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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

THE WHOLE WEST FRONT ABLAZE

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.

LABOUR PARTY REAFFIRMS DECISION.

A NARROW MAJORITY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"ACTIVITY IN BALKAN

ZONE.

A BOMBING EXPEDITION OF FIFTY AEROPLANES.

A French

States:

LONDON, August 19.

Eastern communique i

LONDON, Aug 21. The miners' decision arenas the trung for of 600,000 votes from Mr. Hender Lostos, Aug. 21.

There has been a violent artillery - son to the opposition to the Stockholm nel in the Carna bend and north of With the opening of the Venium Conference, offensive. While the Western Frntsentro a majority against Stockholm on explosions at two enemy heary hatter The transfer will not Momatir, Our destructive fire caused from the sew to the Swiss frontier, the basis of the voting on ligust 10,ies and on ammunition damp ndistunee of 40 miles, is now a bluzhut it will reduce it to vanishing point, with- prevenitral gunfire and and there are indications that the miners bopsbeds, erasing wight"or"day", vote will influence the votes of other the pounding" of the gons is painty Enions at today's conference, thus over. ailible in England

whelming the Stockholmites.

The stillery dued at Verdun is particularly stubborn as-tarh-stres wirls Lone gunshot wet matched, -kaan nghe --Prongle--infantry's diagni. tiesst dash turned the seile! Tike bottle is still in its opening plises a but the men Bier that the French are able to take the offensive: .om

and a half of bombs in the neighbour Fifty Allied aeroplanes dropped a ton tool of Prilep, causing many fires.

No French establishment was damag ed by the big fire in the Belgarian

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM.

BRITISH ARTILLERY AND AIRCRAFT...

LONDON, Aug 20. ports:

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas flag re

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The following summary of the debate in the House of Commons is takon from the "Daily Chronicle of Jane 21 -

Today the opponents af women's suffrage tried the familiar device of the wreckingamendment.

Mr Peto proposing to abolish the limitation of 3 years in entranchisement clause. As it stands, the provides that the Parliamentary vote shall be given to woman who has Our artillery dispersed the enemy attained the age of 30

years on one or massing for courter-attack south-sher of three grounds: (1) if she is the

wite of an elector; (9)

she is on the north-western outskirts of Lens." eastward of Epchy,

Our patrols made progress, in the the occupation of land or premises; (3) local government register in respect of if she is a University graduate.

she fin

hir Dickinson-- ina

%...

Hostile riders enteral our lines east- ward of Armantiers Two men

ure than apeech.

no private member can missing, The most notable feature of the trans-quarter of Salonika on the 18th inst.well bekim! their lines unsuccessfully with a later amendment for the exclu-

speak on Bill with gre

greater authority Large-formations of enemy aircraft exposed the object of the Peto amend fer, is the change in the Northumberland

ment. It had to be read in conjunction miners, whọc so far, have always been A GERMAN AIR RAID WHICH

endeavoured to hinder our bombing alsion of married women. The two amend photographic reconnaissance. Prepacifist: yesterday's nicetings show-

Our machines wrecked trains and the Speaker's

merts together meant ing a feeling i favour of

decision of August 10 does it repre- referendum on the ground that the

chising only

sent labour opinion?

LATER.

The Daily Telegraph's Labour Corres-, the greatest sembi at Vordun, is spondent has been informed that ninety druingtie állustration, of the changes per eat of the cotton operatives will in the tortues of war sine the vote against the Stockholm Conference. Arown Priser's adventure in Febr

any 1981; moreover the Germans,"at | the very light of "their empenta tion ar Verdun, were noger able to strike on both banks of time Mouse

uss the French did.

The talin advance demonstrates!

MISCARRIED.

THE AEROPLANES THAT CAME DOWN IN HOLLAND,,

seriously damaged aerodromes, dumpstermaet the old rating, for

and stations and effectively co-operated with our artillery and secured many photographs.

