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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1917,

TELEGRAMS.

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THE WAR LOAN:

THE CHINA MAIL.

GERMANY'S SUBMARINE

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

CAMPAIGN.

is

INTERESTING FEATURES OF THE on the casualties of merchant shipping

SUBSCRIPTIONS....

LONDON, Feb. 13,0

THE WESTERN FRONT.

BRITISH AND FRENCH SUCCESSES.

IMPORTANT POSITION CAPTURED BY BRITISH.

LONDON, Feb. 173 By means of a successful operation ou

THE MILITARY POSITION.

DEFINED BY MR. HILAIRE BELLÖG.

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DR. CLIFFORD'S NEW YEAR

MESSAGE.

· NO (PEACE" WITHOUT SAPBOUARDS

· AND QUARANTEES.

Discussing the conditions under which the Allie antur 1012, Ale. Hilairü Bellos.

De John Clifford, in his Now Year's Lal and Water," maintúli Ein address at Westbourne Fork Chapel, said optimism. Taking dest what he calls that in the year just clowed a new way the debit side," he retrunks that we The "Soul of India," and the "Soul

of speaking of nations had been current

of suffer from thres kreat drawhnohu :———

Japan" had been spoken of "The “Soul" of France and, of Kamis bad als been 1-Length and rularmbility of gum referred to in complimentary terms.

munications.

With the "Soul" of Germany we ware in conflict-not merely with ita destructive Physical séparation between East guns and its poisonous, gases, its bruto and West.

force and torturing barbarities, but with fita soul...

HOW IT IS BEING DEFEATED,

-LONDON, Feb 18, "The Manchester Guardian commenting

says with regard to the casualties in the third week that the losses were below the December level. The danger env A feature of the subscriptions to the he met by constant alteration of routes War Loan has been the unearthing of

and the creation of lanes of safety by extraordinary golf haarılı.

Three thousand pounds in sovereigns means of mines, besides by the destrue- were paid in at Sunderland Post Offers tien of submarines. We must destroy three a week to keep pace with Gerran in two days and £4,000 in sovereignasts regarding the rate of building,

bottom spiritual problems. but, if rumqur is trustworthy, we are One farmer's family at Wroxham paid hundreds of sovereigns A Lineoludoing better than that,

in Swansea

woodman paid £150 in sovereigns. “

Also numerous gifta of money, ranging from half-d' Prown to ten pounds, were seat, often accompanied by pathetic letters breathing patriotismų, ; and poverty.

Nine hundred Workpeople in one factory subscribed £15,000. There were Huge subscriptions by Malleipalities. As instance, Taton's subscription averaged £10 per beal.

The National Bank of India and its onstituants, subacribed £3,690,000 to the war loan, including £2,600,000 new money.

SPEECHES BY CABINET

MINISTERS,»

!!

LONDON, Feb. 18 Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P. (* member of the War Cabinet) speaking at Manchester, sail the confidence of the Government in thethal issue was never so high na it is to-day, believed that a blow would be struck in the coming summer which would lead the war to close entirely satisfactory to the Allies.

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LATEST SHIFFING LOSSES.

LONDON, Feb, 18.

The steamers " Afton," "ircealand" Hopemoor," "Kyanite," Longscar" and four smal craft, have been sunk All Are British vessels and total over 10,000 cus

A RIBBY LINER JUNK.

Joxoay, Feb. 19.

The Bibby Line, steamer Forcea- ter, 7.000 tons, is reported to have beam sunk.

BELGIAN RELIEF WORK STILL

PARALYSED...

t

both banks of the Ancre this morning we made considerable progress.

We attacked on the south of the river and captured positions of a "front of one-and-a-half miles, opposite the villages of Mimumont and Petit Miramount We penetrated over thousand yards and advanced over the line to within a few hundred yards of Petit Miraumont."

3.Confederacy.

