GERMAN DESTROYER MISSING. still in fefa in the cold, ne of my me except to drink the health of victory in when it comes. The public were surprised by the anpour cement of the mobiluation of the rain distilleries for the manufacture of trade. There are 13 grain distille les in high explosiver; bus not those in the

Another anecdota he took gress pleasurO in concerned a minister, a man ford of the Distillers Ltd. since the ontbreak of Seotland, most of them "owned by the good things of life, who had siternative the war about 30% of the patent still ale holor at least two ways of beginning grace. graces beloce most at wedding breakfasta has been taken by the Government, and If there were no champagne glasses on the most people in the know expected that this table or sidaboard, be always began, proportion would be increased. Of course Lord, for these, the last of Thy mercies. | the supply of whisky to the public wit be iutarfared with. prices will incresas, and ooo great authority area pidistra rise to 11th, a bottle,

AMSTERDAM, March 37."

A Berlin Naval communique says The great War Council of all the that after two German patrol boats were runk German destroyers in the night Allies has been opened and is creating time ennonntered the British, IMTER

Une the most intense interest as it is ax Pested that it will evolve co-ordinated war plans of superlative importance concerning all future operations.

A large Bulgarian ammunition depot ad Midiline has been blown up. Thirty pireons were killed and 150 injured,

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THE VERDUN REGION..

PARIS, Mar. 27.

To-day's communique says:-

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LATER.

The legates to the Allied Conference received whole-hearted Totutions.

Westool.the Mease, it has beror but Reuter's Agency under The Conference sut with closed

relatively calm while uninterrupted:

stars that it specially considered

artillery fulting has been in progress, the means of achieving a decisive along the Deunumont-Vans front.

Then his also been a fairly violent batobardment in Woevro

3line grenale fighting in Argoane has been favourable to the French"

victory.

CONFERENCES OF THE ALLIES.

LaxDay, March 27, Reuter's agency learns that at the

A MOBILE DOCKERS BATTALION. conclusion of the Allied conference in

نز پر

Loxnox, March 27.

Paris, Mr. Asquith will proceed to Rome to attend a conference of the

The formation is announced of a fallies thera,

bile dockers battalion composer of! Mr. Lloyd George has also been dockers at present inthe Army, which is pressingly invited to attend this second to he used to relieve the congeetion inconference, which is important as being British porta.

Leather indication that Italy is resolute in her determination to victoriously

The men of the battalion will receive the usual dockers pay from their; employers.

BIG BRITISH SHIP SUNK..

Toxpos, Mar 27. The British steaner Minirapolia,

14,000 čons, imas been sunk.

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All on board wore rescued excepty 11 who were killeşl

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(The " Minneapolis " belongs to the Abiantic Transport Cap She was burit in 1900 and had a speed of 16 kquote." Ter dimensions were: length Goofs. ; breadth 35it. depth it. Her gross tonnage is given as 13.528,] |

THE SUSSEX" OUTRAGE.

German destroyer has not yet returned.

THE SUSSEX " OUTRAGE.

100 REPORTED KILLED.

LONDON, March ́97. It is now believed that 100 persons perished in the Sussex outrage.

BRITISH STEAMERS BUNK.

LONDON, March 97. The British steamar Ceçilia has been tak The crew were, saved.

IRISH HEROES.

THEIR GLORIOUS PART IN THE WAR.

ME, "REDMOND LIFTS THE VEIL."

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SIR WILLIAM TURNER, Edinburgh has lost one of its greatest citizens, and Edinburgh University one of its most eminent lights by the death of

Norman of the Barong," went off on a holdiday, and Donald took his place.. "I don't know how I filled it, buss tion, after my first sermon, asked. Marshall, the door keper, her I got on Starshall replied. "Oh, gran man: Da's fist an-

other Norman-woel wattered.****

Bat, if wine was about to make glad his heart his opening wash. Most Bountiful Jehovah.

