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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1916.'

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

THE

GREAT CONFERENCE.

TWENTY-NINE DELEGATES MEET.

BRAND STRATEGIC SCHEME

ALREADY COMPLETE.

PARIS. Mar. 20. Nerve in history shove so many Nation et "in, conference •

Tweilly-nine «glégates met in the hatarie von at the Quai d'Osay, which was the scene of the Peace Conference after the Spanish-Ameri ean War, and where Cavour, in 1910, secured the admission of Italy as one of the Grout Foirers.

After M. Brion's opening address, the Conference divided into com mittees to discuss special questions. military and economic.

It is unalerstol that the scheme of grind strategy was already pom pleted at previous consultations oil the stuffs. The military business af the coubercle is to mutify their pro- powde

THE CHINA MAIL.

À ERITISH THRUST.

ENDMY FIRST AND SECOND LINE TRENCHES, TAKEN,

LONDON,-March-28,"

A British communiqua statsa:— After exploding mine, the North- amberland Fusiliers and the Royal Fusiliers infantry this morning auaulted German salient at St. Eloi successfully taking the first and second lias trenches on a front of 800 yards.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON BOTH prisoners,

SIDES.

Panis, March 28.

A communique 1374 2- The night was calm east of the Meuse There was considerable artillery activity on both sides in she region west of the Meuse, Malancourt, the Woevro and in in a sector at the foot af the Leights of the Moues.

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By comp-de-meain in the Lorraine forest of Parroy, we killed or took prisoners the occupants of az enemy“. work which we had blows up.

SIR EDWARD CARBON AND A NEW PARTY.

LONDON, March 29, Sir Edward Carson has recovered and has returned to London." He pre- sides over the Unionist War Committee to-day.

The "Morning Post" again appeals tohim to form a National party.

The Times" hopes, be will bring the Unionist committee into line with

It is not believed that the deli-the Liberal committees on a decision in begins will estend beyond the favour of general compulsion. middle of the week.

The reoromle business is confined to laying down the broad lines of a Trade Conference

15 is Stated that 31r: Lloyd George will probably be unable to go to Rom. Lord Kilchener may recom

NO INCREASE OF TEA DUTY.

LONDON, March 29.

It is believed that an increase in the Tea Daty is most unlikely.

NEWS FROM HOME.

(From Our Own Correspondeni.)

LONDON, Feb. 18,"

THE OUTLOOK.

Parliament is in session again and so all our shortcomings are being trotted out for our inspection by the Job's comforters of atminster. It is indeed a good thing that the leading men of the Cabinet are imperturbable men, and can parry the criticisms with unruffled dignity, or the enemy might be unduly encouraged by the

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twenty four hours down there, for their return journey

འག་ One man I hear of was.mrning a posud a wook in a small country, shop lew months ago. He had one soda balf hour tuition as manitien making and is now ning just about our pounds Teek. That is an average, not an exceptional, are, BRAL TRIBDIR.

It is known that heavy casualties were caused to the enemy.

We took two officers and 163 men The artillery activity to-day has been At the same time I am not saying that mainly confined to the neighbourhood it is not worth while to apply the critical of Angres, Walverghen, St. Eloi and glass to our administrators. What in Wieltje.

Last night and to-day thore has been-ded is constructive criticism. If an archangel wate st the head of the much mining activity. We successfully

would still be in has been crater 8ghting, in which wa exploded a mine at La Boiselle. There State bees, men.

the seat of the spornor.. They are a varicus were successful, south of Neuville St. crow, running all the way from Mr Joysson vast and near the Habenzollern Ra-Bicks to George Bernard Shaw, and I defy doubt. The enemy exploded wines anyons to put his finger su part of the opposite Halluch last night, damaging country's work and my +Bors Shaw did our trenches and causing some casual good. He is like gamin who never does ties. We hold the crater formed by anything himself and spends his time the explosion.

throwing bricks at those who do.

Hera is what I think I may call a pretty Shaw's latest is a sweeping attack on the story, to odset any dark stresks that bare Prime Minister, to which Mir Arnold entered the preceeding part of this column. of OVETICAS wounded Bennett has promptly replied with telling A wagonetta effect. What is disliked in Mr Asquith in soldier mainly from the Antipases

