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MÓNDAY, DECEMBER 18" 1914)

THE

WAR.

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

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THE CERTAINTY OF VICTORY.

GENERAL NIVELLE'S ASSURANCE.

PARIS. Doc. 17: General Nivelle (Generalissimo on the Western Front) accompanied by General Petain, witnessed tha. victory crowning his command of the Verdun Srmy

Taking farewell of the Staff in the evening General Nivelle said: "To-day's experience is conclusive.

Our method

has again tested and demonstrated our

ERN GREECE BEGUN.

PILEUS, Dec. 17. The Greek evacuation of northern

THE CHINA MAIL

"THE BEST REPLY TO PEACE PROPOSALE

LONDON, Dec. 16.

transport accumulated since the fall of Kut and it is hoped that General Maude will be able to advance with more ade quste communications than his prode: cessore.

HUNGARY ROBBED OF FOOD.

WIDESPREAD SHUGGLING

CONSPIRACY. }}

The Budapest correspondent of the forming Post wrote on October 2

SPORTING.

SATURDAY'S CRICKET.

VOLUNTEERS AND RESERVES „DRAW AT KOWLOON.

The Volunteers and Reserves drew at Eowloon on Saturday. The game did As only certain quantities of providetails of the match are appended

· not attract a great deal of interest. The

and those arcong the persons implicated who happened to be in Hungary

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The success of the great now, French offensive at Verdun ia haled with enthu Fiaam se the best reply to the German. pesce proposals. It is General Nivallo's first blow since he was appointed Ganer alissimo and surpasses” his surprise victory at Fardun on October 24th when he retock Fort Douaumont. The French are allowed to pass from Hungary Into Austria and Germany, a widespread line now everywhere reaches the Gerorganization has arisen, the object of man line of February 28th, after the which is to elude the vigilance in this E. J. R. Mitchell, e Green, b Bird first German success. It reaches further respect of the Hungarian authorities, E. Muriel, c.Hancock, b Peares at several points towards the original For the last six months ad illegal . E. Marley b Bird

traffic in Hungarian goods has been J.V. Braga, e Nisbet, b Pearce... line of February 20th when the great going on under the very eyes of the RA. Brand, a and b Paaree THE GREEK SITUATION.

battle began..

Hungarian authorities and with the RD. Evans, o and b Paaree The important British successes on benevolent connivance of the AusM. M. Maas, e Tayler, b Birg the Tigris are also heartening Rail-trians and Germans on the frontiers. Erayshay, mit out GREEK EVACUATION OF NORTH-ways have been laid down and river At length, however, the authorities E. W. Hamilton, b Bird,

have begun to move in the matter, R. Kennedy, not out

been placed under arrest. The chief of have the gang was one of the most prominent anigra in Austria, the head of a private banking concern,

s'millionaire, who when he was arrested, said that he had been influenced -not-br the desire to make pecuniary gains but to reader a LONDON, Dec. 17.

service to his fëllojes-countrymen. It has General Sir Douglas Haig, in 4 been discovered, for all that, that he communiqué, says:-A small enemy bought immense quantities of food-stuffs P. T. Lamble, b Brand.... bombing party was caught by para much higher prices than those fixed-Brown not ous barrage last night, to the north of Hill by the Hungarian authorities, and Baswick, b Brand

Vienna, making cent HL H. Tayler. b.Brand... 60, on the Ypres salient.

We bombarded trenches to the north

per cent, on the transaction. The of Hallnch and to the cast of Neure chief articles he dealt in were lard Chapelle.

and other at eggs and poultry. Ho employed twenty-five agents, who wecked under his directions. How they contrived to carry out the scheme for so many months without being detected is told by the Budapest police. The con- spirators had an office in Budapest, K. Brayshay where they employed skilful forgers in R. Erand copring official documents ined by 3. Brags the Ministry of Commerce, these being. W. Hamilton.. special permits suthorizing the exportert G. E. Marley

Greece has already begun, Allied officers aupervising the transport of troops and material.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

scendency over the enemy Victory THE FRENCH OFFENSIVE

certain. "Tasaure you of it. Germany

will learn it to her cost."

