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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1918,

TELEGRAMS.

FARLIER TELEGRAMS,

Continued from Page 1.)'

HOW PETROGRAD IS SUPPLIED WITH FOOD.

PETROGRAD, Jan. 14. The moce upial soldiers of Petro "grad are going backwards and for words to the provinces fetching meat, dour and butter which they sell in Petrograd at exorbitant prices.", The soldiers take possession of the railway carriages, banging on to the steps and lying on the roofs of the carriages

IMPORTANT CONFERENCES IN

BERLIN.

Count Hertling speska on Prussian domestic policy on Tuesday and replies to the Entente staterman on Wednesday

THE CHINA MAIL.

Arm.

THE HALIFAX CALAMITY G Looking north from the Citadely ure in the military service of the

to-night there is an area of charred Allies. ruins that reaches to the North-weg-Persons injured by the explosion were found all over the city and throughout the dug Although many woman in the streets and in their miles away from the suure men and homes were thrown town so violently that theysuffered broken bones.The care for such injured has had to wait from the immediate scene of the upon the more seriously injured taken disaster.

the

HOW THE DISISTER OCCURRED.

Pandemonium in the city follows We take the lowing account who were in the streets at the time the asplosion. Huedreds of person AMSTERDAM, Jan. 14...

Irgo a New York paper:-

wer thrown to the pavement with The Borlia Press saya that important The explosion happened in the grent force, many of them being conferences between the High Command Narrows, kuding from the harbour filled and there severely injured. and politicians was inaugurated on the to Bedfont Busin, the north-west. 12th inst, when the diser received arm of the harbour. The Mont Blanc dead and is the crumpled buildings, Most of the thousands or mon the Crown Prince Fieht Marshal von was bettfd in from New York was while hundreds lost their lives along Hindenburg and General von Ludendorf, cargo Americen puumitions for the the water tropt. Otliers died in the who conterred with numerous political Alles and a deck lot of benzinesheet of damer that at its way, accustonsil to go with it stevet The fact that Halifax has been portant discussion between the High stations mar Rockingham, on leaders. There was lost-She was proceeding to the examining forced by the stoen wind, through lights at night since the beginning of Command and Count Hartling (the north-western shore of Blönd

the wreckage.

the war mitigate the miships that. There were no troop esset in the eiime with darkness to right. The Chancellor) on the 13th-These con-

barbour at the time, but there always people were accustomed to the dark ferences will form the basis of a discus. Busin. sion with the Kaiser today.

The Belgian relief steamship loma, has been a large garrison hors since streets and therefore the rescue of which there is no available record the beginning of the war. Those parties were able to work better in various registas, had just passed soldiers who had not been buried in DEAD AND INTRED IN REETS. through amination by the British their shattered barracks quickly jon In the Richmond seetiee, nearest authorities and was bound out to sea.ed the municipal police and the fire the scenes of the explosion, the ponds men, who were summoned front the enacted defivid description. Serious BLAST FOLLOWS FIRE ON MCNITIONS

more fortunate sections of the city. ly injured men and women crawled The military authorities assumed f from the wreckage of their homes and AMSTERDAM, Jan, 16 The pile-of-pho-Mont-Blum has command of the situation and quickly lay in the streets until they were Two Munich papers, commenting on stated that the collision was due to saw that the was aweeping be removed in ambulances and auto- President Wilson's speech; declare that suntlestanding of signals. Theyond the control of the men and mobiles to hospitals. Those less seri- he has cleverly seized on the acute storm also was at its height, and the appantus at hand. Soldiers were asly hurt aided the more gravely diferences provailing in Germany on ruined the Mont Blane yer despatched to mend the means of jured. I the streets, piled high the question of peace in order to shake it. No. 9.at the entrance to Bed communication The wireless had with debris: were found the bodies of confidence in her polict: The state of for Basin and opposite the northern gece down, the cable houses were many wonten and children. Several indescribable confusion in the direction PÉTROGRAD, Jun. 14.

of the policy must be ended. Count end of the city of Halifax, known as wrecked and all the telegraph and The Superior Council of National Hertling must immediately reply to the Bichpond section.."

telephone lines were down Property has drafted a decree cancel. President Wilson and prove to him that The bow of the Toma penetrated Germany does not resemble a Souththe fireroom of the Mont Aline and ling all national lowas issued by the American State, where policy is announc-brokes open barrels of benzine on the Imperial and Bourgeoise Cloviarned through military pronunciamentos.