+

THE UTILITY OF THE TANK Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing this after Tanks in the British attack in the region noon, describes the latest feats of the of St. Julien yesterday.

Loxros. August 21....

We brought down three and drove Reuter is authoritatively informed in down four enemy machbes Six of connection with the mysterions Gurmanor amchines are missing. seroplanes in Holland, cable on the 10th inst (oce coluing down on fire and the other being brought down by Dutch "The conference of the Taburgs), that the explanation is that the Party has re-affirmed the decision intender calding England, but returned tes sond-delegates to Stockholm by a owing to bul wanther. As a bombing| arch vertig, which resultert in £.241, machine ennmat alight before disparing orld 1,231,600 regainst.

of its bombs, the riders had to get rid of thems. If they dide so over Belgium

The adjourned tureting of the

the perfect surfronisation of the Labour Party regarding the invita-it might have remaltet in killing Ger ths | tion to the Confereher at Strekholm | man troope. Accordingly they waited until they were over Holland, where Mn Henderson, M.P.... in ththey could only kill sutrals.

Allies operations" which are wurst coppich yet attained to an has begu held at Lomboy. all-round offensive." »

"There is "no" inclivation of Theolises of a personal statement, strength 2 the forces engaged but denied that he lind dentially the Germans, estimate the Italians withhel any material information have a guis, not including the

from the previous "Contoreriors and; British heavy gunis

erred that M. Kereńsky to-day favoured British representation at krbem me to insist on the withdrawa

Stockholni. 31r. Henderson urged amely, this famidaldy Homila of the fabour's members from the | Government because that would be

The tonfugis on have only one obstarie hetween phent and Trieste,

heights.

A BRITISH MUNITIONS COUNCIL:

LONDON, Aug. 21. A Murities Couacil on the lines of of the Admiralty Army Council, has been established to coordinate the work of Alty munitions departments which will be classified into ten groups,

These heights, hold by the lower subverse, the sticsted pre-and each group will be representert on

and firade

the Council

"

BRITAIN AND THE GERMAN " COLONIES."

of the Mistríais Arty and frostling, tion of the war. with batteries is fint The stort

Mr. Hutchist, a member of the The Ministry has "now employed centre of the oferise, the Italians Executive, moved a lion.aflin,000,000 people. The Headquarters attacking all wind from. Desso Faite Ling that the Conference remains of

Statt consists of 13,500 people. on the extreme left, 1 Mentalome the opinion that it is desirable that result in the economy and more full It is hoped that the Council will British Fabour should be repreutilisation of the resources... sented at Stockholm in order that

tood and misspresented, anal that its oppuinns may not be misunders,

the Caferonige regrets the Glovem-

and requests that further representa- ment's intention, to refusé passports,

this be made in the subject.

Mt. Kairchild of the Socialist party, shoved

as an addition to the resolution, that the policy of flour being compatible with the policy of the Government, the Conference decides to withdraw Labour mer

Nothing on save Trieste Of Her monda talis. The Italians une "bug Edour of getting the lights this time and altgether, the Western soffensive is the biggest thing dogu te relite the Russo-Banian fronts There me abreuig signs that it is Reverely tusing the resores of the German Staff, bait the fall, effets willent l ́ight immediately!"

WHERE THE DECISION WILL

COME. 1

Paas, Ang. 21 Everybody is delighted at the maintenance of sterday's high results at Verdim.

is

The attack opened in the presLDEY of General Petain and M.. Painleve Minister of War, and M. Thondis, Minister of Munitions,

M. Hutin, writing to the Echo de Paris, says that the time has arrived

bers from participation in the

Government.

Mr. Will Thorne opposed the resolu- tion and if there was only one man in Germany who could make peace, namely,

the Kaiser. *

Mr. Smillie, the President of the Miners' Federation, appealed to Mr Fairchild to withdraw the addition, to which the latter 'ngrecil

An eminent that the question for Germany to realise that the great of acepting the invitation to the decision will come, not on the East Stockholy Conference be subraitted but in the West. The coming sito a referendum of the Trude Unions Jory will enable the Americans to and affiliated Labour Party was be ready to participate in the final defeated by a card vote of 1,300,000

blow.

