1916-11-23 — Page 5

Page

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1916,

THE

LATEST

THE CHINA MAIL.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

WAR.

PLIGHT OF RUMANIANS,

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

THE SITUATION IN

RUMANIA.

SOME POSSIBILITIES.

PETROGRAD, Nov. 99.

put that Goneral von

It is pointed Falkenhayn's success is connfined to the least important front, namely the left. is Eastern The dangerous restor Wallachia where victory would give the enemy the whole of West Raimanis including Bukharest, but here the nomy attack- have hoen steadily repulaed.

most diffent for At present it is General von Falkenhayn "to advance eastwards owing to the hundreds of mountain streams intersecting the country north and south.

1

THE FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS.

THICK FOG HINDERS OPERATIONS.

LONDON, NOV. 22. -

"HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK.

1,106 SURVIVORS.

LONDON, Nov. 22. The Admiralty has announced that the hospital ship Britannic was sunk by mine or a torpeto yesterday in the Aegean Sea.

ENEMY ADVANCING`AT, REMARKABLE SPEED.

SPORTING.

CRICKET.

UNIVERSITY DEFEAT THE NAVY. The University on their own ground defented the Navy yesterday by 60 runa. Mn Marley's batting and bowling were prominent features of the game. Scores

THE NATY.

Wilde, Lb.w, b Dixon Lt. Col. Morgan, b Marley.... Carruthers, st. Ponsonby Fane, b

Marley m Hannes o Chow

Maring.. white, st. Ponsonby Fane, b Marley Barclay, e Ng Saekwong, à Marley Holtby, not out...

LONDON, NOV. 224 The latest Rumanian communiqué isi-Com. Stowe, b Dixons..." dated the 15th is, hence the

Cary, b Dixon... occupation of Craiova is not confirmed, Sub. Le Golland, Dixon, b Marley but the Russian report that the Robinson, b Marley Rumanians are retiring towards Filissa showed that the enemy are advancing arumarkable speed ever the Rumanian Plain. It was only on the 16th fast, that the Rumanians mentioned the retirement from

sixty miles north-west of Craiova. Since the battle of Turgajiu, nothing bus been heard of any serious fighting. Simulta neously, the Rumanians are obstinately Valley eastwards, but the enemy here Dixon fighting and retiring along the Aluta are slower, and have pot covered half barley

"

Extra

+++

Tutal

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

11.

11.3 UNIVKRATKY.

the distance from the frontier to the main railway. There is no news of the Prof. J. D. Wright; b Galland The survivors totalled 1,106, 26 of withdrawal of the Rumanian army from A. de Sousa, b Morgan. whom were injured.

Orhova, since the beginning of the G. E. Marley, cand & White enemy's southward drive. If it has not gekwong, st. Hopper, b Morgan

B. Rumjan b White withdrawa it now lacks railway. Punsonby Fane, e Carruthers,

Morat cheong, à Carruthers, b White ...

It is estimated that 50 were lost. [The Britannic, presumably is the new White Star liner, buila in 1914. She was

| a ship of 17,000 tons.]

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S

DEATH.

ד

NEWS RECEIVED WITH INDIFFER-

ENCE IN BERLIN. ·

J

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 24.

A telegram from Berfin states that the death of the Emperor Francis-Joseph was expected and it was received with A French communique states:ifferencs, owing to his never having

been popular in Berlin. Thick fog in the region of Monastir hindered operations. The enemy strongly resisting on a line of heights from Shegovo, four kilometres north of Monastir, to Hill 1650, south-west

Makovo.

is

We took 500 more prisoners. Our troops on the left bank of Lake Prespa are continuing adrance northward.

EXPULSION OF ENEMY MINISTERS FROM ATHENS.

ATHENS, Nov. "32. The Austrian, German, Turkish and Bulgarian Ministers and the whole Staff of each Legation will be conveyed to-day on board & steamer which will land them at Dedezgatch.

Admiral Fournet notified them of keir intended removal, charging the personnel of the Legations with espion- age detrimental to the Allies.

Much is expected of his successor, who is described as pro-German and a tool in the hands of German advisers.

communications.

It is reported that King Ferdinand of Chow Bulgaria has arrived at Constanza.

