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TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1)

THE WESTERN FRONT.

LOCAL FIGHTING ON CAMBRAI

FRONT.

·Lesvos, Jan. 4.

12.50 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reporta

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

KÖKÜTENA PEIGENDA

PETROGRAD, Jud.

MAN-POWER RESOURCES OF THE

BELLIGERENTS.

Losnog Jan. 3. Hoffelly announced that Mr. | Barnes, the Pensions Minister, pre- sled at a meeting of the Representa tives of the Government and the

RUHI

PROTES

GOVERNMENT.

The newspapers rejees the Ger-

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 8. man designs on Poland and the

Correspondent in the Telegraaf Baltic provinces. The Maximalists Trade Unions associated with recruit-states that Major-General Hunbury, Paper Prundu status that the Germaning in donnection with protected the Chief of the British War Prisons Imperialists are out of their reckon- ing. If their Generals do not wish to. renounce plunder, the soldiers them selves, will conclude a soldiers

peace.

The paper recalls the German There was local fighting, yesterday

narai mutiny last year, and adds afternoon, on the Cambrai Front,

"Messieurs Imperialists? You are Dear the Canal du Nord, but it diding the wind and you will roup a

not produce any material change:-

We advanced our line slightly. during the night, to the south of

Lens.

There was hostile artillery activity Lat Bulleour and Ypres.

HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVE,

Losos, "Jun 4, 12.35 .m. Field-Murshad Sir, Douglas. Haig

reports:-

T

Eneny inters were drive off before they reached our positions, to the east of Epehy.

The hostile artillery was more active to the south-west and to the west of Cambrai.. It was also active along the Front from the south of Lens to Armentieres "and in the neighbourhood, of Zonnebeke,

Our aeroplanes, yesterday night dropped lew bombs on Carvin, despite the bad weather.

BRITISH ARTILLERY AND AIRCRAFT WORK.

Lospas. Tan, 3.

A British usage reports tha? ant

Italian official messige guys-

Our artillery curried out destruc-

whirlwind."

THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY.

Foccupations, ge

Sir Auckland Godies, the Minister of National Service, stated that the War Cabinet had studied the man power resourves of all the belligar

The Russian situation had

enta.

COMPANY MEETING.

UNINGAND:

The annual shareholders meeting of the Rwa Cotton Spioning and WeavING Company Ltd was held on December Matheson and Co., the general managers {39that the omfoss, of Messin Jardine, Mr John Johnstore prasided. The direc

ut The Hague, has protected to the tors present were Mesek. E. E. Clarks, Dutch Government in connection You Sung pan Mr. J. Kerfoot acted J.W.C. Bonner, Zoe Quan-yuen and wish the confusion yesterdays during a somotory The shareholders pres the embarkation of the wounded ent were fears A Brooke-Smith, FB Broadrick, H. J. Clark, J, Pron prisoners from Germany,

The trouble was apparently due to A. Clacke, D. Landals and H. E tice, F. J. Burrott, W. H. Barham, B. the delayed rival of the trains, in Morrisson connection with which Dutch The CIRAILA said: "On the

completely altered the position in the last six months, but the Ameri-

protest to Germany is pending. can armies would ultimately more

Three hundred and sixty British that redress the balance. The speed with which they could be put into civilians and 20 Lastars, including the field was almost entirely a ques- seventeen mental cases, arrived in tion of tonnage; mesinwhile, a great the morning from Rubleben. The strain would be thrown on "Great train took 23 hours on the journey The Council of the Peoples' Com-Britain's resources. The three first Three thousand prisoners remain missioners Axes the data for the requisites for victory were the in-at Brileber of whot, it is expected opening of the Constituent Assembly use in the output of shipping1,000 will shortly be released. as January 18, provided there is thetence of the armies in the field. thesaving of tonnage and the main arvessary, quorum of 400.

A

PETROGRAD, Jan. 4.

REVEALED.

Hence a departure from the existing armangements was imperative; inna- inuch as the maintenance of the armies in the field is impossible

MORE DIPLOMATIC SECRETS TO BE unless a large number is recruited from the munitions workes, both for the technical and fighting units.

The meeting was adjourned until to-morrow

PETROGRAD, Jun, 4.

-

The Bolshevik News Agency nubers that among the papers dis- covered at the Foreign Ministry, are interesting documents dealing with the pour parlere between the German and Russian Imperial Goveninents

on the subject of an International Convention for, fighting Socialism. Other curious documents have lutely beh unearthed dealing with the time immediately preceding the war and relating to the German polity.

