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**SDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1916.

WEDNE

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAM S.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mall.)

THE AIR RAID ON

ENGLAND.

TWO OF THE RAIDERS BROUGHT DOWN IN FLAMES.

OVER 100 BOMBS DROPPED.

LONDON, Nov. 19. An official announcement states:

Is last night's raid, bombs were dropped in Yorkshire and Durhama

An airship. was brought down in fames off the Durham coast.

Another airship dropped bombe in orth Midland countian. It was repentedly attacked by seroplanes and guts and appeared to be damaged. It apparently succeeded in effecting repairs near the Norfolk coast and proceeded cast. high

st

speed but it was attacked again nine miles out at se, at a height of 8,000 feet, by for Naval aeroplanes and an armed trawler and brought down in flames at 6.15 in the morning.

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THE SITUATION IN RUMANIA.

RENEWED FIGHTING IN

DOBRUDJA.

作

THE CHINA MAIL.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE GREEK, CRISIS.

ADMIRAL FOURNET AND THE

KING. :

LONDON, NOT. 39: The Times correspondent at Athens states that Admiral Fournet has had an audience with the King, in which he drew His Majesty's attention to the gravity of the situation.

The Admiral ubsequently visited the Veaezelist merchants, to whom he pro- mised protection

» ADDITIONAL BLUEJACKETS

·ARRIVE.

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

*(Wah Tss Yet Po's Service.).

GAMBLING AT CENTON.

AN OFFICIAL AFPOINTMENT.

PERINO, Nov. 29. Li Ki Tong, residing in Hongkong,

Two hundred additional blue-jacksta has been appointed to a post in the have arrived at Athens.

Taxation Branch of the Ministry of Finance

BRITISH POLICY IN GREECE.

NIPPON YUSEN KAIKHA.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR HALF-YEAR

LE1100being an increase of about

The result of the Nippon Yuson PERINO, Nov. 29.

Saisha's thirty-first half year (April- Rauter's Correspondent at Canton 14th instant. The grows receipts for the September, 1918) were published on the has telegraphed to Peking that the term reached Y39,004,000, and the gross President's mandate against gamaxpenditure 119,299,000, which show ins creases of Y0,818,000 and nearly 2,000- bling is disregarded in Canton.

000 respectively as compared with the preceding period. The sams written off for the depreciation of ships, reserves for insurance of skips And ·TEDCTYSS for thorough overhaulings amount to

nett profit amounts to Y17,243,000 or an Dover the preceding period. The increase of 17,313,000 as compared with the preceding half year, and representa an earning of about 13 per cent par annum on the paid-up capital, Yer, 500,000.

added This adde to the amount brought for ward, a little over. 400,000, brings the A MASA MEETING AT PEKING.

total amemt at disposal 10 194,970,000 in road figures, which is an increase of Game pakk113,700,000 over the preceding half-year. The Directors of the Company propose LONDON, NOT. PR.

PERINO, NOT. ·28.1 In the House of Commons, replying

to distribute this vast sum in the follow- A mass meeting, attended by over ing monter:-- to Mr. Ellis Griffith and others, who ten thousand people, has been held GROSS RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE. alleged that the Government were. giring insuficient support to Min Peking and a resolution was Groes Receipts 19,004,717 with respect to Gresce, Lord Robert Foreign Department should be dis- Depreciation of ships Y1,209,743. Venerolos, and criticised Eritish policy passed that certain decisions of the Gross Expenditare...19,329,070

ac views of all the Allies in framing regarded and that diplomatic quee Reserves for in- their policy, and declared that the tions should be dealt with by the Thorough repairs to RUMANIAN CONFIDENCE Alliance had hitherto been carried on people's representatives in Partia Depron of offic 3266d Reuter learns that the confidence of with unprecedented harmony and an the Rumanians in anabated. Despite the that the Government were bolstering amazing absence of friction. He denied German advance, they are convinced op King Constantine for privato or that the effects of the Russian co-personal reasons, and declared: operation, which are already shown in will never abandon Venezclos." Dobrudja, will manifest themselves north

LONDON, Nov. 28) A Bulgarian communiqué indicates renewed fighting along the whole Dobrudja front and also that the Bulgarians have made further crossings of the Danube.