Dear

The Doctor used also to repeat a story: which Thackery told him when he came to Glugow to lecture on the Four sitting in the open air somewhere in the Georges Carlyle and Thackeray were Principal Sir William Turner at the Midlands. Carlyle was harangning os

philosophic advanced age of 83. The Anglicised Soote

subject whan.

craichin" is a familiar phenomenon it is often asid pheasant begin

them. that the Scotterised Roglishman is an

"Whas an extraordinary cous impossibility, but Sir William was the that phea ant is making." remarked exception that proves the rule. Either his Thackeray, Ubaid Carly's, Somer natural characteristics were akin to those thing's troubling its stomach, and its taking of the Scot,

that method of attering itself to the he possessed remarkabe powers of sesimilation. Certainly in recensior Thackersy used to suggest years it would have required exceptional that that al was wrong with Carlyle,"

insight to have detected, withous previous

information, his Southern origin. For

FOLLUTED FORZIDGE.

Amidst all the talk regarding the neces

38 years he occupied the Chair of An-aity for economising in the use of sugar. atomy, and in the case of that lengthy there is one point of view that I have co service he did much to build up the re soon stated: I refer to the waste of sweet- putation which Edinburgh enjoys through- ness that is involved in the use of sugar out the world no medical teaching centre, with porridge. It is an insult to the arest himsell in the very forefront of living English hotels I invariably torn down" and at the same time sided lustre to an Scottish dish to d grade it to the level of already distinguished Chair and placed sa English pudding. A breakfast in We Bastomists As à teacher he was held in the waiter who idninatingly sidles up to the highest regad by many generations of my elbow with the sugar basin. But alsa! students, and be had the repotation of the angparediluting practice is spreading in his contemporaries. Has degeneracy of the race. Stands Scotland Universities all over the world, sad spreading to its porridge. former students found their way to whers it did? Not when it coeds a sweatan the fame of their old mastor. As a man of science the work which, among a multitude

mo of more aphemera publications, one associates with, his name, is that on Flacentation sad ea Cranialogs. His

proxecute the war and is a good augury work of real historical importance. Ithan any of ore Professors of Anatomy Scotland. "I look upon it na a rigo of the i

of the unanimity of the decisions reached at Paris,".

CHINESE "AFFAIRS.

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(Wah Tes Yat Po'e Service)

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THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN CHINA

PERING, March 27. The Advisory Council met yesterday and a majority of the members showed themselves to be in favour of abolishing

reached.

Irish at the Front," by Michael Mar

Mr. Redisond has written for The

eng.. a preface which says

British Weekly," will rank with Mr. loyd George's labous latroduction to "Through Terror to Triumpli us B. having trained

will be quoted with his great speech at the outbreak of war by every writer who attempts to pieture the manner in which a really United Kingdom met the Prussian challenge.

Treat-hearted s with them a quality all their own to the sordid modern battledeld; exhibiting the character of the Irishman at its noblest

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AEROPLANES IN USE IN CHINA.

SUGGESTIONS BY THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT.

WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN MISSING. the Council, but no decisión as and greatest-it is these soldiers of ours many aides of life, and because his supreme fairs has made some suggestions to the

LONDON, March 97. The mining passengers of the Sussex include a leading American phys. chologist, Professor. Baldwin and his

to whose keeping the Cause of Ireland has passed to-day..

Léo Hoong Cheong has been dis.

It was never in wortbier, Taller keeping Patched to Yannan and Lung Ein dan that of these boys, offering up their Cheong to Kweicho, "o discuss themipreme sacrifice of life with a smile on question of cancelling independence, their lips beasuse it was given for Ireland.

Lai Yuan Hung, the Vice Presidenray God bless the! ALL-AMERICANS SAVED, THOUdu agrees to go to the President's office. every day to disccan measures for improving the present situatico.I

wite.

- THREE INJURED.

LATER.

The American Embassy monnees The General of Kwangtung, Kiangsu,

THE FAMOUS FOOTBALL CHARGE.

FRE-WAR NYING IN DESDEY.

It is, sure Mr. Redmond, these soldiem report on the human akulls and bones of ours, with their astonishing courage collected by the Challenger Expedition and their beautiful faith, with their

I id the foundation of the science nutural military genius, with their tender of Physical Anthropology se it orisis ness as well as strength; carrying with e-day Sir William Turner was a man of

remarkable personality. His abort

ort sturdy them-their-montang-and-their-frixir frame and his rapid walk, both preserved war-pipes; advancing to the ebarge, their to the last, indicated fighting power a

and s

Reports are in circulation, mys the teagless officers at their head, and strong will. His recuperative powers, also, Peking Dady Netes, that the rebels, besides. wero extraordinary. After long and tiring constructing some aeroplanes themselves in followed by their beloved chaplains session, he would set out along with hisuunan, hare purchased a number from

of sight-aosing themselves; bringing daughters to I would have exhausted these airships for the purpose of dropping