GERMANY BRINGING TROOPS. FROM GALICIA.

༢-ཡ ་

to 920,000,

Mr. G. N. Barues, Pensions Minister,

LONDON, Aug. 21. of Dublin University, in a letter to Professor J. P. Mahaffy, the Provost

the Times on the anbject of Germany's restitution suggestions, S

drowned their sporting as they took up The uncouth exonsters began to move in the darkness: the noise of the guns their prearrangel positions.

the рторонды

Bil entran 100,000 women, nearly thickinson showed that the Conference e spinsters and widows Me

of them

30

of

was a mean between two extremes. vote to 14,000,000 women above 21 years 'niversal adult suffrage would give the of nie. The effect of this would be the swamping of the old electorate by new voters. He himself is in dur of

in favour this is too bold a step to be taken all at adult suffrage, but he recognises that once by the majority of members. Under women occupiers and married women 31 the the Conference plan enfranchising years okt and over, 7,000,000 women will

but their mothers and married sisters be placed on the Parliamentary register. Servants, daughters and the majority munition workers won't get the vote, will, Mr Dickinson argued persuasively the ground being in too haul a confition women's suffrage to

The enemy probably calculated upon that it was a sound method of

on method of granting

to begin

with household for them to assist in the attack. franchise. harriment, our guns ceased, and the the Government would throw its weight

After a reciprocal and violert bon-

The Home Secrecary announced that enemy, who doubtless anticipated an decision on which Lord Hugh Coell against the Peto amendment-a sound infantry advance, continued his bon chided the Ministers in an imate speech. hartiment, but finding nothing was hap- Yesterday the House was allowed pening he stopped. Our guna re-opened: feet freedom to vote on

per the at a longer range with a more deliberate women's suffrage today the Govern- principle of fire it dawn.

ment is using its authority to prevent Then the Tanks advanced, the nascribed this decision to-"a lust of

free vote on a minor matter. fantry following in concentrations which irrationality Lord Hugh wants wo spread out fanwise as they progressed, men suffrage to begin the object of the operation being to try of homepathic doses. Supporters of

by the safe to

method and straighten out the kink in our line the waruen's cause were warned by Mr. within which the Germans held several Charles Roberts against the lure of the strong positions.

Amendment

posel. In the end the amendment was and reminded them that to the women suffrage societies the con- ference scheme was an acceptable

pro- negatived by 291 to 25. division last night was as under:

The voting in the woman's suffrage

For. Against.

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objects crawling rapidly over the broken When the enemy saw the yellowish ground they begin to fire wildly from places of concealment, but generally fed before, the Tanks reached them, with the Tank guaners showering hallets upon

fantry following the Tanks successively Labor men least like to be smitten. The In Conservatives... that part of their bodice where valiant Liberals ..

occupied the triangle of the Mont Dub Nationalists bou and Cockeroft. farms, which had given a lot of trouble.

(Thelading tellers)

The total depth of the advance plan- ned was 500 yards, but the Ecos bolted far beyond that distance.

in this species of warfare. vindication of the utility of the. Tank The whole affair was a compléte

The French captures of gitos now that total 25

The perial activity between battles

as Germany cannot repay us for has never been greater. or losses, we must repay ourselves We conquered the German Colonies) owing to the zeal and activity of the over-sens Dominions and we must keep them. If the Dominions bave one spark of the spirit of Englishmen they will simply refuse to restore them; besides, who would compel their return? We are, not going to permit the Germany wireless, states:--

THE RUSSIAN FRONT

ENEMY'S UNSUCCESSFUL OFFENSIVE.

Fleet.to do so.

TEXTILE RESEARCH. HANDSOME ENCOURAGEMENT.

LONDON, Aug. 21.