MINOR OPERATIONS ON FRENCH

FRONT..

PARIS, Dec. 13.

A communique states-An enemy inor reconnaissance in Champagne was scattered.

There were only patrol encounters on "the right of the Meuse.

A enemy attack on trenches in the St. Mihiel sector, failed.

AT VERDUM.

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE

BATTLE.

THE BRITISH FRONT.

BRITISH ACTIVITY IN MESOPOTAMIA.

FURTHER ADVANCE.

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LONDON. Dec. "15.

An official report from Mesopotamia

gtatca-

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to use the trains for the consignment of certain articles. In order to avoid the Our forces, advancing northwards on risk of detection they bribed the official both banks of the river Hai, hava whose duty is was to check these per established an outpost within three-mits at the Ministry, and who naturally Played on the Craigengower Ground did not report the irregularities The on Saturday and resulted in an easy wine quarters of a mile of the Tigris, to police state that more than 20 milion for the home team cores

kronon worth of foodstuffs have been smuggled out of the country in this way.Ass. Py. Robinson, b Festoaji

Lt. Hall,'& Thompson, b Peatonji Mr Pile, Abbas, Pestanji

Rylanda, b Pestonji

the south of Kut.

THE FATE OF CAPTAIN BLAIKIE. STATEMENT BY SIR EDWARD`

LONDON, Dec. 17. Reuter's correspondent at Verdun writing on the 16th inst.. says:- witnessed the battle. It was a clear 'winter morning. The battlefeld was sacked with many weeks rain, and the ground was in a condition, to prove most exhausting for infantry. In front of the was the long whale. backed line on Pepper Hill height, 835 metres in length, and on the A Berlin.commmiqué states: Continuing their atteck the French right of it was the flat, battered crest

Many representations are being made bare éccupied Begon Wood west-of Douaumont, on which huge Ger- to the Government urging them to take mian shells were bursting. Between steps to prevent Captain Blaikie sharing

the fate of Captain Fryatt. Pepper Hill and Freideteme Ridge, j

A GERMAN ANNOUNCEMENT.

ward.

Losnos, Dec. 17.

RESISTANCE EXPECTED IN

DOBRUDJA.

Lexnos, Dec. 17.

CARSON,

LONDON, Dec. 17.

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GOVERNMENT COSNIVANCE.

THE NAVY.

The prominent position occupied by Ast P7. Wild, e Southerton, b Jux, the chief confederate suggests that the EF Austrian Gavernment and frontier officials were cognisant of the fraud Hea R.

b Jes......

Rumjahn

b

is well known in Austrian and German Pte Rumjaba ·

official circles, and he has been acting 3.0. as buyer for the Geraun Zentral

Rumjahn...

Pte. Murphy, not out.

Southerton,

Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of fresh revela Portation of food. P.O. Barclay. Ramjaha...

A RISING IN PORTUGAL. PROMPTLY STAMPED OUT.

LISBON, Dee 16. The Govertiment have promptly stamped out a small rising in four places in the provinces without firing a shot have been arrested,

The ringleaders, Machado and Santos,

Lisbon is undisturbed.

ENEMY'S PROGRESS IN RUMANIA. of which Fouaumont is the highest the Admiralty, has telegraphed the point, stood out the ridge of Love.Nary League expressing entire sym-

pathy with their views, and stating that. mont, which no one expected to be the question must be faced with earnest captured to-day. The attack on nese and determination.. Pepper Hill was carried out with the. chronometric precision characteristic of the new French battle tactics. A Berlin communiqué "states that

The French infantry rushed on General Mackengen "crossed the with absolute confidence, advancing Buzkul sector on a broad front anden, the very edge of their artillery, captured considerable rolling stock.barrage. As they crossed to the Ger It adds: We persued the enemy mai trenches ono saw clearly, as at a training demonstration, from the in Dobrudin to the region of the rear, an unbroken line of milky wooded district northward, where smoke-burste, marking the "grenade barrage by which the infantry sought resistance is expected.