Italy,

abroad. It got. through an amount

-in reported, they intend using many a plunger man, and return looking bomba on Uererament, cops stationed

Hupea twenty years younger. His hold upon life the Provinces of Szechuan. Emas. was strong, because he was interested in so that lately.

and other places. It is interesting to note the Department

Military power of self-asntrol enabled him to conserva, both his physical and his mental Provinces regarding precautions to be power to the last.

taken against the posiblity of air mids by the rebels. They are na follows:

1-It is very difficult to deal with the abte significance to a lectura recently deli

The people of Dundos attach consideratoplares in the air, since the Government troope have not been provided so far with vared in Berlin by Professor Schulze, of anti aircraft gune. Hence at the present the Luebeck School of Navigation. The the most amential thing in dealing with learned lecturer described the results of those aeroplanes is to shoot at them before course of an extended tour of the British

researches

"which he had made in the they fir high la the ம்.

people sud soldiers on the Isles, in which Dundes figured prominent borders of the motioned Provinces should ly, with the object of

aignalling. This in and forests, which

This in || the rebels, especially among the

mountaine itaclf was an innocent enough mission. The

serve as amitable

lecture was boustranke and paste grond make great noises before they go up in special interest lies in the fact that the places for starting these machines. They can easily be discorezoid, as they alway taken at the Dogger Bank and other points in the North Sea, the Harbour of Leith air. Dreadnoughts in the Firth of Forth, and S.-.Watch towers should be built on high. views of Dusco and the Tay Bridge: Ha hills for the purpose of watching the stated that in Dundee he was "permitted coming of rebel aircraft and three watchmen to inspect a school of navigation and a tor should be provided with strong search peilo bo

lights, telephone and telegraph apparatom, This is not the only case of well-he roots of all the buildings of the authenticated spying at Dusdow. Another is that of a young German sailer who was important yardens and of the watch towere pupil in the Dundee School of Navigation should be covered with cotton waked' with and left it just before the relations between water to a depth of 8 inches. Any rebel ourselves became strained. It was learned seroplane in sight should be attacked wish

the mouths later that he was part guos by the guards of the yawou. of the crew of a German submarine which saak ons of the first cruisers,we

we lost. the rank of Lieutenant in the German Then there was a young man who, held

The

that all the Americans who were of Kiangse, Haaan, Hupeb and Szectuen trenches before the charge holding ont development of mirinquiring into the be inxtricted to search for the kirvenit of

the Sunacz were saved. Two are dangerously wounded und, another seriously wounded. -

THE MEXICAN CAMPAIGN.

VILLA'S ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAINS.

WASHINGTON, March 27, The escape of General Villa from the Maxican forces is annouased by General Pershing, commanding the United .States troops.

"

Villa is taking to the mountaine near Mamiquipe and American cavalry de la parauit.

THE SHACKLETON EXPEDITION.

NEWS OF THE "AURORA.“ ›

WASHINGTON, N.Z., Mar. 27.

are willing to net 98 pacificators,”

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The Trish Guards at Mons, the Royal Irish Heriment at Ypres, the London Tristanos (dribeling a football before them as they charged; the boys, is the

the nutches with which they had it The Government contemplates ap-their hands were Bot shaking).. the their cigarettes to show each other that

pointing Lai Yueg Hang Chief of the regular battalions at Beach, the State Council,

new service "buttalions of the Tenth Government will order Chan Kwongission at Suvia, 1 name out of a long Yush to lead the Twelfth division to lisb.

To General Mahon's Division, com posed exclusively of new laves who wore civilians when the war begna-thousands of Nationalist families in Leinster, Munster, and Connaught represented it rants-the terrific open fighting at Suvia Bay (which Don with the shelling of SCHOOL FOR TEACHING CHINESE the lighters at the landing and tac Bursting of chains of contact: mixes as they set foot on shore) was their first experience of being under fire,

Hanan...

HONGKONG CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE,

WANTED.

The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon.

Mr. W. H. EELL' Dived a resolution calling upon the Committee to formulate a scheme for the establishment of a school

be forthcoming from firmas and to report

the Chamber.

Undismayed, their coolness undisturbed. Dundee School of Navigation, kis ostensible

who was enrolled as a pupil in the To-day's Advertisements they formed for attack as if on the object being to get a mate's ticket in the parade ground.