*GERMANY.

There have been many fatal acci dents and also deaths from; cold. L} THE ACUTE DIFFERENCES 'IN has become almost impossible for ordinary passengers to travel. They sometimes wait for days and nighta at the stations.

ALL NATIONAL LOANS TO BE CANCELLED.

ments. "

All domestic loans, of which stock. is Bekly foreigners, are concellid unreservedly, and only" short term loans of the National Treasury are considered valik

THE CONVOY DISASTER.

FINDING OF THE COURT OF

ENQUIRY.

RUSSIA AND THE WAR..

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION FINISHED.

LONDON, Jan. 14." The Daily t'honicle Stockholm Correspondent says:-Sir George Buch- aus (British Ambassador to Fetro grad) has arrived.

Interviewed, he said he did not believe there could be any immediate change in Russian politics, as no other party would be able to turn out the Bolshevika He said that M. Trotsky's Si-propaganda in the German armies had had a certain successbet he was of the opifion that Russia's participation in the war had, finished.

LONDON, Jan. In the House of Connors Erie Geldes, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that the Admiralt bad" confirmed the finding of the] = Court of Enquiry that the escorting vassola did their best to protect the Scandinavian Convoy, when onY; British and five neistril ships, total- ling 80 tons and also a British destroyer and four pried trawlers werg, sink, om "Decetüber 17.

BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES.

60 RUSSIAN OFFICERS BUTCHERED.

VESSEL

The roadstead to. Bedford Basin sweeps around the base of the hill upon which Halifax, is built na

aurly, all the telephone wires and telegraph lines follow the railroad there. They were exposed to the full force of the shock and all were destroyed!

children were crashed to death when hey were hurled against telegraph pakis, by the force of the explosion... In scores of endes occupants of licuses who had escaped without in- jury or who were only slightly hurt were butted by the thares in their search for members of their families. and were forced to stand by impotent while what once had been their homes became funeral pyres.for loved,

deck. The benzine caught fire, and it was apparent ahost instantly that the munitions ship would blow up with a devastating crock, Seventeen minutes later, when the munitions Net go ther barrible force, nothing:

It was after noon before the wires visible was left of either vessel and

were mended and the damaged inches. it seemed that the universe had been

stallations in cities fa: from Halifax Scores of those who lost their lives shaken and shattered by the blow. were repaired, when the first mes" were dildren, who were assembling The Belgian relief vissef hit the sages could be sent out. Before that the public schools in the North munitions vessel unidship, driving a time Truro and Amherst had sent End Muny others suffered broken hole into her boiler room and prob- their fire fighting companies, nimbs and were rescued with difficulty ably spring over the boiler. In any special trains. They had felt the from the, ruined buildings. The event, the crew of the font Blanc shock, knew that something terrible teachers who escaped injury, worked hat time to lower the lifeboats and had happened, and, failing to get heroically to save the fives of the totes from ti drifting andito comunication with Halifax, children. dataged vessel. -

started their relief trains,

Other relief trains were started

Lebaron Coleman, manager of the killed when the roof of that building Canadian Express Company, was collapsed.

Phines were seen to beich from the late in the manition carrier'stom Moncton and Windsor, and all side. Menon the piers were ninning of them came in good time to save

In less than half an hour after the to get fire apparatus and several tags the principal British port in the started towards the vessel.

disaster five thousand persons Indi Western Hemisphere from complete Then came the blast that was destruction. Firemen built a wall of gathered on the common, and thou- heard more than a hundred miles water mouth of Hollis Street and kept sands of others had sought refuge in away, the jar of which crippled elec- the flames from enerching further.fields outside the city Hundreds tric installations in all telephone, Checking, them there, they entered reported missing by their ten- LONDON, Jan. 14.

telegraph and cable stations within the devastated section, And foughties, and it was not known whether The Times Correspondent at Odessu Ja mitis of thirty miles, and prevent the dames where they were fierce st. they were alive or dead. reports that Bolshevik sailors, for twod Halifax, in her hour of peed, from