The contents will be published when they have been classified.

tire bombardments on the enemy ORDER RESTORED IN MANCHURIA.

batteries.

Our winnen zarried nut successful

bombing raids.

PERING, Jan. 4.

A telegum from Harbin states that We carried out a raid; crossing the order has been restored along the Piye, and king, prisoners.

THE RECENT REVERSE AT

- CAMBRAI.

SEVERAL OFFICERS RETIRED

Losnos, Jan. 4.

"The Daily Chronicle" States the Report of the enquiry, conducted by Sir Douglas Haig and Bord Derby, in connection with the reverse ut Cambraias been completed.

Severul responsible officers have already retired, y

·ENEMY ATTACK IN ALSACE FAILS.

LONDON, Jan.

A French cornmuniqué states: An enemy attempt to attack, opposite Aspects in Upper Alsace completely tiled and the Gensus

uffered appreciable losses.

Chinese Eastern Railway where the Maxinalists surrendered

to 1,000 Chinese troops und have arrived at

a station in Manchuria. -

PRESIDENT WILSON'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE TO BRITISH PREMIER.

LONDON, Jan. 4. message to Mr. Lloyd George, refers President Wilson, in a New Year

to his resolution to continue to put every man and resource in the United States into the imperative task of winning an honourable peace. says Your message on behalf of the British War Cabinet is deeply

· appreciated-and-our-pirits respond to its friendly challenge,"

FOOD CULTIVATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOK.

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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

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last occasion I had the pleasure of addressing you I said we had made a good start and the outlook was healthier than we bad seen it for many months. Goatlemen, I am pleased to say the year's working shoys a record na regards prost An At our departmenta har contributed to it. We were in a position to supply a demand created by the war the same time I wish it to be clearly with several of sur specialtine, but at understood that the major of our profit has come from the "Spindle Pointit has been a spinter's year. entirely different to the preceding one, when we lost money with car spinning | bat had an advantage with our looma, There have been averal factors contributing to this result We bad a healthy demand for our yaras throughout the year and less competi tion from Japan and India as the milk in those countries were trying to make good what Lancashire failed to apply. LONDON, Jan. 3. consequently we had good margits of -Sir Albert Stanley, President of the profit and yarn prices followed the Board of Trade, in a foreword to the upward trend of cotton due to short current Board of Trads Journal, outlines supplies. Our mills also benefited con- the programme of the Board's extended siderably through gambling in Japanese commerce, including the dissemination record prices in cotton and yarn on this activities towards increasing overses yarn in Osaka, which accounted för

of the world. “ of ap-to-date information from all parts market in August and resulted in már gins of profit which we may never sce The Journal states that the new again. We took advantage of market Department of Overseas Trade will conditions and worked our No. 2 Mill control the Board of Trade Trade: Com-night and day during the greater part missioner Service, within the Empirs of the year as well as the No. 1 Mill sad the Foreign Office Commercial our wearing working day time only.. Attaché Service within the Empiro and

"The profit for the twelve months

BRITISH OVERSEAS, TRADE.

PROGRAMME OF EXTENDED ACTIVITIES.

the Commercial Attaché Service of the ending Oct. 31 we la 849,387.96, Foreign Offics. It is intended to extend which, with the amount brought for the Trade Commissioner Service to ward from last year, leares available India and some of the principal Crown for distribution Tia 654,312.67.) Colonies, which will greatly increase its It is proposed to pay a dividend of commercial purposes.

T, 20 per share on the ordinary atores; The Journal describes the new system and it may interest you to know that of distribution of information under the inclusive of this year's dividend Tis. 90 pledge of secrecy to 'traders and manu-i per share have been paid during the last facturers regarding poabla importers seven years.

AN IMPERATIVE NEED.