As to the first of these, be observes that the Allies communications uno in the main medtime, qut therefore per. petrally vulnerable. One misin branch of The Hossin sonununications, for instance, On the north of the river we captured is early, 14,000 miles long, suck ather an important position on the upper is nearly 5,000 miles long and internijpted slopes of a spur té the north of Baillescourt Farm, on a thousand yards by Aresie ieu. A to the sound point.

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The main, lesson for Europe and the world taught by the war wis that the problems of civilisation were at the

The Central Powers had uttered the word "Pence, the one word which all wished to hear. We would "give, the Angel of Fence a full-hearted welcome she should come President Wilsen had added his word to that the

Kaiser Rut President Wilson had

Kurely

was nut clear.

tront, and successfully repulsed a co-ordination a 10 tune uxcent rectify i blundered. His lank he meant what

It was quite possible.

he said, but, be did not distinguish between the executioner and the ictim

forget; or be confused, the facts.

counter-attack.. The enemy's losses the disubility, in the great offensives were heavy. We took 168 prisoners by Russia and Italy Just June this, how ever, does not replace true neity of action six of whom are officers.

We carried out raids to the south of The third matter is a moral-point, and Neave Chapelle and on the north-east Mr. Belloe mentipes the creation of the

FRACE TOT AN ILLUSION, There wore men'who would go into a of Ploegsteort, and reached the acconding British army aan nojent lesson peace & conference to-morrow without aline at the latter point. A large in the separato, "moral qualition and waiting for terms and conditions, and be number of the enemy were killed, and separate political genius of one out of the admitted he once held some very strong dug-outa were destroyed.

four Allies, at a confederation has the views in this direction but we must bu obvious disadvantage of replacing imme-fectly sure that we got what we sought. on our guard and make ourselves per diste decision by conference and single We must be sure that the peace offered action by multiple action..

was a peace and not an illusion-a. real peace and not a sustained war; a peace Coming to the credit wide, which so safeguarded and guaranteed by a

drawbacks Mr. Helloc al divides this burden to place it on the shoulders of much more than compensates for the League of Nations, that it would last, and not be a lifting off of onry own

fe repulsed hostile parties at the west of Lens and to the cast of Givenchy,

LONDON, Feb. s.

'There has been an intermittent can-

especially active in the direction of norade on most of the front, but

Ribecourt.

FRENCH PENATRATE GERMAN SALIENT.

LONDON, Feb. 17.

A Freach communiqué sayıla Champagne there has been mutual śrti)-. lery netivity in the sector of Maisona de Champagne «

In Alsace one of our detachmenta penetrated the German salient at Amertwiller and completely wrecked it, the enemy suffering heavily. brought back prisoners.

We

Losnos, Feb. 18. Although the German 'orders with regard to the America Relief Officers in Belgim and the North of France

GERMAN REPORT. Lord Derby, speaking at. Bolton, said have been reversed, the presence of the war would still be long, and more the relief representatives is `nullified'

LONDON, Feb. 17. bitter than ever. The nation must through Germany's strict mainter-states:We repulsed a strong English A German official wireless report make still greater sperifices of its fance of the shipping restrictions attack south of Mormont. manhood. Cermany still had an enor fcting relief ships. mous reserve of power and would make -a gigantic effort to gain the mastery. The next half year would be most critical. Lord Derby confidently predicted that we would be successfiik, but it would pot heja "walk-over.”

THE GERMAN BUDGET.

GREATER TAXATION NECESSARY.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 18. An explanatory note regarding the Imperial Budget of 1917 issued in Berlin announces that new war taxes are necessary to cover the deficit in the ordinary budget of 621 millions sterling.

It is intended to impose an ad valorem

U.S. FLAG AT BRUSSELS

LOWERED.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. The Germans have ordered the lover ing of the American dag from the American legation at Brussels.

Official quarters admit that this has greatly added to the tension of the situation. "

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PROHIBITION OF JUTE IMPORTS.

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LONDON, Feb 18,

It is officially announced that the

into thres get

1-The blockade..