to smother the enemy resistance before leaping on him at close quar ters. Moving bands of fire and fly-

THE HAGUZ, Dec. 17. ing steel mored steadily up the great The First Chamber has unanimously shoulder of the hill, unchecked by passed a Bill authorising the issue of the Boches. Where one line was 4 per cent. State loan of 125 million smble-blocked another crept up on florins. line would be reprogressing. In an the left or right, and soon the whole

hour the German barrage_bad_re- treated to the far side of the crest, and in less than two hours the whole position was captured. By midnight! 1,200 prisoners and a number of guns had been taken berean

NEW PEERAGES.

LONDON, Dec. 17. The Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart Wortley, M.P. (U.), and. Sir W. M. Aitkin, M.P.. (U.), have been elerated to the Peemge. "

Their probable succéssors in the House of Commons will be Sir Albert Stanley (the nor President of the Board of Trade) und Professor BAL Fisher (President of the Board of Education). "

AUSTRIA'S LOSSES IN MEN.

DEVELOPMENT OF ARMAMENTS

A semi-official communiqué issued in Rome 6053:

To compensate for the continued im

Already other lines of smoke were launched from Douaumont, which wus continuously smoking like a volcano under Germar. shell-bursta, and from Foideterre. Climbing up the face of the Louvemont Height! by a similar swoop the French troops captured. Bezoavaux Work,

aviators,

of

DUTCH STATE LOAN.

GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OVER ·

TRISH RAILWAYS.

LONDON, Dec. 17. Threatened strikes on Frith railwaye bave been averted through an announce ment by Mr Redmond that the Govern ment had decided to take over the Irish railways similarly to those in great Britain

非

LONDON, Dec 17.

kaufs Gesellschaft, a German" official organization for the im It may be

imagined how this is viewed by

the

public in Hungary, where the need of all the available foodstuffs is so keenly felt

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B. W. Bradbury, b Pratt

Jez, e Rylands, b Fratt Pestonji, e Amos, b Wild

H. Kurajahn, at. Hall, & Wild

F. Thompson, & Pile

Southerton, st. Hall, b Fratt b Pratt A. Rose, Ibe,

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L R. Basa, b Pile, J. D. Noria, not out. D. K. Kharas, law, b.Prat 31. Abbas, b Pratt...

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The political and military exploitation of the Monarchy, and especially ..of Hungary, ccer not concern the people Pestonji half as much as the economic exploitation Foutherton......... to which they are being subjected. The ex Government have their hands tied by Rumjahi....

greonents with Germany and Austria to allow a certain proportion of the products of Hungary to be exported to those countries, and both the hungry. allies are taking advantage of the position thus created, paying not the alightest. R heel to the utter destitution of the Haugarians themselves. More than ten wagon loads of eggs are being sent off by railway to Germar. y every week, a quantity which represents practically the entire supply at this season of the year It is no wonder, therefore, that whils the Germans pay threepence for an egg, in Hungary uae cannot get one for less than sixpence or sevenpence, and even then one has to scour the whole town to fod it.

The feeding of all the German forces. Pract engaged in Transylvania and Galicia, as Wild well as to the north as far as the Austro-Barcing... Hungarian railway communications, is Rylands better than it is in any other part of the File theatre of war. To provide the supplies necessary for the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Turkish troops the task of the Monarchy, and this really means Bungary, which is the only producing part of the Empire worth mentioning

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BOWLING ANALYSIE.

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The C.R.C. won by 10 runs, avenging their defeat by the same team a few reters ig

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GIEMANY'S DESPERATE, POSITION. Hungary, in fact, has taken on herself Corp. Smith c Lam, Yow. such tremendous tasks, cenumie and Bdr. Dix, c Wong, & Ching... military, that it is a wonder she has not. Gar. Falmer, hew reb collapsed under the strain. Having Lt. Baker, a and b Ng.

to the condition

Rice, c Lee, b Un of the people of Ven regard

bla... Which must be well known

to

not to come to the conclu Gr. Garrod, e Ching, b Un is impossible notes in Berlin, it Gr. Page, Un sion that Germany is practically at herr Gr. Hartrie, nct.out Con Col. Townshend, e Yew, b wits end how to find food for her armies and her people. Evidently it is absolute Gr. Taylor e Ching, b Ng

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sies in order to keep them her armies going, even at the sacrifice of allowing the civilian populationsof her allied coun-

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LIVERPOOL BOILERMAKERS..