GERMAN SLAVE RAIDING IN-

BELOIUM AND POLAND.

WORLD-WIDE HORROR.

LONDON, Nov. 22. There is workiwide horror at the German proceedings in Belgium and Poland for the purpose of increasing the twindling-Reserves. Even the American pacifist organs are disgusted with the monstrous oppression, and have-pointed out that Germany becoming a slave State, only paralleled by ancient Baby. lon, Egypt and Rome. Nothing modera is comparable, except the raiding of African villages by Arab slave traders.

The British press supports Lord Robert Cecil in declaring that the only remedy is for the belligerents to redouble their efforts to rid the world of such tyranny.

The Emperor Francis Joseph was feverish yesterday morning and was assisted to his bedroom by the Gend

PEOPLE WITHOUT LEADERS. Duchess Valerie. He was unable to

ZURICH, Nov. 22. sleep and complained of pains. Ho

The bulk of the remaining population asked that the doctors should be stm-in Poland is composed of illiterates, moned. The patient made u gesture to The Germans carly eliminated the intel lectuals, offering them passports to travel the doctor" at "9,940, pointing to his abroad. They also deported the labour throat, and died a second later. leaders, hence the population is leader-. The Imperial Family was then sum-less and unlikely to resist. The recruit moned and the Kaiser was informed meat of armies in Litbunia is included

in the German scheme. telephorically, there being direct com/ muniention between the Falace and the German FiendenartersTM

NEW GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO-

YIENNA,

LONDON, Nov. 24. The Berliner Tageblatt states that Herr von Jugow will become Ambassa

The Greek Government protested, and the Minister of Justice has re-dor to Vienna... signed.

LATER.

Apart from espionage, one of the reasons for the expulsion of the enemy Minister was a statement by the Ger man Minister that vessels taking Nation- alists to Salonika-would be torpedoed This is regarded as a declaration of war against the pro-All section of Greece.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

LONDON, Nov. 22.

General Sir Douglas Haig reports snemy artillery firing against our right on the new fronti south of the Ancre.

THE KING AND HIS SERVANTS.

LONDON, Nov. 22.

It is understood that the King has ordered every bachelor eligible for military service employed in His Majesty's establishments to report Immediately to the Military authorities.

THE CONSCRIPTION REFERENDUM ́IN: AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 22. The final Conscription referendum Bgares are as follows:

1,08.5.000 1,148,000

"In favour

Against

Majority against...

AHIPS BUNE.

H

61,000

LONDON, NO. 22.

The following atenciers haya. bein

POLES.

|

TEUTON-NORWEGIAN CRISIS

THREATENED.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 22. The Darbind expresses the opinion that everything points to a Teuton- Norwegian crisis, and it adds:" But

Sweden, remembering the tragedy of 1864 will certainly not follow Norway in a policy of.adventure."

'SUBMARINE SEIZES MAILS.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 32.

GERMANY'S FOREIGN MINISTER

RESIGNS..

P

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22. An official Berlin merenge states that Herr von Jagow, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has resigned for reusons of health. He will probably be succed ed by the Under Secretary, Herr Zimmerman.

D. P. Dixon. c Hopper, b Morgan T. Gittens, not out

A. Ismail etowe, b Morgan J. M. Jack, b Morgan

Extras...

Morgan

Golland White wilde

25

WOMEN IN THE WAR LABOUR MARKET.

768,000 MEN REFLACED.

PREVENT PLAGUE & DIPHTHERIA

ECONOMY

BY USING

"PURITOL.”

A germicide of the highest efficiency. Unlike a great many disinfectants offered under various names Purital possesses the following recommendations.

Fb emulsified by the addition of wacor it makes a perfect emulsion, which does not stain or corrode and has n healthy odour.

A one gallon tin will on the addition of water prodnog 100 gallons of efficient disinfectant.

The July figures resulting from the monthly inquiries conducted by the Employment Department of the Board CLEANLINESS IN USE &of Trade of the increase in the employ àment of women and of the replacement of 10 men, by woman throughout the country! are now available. Altogether 866,000 additional woman for 97 por cont of those employed in 1914) had been drawn. into various occupations up to the month 0 of July, 786,000 of them directly re placing men. It is no weerst that the figures for the next quarters will be 76 bettar still, and that the recruiting ground of this new women's labour army is not yet exbausted. We are informed, too, that there is still need for more women in industrial occupations.