was passing along the Strand. Just peat PARIS, March 28,

1 certain circles in bis quiet, tat fru will the Cecil Hotel there was a fower women A communique nţates:- West of the Meuse the bombardment They would much prefers pliant individual, with her basket pil d with flowers. The has continued. It has been somewhat so that they could claim a shame the stood at the corner, jest where the rarrow csusan alar progres for trafic in the rush intense on our front at Blethincourt, developments of the national policy, afterness of the street makes a bottle neck that Morthomma and Gumieres, and also their official slave had succumbed to the hours. The boys beamed on her display. east of the Meuse region, at Vaux and pressure of his ments. It is not difficult Donaumont, There have been soms to conceira what chacs #culd reign in these artillery anivces in Woevre. There has unsay times if the Prins Minister answere been no infantry action. We bomed to that description. barded, at long range, the station at As a matter of fact, mer of both sides. Handicourt, and north-east of St. Mihiel including Mr Hogar Law and Mr Walter a good train was demolished. The Long, have sunk their political opinions Germaar completely failed in a coup d'è

in ca our ass, line trenches in and have testified publicly of late to their environs of Maucourt. Our artillery respect for the head of the Government. continues active in Argonne, parti-That, it noems to me, in a conclusivo Answer to the carping of smaller men and interested cularly in Chappy Wood,

ancial cliques.

SUCCESSFUL BOMBARDMENT BY THE FRENCH.

GERMAN LOSSES AT VERDUN.

in a trics the whipped out s hattonhole And gare it to the lad sitting beside the impulsive woman he was trish-hanced drivars He showed such delight that the out her jonquils until every man had some. They all rose, as well in their worsda would let them. And gavo her the heartiest sheer that the Strand bag heard for a long time. Then they wekt off singing "

Keep the bome Eres, burning.". She kissed her hand to them, with tears in her eyes.

There were few flowers left in her back-t

mostly snowdrops. A passer-by naked the price of them. That rent bar searching ber basket, and with a face fuit of regrot she raid to her customer, 'Aint that a pity 1 I clean forgot to give the boys some mowdrops."

AXIPPING.

When that bee been said, there remaine the fact that there have beun many short comings and many mistakes. There howover LONDON, March 28. can hardly be sot down to this or that The terrible losses of the Germans at the enormous task in hand and the fact that. of the Government, considering member

The correspondent of the Bruingham Verdun is shown by the fact that the the enemy has been preparing for forty Post, who is usually well-informed felson's

"While of greater part of more than twenty-seven years far the task that we hare had to Division which had hitherto been improvise for in a great measure as we committee are taking steps to co-ordinate the moramenta of existing ships and thos employed by the Germans had to be went along. We are still short of the guns the mov re-constitated. For instance, two thirds and equipment we would desire to meet theta increase the working tonnage, proposals

pirs for further of the regiments of the Third Corps highest notions of what is requisite, but we are being considered in other parts of tha

the Empire

engagede, number are improring all the time, bereag

that will be have been replaced, and the shortage enemy has posed the crest of his maximam of The conference net again the BARLIER TELEGRAMS Companies has been made up by resources, and a now or the doxp grade, after the wach Dae of the most interesting morning, and undiinished pub-

reinforcements, of which two ffthe areas Lord Kucer told the Honga ofis that which will shortly be launched of the 1916 class. Even then the Lords, we hate added to our army abroad under the auspices of the Garexament

new British Columbia, to provide more svipa Companies total only 120 instead of 200. no less than eight divisions of the now for the trace of the Pacific Coast. The

army, and we

are, ten times at a scheme includes the formation of in France than TO ΠΕΣΕ At the start

pany Mr. Asquith..

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lic interest wher mamifested in the gathering

Loxdox, Mar. 29.

In the House of Commons Mr. Honar Taw, speaking of the Benno- mic Conference in Paris, said it could pot" be held for a long time. Mr. Asquith Hul asked him to attend

would be able to do so

GERMAN AEROPLANE RAID ON SALONIKA.

CHIEFLY GREEKS KILLED,

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SALONIKA, March 29.

Six German aeroplanea dropped

MORE SUBMARINE PIRACY.

LARGE BRITISH SHIP SUNK.'

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LONDON, March 28.

The Minneapolis reported yesterday as having been cook, was torpedoed. 153 of the crew have been brought to Malta.

The British steamer Cene and the French steamer Lebe have been sank. Tafter have been "lander, and it is believed that the remainder kave been picked up.

The Bull fish carrier. Ahartoum has bewa sunk. Two of the crew have boen picked up but it is feared that nine Eave been drowned,

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DESPERATE FIGHTING "ON RUSSIAN FRONT.

The Russians are also attacking to warde Vilna. The communique admits repeated attacks by the 3rd Russian Corps is the Lake, Naroich region, where it as the West Prussians counter-attacked and re-took the ground lost on the 20th inst, capturing 2,000 Russians.