2-Tire almence of combined effort, 3.—The exhaustion of effectives.

our chikiren.

We did not enter the war to erush the fiermans, and could not du so if we wished: but we were fighting for an in- ternational system which wild secure equal rights and liberties for all civilised States, and we must take care that the worl was bot made the victim of the On the question of the blockade Mr. despotism and vanity which plunged Great Britain and her Alien into the elke writes :--

strife.

THE BŁOCŘÍDE

It is simply tree that that process has now reached a point beyond which it cannot he extended. The blockade is us full, and as severe as we can hope to make it until politics conditions abal chage and until the last phase of the illusion ns to its outcome. The blockade war shall have no neutral with any

af its present stage does not wrupei French advances to the west of peace. But what the bleekurie does" is Berry-au-Bac and to the south of Ripont to embarrass the enemy very severely, failed.

litically and materially, and that, Our acroplanes copiously bombed imenissent increasing and -is portant establishments behind the enemy emulative. That is the value of the front and blew up several ammunition blockade, and the value is very pigh dumps on the Somme

The enemy is fed, Inut he is insufficiently LONDON, Feb. 18. A German evening official report fed; that is true even of wire portions states:-There was strong artillery of his armed forces. He is not insuth firing on the Ancre in the foreroon, and ciently "muniticed; he has all the main fresh infantry engagements developed. material; that he requires, but he has to use it under, heavy and an intruding strain; politically he has been compelled to experiment in iiversal cirie control upon the pattern of his universal military control, and those experiments have broken down.

MESOPOTAMIA "CAMPAIGN.

IMPORTANT BRITISH SUCCESSES.

LONDON, Feb. 17.

It is in the last phase of the war that this crack in her organization will develop. That it is already apparent and it is serious.

The sight of appalling wrongs fused the British Empire in 1914 into one dame of white heat of fierce resistance, and it had been a continuance and an increase of these awful barbaritics which had kept the fires burning at their hot- test.

WAR'S INVENTIONS.

FATENTS FOR SUBMARINES, BOMBS, AND ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.

A London paper state-Applications for patents last year numbered 18,696 an increase of 461. The figures for war patents are well maintained, and s. num- ber of these patents have been taken

Two classes of patents stand out pro- over by the Government. minently those relating

to bombs, grenades, and other weapons used in modern trench warfare, and those 'bear- ing on the manufacture of artificial limbs, and so forth, for which the former devices nte no doubt largely responsible. There is a large increase in inventions relating to aircraft in any forms proving the great interest taker in this indus- try!

while gunners, submarines, and explosives are well represented.

tax on cool and to tax-passengers-and Government will take possession at scenred our objective on a 700. yarda antedates by many weeks the point of granted to Sheffield firms, so that the!

gooria on the railways and domestic present market prices, of all unsold raw shipping and to increase the excess jute in the United Kingdom and any profits tax.

unsold stocks arriving henceforth, thus prohibiting spot or transit dealings.

A report from Mesopotamia states - We assumed the offensive on. Thursday on the right centre of the Dabra Bend, on the right bank of the Tigria, and

front. We extender! our gains by bombing to a depth of 500 yards, on a 1.000 yards front. We easily repelled We assaulted later on the left centre

counter attacks.

There is another aspect of the block; ade which is wineries torgetten. It exhaustion, because the remy, ge ut least, North Germany, Fangst, consider nat only her exhaustion in supplies at any particular moment, but the time that

deient Were she prepared to capitulate

nanow, it would be some month before she could resume, in the mere hatter of food; her format life, and two or three before the present strain would

The only patent issued to an alien enemy under the Patents Acts passed after was began is one for grinding swords, for which licenses have been only patent issued to a German will be used against the enemy.

Among the numerous labour saving devices is a new motor cycle for parcels, which enables a peract to deliver more

week.

EXPECTING TEE ELLIES TO PAY The Government has decided to pro- of the band and secured our objective will be required to restock after her packages in a day than he could other..