DECIDE TO RESUME WORK.

LONDON, Dec 16, It was a glorious day for the In response to Mr. Hodge's telegram who, ing low over the Liverpoo boilermakers to-day the advancing lines, were return decided to resume work on Monday." ing with exact information poverishment of the ranks, the Austrian the progress of the attack and

INDIA AND COTTON. COTION. General Staff, have been propressively pursuing and machine-guaning the

tries to starve. But for the fact that H. Ching...... developing their armament. Sizce the fleeing Boches at a height of 000 feet.

the Hungarida peasants have been alive | 11. C. Yew beginning of the war Austro-Hungarian The German air service was appar- Professor Todd, of Nottingham to what has been going on, and have HF. Un.. medium and heavy artillery has been ently paralyzed. Reuter's correspon. University, in paper read to the stoutly resisted being deprived of their doubled and the light artillery increased dent was four hours in the field and Society of Arts, on the Cotton Shortage, crops, hiding them in cellars and lofts, by at least 25 per cent. There has more did not set a single enemy aeroplane. said that India was the only gentry and resisting the Customs officials in Wai Len Son, b Smith...

a considerable increase of The victory is strategically import from which there was any hope of dogs on them, the people in the setting PK. Wong c Veal b Smith machine guns and trench artillery. This ant, depriving the enemy of most obtaining an early increase of a million districts weald-be even worse off thang Sze Kwong, c Townsend, b Smith

Ching e Page, b Smith... enormous Cevelopmen's bas only been valuable observation poeta.

bales yearly of new cotton. There was they are at the present time. The real G. Lee, e Hartrie, b Smith.. rendered possible by the large zumber of

every reason to believe that India could sufferers are the people in the towns, the M. C. Yew, b Baker, #necals and private factories assisting.

intain such an increase cumulatively working and middle classes, who have to H. P. Un, b Baker till the present crop was at least doubled live at best on potatoes and brend month AJ. Kow, G. Di b It is calculated that, at the present time

after month, and are happy if they can Mok Hing, b Baker in all of them not less than 500,000 mili

get even potatoons. It is significant of G. Lam, 'Smith “...... the state of affairs in Budapest, for B. Chan, not'ont ... Assised workmen, nct couating others, are

instance, that during the last

Chron employed.

months more parcels were sent bere from the provinces to individuals than during the whole of 1914. These parcels for the most part contain food, the offering of friends and relatives in the country districte who know how badly needed Corpi Smith

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"Panis, Dec. 17. "An Eye-Witness of the Eghting at Verdun saya that the ground won on The principal arsenals and factories the 24th October was so broken that existing at the commencement of the it had to be transformed into a work- war were at Vienna, Wollersdorf Bluman, shop to construct 30 miles of road Budapest, Pilsen, Presburg, Ferlach, necessary for the next offensive. The Fernitz. Hefenperk. Kapfenberg, Fiume, artillery was brought close to the Kaight Companion of the Garter on Rasbee, and many others have since lines with the object of regulating the occasion of his twenty-first birthday it is in the capital. been added Germany also provided a the fighting. The weather further large Increase, especially in ammunition, delayed the attack, but it cleared steel for the manufacture of guns, and aly apparently of the Shished article

-HEAVY, FRICE FOR VANITY,⠀

after a night of rain and snow.

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NEW PAYMASTER-GENERAL.