GERMAN CLAIMS.

A German communiqué states:

captured Curgandlenges, the ancient capital of Wallschia, and Gingero, which is forty miles south of Bukarest

of the Danube, while the Rumanian

The casualties and damage caused by munition supply is daily being improved the raid are believed to be slight."

The first airship was brought downing to the unstinting efforts of the

by an seroplane at 11.45. The second did not reach the coast before daybreak It travelled at-a alow speed which was increased after passing the gunfire of the "Land defences which claira a hit,

BOMBS, DROPPED ON LONDON

AT NOON..

LAT

It is officially announced that a hostile Aeroplane, at a great height above the baze, dropped six bombe en London at acon. Four persons were injured, a woman seriously so. The damage cansed. was elight.

THE CASUALTIES IN THE

NIGHT RAID. "

LATER. It is officially announced that in last night's air-raid the damage "and the casualtios were very slight.

Over 100 bombe were dropped. A woman died from shock and five man, seran women and four children were injured. Fifteen houses in ons zwn were soriously damaged and twenty lightly damaged. Elsewhere the damage

& insignificant.

Allios.

LATEST NEWS.

LATER.

A Russian communiqué states that there is no change in Transylvania and nothing important on Danube front. :

the

A Bumanian communiqué merely mentions hostte artillery activity |

specially in the Frahova Valley.

THE MACEDONIAN ZONE.

LONDON, NOV. 18.

The British or the Salonika front bombarded and successfully raided enemy trenches north-east of Macukoro." Many were killed and a number of prisonera were takem.

THE SUNKEN HOSPITAL SHIPS.

NO PROOF WHETHER MINED OR TORPEDOED.

LONDON, Nov. 28. The Admiralty reports received do not prove whether the Britannic No damage of and the Brammar Castle were mined or

torpedoed.

military importance was canned.

GERMAN NAVAL ́RAID NEAR LOWESTOFT.

AN ARMED TRAWLER SUNK.

LONDON, Nov. 28. The Press Bureau as a Berlin oficial announcement claiming that German Naval forces carried out a raid.

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SUBMARINE PIRACY.

"ITALIAN LINER'S ESCAPE.

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MARSEILLES, Nov. 28.

A steamer arrived here reports that she picked up by wireless the Italian liner. Drica Tegli Abruzzi, which had been attacked by a submarine in the middle of the right and had escaped in the darkness.

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SHANGHAI, Nov. 29. The s.. Hainming left to-day, escorted by a cruiser, for Japan to convey the body of Choi Ngok to China

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CHINESE REVOLUTIONARIES AT SHANGHAI.

SQUABELING OVER DIVISION OF FUNDS. Tientsin and Peking papers to hand dercte much space to news of the "strika Capt. Supt. McEnen of the Shanghai Chinese in the French concession Police haa some very interesting which seems to be assuming serious remarks in his report for October anent dimersions.

the recent distribution of funds to the Chinese revolutionarica in the Settle- meat. The report says:--

THE FRENCH NOTE......

The Commissioner of Foreign Affairs Behind the announcement that the at Tientsin received a communication Ministry of Munitions has sanctioned the crection of large dyeworks at Basford; from the French Consul-Geners) protest. With the exception of several groups near Nottingham, is an interesting trade ing against the strike. The French note which are rot numerically strong, the revolutionaries referred to in last For many years British hosiery manu- and the Chinese reply have appeared in month's report have each received facturers and shippers were beaten in the production of fine black cotton tion of the documents follows: the world's markets by the Germans in

the Tientsin vernacular press. A trama through their leaders a sum of money wherewith to transport themselves to hosiery. The Germans established

their respective native provinces. The practically a monopoly in this branch of

money, apparently, has not been the industry, the secret of their ascPT1" The Vice-Admiral of the Eastern dancy being in the Hermsdorff black-

distributed as it should have been and From the French Consul General to the great dissatisfaction exists amongst the Mediterranean reports that the be Hawley, prospective

a jealously guarded trade secret.