15

There are such occupationa as nursing the sick and wounded, small dressmak ing establishments, and domestic servies. Returns of women engaged in nursing

g the wounded are only available to the end of May, 1916, and since then have, of course, largely increased. Then the

0

14

3 total was 30,000. Of these, roughly, 109,000 were employed by the War Office, Admiralty, or in Territorial General Hospitals 21,000 by the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John, ...143 of whom 10,000 were voluntary workers. The number of women engaged in an occupation is to guide to the number of women who replace men; a firm working 31 with a reduced staff would replace mon -493 with-some-of-its-eristing-female-stail,- |-|

without engaging other women, while

Total...

BOWLING ANALYSIS,

10.

M.

12. W.

.3

J

·

3. D

H

FOOTBALL.

KSLL DEFEAT THE "NAVY.-

..

firm on war work engaging a large number of new women hända might not employ any on processes which in pre- war days would have been done by men. The gross increase in the number of women employed in industrial occupa tions since July, 1914, is 362,000,-but of these 263,000 only are replacing men: the figures of increase in the number of | women employed and replacement of

The "D" Co. of the .S.LI. yesterday beat the Navy by two goals to nil and once again proved the strength of their side. The Savy were without one of two of their best men yet still had especially when Daniels drew out the men are, however, plentiare, transpare favourable chances of finding the not,

obessional oceniations, agriculture, transpare This excellent opportunity to (not municipa.), and arsenals and duck- score sally went berging, Scoring.com-yards, which means that no fresh women menced in the socotal half, Plimmar and

were taken on in any of these cocupa- Matthews finding the net with well directed shots, preceded by keen forward tions to do work that would ordinarily work. --

THE FUTURE OF THE

PHILIPPINES.

GREAT DEVELOPMENT PREDICTED.

be done by women. There are no industries in which some form af direct substitution has not taken place, and few in which it is not increasing.

DOMESTIC SERVICK UNPOPUĻKE.

Broadly speaking, the educated wo msn is to be found in the groups concerned with munitions and clerical work She has chosen what appealed to her patriotism, and discarded for the Mr. Maurice F. Loewenstein, pre-most part those forms of work which sident of the Pacific Commercial might bring her more personal wealth Company, was the guest of honour at a in the faturs. The vast amount of Comida de Despedida." given by the industrial substitution has been achieved employees of the Company and affiliated by women who have been accustomed companies at the Manila Hotel last to work, and few employers find much week which was in the nature of difficulty in replacing their men. farewell to the distinguished bead of Domestic service, for which no exact that great representation of American figures are available, may be taken to business in the Far East

be the most unpopular forms of feminine In the course of a speech Mr. employment ince the war began. Loewenstein, said:My relations with. There are figures to prove a serious the inhabitants of these islande breed decline in laundry work, dressmaking, AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22.fall confidence in my mind that nobody confectionery, printing and bookbind The Emperor Francis Joseph died at and particularly business interests haveing, linen, lace, and silk; in all these 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening at Scheven-any cause to fear. While we sro here

groups, however, somo women are brunn Castle.

a developers of American commerce we directly replacing men. must remember that we have a duty. In the cotton industry 25,000 women ENEMY DIPLOMATISTS TO LEAVE to perform towards the Filipino peo are directly replacing men, but in other

DEATH OF THE AUSTRIAN

EMPEROR.

GREECE

ATHENA, Nov. 22. The request by enemy diplomatists to postpone their departure has been refused. All will leave to-morroOW.

ple. We can assist greatly in devel-textiles (exceps hosiery) the numbers oping the commerce and industry of are not so remarkable. Many married these Talands and what is more we can women who had left the cotton industry help the Filipino who is slowly en-haya returned to it. The food trades taring the commercial field to become show a very appreciable increase in successful merchant. To secure cor-grain businesses the number of women fidence we must give, confidence and we has trebled since July, 1914; in sugar cannot give or expect this unless we refining it has doubled; in brewing the ourselves are worthy of it. Therefore increase is more than double-from

It is reported that & submarine THE SILVER SITUATION LA CHINA. I charge each and every one of you, to 8,000 to 18,000. In those Endes in

stopped the Greek steamer Elysias, bound for Marseilles, ordered her to throw, ber cargo overboard, and seized the mail bags."

