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TURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
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THE ITALIAN FRONT.
**BAD FOR THE AUSTRILYS."
Loxdos, Dec. 10.
"Beuter's Correspondent at Italian Headquarters... telegraphing "Jast night, said, thut Emperor, Kark « is again on the Trentino front, and most
anxious about the Italian resistance The present puuse is bad for the Austrians who cannot keep a large army equipped on the Asiago Plateau
during the winter. They must soon withdraw to winter quarters or dess perately seek a devisión,
ITALIAN OFFICIAL REPORT:"
Losnos, Dec 10, An Italian official report says -- The enemy took possession of} trenches eastward of Caposile with ▲ small garrisoï after a-hand-to-hand struggle.
Our counter-attack
took the entire position, putting to fight numerous enemy supports, s
Our batteries shelled enemy musSAN in the Col-la-Berretta and outst Tembu "trgin
The Navy destroyed # bridge between Vianello and Sinces during intens traffic.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
ENEMY RAIDS REFULSED,
Losos, Dec. 30. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: -
We repulsed enemy raids to th south-west of Ta Bassee and vast ward of Klein Zileieboke,
ARTILLERY STRUGGLE IN MEUSE REGION.
Loxpas, Dec. 30).
A French communiqué states The artillery struggle is oecision ally violent on the right of the Meuse in the region of Les Chambrettes and in Upper Aldee.
STRENGTH OF THE GERMAN AEROPLANE SQUADRONS.
Losnos, Dec. 10.
Peuter's Correspondent at the
THE REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL
NO CHANGE OF POLICY TOWARDS ALLIES
understanl to
the
LONDON, Dec. 10. The news from Lisbon is so belated and disjointed that it is impossible sequence of events.
Food difficulties seem to be largely the original cause of the trouble whereby certain politicians, discon- tented with the existing régime, pro-
THE CHINA MAIL.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
RUSSIE AND GERMAN CORQUESTS.
A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.
"PETROGRAD, Dec. 10. The Maximalist Government news. paper Pravila, în a significant article; indicates that the Russian people
can never consent, to German con quests in Courlandi, Lithuania or Felund.
A FINNISH · REPUBLIC
RUSSIA.
fited to overthrow the Government NO LONGER DEPENDANT ON- with the resistance of a portion of
e Army and Navy.
All, tmins were stopped and the
Hezsinóroka, Dec. 10. The President of the Senate bas
Ministers were quietly arrested by notified the Powers of the prixlama vilitary officers.
tion of a Finnish Republic.
The Premier Senhor Alfonso Costa, was travelling to Lisbon fron Paris, but learning of the revolution. he went to Oporto, which was seem ingly quiet,
The revolutionaries talk of dis solving Parliaments
One lact predominates ainidest Day obscurities, "ruimely that the change of Government involves change of policy towards the Allies.
REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE.
*
FORMED.
Lasins, Dec. 10. Revolutionary Committee has been formed, consisting of Senhors Pues, Machado Santo, and, Captain Feliciado Costu, Senbor Rolrigues Bettencourt will be Premier ankl interian President.
LORD "LANSDOWNE'S LETTER.
LORD ROBERT CECIL'S COMMENTS.
LONDON, Dec. 10, Lord Robert Cecil has been inter- viewed by a representative of Beuter's Agency. He was asked about certain points of apparent sitnilarity between Lord Lansdowne's letter and President Wilson's "mes-" sage, and said: "I see it is being alleged, with a certain degree of plaisibility, that there are many points my which Lord Lansdowne ugrues with President Wilson's mes. suge. That may be so, but in the cuse of President Wilson's messunge one reads through every line of it
French Headquarters reports:
not only the determination to win, According to approximately exact but the certainty of victory". Pre- Sgures which I have "just received sident Wilson's message has the the Gennan Army possesses 278 inspiration of leadership, which Lord squadrons, comprising Lansdowne's letter tacks. This led aeroplane 4,500 machines. The squadrons are to what I believe to be a complete divided into 100 artillery spotters, misconception of Lord Lansdowne's 30-seouts, "23 bombers, 40 chasers letter which has been thought to and 80 battle-plane squadrons for the indicate some weakening of deter protection of bambers. The German mination on the part of this country, output of aeroplanes is reported to and it is possible it rany produce un be rapidly increasing.
impression of a change at attitude.
"THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
REVIEW:
He ndle that the Finns can no longer be dependant on Russia whore rales leading to famine and click
RUMANIA AND THE ARMISTICE.