The work of rescue and relief was days; buteherad nival officers at summoning sil. All wireless stations

DEAD MAY REACH TWO THOUSAND promptly organized. The Lademy Sebastopol, killing 60,. including four were dismantled by the blust for Aided by the soldiers of the gur of Music and many other public. hours, and white Halifax was toiling rison and by numerous civilian bildings were thrown open to the with her dead and injured, fighting bodies, they was under contro fertussive hundret tents were devastating fire and struggling to early that night, and rescue parties erected on the common, and these re-establish nitiuuiention, the out- were ping through the ruins to find are occupied by the troops, who have side world was trying every possible the injured and remper the dead. Surrendered their barracks to the means to communicate with Halifax As they progressed the extent of the women and children.":" to learn what had happened and to holocaust increased, ; know it reliet was desired.

The escort fought in a proper aniAdmirsis and one General. »umanlike manner and the covering forces took all possible steps to come to their assistance and to prevent the escape of the eneniy, m

In consequence of the putrages Admiral Hemata, commanding the Black Sea Fleet, has resigned.

The Annimity Board was of the opinion that the circumstances pre- venting the covering force, arriving in time could not have been prevent- edund that Admiral Sir David Beatty's "dispositions were the best possible, with the available forces.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

SUCCESSFUL RAID BY CANADIANS.

LONDOS, Jim. 14. Field Marsh Sir Douglas Haig reports: --

The Canadians, last night, success- fully carried out a mid, to the north of. Lens and brought back som prisoners."

There were putrol encounters to the east of Mericourt which resulted favourably to us.

ENEMY ATTACK", DISPERSED BY FRENCH GUNS.

Losdos, Jan. 14. A French communiqué states: Our accurate fire dispersed enemy detachments trying to reach our lines on the sector at Goose Hill, on the left of the Mense.

NAVAL AIRCRAFT BOMB X GERMAN AMMUNITION.

DUMP.

LONDON, Jan. 14. The Adairalty announces that yeater day afternoot, naval aircraft bombed a dump at 'Engel.

A mob, chiefly composed of soldier looted and burned the town of Kila during Christmai.

TURKS BREAK THE ARMISTICE.

LONDON, Jan. 14. dent atater the Turks have broken the The Daily News Petrograd Correspon Armistice by landing 20,000 troops batween Trebizond and Rize and submarine sunk a Russian transport,

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Every nook and cranny in all'avait- First, estimates had been three the bufflings was made ready within hundred dead. Each hour caused 40 hour to receive the wounded.» the authorities to add to that figure.

LATER At eight o'clock they said Places as far away as Truro and there was one thousand dead. An rains of the northern part of the city, While flames still sweep through the Amherst had heard the explosions hour later they expressed the fear Halifax is forced by a terrific blizzard and felt the shock and knew that that two thousand persons had been to-night to pass a moment to count something mighty and probably killed.

her tremendous leses. The estimate dreadful had happened, to Halifax, There were numerous instance of of 3,000 killed when the 3,000 tons of a storehouse & explosives for the where persons had been killed. liter, trinitrotulnol in the cargo of the French Allies. Fulling to get the wires in ally by wholesale. That was trueline munitions carrier, the Mont Blanc, working order those cities" soon in several institutions where the walls exploded yesterday morning, has not Twenty German commercial travellers and fire fighting companies towards soldiers loaded the bodies of centy been wrested from the grast of the fire the crew of the Ime, a Belgian relief

started train with physicians, nurses collapsed: From one building the been lowered. It may be higher. Hundreds upon hundreds of bodies have have arrived at Kieff.

five dead into one wagon and started Most of the residents of Halifax with them for the horgue

in the shattered Bichmond section. were at breakfast when the expicsión

been consumed in the flames. Hundreds of other bodies already have vessel, that rammed the Mont Blanc, the littla French munitions carrier, werd occurred, at half past eight o'clock. The kitchen cook stoves that were sent #prawling amid the ruins of 14.homes started fires simultaneously in scores of phees, and that fact con- tributed heavily to the later demage done by fire..

THE WESTERN FRONT....

ENEMY BILLETS BOMBED.