Chinese Commissioner of Foreign Affairs: lands whose members have not left haviour "of the Britannic's crew was Unionist candidate for the Bosworth exemplary. Captain Bartlett was the Division, and head of the Sketchley yesterday, I have to inform you that the their followers who are sceusing them of Referring to the note addressed to disappeared and are being sought for by Shanghai Soma of the leaders" bave

last

Dyeworks, set himself to discover leave the ship and was ninety Herasdorfformula. After many journeys movement for the coercion of Chinese in unfairness and even of misappropriation.

the minutes in the water, before he was to Germany and the expenditure of picked up.

much money, the complete formula the employ of merchants and other in: The first series of payments, omitting that of the Mid-Autumn Festival, com- owned by Herr Louis Hermsdorf, and dividasis of French nationality is spread. fall plant of German manufacture on

to

"SUBMARINE' PIRACY.

LONDON, Nov. 28.

The City of Birmingham (British), Visborg (Norwegian).

in proximity to the British coast and The following steamers have been unk a British watching vessel near Buck: Lowestoft and captured the crew. They also searched neutral steamers and returned to port without coming in contact with the enemy.

The British Admiralty announces that the armed trawler Narval is missing, and this is presumably the vessel mentioned in the German communiqué.

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THE WESTERN FRONT.

KEATY ENEMY SHELLING NEIR

YPREB.

LONDON, Nov. 28. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: There has been continuous beary enemy shelling northwards of Ypres. Our assualties are;suall

We exploded a mine south east of Souchez and consolidated the crater where we repulsed thres homb attacks

CALM ON PRENOË FRONT,

PARIS, Nov. 28.

The British steamer Ernaston was erroneously reported sunk." She has been towed to Gravesend,

for Hinckley. The del, were captured ing daily. Even the public offices in the The enterprise had only French Conesasion are now belag affected just emerged with complete success from

British makers of fine cotton

howevery were saved, and the Hermsdorf products were also ousted from the neutral markets. The new works will be stocked with machinery of Efitish manufacture, and will employ im mediately more than 300 hands,

+

menced on October 21 and the mrney es handed over in the bull-ling or the in Miso. The strangements made by Arsenal Boad known as the Ting! the experimental stage when the war Acting under the instructions of the the Chinese Authorities on that and on broke out

French Legation, I beg to state again the miccceding days were all that could that in view of the periding negotia. be desired, sad the proceedings or

carried out with an entire absence of ions between the Chinese and the French disorder. A considerable atacant of Governments for the settlement of the squabbling followed over the sub-division qucation, such a movement against the which was entirely in the hands of the interests of "French nationals calls for revolutionaries themselves when ther stricé preventivo mesaures on the part of returned to their places of abode, but it the Chinese Authorities, in default of was not of a very serious nature. An which I beg to stato her must be held approximate estimate of the number of responsible for the consequences accruing persons who have left gives the figures from the aald movement. I beg also to Others who have nothing more to hope as somewhere in the region of 2,000. request you to inform me whether the for are still leaving, and the sooner the The Press Bureau, from an authori-local Chinese Authorities will hall the balance of the money available is dis- tative source, explains the comparatively salva responsible for the same and are bursed to those who are still waiting In the House of Commons, in reply small casualties in the recent Bomine in a position to take the necessary pre- the better it will be for the peace and to Mr. Haut, Mr. Chamberlain stated Eghting. Experience it is stated, cautions against dispeder and disturbance, good order of the Settlement. It is that an anonymous report on the Milihas taught the Britishers how to advance under artillery fire without

clearly evident that the news of this into

distribution is spreading to other parts

MILITARY HOSPITALS IN INDIA. STRONG PROTEST AGAINST ANONYMOUS CHARGES.

LONDON, NOV. 28.

THE PROFESSION OF WAR.