Losnos, Dec. 10.
A German official message says:** We have signed an armistice, with the Russo-Ramanian Armies between the Dniester and the mouth of the Danube.
Mr Balfour, in the House of Commons, confinned the reports but the Rumanian Army had been obliged by uncontrollable, circam stanges to conclude an armistice.
BRITISH WAR BONDS.
APPLICATIONS TO. DATE.
LONDON, Dec. 10. Applications for National War Bonds received by the Bank of England to the 8th inst. amount to £151,454,000 Applications received by the Post Oce up to December lat amount to £2,734,000.
War Sarings Certificates sold to December 1st total £131,628,000.
WITH STOUT HEART,
HEROIC SON'S GOOD-BYE TO
DEAREST OF FATHERS"
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE ITALIAN "FRONT..
BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS. BOMBARDED.
VICTORY NEEDED ON ALL FRONTS.
·WINTER MÖRK FOR NEENTEAR'S CAMPAIGN.
"There" is much to be done this winter to prepare for next year's cam LONDON, Dec. 2. |paign. When a nation is at war there Router's Correspondant at Italian is no faslity to its military preparations. Headquarters, telegraphing to-day, We must go on to the end with states
increased effort, and accelerated speed.
The Austro-Germans are continuously bombarding the positions occupied by the British and French troops, especially the Montella Hills, where the British troops are encamped. No particular object is apparently being served..
•
FRENCH TROOPS IN ACTION.
LONDON, Dec. 10. Renter's Correspondent with the French forces in Italy telegraphe
The first shots between the French and the Austrians have been exchanged man, commanded by General Duchesse,
«The sector which the French have taken over is one of the most exposed and most dangeròn, on the whole Fract, and a strong hold of the position is of the utmost importance. Their defensive zone is being thoroughly organised on the same sale asin. FranceAN
THE WESTERN "FRONT.
RAIDS REPULSED.
LONDON, Dec. 10. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- parts:-
There were outpost encounters wait- ward of Graincourt to-day.
An attempted raid southward of Lens last night was successfully repulsed, and we captured a few prisoners.
The enemy's artillery is more active in the Messines sector.
Our aeroplanes, on Saturday, bombed hostile billets and fired many rounds at ground targets. (st
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Two of our machines are missing.
FRENCH ARTILLERY BUSY.
LONDON Dec. 10.
A French communiqué states there were fairly lively artillery actions at Sapegneal, Maisons de Champagne, and on the right of the Meuse
THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.
THE REACTION SETS IN.
LONDON, Dec. 10. Thers are indications that the Russian masses are increasingly disgusted with the Bolsheviks methods. All parties, except the Maximalists, have boycotted "the municipal elections in Petrograd.
As throwing light on the inner work-The Constituent Assembly meets this ings of the mind of the brave young week, but it will be a farce as the lads who are giving their lives so un- Maximalists will certainly dissolve it grudgingly for Eing and country, we unlea they have a majority quote from the Spectator" the letter Meanwhile, the Central Committees given below. The writer-n second Reutenant in a Welsh regimen was and most of the Socialist Peasant parties filled on August 1 last, on his 21st birth-have issued manifestes declaring against day, after three years' service He did separate peace and deudancing the so well in the push on July, 31 and Maximalists high-handedness in neg August 1 that be was recommended tinting a separate armistice without the by his commanding officer for the V.C.
approval of the people or consulting, the Allied, The armistice, therefore, is not binding
BEF, France, 90-7-17,
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We want, not conditional superiority which we already have, but an aver whelming superiority of force bath on land and Re More me, more guns, more ships, more aircraft. It is by developing our belligerent resources, co-ordinating our efforts with those of par Allies, that we shall secure the decisive victory which we all hope, next year will bring us" (Colonel A. M. Murray, CB writes in the Daily Nowa" on The Strategical Outlook")."
easier, by belittling its diffealty. To do this is to play into the hands of pacifiste, whose courage fails when hopes are disappointed. False optimism În worse than avowed pessimam,
"The task before us will not be made
ENEMY'S "PUSITION
"The facts are these: At the begin ning of the fourth year of war the enemy's domination of the whole of Central and Eastern Europe is intact In the West-ke is firmly based on his Rhine frontier, bilsin. 'Northern. France he holds all the approaches to his great German, waterway down the the lenses The Hindenburg hoe is | ralleye of the Scarpe, the Sambre, and
unbroken
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"Belgium and Luxemburg are under is trembling for her life. the heal of the conqueror, and Holland
"In the East the Germans, 'hare al more than 800 miles from the Baltic to continuous line of defence extending for |
the Black Sea. Rumania has been split
into two halves, and the province of Wallachia, rich in corn and oil, has been delivered over to the Hun invaders..