LONDON, Aug 21. A Russian official report, transmitted

The enemy persistently attacked in the direction of Ocna and Onestebi and pressed back the Rumanians to the south-western outskirts of Ocna

The enemy'a attacks in the region of Grazestchi resulted in the capture of Staklerie factory, where an engagement is proceeding.

The enemy unsuccessfully took the

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RECREANS KNIGHTS.

In connection with the announcement recently made in Parliament by 3Ir. Bonur Law that orders had been given that henceforth all the alien enemies should cease to be members of any British order of chivalry to which they beler.ged before the war, a London paper

and

It was in May 1915 that the Kaiser, the German Crown Prince and other enenty sovereigns and princes were expelled from the Order of the Garter, their banners removed from 88. George's Chapel. They, however, retained nenhership of lesser orders, such as the bath and the Victorian Order. The rolls of these orders will now be purged not only of royal names but of all enemy aliens upon whom British honours have been conferred.

** MY' EMPIRE.”

FIRST USED BY HENRY VIII.

1

Mr Lynch asked the Prime Minister

The Tootall-Eroadhurst and Lee Com-offensive westward of the Focsani Judin the House of Commons to state the pany Ltd., of Manchester, has donated railway and compelled the Ramanians £10,000 annually, for five years, toto retire eastward of the railway wards textile research and education in is the region to the south of Peini

We occupied several of the villages belumner, in the Caucasus.

cotton.trades.

Institutes and laboratories will be

Constitutional authority on which rested the use of the expression Dominions, in a recent royal pronounce- my Empire referring in part to the ment; whether the Tominions had ever been formally consulted as to the per- missibility of

of such a term and whether

and, if not, "would in

said that in joining the War Cabinet he established and a provisional commitee THE ITALIAN OFFENSIVE. oficial documents be avoided in all cases

was acting according to the expressed view of the Labour Party. He believed AMSTERDAM, Aug. 21. it would be a bad thing for Labour to News from the frontier states that leave the Government. He intended to numerous troops from Galicia re continue to support the Government to arriving in Flanders.

establish the freedom of the world- (Cheers). He opposed the Stockholm

DENIALS.

:

AN ANSWER TO CLUMSY GERMAN Conference because no good could come from it. Germany had nothing to lose LONDON, Aug. 21.,,and, everything to gain by such a The Daily Telegraph published a conference." facsimile of the now fathous Kaiser's letter to President Wilson thus finally disposing of the frantic and clumsy German denjak" of vàlidity."

DICTATORIAL POWER FOR.

RUSSIAN MINISTERS.

its

PETROGRAD, Aug. 21. The Government bas given the Ministers of War and the Interior dictatorial powers to urrest and deport, anybody suspected of anti- revolutionary tendencies,

BRITISH BOMB. MIDDELKERKE.

LONDON, Aug. 21,

will issue à prospectus of the new aided organisation.

ASSISTING DISABLED OFFICERS. EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA AND THE EASTERN COLONIES.

Losbos, Aug. 21.

State for India, announces that after Sir Edwin Montagu, Secretary of

a consultation with the Rt. Hon.

Cabinet he wrote to the Premier urging the Colonies, a committee has beeź Before be accepted a seat in the War Walter Long, Secretary of State for

j

A TERRIBLE DRUM FIRE.

UDINE, Aug. 21.

where the Dominions were involved.

Mir Bonar Law said the earliest author- ity. be

could find for the use of the

・

word" Empire was an act of Henry' VIII. As r us he could see it had been

The terrible uninterrupted drum-freused consistently ever since continues along the 65 miles of the Lonzo and Curso fronta, to which British batteries are valiantly contribu ting,

The present offensive" is developing last May. on a frout 15 miles longer than that" of

ITALIANS SINK A SUBMARINE

ROME, Aug

An Italian seaplane dropped bomba

the retention of Mr. Henderson forined to meet the India Office in on board a submarine-in-mid-Adriatic Barnes finally affirmed that the sending: of delegates to Stockholm would weaken order to Desist disabled and invalided and wank ber.

officers desirous of obtaining employ-

the Government A durable peace could ment in India, Burma, the Eastern not be secured by taking that course. Colonies and the Malay States.