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notwithstanding the fact that operativeshipping company, and a start is to the Indiant have been drawn elsewhere. be made by building ton suxiliary schooters Besides these forces, we have forces in at a cost of about £23,000 each, fully AMSTERDAM, March 27. training that are being constantly increased; aquipped and rigged. These will be build any part of British Columbia that will There is no reason to fear anything but A Berlin communique. says:-Tha

esch per cent of the value of good resa'ts to us in Egypt or Faluniks,

Supply Rassises have renewed specially violent especially since the Russians took Erzership, the remainder to be obtained by attacks against Field. Marshal Hinden-um. They were ready for all comers, and bond irate cuaranteed by the Government. Dividends will be limited, and the Govorn burg. They employed maases of men they are not showing soy grant zoni in with Mr. Rancinan. He hoped the The crow of the former and ten of the and ammunition to the northand west assuming the offensive. The real issue most interests safeguarded by the inspection to the Government aid mentioned, it is of Jacobstadt to an extent hitherto really lies on the West. There the conclu- and supervision of all accounts. In addition unknown in the Eastern Theatre, The Five battles will be fought,

What is the other aids of the shield 1 Te proposed that & bonus per ton for at last communique makes the usual statement is not easy to sift the arn from the chaff, three years should be granted by the about heavy Russian losses.

and the statements of neutral travellers are Government to ensure the loading of the not always a good and sure guide. But ships with British Colux bis produce from putting these statements together and its own porte. reading by their aid the German papers one gathers that the policy of the big The prospect of more taxation is not one mouth is being used by Berlin to offset the to make us feel any happier. Very few, troubler that are afflicting the

the people. however, quarrel with the tax on tickets They boasted that we could not make the for entertainments. Thestical and actistic PAT war affect the homes at the people. The cirales sy that the public will have to fact is, our navy has made its existence felt it for the price of the ticket will be raised in every

Germany home, until the prayer of to include any tax that is impored. the peuple is for pouce, and they are now, Maragem are hard pressed financially s

15c for the first time, getting glimmering of cannot afford to add a fresh burden to the pit into which Prussian aggression has present receipts. Marsover, it should be led them. When the Gorman lie bureau borne in mind that the root of a trode:n that supplies the Chinese native press with theatre is a heavy tax in itself on any pro- fiction tells of some. amazing victory over ducer, and any

Therefore, if que « A communique states:-

the British fleet--such as their description drain on the play starts with that serious The fighting in the Jacobstadt region of the mine-sweeper Arabia, as a first class amusemente are to be taxed, we who continues. Germas aviatory are in British cruiser, you may be quite sare past pay the piper. Afew msy stay away, creasingly active along the whole front. that that is really the expression of the but the rest of us will pay the extra They dropped twenty bombe at Drinsk, stomach-nche in the German Empire and amount cheerfully, even if we gos, shade After a desperate struggle we captured that the German Best is still in the Kiel less ofter.

CAL two lines of trenches north-west of When will· the war end? No living man Fostavy. Dar offensive between laker can say what the shaver io that is Bat I Narotch and Viechoskoye is encounter way hard the splaten that it will either collapse very suddenly, perhaps this year, ing an obstinate resistance.

er it will linger on in some modified degree

twenty bombe, killing twenty "civiliane,

chiefly Greeks.

Two of the raiders were brought down when recrossing, our lines,

NAYAL ACTIVITY IN THE NORTH SEA.

THE RECENT BRITISH RAID.

COPENHAGEN, March. 28. Besides the two German patrol boats sank in the recent British mid, two were, badly damaged. & corn magazine was bombed and a large German seaplan e destroyed..

OUTRAGE..

LONDON, March 27. Professor Baldwin and his wife (Americans) are safe. Their daughter

is in hospital in Boulogne,

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THE ENGLISHMAN."

LONDON, March 28. An oficial announcement states that ser, persons were drowned in the Englishaneye.

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BANGUINARY FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT.

THIRTY HOURS CONTEST FOR A TRENCH.

ROME, March 28

RUSSIANS MEETING WITH OBSTINATE RESISTANCE.

PETROGRAD, March 28.

BRITISH THADE IN CHINA.

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CHINESE AFFAIRS.

of ares, for very Img time. A French (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.).

aficer in one of the papers is quoted as saying that the firm seven yea ́s of the war will be the worst." I think he was

TUAN SHIH KAĻ.

HIS ABDICATION DEMANDED.