The Drendener Nachrichten way that bibit all imports of juite on private every day the war continues the quarvount until further notice. tion of making the enemy pay the bulk

of the war costs becomes more impera

tive than ever for the very existence of the Empire.

M

AN INDIAN ARMY GRIEVANCE.

It is afficially stated that the object of the prohibition of jate imports is to

on a front of 850 yards.

During the night we cleared the enemy out of small areas, securing the whole of the Dahra Bend.

Patisser

da in a.

£180,000 FOR HARROW SCHOOL.

FONDNESS FOR SFORT.

Harrow School will eventually bereft

We captured 89 officers, of whom economise tonnage. The prohibition of two are regimental and three battalion be relieved at all! In other words, the ANLINESS AND COURAGE, AND dealings does not apply to dealings for commanders, and 1,906 men. The will not reliewe that strain even at the the purpose of storing jute in India, orries, and large quantities of ammunition be relieved long after, and the, the octy includes five machine-guns, 2,500 moment she capitulates. I would only shipment from India direct to Allied or Neutral codhtries, or dealings in juťe We advanced on Friday 1,200 yards when the strain can no longer in stock in Allied or Neutral countries to the south of Human Loop, and are or in.traneit thereto.

dow holding the south-west corner of this bend.

・. The recent War Office census of stocks

and stores."

#Losnox, Feb. 18. The Timer military correspondent draws attention to the grievances in of raw jute in the United Kingdom TURKISH ADMISSIONS.. the Indian Army in respect to the shows visible. supplies sufficient pay of officers promoted to Captains maintain production during the current

to

LONDON, Feb. 18.

be borne is matedated.!!!

who died on October 18- at 40, Grove

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A HALF PER CENT. BLOCKADE.

SIR NORMAN HILL, ON BRITISH LOSSES.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERYE

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MUSEETRY CỌCasx, 1917, PAKT LU

HUNDAY, FEBITARY 25TIL

All ranks of the following unita whe either (1)ped Part II. of the 1276. An interesting calculation concerning, rouse or (2) posed Part 1. of the 1917 the effect of war on British shipping Course will attend the Range on Sunday trade is made by Sir Norman Hill in next. February 26th- Fairplay.

No. 2 Flatoon No. 8 Companyzin No. 4. Company. Leave: Elske Pir. 9. am

"Compared with the 3,600 steamships of 16,000,000 tons gross with which we

Uniform

by the whole of the fortune £109,105 started the war, the loss," he says, "in left by Mr Augustus Shepard Churchill, the twenty-seven months represents 1g with Helmets. Service Rides to be WUINE PLUMBIANISHI VÄRLİ -

End-road N.W. The sum of £50,000 is per cent, on the numbers, or 11 per cent. bemught, by those in possession of se Discussing the second point, viz., given to the school for the foundation on the tonnage, being under one-half of No other pattern rifle to be brought.

The following will attend for Range. absence of combined effort," Mr. Belle of scholarships, and the following are one per cent. per month. The rate of contrusts the fased of the Austrian Trento be among the qualifications in the loss has fuctsated from month to month, Duties on this data

of students: election

the highest monthly rate being 94, and

Chie Lpectors Misson and Sirde the lowest. 08. Foodnews and Qualities of manliness everage truth wherever possible I have cotained month

the cargo losses, bat Tospecter Fanigan, Inspector Lammert, and readiness to protect the weak, kind-by mbr

tino advance, which was planned by

| cricket and football.

Two Turkish communiqués admit † prisis and led to complete edllapse, in sports, cd success in manly outdoor,It is not possible to state with the lihan, Sergeant Major Roylance." Staty and Majors under the new rule, and year at the same rate as last year, pro-retirements on the Tigris, following Galicia, with the success of the Alefaless, devotion to duty, sympathy with th Iticulars of the cargoes da Silva Netto and C. M. 6, Alves, up 13)

also to "sick furlough" pay. He vided zacatures are taken to safeguard British attacks. B, says the former places the Indian the supplies of firms who have compara officer at a disadvantage as corn- tively small supplies in reserve. pared with the British Army officer;

ITALIAN FRONT."

and needs redress.