"The mighty waterway of the Danube is controlled by the enemy from its source in the Black Forest, to its mouth in the Black Sen.. A German garrison bolds Constantinople in its grip, and with the exception of Greece the whole of the Balkan Peninsula is under German domination.If the war were to end to-day, and the Germans were to get the peace they want, the Kaisar's dream of hegemony in Europe wonld be an accomplished fact."
"The Germans have not been expelled either from Franse or Russia, while the "hara overun the small States of Belgium, Luxemburg, Serbia, Mon- tenegro, and Rumania, whose independ ence we are pledged to restore.
"The chief cause of Germany's early military successes was the thoroughness of the recret preparations which she made to attack her neighbours. It has taken the Allies three years to catch up; but they have done so now, and every month adds to their belligerent resources, and increases the proponder- ance of force necessary for decisive victory. Another cause of success is the perfection of the co-ordination which exists between the High Commands of the Central Powers and their allies. Unity of command is as complete sa it "My Dear Dad, This letter is being
could be." Given unity of commsad, The chief Maximalist delegate, who the commander who operates on interior written on the eve of our going over the
in a big attack. It is only because made the negotiations, announces that lines over a wide theatre of war and know by this time what the odds are the Germans have agreed not to transfer with organised railway communications against will only be sent in the troops to other fronts, but they refused can with an inferior number of troope
anhurt that I Vi
to give a binding undertaking. The bring a superior force to bear at any rent of my being killed in know, my dear dad, will bear the shock delegate Laively complains that they given locality where his adversary as bravely as you have alwa, yet I should proposals of fraternisation with the men
the displayed no enthusiasm for the Ensaly threatens to strike a decisive blow. strain of my being ent bere, yet like if possible, to help you to carry on in order to make arrangements for over with stout a heart as I hope to jump riding the generals,
2.3 the bags. I believe I have told you before that I do not fear death itself: the
die for the caUNO. for Beyond has no terrors for me. I am quite content which I have given spnearly three years of my
I
write
coe's
I believe any such impression to be of my life, and I only hope that I may
AMERICA'S NAYY,
LARGE INCREASES.
WINTER TASKS.
"This is why the preponderance of force must be greater than that which the Allies have so far placed in the field. We want to strike, not in Flanders only, bat with simultaneous effect all along the line of land blockade in Europe on a profound delusion. I know it to meet death with as hrave a front as I
both Western and Eastern Fronts, and in such overwhelming fores that the be; so far as the British Govern- have seen other men de before. My one t is that the opportunity has been
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. enemy's strength will be relatively weak ment is concerned, and I believe the denied mow repay you to the beat of my
ability for the lavish kindness and Mr. Daniels, Secretary to the Navy at every point attacked. Be people as a whole, including Lord devotohess which you have always in his annual report asks in the budget This will be possible when American Lansdowne himself, re
pore shown. I had hoped to do so, in the for the coming year for one billion troops are standing alongside of the WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.
determined than ever to bring strugggle of life. Now, however, it may dollars, but he explains that it will be French and when equilibrium has been
be that I have done so in the struggle The War Secretary's weekly the
necessary to sax for additional funds as restored in the Russian Army. The war a-victorious con-between life and death, between England the Congressional session proceeds. Be Italians have already put forth aupreme. review of the war" anticipates aclusion, The fundamental vil and Germany, liberty and slavery. In general German offensive. on the is that Gerroany is a State of auy case, I shall have done my duty in quotes the following Navy increases efforts, and have four million men under my little way. Well, dad, please and men, from 19,500 to 322,000; reserva: is either desirable, or possible, British, please carry since January 1st-Naval force: officers arms. No alteration in tactical sratoms West Front. Therefore, America's idolatry State above religion and to content: Good-bye, dearest of officers and man, from s few hundreds French, and Italian commandes are ad
on with a good beart
military efforts must be speeded up. everything else. It has been well fathers ...Good-bye, E. and G
May you all reap the benefits of only to 49,000; monthly expendituri: working on identical tactical, lines and Germany has concentrated all avait described by Utto Kalin, himself this great wir, and keep cheery and from $3,000,000 to $50,000,000 ships we see with what successful result
able guns, munitions and then on Gerran origin, usDemoniacal happy through life. Your affectionate in commission: from 300 to over 1,000. the West, where there is relatively obsession, power worship, world. son and brother, G.,
a greater German force than at any dominion." That is at the bottom of other time of the war.
what we complain. The submarine The enemy is also concentrating and other outrages committed by the extremely heavily on the Asiago
enemy during the War are all the
Plateau.