When the British destroyers attacked the German patrol boats five German

A communique states:A strong cruisers, twenty destroyers, five sea enemy attack captured a trench at

A correspondent who is fimiliar with speaking cynically, and did not mean to planes and a Zeppelin went to their Palpiccolo, but the Italians, fiercely China and was in Peking when he wrote have his words taken literally. His nation assistance from Heligoland; and in the counter-attacking on an extensive front to the adanchester Guarding, taken a gloomy is a model to all the world for firmness of afternoon Danish trawlers bailed elevonored a whole series of entrenchments, unless the Foreign Office and the Roard of soul in this grost struggle. It is good to be from Monte Croce to Palgrande, cap view of British trading prospects in China resolution, for gallantry, for elevation of German cruisers and other vessels, and taking prisoners. The fight at Pal Trade can be induced to do more than they fighting aide by side, with such an sily. farther west, met a British squadron of piccola lasted for thirty hours and was have hitherto done. He writes.

Already the shadow of the, closing forty ships steering westwards in a of a most sanguinary character! The

All the single men are now getting ready Italians, After six attempts, re entered door falli on China; already twenty years for examination, exemption or train Ministers declaring that. YEAD Shib studious neglect of trading facilities and The result is a curious one is business. the lost trench, bayonetting the defen-Govorament trade services shows its Everything in inatat of spore or less Kai most abdicate. ders, and hundreds of enemy dead re-

lead remark, and instead of one being able to fur. Conditions are changing every day mained on the ground.

catch the trade the Germans have lost

anowstorm.

PERSIAN PRINCE AMONG 'AUSSEX VICTIMS.

LONDON, March 29.- The Persian Prince Bahram, son of -the Sultan of Zilles, was on board the Bus and is believed to have perished,

6.8. **SKODSBORG" TORPEDOED WHILE AT ANCHOR.

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An enemy air squadron attacked there stand, a por chance of being able to and the heads of business establishmenta Isonzo communications. Three of the baid the trade we had before our Far are hard pot to it tu retain an even keel The latest work for women is seen in the

SANGHAI, March 28, Representatives, of seventeen Pro- vinces have telegraphed to the Foreign

machines porn felled, a Commander was Eastern polley played of a closed Govera- appointment of girls by the Londom City To-day's Advertisements

killed, and five airmen were captured. «

AMERICA AND THE SUBMARINE

OUTRAGES..

ment service against the astutest and me and Midland Bank to “walk, around canning dipinmate in the world, and woon That is, they have been given the highly the time must come when the Govemment responsible task of collecting money from will have to confoem that the policy they other banks and from City Houses against new pursued has lost Britain the open door bills and cheque. This is work hitherto in China su surely as we have lost the open done only by the canst sturdy and trusted door in Manchuria and Kores, Wesknees male members of the staff, for such a clark Tag: WasuINGTON March 27.

in dealing with an Oriental is fatal, and often carries thousands of pounds in The Rinking of the Suez and the this, coupled with weakness and lack of wallet, and has in consequence to bare Englishman has again raised the ques sppreciation as to the absoluta nevemity of basiness ability and a quick brain. Sixty tion of breaking off relations with Garbolding our markets against the time when COPENHAGEN, Mar. 29, many, if it is definitely confirmed that only our axport trade can pay the per cent of the staff of the bank in Evidence given in the maritime court the vessels were torpedoed, but it is tremendous waz obarges we shall have to question having gone to the front, the probable that President Wilson will so, will do more to make this war a fatal dolciency has had to be made up by girla one to send or country: then the by the crew of the Danish stoomer first couruls Congresa, as a rupture will Hunnies hordes and Ansir Turco rabble

was probably mean war. Oficiala-regard which told, the European lines." Skodsborg showed that she torpedoed when anchored off Yarmouth the situation as very grave.

on March 20, though her colours were LABOUR TROUBLES IN ENGLANL perfectly visible at a distance of half a mile.

STRIKE FOR INCREASED WAGEB

ANOTHER BRITISH STEAMER SUFL

LONDON, March 29,

The steamer Manchester Engineer has heen suck. The crew have been brought

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It is a situation that has somewhat startled to the inwabiding exture of the population will The City, but in a way it nervous tribute at this time. I doubt if the same course old safely be adopted in by her city of the same size in the world—shall we may New York.

The correspondent specially mentions the formation of great Danish America organization, which, he says, the American Legation and attachés are introducing to the various provincial and federal official AMERICAN POLITICA DOMINANTA and which several Englishmen are spainting. This your will witness the most violent This group, he says, make no wore of the presidential campaign in the United States. fact that they are out to explore the trade that this generation has seen. Coulder which military necessity he made Britain therefore, all that happens in relation to drop for the time being leak the international affairs in that quarter, a Lancsabire millowner and the Lancashire actuated by politics until next November, an increase of fifteen per cent in wagesmall hand what will it benele un if at the Folition will our our everything, and very

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