He did not object to a consultation at Applications by such officers, in all

PRICE OF HAY DOUBLED IN GERMANY.

ZURICH, Aug 21. The German Government has doull

the proper time and at the proper place, branches of the Services, with Indianed the price of hay in order to reserve bat the present was not the time and Stockholm was not the place. (Cheers.)

or Eastern experience, are invited.

THE DISASTER AT SALONIKA

SÍLVER A RECORD PRICE.

as much as possible for the Army This is expected to further slaughtering

ADMIRALTY REINSTATES" VETERAN SKIPPER,,,

We are glad to announce says the Daily Chronicle, that the Admiralty have reinstated Captain Riepenhausen. of the Blue Bunnel Liae, in the merchant Bervice."

I that Capt

the year. faring indignation, was caused in ten- circles when, in the part of

the Admiralty

to give the, caplain the secret instructions quired by (DAKIET

unter mariners.

Edward Carson's explanation was Riepenhauser was born before his was naturalised, in 1957ad that the son of & German be indst be refused his

he has no connections in Germany, and living as a seaman. „It was pointed out, however, that the captain cannot speak or write or read a word of German, that

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XIFTING OF COMMARIZEN,.

All ranks will be inspected by the D.

that he has been 28 years an officer on One of the guy plass for the re Measts Holt's snips.was born in settlement of Europe after the war is to A meeting of Company, Platoon, auc of cattle owing to want of fodder, thos

Captain Riepenhagen was causing a further shortage of milk.

of a Scottish mother, and it make language, the basis of national Fection Commanders will take place at Scotland, There are indications that the grain was solely on technical grounds that he unity. Under this scheme the bi-lingual Headquarters Club út.6.15 p. ATHENS, Aug. 21. Z It is officially confirmed producing provinces in Austria will came under the admiralty's ban provinces between Franes und Germany Tuesday, August 8th Uniform NEW YORK, Aug 21.

decline to export their crops to other ethorities have now perceived the in- would become a beffer, neutral, and options).

the result of influential pressure, the Silver has reached the record price of Salonika, including 40,000 Jews."

100,000 people are homeless in parta

ption INSPECTION natice of their attitude, and the cap independent line, tint would consist of 872 cents, and it is predicted that it

tain's many friends will rejoice to hear Switzerland. Alsace, Lorraine, Luxem will yet reach $1, a the floating suspir

There are no indications GI foul

that the freedom of the seas will again bars (which is not bi-lingual), and (B) on Thursday, August 30th Fall he hi

gium. Toland would, of course, heap Deulfed orders will be re-crested, a groster, Berbis be establish ed, and the Austrian Empire would be A presentation by the Police Reserve broken up. The idea bristles with to FC AS1 Gaskel will take place at trouble. In Macedonia sad some of the Headquarters Clu on Friday, August

24th at 8 pm | Adriatic provinces, for inst

instance

(ed.) 1.7. Horch,

The Admiralty snuounces that the is limited and the world's demand

Naval Air Service, at midnight on exceeds the production.

-Banday, dropped many toes of bombs

LONDON, Ang 21:

cones dump it Middelkerke and onSilver is quoted at 44. Trade omers bave caused the advance. The Market ia firm.

the works at Brugnoise.

All the machines returned safely.

play.

PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS.

Parliament October 16.

arned

THE DISTURBANCES IN SPAIN..

MADRID, Ang 21. The Cabinet has decided to disban(17 the troops called up during the recent disturbances. Meters

The Cabinet also approved a credit of 70,000,000 pesetas for the reorganization of the Army and the provison of aer planes and anti-air-caft guns.

NEW PREMIER OF HUNGARY.

LONDON, Aug. 21.

Dr Alexander Wekerle, han best teamonsly difficult to determine which appointed Premier of Hungar

fis the predominant race"

LA FÉRUENTATION,