British meziro sarrice. He was accustomed GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY to t ke berths in all sorts of little

consting craft; though, as he was well educated and

LIKE CLIZBING INTO HADES." Captain Thornhill, himself

n ·rápro- | possessed extensive knowledge of seafaring science, such employment should have been far below him. But it gave him splendid opportunities to learn the details of pilotage round our costs. And, it may be added, his tuition fees and expenses ar paid from Berlin

for teaching Chinese to foreign assistante sentative of those magnificent Australian employed in the mercantile houses of the and New Zealand troops whose prowess The Aurora bas shat a wireless mass-Colony, to ascertain what assistance might has been another of the revelations of the -age to Mr Massey, the Prime Minister,

war, wrote of the Irish: saying that she is proceeding to Port Mr. C. M. MONTAGUE ED2 scended. --Chalmera, in a disabled condition.

The Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE, who pre- Mr Massey replied assuring: those onded, said unionptedly the matter was board of a warm welcome.

a very important one and one that, had been successfully carried out in Shanghai.

The Government is considering the question of despatching a steamer to the 'Aurora's assistance.

was very important that Europeans engaged in business with Chinä should be able to acquires knowledge of the MELODINE, March 27′

Janguago and there should be facilitlen Dr. Mawson, the Antarctic Explorer givan to the young men to do so. He' in of opinion that Sir Ernest Shackletons sure that the Committee elected that, has abandoned his Ross Sea scheme and alternoon would take the matter lato has returned to Weddell Eez.

serious consideration to see if it were possible to formulate such a scheme..

EXPEDITION TO ROSS SEA,

LONDON, Mar. 27.

motion.

Theis landing at Savia Hay wis the greatest thing you will ever, read of in-

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hooks by highbrows. Those that wit venerable Sgare in this Church nessed the advance will never forget of Seatland has been removed by the death it. Bullets and shrapnel rained on of Dr. Donald Macleod, for forty year them, yet they never wavered. The minister of Park Parish Church, GĹagów. way they took that hill (aw called He came of one of the most notable clerics pay will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, Dublin Hill) was the kind of thing that families of the North What Scot does AP to MONDAY, 10% ATEEL, would make you pinch yourself to prove descendants of the giant Norman

not know and respect the Mac'ectis, the 1916; both days inclusive.

Macleod By Order of the Board of Director, that it was not a cheap wine, aftermath, of Skye, the minister of Morven ? And Hongkong, March 28, 1616. How they got there Hearch only knows. Dr. Donn'd Masleod was a worthy son et As the land lay; climbing into hell on the Highland Parina" to celebrated in our literature. He was aboman man," broad,

INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS,

SHIPBUILDERS,

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A meeting of supporters of the

"An extended report of the meating warmy it was to the Irial Division, under thankful all my life that I set beside MEETING will be held in the Insti- i Shackleton Expedition, at which be published in the China, Mail"

"Lady Shackleton and Mrs. Mackin

tosh were present, decided that im- mediate steps should be taken, to

K-morrow,

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[HS Twenty-fifty 'ANNUAL GENERAL

BY OBUKE OF THE COMMITTER.C tuto on FRIDAY 31 MARCH, 1918

Bouskan,” March 28, 1910.

an zersplans scemo: az easier, pro-ympathetic, ganiai. He was notomed position than taking that hill to any that he got his first and best When it was decided to occupy Salonica training for dealing with men in Fold The meeting unanimously passed the and to march to the aid of the Serbian Scute parish school. I have bean

thair splendid Trish Comrader, General the poorest Sir Bryan Mahon, that the place of trained for the Church: a royal fanly along with them and roba wood Of course he was honour for this desperate enterprise was provides kings, so the Macleods provide given onloisters. He began his career, Lap A FAMILY NEKJESSITY.

Acting as a rearguard against an army der, and carried it on at Lialitliga, where sep times their number, they did what Iplle gaw was a aboemaking centre, and sounded the keynote of his after life. organise an Expedition to Ross Sen.VERY family she'd be provided with was neither expected nor counted upon. he tells how it many of the men and women Chamberlain's Pain Balma at all timet Bub their instinctive military genius, asoould neither road not, write," and there Aprains may be cured in much less time wali sa thoir sourage sad determination, were closes where there was a much dirt when promptly treatel Tame back, lame

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