FRANCE AND THE 1918 OLABS.

PARIS, Nov. 22. The Chamber has concluded its secrot session regarding the Bill calling up the 1918 class. It was finally decided that they should be re-examined medically.

It is understood that the question of the creation of an Inter-Allied Army was considered.

FALSE CHARGES.

GREEK-DEPUTY · AND THE COALING OF "GOEBEN" AND "BRESLAU."

A RECORD EXPOET.

The China Prem (Shanghai) of Satur- day last says (—.

Temember that our success, your success which special pamphlets have been and the success of the Filipino prepared by the Home Office and the depends upon our intelligent co Board of Trade on the substitution of operation with there and that we will women, a considerable amount of now and we must respect their ideals, their replacement is going on. ambitions and aspirations. "I believe The uneasy feeling manifested of late that this country is entering upora by Chinese banks as a consequence of great era of prosperity which nothing silver dealings would appear, in vie

view of

Can retard and that we can face the aetatement made

to The yesterday Chind Press by the Hongkong and

future with full confidence in the fature Shanghai Bank, to be considerably of the Philippine Islanda." exaggerated. There have been stories to the effect that the phenomenal silver and that the scarcity unless remedied was rapidly cleaning Chiport of would seriously curtail both import and

out

FRANCE'S CANAL FLEET.

ARMOURED MONITORS 'ON THE

SOMME."

STRANGE TASKS FOR WOMEN. The figures available for inclusion in the September returns, which will probably be ready before the beginning of the New Year, will show some interesting further developments of the replacement problem. There are women employed on the Tyne as blacksmiths' strikers they are at the fires doing tool fettling and light blacksmith work and at the power hanimer. Women are loading and discharging trucks and weighing material in a sulphur and copper works and in timber yards they are moulding and turning and carrying timber from the trucks.na

EFFICIENCY A.

O

Used according to accompanying directions will dest bacterial life and arts all putrefactive decay,

1-PINT

TINS

1 GALLON TINS.

50 Centa *** $2.00.

Queen's Dispensary

TEL. 493,

*IN TEEN. COLONE.

(HARPER &

Queen's Road Central

Bros Diss

No. 1, WYNDHAM

Only one can be best!** and the East isn't

the just as good" kind, is it? The best Roofing is

"MALTHOID"

because a "Malthoid" experience of ever a quarter of a century is found in every yard. Ask our experts, who will instruct ar supër?" viso FREE, and whose experiance (entities them to your confidence! Use "Malthoid" as they recommend! then tall your friends. what you think of it

WATERPROOF)

CHEAP!! CLEAN!

LIGHTI SAFE!

SNOWPROOF!

"Agents

!.

"MALTHOID."

KOMEDLEY & Co., Ltd

DON'T FORGET

Εσκοτόπια,

HEATHER-DAY'

A HATION OF HEROES,

30th NOVEMBER

business. management of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was very frank on the matter. There is a scarcity of silvor at the moment but there is a big con- signment of it actually on the water Mr Henry Wood, the correspondent of now for Shanghai, from America, another the United Presa of Amerien with the

new pride in the land that has proviZERİ will get on the way probably to-day, and French army writes t

so many myriads of haber We had others have been booked in come over no Mont St. Quentin, which dominates motor garage they are washing cars

thought these qualities were qualities of quickly as possible. Thus the state Péronne from the north-east constitu- and changing and removing tires. A Mr. Livyd George in the course of the great, of the select; but they are all of affairs here is quite safe.

ting the key of the latter's defences, is MAG. Stephen admitted that perslowly and steadily being encircled by number of women are employed in a speech noknowledging the gits of a However be said, it is really the precoded the capture of Cables The kege. They do all the Work-making po many heroes in this conflice that it is

the export had been overdone, the French in the same manner which sheet iron works making gunpowder portrait of his daughter said: There are great, they are all select.. It is a nation We never knew we were expolls of are to blame methodical advance of the French against the kegs painting and packing almost impossible in dispatches auch great things, and I hgree with the Ens novel the Foranother firm they are enumerate them, there are my very famaly word uttered by im