LONDON, Jan. 3

ja certain foreign countries of British From the report it will be seen that | The Prime Minister, in a message manufactured goods. The idea is the it is proposed to write off Plant and to the agricultural labourets of Great outcome of the Enemy Trading Act. Machinery Tis: 90,000.00. These Britain, appeals to all to do their Tea thousand traders have already amounts exceed last year's appropriation utmost to help grow more food.miled themselves of its use, all of by Tis. 26,000 and are called for by UKRAINE AND THE MAXIMALISTS.There is a world-wide shortage of checked with the assistance of the lead that we have been working our No. 2 whose bona fides have been doubly the recent additions and by the fact

food and we may have to feed the ing commercial organnations. Even Mill and the Waste Spinning and Army and Navy and also ourselves more confidential and more secret is the Waste Weaving Mill night and day on what we can grow at home."

special register, which provides wide during the year. The Special Repairs information, ragarding trade openings and Renewals Fund of Tis. 50,000 has THE ANNUAL BRITISH LABOUR:

abroad, reports, on foreign competition been created to meet the cost of exten and various oversea industries.

| iîve, renewals in our No.: 1. Mill when CONFERENCE.

we are able to obtain supplies from SPANISH FARLIAMENT DISSOLVED. Engisad to bring our machinery up to

date. If you approve of the proposed

PETROGRAD, Jan. 4.

mise that they will not war against The Peoples Commissionem pro-

Ukraine if Ukraine allows the Maximalists Kaledin.

to uttack General

Loxbox. Jan 4 Mr. Huysman, the Secretary of, THE QUESTION OF REPATRIATING the Internationaf Socialist Bureau

PRISONERS.

will attend the Annual Labour Con- ference at Nottingham, on January

PETROGRAD, Jan."4" Negotiations regarding the repatric tion of prisoners-of-war 'have been held up owing to the Maximalist insistence on

free communication with the Austrian and German Two "chemy aeroplanes

were brought down and six others fell in

their own lines.

Socialists and the appointment of a Commission to report upon the hundreds of thousands of Poles who Our air squadrons dropped 1,500ave been forced to work in German kilogrammes of bombs on retories factories:

at Rombach and the railway stations.

ut Metzsablons, Coifans, Argivable* and other places..

THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO

RUSSIA

43

THE ITALIAN, FRONT.

THE STORMING OF MOUNT TOMBA

BRILLIANT FRENCH EXPLOIT.

#LONDON, Jan. 4 Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters in Italy, telegraphing yesterday, says that in the recent Monte Tomba success the French applied the lessons learnt on the Somune and other battlefields.

LONDON, Jan. 4. The Times states that on account of a somewhat serious breakdown in health, Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador at Petrograd, has been granted leave of absence and will shortly return home

It is improbable that any successor will at present be appointed and if events make the retention of the Embassy desirable, it will be left to the control of the Chargé d'Affaires.

THE NATIVES OF EL-GERMAN COLONIES.

COMMENT ON A GERMAN CLAIM:

29.

FRENCH SHIPPING. LOSSES.

A CORRECTION.

Reuter corrects the number of French vessele, over 1,000 tons, sunk, to two, instead of nine, as cabled yesterday:

SILVER PRODUCTION:

LONDON, Jan. 4.

and European coinage...

The stock of silver in Londen Dow almost negligible.

→ MADRID, Jan. 3.appropriations, the Tis. 195,000 for The King has dissolved Parliament, Equalisation of Dividends will bring and the elections have been fixed for that fund to Tis: 800,000; whisk was February 17th. The meeting of the the figure it was originally decided to new Parliament is sized for March 3rd. maistain.

THE WESTERN-FRONT.

ATTEMPTS AT FRATERNISATION,

LONDON, Jan. 3,

"By the addition of Tis. 150,000 the {reserve" "fund will then stånd i cât

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I do not think the other small items for depreciation call for any specisi I would like to suggest the aboli Mr Barrett the's moved a vote, remark except that they will not again tion of import duties on raw material, thanks to the general managers and the Beuter's Correspondent at British require attention for one year. The iso the coast trade duties from one Consulting Committed on the success of Headquarters states

contribution to the British Wat Funde port in China to another, but whatever the year and particularly to Mr. Brooks- The Germans attempted to fraterning of Tia 50,000, will, Tam sure, mest with may be done to augment revenue by Smith for his valuable work The was on New Year's Eve, diplaying during your approval. It is proposed to súbe increasing import duties, I trust the passed and after words of thanks from the day messages lifted shove the para Red Cross and Widows and Orphans at present as far as the paying of the meeting Lijou-med.

scribe this sum equally between the cotton mils will be allowed to remain, Mr. Johnstons and Mr. Brook Smith pot. One of these was intended for the

Australians' consumption, and suggested Fund. It is our first donation since the arcise is concerned. There are too that as the Germans were giving the war started and as we are a British few industries in China; if there were Russians peace, perhaps the Anzacs company the least we can do is to support more work and wages for the people UNION CHURCH WORKING PARTY, would be glad of pesce siso, upon which the British Government in the colonial there would be legs unrest. To attract The Tintes states that the demand burst of firing shatared the notice task they bave nadertaken and to entsile capital, security and protection The Ladies Working Party of Union dileviate to the best of our ability the must be given and in considering Church has sent two cases to Amaro, for silver in 1918 is again expected | board/epot to exceed the world's production