LONDON, Jan. reports:-

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

We repulsed an attempted raid east ward of Monchy.

trenches.

Halifax.

Our aeroplanes, on Saturday, bombed So terrific was the concussion that euemy billets and butments and fired most of the buildings in the northern Several thousand rounds into their part of the ly, covering in area of two square miles, and many of them Two of our machines are missing.

as eld as the city, tumbled down like a chiid's row of standing dominoes EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS AT MILAN. In them and under them, were caught the hapless persons who had not an MILAN, Jan. 14 inkling of waning of the catastrophe. experienced for years, were felt here co

Tre earthquake, shocks, the frst that was upon them, Sunday.

There was no damage

بالا

MR. HUGHES NOT GOING TO ENGLAND....

METROUINE, Jan, 14. that Mr. Hughes is going to England

M. Cock declares that the report

baselése,

Officials and committees fail to agree

. LIQUID FUEL FROM PEAT,

FROM NEW PROCESSES.

DOW:

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Scores of wagons were going through streets that could be

Fassed, equipped with lanterns, and each the Boston rebel.train had atailed in a detained for the hearing Officers of

A report received iste to-night said taken on board & British cruiser to be 8UCCESSFUL RESULTS EXPECTED vehicle had its crew of searchers, who snowdrift

the Mont Blanc, which is believed to went through the ins and found the bodies. In many places living per suzacrous trainloads have been sent to the world's history, related an exciting Sir George Beilby's researches haver

Unable to minister to all the injured, have caused the greatest explosion in sous, pinned down for many hours by Truro, which has been converted into story of their escape.

scarcely been bezin with regard to pest fallén timbers, were found and read emergency hcapital. Unfortunately,

The safety of the 5,000 injured and but it may be booked upon as contains we have here another valuable moved to the hospitals, many families bave been separated, and the 20,000 destitute survivors of cod source of liquid fuel, says The Financier Wagonloud after wagonload of the one of the pathetic things about the Halifax holocaust was further menaced None of the processes present invented dead was arriving at a score of whole catastrophe is caring for and yesterday by s torrential rain that is satisfactory standing by itself, but improvised morgues." Most of calming the parentless children and the tarned three feet of snow into slush, modification of certain of these methods the undamaged buildings had been childless parents.

and last night by a cold wave that froze promises to be very Fuccessful. the water-soaked ruins and the un-forégoire facts indicate that Eritias The steamship Mont Blanc, a BADG converted into hospitals and relief stations for the homeless. No effort never to be forgotten here, lies across counted bodies, they held, into a solid scientist are not ille in the important of home supplies of oil and the was made to count the injured and aid tow, crumpled, blackened besp

the stretch of water from the saction it | mass.

cy may be ventured that they the boneless. They will run wall Near by hard on the beach where it on the probable number of dead. Many anime with considerable mesure of into the thousands.

was driven by the explosion, then the investigators in sist, that, 400 a sheet o The blast stretched its hand of

station Loss of life on the water front was the crippled relief ship, and nearer still moit sécutate Agare. Others reduce Greenwich, which is to be erected on death even strass the harbour and expecially heavy. What be me of the Canadian cruiser Niobe, stands with that to 1,000.

the South Metropolitan Ga Company's laid waste a large part of the beaut the crow of the Tapia, the Belgian to apparent sign of damage. Other

Suffering among all the people island, gets to work it is to be hoped that ful little suburb of Dartmouth. From relief vessel, is not known definitely. smaller ship balks 'offer mute evidence intense, standing houses affording slight attention will be paid to the towns and village miles back in the Some say they had soventeen of the disaster, while fourteen hundred protection from the series of storms

O getting motor spirit from "get the utmost As provisions sed quartersare limited, portion of fuel cil from a ton of coal country came reports of desolation minutes warning that the Mont freight cars on the water frost were

The Brot 'and death.