Investors and

It is oficially announced that the vinces who Búver

banks

1of' a

of heroes

ATHENS, Nov. 22.bebe themselves who in the pro Mont Quentin Tand and Boding picric acid, cleaning the nitrating doeds of valour. It is incredible, the Pennant that, if we can do such things

Stored up, when characters Finnce & magificent not house, filling and emptyingowhizzer devotion, the valeur, and the endmança

they

of

navut

Shanghai yr 233sault, ---

charges against the Gounariat. Deputy, immediately sent it up to should cented monitory, which participate powder factory they are at work ou

Οι

at the front

found they could make a profit

canals along the Somme and drying and sieving In a gun.

in war, we can also do them in pesce, 1 Perezine, is Joachim Brinckland (Swedish), Fitin M. Kallimasioties, ux-chairman of the and there was more here than

now narigsted

of these gallant men,

(Cheers.) Peace has a patroon Ponce, demanda valour, peace... demands and Paunnas (Norwegian) and Dolpaija Harbour Commission, of assisting in the possibly handle. It had to be exported.

A reference back to bank statistics. in the bombardment, and are small cordite presses with men overseers have given erago a new meaning,

devotions and it will be ka t arrangements to coal the Goben and will show the truth of this Week after grad (Dutch).

advancing their positions with work which some firms hori definitely have giren Its new standard, Braslau, have been proved to be false, weak in the Summer and early, Autumn,

closing in of the ladd artil stated they could not do. The corpora rating it means something different insanity if the leech which the war has anything from five to eleven lakhs lerv

We never understood the word until the people in unity, in sacrifice foe's common THE ATTITUDE OF THE FRUSSIAN to incriminating letters being the weak was coming into Shanghai and, if Working my way in towards Péronne tions of Hastings and Brighton have means more than it ever moans here light us of the possibilitie

momen sa chair attendanta and in a work of a forger who has confessed the indux had stopped now it is simply early in the morning, I witnessed the

because the provinces have sold as much novel spectacle of marine gunners who scientific workshop women are now stoer of this war bunt upon ta Wend, in devotion to the cause of a sommar as they cat spra

The old and well known In Aɛorváthe guns aboard the monitors after i engaged in assetaḥing the parts" of never knew, not that among us, we had hamenity; and of our commen; country,

4 zan here, and, a man there who had should be web when the dag supply their morain plage in the canal and barometers and compasses. →→ Times. and demand is at the bottom of the breakfast, beginning every day'a bom-

heart of gold and was capable of daring silver situation here, according to the bardment in the dame methodical and bankers. In other words China had scheduled clockwork manner is ordinary more silvar than she was using and otbar workmen begin a day's labour "The Sams parts of the world not ennuun for their proved true of the long lines of the land needs. Those countries requiring silver rios, where the artillerymen, after bought it and China was able to sell to the mornings wash-up, and breakfast, then at a good wand profit the profit

Ithoat

of their was so good foded that China somewhat oversold with the rust that she now- finds herself in good and inon the market: Doving to From: 500 lakhs Chim; antá down to loss than 200 whovia she caught

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2. The German newspapers generally are shocked at the ungrateful altitude of the Prussian, Poles, evidenced by their hope for incor poration in the futurs Kingdom of Poland.

The Kolnische Zeilung warns the Prusian Poles of the sonsaque of continued hosubty

JAPANESE MERCHANT SHIPS FOR

SALE.

A HIGH-FIGURE WANTED":

LONDON, NOT, 21.; The Ting states that new. Japanese taniers are now being onei

on the London” market, but Britiku. Owners 070. Kot disposed tom, the priza dematt

times the

(turned

How

WHY ED

speeds

and Enterprise, who had valour Bring his soul, but that we had thousands, 207 myriads of them spread all over the in the highest and in tha

the (Cheats)

hidden

brought backs triumphant fryrs, the field

of battle, and planted on the

hour and of foil.

ACCIDENT

||