Subsequently, about mid-aight, the suffering and distren cheerfully barge the new tariff this matter should Mesopotamis, containing the following owing to the requirements of Indian Germans threw over a large number by access he hathad such appeal to the commissionen alle 2187kirts: 83 suite of pyjama

a successful year, the Consulting Com We have not made much headway vests, 180 handkerchiefs, 189 pairs of of granades, sccompanied by a barrage by machine-guns, and sent up fine mitte recommeard that the rim of with the prevention of watering of cot socks, 7 pair of knee caps, 20 prima o is display of Very lights of all colour T. 20,000 be paid is a boust to the ton and other adulteration. Since I mittens, is pairs of bed socks, & pairs

along the whole length of the Front, and European sud Chinese staffe at the mille hat addressed you, two Chinese officials of cuffs, 18 helmet 22 pufflers, & caps a tremendone, basa voice coured three recognition of the services rendered together with a foreign expert, visited 26 milk coven 30 surgical caps, times in succession. "A Happy New to the company in obtaining the results Shanghai and had ocular domustration bandages, shroud, 480 oed

as presented in, the report

of what the cotton mills have to contend bandages 31 hoe slota, 24 mops, 1 **** Our working coata during the year with m this respect. So far, I have not estcher.

have been high, and we can expect no beard anything resulting from their MR WARDLE DENIES REPORT OF relief in this respect in the near future visit, but hope that something may be as our coal contest alone next year done to make its penal ntion to water is nearly double wh: it was last year cotton or adulterate is in other ways The expenditure is interest was Tie. I think I have arred to all matters 66.877.62 this was due to the large that will interest you, but if my-share- stocks of cotton we were compelled to holders wish to ank questions, Fabalt be carry to safeguard the working of our pleased to, antwar them to his bess of milla, also to the exisisions which have mys bean carried out without calling up The fresh capita

The Silver Markot is steady.

SHIPBUILDING IN CANADA

Year, Australia M

OTTAWA, Jan. 4. The Government is inaugurating as vigorous shipbuilding policy and will utilise all the Canadian shipyards, the capacity of which is 250,000 tons anály.

Three classes of ships will be built, namely, vessels of 8,000 tons; 5,000 fons, and from 8,000 to 10,000 tone..

The Government is also negotiat ing for the construction of the netessary rolling-mills

RESIGNATION.

LONDON, Jan. 3, Wardle denies that he has resigned the Secrete

ship of the Board of Trade:

Parigi,

THE BRITISH FOOD SITUATION.

NO OCCASION FOR ALARM”.”

The attack was prepared most care- fully and was carried out in a most brilliant style of pountain: warfare. The enemy masses suffered consider ably from the French artillery pre paration, bus the most difficult tak was that of the left flank in crossing A ravine. When this had been When thi

PARIS, Jan. 4. accomplished, the centre and right In connection with the report that executed a converging movement in the German delegates at Brostlitovsk conjunction with the left and soon claimed that the natives of the ex-

MELBOURNE, Jan. 4 overwhelmed the Austrian resistance. German Colonies were whole heart- The Nationalist Party his puased for?

The German reserves counter odly loyal to Germany, Commandant a resolution by 63 votes tu attacked, but it was too late to do Civrious, writing in the Matin, Mr. Hughes should

produce any serious effect

The French now overlook all the further side of Monte Tomba and

Also the Alano Valley,

points out that - German oficiat figures show that German

6382 ticed

Togo

The British aviator prevented over

THE NATIONALIST LEADER IN GAUSTRALIA”.

Lead

THE CONSCRIPTION

HERDUY

LONDON, Jan. 3 Lord Bhongda, the Food Cost ia apsochy stated that the Ministry was willing to make gran order to encourage the establish communal atchens.

As regards future prospects, at the moment it is difficult to form an opinion —from a statistical stand point, they uster better. dhe markets throi

| Chins are depleted of ageing the

farmers have done exceed and should be in a

pud with the diminishing

other countries, prices

To local troops 916 handkerchiefs

The following letters have been

recaired

Glasgow, 19th Oct. 1917

Dear: tremely luring taken so

-lodga the "huge" shirts, stockings were then fal, and

pro- some of the men wi