What is wanted is acceleration of The catablishment abroad of American effort, and this is only possible if there patrol stations. has been authorised and is a generalspeeding up of manufacturing
will be operating in 1918, energy, Gans, and plenty of them, are
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laws of morality are binding if they 24, saysIn May I mentioned the stop constructi be demanded to keep the Austro-are against the State. That is age of divination by s Chih Shib who Germans from the lateral valleys of really the foundation of all the did not believe weasel had that, power Fremcella and Cadena, leading to
Binte my return to Lius I have found stoppage, the main Brents valley and the trouble with the Germans. As long that cater, a couple mont b
28 the governing classes are infected the animal" or "beast as it might be called, has proved victorious once more. plains below.
with this doctrine there is no limit. It turned ent
this
The rains to the wickedness and cruelties that kept off at critical, or strengthened ies that came too heavily, continued too long, or will in time utterly undermine their periods; so the Chih Shih was informed by civilisation. This is what President responsable men that such unsuitable
weather was because the grest
WeLea
THE HALIFAX DISASTER.
.NEED OF ASSISTANCE GREAT AND URGENT.
LONDON, Dec. 10%
An offeral message from Canada
For the first time for a considerable building of ships during the past for period, statistics are now given as to the months of the war The Paris: Baran the war will be decided in Flanders. In so
Veritas" has published figures referring
Wilson has said over and over for to give the full title of fairy to shipbuilding for the months October far si this view of the strategical situa
again!!!
ISSUES.
states that it is estimated that 3,000 SQUITH TO SPEAK ON WAR What could the
mops were killed, 3,000 injured, 40,000 left destitute and the damage done amounts to £5,000,000 in Halifax.
The need of assistance" is great and
A MANSION HOUSE FUND:
Chih
was offended by the Chili Shib's former action, but if the seal was taken door, etc, etc. there would doubtless more propitions weather
Ponces Could he circumstances under sach the Father And Mother of the people,
100_ his children starra) LONDON, Dec. 10 stand-by ard
of intelligent local men. Harts Unusual interest attaches to the who ought mors about the place who not and allits speech which Mr. Asquith is, an- long aga" was the appointed and not nounced to male at Birminghara natural father" of the people. Very
well, you may take
take off the
the seals, and we
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tities than heTM
to-morrow, as the occasion affords hope there will be better wes
The Lord Mayor opened & Maumon |D House Fond for sufferers in the
At Baile Subscripti
Canada HM TH
Zubated £1,000
I do not know that the
nity to define the attitude heen much more equitable
his followers on bord
lettes
big doorway and other rooma
on other built at the front and fand
enclosure and many
worshippe
1816 to April 1917 from which the follow- tion tends to stimulate effort in the direction named it makes for good but ing are taken."
Number of ships. Tonnage. we have to remember that we are Great Britain
680,948 fighting with Allies and that there 484,231 are other Fronts besides the British Fronk A deciaire defeat of the enemy in Flanders will give Belgian back to the Belgians, but it will not
„BRI
TED.
GERMAN SOLDIERS" CHANGED
the whole of the German forces conos trated on the western front, wouló, THƯU be sufficient to crush the Franco-BRITAN armies before the effective entry of United States Lorce fato the field o battle. Many competent people! many go even further, and declare thee the British Army is so strong and w A neutral merchant who has Sual-arquipped that it could cope ang lah
ed
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wire Alsace back to France, or Trieste rived in Rome from Gerukny states that ban the Germandervee
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Japan
"Italy
222,913
61088
34,161
Norway, Denmark
and Bwi
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to Italy or Berbia to the Serba To and the war there must be victoi
nothing to do but to
everywhere in Germany he heard the British Army spoken of in terms of great respect, and offen of feari Boldiers who
all Fronts For the present, we liave here returned to Germany from the
entrate on our western front, wounded or our lewyn
Un-have spread such stor of the strength next and prowess of the Bitch Frmy that there is now scarcely single person "whớ bónata; that the
the German armELIS ersaries on tthe west
to succeed fri con- mad
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