Blane would explode and reached the burned to the bare

the Mayor kiks all strangers not engag comparatively day, but it is not the Rockingham, on the western shore shore. Other say that they went All over this wide are the story is ed in relief work to leave the city and best ar most economical way of utilising is of Halifax Harbour, about three

of Bedford Buin, the north-west arm down, with their vessel..

the same There is a sloping hill that urges outsida relatives and others not the raw material A chart which r

present It is known that the Mont Blant's runs down to the water and at the top to go to Halifax, before the miles from Halifax, was almost de crew reached the shore safely, but

s church still stands, with every window No Americans were killed in the what the Germana are able to do,

the crude boal-tur, molished. The concussion swept they were overtaken there by the one, its walls cracked and its steeple disaster, and only one, Vice Consul distilled, are obtained across the leri sheet of water with gigantic concussion and many of and about on every aide are the Black The Leary rain and then the cold parafin wax fuel oil, coke (not tha such violence the nearly every build them were hurt. They said that and charred rats where, most of the wave prevented the population from usually known by this name) d ing in the Richmond, or northern, after being rammed by the Iome the congregation, lived, Further to the making a thorough search of the ruins, There is a donite and complicated section of Halifax was wrecked vessel caught fire and the captain edge of the devastated area another although many more bodies were found. tem of dis illation and refining, ET Continuing, it erept across the road-gave the order to open the sea cocks, church escaped, but every window Church services were suspended, and similar to that by which crurlu petroleums stead and laid waste to Dartmouth,

in treated

and the question may well LONDON, JAK. 14.

which was done. But the Montframe was ripped out clean. the Sunday laws against business and be asked If the Gerumos can do this PANDEMONIUX FOLLOWS DEATH Blane was not sinking fast enough for FREEZES OVER. WEICKACK other activities were suspended for the successfully, whylsunot we do the sam A firm of wholesale tea merchants.

and the crew took to the poots. It I was almost impos

Another direction in which wa aling day DEALING BLAST

imposible, to make states that 1000,000 pounds of fine

was just seventeen minutes after the progress over the streets because of the HONGKONG THAMSAY CO, LAD. of peteal from coal tar oil by cricking be making experiments in the obtaini China tes are at present idle, in the

The great inn shed of the Cana-collision that the atosphere was great drifts of snow, If lay upon the Allahabu, Dec. 6th. It is understood dign Pacific Railway Station cofrent by the most titanio blast over wreckage, and tonight it had turned to

This is not all plain meiling, dealers hands, which, owing to the the recruiting for the Indian Army

deel moes is known about it reduction in the retail price, can preceding on an unprecedented scale: lapsed, burying a hundred or more felt in the Dominion,

solid mass of ice that deffed the attemptsept for the week ending 12th how dearable it is encour

The approximate statement of a beginning of the war, and only be sold at considerable loss. The number of cornbatants enlisted du persons in the entanglement of steel There were many vessels in the of searchere to dig through with picks January, is as follows can t cling of the The merchants suggest that this tea the four months ending with Octo- girders, metal and glass The Mili-harbour, and most of them suffered

petrol supplies the anbjeut.. How long it will take this fee to ber was nearly this time as great. 65. they Hospital, the Ahniralty Bouen, but at this time it is impossible to that nobody knows. At any other should be weed to relieve the pressure the corresponding period of the past the governinett dock yard, the Gur state to what extent. It is known time the blizzard would have caused on cheaper sorts of tes.

Fear, the Punjab contributing: 40,000

The extension

the area of rison Chapel, the Province Parlia that a crew of forty two men on of

suffering, but coming on top of Pedraiting has been attended with graziment Building, the Past one steamship thirty-three were the thousands of volunteers not personal

tho-greater i disaster it, simply stunned. the doubling of the rata Pent and Dumb Asylum and the Scores of bedies of sodmen he

afficted and demoralized altreffort of enlistment in Blade and Tombay, death to announced of Dr. hitherto only lightly recruited from Home for the Aged rocked had been picked up in the hal

Butler, M.A CIE and the practical re-creation of com crumbled under the low

blast sent many batant recruiting are in Bengal The Queen's Hotel, in Hollis beans and Bailler was joint Secretary of Borms and Behar In addition to com: Street, was about the southerly bits to h

Commission on the Public batants nestly 30.000 men for the of damage in the city North of the Serviced and formerly Deputy Commis non-combatant ranks were recruited

during the four months,

point nothing escaped wreckage

Bursts were observed among the abeds and a direct hit, followed-by-a aloud of smoke, was reported.

Antour, machines returned.

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