LEARNING FROM THE ENEMY.

their

simultaneous reduction of the casualty

From the Chinese Commissioner of of the country, and revolutionaries who

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RUSSIAN EXPLOITE.

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• TWICE. WOUNDED OFFICER SAVES MACHINE GUN:

One of the Russian regiments serving There seems to be a diminution in with the Allies in the Balkans has won

him. He was wounded again, this time in the thigh, but we continued his ow progress until he was picked up by relicta

In the other case, an officer was the test man left in his company. Eceing. made prisoner, he jumped over a himself faced with the prospect of being precipice bresking both legs, but was

tary Hospitals in India had been received rushing so fast as to dash from an officer who refused to allow his own barrage OF 50 cantionsly as to lose. name to be giren Mr. Chamberinin tavamomentum of their own attack in Foreign Affairs to the French Count have been disbanded in Slanting and

knowledge is due to a denerale

elsewhere are burrying hither to enrol and he asked the Raj to investigate the constant and generous exchange of idens

and discoveries between the British, and I have to remind you, that this Office themselves in the groups not get delt matter as he was informed that the officer French armies. All experience is in repastedly warned you of the danger of with, and they will cease to come only was thoroughly reliable. The Commander. mediately pooled.

taking any fish sction when the Loo when it is certain that the fands are in-Chief and Lord Willingdon had anboried Germans far outnumbered the with a view to a satisfactory settlement After Martinpaich was taken

taken the bi-kai question was ander dion entirely exhausted and that there are investigated and reported that the told about the relative og perisiveness of between the Chineas and French. Author

no further prospects of money being British, be-lying everything experience management was altogether satisfactory

the attack and defence. For every three tice I have to stato that it was most and that clearly the allegations were British casualties at Thiepval of all kinds regrettable that the incident of October groundless and unjust to s body of we took two German prisoners, with should have taken place, particularly es best to make the sick as comfortable a armies. This proves the value of the police fores functioning on the spot, which are being wont to residents with its flag has been decorated with the The similaity between the officers and men who were doing their rate of both the British and the French it has involved, the arrest of the Chinese this as reing wont to toning letters mention in French Army Orders, and rescued alire dext mornin

This action has roused the most intense reminders that presente in the shape of Croix de Guirre, and the same distine and Bulgarian uniforme ja eetikung sonte feeling in Tientsin. It is still more forthcoming. Many of those whom General Oap Bulgarian ofear and fifty of hig

Bembe will follow, if money is not on Eas been conferred upon the Russian confusio regrettablet that notwithstanding the there was good reason to suspect were There honours says Router Corman orme in' in sutrender. He said he reposted regatets of the former promisorying on this illegal practice am now respondent, are in recognition of the bad been educated in Itassis, and, could nation of auch charges on anonymous French lady who is paying her first sioner of Foreign Affaim for the release living in terror of their own followers splendid services of the Russian con not fight his honalactor authority (Cheers) Mr. Chamberlain visit to London has related to me with of the Chipeee policemen under at whom they are vainly trying to pacify tingent since the advance upon Florian said he considered he was entitled to infinite relish, her first personal expert with das ceremosy And the restors and on whose behalf they are now The force has been engaged almost daily sak, before he was required to investigate ante your abeeable policeman. Chedon, of the status que

Bakod him the way to the Tube (which,

the La condescending to beg contributions from in, hand-to-hand combat in which ite further charges, that evidence of good he gaily confcased, she protounced "de bil-kal ares in order to a

yone whole willing to give them losses have been severe, but those of the The Best of Trade amplasiran that faith should he given by the supply of

Tab), and he roost courteously conduct-

cation that the Chinese

THE RIMO enemy ara much greater. The Kuriaka the blive and urgent demands for the full details and the person himself com

fully alive to the danger have steadily advanced, never once dment of revolution yielding before tha violentomter consoyance of vast quantities of war ing forward to substantiate the charges,

151 attacks of the har delay of (Chears)

on a small post asat of Malaion de possible. In making their report the

A communiqué reports a night attack

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Champagne which was easily repulsed. Calm prevails elsewhere

Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief

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