DRAFTS ON INDIA.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

LONDON, Dec. 17. guns silenced the enemy artillery an hour before the attack. We destroy Rickett has been appointed Paymaster The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Compton- ed the villages of Vaucheruville, General Louvenmont Works, Hardaumont, and Bezonvaux. The last-mentioned A fine of Eco, with the alternative of was almost empty. Boven deserters two months' imprisonment, was passed appeared at our laes ca the eve of at Marylebone Police-court on Noel Heary Erie Vane Hall of Beaumont the attack, the remnant of a German mansions, Queen's-rend, Bayswater, who company. Unprecedent rapidity was charged with wearing a naval uni and enthusiasm characterised the forms and decorations without authority movements of our infantry, and obstacles like ravince were cleared

A representativ had beld & tempar

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the Admiralty

stated that accased

SUGGESTED.

LONDON, Dec 17. The Times states that in view of the fecent great demand for drafts on India,

AMERICAN LOAN FOR DUBLIN:

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of members present to accept u lona of £410,000 offered by Mesara Lee, Higgin son and Co. of Boston for the erection of working-class'dwellings in the city.

--.../ COXTS' PROFITE, 23,557,000%; and inconsquonce" of hesyy importa je pramadha

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КОСНЕТ.

VOLUNTEER "A" Y: BOYAL NAVY.

The following will play for the Volun toors in their U.S.-League match to morcow at 4.30 pm on the US. R. O. Ground. Valunteers in Khaki -E. W. Hamilton, Q. B. Johnson, P. W. S. Erans, GEHL Pierry, K. Brayabay (Capt.) F. A. Redmond, R. A. Brand, L, R Mitchell, AT. Bally FR-Skyth and G. Miskin FORTHCOMING MATCHES

the B.N.V. and had served in Gall- objects were attained by the hour sales of drafts will be folt very severely inoli, but his commission terminated in Sxed. The Germans must have felt and it is feared buyers will offer fancy May last, and since then he had not up to the last uncertain as to the wild It is therefore hoped that the been entitled to wear any naval uniform.

ho, magistrate accepted the view of plant of attack. They certainty and Council will allotar rebul acemed's counsel, that he had for the peoted it on the left of the amount of drafts among the tende anform to gray his vanity and not Meuse, as it was there they chiefly in toportion to their requ for the purpose of fraud.

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ary, comming a sub licutenant to in the swiftest matiner All-quand restricted exports, restriction of the ears and P. Chata nas profits for matches at the USRC. The first of

B. Smyth, A. D. Ball, J. V. Braga, B, Defence pretty solid Frans

Den OTERE MATURES. Some good hockey should be seen in both these games, and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance of let lowers of the game..

FOOTBALL

The Bath Co cab the undefender outh Chian Athletic in the second de alon by the only gos? soceed.

The eth Co. B.G. drew with B.E. (in a goalles match

THE TON FOR TON POLIOY

SUPPORT FROM CHINA,

SHROPSHIRES LOSE TO LES The game between the Shropshires and B.B's in the First Division of the Lengua provided a good deal of interest and abounded in plenty of energy and good play. Up to within a minute of time the teams were levakat one goal dich and then the Engineers pushed through and seered the winning goal. There was having for lis obfest the #good deal of offsido owing to the kind of a merchant vessels destry defence on each side playing one hack, by enemy submarine, cabin zesinge but nevertheless the play was exciting.

CLUB'S WIN OVER NAXA reparation for submarine

was sent to the Foreign Once as follows:

In connection with the moystem

The HKFC cured a couple of on morchant wOKAĞI

Daring Christmas week & Hongkong Volunteer Term, drawn from the two league teams will play a couple of the past year amounted to 23,387,000 at the 115% 4.30 pm ageinst the valuable polute in the gate with the Chambers of Commerte af

thao matches wil be e played on Thurs compared with £2,508,000 for the pre RG. (biten league toms combined) Navy. They are aw of the, with R.E foo, Changsha, Toochow Ficus year. The dividenda total o per and the second on Thursday 26th at 4.16 a polit fchied with gates match spring S cent, the same as before. Investment

sängyagainst the 74th

"After blazy akostat,balt-time the penci depreciation calls for £100,000, compared

lantcers will, plagrin White #73 230,000, ad dal00dles –agtinnt,

matchar andiwi

Club put on tw 21.297.115.18 Cazzled forward.