*

With regard to the latter the cor

respondent cites instances of hard-

on the Somme. Of the latter he says

"The

Alliance has elaborated, patien

larly in the west, a new tactical method which will why the war. It has reached

"RUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19TE.

The

nesa, unselfishnes and love of comrades, stroyed, and catimates of their value

names, with their respectiva Exhibition during school days of force My patimates are completa np to the end character and of instincts leading of September, 1910, and the information scores, of the men who fired Pari A low Al sympa perfection. It was almost created this / boy to exercise good and kindly influence i have so obtained 'covers 214 out of the on the above date appear on the Notice:

of life interests in lost up to the 4,600 tons grosa register Beard at Headquarters' Club. and the residue these 314 vessels fft were in t

of

Over his

There are

435 vessels

end of

1916, Of

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT

stramer. Weease it rapidly increasing VIENNA, Feb. 17,

la value upon this Somme as the samer two mures of 2 "Ad official report states Since proceeded. It's characteristic is the io of the property in left for the benefit of ballast. The total value of the destroyed

ship, particularly the case of aDA PHYSICIAN'S 'ADVICE TO GIRL morning the enemy has been attacking fiction by local offensive, of greater / Harrow Fchool in such manner as the cargbes on theme 314.vesacis is estimated.

Indian officer invalided to England

from Mesopotamia, whose incorne

was reduced from £1,000 to £300

per annum.

KEEP SLENDER.

リ

"Lots of young man want their aweet. He says these cases of mnk in hearts to be fat, or at least plump," said justice should have been dealt with Dr Engene Lyman Fisk, of the Life by the Raj. The British subaltern Extension Institute to seventy-five must be efficient and a "-Sahib-if young women at

governors, with the approval of the head master in writing, shall direct.

at £17,800,000, which gives an average of

our positions on the west of Herstret lows upon the defence by Ist than the

£88,000 on the 255 veisels.carrying cargo,, or of 250,000 on the 314 vessels with and north-east of the Muniz Pass. offensive sufletk♫*

and to

to balasts a percentage cargo Fighting is proceeding

The moral foundation is the fact that

on this figure the losses of £17,805,000 the Alliance is combination of talent,

represent

nt 49 per cent it at l method and experience. On the other General Sir Henry Bawlinson,, the The cargo rate of losses shows wider hand, everything the enemy does is Fero of General Haig's great dispatch on Inctuatient than the hall, rates; the Prussian There has been nothing Fastian lentoan entirely felicitous cent, and the lowest 02. per cent, and the Somme battle har for family motto, highest mouthly rate has been 1:64 per fundamentally wince the Aisne. summing up of the Somme

point of of eunetford ingeriptions), he

INDIAN SILK INDUSTRY.

f

(5g) P. C. Jasa

D.S.F. (B.).

THE CHINA 50ẤP AND CANDLE.

CO, ETE

This company has just been registered,

capital of 2000,000 in 27 shares, to car77. at Somerset House, with a nominal

ily progressive tendency, either.

either. PP makers, de, and to adopt an agreement

15. Paper Bronx (OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT. The exhumation of eflectives Mr. Bel Like his father (the

temor detailed figure how fead on the business bábáp án Callie's

the British rule in India is to rest Girls' Club, 441 East 167th Street, New York," but you must pay no attention

"of the illiberality of the Raj

Jos thinks tis most important,

down

LONDON, Feb. 18. all the whole cause of the patience with brilliance Today is My warrant for calculating the per- with Joseph Crosield and Sons, Lidia on a firm foundation. He will end

In the course of a paper which he accemy's presero aharely for pe good to. Nell the praise of Lord Kit: centages of loss throughout the twenty-Wilism Goesses and Sons, Ltd, Price' by being reither if the popularity of to them. In addition to being stylish, read to the Society of Arts, Professor

chener, after Rawlinson's, subdes ax slenderness is healthy.

For overs wirty-five men that the pursuer of the Boers on the folief of seven months on the 1,500 ocean-going Patent Candle Company, Lid and Maxwell Lefroy and the great obstacles

Vessels in arietence when, war wa de Price's (China) Ltil. The company is the Indinn, Army, ceases on necorint Don't let the boys make you fats to the development of the silk indust words in noon to mean Inclusive of Rawlinson possesses the qualities of our loasen have been replaced by new private one. The number of directory

enemy now has functioning, the ademith Brevet-Colonel Sir Henry clared is the fact that in

great When they want to take you into's of India' wore the sweated condition of

staff officer and a column commander in

been replaced by mesaxclusive of managing directors, nut The Times, in a leading article place for fes cream and cake, tell them a large proportion of the workers, lack the field dépôts auil thu zema of the the field. His characteristics will always 106. in the £100 blockade will be directora je to be an even nim supporting its correspondent's pro- you prefer spinach and pickles. To keep of enterprise business capacity and mice, but éxdusirs of the militarily ensure rinse front place in whatever he never starve us. The shortage of ocean eight, Joseph Croefield and Brand test, says the article monts the leader and healthy, avoid sweats of all commercial honesty, and the enormons useless men who still draw rations and acta his mind to,”****

carrying power from which we are suf Witham Gossage and Sona (or, if only fering does not arise from the enemy's one of them is a member of the company, serious attention of the War Office kinds, eat little ment and much veget-profit required by European capitalista are in uniform at work of one kind or

success is destroying our ships. It arises then that company alone) may appoin ables and fruit

from the use, or the want of use, to half the directors,

and the Raj,

OF FOOD PRODUCTION.

THE BRITISH DIRECTOR-GENERAL

LONDON, Feb. 18 The President of the Board of Agriculture has appointed Mr. Arthur

If there was a deraand for raw silk pro another behind, the amies the enemy

Te prolong life learn to stand erect ducts India could meet it, if the English sees drafts of about twenty to supply and exercise regularly. Take & bath manufacturer plainly stated his require wastage between this, and the late part once or twice a day, alternating the hot menta totesty next summer. It is gromly Insuffi- and cold showers. Keep the pores of Lord Islington, who presided, said the cent. The Alliance in every part of it the body open and avoid flash foods and difficulties were formidable, but not ass Infinitely larger reseryes of human complexion creuse They are all lakes insuperable. The industry had retro matozal

Watch your teeth carefully and don't have them filled with gold. Besides, bo reared in some parts of India, but the demand for silk had increased. The

DONT RISK PNEUMONIA..

r very cold a quickly AX posible. It is the Toresumer of all pulmonary trouble, and paspmoria According to M, Bellon, it is offctives develop in a few bourt. Take.

hamberlain Cough Remedy It the Committee appointed in 1915 to the enemy to all bis expoâients during marvel os for at by all Chemi inquire into the industry

and Store

parting our ships And Prices Patent

(Chiomy Ltd. (ór it only one of them is s member of the company, than thist company. ôlông) rany, appoint the other TICKLING IN THE THROAT half. From the above it may be assumed that the business of Trices (China), Ltd., WEN the slightest tickling or houses an offshoot of Parces, Patent Candle, Keness in the throat may be the Company, and the enterprises in Chine

sendmataft and Sous sad Wall itat once with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy For sale by all Chemists and teared under the mailed conure of the

Faroe con

Director-General of Food Pro. 1 gathering of german sa R5 WAN DOW COUsidering the Report of and effectives Done that have moved ample thing" to do but the effect a forerunner ufa dangerous luness. Foto Golange and Sons are to be largelvä

ing bad form, gold filings permit the

Go to bed early every night. Women require more sleep than men

the lost fow months"